Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 October 2015 Since coming to office in 2007 it is increasingly becoming the norm for president Koroma and senior ministers to harvest huge sums of money from the accounts of state enterprises and institutions, in support of their personal charitable projects. This unacceptable behaviour is [Read More]
Yankuba Kai Samba Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2015 Last Sunday the former SLPP flagbearer and failed 2012 presidential candidate Julius Bio returned to Sierra Leone, fresh from his studies at the Bradford University. Most new graduates would be frantically looking for employment and sending their CVs to employers. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2015 Julius Maada Bio – the 2012 presidential candidate for the Sierra Leone Peoples’ Party (SLPP), returned home yesterday, 11th October, after pursuing his doctoral studies at the Bradford University in the UK. But it is not certain whether he has finally completed and obtained [Read More]
Bai-Bai Sesay – Freetown Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 October 2015 On October 10th Sierra Leone like all other nations in the world, will be observing World Mental Health Day with the theme – “Dignity in mental health.” World Mental Health Day was first celebrated in 1992 as an initiative of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 October 2015 The people of Sierra Leone are today holding their breath as news of British nurse – Pauline Cafferkey who contracted the Ebola virus in December 2014, whilst working in Sierra Leone, but treated and declared Ebola free in London, was early this morning flown [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 October 2015 Sierra Leone has the third worst healthcare in the whole of Africa, according to the latest Mo Ibrahim Governance Index Report, based on its study of all 52 countries in Africa in 2013, before the start of the Ebola crisis. Ranked 50 out of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2015 Sierra Leone’s presidential hopeful – Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella arrived back in Freetown yesterday evening, after a week-long engagement at the UN in New York and then attending the G20 Summit in Istanbul, Turkey. Speaking with the editor of the Sierra Leone Telegraph – [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 October 2015 Most credible economists would tell you that government does not create sustainable employment opportunities, only the private sector can. They will further argue that the role of government is to create the necessary conditions that are conducive for private entrepreneurs to invest and create [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 October 2015 The people of Sierra Leone, after sixteen long months of battling against the deadly Ebola virus, have once again started the countdown to being declared an Ebola free country. But this is not going to be easy. Although the last two known Ebola patients [Read More]
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