Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2017 Has Bio’s appearance at Chatham House yesterday, done enough to put events of the last forty-eight hours behind him? After much bollocking and lampooning from the media, critics and detractors alike, for what has been described at best as a mediocre performance on the [Read More]
Zainab Tunkara Clarkson Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2017 Next year, Sierra Leoneans go to the polls and as the general elections loom, we remain in a nation that has failed to address gender issues and get the matter put on the political agenda as they are still largely underrepresented [Read More]
Yankuba Kaisamba Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 December 2017 The presidential candidate for the demoralised Paopa SLPP in the March 2018 general election, Julius Bio, was on 4th December 2017, given the opportunity by the world renowned BBC focus on Africa to explain why he should be elected president of Sierra [Read More]
NGC Global Communications Team Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 December 2017 Following Julius Maada Bio’s disastrous performance on BBC World Service’s Focus on Africa programme, the SLPP spin room has been on overdrive. They today released an inaccurate press statement about Bio’s visit to the UK House of Commons. This visit [Read More]
Anthony Kamara Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 December 2017 After a successful tour of Kabala, Falaba, Bo, Tonkolili, and Bombali districts, including fourteen chiefdoms, Kandeh Yumkella – the NGC presidential flag-bearer candidate, yesterday took his message of “CHANGE” and “Country First” to the people of Kono district. Addressing the thousands of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 December 2017 When a president decides to reshuffle his cabinet ministers – three months before presidential and general elections, then you know there is serious problem with his battleship. Yesterday’s snap shuffling of the deck, saw the re-entry of old hands that few believed would ever [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 December 2017 Former Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden who was recently sacked by president Koroma for standing up against corruption in Sierra Leone, has described recent reports in some local tabloids as “unfortunate”. She said that it is because [Read More]
Emmanuel I. Kamara Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 December 2017 If rumours making the news on social media is anything to go by about Sierra Leone’s so-called Peace Diamond, it will be the biggest surprise for Sierra Leoneans in 2017. A reliable source has disclosed to this writer that Graff Diamonds [Read More]
Yusuf Bangura Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 December 2017 I define an authoritarian impulse as an urge to submit or compel others to submit blindly to authority. Such an impulse rejects individual choice, freedom and competition in choosing those who govern, and opt instead to concentrate power in the hands of [Read More]
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