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Month: February 2017

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17 Presidential Elections In Africa So Far In 2016: It’s A Story Of Blood, Tears, And Some Drops Of Joy

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

  EIGHTEEN presidential elections were scheduled in Africa this year. Thus far, 10 incumbents have secured their re-election, six new presidents have been elected into office, one election has been […]

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FOURAH BAY COLLEGE EDUCATION IS STILL RELEVANT AND USEFUL; IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU MAKE OF YOUR DEGREE

February 19, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

BY KABS KANU : AS Fourah Bay College, the one-time premier institution of learning, celebrates its 190th anniversary, some people are writing on Facebook that the alumni are only celebrating […]

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APC defeats SLPP in crucial Tonkolili Bye-elections

February 19, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU With the Presidential, Legislative and Local council elections just a year away, any bye-election at this time is very crucial  to Sierra Leone’s key political parties as  […]

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Late Sierra Leone Ambassador to Kuwait Ibrahim Orsoya Kamara laid to rest in Makeni

February 19, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Mr. Ibrahim Orsoya Kamara, Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Kuwait , who died in Freetown two weeks ago, was  laid to rest yesterday in Makeni, his home town. President Ernest Koroma […]

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St. Kitts and Nevis and Sierra Leone commit to free movement of citizens

February 18, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Press Release London (England) 14 February, 2017 – High Commissioner of St. Kitts and Nevis to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, His Excellency Dr. Kevin M. Isaac and his colleague, […]

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RSLAF Holds 8th Annual Armed Forces Day

February 18, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  *By Ranger* President of Sierra Leone HE Ernest Bai Koroma who doubles as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces has addressed officers and men of RSLAF on Saturday 18th February […]

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“Orsoya was a fine man with a fine heart” – President Koroma

February 16, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By State House Communication Unit President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma in his capacity as Chairman and Leader of the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC), has said that the late […]

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Cooperation Ties With China Based On “the Core Values Of Mutual Trust…”-Amb. Kumba Momoh

February 16, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Cooperation Ties With China Based On “the Core Values Of Mutual Trust…”-Amb. Kumba Momoh Sierra Leone’s deputy ambassador to the People’s Republic of China has said, the establishment of diplomatic […]

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Sierra Leone launches World Development Report 2017 on “Governance and the Law”

February 16, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  The 2017 World Development Report (WDR), a yearly World Bank flagship report, was launched in Freetown on Thursday, February 9. This year’s report, Governance and the Law, sheds light […]

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VICE PRESIDENT VICTOR FOH STORMS BUMBUNA TOWNSHIP

February 16, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Hon. Vice President, Ambassador Dr. Victor Bockarie Foh storms the northern town of Bumbuna, Tonkolili District to galvanise support for the ruling APC candidate in the upcoming parliamentary by-elections […]

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  • With Organised Hypocrisy, People’s Indifferences & Impunity Are the Best Breeding Grounds for Corruption to Grow.
  • APC Meet- and – greet highlights a path to unity
  • Maada Bio to seek third term: Creation of new districts and cities part of the plan.
  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The Truth Teller We Never Deserved
  • 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
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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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Government of Sa. Leone appoints Kabs Kanu Editor-In-Chief of revived Sierra Leone Daily Mail

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Minister Plenipotentiary Wilfred Leeroy Kabs-Kanu has been appointed the Editor-In-Chief of the revived Sierra Leone Daily Mail print newspaper. The appointment is effective from July 1, 2016. The appointment is […]

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MRU Ambassadors Call For Revitalization of Makona Free Zone Project

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  Ambassadors of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to China have supported calls for the revitalization of the Makona River Free Zone Development Project, which was jointly conceived by the […]

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A second member of the Cocorioko newspaper has died of the coronavirus.  Yesterday, another big tree fell in Somerset, New Jersey as Alex Mansaray passed away after struggling with the […]

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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman Financial records obtained by the Africanist Press show how the Office of the Chief Minister of Sierra Leone spent over Le34.2 billion […]

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President Ernest Koroma visits disaster site to mourn with victims’ families

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Published on August 9, 2010 by Cocorioko News   ·   No Comments By Joseph Kamanda : His Excellency the President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma,  today  visited the landslide disaster site at Owen Street in […]

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