Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 December 2017 When a president decides to reshuffle his cabinet ministers – three months before presidential and general elections, then you know there is serious problem with his battleship. Yesterday’s snap shuffling of the deck, saw the re-entry of old hands that few believed would ever [Read More]
Yusuf Bangura Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 December 2017 I define an authoritarian impulse as an urge to submit or compel others to submit blindly to authority. Such an impulse rejects individual choice, freedom and competition in choosing those who govern, and opt instead to concentrate power in the hands of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2017 There are worrying reports from Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Finance, regarding a leaked letter from the ministry to the National Electoral Commission (NEC), calling on the NEC to account for Billions of Leones funding, issued to the NEC to cover its weekly expenditure. According [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2017 If president Koroma has been expecting the dust to have settled after his controversial sacking of the country’s social welfare minister – Dr Sylvia Blyden, then today’s press statement issued by the national group representing women in the country – The Women’s Forum, should [Read More]
Julius Maada Bio – presidential candidate of the SLPP Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 November 2017 In my capacity as the Presidential Candidate of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), I wish to inform the membership of the Party and the general public at large that my attention has been drawn [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 November 2017 The death is announced of Mr Alfred Ekundayo Pitt, aged 83 years. Alf, as he is fondly known to his friends and family passed away peacefully in London on Wednesday, 15th November 2017. He is survived by his wife Mrs Georgina Sedatay Pitt, children, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 November 2017 Reports from Abuja, Nigeria, says that the West African Regional Court of Justice – the ECOWAS Court, has today ruled that president Koroma’s sacking of the country’s vice president Sam Sumana in 2015, after accusing Sam Sumana of “abandoning” his duties by seeking political [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 November 2017 The news that “His Excellency the President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has decided to relieve Dr Sylvia Olayinka Blyden and Mrs Rugiatu Neneh Koroma of their duties as Minister and Deputy Minister respectively in the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 November 2017 With general and presidential elections just four months away in Sierra Leone, serious questions are now being asked within the ruling APC party, about the wisdom of the president, after his sacking of one of the staunchest members of the party – Dr Sylvia [Read More]
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