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New Benin Ambassador Pays Courtesy Call on Amb. Stevens Dean of West African Ambassadors Accredited to USA

May 21, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  The Dean of West African Ambassadors accredited to the United States of America His Excellency Bockari Kortu Stevens has said West African Ambassadors accredited to the United States of […]

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U. N. SRSG AND FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER IS NOW OFFICIALLY DR. ZAINAB BANGURA

May 21, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU : Sierra Leone’s Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation who  later became Minister of Health before her international appointment as the Special Representative of the […]

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Secretary to the Cabinet attends CAFRAD in Morocco

May 21, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Amadu Femoh Sesay —Information Officer-Cabinet Secretariat :    The Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of the Civil Service, Dr. Ernest Sahid Alie Surrur attended a three day interregional […]

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Open letter to President Koroma : Is Bio serious ?

May 21, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By David Kajue When I was taught letter writing in primary school in the 90s, I had used to bother my elderly sister who was a teacher of the […]

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UNIPSIL donates assets to National Commission For democracy

May 21, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The United Nations Integrated Peace Building Office in Sierra Leone UNIPSIL has donated assets to the National Commission for Democracy (NCD), one of its key partners working in close collaboration […]

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“Grand Gedeh Safer Than Monrovia,” Supt. Solo Asserts

May 21, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Prince Nagbe ZWEDRU, May 12 (LINA) – Grand Gedeh County Superintendent Peter Solo has said the county is safe, if not safer than Monrovia, the Liberian capital, to reside […]

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Anti-rape Ambassador calls on Liberians to help fight rape of young girls

May 20, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Prince Nagbe & Wilfred Gortor MONROVIA, May 12 (LINA) – Gender Ministry Anti-Rape Ambassador and Liberia’s music celebrity, Jonathan Koffa, alias Takun J, has called on Liberians to join in […]

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Boko Haram strike again in Nigeria : 118 killed in two massive bombings

May 20, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By AHMED SAKA and MICHELLE FAUL JOS, Nigeria (AP) — Two car bombs exploded at a bustling bus terminal and market in Nigeria’s central city of Jos on Tuesday, killing […]

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A new era is glittering in Sierra Leonean and Saudi Diplomatic relations

May 20, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Alhaji Jalloh : It is just a little over a month since His Excellency, President Dr. Ernest  Bai Koroma’s new envoy to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia stepped his […]

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President Koroma’s unshakable laurels

May 20, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By John Baimba Sesay-China : Imagine, a convict taken to the gibbet, with the executioner standing just next him, and he (convict) is told to find a way out. You […]

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By Alpha B. Barrie : The Director of the Open Government Initiative (OGI), Madam Khadija Sesay, says the organization would take a leading role in observing the elections.She made this […]

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