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Month: October 2016

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VP. FOH WELCOMES THE FIRST BATCH OF HAJJ PILGRIMS

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

BY: JULIUS BAMBAY KAMARA The Hon. Vice President, Ambassador Dr. Victor Bockarie Foh is at the Lungi International Airport to welcome the first batch of pilgrims arriving from the Holy […]

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S/Leone Govt. Pursues 200 Mega-Watts Solar System

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

By PASCO TEMPLE : At a meeting Convened late last week at the Sierra Leone Chancery on 1701 19th Street North West Washington DC by Honorable Dauda J. B. Kallon, […]

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Commemorating World Teachers’ Day- 5th October 2016: The African Teacher : Based on a true story

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

  By Ahmed Sahid Nasralla (De Monk) Teacher Lemp Lemp was notorious for wearing such big bottom trousers and his pupils secretly adored him for that In the neighbourhood of […]

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President Koroma Gives Exclusive Interview on 2016 Hajj from State House

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

  By Alhaji M.B. Jalloh, Press Attaché, Saudi Arabia Sierra Leone’s President has hailed and congratulated the Saudi King and his Government on the success of this year’s Hajj. Speaking […]

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VP Victor Foh unveils United Nations War Monument

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

  BY: JULIUS BAMBAY KAMARA The Hon. Vice President, Ambassador Dr. Victor Bockarie Foh on Friday 7th October, 2016 unveiled the new United Nations Monument at the Radisson Blu Mammy […]

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Sierra Leone’s Finance Minister and Delegation Attend IMF & World Bank 2016 Spring Meetings

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

 By PASCO TEMPLE : Finance and Economic Development Minister Momodu Kargbo and members of his economic and financial team who arrived in Washington DC on Saturday September 30th 2016 and […]

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Portugal’s António Guterres emerges as favourite for next UN Secretary-General

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

5 October 2016 – Former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres has emerged as the clear favourite to become the next United Nations Secretary-General following the sixth secret ballot held today […]

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President Ernest Bai Koroma Unveils Documentary on Pay & Performance Project

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

  By State House Communication Unit President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma this morning (October 5, 2016) unveiled a video documentary about the Sierra Leone Pay & Performance Project. The project, […]

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Sierra Leone will overcome the blip to her economy

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

  By KABS KANU : This week, the Government of Sierra Leone announced robust measures to counter the blip that has overtaken her once fast-growing growing economy. The austerity measures […]

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MAADA BIO, CORRUPTION & THE WAY FORWARD!

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

By Septimus Kanu. It could be recalled that Julius Maada Bio and other soldiers (Sobels) undemocratically hijacked the then APC government of late Major General Joseph Saidu Momoh (may his […]

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