Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 November 2021: One of Sierra Leone’s most senior female lawyers – Basita Michael, who is also a former President of the country’s Bar Association, has tendered her resignation from the government’s Judicial and Legal Service Commission (JLSC), in response to what she refers to as the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 November 2021: President Julius Maada Bio was yesterday heckled and humiliated by hundreds of school children in Kono, where the president was delivering a speech about the progress he says his government is making across the country, including his Free Quality Education programme. President Bio could [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 November 2021: British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Lisa Chesney held talks yesterday with the country’s Chief Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards in Freetown, where she raised concerns about the preparedness of the Judiciary to dispense justice fairly and promptly to complaints of electoral offences. Her concerns [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 November 2021: Amid growing furore in Sierra Leone, President Julius Maada Bio has this evening appointed three members of a judicial tribunal that will investigate the country’s Auditor General – Lara Taylor-Pearce and her deputy – Tamba Momoh, for what the president refers to as allegations [Read More]

Winstanley R. Bankole Johnson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 November 2021: With hindsight to his letter of 22nd February 2015 to former President Koroma, even the best of clairvoyants would have been much challenged predicting a no love lost relationship between President Maada Bio and Auditor General Mrs. Lara Taylor-Pearce this [Read More]

Charles Margai Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 November 2021: By letter dated 8th November, 2021, the Deputy Minister of Justice, Mr. Umaru Napoleon Koroma addressed a letter to the Hon. Chief Justice, triggering the commencement of investigations into the conduct of Mrs. Lara Taylor Pearce and her deputy, Mr. Tamba [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 November 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone has today signed into law the Cybersecurity and Crime Bill 2021, praising the leadership and Members of Parliament for their inordinate bi-partisan support to the process. “As we embrace digital technologies and participate in that digital [Read More]

Samuel Jones: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 November 2021: First, Francis Gabbidon who has a previous conviction for fraud, and who now masquerades as a legal luminary, was on AYV TV where he declared that the suspension of the Auditor-General is procedurally correct. I dread to think what students of Law [Read More]