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Pilgrims Share Hajj Experience before Departure
ย Compiled by Alhaji M.B. Jalloh, Press Attachรฉ, Saudi Arabia The greater Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) to Mecca of 2016 has come to an end. But Hajj is still an experience […]
Month: October 2016
EDITORIAL
The double standards of some of President Koroma’s bitter critics : The saga of Victor Sylver , the shamed BBC Reporter
By Yusufu Sesay : Victor Sylver, the disgraced BBCย reporter , delights in attacking the government of President Ernest Koroma from his lair in London. A so-called journalist who moralizes […]
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President Koroma attends Justice Tolla Thompsonโs Civic Laying Out
His Excellency the President, Dr Ernest Bai Koroma , accompanied by his wife, First Lady Mrs. Sia Nyama Koroma and Vice President Dr Victor Foh,ย today attended the civic laying […]
COMMENTARY
Sierra Leone Emerges Successful at 2016 IMF/World Bank Meetings
Sierra Leoneโs financial activities have been rated โsuccessfulโ by two of the Worldโs re-known and leading financial institutions – World Bank & International Monetary Fund (IMF) at this yearโs annual […]
Lead Stories
Government of Sierra Leone subsidizes Le89.6bn on fuel …”Little did we know we are subsidising for three countries”, Information Minister laments
The Minister of Information and Communications, Hon. Mohamed Bangura disclosed on Tuesday 11th October, in Freetown that the government has subsidized eight nine point Six hundred thousand billion Leones […]
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Revenue Mobilization Imperative for Councils to Efficiently Perform
John Baimba Sesay- China Decentralization is vital in the sustenance of participatory democracy given that it helps in bringing governments closer to the people. In the process, this allows openness […]
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DFID TO PROVIDE 6.7 MILLION DOLLARS TO SUPPORT GIRLS EDUCATION IN SIERRA LEONE
Close to 200,000 girls across Sierra Leone will be supported by a new project which will be funded by the United Kingdom Department for International Development ( DFID) through […]
COMMENTARY
ECOWAS Envoysโ Dean Bids Farewell to Ambassador Alimamy Koroma
Sierra Leoneโs Ambassador to China on Tuesday 11th October, 2016, paid special tribute to outgoing Dean of ECOWAS envoys for the outstanding leadership he ably provided for the Group and […]
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In Sierra Leone, new Peace Corps sworn in
On October 6, fifteen Peace Corps Volunteers were sworn in by Ambassador John Hoover in Port Loko after 9 weeks of living with Sierra Leone host families learning local […]
Lead Stories
THE DEVASTATIVE PLUNDERING OF FREETOWN AND ITS ENVIRON!
By Sorie Ibrahim Kanu CULLED FROM THE COCORIOKO FACEBOOK FORUM When we were kinds in the late 60s and early 70s, while farming rice fields in the vast swamps […]