23 July 2012 The dust is yet to settle on the timbergate corruption affair in Freetown. A court case involving a business partner of the vice president, accused of taking bribe on behalf of the vice president, is ongoing. In a new scandal, the vice president is now being accused [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui 22 July 2012 Since December 2010, there has been a sustained and vicious attack on the opposition SLPP Presidential candidate – Retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio, from sections of the press and from a particular publication. It may have started earlier, and at first appeared [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui 19 July 2012 On Tuesday of this week, the Presidential candidate of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) – Retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio, delivered another of his powerful statesman-like speeches. He spoke at the “Launching of the DEVELOPMENT MANIFESTO FOR THE 2012 ELECTION”, [Read More]
Abdul R Thomas 18 July 2012 With presidential and general elections in Sierra Leone just four months away, the main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples’ Party (SLPP), yesterday launched a national consultation and consensus building dialogue, at the Bank of Sierra Leone complex in Freetown. The party is hoping that this [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay – China 18 July 2012 Sierra Leone’s Foreign and Finance Ministers have arrived in Beijing, the Peoples Republic of China, along with senior officials to attend the 5th Ministerial Conference on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). Both Ministers – Joseph Bandabla Dauda, Foreign Affairs, and Dr. Samura Kamara, Finance [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya (Puawui): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 July 2012: For the last two years or a little longer, the boast of the ruling APC propagandists has been that President Ernest Bai Koroma will defeat the opposition SLPP party’s candidate – Retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio by a landslide victory [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto 12 July 2012 Many Anti-Corruption Commissions have been “set up to fail, however they could succeed if they were given the right mandate and the right powers. In many cases those elements were lacking,” said former Anti-Corruption Commissioner of Sierra Leone – Mr. Abdul Tejan-Cole. Tejan Cole addressed [Read More]
10 July 2012 Unconfirmed report says that auditors of the African Development Bank (ADB), which has loaned the government of president Koroma hundreds of millions of dollars for infrastructural development, have uncovered huge discrepancies in the accounts. It is understood that millions of dollars earmarked for capital projects, such as [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 July 2012 The mother of the president of Sierra Leone – Mrs. Alice Koroma, sadly passed away last night, in her northern home town of Makeni. She was 80 years old and there have been no reports of any long illness. But there are unconfirmed reports that [Read More]
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