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President Koroma Receives New Speaker

January 29, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

President Koroma Receives New SpeakerBy State House Communications UnitPresident Dr Ernest Bai Koroma on Friday 24th January urged the newly elected Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Sheku Bockarie Bashiru Dumbuya, to […]

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INDEED A HERO HAS FALLEN – LT-COL TOM NYUMA (RANGER)

January 29, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

My dear Brothers and Sisters Home and Abroad, On behalf of the ex-service men and women of the Republic of Sierra Leone Military Forces  (RSLMF) Overseas, I would like to […]

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TOM NYUMA PASSES AWAY

January 26, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The cold hands of death gripped Sierra Leone  again this morning as one of the bravest and one of the most gallant former officers of the country’s armed forces, retired […]

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Haja Sally Savage : From the Fourahbayan Community of New Jersey

January 26, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Inna Illahi wa Inna illahi Rajoun. Members of the Sierra Leone community in New Jersey and beyond, it deeply saddens us to inform you that our dear sister,mother and friend Haja Sally […]

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Haja Sally Savage to be laid to rest tomorrow

January 25, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

نا لله وإنا إليه راجعون Inna Lillaahi Wa Inna Ilayhi Raaji’oon  (From Allah we came and to him we will return) Dear Family, Friends and Acquaintances. Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi […]

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President Koroma is coming back to the White House, along with 46 other African leaders

January 24, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 In another development clearly indicating how much respect the U.S. President Barak Obama has for the Sierra Leonean Head of State,  President Ernest Bai Koroma is coming back to the […]

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Sierra Leone sells 2013′s largest diamond

January 24, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 FREETOWN ( AFP )  – Sierra Leone said on Friday it had exported the largest diamond discovered in the west African nation last year – a 125-carat stone worth around […]

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Youth issues take centre stage as Sierra Leone and Senegal’s youth ministers parley

January 24, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By: Ralph Ese’Donnu Sawyerr  :   Sierra Leone’s Minister of Youth Hon. Alimamy Kamara while attending the 4th PAN-AFRICAN SUMMIT OF YOUTH LEADERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS in Senegal paid a courtesy call […]

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Ambassador Bangali attends opening session of AU PRC Meeting

January 24, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 By: Abdul Karim Koroma – Ethiopia  :   Ambassador Andrew Gbebay Bangali, Sierra Leone’s Envoy to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia on Tuesday 21st January 2014 attended the formal opening […]

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China to expand trade with Sierra Leone to record US $ 2 Billion

January 24, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 PHOTO : PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA WHOSE INSPIRING LEADERSHIP INSPIRES  CONFIDENCE IN INVESTORS IS SEEN HERE SHAKING HANDS WITH THE CHINESE LEADER  XI JINPING DURING HIS VISIT TO BEIJING LAST YEAR […]

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  • Crisis in Parliament : Neutrality undermined or opposition rebrand ?
  • Sierra Leoneans thumb down creation of new districts and dividing of Freetown
  • WHY FORGIVENESS MUST BE PART OF SIERRA LEONE’S POLITICAL FUTURE
  • Freetown Doesn’t Need a New “City” – It Needs Accountability and Inclusion
  • 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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