Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 March 2023: Bola Tinubu – the presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC) party has been declared the winner of Nigeria’s closest presidential election since the country’s return to democracy in 1999, after decades of military interegnum. Tinubu won 8.8 million votes against the People’s [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) mandate of elections observation in Nigeria ended yesterday, after closing of polls. And now the hard task of conducting “Preventive Diplomacy” has started, led by Sierra Leone’s former president Ernest Bai Koroma. This [Read More]
Amadu Sesay (Speedo): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: Dr. Samura Kamara was born in 1951 in Kamalo, Karene District. His father, Pa Gibril Kamara was from Maworrko village near Rothuk and Magbanktha villages, Gberray Junction, Maforki Chiefdom, Port look District. Dr. Samura Kamara’s mother, Ya Bomporro Kamara (nee Kanu) [Read More]
Saidu Bangura, PhD: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: There is a widespread political truism in Sierra Leone: both political parties that have (mis)governed the country since independence have regional and ethnolinguistic strongholds. The SLPP seems to have an edge over the APC in the South-Eastern regions of the country [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: Prithvirajsing Roopun, President of the Republic of Mauritius, has congratulated Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio for emerging winner in the category of “African of the Year” award and called for a deepening bilateral relationship between the two countries. Both leaders met ahead [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr last Thursday received an award from a group of people with disabilities who graduated after pursuing a course of training in Information Technology. Commenting on the award, Mayor Aki-Sawyerr said: “Yesterday morning I was invited to make a statement at [Read More]
Dr Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 February 2023: Nigerians will go to the polls today Saturday, February 25, 2023, to elect a new president. Muhammadu Buhari, the current president, will not be on the ballot after having served two consecutive terms. The standard bearer of his party, the All [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 February 2023: The Head of the ECOWAS Elections Observer Mission (HoM) to the Federal Republic of Nigeria arrived this morning at the ECOWAS HQ, in Abuja. Received by the President of the Commission, Dr Umarr Alieu Touray, and the vice President, Mrs Damtien [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 February 2023: Several opposition supporters have been seriously injured, including the newly elected National Secretary General of Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party – Lansana Dumbuya and his driver, when heavily armed soldiers stopped their vehicle in a convey carrying the party’s newly elected presidential candidate [Read More]
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