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Upcoming Sierra Leone Elections: Important Test of Stability

October 30, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

1 Reply   Sierra Leone’s national elections, on 17 November, will be an important test of whether the nation will sustain its course away from being among the world’s most […]

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Transformation for national prosperity

October 19, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 By John Baimba Sesay : We are, as a matter of fact a progress nation, especially so within the last sixty months. We have come a long way, despite where […]

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Sierra Leone’s Deputy Foreign Minister addresses UN General Assembly debate on NEPAD

October 18, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Sierra Leone attaches great importance to NEPAD, as it is a collective vision and strategic socioeconomic development framework aimed at generating broad-based, sustained and equitable economic growth that allows […]

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Glowing tributes as New Jersey memorializes Haja Fatu Dumbuya

October 15, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

At 445 Hillcrest Avenue, Somerset, New Jersey, where family and friends converged on Sunday, October 7, 2012 for a Muslim Prayer Service, the late Haja Fatu Dumbuya was remembered as […]

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In Sierra Leone – President Koroma Positions The Ball To Score The Winning Goal

October 12, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 on October 12, 2012. 11 October, 2012 – Today, as gigantic throngs of human beings dressed in his party colors (Red ) swamped the city of Freetown  and massed around […]

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BIO UNDER PRESSURE!

October 6, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

BIO UNDER PRESSURE! By Septimus Kanu. International Community Condemns Last Friday’s Blockage As the clock ticks and day passes by, his chances of becoming the next President of Sierra Leone, […]

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Sierra Leone’s Day at the UN General Assembly

October 3, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 October 3, 2012. It was one Sierra Leone’s most memorable and landmark moments at the United Nations yesterday as the country’s Foreign Minister , Hon. Joseph Bandabla Dauda , delivered […]

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Goodwill Ambassador Mrs. Timbo-Nwokedi to help bring happiness from Hollywood to Sierra Leone

October 2, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By:  on October 2, 2012.   Sierra Leone Goodwill Ambassador Ms. Isatu Timbo-Nwokedi (in photo) recently attended The Way to Happiness Foundation International Convention in Glendale, California where she met with […]

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  • Karpowership says it is willing to work with government to stave off looming big electricity blackout crisis
  • Sierra Leone about to be plunged into total darkness as Karpowership decides to cut off electricity because of SLPP Government’s failure to pay debt
  • Fugitive Bank Governor Kelfala Kallon to be arrested if he insists on being paid in dollars : Trapped by his own regulation
  • Opposition APC MPs Suspend Participation from all activities and Committees in Sierra Leone Parliament_*
  • The silence of Bio-led SLPP Government on U.S visa ban is very dangerous—MP says
  • In A War Of Egos, The Loser Always Wins.
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  • Phebean Samura: Watch and see what will happen soon. Sierra Leone will be a Democratic country very soon. FORGET ABOUT 2028. WE…
  • Catherine Higgins: Remarkable how journalists can write about APC and what not... but you never seem to have the spine to demand…
  • Amadu M. Kamara: Comment no. 2 above continues thusly: if the firebrand do seriously intend indeed to show their numerical strength versus the…

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Sierra Leoneans thumb down creation of new districts and dividing of Freetown

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The government’s decision to create new districts—without clear legal backing, public consultation, or economic justification—appears politically driven and constitutionally questionable. It threatens: • Domestic democratic stability, • Economic sustainability, and […]

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How was Evangelist Samson killed ? SLPP Government explanation evokes spectre of Idi Amin, the Butcher of Uganda

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The Sierra Leone Police explanation of how the APC  social media blogger and warhorse, Hassan Dumbuya, aka Evangelist Sampson, has brought mixed feelings to Sierra Leoneans and evoked the feeling […]

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WOMEN START PROTESTS AGAINST SIERRA LEONE’S DICTATOR JULIUS MAADA BIO

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By Kabs Kanu Little drops of water and little grains of sand make a mighty ocean. On Thursday, the women of Sierra Leone staged protests at the Sierra Leone Embassy […]

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It’s a shame African heads of state have not learned to exit gracefully.

October 10, 2007 0

Subject: Elder Statesman From: Erica Adams To: All Date Posted: 01:47:46 10/09/07 () Email Address: ericamonique82@hotmail.com Entered From: adsl-074-185-005-235.sip.clt.bellsouth.net at 74.185.5.235 Message: I was looking at the alleged charges against former President Kabbah and Sierra Leone […]

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Kabbah , Berewa seek asylum in Guinea ?

September 10, 2007 0

Credible sources has intimated that  outgoing President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Presidential candidate and outgoing Vice-President Solomon Berewah have asked President Lansanah Conteh of Guinea to grant them assylum in […]

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Treasures from S/ Leone & Liberia on Display at Smithsonian Museum of African Art

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 Director, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Christine Mullen Kreamer and Bonnie Berry, Assistant to the Director at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, […]

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