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New African Woman Awards 2017 Winners Announced

May 2, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 Nigeria’s Joan Okorodudu (New African Woman In The Arts & Culture   PRESS RELEASE New African Woman Awards 2017 Winners Announced Gambia’s Fatoumatta Jallow-Tambajan, Minister of Women Affairs and Overseer […]

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At NJ Town Hall meeting, Spokesman Abdulai Bayraytay eloquently highlights President Koroma’s achievements and his plans to exit peacefully next year

May 1, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU : Sierra Leoneans and their American friends from New York and New Jersey were yesterday given an eloquent appraisal of comprehensive steps being taken by  President Ernest […]

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Former President Kabbah’s wife may have had too much to drink –and she admits it !

May 1, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

During the 56th Independence Anniversary celebrations, which people celebrated in sundry ways, not the least in bending their elbows, there was a video making the rounds of Mrs. I.J. Kabbah […]

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Medgar Evers College to host Fourah Bay College Deputy Vice Chancellor

May 1, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE PROUDLY PRESENTS TRANSFORMATIONAL CONNECTIONS: SIERRA LEONE AND AMERICA YESTERDAY AND TODAY FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017 6:00-8:00 PM @ THE EDISON O. JACKSON AUDITORIUM 1638 BEDFORD AVENUE, BROOKLYN, […]

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Peacebuilding in Africa: why the media matters

May 1, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Peacebuilding in Africa: why the media matters By Amanda Lucey and Jacqueline Cochrane on April 30, 2017 — Media protection, resourcing and independence are vital wherever peace is in jeopardy. Peacebuilding […]

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  • Government and Koidu Holdings in stalemate over workers’ better wages and good working conditions
  • UPDATE!!! Uneasy Calm Returns to Central Freetown After Ojeh-Linked Tensions
  • Guinea expands illegal occupation of Yenga, opens fire on residents and forces everybody to flee
  • True Independence and Freedom can only exist in doing what is right
  • Video : Sierra Leone gains Independence from Britain and the 1961 Royal Visit
  • Reflections on Sierra Leone’s 64th Independence Anniversary : A nation still in waiting
  • There will never be world peace until imperialism is dead : Hands off Ibrahim Traore
  • Sierra Leone’s 64th Independence Anniversary Poem by Nicholas Godwin
  • Sierra Leone at 64 : A nation at the crossroads of reflection and regret
  • 64 years after Sierra Leone’s Independence : Sierra Leone’s ongoing struggles and the road to renewal
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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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Mrs. Vicky Pat-Sowe, the wife of Sierra Leone’s Fisheries and Marine Resources Minister, Hon. Allieu Pat-Sowe , passed away this morning at the Choitram’s Hospital in Freetown. Funeral arrangements will […]

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