Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 March 2023: Yesterday, President Bio commissioned a newly built passenger terminal at Freetown Lungi International Airport, where he spoke about his reasons for embarking on such an ambitious and costly project, which he said will be of massive economic benefit to Sierra Leone. But even before [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 March 2023: Head of the Economic Community of West African States Elections Observer Mission (ECOWASEOM) to Nigeria – former Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma, and the head of the African Union Elections Observer Mission (AUEOM), former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, yesterday held [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 March 2023: Freetown’s most successful Mayor – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, yesterday said goodbye to staff at the Freetown City Council, after handing over the mayoral chains to the Council’s Chief Administrator – Festus Kallay, in accordance with an order handed down to all Mayors and Chairpersons of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 March 2023: Bola Tinubu – the presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC) party has been declared the winner of Nigeria’s closest presidential election since the country’s return to democracy in 1999, after decades of military interegnum. Tinubu won 8.8 million votes against the People’s [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) mandate of elections observation in Nigeria ended yesterday, after closing of polls. And now the hard task of conducting “Preventive Diplomacy” has started, led by Sierra Leone’s former president Ernest Bai Koroma. This [Read More]
Amadu Sesay (Speedo): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: Dr. Samura Kamara was born in 1951 in Kamalo, Karene District. His father, Pa Gibril Kamara was from Maworrko village near Rothuk and Magbanktha villages, Gberray Junction, Maforki Chiefdom, Port look District. Dr. Samura Kamara’s mother, Ya Bomporro Kamara (nee Kanu) [Read More]
Saidu Bangura, PhD: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: There is a widespread political truism in Sierra Leone: both political parties that have (mis)governed the country since independence have regional and ethnolinguistic strongholds. The SLPP seems to have an edge over the APC in the South-Eastern regions of the country [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: Prithvirajsing Roopun, President of the Republic of Mauritius, has congratulated Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio for emerging winner in the category of “African of the Year” award and called for a deepening bilateral relationship between the two countries. Both leaders met ahead [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr last Thursday received an award from a group of people with disabilities who graduated after pursuing a course of training in Information Technology. Commenting on the award, Mayor Aki-Sawyerr said: “Yesterday morning I was invited to make a statement at [Read More]
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