Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2021: Sierra Leone’s main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party politician – Dr Sylvia Olayinka Blyden has raised fresh alarm concerning her safety and well-being under the SLPP-led Government of President Julius Maada Bio. Dr. Sylvia Blyden expressed her fears last weekend, after the Sierra [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2021: Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister – Professor David John Francis has today told the Sierra Leone Telegraph, that he will not be distracted by fake propaganda, stressing that his “focus is on His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio’s New Direction agenda of accelerated delivery”. Speaking [Read More]
Piers Edwards (BBC Sport Africa): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2021: ‘They can’t treat us like animals,’ says Benjamin Acheampong, player ‘duped’ out of $1m. The Ghanaian footballer has been deprived of over $1m in a row with Egyptian giants Zamalek dating back to 2018 and despite the Court of [Read More]
Dr Fawzia Hardy: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 February 2021: The Covid-19 infection has been around for just over a year now, but it is still wreaking havoc around the world. This pandemic has killed over 2 million people and no country has been spared. The United States which is regarded [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 February 2021: When President Bio took over from his predecessor Ernest Bai Koroma, he stated in a televised speech that “Corruption is at a level that can destroy this nation “and that “I consider the level of corruption that we have met as a [Read More]
U.S. Embassy Freetown: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 February 2021: Chargé d’Affairs at U.S. Embassy Freetown, Elaine M French, has presented Francis Ben Kaifala with the Department of State International Anti-Corruption Champions Award. Mr. Kaifala was honored for his leadership as the Commissioner of Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission, which has enhanced [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 Febraury 2021: Editors of the US based Africanist Press – Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman, have today published more damning revelations about Sierra Leone government’s Chief Minister’s alleged financial impropriety. According to this latest story, Chief Minister Professor David Francis’ office accounts, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 February 2021: There are allegations of the beating and stabbing of a young man in the Penguia Chiefdom in Kailahun last week by SLPP supporters, ahead of the hotly contested Constituency 010 bye-election in Kailahun. According to sources, the SLPP candidate took campaigners and police officers [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 February 2021: Speaking in the southern provincial district of Pujehun last Friday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio said that in the next eighteen months his government will build and furnish a Junior and Senior Secondary School of Excellence exclusively for girls. “It will cater for 300 [Read More]
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