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INDEPENDENCE DAY RUINED BY DIVISIVE POLITICS

April 26, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Titus Boye-Thompson Sierra Leone at 58 years of Independence should be a cause for celebration but this year’s national day has been ruined by bungling state officials and a divisive […]

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General Manager Expresses Determination to face – lift Freetown International Airport

April 26, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Hassan Bruz Northern Bureau Chief Sierra Leoneans have often been urged by one Presidents or Heads of State after another to re-brand their pattern of thinking if the […]

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The dream of our forefather : WHAT SIR MILTON SAID ON APRIL 27, 1961

April 26, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Sir Milton Margai’s Independence Message (April 27, 1961) Men, women and children of Sierra Leone, I greet you all on this historic day, and I rejoice with you. Sierra […]

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POLITICS : The funnier side of things

April 26, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 

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WHY IS PRESIDENT BIO SO DIVISIVE AND PROVOCATIVE ?

April 26, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Kabs Kanu Naming a street or bridge or anything after Mr. Sengbeh Pieh is not wrong at all . Pieh deserves to be honored for his role in […]

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As Freetown residents complain about renaming of Wallace-Johnson Bridge, Mayor seeks to calm concerns

April 26, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

CLARIFICATION RE RENAMING OF WALLACE JOHNSON BRIDGE Freetown City Council (FCC) acknowledges the numerous calls of concern it has received from residents of Freetown regarding the renaming of the Wallace-Johnson […]

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President Maada Bio commissions reconstructed Wallace-Johnson Bridge now renamed Sengbe Pieh Bridge

April 25, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

State House, Freetown, Thursday 25 April 2019 – His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has officially commissioned the Sengbe Pieh Bridge linking Lumley and Juba Communities, west of the capital, Freetown. […]

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Maj. Gen. MS Tarawalie Passes Away!

April 25, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sad news reaching us say, Maj. Gen. MS Tarawalie (Rtd), former Force Commander of the Sierra Leonean Army has passed away peacefully at home. Maj. Gen. MS Tarawalie was a […]

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Eight Americans who traced their roots to Sierra Leone*arrive in the country

April 25, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  The Homecoming Festival Commenced Yesterday. A group of Americans who have traced their roots to Sierra Leone through their DNA touched down the Lungi International Airport on Tuesday 23rd […]

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President Bio & SLPP Foreign Minister Alie Kabba are two big liars : Caught Out on Yenga Propaganda against Guinea

April 25, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Alieu Badara Kamara (Awareness Times) His Excellency the President of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio and his Foreign Minister Honourable Alie Kabba have been entangled into a fresh […]

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  • 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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