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NGC condemns firing of live rounds by security forces during Makeni demonstration

July 27, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

DR. DENNIS BRIGHT  “The National Grand Coalition (NGC) is very concerned that the planned relocation of a 1.6 MW EGTC generator from Makeni to Lungi has resulted in so much […]

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APC condemns use of lethal force in Makeni massacre by Sierra Leone security forces

July 27, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

ALL PEOPLES CONGRESS (APC) PARTY CONDEMNS EXCESSIVE USE OF LETHAL FORCE BY THE SIERRA LEONE POLICE AND THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE ARMED FORCES AGAINST HARMLESS CITIZENS OF MAKENI AND […]

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Chief Sam Sumana and the Kono family empathize with Makeni In-laws

July 27, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Freetown – Friday , 24th July , 2020 . Sierra Leone’s Former Vice President Chief Alhaji Sam Sumana and entourage today visited Makeni to empathize with the people of Makeni […]

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*Special Delegation on Makeni Incident Presents Findings to President Bio at State House*

July 27, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

*_State House, Freetown, Friday 24 July 2020_* – A high-level delegation on a fact-finding mission following last week’s violence in the northern city of Makeni, has met at State House […]

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Letter from England : SLPP Cannot Intimidate Sierra Leone

July 27, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Winston Ojukutu-Macaulay Jnr A FEW weeks ago, after the incident in Tombo, I was talking to a fellow journalist, over coffee, about leadership in Africa. Immediately, he wanted to […]

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“I have not slept with any 15-year-old girl”* : Kamaraimba

July 27, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Last week, the Chairman of the Alliance Democratic Party ( ADP) , Mr. Mohamed Kamarainba , reported on Facebook that his residence had been surrounded by troops from the Sierra […]

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The Makeni massacre and the international community : It is troubling

July 27, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Charles Curtis Thomas WITH SO MANY EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLINGS, INCLUDING ” THE MAKENI MASSACRE ” AND GROWING CALL BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOR WHOEVER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR GIVING THE […]

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Will cowards make good leadership?

July 27, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By James Musa Kaikai Today marks a solemn ocassion in Makeni as mothers of the fallen cry in anquish, not only for the wanton loss of life, but mainly for […]

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UPDATES ON PRESIDENTIAL TEAM ON MAKENI KILLING*

July 27, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  UPDATES ON PRESIDENTIAL TEAM ON MAKENI KILLING* By: Councilor Kabbah Koroma. The Team comprises Ambassador Foday Yumkela, Dr. Kadie Sesay, Hon. Veronica, Abu Abu Koroma, Hon. I.B. Kargbo of […]

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Young man shot in the head in Makeni demonstration dies at Connaught Hospital

July 26, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

ALUSINE SESAY, a 28 year old young man shot in the head by the Sierra Leone security forces during the Makeni demonstrations has died at the Connaught Hospital in Freetown. […]

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  • Karpowership says it is willing to work with government to stave off looming big electricity blackout crisis
  • Sierra Leone about to be plunged into total darkness as Karpowership decides to cut off electricity because of SLPP Government’s failure to pay debt
  • Fugitive Bank Governor Kelfala Kallon to be arrested if he insists on being paid in dollars : Trapped by his own regulation
  • Opposition APC MPs Suspend Participation from all activities and Committees in Sierra Leone Parliament_*
  • The silence of Bio-led SLPP Government on U.S visa ban is very dangerous—MP says
  • In A War Of Egos, The Loser Always Wins.
  • Sierra Leone Faces U.S. Travel Ban: Is Drug Trafficking the Hidden Factor ?
  • For APC to succeed and win the elections in 2028, the tribe must die
  • THE CREATION OF NEW DISTRICTS IS USELESS AND UNCALLED FOR
  • Divisive planning : A cabinet out of touch
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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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JESUS CHRIST died on the cross for everyone to take away our sin and save us from Hell.

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By Rev. Leeroy  Wilfred Kabs-Kanu : Man, inspite of all his education, sophistication, finery, civilization and technology, needs salvation. He was born in  sin and cannot  get communion or fellowship with God, […]

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  Madam Bethany Madden, New Zealand’s Deputy Head of Mission (DHM) to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia on Friday 27th June 2014 paid a courtesy call on Sierra Leone’s […]

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