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Month: February 2017

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Funeral arrangements for the late Mr. Edward Babatunde Blyden

February 22, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Final Funeral Rites for the Late Edward Babatunde Walter Gustavus Blyden will be as follows: A.) Service of Thanksgiving and Commendation on  Monday 27th February, 2017 at 6pm at Forest […]

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Broadening the Opportunities of Growth in Africa’s Partnership with China

February 22, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Broadening the Opportunities of Growth in Africa’s Partnership with China John Baimba Sesay-CHINA The year just ended (2016) saw the commencement of the 2015 Forum On China-Africa Cooperation outcomes, following […]

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President Koroma Honours 8th Armed Forces Day Celebrations

February 22, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By State House Communication Unit The Commander-in-Chief of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) and Minister of Defence, His Excellency the President, Dr Ernest Bai Koroma joined officers, […]

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Did anybody, by chance , save our editorial on Fourah Bay College this morning ?

February 21, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

We have lost all the articles we published on Cocorioko this morning. Did anybody save our editorial on Fourah Bay College ? Kindly send to kabbskanu60@aol.com . Forum administrators, if […]

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What Sierra Leoneans did not know about Fourah Bay College

February 21, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Anthony K. Kamara (Sr), Winnipeg Canada. Fourah Bay College, West Africa’s oldest University, located on Mount Aureol is not just an institution on a hill top, but sub-Saharan Africa’s […]

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UN Secretary General touts preventive diplomacy after highlighting reasons for all the chaos in the world

February 20, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

UN Secretary-General António Guterres says the world is witnessing the multiplication of violent conflicts because the conflicts of one country are becoming increasingly interlinked with those of other countries. Guterres […]

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What Nigeria gained from Fourah Bay College : Dr. Christopher Kolade

February 20, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Dr Christopher Kolade was born in Erin -Oke, Osun State, Nigeria in 1932. After his secondary school education at Government College, Ibadan, he studied at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra […]

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In Sierra Leone, Fourah Bay College turns 190

February 20, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

In Sierra Leone, Fourah Bay College turns 190 NON SIBI SED ALIIS BY ANTHONY KAMARA ( SNR )   Memoires and moments of my student days on the hill top […]

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As Lucy Gondor Re-elected President of KWiGN: ‘The only answer to our problems is working harder’

February 20, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Ahmed Sahid Nasralla (De Monk)   LUCY C. F. GONDOR: the solution to our problems is to continue working harder as a team   Lucy C. F. Gondor has […]

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Ambassador Kamara Remembered and honored in Kuwait

February 20, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

AMBASSADOR IBRAHIM KAMARA Following the passing away of H.E. Ambassador Ibrahim Bakarr Kamara on Wednesday 8th February 2017, the Sierra Leone Mission in Kuwait  opened a Book of Condolence at […]

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  • An idiot’s guide to winning an election
  • The Crumbling House: APC’s Internal Chaos and the Systematic Marginalization of Political Pluralism in Sierra Leone
  • For corruption : Sierra Leone suspended from all IMF programs
  • Sierra Leone will defend herself to the last against Guinea, if necessary– Interior Minister
  • Taking the Mining discourse to another level:  Patriotism Must Be Grounded in Reality:
  • Big losses for Sierra Leone media: Accident claims lives of SLBC camera journalist and female intern
  • The Battle for Hearts and Minds Descends into The Abyss of Moral Politic, Witch-hunt and Gas lighting
  • The Voice Returns: Christiana Kamara Stuns Sierra Leone in Her Triumphant Return with Bormeh.
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  • Phebean Samura: Watch and see what will happen soon. Sierra Leone will be a Democratic country very soon. FORGET ABOUT 2028. WE…
  • Catherine Higgins: Remarkable how journalists can write about APC and what not... but you never seem to have the spine to demand…
  • Amadu M. Kamara: Comment no. 2 above continues thusly: if the firebrand do seriously intend indeed to show their numerical strength versus the…

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By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop)  When Dr Lansana Gbere, in a recent article published in one of the local newspapers, argues that West African states should decriminalize marijuana or cannabis […]

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By KABS KANU It is Andre Maurois who says in his classic, THE ART OF LIVING, that any union  without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. […]

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