Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2012 Young men and women chat along the glittering corridors of the sprawling shopping complex. With state-of-the-art mobile communication gadgets in hand, they go in and out of the mall’s 65 shops, filling shopping bags with expensive items. Fully air-conditioned, the mall has 20,000 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 September 2012: President Koroma has taken much pride in being upheld as an experienced and successful entrepreneur by his supporters and admirers, including former British Prime Minister – Tony Blair. But with eight weeks to presidential election, the president’s economic record in office is now looking [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2012 In the news this week, the world’s leading computer and smart phone technology company – Apple, won its legal battle in the US against Samsung for infringement of patent rights, involving its IPad tablet computing technology. Samsung may have to pay Billions of Dollars [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 July 2012 A report has chastised multinational corporations for the illicit transfer of most of the $ 1.5 trillion they make in Africa each year, back to the developed countries, draining hard currency reserves from the continent. This according to the African Press Organization (APO) is [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 July 2012 In the wake of allegations and counter-allegations of corruption involving the vice president of Sierra Leone, a renewed focus is being turned on to the manner with which the government has been entering into agreement, with foreign companies to exploit the country’s mineral resources. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2012: The growing call for more and better decentralised public services in Sierra Leone has received a financial boost. The European Union has released $6 million it had approved in December last year, in support of the World Bank’s funded project costing $32 million. The government [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 June 2012 Bio’s international stature and statesmanship had a significant boost yesterday, when he spoke to global financial and industrial leaders at the 18th Conference of Montreal, organized by the International Economic Forum of the Americas, in Canada. Julius Maada Bio – is a former president [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 June 2012: The crucial debate initiated by the series of articles published by the Sierra Leone Telegraph on the state of Sierra Leone’s civil service, received a significant boost last week. The World Bank announced that it has decided to provide a whopping $17 Million funding to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 June 2012 When the African Development Bank – Africa’s premier bank for investment in the development of infrastructure and industrialisation, announced the launch of its 2012 Report on the continent’s economic progress last week in Arusha, Tanzania, few expected the flurry of initiatives that came pouring [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph Reserves Copyright
