Abdul Malik Bangura Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 November 2017 Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs has yesterday Monday 20th November 2017, successfully defended its 2018 budget requirements to the House of Parliament. The marathon hearing which took place at the Parliamentary Committee Room One saw a [Read More]
Yusuf Bangura Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 November 2017 In my paper entitled ‘Why We Need Change : The case for a Developmental, Inclusive and Democratic Party’, I discussed the contributions of Tejan Kabbah’s SLPP government in the field of stabilisation, humanitarian relief and rebuilding, and Ernest Koroma’s APC government’s attempt to [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 November 2017 Amid the confetti of eulogies and the blizzards of rhetoric, if we turn off the lights and refuse to dance to the music of our politicians, we might just see the outline of the showmen delighting the crowd with their circus [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 November 2017 Julius Maada Bio – the presidential candidate for the opposition SLPP party delivered a speech at the Radisson Blue Mammy Yoko Hotel in Freetown yesterday, 18 November 2017, about his vison for Sierra Leone, which as in his 2012 campaign for the presidency, has [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 November 2017 In what many journalists present in parliament this week have termed as a victory for transparency, accountability and the fight against widespread impunity, Sierra Leone Disability Commission has been ordered by Parliament to present to the Minister of Social Welfare – Dr. Sylvia Olayinka [Read More]
Tamba Gborie: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 November 2017 The defence from various Media practitioners and political pundits on behalf of the president’s extraordinary action hinging on a constitutional violation came too little too late. Such a defense could have come at a time when the ECOWAS Court wrote to the [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 November 2017 Former vice president of Sierra Leone Alhaji Samuel Sidique Sam Sumana is hoping to receive judgement when the ECOWAS Court reconvenes in Abuja, Nigeria to hear his $210 million lawsuit – challenging the Government of Sierra Leone for what he calls his [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 November 2017 Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. And many would see the seeming “revolution” that is unfolding right before our eyes in Zimbabwe as long overdue. But there can be no running away from the fact that he [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 November 2017 It seems like the final parts of the political jigsaw in Sierra Leone are now being put in place. In December 2016, I wrote an article titled “Is it time for a third political party in Sierra Leone? But it will be [Read More]
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