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SLAJ ORDERS NEWS BLACKOUT ON SLPP GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT AND THE POLICE

August 3, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Wednesday August 3, 2005 The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) in concert with the Sierra Leone Reporters Union (SLRU) has endorsed an indefinite news blackout on all matters […]

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What has the SLPP done with all the aid, grants and loans ?

August 2, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

    PRESIDENT AHMAD TEJAN KABBAH Since the official declaration of end of the decade long armed insurgency and retribution, only God knows the exact figure of foreign financial and […]

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John Leigh begins releasing platform for presidential aspirations

August 1, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  John Ernest Leigh is the most loyal SLPP member who is today aspiring to lead the Party. The others have belonged to other Parties or non-SLPP regimes at various […]

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MOTIVES OF THE SNAP SLPP CONVENTION AND HOW TO DASH THEM

August 1, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

MOTIVES OF THE SNAP SLPP CONVENTION AND HOW TO DASH THEM     From: <JMusa10472@aol.com> Date: Mon Aug 01 2005 – 13:16:23 EDT WHY ADJUST TO A SNAP NOTICE? The […]

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