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Month: January 2016

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President Koroma Inspects Sierra Leone Embassy

January 29, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By State House Communication Unit As part of his itinerary on the margins of the 26th Ordinary Session of the African Union, President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma Friday 29 […]

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The changing faces of Kono, Kailahun, Kenema , Makeni and once backward outposts in Sierra Leone

January 28, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU : Modern and state-of-the art infrastructural development projects are modernizing and changing the face of  provincial towns and cities in Sierra Leone. President Ernest Bai Koroma is […]

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President Ernest Bai Koroma tells Newsweek magazine how APC government is keeping Sa. Leone safe and sound

January 28, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The President of Sierra Leone, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has told the NEWSWEEK Magazine measures his government has put in place to ensure a safe and sound nation. Here is […]

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Finance Minister Kaifala Marah signs U.S. $12 million Saudi fund to rehabilitate FBC

January 28, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance and Economic Development has today, Thursday, 28th January 2016 together with the Deputy Managing Director of the Saudi Fund signed a-USD 12million funding agreement for […]

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President departs for Ethiopia

January 28, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By State House Communication Unit President Ernest Bai Koroma, accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Sia Nyama Koroma, will lead the Sierra Leone delegation participating in the 26th Ordinary Session […]

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PRESS RELEASE : Kaddu Sebunya Elected President of African Wildlife Foundation

January 28, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

PRESS RELEASE Kaddu Sebunya Elected President of African Wildlife Foundation Ugandan conservationist will be a vocal, visible voice for wildlife in a modern Africa NAIROBI, Kenya, January 28, 2016/ — […]

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VOICE FROM MATEBOI : End of the Ebola Outbreak! The New Phase of 90 days: Mistrust and lost hope

January 28, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Jonathan Abass Kamara Sierra Leoneans on Saturday November 7, 2015 at home and abroad sky-rocketed their hands, shouting Alleluia! When WHO, Dr.  Anders Nordstrom, Country Representative declared the […]

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Sierra Leone’s Deputy Health Minister to be interviewed tonight by SIERRACAST TV

January 28, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Hon. Madina Rahman, Sierra Leone’s Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation, will be exclusively interviewed tonight by SIERRACAST /COCORIOKO TV,  a new television media starting to make its mark in […]

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Uncompromising stand by clerics sparks protests for and against abortion bill at Parliament

January 28, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU : Members of the public demonstrated outside Sierra Leone’s Parliament building yesterday as religious leaders in the country stormed the Legislature to convince parliamentarians not to approve […]

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Build a just and fair society to defeat tribalism

January 28, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

BUILD A JUST AND FAIR SOCIETY TO DEFEAT TRIBALISM Titus Boye-Thompson, Communications Consultant   Those who have gone close to the Germans always refer to their love of country and […]

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  • 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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  By State House Communication Unit Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for International Development (DFID) the Right Hon. Priti Sushil Patel Tuesday November 8 praised the President’s Recovery Priority […]

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If Umaru Fofana, of all people, chastised Maada Bio for lying to the BBC, how much integrity is left for the SLPP Presidential candidate ?

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May 22, 2012 | Filed under: Breaking News,Diaspora,Editorial,Headlines | Posted by: Cocorioko Newspaper By KABS KANU : Mr. Umaru Fofana , the President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists […]

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  By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) As someone who is no longer wet behind the ears in terms of journalism and Mass Communications; it should be understandable that I only […]

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