Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 June 2014 Since that awful event of last Wednesday evening, when the leadership of the current executive committee were at each other’s throat on the radio airwaves, followed by the allegedly unhelpful contribution of the Parliamentary minority leader, people generally [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2014 Following the disgustingly shameful and embarrassing display on public radio by the leadership of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples party, in which accusations and invectives were thrown at each other, a friend of mine who is a non-political [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2014 Some twenty years or more ago, while I was minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in the government of late former President Alhajie Dr. Ahmad Tejan-Kabbah, I was summoned to Parliament to answer questions on the sale [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 June 2014 I have attended only one government briefing session, since the whole Ebola story hit the headlines, beginning with the Guinea outbreak. The session was for private practitioners, meaning non-governmental ministry of health institutions and personnel. I had underrated [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 June 2014 I am seated in Fokai Demby’s delightful Kamboi Complex, along Kenema’s co-busiest thoroughfare as I watch motorists, bike riders and pedestrians struggling to avoid the bad patch at the Capitol-Reservation roundabout. The visitor driving into Kenema city over [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 June 2014 I have sometimes wondered whether some hidden hand was fiddling with my birth calendar, because each twelve month period simply speeds away. Only yesterday, I was joking with friends and family members that we were to wait until [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 June 2014 There was near crisis in Bo school in 1946, barely three months to the Cambridge School Certificate Examination, which back then was the equivalent of today’s West African School Certificate Examination. Teacher L. J. Pratt, who had almost [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2014 The National Insurance and Social Security Trust – NASSIT, has in the past few years, at least since the advent of the APC government, been in the news for all the wrong reasons. The scheme was the initiative [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 May 2014 My last visit to State House was not one that I cared to remember. The then minister of information and communication, himself a former journalist and the erstwhile president of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) – Alhaji Ibrahim [Read More]
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