Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party’s member of parliament – Chernoh Ramadan Maju Bah – aka Chericoco (MP), has written a letter to the country’s Chief Justice, regarding the undue delay in setting a date for the Supreme Court hearing of the 2018 general [Read More]
Abdul Malik Bangura: 10 September 2019: President Bio has apologized on behalf of the ACC for the public exhibition of teachers caught in malpractice during the General Mathematics private WASSCE. However, I will implore that we all now use the same voice that made the President apologised to also call [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2019: President Julius Maada Bio has this afternoon tendered his unreserved apology to the teachers and principal, who were yesterday publicly paraded and disgraced for what the Anti-Corruption Commission says was their alleged involvement in examination malpractice. This apology from the president comes after an [Read More]
Sabatu Blango: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2019: Corruption is the misuse of public office or position for private gains. It is one of the reasons identified by the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in its report, as the principal cause for the country’s eleven-year brutal rebel war. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2019: Reaction to yesterday’s public humiliation of teachers in Sierra Leone suspected of examination malpractice, before they are charged to court, continues. Sierra Leone’s Human Rights Commission has published this statement: The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL) has been following reports of widespread [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has today taken an unprecedented step of not only naming those education officials alleged to have been involved in exams fraud, but have gone one step further by publicly shaming them on the streets, in the central district of [Read More]
Gareth Watson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2019: The binary approach to news media have often painted Africa in particular frames without any heterogeneity. Such frames of reference date back to colonial times when a particular agenda was being set. Analysing Africa, in its complexity, is historically known to lack [Read More]
Abayomi Tejan: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2019: The government of Sierra Leone has waived the requirement for a prospective visitor to the country to first apply for an Entry Visa before travelling. The government’s press release states that it’s a strategy aimed at encouraging more foreigners to visit Sierra [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commissioner scored another big confidence booster with the public yesterday, after his investigators intercepted a major exams fraud in Freetown. At 9:30 am yesterday morning, the ‘Scorpion Squad’ of the Anti-Corruption Commission supported by the Sierra Leone Police, raided Fatibu Technical [Read More]
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