Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 March 2019: In March 2018, president Julius Maada Bio was elected president of Sierra Leone in a fiercely contested elections, in which the majority of voters refused to endorse the Koroma led APC government’s ten years of poor governance and hopelessness. Since his election in 2007 [Read More]
PUAWUI DR SAMA BANYA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2019: “Why have you stopped writing Doctor? We are missing your column”. This is a question to which I have continued to give the same answer over the last five years, since I announced that I was laying down my pen, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2019: Yesterday, Wednesday 26 February 2019, president Bio’s government received a shot in the arm when the World Bank Country Director for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, held talks with the president at State House. The senior World Bank official in Africa – Mr Henry [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2019: Two senior officials in the Bio led government working in the ministry of information, were yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment each, after a High court hearing found them guilty of misappropriation of public funds. Both president Bio and the Anti-Corruption Czar – Francis [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2019: The Sierra Leone Telegraph has for many years advocated and called for a comprehensive National Development Plan, which will stand the test of time and survive changes in political direction, irrespective of which party is in government. Such consistency and continuity will provide the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2019: The leadership of the All Peoples Congress (APC) Party, the National Grand Coalition (NGC), and the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) yesterday signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with elections stakeholders – the National Electoral Commission (NEC), the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) and the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2019: Sierra Leone’s minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation – Dr. Alie Kabba and Japan’s ambassador to Sierra Leone – Tustonu Himeno, signed Food Aid Programme agreement yesterday, Tuesday, 26th February 2019. Speaking about the agreement, the Japanese Ambassador said the signing of notes [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2019: Yesterday, Monday 25 February 2019, Germany’s minister of foreign affairs – Heiko Maas, held talks with president Julius Maada Bio at State House in Freetown. Addressing president Bio, the German Foreign Minister said he is excited about visiting Sierra Leone for the first time, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2019: Parliamentarians in Sierra Leone return to parliament today, after last week’s controversial and unprecedented decision by the Speaker of the House – Dr Abbas Bundu, to grant parliamentary assent to the president’s proposal to declare a state of public emergency on rape, without seeking [Read More]
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