Julius Maada Bio

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Full Name	Julius Maada Bio
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	May 12, 1964(1964-05-12)
Age	60
Country	Sierra Leone
Birth City	Tihun
Horoscope	Taurus

Julius Maada Bio Biography

Julius Maada Bio is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 12, 1964 in Tihun, Sierra Leone. Julius Maada Bio was born on May 12, 1964, in Tihun an area of Tihun, a village in the Sogbini Chiefdom, Bonthe District located in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. Bio was born three years following the Sierra Leone”s Independence during the administration of the then Sierra Leone Prime Minister Sir Albert Margai of the SLPP. Bio is the 33 of 35 children born to Sherbro Paramount Chief Charlie Bio II of Sogbini Chiefdom. Bio’s father was married to Nine wives. Bio is named after his paternal grandfather whom was also the chief. chief of the Sogbini Chiefdom. Bio is an ethnic Sherbro and is a religious Roman Catholic.

Bio was a graduate of the Military academy as Second Lieutenant in the Sierra Leone Army in October 1987, at the age of 23. His first assignment as an officer in the commissioned rank was in the Lungi Garrison located in Port Loko District in 1987. Bio was later transferred in the Kambia District as part of the Economic Emergency Unit, created by President Joseph Saidu Momoh to combat the smuggling of drugs and other criminals across the Guinean border. The year 1988 saw Bio had been posted to Lungi and was trained in the course of United Nations forces in aviation security. Following the training, Bio was transferred to Benguema as a commander of a platoon.

After a year in Liberia as an ECOMOG soldier, the Sierra Leone Government ordered Bio and several members of Sierra Leonean soldiers serving in Liberia to immediately return to Sierra Leone and report to the Military baracks|army barracks in Daru, Kailahun District to populate newly formed 600 man battalion of soldiers set up by President Momoh to repel the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels who had attacked villages on the border between Sierra Leone and Liberia, in March 1991. The soldiers included future NPRC members Lieutenant Solomon Musa, Captain Valentine Strasser, Lieutenant Sahr Sandy and Lieutenant Tom Nyuma.

On April 29, 1992, Bio was one of a group of young Sierra Leonean soldiers including Captain Valentine Strasser, Lieutenant Sahr Sandy, Lieutenant Solomon Musa, Lieutenant Tom Nyuma and Captain Komba Mondeh that toppled president Joseph Saidu Momohs All People’s Congress (APC) government in a bloodless military coup. The young soldiers formed the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC) with Strasser as their leader and Head of State of Sierra Leone.

After finishing the secondary level, Bio sought admission to Fourah Bay College in Freetown in 1985 at the age of 21. But, Bio ultimately enrolled in the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces military academy in Benguema which is located outside of Capital City Freetown. Bio was an officer in the cadet ranks under the supervision by Major Fallah Sewa, the head of cadet education within the Military Academy.

Julius Maada Bio Net Worth

Julius Maada Bio is one of the richest Politician from Sierra Leone. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Julius Maada Bio 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Julius Maada Bio (born May 12 1964) is a Sierra Leonean politician, and the 5th president of Sierra Leone since April 4 2018. He was a retired Brigadier General of the Sierra Leone Army and was the Head of State for the military for Sierra Leone from January 16 through the 29th of March, 1996, under an army-led Junta government. Bio is the candidate of the principal opposing Sierra Leone People’s Party, Bio beat Samura Kamara who is the leader of the All People’s Congress in the runoff election of the 2018 Sierra Leone presidential election with 51.8 percent of the votes compared to Kamara”s 48.2 percent. Local and international observers declared the elections legitimate, fair and free of corruption. Bio succeeded Ernest Bai Koroma as president.

Bio began his education through his Roman Catholic Primary School in Tihun, Bonthe District. After completing his first year in the primary education, Bio went to Pujehun to stay with his sister Agnes who was a teacher at the primary school in Pujehun. Bio finished his education through his school, the Holy Family Primary School in Pujehun. After completing his primary schooling, Bio’s elder sibling, Agnes was able to enroll him in Bo Government Secondary School. Bo Government Secondary School situated in Bo (commonly called Bo School) which is an acclaimed boarding school. Bio was a student for the span of seven years attending Bo School, rising to become the school’s Prefect. Bio completed her studies at Bo School in 1984 with A-level , aged 20.

In 1990, the Sierra Leone Government contributed military personnel to the West African Peacekeeping Force, ECOMOG, which was mandated to keep the peace in the Liberian civil war. Bio and several other Sierra Leonean soldiers, including Captain (OF-2)|Captain Valentine Strasser, and Lt Solomon Musa were deployed to Liberia as part of Sierra Leone’s contingent to ECOMOG. At the time, thousands of Liberians were fleeing to Sierra Leone weekly, exposing the country’s fragile security and adding to the economic hardship.

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Who is Julius Maada Bio Dating?

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Bio was the SLPP presidential candidate in the 2012 presidential election, but he received 37% of the votes as he was defeated by the incumbent president Ernest Bai Koroma who won 58% of the votes. As the military Head of State, Bio returned Sierra Leone back to a democratically elected government, when he handed power to Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of the Sierra Leone People’s Party, following Kabbah”s victory in the 1996 Sierra Leone presidential election. Upon retiring from the military in 1996, Bio moved to the United States where he was granted political asylum, and he did not return to Sierra Leone from the U.S until 2005, when his safety in the country was guaranteed by then Sierra Leone president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.

Facts & Trivia

Julius Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sierra Leone. Julius Maada Bio celebrates birthday on May 12 of every year.

In his first month in office, Bio became the first Sierra Leonean president to introduce free education through executive order for primary and secondary school students in public schools throughout Sierra Leone, starting the next school year in the fall of 2018. Bio has also eliminated application fees for students in government-run public universities across Sierra Leone. Bio has recently cancelled China’s funded four hundred million dollar loan agreement with the previous Sierra Leone president Ernest Bai Koroma to build a new international airport in Sierra Leone. In his first two months in office, Bio has opened an ongoing review and audit of all government mining contracts, ministry departments, and other government agencies in the immediate past government of Ernest Bai Koroma. In his first two months in office, Bio sacked all of Sierra Leone’s ambassadors and permanent representatives abroad in the immediate past government of Ernest Bai Koroma. In his first two months in office, Bio appointed his cabinet ministers, including the appointment of an opposition leader, Charles Margai, who served briefly as the country’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice.

What tribe is Julius Maada Bio from?

Bio is an ethnic Sherbro, and a practicing Roman Catholic. Bio began his primary education at the Roman Catholic Primary School in Tihun, Bonthe District.

Who is the richest president of Sierra Leone?

Ernest Bai Koroma
Personal details
Born| 2 October 1953 Makeni, British Sierra Leone
Political party| All People’s Congress
Spouse| Sia Koroma ​ ( m. 1986)​

What is the full name of Maada Bio?

H.E. Julius Maada Woni Bio is the current and the 5th President of the Republic of Sierra Leone.

Who is the current First Lady of Sierra Leone?

Fatima Maada Bio (née Jabbe; born 27 November 1980), known simply as Fatima Bio, is a Sierra Leonean former actress, screenwriter and film producer who is the current First Lady of Sierra Leone, as the wife of President Julius Maada Bio.

How old is Maada Bio?

58 years (May 12, 1964)