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Minister Sylvia Blyden and Women’s Forum’s Maude Peacock attend High Level Panel in Addis

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

Hon. Minister Dr. Sylvia Blyden is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with Mrs. Maude Peacock, the President of Women’s Forum , attending the African Union’s 4th High Level Panel on Gender […]

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*Freetown Amusement Park Official Test Run of its Facilities*

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

*By Mass Line* For the first time after many years since the famous Victoria Park now the Freetown Amusement Park* was closed to the general public due to upgrading. On […]

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Vice-President Victor Foh is in Kenya

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

Hon. Vice President, Ambassador Dr. Victor Bockarie Foh has left Freetown to attend a high-level meeting in Nairobi, Kenya on Data For Development In Africa. In recognition of Sierra Leone’s […]

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Youth Affairs Minister addresses 2017 Ministerial Workshop on International Cooperation in Capacity Development in Beijing

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

Youth Affairs Minister addresses 2017 Ministerial Workshop on International Cooperation in Capacity Development in Beijing, China Sierra Leone’s Minister of Youth Affairs has said, the 2017 Ministerial Workshop on International […]

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Investments in poor children save more lives per dollar spent, new UNICEF study says

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

PRESS RELEASE Investments in poor children save more lives per dollar spent, new UNICEF study says Unless the world makes faster progress on reducing child mortality, by 2030 almost 70 […]

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New Life for Sierra Leone’s Ferry System

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

By Moses A. Kargbo  Ferries serve a very useful purpose for travellers in and out of Sierra Leone. They are popular with most people because they provide cheap transport, connecting […]

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Ramadan Goodwill Gesture : Ambassador Keh Kamara donates truckload of rice and assorted items to Lungi community and environs

June 27, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The residents of Lungi and its environs enjoyed a memorable  Ramadan Holidays. Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union and […]

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UKaid/eHealth Africa hands over 117 alert system to Health Ministry

June 27, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Kadrie Koroma Deputy Health and Sanitation Minister 1, Madam Madina Rahman has said that the 117 is symbolic to the emergency response and was a successful tool that […]

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Ministers and six others in China for 2017 Ministerial Workshop on International Cooperation in Capacity Building

June 27, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Minister of Youth Affairs, Hon. Bai Mamoud Bangura, Minister of State 2, Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Madam Isata Kabia and five (5) others on Tuesday, 27th June, 2017, arrived […]

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20 SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE SLPP KONO DEFECTED TO THE RULING APC PARTY

June 26, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  20 SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE SLPP KONO DEFECT TO THE RULING APC PARTY 20 senior members of the disintegrated and now defunct Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) Kono chapter […]

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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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