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Hilton Fyle breaks silence and exposes SLPP again

January 27, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Malady of The S.L.P.P. – By Hilton E. Fyle –Culled from the SIERRA LEONE’S CRAZY POLITICS blogspot A LITTLE OVER THREE YEARS AGO, FORMER BBC BROADCASTER AND JOURNALIST IN SIERRA […]

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Part 2 : Three faces of Bai Bureh : The national hero of Sierra Leone

January 26, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

PART 2 As the years went by I began to search for an actual photograph, convinced that one had to exist somewhere. When the internet appeared in the 1980’s, my […]

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Deputy Health Minister Madina Rahman leaves for New York to attend UNFPA meeting

January 26, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Deputy Minister of Health, Hon. Madina Rahman, will leave Freetown today for the United States to  participate in a  side meeting of the UN Populations Fund  ( UNFPA ) at […]

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Dr Samura Kamara, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs on Change and Prosperity

January 26, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 FROM INSIGHT MAGAZINE ​I caught up with Dr Samura Kamara, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in London, the morning after his return from the India-Africa Summit […]

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That chaotic SLPP meeting broken up by the London Police : An eye-witness expresses outrage

January 26, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

London Metropolitan Police had to be summoned to intervene and break up a  Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP)  meeting in the United Kingdom over the weekend. A social media […]

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Sierra Leone’s hate politics alarmingly spreads in the diaspora

January 26, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU During the last United Nations General Assembly, the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza at the UN  witnessed such an  intense war of words, wits , slogans, ill-will and verbal […]

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Commonwealth committed to supporting Sierra Leone’s economic recovery by improving its export packaging capacity

January 25, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Bridget Chiedu Onochie, Abuja A NATIONAL consultation last Thursday kicked off in Sierra Leone to help the country’s small and medium enterprises reach new export markets. The talk also aimed […]

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National Union of Students embarks on nation-wide anti-violence campaign

January 25, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Bearing in mind that the abnormal upsurge in violence among young people ranks high among the most serious social problems with which we, as a nation, have to contend, the […]

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SLPP Chaos in the UK prompts London Police intervention

January 25, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

London Police have reportedly intervened after a section of the SLPP “Paopa” rudely interrupted a meeting organized by supporters of Kandeh Yumkelah in London. Details of the fracas are still […]

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At 94, Minnesota eye doctor heads to Africa to help Ebola survivors

January 25, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Dr. Lowell Gess headed back to Sierra Leone this month. — DAVID JOLES, Star Tribune By JEAN HOPFENSPERGER , STAR TRIBUNE  January 23, 2016 – 10:55 AM   A 94-year-old Minnesota doctor […]

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  • Guinea expands illegal occupation of Yenga, opens fire on residents and forces everybody to flee
  • True Independence and Freedom can only exist in doing what is right
  • Video : Sierra Leone gains Independence from Britain and the 1961 Royal Visit
  • Reflections on Sierra Leone’s 64th Independence Anniversary : A nation still in waiting
  • There will never be world peace until imperialism is dead : Hands off Ibrahim Traore
  • Sierra Leone’s 64th Independence Anniversary Poem by Nicholas Godwin
  • Sierra Leone at 64 : A nation at the crossroads of reflection and regret
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SLPP adept at propaganda : Failed attempts to rebrand inept, misfiring Freetown mayoral candidate Gento

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By Kabs Kanu SLPP are very adept at propaganda and deceit. Look at the way they are busy trying to cover up Gento’s lack of intellect and communication skills for […]

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  By Solomon Sesay AMBASSADOR STEVENS Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Bockarie Kortu Stevens  was in New Jersey yesterday to hold series of meetings with Sierra Leonean […]

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