Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 January 2019: On Friday, 28th December 2018, National Secretary General of the opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party – Osman Yansaneh, issued a public statement, stating that his party will not subject itself to any Kangaroo court style commission of inquiry. Osman Yansaneh said the commission [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 January 2019: Sierra Leone’s former minister of defence – Palo Conteh, who was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) last week, has been freed on bail pending further investigations. Conteh is alleged to have been involved in the misappropriation of tens of millions of dollars in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 December 2018: Last weekend president Julius Maada held talks with the country’s security chiefs at a dinner hosted by his wife – the First Lady – Mrs Fatima Bio at the Presidential Lodge, Hill Station, West of the capital Freetown, where he called for more and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 December 2018: Sierra Leone is one of the wettest countries in sub-Sahara Africa, with 75% of the land classed as arable land, but only 20% of the land is cultivated, making the country heavily dependent on food import. Rice and palm oil are the two most [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2018: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commissioner – Mr Francis Ben Kaifala, this week handed-in a cheque for over Seven Billion Five Hundred and Seventy-Eight Million Leones to president Julius Maada Bio at State House, after several public officials agreed to settle their corruption cases out of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2018: Sierra Leone’s former minister of defence in the Koroma led APC government – Alfred Palo Conteh and the director general of the ministry – Sana Marah, were yesterday arrested by police and detained, following investigations by the Anti-Corruption Commission. They were both refused bail [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 December 2018: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) policy of concentrating on seeking out of court agreement for corrupt officials to repay every single cent they have stolen, seems to be yielding good returns for the country’s taxpayer. In the past eight months, the ACC has recovered [Read More]
Chief Alhaji Thonkla Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 December 2018: Drink driving has become an epidemic on our roads, and it is the biggest threat to public safety at Christmas festive season and accounting for the highest number of fatalities on our roads in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone’s police force [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 December 2018: Sierra Leone’s High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland – Mr Tamba Lamina, and his wife, are wishing Sierra Leoneans living throughout the UK and Ireland, season’s greetings and a prosperous and happy New Year. This is their message: “On behalf of myself [Read More]
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