Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2018: Boris Johnson, the former UK foreign secretary, said people in burkas looked like “letter boxes” or “bank robbers”. The criticisms that have greeted his remarks were obvious. The Equality and Human Rights Commission said his comments risked “vilifying Muslim women”. While many [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 August 2018: An official at the Sierra Leone Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), yesterday told the Sierra Leone Telegraph that the former secretary to ex-president Koroma – Mr Osho Coker, is being investigated by the ACC for alleged laundering of public funds, using the country’s embassies. Mr Osho [Read More]

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 August 2018: Some people are so pessimistic they make grumbling into an art. I had a friend a long time ago who was a perpetual grumbler. For him everything was doom and gloom. He finally got a visa to travel to the USA with [Read More]

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2018: The political class which kidnapped our tomorrow for a ransom, now wants to buy our today as well. Going by the torment of the past decade, the reality is that the political class sees ours and the nation’s future as a [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2018: After several days of frenzied and childish rants and rumours about the health of Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio and his performance in office by the opposition APC, the Catholic Bishops of the country yesterday told him – you are doing just fine [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 July 2018: Sierra Leone is one of the most corrupt nations on the African continent, with an estimated 70% of public funds misappropriated by public officials. After ten years of poor governance by the ousted APC government led by president Ernest Bai Koroma, poverty continues to [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 August 2018: The former Commissioner General of the National Revenue Authority (NRA) – Ms Haja Kallah Kamara, along with the former director of finance – Abdulai Conteh, were yesterday arrested and detained at the Criminal Investigation Department, for alleged corruption and misappropriation of public funds. Both [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 August 2018: Parliament of Sierra Leone yesterday, Thursday 2nd August 2018, approved forty-one presidential nominees for ambassadorial and other appointments. The approvals were made after a debate of the Eleventh Report of the Committee on Appointments and the Public Service, chaired by the Leader of Government [Read More]