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Koidu Government Hospital gets digital XRAY Unit and ultra-modern lab

June 13, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Culled from the Cocorioko Facebook Forum of Patriots : Posted by Seal Momodudeen Borbordeen— Koidu Government Hospital Kono district Friday 10th June 2016 officially inaugurated its Digital X-Ray Unit, Theater, […]

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Parliament vows to overhaul the Tourism industry

June 13, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Mohamed Faray Kargbo The Parliamentary oversight Committee on Tourism and Cultural Affairs says they will do everything within their power to ensure that the tourism industry develops in Sierra […]

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This is what responsible and caring governments do for their people

June 13, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU : When dissident elements and retrogressive forces look all around them  for unnecessary causes to blame and discredit a hardworking government and find none, they take one […]

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WE REAP WHAT WE SOW : HOW TRUE ?

June 13, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

WE REAP WHAT WE SOW : HOW TRUE ? By Rev. Wilfred Leeroy Kabs-Kanu We cannot sow lemon grass and expect to reap pineapples. This is what the Bible teaches. […]

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THE OSWALD HANCILES COLUMN : “Go Back to the Drawing Board” – for Okada (?)

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

Commercial motor bikes (famously known in Nigeria and Sierra Leone as “okada”) have been banned from entering the Central Business District (CBN) of Freetown by the newly appointed Minister of […]

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Police- Okada confrontation : What the people say

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

9 June 2016 Okada Riders Go On the Rampage in Freetown Reports coming from Freetown say Okada riders have made road blocks burning tyres to obstruct the flow of traffic […]

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“Our mission seeks to rebrand the image of Sierra Leone” : Ambassador Ismail Koroma

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

Our mission seeks to rebrand the image of Sierra Leone” By Gunther AB Daramy Ambassador Ismail Koroma,   Deputy Permanent Representative of the Mission of Sierra Leone to the African […]

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A Bribe, A Gift, An African Handshake, or A Tip?

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

  By Lauretta Sillah— Police bribery is rampant in Sierra Leone. Yesterday, my driver was stopped by police for parking in a busy area in Lumley, west end of Freetown. […]

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Sierra Leone’s Health Minister Dr. Fofana says in New York : ” We must strengthen our resolve to defeat HIV/AIDS”

June 10, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Minister of Health and Sanitation, Dr. Abu Bakarr Fofana , who is in New York to attend the United Nations High-level Summit on HIV/AIDS ,  has said that the […]

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Social Welfare Minister Sylvia Blyden engages Spanish, ECOWAS and NEPAD officials in Nigeria

June 10, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Anthony Bangura– Hon. Minister of Social Welfare, Gender & Children’s Affairs Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden is now leaving Nigeria and heading back to Sierra Leone. This follows 3 days […]

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SENT TO COCORIOKO BY THE LIBERIAN NEWS AGENCY  ( LINA ) PRESIDENT ELLEN JOHNSON-SIRLEAF   Politics-Legislature Liberian Senate Endorses State Of Emergency By Hilary Vasco Wiagbe   MONROVIA, August 8 […]

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