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SLPP Party Office On Political Fire!!!

November 7, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

BREAKING NEWS SLPP Party Office On Political Fire!!! Fighting is currently ongoing at the Head Office of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), at Wallace Johnson Street in Freetown, some […]

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Boosting Infrastructure Investment by Addressing Governance Gaps

November 6, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Boosting Infrastructure Investment by Addressing Governance Gaps Government, private sector, multilaterals, and development partners gather in Cape Town as this topic takes center stage globally CAPE TOWN, South Africa, […]

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President Ernest Koroma presents Dr. Samura Kamara to ACP Ambassadors in Brussels and to Sierra Leoneans from Continental Europe

November 6, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  His Excellency, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma on Monday and Tuesday, 30th and 31st October, 2017 respectively, presented Dr. Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara to the Ambassadors of the African, Caribbean and Pacific […]

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Life Below Water: Saving Africa’s Fishery Resources

November 6, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Fishing in Elimina, Ghana. Photo: UNU-INRA The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 aims to promote the conservation and the sustainable use of oceans, seas and marine resources for development. […]

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Gary Shulze says he is not involved in politics : Writes to clarify issue

November 6, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Retired U.S. Peace corps, Mr. Gary Schulze, who has been recently granted Sierra Leonean citizenship , has contacted this newspaper for help to clarify that he is not involved in […]

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Honorary Doctorate Degree awarded to Ambassador Keh Kamara

November 6, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Ambassador  Osman Keh Kamara is Sierra Leone’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Permanent Representative to the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission […]

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SLPP PUBLICITY SECRETARY ATTACKS SLBC OFFICE AND THREATENS WORKERS

November 6, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By David Kamara (Eye Witness) At about 08:30 Hrs. today Monday 6th November 2017, staff of SLBC were shocked and left visibly shaken when SLPP Publicity Secretary Lahai Lawrence Leema […]

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Why I prefer Dr Samura Kamara over Maada Bio

November 3, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Jara Mina Jara This is a rejoinder to an article authored by a friend across the political aisle titled; “Why I prefer Bio over Samura” published in the […]

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Former Minister Bobson Sesay passes away

November 3, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The  Honorable Dr. Alfred Bobson Sesay,  former Minister of Lands and the 1st Director General of Education of Sierra Leone, has passed away after a long illness.

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KAMBIA TURNS RED AS PETITO VISITS

November 3, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  The much distorted reports about Kambia after the Convention in Makeni was today foiled by the visit of the son of the soil, *Hon Ambassador Alimamy Petito Koroma*. This […]

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  • Citizens express views about today’s Parliamentary debate and vote on key electoral changes to the constitution
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🇸🇱🤨🧐 𝐀 𝐓𝐎𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐒𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐇.𝐄. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓: “𝐍𝐨 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬”. AWARENESS TIMES EDITOR’S NOTE: At the end of this Note, is a news […]

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