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A loud and clear warning to politricians

April 12, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  A LOUD & CLEAR WARNING TO POLITRICIANS STATEMENT BY JOHN LEIGH re 2004 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS The local government elections just concluded appear to many thoughtful observers to be […]

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SIERRA LEONE HIGH COMMISSION PRESS RELEASE : Government accepts offer of settlement for chancery building

March 16, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

SIERRA LEONE HIGH COMMISSION PRESS RELEASE Subj:  33 Portland Place Judgement Date: 3/16/04 3:59:32 AM Dateline Standard Time PRESS RELEASE  It will be recalled that in 2000 the Government of Sierra […]

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SLPP -UK Problems remain unsolved

March 12, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Sierra Leone People’s Party UK /Ireland Branch did not solve its problems after all, COCORIOKO  can authoritatively report. We have received three letters from contending parties which gave clear […]

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Press Release From The Hinga Norman Defence Committee

March 10, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Hinga Norman BE IT KNOWN TO ALL THAT we have received with disbelief news of the arrest of people peacefully demonstrating today 10th March 2004 in Freetown in support of […]

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APC BACK FROM THE DEAD AS A CREDIBLE FORCE

March 3, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

BY KABS KANU :  They were written off as dead and buried .They were castigated as the one party that no Sierra Leonean will take seriously any more.The opportunistic, thieving […]

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION’S REPORT

February 10, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

CHAPTER ONE This Executive Summary provides a cursory overview of the Report and its principal areas of analysis, as listed in paragraph 5, below. Substantive detail is contained in the […]

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APC-NA Chairman leaves for Freetown to help sensitize people for 2007 elections

January 9, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  The Chairman of the All People’s Congress ( APC) North American Chapter, Mr. Alimamy G. Kargbo, leaves the United States next week for Freetown , to join the sensitization program […]

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Front Page Comment : TREATING NATION’S ECONOMIC SABOTEURS WITH KID GLOVES

October 18, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  PRESIDENT KABBAH Sierra Leone, as a nation recovering from war, can never progress socio-economically and politically if the caveat of financial accountability, especially, is not given it’s desired place […]

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PRESIDENT KABBAH, THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

October 12, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  PRESIDENT KABBAH, THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS PLAYING HARDBALL WITH KABS KANU, Esq Sunday October 12, 2003 When in 1995 the one -time UN […]

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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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Cocorioko Sierra Leone   ·  A DAY OF MOURNING Today is another very sad day in my life. I have triple bereavements . NADALINE OSMAN, who died this morning, was my […]

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