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Hashim Daboh and Muhammed Ahmed gives their views on national matters

August 23, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

First_Name:  Hashim Last_Name:  Daboh Email_Address:  Gboyama@yahoo.com Address:  36 Copley Road City:  Upper Darby State:  PA Zip_Code:  19082 Comments:  Kabs, thanks for the effort to print diverse views for the public […]

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Iraq job seeker’s parents blame Govt.

August 21, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Sunday August 21, 2005   By Tamba Borbor, COCORIOKO’S City Editor   Mr. Alieu Taylor Kamara, the father of repatriated Iraq job seeker, Alusine Taylor Kamara has blamed the […]

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Does the SLPP Government have the people’s interest at heart ?

August 18, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

How many more such defective planes ply our airport ?   DOES THE SLPP GOVT . HAVE THE PEOPLE’S INTERESTS AT HEART ? By KABS KANU : It is standard […]

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Air crash ; SLPP responds to Sylvia Blyden at last

August 17, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

THE GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE The Minister of Transport, Dr. Prince Harding has tonight appeared on National TV to apologise to passengers of the 8-11 crash. He says he was “misinformed” about […]

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Nurses to down tools 1stSeptember

August 16, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Tuesday August 16, 2004 Tamba Borbor reports from Freetown At around 9:00am on Friday 12th August, Nurses converged at the National School of Nursing in protest over their incorporation into […]

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Government’s silence over Air crash : Sylvia Blyden writes President Tejan Kabbah

August 15, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

DR. SYLVIA BLYDEN WRITES PRESIDENT AHMAD TEJAN KABBAH ABOUT SLPP GOVERNMENT’S EARDEAFENING SILENCE ON WEDNESDAY’S PLANE CRASH AT THE LUNGI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, FREETOWN SUNDAY AUGUST 15, 2004 OPEN LETTER TO […]

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Shirley Gbujama addresses addresses effects of postwar trauma

August 7, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  SHIRLEY GBUJAMA ADDRESSES EFFECTS OF POSTWAR TRAUMASaturday August 7, 2004 Sampson Cole reports from Freetown Trauma survivors and war-affected communities are to benefit from an integrated psychosocial community-counselling programme […]

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Journalist’s life in danger : Family complains

August 4, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Members of the family of controversial journalist, Sheka Tarawalie, currently in London after attending a seminar of editors from post-war countries, are complaining that there have been recent threats to […]

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PRESIDENT KABBAH TO RESHUFFLE HIS CABINET TODAY ?

August 2, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Monday August 2, 2004 A usually reliable source in  Freetown has informed COCORIOKO  that President Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah will do that  national brinksmanship  which the nation has been […]

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NEWS FLASH : President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah reshuffles his cabinet

August 2, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Monday August 2, 2004 12:20 PM(EST) President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has reshuffled his cabinet , as exclusively reported to COCORIOKO this morning by reliable sources from Freetown . But from […]

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