The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2013 Sierra Leone’s electricity problem could become a thing of the past, if the newly announced World Bank and DFID’s $16 million funded project succeeds. But where did it all go so badly wrong? Many in Sierra Leone believe that the hosting of the [Read More]
Anthony Kamara (A.K) Jnr. The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2013 Former Head of UNIDO operations in Sierra Leone – Dr. Stephen Bainous Kargbo, has started work at the UNIDO Regional Office in Ethiopia, following a competitive and rigorous selection process. The office in Ethiopia headed by a UNIDO Representative and [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2013 I am sure that you are aware that a toad does not run in the daytime for nothing. Similarly, you also know that even if a driver is sober, having a horde of screaming drunks in his poda-poda turns that vehicle [Read More]
The International Press Institute (IPI) The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2013 The International Press Institute (IPI) expressed serious concern today over the future of press freedom in Sierra Leone, following inflammatory statements made by Sylvia Olayinka Blyden (Photo: Left of former Nigerian President Obasanjo), special executive assistant to President [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2013 The government of Sierra Leone has set itself an ambitious, though necessary goal of attracting significantly more foreign direct investments and to increase economic growth and employment opportunities. But this cannot be achieved by putting out misleading and exaggerated statistics and economic indicators. While [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2013 It is not very often that Arabian Princes visit Sub-saharan Africa, and when they do, expectations are very high. Saudi Arabia is the richest Arab country in the world. It has huge potential to help Africa out of economic decay and poverty. So [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 June 2013 There is an old proverb, which says that: “The death that kills a man, it is said, begins as an appetite.” For beleaguered governments, especially in our part of the world, volatile, divisive political issues and exotic foreign junketing that [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 June 2013 Sierra Leone’s potential to become a major economic hub in the West African sub-region has never been in doubt. But what is often contested is the government’s hyperbole about the pace of development in the country and its international competitiveness. Much more needs [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2013 I know that years of political expediency have left us chasing the allure of a grand berth in the port of flagship nations. And no doubt, the present government would like to be a fairytale and a quaint historical vignette [Read More]
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