Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 November 2015 An orchestra conductor does not face the crowd. President Koroma’s insistence on doing just that and dishing out meaningless platitudes, rather than leading the country in getting our national priorities right, is to my mind, the blot on his determined bid [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 November 2015 Since the declaration of Sierra Leone as Ebola free two weeks ago, there has been a flurry of activity from the Koroma government – egged on by the IMF and the World Bank, to kick-start an ailing economy. Sierra Leone’s economy is seriously ill [Read More]
Ambassador Alhaji Umaru Bundu Wurie Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 November 2015 I am Ambassador Umaru Bundu Wurie (Photo), affectionately and widely known as “Bond Wurie”. I grew up in a working class family in Gbinti, a small town in the Dibia Chiefdom of Port Loko District in northern Sierra Leone. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 November 2015 Sierra Leone’s 1991 Constitution which was hurriedly cobbled together and passed through a One Party State parliament that was dominated and run by the APC party in 1991, has always been regarded as unsatisfactory and unfit for purpose. It is a constitution that was [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 November 2015 On the eve of the World Health Organisation declaring Sierra Leone Ebola free, the minister of finance – Marah presented his 2016 Budget to the houses of parliament. According to the minister, the government will need hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and [Read More]
Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 November 2015 The defeat that the SLPP suffered over the weekend in the By-Elections is entirely due to Maada Bio’s subjugation of the national interest and party’s interest to his thirst for power. Since becoming the flagbearer, the SLPP wittingly or unwittingly have allowed [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 November 2015 Things cannot get any worse for the main opposition political party of Sierra Leone – the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), as it suffered one of the most spectacular electoral defeats in its history last weekend. With the exception of Bonthe, the party lost [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 November 2015 It is now seven days since Sierra Leone was declared Ebola Free last weekend – 7th November 2015, by the WHO. So far, there have been no reports of any deaths linked to the virus, since two fatalities were recorded on the 11th to [Read More]
Harold Saffa Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2015 It will be unimaginable to call the name Alhaji Khalil Mustapha (Photo) without mentioning SLPP in the same breath. Apart from his strong Muslim faith and love for his family, the SLPP was his next greatest passion. Born on the 8th of [Read More]
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