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Frank Kargbo mocks Charles Margai

August 12, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Recently, Lawyer Charles Margai wrote the Government, through the Attorney General, Hon. Frank Kargbo, complaining that President Ernest Koroma does not have the power to extend the State of Health […]

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Bondo is ruining our women, Sierra Leone Civil Society group complains

August 12, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leone has one of the highest rates of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the world, and yet little is known about the health consequences of the practice. The high […]

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SLAM Awards Program

August 11, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

   

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When Governance institutions fail, Democracy Perishes: Sierra Leone-A rejoinder

August 11, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

John Baimba Sesay-CHINA :  I have read with fitting attention, the piece written by Lansana Kormoh (Dr.), (my former University Lecturer), titled; “When Governance institutions fail, Democracy Perishes: Sierra Leone”, […]

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ONE – ON – ONE WITH VP VICTOR FOH IN EGYPT

August 11, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By M.B. Jalloh, Media Attaché, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States :    Last week, the Vice President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Victor Bockarie Foh led a […]

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Sylvia Blyden’s father is safe

August 11, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Mr. Edward Babatunde Blyden, father of Awareness Times Publisher, Dr. Sylvia O. Blyden, who was reported missing last weekend. has been found. Sylvia Blyden made the joyful announcement in the […]

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Prayers intensify as London Police continue search for missing father of Sierra Leone Publisher

August 11, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leoneans are telephoning and texting one another and asking for prayers for the welfare of the 72 year old father of the Publisher of the Awareness Times newspaper , […]

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Popular socialite Ladi Campbell loses mother

August 11, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The death is announced of my mother Mrs. Aina Claribel Madonna Campbell of 48 Soldier Street Freetown Sierra Leone, who  passed away today at the age of 90. She is […]

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New UN development agenda to end poverty in all its forms by 2030

August 10, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The 193 U.N. member states have reached agreement on a new development agenda for the next 15 years that calls for eradicating poverty and hunger, achieving gender equality, improving living […]

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World Bank Approves Additional Financing of US$10.0 Million for Sierra Leone’s Social Safety Nets Project

August 10, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

WASHINGTON, August 6, 2015– The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved an additional financing of US$10.0 million for Sierra Leone’s Social Safety Nets Project (SSN). This additional grant […]

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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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