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FLASHBACK : President Koroma : ‘We must continue moving the nation forward ‘

September 2, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

INDEPENDENCE MESSAGE BYΒ  H.E. PRESIDENT ERNEST BAI KOROMA , 27 April 2016 Today is our fifty-fifth anniversary as an independent nation, and I congratulate all Sierra Leoneans, within the country, […]

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RSLAF CDS Addresses Senior Command

September 2, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Culled from the Cocorioko Facebook Forum By Ranger Lieutenant General John E. Milton, Chief of Defense Staff of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces on Tuesday 29th August 2016 […]

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Sierra Leonean Students Arrive In China to Pursue PhD, Masters Degrees

September 2, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  China, through the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) has admitted forty-nine (49) deserving Sierra Leonean students into various universities for the 2016/2017 academic year. Amongst them, seven (7) are to […]

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EXCLUSIVE : INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM : THE ILLS OF SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK PROPAGANDA EXPOSED

September 2, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Mohammed Legally-Cole   Confusing and rather traumatic reports loiter the international news sphere, sprung from the Guinea Bissau has now proved beyond all reasonable doubt that the information […]

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Sierra Leone Gulf Ambassadors Pursuing Economic Diplomacy

September 2, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

    By M.B. Jalloh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia   As a print media Journalist, prior to my appointment as Information AttachΓ© to the Sierra Leone Embassy in the Kingdom of […]

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Ambassador Soulay Daramy receives marvelous welcome in Guinea Bissau

September 2, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Mohammed Legally-Cole   Amidst the evening dusky tide on Thursday 11th August 2016, Ambassador Sullayman B. Daramy and his entourage including staffs of the Sierra Leone Embassy in […]

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Hon. Dr. TMT remembered for building peace and social justice

September 2, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Hon. Dr. TMT remembered for building peace and social justice By Contact Tracer The Center for Development and Peace Education (CDPEACE) is well set to celebrate the one year memorial […]

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SOLOMON BEREWA: HEIR APPARENT, OR A MARCH OF FOLLY FOR POWER?

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Β  Β  Wednesday June 8, 2005 Politics is a five-year sport among Sierra Leoneans. We hardly know our politicians or their designs on power until they have accomplished their schemes […]

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CBC NEWS Opposition candidate Ernest Koroma has won Sierra Leone’s presidential run-off, election officials declared Monday,in what was seen as a crucial test for the war-torncountry’s fledgling democratic system. Koroma […]

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