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Month: May 2018

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Praises and ugly allegations fly, as Chief Minister puts 106 more State House employees out of jobs

May 10, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Moses Ben Kanu   This is indeed one of the greatest initiative I admire most . A major governance policy that will help fix our defunct areas that has leverage […]

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Demo-Crazy in Parliament

May 9, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Demo-Crazy in Parliament The attempt to elect a Speaker – second in line for the presidency – and Deputy Speaker during the First Session of the Fifth Parliament of the […]

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President Weah Receives Sierra Leonean Counterpart Maada Bio on One-day Visit

May 9, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Monrovia, Liberia: President George Manneh Weah has received in audience the newly elected President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, H.E. Julius Maada Bio on a one-day working visit […]

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President Kagame debunks mentality that Africa must always look to western countries for funding of major long-term initiatives

May 9, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

President Paul Kagame has debunked the mentality that Africa must always look to western countries for funding of major long-term initiatives, saying that the continent is not as poor as […]

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The Need for an Effective Opposition in Parliament: Representing the Interest of the Electorate

May 9, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Victor Mengot The 2018 Elections in Sierra Leone was the most closely contested elections since independence in 1961. No presidential candidate received the 55% of the vote required to […]

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FREETOWN’S NEW MAYOR BRINGS NEW VISION TO SIERRA LEONE

May 8, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leone conjures images of blood diamonds, child soldiers and Ebola. Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr wants us to remember a different time in her country’s history. “We were known as the ‘Athens […]

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FIXING IT UP

May 8, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  FIXING IT UP I am happy to have read a Memo from the Head Of Civil Service directing Permanent Secretaries to forward CVs of all Civil Servants of grades […]

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Freetown faces air pollution and environmental hazards from burning and stacked trash after national cleaning exercise

May 7, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Emmanuel Aaron Senesie Norman May 5 at 5:09am · Smoke every where in the city Freetown LikeShow more reactions  Bowenson Frederick Phillips Yesterday at 8:08am · WASTE “DISPOSAL” BY FIRE 🔥 MERELY TRANSFORMS IT […]

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*President Bio addresses business leaders : “We Must Break the Anglophone-Francophone Barriers For Trade and Investment”

May 7, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By: State House Media and Communications Unit His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has said that we must break the Anglophone-Francophone barriers to facilitate trade and investment in the […]

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HELP THE GOVERNMENT CLEAN UP SIERRA LEONE

May 7, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

National Cleaning Day is back in Sierra Leone via presidential Executive Order. I am not a big fan of executive orders but considering the indiscipline and lawlessness in our country, […]

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  Ministry of Health and Sanitation Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Press Release 26/8/2014 Ebola outbreak update: As of today, 26 August 2014, we have a total of 244 patients who […]

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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE NEW VICE CHANCELLOR AND PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SIERRA LEONE

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20/7/2006 Mr. Editor, Please permit me space in your widely circulated and respected paper to air my views to the new Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of Sierra […]

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