Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has today taken an unprecedented step of not only naming those education officials alleged to have been involved in exams fraud, but have gone one step further by publicly shaming them on the streets, in the central district of [Read More]
Gareth Watson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2019: The binary approach to news media have often painted Africa in particular frames without any heterogeneity. Such frames of reference date back to colonial times when a particular agenda was being set. Analysing Africa, in its complexity, is historically known to lack [Read More]
Abayomi Tejan: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2019: The government of Sierra Leone has waived the requirement for a prospective visitor to the country to first apply for an Entry Visa before travelling. The government’s press release states that it’s a strategy aimed at encouraging more foreigners to visit Sierra [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commissioner scored another big confidence booster with the public yesterday, after his investigators intercepted a major exams fraud in Freetown. At 9:30 am yesterday morning, the ‘Scorpion Squad’ of the Anti-Corruption Commission supported by the Sierra Leone Police, raided Fatibu Technical [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 September 2019: The United States Embassy in Freetown will tomorrow, Monday 9 September, announce the launch of a feasibility study that could bring clean power to thousands of people in Sierra Leone. The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), will fund a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 September 2019: Yesterday, Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio who is also Commander-In-Chief of the country’s Armed Forces, RSLAF, met newly recruited female soldiers at the Benguema Barracks, where he congratulated and warned them against politics. The president was attending the passing-out parade and commissioning ceremony [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: 8 September 2019: Africa is unquestionably a beautiful continent, with wonderful landscapes, good climate and all the beauty that nature has to offer. Sadly, the continent is more often than not remembered for the ills that afflict human nature. The continent has unfortunately become a synonym for drought, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2019: Last Friday, 6 September 2019, a special representative of president Xi Jinping of China, Mr. Yang Jiechi, met with president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone at State House in Freetown, where he assured president Bio of China’s commitment to further deepening and strengthening [Read More]
Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2019: Sierra Leoneans have been shocked by the outrageously poor results of the recently released West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE). It has been reported that more than 95 percent of students who took the examination failed or did not obtain the [Read More]
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