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Hinga Norman Defence Team holds successful public sensitization meetings in Kenema and Bo

May 4, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Wednesday May 4, 2005 The defence team for Chief Sam Norman, Moinina Fofana and Alieu Kondewa had a very successful defence strategy and public sensitization meeting in Kenema District […]

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WHITHER , AFRICA ? Neo-colonialism and its advocates.

May 1, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

   By Nathan Hamelberg For the greater part of the period passed since the process of African decolonization began[1] voices have been raised in praise of the old order, few of […]

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Generations yet unborn will blame President Kabbah for failing to develop Sierra Leone

April 20, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

EDITORIAL Generations yet unborn will blame President Kabbah for failing to develop Sierra Leone Just a few years to go to the end of his rule, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah […]

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AFRC indictees boycott trial at Special Court

April 8, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Friday April 8, 2005 The three Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) indictees at Special Court have started a boycott of court proceedings.  The three, Ibrahim Bazzy Kamara, Alex Tamba […]

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Cost of living to soar further, as price of fuel spins out of control

April 3, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Cost of living to soar further, as price of fuel spins out of control Sunday April 3, 2005 Petrol filling stations had a break from the long lines of the […]

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Sorie Bangura blasts Sierra Leone press and defends Okere Adams

April 1, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Friday April 1, 2005 First_Name:  SORIE Last_Name:  Bangura Email_Address:  bangura6@netscape.net Address:  111venace blvd City:  LA State:  CA Zip_Code:  90043 Comments:  THANKS FOR THE SPACE AND INTERNATIONAL FORUM ALLOWING ORDINARY SL […]

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Former Liberian First Lady tells it all : Charles Taylor has lots of concubines

March 23, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Wednesday March 23, 2005 Jewel Howard Taylor is by no means an ordinary woman. She is the lady believed to have tamed  and controlled the emotional heart of the […]

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John Leigh organizes press conference at Stop Press Restaurant

March 15, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press, thank you very much for accepting my invitation to attend this press conference. I have called this briefing to convey to the governmental authorities, […]

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LEADING KONO POLITICIAN DIES

March 7, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Monday March 7, 2005 Mr. Abu Aiah Koroma, the politician once regarded as the leader of the Kono people of Sierra Leone, has died. Mr. Koroma died yesterday in […]

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John Leigh takes on Sama Banya on frustrations in the SLPP , ambitions and the party’s image

March 3, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

   JOHN ERNEST LEIGH Dear Dr. Banya: The Concord Times of February 11, 2005, quoted you in its lead news report as declaring that: “John Leigh is a frustrated and utterly ambitious […]

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  • More drama in Sierra Leone as Chief Justice orders the arrest of former Justice Minister JFK for yesterday’s tense exchanges at the Supreme Court
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Posted by Cocorioko Newspaper on September 17, 2013 :  By KABS KANU  AND PASCO TEMPLE :  Sierra Leone’s Minister of Information and Communications, Hon. Alpha Kanu,  said this afternoon that today’s Town […]

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That is more like it, Brigadier Maada Bio

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Retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio has taken the stick from us on the government side of the media, especially  during the  bitter electioneering campaign for the 2012 Presidential Elections , […]

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Dr. Lansana Nyalley Returns Home to Declare his Candidacy for the SLPP Leadership Nomination

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Washington, DCJuly 7, 2005     DR. LANSANA NYALLEY FOR THE 2006 SIERRA LEONE PEOPLES PARTY (SLPP)  NOMINATION FOR THE 2007 NATIONAL ELECTION   THE SIERRA LEONE PEOPLES PARTY (SLPP) WITH […]

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As they talk of suing the Africanist Press…When will SLPP ever learn ?

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