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Month: May 2017

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APC penetrates SLPP stronghold ; Wins 31% of the votes as ADP too takes 13%, leaving SLPP with a troubling 56 % pyrrhic victory

May 29, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

If the bye-elections results in Segbwema, the birth place of the Sierra Leone People’s Party’s most powerful operative, John Oponjo Benjamin , is anything to go by ( And why […]

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Sierra Leone’s Expenditure Rationalization Program that many people misconstrued had no negative impact on the people : Government Spokesman elucidates in New Jersey

May 29, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Outreach Coordinator and the Spokesman of the Sierra Leone Government, Mr. Agibu Tejan-Jalloh , said in New Jersey last week that the Expenditure Rationalization Program launched last year , […]

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Communique of C-10 Malabo Consultative Summit

May 28, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Determined that the historic injustice to Africa is urgently addressed and the continent given the full representation it deserves at both categories ( Permanent and Non-Permanent ) of the United […]

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Women’s Forum Secretary General heads to High Level African Women Leaders Meeting in New York*

May 28, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Mrs. Gladys Hastings Spaine, the elected Secretary-General of the *WOMEN’S FORUM* of Sierra Leone is today flying out of Sierra Leone to attend the “High-Level Women Leaders Forum for Africa’s […]

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Youngest Editor off to World Bank Sponsored International Workshop

May 28, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Abu Bakarr I. Kamara May 26, 2017, 17:04   25 years old Abdul Malik Bangura, the youngest newspaper editor in West Africa who edits Sierra Leone’s most widely read […]

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Sierra Leone: Heightening Our Engagements through Economic Diplomacy

May 28, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

John Baimba Sesay- CHINA The world, writes Jean-Robert Leguey-Feilleux in ‘The Dynamics of Diplomacy,’ has undergone spectacular alteration. “Some traditional forms of diplomacy”, the writer believes, “are losing their prominence. […]

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Connecting Sierra Leone to the rest of the world : Aviation Minister closes in on Turkish Airlines

May 25, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  In his quest for the world to meet the beautiful diamond of West Africa, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Transport and Aviation, Mr Leonard Balogun Koroma appears to be marching […]

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Big reception to herald Africa Day Celebrations in New York : Sierra Leone to attend

May 25, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Today is AFRICA DAY, the annual commemoration of the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU)—- now the African Union ( AU ) . In a statement marking […]

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PICTURE OF THE DAY

May 25, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

FLOODING IN FREETOWN WHEN IT RAINS NOW

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Women of Faith 2017 to host Rev. Victoria Beecham ( UK )

May 25, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Women of the Grace Christian Fellowship Ministries of Old Bridge, New Jersey,  under the leadership of the chairlady of the Women’s Ministry. Joyce Tower,  along with the Host Pastor, […]

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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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Government and Koidu Holdings in stalemate over workers’ better wages and good working conditions

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*GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE, KOIDU LIMITED, KOIDU LIMITED WORKERS, ACTIVISTS AND THE COMUNITY IN A STALEMATE OVER BETTER WAGES AND GOOD WORKING  CONDITIONS IN KONO*   By Karamoh Kabba A […]

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UPDATE!!! Uneasy Calm Returns to Central Freetown After Ojeh-Linked Tensions

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Urgent Appeal for Security Intervention We are urgently calling on the Central Police Division to intervene in a violent situation unfolding in the Horton Street and Frederick Street area of […]

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As President Maada Bio loads KKY with more lucrative appointments and glories, let us learn to keep away from politicians’ dogfights

September 1, 2024 0

By Kabs Kanu President Bio keeps loading Kandeh Yumkella with big, massive, lucrative jobs.  He keeps anointing KKY with glories. Where are the people who placed the Bio- Yumkella fights […]

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Life is so unpredictable : Look at Late BB at Dauda Bangura’s funeral in February

October 31, 2013 0

By KABS KANU Life is really unpredictable: Mr. Brima Bangura , popularly known as BB, of Somerset, New Jersey , died on Tuesday morning at his home at Highland Park, […]

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Sierra Leone restricts oversees travel and public gatherings

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First Lady Sia Nyama Koroma wanted for APC presidential running mate

October 2, 2017 0

  MAMA SIA NYIAMA KOROMA, OUR SHINNING KOMRA STAR*. By N’Bompa Turay Sierra Leoneans, we must not forget our traditions and culture. We must not even forget our political or […]

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No Third Term Agenda for President Ernest Bai Koroma” : Deputy Information & Comm. Min Hon. Theo Nicol

August 19, 2013 0

BY PASCO TEMPLE AND KABS KANU : Sierra Leone’s deputy Information and Communications Minister and Co- Government Spokesman Hon. Theo Nicol has described President Ernest Bai Koroma as a highly […]

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