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Leone Stars make the nation proud as they thrash Kenya’s Harambee Stars in electrical African Nations Cup Clash in Freetown

June 11, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU : The stakes were high , with both nations seeking to make a glorious start to the campaign and with their two countries on the edge, it […]

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Depraved pranksters spread fake death news about President Ernest Bai Koroma

June 10, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0
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Kenya’s Harambe Stars in Freetown for tough match against Leone Stars

June 10, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Kenya’s national team, the Harambe Stars have arrived in Freetown, for their tough African Nations Cup qualifying match against the Leone Stars  today at the Siaka Stevens Stadium in Freetown. […]

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Analysis : The British Elections : No winners, nothing to celebrate

June 9, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Victor Chapman What a patchy set of results, all round. There’s nothing to celebrate. Where is the winner in all this? Complacency may be gone for a season, following […]

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President Ernest Koroma leads by example

June 9, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By N’Bompa  Turay His Excellency the President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma  continues to lead our nation considering traditional, socio-economic and regional development in a grand style. He manifested the belief […]

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*SLPP AS UNRELIABLE AS THE WEATHER*

June 9, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) can be best likened to the weather which changes more often than not, when one least expects it. Very unreliable and ungrateful! Until and […]

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*Zulai Cooper Boost Operation Clean Freetown*

June 9, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

*News Flash* *Zulai Cooper Boost Operation Clean Freetown* *By Ranger* The Deputy Minister of Health -2 Zulai Cooper, has donated 20 cartoons of gloves to Operation Clean in support of […]

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APC Washington Chapter very delighted and they congratulate President Koroma for victory in continuing as party Chairman

June 9, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

*THE APC WASHINGTON METRO- POLITAN CHAPTER PAYS A COURTESY VISIT TO AMBASSADOR BOCKARIE KORTU STEVENS IN CONGRATULATING HIS EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT BAI KOROMA ON THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY NAC FOR H.E. […]

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President Koroma among very few world leaders whose governments still given economic windfall by international stakeholders on the eve of elections

June 8, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS Kanu – COCORIOKO What any serious analyst with a knowledge of political history would know is that when elections are coming, international financial institutions subtly stop funding a […]

EDITORIAL

Another needless loss of lives in a country where road fatalities have soared to dangerous levels

June 8, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

We used to think that if we have good roads, the rate of accidents will be reduced. It has turned out that the better our roads have become, the more […]

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A SOBERING POLITICAL LESSON FROM THE 1967 GENERAL ELECTION! THE SLPP SOWED THE SEEDS OF TRIBALISM, NEPOTISM, CORRUPTION AND VIOLENCE IN THE POLITICS OF SIERRA LEONE

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    By Sekou Dauda Bangura     “The appointment of Siaka Probyn Stevens as prime minister is unconstitutional and we the members of the armed forces being the custodians […]

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Sierra Leone UN Mission receives $ 50, 000 mudslide disaster assistance from New York based Chinese organization

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The World Organization of Governance and Competitiveness — a business organization based in New York with headquarters in China–on Tuesday donated U.S $50,000 to the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone […]

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New Jerseyans are so proactive when it comes to national issues, they take the lead in any national endeavour in the Continental United States . Last Week, the Concerned Citizens […]

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