Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 February 2019: Last Tuesday, Sierra Leone’s vice president – Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh launched the country’s new tourism promotion brochure – a highly colourful and glossy publication, called the ‘Tourism In-Flight Traveltainment Magazine’. Tuesday’s launch of the Tourism In-Flight Traveltainment Magazine also marked the opening of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 February 2019: Barely three days after Sierra Leone’s commissions of inquiry started their investigations into alleged corruption by former government officials, the opposition All People’s Congress party (APC) has finally decided to take court action to stop the inquiry. But according to critics of the APC, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 February 2019: Yesterday, president Julius Maada Bio joined hundreds of people at an event organised by the Office of the First Lady to commemorate World Cancer Day, at the Bintumani International Conference Centre in Aberdeen, Freetown. In his keynote address, President Bio said that the event’s [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 February 2019: There is a saying: ‘If you want to tackle corruption successfully, then get the accountants on board’. President Bio is doing just that. Last week, the Institute of Chartered Accountants Sierra Leone (ICASL), met with president Julius Maada Bio at State House, where they [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 February 2019: Liberia’s constitution contains what’s known as a “Negro clause” which limits citizenship in the country to black people. Similar clauses were included in the laws of a number of other African countries, including Chad, Malawi and Mali, but all have been removed. The fact [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 February 2019: Some political scribes may have already started writing the political obituary of the APC Party. Amid the recriminations, accusations and several theories postulated to identify the reasons for its failure to win the 2018 elections, a significant part of the blame has [Read More]
Abdulai Braima: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 February 2019: Sierra Leone’s High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland – Mr Tamba Lamina was addressing an energised gathering of a cross section of Kono residents in the UK, at a packed welcoming ceremony organised yesterday in South East London by an umbrella group [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 February 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) last Friday said that it has indicted two senior officials in the Ministry of Information and Communication, over the alleged misappropriation of funds meant for sensitising the general public about the work of the Commissions of Inquiry which start [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 February 2019: As political controversy and debate surrounding the legality of the Sierra Leone Commissions of Inquiry into the management of the country’s affairs by the former Koroma-led APC government heightens, Chief Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards has spoken. He says the Commissions of Inquiry are legal. [Read More]
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