Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 October 2017 The lady tipped to become Sierra Leone’s first female president, possibly in 2023 – Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden – who currently serves as minister of social welfare, children’s and religious affairs, is today being rumoured by newspaper reports to be interested in the 2018 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2017 Kenya’s recently annulled elections will soon be re-run, but the long-term questions they raised about election management are still unanswered. The spotlight is on the work of international observer teams, but there are also much wider questions of electoral capacity – problems that extend to the [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2017 The nation woke up to the “news” that journalist – Dr. David Tam Mbayoh of “Monologue” fame has joined the ruling APC party as their Publicity Secretary for Kono District. Social media was saved from a meltdown – just. You get a [Read More]
Team Tengbe Campaign Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2017 You may recall that on 11th October 2014, my Campaign Team organised a Town Hall meeting in London where I announced my intention to become our Party’s Flag-Bearer and Presidential Candidate for the 2018 Parliamentary and Presidential Election in Sierra Leone. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 October 2017 Presidential hopeful – Alie Badara Sanjan Kabba, whom many regard as a radical progressive nationalist leader, was speaking this afternoon, 2nd October 2017, on the SLBC TV in Freetown. During the live TV interview, Alie Kabba strongly admonished his fellow SLPP party members to [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 October 2017 The pace of the political race in Sierra Leone is picking up fast, as the months roll by. And for some people, the elections cannot come sooner. For others, it is just another day in the office. But like any other election, [Read More]
Team JOB Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 September 2017 John Oponjo Benjamin or JOB, as he is fondly known, was born on the 29th November 1952, in the small town of Segbwema, in Kailahun district, Sierra Leone. The first child in his family, JOB was brought up with a keen realization [Read More]
Jimmy D. Kandeh Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 September 2017 In a country where social cleavages seldom cross-cut, it is refreshing to have a candidate in the person of Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella whose political appeal cuts across parties, regions, ethnicity, religion and other solidarities. The APC and SLPP, as presently constituted, [Read More]
Bockarie K. Sama Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 September 2017 To many of us who quietly support the party but have become rather embarrassed by its self-destructive character of recent, the just concluded Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) delegates’ conference in Kenema has been my last barometer before deciding whether the [Read More]
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