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Sierra Leone new president announces free education for kids

May 11, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

11 May 2018 – 06:36BY AFP Sierra Leone president Julius Maada Bio. File photo.  Image: Sia KAMBOU / AFP Sierra Leone’s new President Julius Maada Bio on Thursday announced the introduction […]

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President Bio’s Address to the First Session of the Fifth Parliament of the Second Republic

May 11, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  PRESIDENT BIO'S NEW DIRECTION SPEECH AT THE STATE OPENING OF THE 1st SESSION OF THE 5th PARLIAMENT OF THE SECOND REPUBLIC, ON THURSDAY 10th MAY 2018. Posted by Precious […]

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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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  • *Siblings of the Same Womb of History*
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  • *The Survival Paradox: When Competition Threatens the Species It Created*
  • The morning President William Tolbert was assassinated : A first hand account
  • Why African youth must understand Agenda 2063 and Digital Transformation Strategy
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  • President Bio contradicts himself on the UN podium
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SLAM GLOBAL : Our non- partisan Organization is here to amplify the concerns and welfare of the Sierra Leonean people

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31 Sierra Leonean media officials/ journalists head for China

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By John Baimba Sesay A total of thirty-(31) media officials and journalists from Sierra Leone are slated to arrive in Beijing, China’s capital, on Thursday, 6th July,2017, for a three […]

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World Bank to Prop –Up Data Collection in Sierra Leone

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 By PASCO TEMPLE : Two officials from World Bank’s Open Aid Partnership, Elizabeth Dadds and Giyang Xu are on their way to Sierra Leone to work with the development Directorate […]

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President Joseph Boakai’s speech at Liberia’s 178th Independence Anniversary

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Speach by H.E. Joseph Nyuma Boakai at the Celebration of Liberia’s 178th Independence Day at the Centennial Pavilion in Monrovia. “ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY JOSEPH NYUMA BOAKAI, SR. PRESIDENT OF […]

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Sierra Leone parliament discusses amendment of the country’s corruption laws.

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  Parliament of Sierra Leone yesterday debated a Bill put forward by the Anti-Corruption Commission to amend existing corruption laws, in a bid to strengthen the hands of the commission […]

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Islamic Development Bank Assures Sierra Leone’s Finance Minister

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By Alhaji M.B. Jalloh, Press Attaché, Saudi Arabia : Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance and Economic Development arrived in Saudi Arabia’s Port City of Jeddah on an official visit on […]

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