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ACC EMPOWERS PUPILS OF FAWE SECONDARY SCHOOL IN MAKENI

May 13, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

    The Northern Regional Office of the Anti-Corruption Commission has empowered pupils of the Forum of African Women Educationalist (FAWE) Secondary School in Makeni to enable them contribute to […]

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CTO APPOINTS HON.ALPHA KANU TO ICANN’S GENERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (GAC)

May 13, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Kwame Yankson :  The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO) on Wednesday 23rd April, 2014 appointed Sierra Leone’s Minister of Information and Communications, Hon. Alpha Kanu to serve on the General […]

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Blackmail or not, what was Mainga Mwaanga thinking?

May 13, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Blackmail or not, what was Mainga Mwaanga thinking? OPINIONS 17/04/2015 : 13 Comments : 1601 views Facebook Looking at the sheer magnitude of what Mainga Mwaanga did, one cannot help […]

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President Ernest Koroma commissions Lumley-Beach Highway

May 9, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

President Ernest Bai Koroma, the architect and the builder of modern Sierra Leone, was out again today commissioning another infrastructural project. This time, it is the Lumley -Beach Highway to […]

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MORE DEVELOPMENT ON THE WAY : EU TO FUND BANDAJUMA/ LIBERIAN BORDER HIGHWAY AND BRIDGES REHABILITATION

May 9, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0
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Sierra Leone’s Transport and Aviation Minister Attends 5th International Infrastructure and Investment and Construction Forum

May 9, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Transport and Aviation, Leonard Balogun Koroma has, on the 6th May, arrived in Macau (Special Administrative Region-SAR), in the People’s Republic of China, to participate at […]

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Welcome to the Siaka Stevens Stadium

May 8, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Secretary General of the ruling All People’s Congress ( APC ), Ambassador Alhaji Osman Foday Yansaneh, today announced during the laying-out ceremony of the late former Eastern Region Resident […]

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ABDUCTED SCHOOLGIRLS : WHAT IS THE WORLD DOING , AS NIGERIAN FIRST LADY WEEPS ON NATIONAL TV ?

May 8, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

We are publishing this short video sent to us by concerned people about the abduction of 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria by the terrorist group, BOKO HARAM. It epitomizes the emotions […]

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UNITED NATIONS CALL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ABDUCTED SCHOOLGIRLS IN NIGERIA

May 8, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

UN SECRETARY GENERAL BAN KI -MOON The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General condemns the shocking mass abduction of schoolgirls in […]

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New York African Film Festival Kicks Off 21st Edition

May 8, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Dennis Kabatto The New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) will show the critically acclaimed Half of a Yellow Sun by National Book Critics Circle Award–winning Nigerian author Chimamanda […]

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