Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 August 2019: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone has called for “the right investment” to help prepare Africa for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). He was speaking at the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) held in Yokohama, Japan yesterday, Wednesday 28 August [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 August 2019: The vice president of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Koshikawa Kazuhiko, yesterday, pledged investment support for the government of Sierra Leone, at a meeting held with president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone. President Bio is attending the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 August 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commissioner – Francis Ban Kaifala, has today warned schools in the country to desist from extorting money from parents, through various means, as well as receiving bribes. “The Commission wishes to remind teachers and school authorities that receiving an advantage, whether [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 August 2019: The Executive Director of Amnesty International (Sierra Leone), Solomon Sogbandi, has said in Freetown that the continued detention of opposition politicians – Karamoh Kabbah and 22 others is a violation of their human rights. All 23 were arrested a couple of months ago, and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 August 2019: Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio is in Japan to attend the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) in Yokohama, after much criticisms from the opposition and the media about the excessive cost of travelling of his government officials. (Photo above: President [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 August 2019: It is an undeniable fact, that Sierra Leone is a rich country; but also paradoxically true that it is one of the poorest countries in the world. If such an illogical logic is anything to go by, how come we are where, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 August 2019: It is now over 48 hours since the cancellation of all results counted so far from the by-elections held at Freetown’s Constituency 110. The elections were marred by vandalism and violence, the likes of which have hardly been witnessed before in any polling held [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 August 2019: The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has cancelled the results of the re-run elections in constituency 110 in Freetown. Votes cast at all polling centres have been tallied by NEC, with the exception of one centre where all ballot papers and equipment were destroyed yesterday [Read More]
Dr. Samuel Ofori Onwona: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 August 2019: Why is Sierra Leone delaying the Tripartite Investment Programme (TIP)? The African Development Bank worked with former President Ernest Bai Koroma to host an international conference on the Tripartite Investment Programme. Seven Potential investors attended the conference and registered interest [Read More]
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