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Month: October 2019

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Director General of Abu Dhabi Fund for Development Assures support to Sierra Leone*

October 30, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

*_Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday 30 October 2019_* – The Director General of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development, ADFD, His Excellency Dr Mohamed Saif Al Suwaidi, has in […]

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

October 30, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  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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*President Julius Maada Bio engages Elite Agro on Investment in food cultivation in Sierra Leone*

October 30, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  *_Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Saturday 26 October 2019_* – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has met with the Chairman of Elite Agro, Sultan Alshamsi, to discuss possible […]

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Sierra Leone, land of squalor and suffering

October 30, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By SAM HILL of NEWSWEEK Magazine In 2018, President Donald Trump asked, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” That not-so-subtle implication—poor people from […]

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Why APC fell and are now losing elections in the North—-Robin Falley

October 30, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Comrades, I’m afraid but we keep missing the key reasons why the APC is gradually loosing elections in the North. There are many many reasons and until and unless we […]

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Anti-Corruption Commission’s Scorpion Squad arrests Health Staff at the Liberia Sierra Leone Border

October 29, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Following a widey circulated video from two American Tour Bloggers about Ministry of Health Staff attached to the border crossing with Liberia extorting $150 from them in a fake scam about […]

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Differing views on Sierra Leone mosque incident

October 28, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Abdul A Kargbo The media handlers of the government of Sierra Leone are doing a poor job by trying to scapegoat the poor imam for the people’s rejection of the […]

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Investigation Committee’s findings in the beating of female journalists at national stadium

October 27, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0
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Sierra Leone Police bans street jogging

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

 

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Muslims boo Sierra Leone’s Vice-President at Freetown mosque and hail APC presidential aspirant Samura Kamara

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

Supporters of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP ) are fuming at the treatment meted out to their Vice-President Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh at the Basharia Mosque in […]

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  • Sierra Leone’s constitutional faultline: A walkout, a two-thirds dispute and the stakes for 2028
  • Another sad day for democracy in Sierra Leone, as SLPP passes constitutional amendments without 2/3rd majority parliamentary vote
  • BREAKING NEWS: APC walk out of Parliament , after Speaker rejects 2/3rd constitutional threshold for amendment of constitution
  • EDITORIAL : The world is looking up to the APC MPs to vote in the national interest today
  • Maada Bio will go but the harm caused by dictators last for generations
  • A CITIZEN’S REBUTTAL : Former SLPP UK Secretary General responds to President Bio ‘s miscues in Parliament
  • Sierra Leone’s Constitutional Amendment: Why We Should Not Put the Cart Before the Horse
  • Sylvia Blyden warns Sierra Leone in nation-wide broadcast : SLPP will never lose grip on State House , if constitutional amendments enacted
  • APC’S full position statement on the constitutional amendments going to vote in Parliament
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