Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 September 2015 Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella has been appointed as one of the commissioners of the new Global Energy Transition Commission. (Photo: Yumkella winning the warm approbation of multibillionnaire Chief Elumelu). Kandeh is the only African to be appointed to the Commission, and joins an elite [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2015 When Sierra Leone’s President Ernest B. Koroma delivers his address on Tuesday at the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), he will face a concerted protest by Concerned Sierra Leoneans USA (CSLUSA). In an invitation to Sierra Leoneans in [Read More]
Eddie Vandy Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2015 Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Czar – Mr. Joseph Kamara (Photo) has recently had his $11,200 monthly salaried contract renewed for another five years; and in his own words: to ‘continue the path to rid the country of corruption.’ But how effective is he, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2015 The division within the opposition SLPP, fuelled by the row over the membership status of presidential hopeful – Dr. Kandeh Yumkella seems to be getting wider and deeper. Despite rallying calls by the party chairman – Chief Kapen for unity and constitutionality to reign [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 September 2015 When president Koroma took office in 2007, Sierra Leone was described as one of the darkest nations on the planet, with an intermittent daily average electricity supply of less than 15 Megawatts – barely enough to power the country’s public offices at day-time in [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 September 2015 The subtleties and entrenched values of limp-wristed political office holders, which have morphed into superficial, amoral, yet seemingly desirable offering of today, never ceases to amaze me. It is these characteristics, whereby those who should be the moral guardians of the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 September 2015 After eight long years of poor governance, incompetence, corruption and debauchery, senior ministers in the Koroma government are now saying that “the end is near” – the World is coming to an end. But whose world are they referring to? Your world, their world, [Read More]
Benjamin Kaingbanja Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 September 2015 For the first time in over 20 years, the oldest Sierra Leonean organization in the USA the Kono Union USA Inc. is cleaning its own house. Under the no-nonsense leadership of globally recognized anthropologist Dr. Fuambai Sia Ahmadu (Photo), the KUUSA is [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 September 2015 With seven people dead, hundreds injured and thousands left homeless in Sierra Leone, caused by heavy downpour in less than twenty-four hours, criticisms are beginning to emerge of the government’s incompetence and poor handling of the flood crisis. As it was with the Ebola [Read More]
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