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SOLOMON BEREWA: HEIR APPARENT, OR A MARCH OF FOLLY FOR POWER?

June 8, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

    Wednesday June 8, 2005 Politics is a five-year sport among Sierra Leoneans. We hardly know our politicians or their designs on power until they have accomplished their schemes […]

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Dr. Lansana Nyalley Returns Home to Declare his Candidacy for the SLPP Leadership Nomination

June 7, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Washington, DCJuly 7, 2005     DR. LANSANA NYALLEY FOR THE 2006 SIERRA LEONE PEOPLES PARTY (SLPP)  NOMINATION FOR THE 2007 NATIONAL ELECTION   THE SIERRA LEONE PEOPLES PARTY (SLPP) WITH […]

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KAMAJORS WERE ORDERED TO BURN DOWN EVERY HOUSE OCCUPIED BY THE AFRC …Witness testifies at CDF Trial

June 6, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

    Monday June 6, 2005 Witness TF 2-078  has told the war crimes tribunal in Freetown that the Civil Defence Force were ordered to burn down every house occupied by […]

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Cecil Samba to help open doors of Commerce to deserving African nations

June 5, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Monday June 4, 2005 Mr. Cecil Samba, a top adviser of the ruling SLPP New York Branch has been inducted as head of the African Section of the  Greater […]

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Dr. John Karefa-Smart ashamed of Sierra Leone corruption

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

  DR. JOHN KAREFA-SMART By KABS KANU : Sunday June 3, 2005 Veteran politician Dr. John Karefa -Smart has disclosed that he felt ashamed for Sierra Leone when the country […]

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CHARLES MARGAI GETS BAD RAP FOR ‘SON-OF-FOUNDING FATHER’ OBSESSION

May 30, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Monday May 30, 2005 Many Sierra Leonean activists in discussion forums and the diaspora have advised Mr. Charles Margai to discuss what he will do for Sierra Leone if […]

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Grand SLPP Convention the arbiter of Sierra Leone’s destiny

May 30, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Monday May 30, 2005  The long-awaited SLPP Convention , where President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah’s successor as Standard Bearer of the ruling party will be decided, looks like the arbiter […]

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PROFESSOR LAMENTS DRIFT TO ONE-PARTY STATE IN SIERRA LEONE

May 30, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Monday May 30 , 2005 A professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia  in the United States  , Dr. Jimmy Kandeh,  has lamented the  gradual drift to One-Party state in Sierra […]

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AROUND AND ABOUT : Of ostentation and ill-gotten wealth

May 17, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  with Kabs Kanu The other day at a social function at New Jersey , I listened keenly to  an altercation over a woman between two young Sierra Leoneans. The interesting […]

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GENERATIONS YET UNBORN WILL BLAME PRESIDENT KABBAH FOR THIS UNCONTROLLED CORRUPTION

May 16, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

COCORIOKO EDITORIAL   Monday May 16, 2005 Just a few years to go to the end of his rule, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah will find his rightful place in the […]

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  • 65 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE have been Cruel luck for the people of Sierra Leone
  • Sixty-five years after independence, one painful truth remains: we, as a people, have failed Mama Salone.
  • Independence Anniversary : A reflection on the role of the SLPP in national unity, peace agreements and political responsibility
  • 65 years of Independence : Let us be honest for a second
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COCORIOKO EDITORIAL: Echoes of a Dark Past – An Independence Day Plea for Sierra Leone’s Soul As Sierra Leone marks another Independence Anniversary, the air should ideally be thick with […]

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65 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE have been Cruel luck for the people of Sierra Leone

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By Kabs Kanu The April 27, 1961 Independence ushered in what could be rightly described as cruel luck for the people of  Sierra Leone.  Independence was meant to usher in […]

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Dirty, smelly capital sign of general nonchalance in today’s Sierra Leone

October 25, 2005 0

This is Signal Hill, a once upscale neighbourhood in the outskirts of Freetown. This street is lined by garbage on both sides. If Signal Hill is full of garbage , […]

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PRESIDENT KOROMA VOWS TO MAKE WESTERN RURAL DISTRICT A MODEL DISTRICT IN THE COUNTRY

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    President Koroma-Western Rural District in general and Tokeh in particular have always been close to my heart. Tokeh village, along the Peninsula, in the Western Area was the […]

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Better a Slave in Heaven, than a King in Hell.

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Better a Slave in Heaven, than a King in Hell. Sierra Leone may not be many people’s idea of heaven, but it looks like recent events in the country have […]

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Sierra Leone’s Minister of Information and Communications and Government Spokesman, Hon. Alpha B.S Kanu  on Thursday 29th August, 2013 appealed to Information Communication Experts and colleague Ministers of Information Communications […]

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