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PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA STORMS EBOLA EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTRE AGAIN

August 11, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Freetown, 9 August 2014 – The President of the Republic of Sierra Leone Dr Ernest Bai Koroma, on Saturday, visited the Ebola Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) at the WHO Country Office […]

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Sierra Leone Embassy in Washington DC has not sanctioned today’s planned meeting of protesting Sierra Leoneans

August 10, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Notice: Embassy of Sierra Leone in the USA There are postings been circulated in the social media calling on Sierra Leoneans to assemble at the Sierra Leone Embassy at 1701 […]

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Addressing the Ebola Virus Disease and Trauma

August 10, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By ABDULAI BAYRAYTAY :   To say that the peoples of the three West African states of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia are undergoing trauma would be an understatement. This […]

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Sierra Leone Dispatches Troops to Enforce Ebola Quarantine : Troops and police have sealed off clinics and homes in hardest-hit localities

August 10, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Sierra Leone has dispatched 750 soldiers to the epicenters of the nation’s Ebola outbreak to enforce sweeping new quarantine measures as the virus’ global death toll rose to at […]

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Nigeria joins Sierra Leone and Liberia to declare health emergency

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

President Goodluck Jonathan Jonathan approves N1.9bn special intervention fund  NNPC shuts clinic in Lagos  Spread to US inevitable, says US Center for Disease Control Olusegun Adeniyi in Boston; Adeola Akinremi […]

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WHO Declares global public health emergency

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

  Lisa Schlein August 08, 2014 4:01 AM GENEVA—The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be a public health emergency of international concern.  […]

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Suspected Saudi Ebola victim from Sierra Leone dies of cardiac arrest

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

  By Alhaji M.B. Jalloh, Press Attaché, Saudi A Saudi who had traveled to Sierra Leone and had symptoms similar to those found in Ebola victims died early Wednesday, 7th […]

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Sierra Leone High Commission in the UK praises Gambian Bird

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

  PRESS RELEASE   The High Commissioner, Management and Staff of the Sierra Leone High Commission in the United Kingdom, has on behalf of Sierra Leoneans in the Diaspora, the […]

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Ebola : Sierra Leone’s and Liberia’s Foreign Ministers talk to Thomson Reuters

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

Exclusive: Liberia health system collapsing as Ebola spreads EDITOR’ S NOTE  :  THE SIERRA LEONE  FOREIGN MINISTER’S INTERVIEW WITH  THOMSON REUTERS WAS FACILITATED BY  PRESS ATTACHE PASCO TEMPLE : Source: […]

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LIBERIAN NEWS HIGHLIGHTS : Ebola spreads to eight counties

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

SENT TO COCORIOKO BY THE LIBERIAN NEWS AGENCY  ( LINA ) PRESIDENT ELLEN JOHNSON-SIRLEAF   Politics-Legislature Liberian Senate Endorses State Of Emergency By Hilary Vasco Wiagbe   MONROVIA, August 8 […]

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Respect is earned, learned sirs ; not demanded

June 28, 2015 0

By KABS KANU: The Sierra Leone Bar Association  is demanding  “respect from members of the public, including publishers and publishing houses” for its members. While we at COCORIOKO  agree with members […]

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No place like home : Alhaji Sam Sumana is back home

April 22, 2017 0

  By Tony Bee, Sydney, Australia As I mentioned in one of my recent writings that home is home. Regardless of whatever type of good achievements one made outside Sierra […]

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Former NPRC Secretary of State Idriss Kamara joins the Fight to Zero Ebola Infection

June 16, 2015 0

  Freetown, June 15, 015 (MOHS) – Chief Executive Officer and Founder of the organization ‘White Angels’ and former Secretary of State South in the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC) […]

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FOURAH BAY COLLEGE EDUCATION IS STILL RELEVANT AND USEFUL; IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU MAKE OF YOUR DEGREE

February 19, 2017 0

BY KABS KANU : AS Fourah Bay College, the one-time premier institution of learning, celebrates its 190th anniversary, some people are writing on Facebook that the alumni are only celebrating […]

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MORE TIME is not President Koroma’s idea, says Vice-President Foh

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Makeni, Jan. 18 (SLENA) – The Hon. Vice President, Dr. Victor Bockarie Foh last Friday declared that the More Time campaign that is spreading around was not the idea of […]

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