Born in the eastern diamond-rich Kono district he has deep roots in Port Loko District in the north a stronghold of the main opposition All People's Congress (APC) of ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma...

The charges of impunity favouritism corruption and subverting the constitution that President Julius Maada Bio now faces uncomfortably resemble those he flung at his predecessor President Ernest Bai Koroma during his presidency...

Yet the two met at Banda's home on 16 August after Lungu's concession speech the encounter reportedly brokered by the head of the Commonwealth observer mission Tanzania's ex-President Jakaya Kikwete and the head of the African Union observer mission Sierra Leone's ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma...

In what government supporters see as a watershed moment and critics say is a precursor to civil unrest formal corruption investigations have opened against former President Ernest Bai Koroma...

Critics say he has done little to reunite the country fractured along regional and ethnic lines that he took over from his predecessor Ernest Bai Koroma...

The President in power for two years has overturned the sector policies of his predecessor Ernest Bai Koroma promising a new era of collaboration with 'trustworthy and patient investors after an era of 'extreme lack of transparency...

There was vigorous debate among the President's advisors about the bridge especially since the President spent so much time during his election campaign pouring scorn on President Ernest Bai Koroma's much less costly project to build a new airport at Mamamah on the Freetown side of the bay...

The scheme agreed by ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma in November 2017 aims to expand Freetown's Queen Elizabeth II Quay with construction and finance from China under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)...

The revelations pouring out of three judicial commissions of inquiry into public corruption under former President Ernest Bai Koroma have the country agog (AC Vol 59 No 13 Koroma accused of grand corruption & Vol 59 No 14 Corruption inquiry takes off)...