Sia Nyama Koroma | |
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First Lady of Sierra Leone | |
Assumed office 17 September 2007 |
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Preceded by | Isata Jabbie Kabbah |
Personal details | |
Born |
Yengema, Kono District, Sierra Leone |
19 March 1958
Nationality | Sierra Leonean |
Political party | All People's Congress (APC) |
Spouse(s) | Ernest Bai Koroma (1986 present) |
Children | Alice and Danke Koroma |
Residence |
State House (official) Freetown, Sierra Leone |
Alma mater |
Fourah Bay College King's College London |
Profession | Biochemist, Psychiatric Nurse |
Religion | Christianity |
Website | http://www.firstladysl.org (official website) |
State House (official)
Sia Nyama Koroma (born on March 19, 1958 in Yengema, Kono District) is the first lady of Sierra Leone and the wife of Sierra Leone's president Ernest Bai Koroma. She is also the daughter of former Sierra Leone's attorney general Abu Aiah Koroma.
She holds a Master of Science in Organic Chemistry from the University of London and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from King's College London and Fourah Bay College in Freetown. Sia Koroma is a native of Kono District in Eastern Sierra Leone and a member of the Kono ethnic group. She is the mother of 5 children's4 daughters, an 1 boy Alice and Danke and yunis Koroma.the only son of both parents.
Sia Nyama Koroma was born on March 19, 1958 in Yengema, Kono District in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone into a wealthy prominent political family. Her mother Danke Koroma was a primary school teacher in Yengema, Kono District, and her father Abu Aiah Koroma (November 28, 1928 - March 6, 2005) was a Lawyer, and was Sierra Leone Attorney General from 1967 to 1968 under the National Reformation Council (NRC) military administration of Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Juxon-Smith. Aiah Koroma was the Managing Director of the National Diamond Mining Company (NDMC) based in Kono District from 1976 to 1987. from 1991 to 1992 Aiah Koroma served as Sierra Leone minister of natural resources under president Joseph Saidu Momoh. Aiah Koroma also briefly served as Sierra Leone minister of political and parliamentary affairs under president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. Sia Koroma's father, Aiah Koroma was also a Presidential candidate in the 1996 Sierra Leone presidential elections; he won only 4.9% of the vote.