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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 Africaโ€™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 Leoneโ€™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 โ€˜The Dynamics of Diplomacy,โ€™ has undergone spectacular alteration. โ€œSome traditional forms of diplomacyโ€, the writer believes, โ€œare 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,ย  under the leadership of the chairlady of the Womenโ€™s Ministry. Joyce Tower,ย  along with the Host Pastor, […]

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  • ๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Tony Blair Honoured as an Honorary Paramount Chief in Mahera, Sierra Leone
  • Seeking Clemency for EBK Strengthens the Wrong Narrative
  • Rest in Peace Comrade Alhaji Minkailu Mansaray
  • How Fatima Bio has been committing fraud and condoning public references to herself as โ€œ Her Excellency โ€œ
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By KABS KANU : Those members of the opposition and dissident elements who rejoice whenever they hear news of military coup attempts in other parts of the continent are living […]

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By KABS KANU : SIERRA LEONEย  was among manyย  nations represented at the official opening of the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly at the UN Headquarters on Wednesday […]

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