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]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui 26 July 2012 The above is the title of late President Siaka Stevens’ autobiography; it is an interesting book which tells how the son of an ordinary police man attached to government house, had risen to become the President of Sierra Leone. I gave up [Read More]
Fuambai Sia Ahmadu Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2012 Famous actresses like Angelina Jolie have become the butt of many jokes, because of their humanitarian or “good works” in Africa and other parts of the developing world. In Sierra Leone alone, a few of the Hollywood A-listers have taken up [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon 25 July 2012 Sierra Leone’s 2012 elections are the final frontier for transcending the assumed limits of our fears and perceptions; our ethnic tendencies; our political prejudices. It is a new horizon awaiting. The message which each and every one of us should be passing on to [Read More]
24 July 2012 “We cannot categorically state that President Koroma was aware of Sam’s behaviour. Should Mr. Koroma have investigated Sam a little more before trusting him?” Those are the words of Mark Heiligman, the American businessman who accused the vice president of Sierra Leone – Sam Sumana of taking [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui 24 July 2012 I remember that morning in 1978, when the late Salia Jusu-Sheriff – the leader of the SLPP opposition at the time, stood almost alone – but with his chin up, making his memorable submission to the rest of us on the government [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon 23 July 2012 Recently there was fury in some quarters, when rumours quoted a serving minister as saying that chicken was more expensive than a woman in Sierra Leone. But what struck me the most from the resultant rage, was the political ignorance of such a development. [Read More]
23 July 2012 The dust is yet to settle on the timbergate corruption affair in Freetown. A court case involving a business partner of the vice president, accused of taking bribe on behalf of the vice president, is ongoing. In a new scandal, the vice president is now being accused [Read More]
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