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HINGA NORMAN : A LIFE TIME OF POLITICAL CONTROVERSIES … and life on a knife’s edge………

September 16, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  HINGA NORMAN : A PLAQUE OF INFAMY OR HEROISM ?  Wilfred Kabs- Kanu looks at a  jolly man whose political lifestyle has embodied controversy so far…..   The name […]

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Ex-President Joseph Momoh : A PROMISING LIFE HIGHJACKED BY PSEUDO-POLITICS

August 3, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Sunday August 3, 2003 Ex-President Joseph Saidu Momoh, who died in Conakry, Guinea today of complications from hypertension, was one of the most promising Sierra Leoneans at Independence in […]

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The lessons of Foday Sankoh’s demise

July 30, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sankoh became an eyesore before he died   The lesson to be learned from the death on Tuesday of Sierra Leone’s voluptuosly-greedy and power -conscious rebel leader, Foday Sankoh, is […]

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Mother -of- all -trials

April 6, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By  Rev. Alfred SamForay  : This week, the Appeals Chamber of the so-called Special Court for Sierra Leone will handle two hot potatoes on its plate: The fate of […]

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CAN THE SPECIAL COURT REALLY DELIVER JUSTICE ? A REJOINDER

March 13, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

CHIEF HINGA NORMAN By a concerned citizen  One would  have thought  that an international tribunal like the Sierra Leone Special Court should have been given the necessary authority and international […]

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SIERRA LEONE IS NO LONGER ANYBODY’S FIEFDOM

March 2, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

EDITORIAL   Thanks to the intervention into our internal affairs by the international community, Sierra Leone is no longer the personal fiefdom of any one person, group of persons, tribe, […]

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THE CRY FOR JUSTICE IN SIERRA LEONE

March 2, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU : The Special Court, which started its sittings in Sierra Leone , has generated some misunderstanding , that should not be the case.   The fact that there […]

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APC has accepted change as a political reality -Ernest Bai Koroma

September 28, 2002 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU Opposition leader, Mr.Ernest Bai Koroma, said today that his party has accepted change as a political reality and the APC was now on the verge of re-inventing […]

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Seek the interest of the people — Editor urges Sa. Leone politicians

September 28, 2002 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

REV. KABS KANU Saturday September 28, 2002 The Editor-in -Chief of the COCORIOKO newspaper and the founder  and also Pastor of the American Fellowship Church, Rev.Wilfred Leeroy Kabs-Kanu , today […]

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NUP leader John Benjamin calls for interim government

February 14, 2000 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The interim leader of Sierra Leone’s opposition National Unity Party, John Oponjo Benjamin, called Monday for an interim caretaker government to be set up when President Kabbah’s term in office […]

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Thursday February 16, 2006 Lawyer Charles Margai, the Leader of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change in Sierra Leone ( PMDC ) , has created another controversy in the country […]

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  By Kabs Kanu An organization that knows what it is after and how to achieve results —– The Concerned Sierra Leoneans — have rattled illegitimate President Maada Bio from […]

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