Makeni is the largest city in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. The city is the capital of Bombali District,and is the economic center of the Northern Province. Makeni is the fifth largest city in Sierra Leone by population. The city of Makeni had a population of 80,840 in the 2004 census and a 2013 estimate of 112,428. Makeni lies approximately 110 miles east of Freetown. Makeni is home to the University of Makeni,the largest private university in Sierra Leone.
Edward Mohamed Turay is a Sierra Leonean politician and diplomat. He was leader of the opposition All People's Congress (APC) from 1996 to 2002. He has been Sierra Leone's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom since 2010.
Ernest Bai Koroma is a Sierra Leonean politician who served as the fourth President of Sierra Leone from 17 September 2007 to 4 April 2018.
Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol or pen named Abioseh Nicol was a Sierra Leone Creole academic,diplomat,physician,writer and poet. He was able to secure degrees in the arts,science and commercial disciplines and he contributed to science,history,and literature. Nicol was the first African to graduate with first class honours from the University of Cambridge and he was also the first African elected as a fellow of a college of Cambridge University. Davidson Nicol also contributed to medical science when he was the first to analyse the breakdown of insulin in the human body,a discovery which was a breakthrough for the treatment of diabetes.
Israel Olorunfeh Cole better known by his stage name Dr. Oloh was a Sierra Leonean afropop and Jazz musician. Dr Oloh is widely considered one of the biggest musicians from Sierra Leone. His hit singles were very popular in Sierra Leone in the 1970s,1980s and early 1990s.
Alhaji Mohamed B. Daramy is a Sierra Leonean politician. Daramy has many years of experience in industry,the private sector and in government having served as Minister of Labour,Minister of Trade,Minister of Transportation,Minister of Finance and recently Minister of Development and Economic Planning.
Dr. John Augustus Abayomi-Cole (1848–1943) was a Sierra Leonean medical doctor and herbalist.
Abdul Tejan-Cole is a Sierra Leonean Oku legal practitioner and former Commissioner of Sierra Leone's Anti-Corruption Commission. He was awarded the 2001 Human Rights Watch award.
Haja Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh,GCOR is a Sierra Leonean lawyer who was the first female Chief Justice of Sierra Leone from 2008 to 2015.
Alhaji Alpha Sahid Bakar Kanu is a Sierra Leonean politician and the current Sierra Leone minister of Presidential and Public Affairs. He is also the official spokesman of the All People's Congress (APC) political party,a position he has held even before the APC came to power. In January 2012,Kanu was chosen by Sierra Leone president Ernest Bai Koroma to serve as Minister of Information and Communication in Koroma's new second term cabinet.
Alhaji Alpha Osman Timbo is a Sierra Leonean politician,educationist,lecturer and trade unionist. He was Sierra Leone Minister of Labour and Industrial Relations from 2001-2002 under president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.
Bockarie Kortu Stevens is a Sierra Leonean diplomat and the current Sierra Leonean Ambassador to the United States;and also Sierra Leone's permanent representative to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He is the son of Sierra Leone's first president Siaka Stevens.
Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole,was a Sierra Leonean medical doctor who was the first West African to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Robert Smith FRCSE (1840–1885),also known as Bob Smith,was a Sierra Leonean medical doctor who served as Assistant Colonial Surgeon of Sierra Leone during the late nineteenth century. Smith was the first African to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh after completing his medical studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon,OBE,popularly known as M. C. F. Easmon or "Charlie",was a Sierra Leone Creole born in Accra in the Gold Coast,where his father John Farrell Easmon,a prominent Creole doctor,was working at the time. He belonged to the notable Easmon family of Sierra Leone,a Creole family of African-American descent.
Arthur Thomas Daniel Porter III was a Creole professor,historian,and author. His book on the Sierra Leone Creole people,Creoledom:A study of the development of Freetown society,examines their society in a way in which few books of their time period had,and it is one of the most quoted books on the Creoles. He was published in East Africa and the UK.
Victor Bockarie Foh,CRSL is a Sierra Leonean politician who served as Vice President of Sierra Leone from 19 March 2015 to 4 April 2018. Foh replaced Samuel Sam-Sumana as vice president,after Sam-Sumana was sacked by President Ernest Bai Koroma.
Ulric Oduma Emmanuel Jones was a Sierra Leonean medical doctor who was the first Sierra Leonean to specialize as neurosurgeon. Jones was the medical director of the Fajara Medical Clinic in the Gambia.
Richard Konteh is a Sierra Leonean educator,public servant,and a businessman.
