Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 April 2021: Proposals for an international pandemic treaty have been welcomed by an African entrepreneur and social reformer, but its spirit needs to go further. “We must spread vaccination across the world quickly and follow-up with technology equality in healthcare and the Climate Change battle,” urged [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 April 2021: US ambassador to Sierra Leone, Mr. David Reimer on Tuesday, met with Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance, Jacob Jusu Saffa at his ministry’s office in Freetown. The meeting forms part of the US Ambassador’s wider engagement with senior government officials, civil society organisations and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 April 2021: In a bid to enhance government revenue through effective collection of Goods and Services Tax (GST), the National Revenue Authority (NRA) is calling on all shoppers and service customers to ensure that they are issued with electronically generated receipts from cash registers when they [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 April 2021: There has been resounding condemnation of Sierra Leone police brutality, following Monday’s protest by students at the IPAM campus which became violent, as heavily armed police officers fired teargas and smoke bombs. A young female student – Fatmata Binta Jalloh was stripped by police [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 April 2021: Junior doctors across Sierra Leone yesterday decided to go on strike after a female colleague doctor – Dr. Catherine Jackson-Cole was assaulted by senior government offcials in the ministry of health. Dr Catherine Jackson-Cole was pounced upon at a peaceful protest organised by health [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2021: Sierra Leone’s police force has established a bad reputation for itself in its fight against peaceful civil protests. It is now resorting to beating and removing the tops of female protesters during arrests, before being thrown into open police trucks like sacks of flour, [Read More]
Abdul B Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2021: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Local Government – Mr. Tamba Lamina has been instructed by president Bio to immediately suspend the people’s Mayor – Her Worship the Mayor Mrs Yvonne Aki – Sawyer (OBE). As I write, a committee has been established [Read More]
James Samba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 April 2021: Despite decades of reforms in education especially school improvement initiatives, large number of pupils were still underachieving, failing or being pushed out of school in Sierra Leone. Clearly, a distinctly new approach was needed, the time for a serious government and policymakers [Read More]
Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 April 2021: In a bid for the city of Freetown and Kanifing municipality of the Gambia to explore avenues to formalize and strengthen ties with each other, the Mayor of the Freetown City Council, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr last Friday 9th April 2021 signed a [Read More]
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