Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2019: The Sierra Leone Telegraph has today been informed by sources at the Anti-Corruption Commission that the former Deputy Director-General of NASSIT – Mr. Gibril Saccoh, has been detained after failing to honour an out of court agreement to repay stolen public funds. It is [Read More]
Amin Kef: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2019: It could be recalled that whilst poor innocent Sierra Leoneans were dying in their hundreds every day during the Ebola outbreak, government officials entrusted with funds for managing the emergency health crisis were playing fast and loose with the funds that were [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2019: The former resident engineer of Sierra Leone’s National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), has made another payment of One Hundred Million Leones to the Anti-Corruption Commission as part settlement of a Five Hundred Million Leones of stolen funds, he is to return to [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 February 2019: There is an insidious trend of behaviour that is creeping on to our public life, and this is evidently so on our media platforms today. It has become increasingly common to see people with authority and those in the public eye, displaying [Read More]
James Fallah-Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2019: The head of state of the Republic of Sierra Leone, President Julius Maada Bio, declared last week that rape has become a national emergency, and went on to state that anyone caught molesting minors would be punished by life in prison. This [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 February 2019: Yesterday, Thursday 7 February 2019, president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, signed performance contract with each of his cabinet ministers, holding them accountable for the governance of their ministries and to ensure that key priorities laid down in his New Direction programme are [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 February 2019: The diplomatic community, international agencies and eminent Sierra Leoneans were guests of president Julius Maada Bio and the first lady – Mrs Fatima Bio, at a state banquet held at State Lodge, Hill Station in Freetown last Tuesday, where the president spoke about his [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 February 2019: Barely three days after Sierra Leone’s commissions of inquiry started their investigations into alleged corruption by former government officials, the opposition All People’s Congress party (APC) has finally decided to take court action to stop the inquiry. But according to critics of the APC, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 February 2019: Yesterday, president Julius Maada Bio joined hundreds of people at an event organised by the Office of the First Lady to commemorate World Cancer Day, at the Bintumani International Conference Centre in Aberdeen, Freetown. In his keynote address, President Bio said that the event’s [Read More]
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