Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2020: Sierra Leone’s First Lady – Mrs Fatima Jabbie Bio, who is the wife of the president, is today making the news for all the wrong reasons, after being accused of usurping the powers and authority of government ministerial departments, including education, health and social [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2020: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) last week announced that the High Court of Sierra Leone sitting in Freetown and presided over by Justice Miatta Samba, on 4th March 2020, convicted Alfred Kallon who is the first accused in the ongoing passport corruption trial involving several [Read More]
Elkass Sannoh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 March 2020: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, yesterday announced the appointment of a new Inspector General of Police, following the retirement of Inspector General Dr Richard Moigbe. The newly appointed Inspector General of Sierra Leone Police, Ambrose M. Sovula, until his appointment [Read More]
Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 March 2020: Can NATCOM – Sierra Leone’s mobile telephone regulator, seriously call on Africell mobile phone service provider to do more to tackle the current growing problem of “bill shock” that followed immediately NATCOM slammed a 90% tax on all mobile companies’ promotions? [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 March 2020: The government of Sierra Leone has stepped up its coronavirus 19 vigilance by introducing new travel restrictions, after an employee of the European Union delegation in Guinea yesterday tested positive for the coronavirus. According to reports, the patient had self-isolated after she felt ill [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 March 2020: Yesterday, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) – Dr Akinwumi Adesina, held talks with Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House, about the bank’s support for the country’s economic development, social progress and poverty reduction initiatives. Presenting the AfDB [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 March 2020: Abject poverty is rising fast in Sierra Leone, and it seems there is little hope of an economic resurgence anytime soon. When president Bio took office in April 2018, one of his first actions which many Sierra Leoneans applauded, was the investigation into the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2020: Executive members of the All Political Parties Association (APPA), yesterday presented a joint communiqué to President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House, signed by twelve registered political parties – though not all, agreeing to maintain peace and stability in Sierra Leone . Three [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2020: Sierra Leone’s Deputy Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Dr. Robert Chakanda, yesterday launched Action Aid’s Sierra Leone Affiliate Programme (AASL-AP) 2020 Plan and Budget at the Hill Valley Hotel in Freetown. The AASL-AP 2020 Plan and Budget is aimed at promoting the need [Read More]
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