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Meet Sierra Leone’s Lovely Award-Winning Actress Wendy Bangura

December 11, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 She is moving fast up the ladder and has already pressed some coveted awards to her glorious bosom. Her name is Wendy Bangura and she is one of the most […]

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Bangura Rethinks U.N.’s Sex-Violence Patrol

December 11, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The new U.N. point person on sexual violence in armed conflict doesn’t plan to do it on her own., a former health minister from Sierra Leone, is tapping governments to […]

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Truly Proud To Be A Committed Koromaist

December 11, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) :   When, about two years to the 2012 elections, I coined the phrase “Koromaism” to encapsulate President Ernest Bai Koroma’s “Agenda for Change” and referred, […]

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President Koroma’s APC Won An Outright Mandate To Govern: No Need For A Political Compromise

December 11, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 By Solomon Sesay : A Rebuttal to Sorie Fofana’s article- A Need for a Political Compromise My focus for today’s editorial was on another topic until I read Sorie Fofana’s […]

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Looking Back Moving Forward: Predictions For November’s Presidential Elections

December 11, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Solomon Sesay : Editor’s Note:- We republish this article written on March 27, 2012 predicting the results of the Presidential Elections. It is difficult to imagine, some expected Bio […]

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Will Ernest Handle Unprecedented Power To Transform Salone?

December 11, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Oswald Hanciles : “You gave us a mandate to deliver…We delivered the change we promised…Thank you for trusting us with the leadership of our beautiful country in 2007….We inherited […]

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Usu Boie Unveils School In Romando Village

December 11, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 By UBK Press : One of Sierra Leone’s heavyweight politicians, Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara on Saturday December 8th unveiled a newly constructed school named ‘the Usman Boie Islamic Junior Secondary School […]

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President Koroma’s Cousin Charles Koroma To Be Buried In Makeni Today

December 9, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

One of the most friendly Sierra Leoneans in the diaspora–Mr. Charles Koroma , the cousin of President  Ernest Bai Koroma–who died weeks ago  , will be buried today in his […]

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Parliament Sworn In As Justice Abel Stronge Returned Unopposed As Speaker

December 7, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Sierra Leone House of Parliament has today convened for a parliamentary swearing in ceremony for the newly elected Members and the election of  Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House […]

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SLPP calls off plan to boycott Parliament

December 7, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The  opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP ) yesterday called off their planned boycott of Sierra Leone’s Parliament. An announcement from the SLPP ‘s National Executive Council  said :  ”In […]

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