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Month: August 2018

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President Bio Launches Free Education, Calls on Parents and Teachers to Support the Initiative

August 21, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

President Bio Launches Free Education, Calls on Parents and Teachers to Support the Initiative State House, Freetown, Monday 20 August, 2018 – His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has officially […]

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Sierra Leone launches Free Quality Education for School going children

August 21, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Freetown, 20 August 2018: Over 1.5 million school children are expected to benefit from the Free Quality School Education initiative at the start of the school year September. This flagship […]

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Gambia apologises to Thailand for sex tourism slur

August 21, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Gambia apologises to Thailand for sex tourism slur Banjul, Gambia | AFP | The Gambia has apologised to Thailand after its foreign minister said the Asian country was a haven for […]

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WILL DR SAMURA COPE WITH THE APC PARTY?

August 21, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray, Philadelphia,USA Since the last election in which the Sierra Leone Peoples Party came to power, much has been heard of political maneuverings on both sides […]

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Young women changing the face of African media

August 21, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Peace Hyde at the conference on African media in Mauritisu Port Louis, Mauritius | AFP | A new generation of 30-somethings with brilliant careers, feminist convictions and, above all, confidence, are […]

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Kabila slams foreign ‘blackmail’ ahead of DR Congo vote

August 21, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

President Joseph Kabila Windhoek, Namibia | AFP | DR Congo President Joseph Kabila, who last week ended speculation by signalling he would not seek re-election, on Friday warned outsiders against using […]

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Kofi Annan: Tributes pour in for ‘an outstanding human being’

August 19, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

World leaders honour the former UN secretary-general, who has died aged 80, as a rare breed of diplomat Emma Graham-Harrison  Former UN secretary-general comforts a crying child among a group […]

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Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is dead

August 19, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Ghana’s celebrated diplomat, Kofi Annan, who served as the United Nations (UN) Secretary General between January 1997, and December 2006, is reported dead at the age of 80. He is […]

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Sierra Leone : Fiscal Laws Under Siege by the Bio led SLPP Government

August 17, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Reliable sources within the banking sector in Sierra Leone has intimated this writer of a massive financial migration by customers within the sector. This crisis my source intimated me is […]

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President Bio fires Bank Governor and appoints Professor Kelfala Kallon in his place

August 17, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Though he has many more years to complete his tenure , the Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone, Mr. Patrick Conteh , was yesterday fired by President Maada Bio […]

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  • *Mr. President, Listen to the People’s Cadence*
  • The Long Return: Between Duty and Aspiration
  • THE 55% CONSTITUTIONAL THRESHOLD AND THE FRAGILITY OF NATIONAL TRUST
  • *Maada Bio: The Hypocrisy That Cuts Deep*
  • Sierra Leone will never become a great nation if truth continues to be criminalized
  • 65th Independence anniversary : Echoes of a dark and ugly past ; Appeal to President Bio not to drag Sierra Leone into another war
  • 65 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE have been Cruel luck for the people of Sierra Leone
  • Sixty-five years after independence, one painful truth remains: we, as a people, have failed Mama Salone.
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