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Month: November 2018

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This hostile environment is getting worse, not better

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

Titus Boye-Thompson The threats to violence, to revenge and to a rendition of former state officials has proved contributory to the present narratives of retribution. The hitherto false equivalency arguments […]

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Sierra Leone Parliament concludes debate on SLPP budget

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

  PARLIAMENT CONCLUDES DEBATE ON THE 2019 BUDGET The Parliament of Sierra Leone has on Monday 19th November 2018 on the fourth and final allotted day concluded debate on the […]

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PICTURES THAT MAKE THE NEWS : Ex-President Koroma in Abuja

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

  Former President Koroma speaks on behalf of other former West African President’s at the launch of the book by Former President Jonathan #mytransitionhours At the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja He […]

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UN Sec. Gen : “Peacekeeping in Africa continues to present some of our greatest challenges”

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

The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has described peacekeeping in Africa as some of the greatest challenges faced by the organization. The Secretary General made the remarks during […]

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The Sierra leone Football Association (SLFA) saga

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

  The Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) saga has now dragged on for a continuous period of close to five years.  The protracted impasse came about as a result of […]

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PICTURES THAT MAKE THE NEWS

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

This is President Putin of Russia, currently the most powerful man in the world,  buying his own petrol for his car at a local petrol station.

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Interpretative Journalism : The best way out in an age of Social Media, Citizen Journalism and news glut

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

  By Kabs Kanu Journalism is a very romantic profession. Interesting , perplexing, distressing and afflictive events pop up every minute and having to deciifer through the morass of superfluous […]

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Politicians still underestimating the power of the media in Sierra Leone

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

By Kabs Kanu The book above , The Media in American Politics , by David L. Paletz, doesl not only tell you that the media are the fourth most important […]

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Nurturing young leaders : Training young African leaders can take societies to great heights

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

By: Franck Kuwonu From Africa Renewal: Students at the African Leadership University in Mauritius. Photo: ALU website Thanks to a unique fellowship at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa […]

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New Direction fraught with Procurement Misdemeanour… Government may lose 79 Billion Leones

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

  The New Direction agenda of President Julius Maada Bio, it seems,  faces a multitude of old tricks and players robed in patched paints of new bloods in governance. Key […]

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  • Maada Bio to seek third term: Creation of new districts and cities part of the plan.
  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The Truth Teller We Never Deserved
  • An idiot’s guide to winning an election
  • The Crumbling House: APC’s Internal Chaos and the Systematic Marginalization of Political Pluralism in Sierra Leone
  • For corruption : Sierra Leone suspended from all IMF programs
  • Sierra Leone will defend herself to the last against Guinea, if necessary– Interior Minister
  • Taking the Mining discourse to another level:  Patriotism Must Be Grounded in Reality:
  • Big losses for Sierra Leone media: Accident claims lives of SLBC camera journalist and female intern
  • The Battle for Hearts and Minds Descends into The Abyss of Moral Politic, Witch-hunt and Gas lighting
  • The Voice Returns: Christiana Kamara Stuns Sierra Leone in Her Triumphant Return with Bormeh.
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  • Phebean Samura: Watch and see what will happen soon. Sierra Leone will be a Democratic country very soon. FORGET ABOUT 2028. WE…
  • Catherine Higgins: Remarkable how journalists can write about APC and what not... but you never seem to have the spine to demand…
  • Amadu M. Kamara: Comment no. 2 above continues thusly: if the firebrand do seriously intend indeed to show their numerical strength versus the…

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APC Government’s achievements in only three years have mesmerized the opposition

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Published on September 15, 2010 by Cocorioko News   ·   No Comments As the Government of President Ernest Bai Koroma stands in the threshhold of triumphantly celebrating the Third Anniversary of […]

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As defeat looms, ruling SLPP starts kidnapping opposition APC officials

September 9, 2007 0

Subject: 2 MEN KIDNAPPED IN FREETOWN From: Aruna sawa To: All Date Posted: 13:32:19 09/08/07 () Email Address: Entered From: 5acf2041.bb.sky.com at 90.207.32.65 Message: It has been confirmed that two men  Councilor  Sam Boday Gibson […]

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Former President Ernest Koroma inherited a broken economy unlike any that we’ve seen in our time. President Koroma  assumed ownership and never pointed fingers at  former President Tejan Kabba. It’s a […]

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SLPP MEMBERS DEFECT TO APC

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 ALFRED ISHMEL SESAY RECEIVES HIS CARD FROM APC LEADER ERNEST KOROMA By Joseph Kamanda   Monday January 8, 2007   Barely six month away to the much- awaited Presidential and […]

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