Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 September 2019: It’s been more than 15 years since the end of Sierra Leone’s civil war – and later a devastating Ebola outbreak – both of which combined to make an underperforming economy difficult to revive. Sierra Leone has one of the highest youth unemployment rates [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 September 2019: Members of the Sierra Leone Teachers Union (SLTU), yesterday met with president Julius Maada Bio at State House, where they discussed the role of the country’s teachers in the successful delivery of the government’s Free Quality Education programme. Presenting the visiting team, Minister of [Read More]
Lansana Fofanah: 3 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s Electricity Distribution & Supply Authority (EDSA), spends huge sums of money in purchasing power from the Electricity Generating & Transmission Company (EGTC) and Independent Power Providers (IPP), to meet the growing demand of electricity in Freetown and surrounding communities. But faced with serious challenges, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s statesman, former President Ernest Bai Koroma, has just landed in Accra, Ghana, where he will be joining his peers at the maiden edition of the Kofi Annan Peace and Security (KAPS) Forum on the theme: “Peace Operations in the Context of Violent [Read More]
Abdul Fonti: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 September 2019: The Ministry of Finance has confirmed that administrative and academic staff of the University of Sierra Leone (FBC, COMAHS and IPAM) have not received salaries for July and August 2019, chiefly because of delay on the part of university authorities in submitting [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 September 2019: Sierra Leone may not be many people’s idea of heaven, but it looks like recent events in the country have drawn attention to such a debate. The situation in our country is an open secret. And if anyone wants to get a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 September 2019: The government of Sierra Leone has won a major foreign direct investment deal with a Japanese company – ITOCHU Corporation, who has agreed to establish a pineapple farm and processing plant in Sierra Leone. The first phase of this development will cost around US$40 [Read More]
Ihechukwu Njoku: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 August 2019: After news was widely circulated that a Sierra Leonean government official was ‘sacked’ following her testimony at T.B. Joshua’s church in Nigeria, the Nigerian cleric has responded by releasing a video of the lady’s controversial testimony. International media outlets such as CNN [Read More]
A.B Sheriff: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 August 2019: In support of Sierra Leone’s Free Quality Education Programme which is a flagship of the Bio led government, the ministry of transport and aviation this week announced that the fifty school buses bought by the government from China, will be fairly allocated [Read More]
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