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Month: October 2017

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Selecting Dr. Samura Kamara is Right for Sierra Leone

October 22, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Jacob Sax Conteh, Sr.As the massive tsunami that swept Makeni on Sunday when President Koroma and his executive handpicked his foreign minister, Dr. Samura Kamara to be the flagbearer […]

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DO NOT USE YOUTH AS TOOLS FOR DESTRUCTION DURING ELECTIONS

October 22, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Mahmud Tim Kargbo Elections are a primal dogma of democracy. For periodic elections are held in any truly democratic country. And the Republic of Sierra Leone, come March 7, […]

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Regional Youth Leader Commends Kambia for Championing Reconciliatory Moves in the District

October 22, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Hassan Bruz Northern Bureau Chief It is an open secret that the outcome of the National Delegates Convention of the Ruling All Peoples Congress [APC] Party is not quite […]

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Congratulations to Dr. Samura Kamara from Consul Patrick Jackson of Texas

October 22, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Congratulations I would like to extend my congratulations to the flag bearer, Dr. Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara and his running mate, Honorable Mr. Chernor Maju Bah for your victory to […]

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The saga of the SLPP : Sad when a political party cannot say anything sober about its presidential candidate

October 22, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Josey Tholley This is too sad for the SLPP. This party cannot tell us anything sober about their presidential candidate except by fabricating lies that Maada Bio was […]

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GRAIN OF TRUTH: Chernor Bah ( Chericoco ) : Man of Destiny

October 22, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 WHO IS CHERICOCO ?  READ 2 ARTICLES WRITTEN ON HIM BY OTHER JOURNALISTS : _____________________________________________________ GRAIN OF TRUTH: Chernor Bah ( Chericoco ) : Man of Destiny By Rev. S.M. […]

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NCD CONCLUDES A DAY’S VALIDATION WORKSHOP ON MESSAGES OF PEACE AND NATIONAL UNITY

October 20, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

In a bid to enhance a peaceful 2018 electoral cycle, the National Commission for Democracy (NCD) has concluded a day’s validation workshop to verify messages of peace and national unity […]

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SIERRA LEONE GOVERNMENT GIVES SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT TO 1,000 EBOLA ORPHANS

October 20, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The 2017/2018 School Year has started in earnest and many children are happily being sent off to school by their loving parents who have the children fully loaded with their […]

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DIASPORA COMMUNITY PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR Dr. SAMURA KAMARA

October 20, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Thousands of members of the Sierra Leone Diaspora Community all over the world have pledge unreserved support for the presidency of the newly endorsed Presidential Flagbearer of the All People’s […]

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SLPP’s Non-Denial Denial Of Dr Samura Kamara Is Comically Comical

October 19, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) The trepidation, the Da Vinci Code-like cliff-hanger suspense, and the best kept secret of the secrecy that surrounded the succession issue within the ruling […]

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By Yankuba Kai-Samba The fact of the matter is that Bio’s declaration of mandatory life sentence for sexual abuse was a knee-jerk response to a very complex cultural phenomenon of […]

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Ex-President Ernest Koroma returns to Sierra Leone with pomp and pageantry

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By KABS KANU Despite the failed propaganda of his detractors and SLPP  supporters that he had gone into exile for good, former President Ernest Koroma returned to the nation he […]

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  By Alhaji M.B. Jalloh, Press Attaché, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Republic of Sierra Leone last week signed an Economic and […]

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