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Month: May 2016

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Agriculture Minister calls for calm as tempers flare in oil palm dispute

May 12, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Titus Boye-Thompson, Communications Expert   The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security (MAFFS) Prof. Patrick Monty Jones, on Monday 9th May 2016, called on all sides to exercise […]

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Ambassador Alimamy Koroma presents copies of Letters Credence and of Recall to Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry

May 12, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Sierra Leone’s Ambassador designate to the People’s Republic of China, Hon. Alimamy Philip Koroma will on May 17th, 2016, at the Great Wall of the People, meet with the […]

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Blind, deaf and dumb zealots : They will not see progress even if you gave them magnifying glasses

May 12, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

One thing that is very nauseating about some of our Sierra Leonean people –even those who lay claim to learning – is that they come across as such blind and […]

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Ambassador Alimamy Koroma arrives in Beijing

May 12, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Honourable Alimamy Philip Koroma has today, Wednesday, 11 May 2016, arrived in Beijing, China’s capital, as Sierra Leone’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to The People’s Republic of China. He also […]

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All Sierra Leoneans to have light by 2025, as nation positioned to be leader in promoting renewable energy for country and investors

May 11, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

On Tuesday, the government of Sierra Leone signed a Compact with the UK’s Department for International Development to secure a reliable power supply for all Sierra Leoneans by 2025. This […]

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President Ernest Koroma Launches Energy Revolution in Sierra Leone

May 11, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By State House Communication Unit“Our nation would not develop with inadequate and unreliable access to electricity,” President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has stated at the launch of the Energy Revolution […]

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Chinese President and Ambassador Honoured

May 11, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By State House Communication Unit FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, Tuesday 10 May, 2016// — Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Zhao Yanbo, were on Tuesday conferred […]

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Foday Mansaray, another Cocorioko member , wins the prestigious NOSLINA Award

May 11, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

COCORIOKO  had yet another glittering feather to its cap  when another member of Sierra Leone’s biggest and most widely read newspaper, Mr. Foday Mansaray, the Assistant  Chief Executive Officer ( […]

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Sierra Leone – Liberia call for more collaboration to End Ebola, plus other Presidential news from State House

May 11, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leone – Liberia call for more collaboration to End Ebola The leaders of Sierra Leone and Liberia on Friday 6 May, 2016, called for more collaboration to end Ebola […]

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Information Minister calls emergency press conference and addresses water , electricity and hooliganism problems in Sierra Leone

May 11, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Written and compiled by: MARCUS BANGURA   The action oriented, pragmatic and dynamic, minister of Information and Communications, Hon. Mohamed Bangura , today 10th May, 2016, invited journalists to a […]

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ECOWAS Parliament Commiserates with Sierra Leone By State House Communication Unit Representatives of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament have today, Thursday 7 September 2017, met with […]

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