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President Koroma is very unhappy with what crooks did to prospective pilgrims

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

PRESS RELEASE IT HAS COME TO THE ATTENTION OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT THAT THERE IS A LARGE NUMBER OF DISGRUNTLED INTENDING PILGRIMS WHO WERE UNFORTUNATELY DEPRIVED OF TRAVELLING TO […]

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World Bank Country Manager assesses devastation at Kaningo and Kamayama

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

By Mariama Khai Fornah In continuation of his tour of communities devastated by the August 14 disaster in Freetown, World Bank Country Parminder Brar Friday August 18 visited the Kamayama, […]

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UN mourns Sierra Leone flood and mudslide victims

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

  By State House Communication Unit Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for West Africa and the Sahel, on behalf of the United Nations, […]

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NOSLINA FUND DRIVE FOR FLOOD VICTIMS

August 25, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0
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APC SUSPENDS CONVENTION AND ALL POLITICAL ACTIVITIES

August 24, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

PRESS STATEMENT FROM THE APC.   AS OUR COUNTRY CONTINUES TO MOURN THE LOSS OF OVER 474 CONFIRMED DEAD AND AN UNDISCLOSED NUMBER OF OUR COMPATRIOTS STILL BURIED UNDER THE […]

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DIFSIL Provides food stuff and Non food items for August 14 flooding Survivors In Sierra Leone

August 24, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Disbaled internation foundation Sierra Leone / United Kingdom a humanitarian origination on Monday 21 August 2017 donated food stuff and non food stuff to the August flood victims.Handing over the […]

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Obasanjo jets in to console Sierra Leone

August 24, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has visited the scene of the deadly mudslide which claimed hundreds of lives in Freetown on Monday 14 August. President Obasanjo is in the country […]

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ACC LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION INTO 2017 HAJJ SCHOLARSHIPS

August 24, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) notes with concern the allegations in the public domain regarding alleged acts of corruption in the award of Government of Sierra Leone scholarships to Muslims to […]

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More people go to State House to express condolence

August 24, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

BADEA Director General condoles with flooding and mudslide victims By State House Communication Unit The Director General of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) Dr Sidi Ould […]

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Relief supplies pour in from Morocco and Nigeria

August 24, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Morocco donates relief supplies to Sierra Leone flood victims By State House Communication Unit The Government of the Kingdom of Morocco has provided medical relief items to the Government of […]

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  • Sixty-five years after independence, one painful truth remains: we, as a people, have failed Mama Salone.
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