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Nana Konadu-Rawlings for the Presidency

May 7, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Ghana’s opposition National Democratic Party has chosen former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings as its presidential candidate at the party’s national delegates congress Saturday in the capital, Accra. National Democratic […]

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Vice- President Victor Foh’s statement at Pan -African Parliament in South Africa

May 7, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

ADDRESS BY AMBASSADOR DR. VICTOR BOCKARIE FOH VICE PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE – GUEST OF HONOUR AT THE SECOND ORDINARY SESSION OF THE FOURTH PARLIAMENT OF THE PAN-AFRICAN PARLIAMENT – […]

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APC -USA Women’s Wing to be launched with a grand program tomorrow

May 5, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0
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SLPP Presidential aspirant heaps praises on President Koroma

May 5, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Melvin Tejan-Mansaray Last week Saturday, former Sierra Leone Teacher’s Union (SLTU) Secretary General, former Minister of Labor and political activist-cum Lawyer Alpha Osman Timbo declared his intention to vie […]

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When good communications dispel malicious rumours

May 5, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Titus Boye-Thompson Communications Consultant Every so often, the vexed question on State authority to act and impose law and order diminishes to an argument over Police brutality, the limitation […]

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Lunsar Descendants Association Fundraising Dinner and Dance

May 5, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0
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Deputy Minister urges media to take advantage of new leadership at Information Ministry

May 4, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Ahmed Sahid Nasralla (De Monk) Newly appointed Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, Cornelius Deveaux, has encouraged media stakeholders to take advantage of the new political leadership in his […]

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Sierra Leoneans in U.S. Metropolitan States hold Interfaith Prayer Service for Country

May 4, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

S/Leoneans in U.S. Metropolitan States hold Interfaith Prayer Service for Country An Interfaith prayer service which saw a group of formal religious leaders from the Christian and Muslim faith conducting […]

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Ambassador Moseray Fadika Hailed By Sierra Leoneans in the Diaspora

May 4, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Contact Tracer His Excellency Ambassador Gibril Santigie Moseray Fadika, received a tumultuous applause from Sierra Leoneans in the diaspora and hailed as a ‘champion’ in eradicating poverty in […]

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Inaugural Speech by Alimamy Turay, President, APC New Jersey

May 4, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Last Saturday, the new executive of the All People’s Congress ( APC ) New Jersey Chapter was sworn into office during a grand Inaugural Program held at the Holiday Inn […]

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