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Zero-Tolerance for Anti-FGM Campaigns in Africa?

February 21, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  The International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM, a day sponsored by the UN was first observed on February 6, 2003 to create awareness of female genital mutilation (FGM) […]

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President Ernest Koroma launches “Pay No Bribe Campaign” in Sierra Leone

February 21, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By State House Communications Unit President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma on Thursday 20th February said that the “Pay No Bribe Campaign” would primarily ensure that Service Charters for key […]

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No Time For Maada Bio’s Madness

February 3, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) :  A letter, purportedly written by the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP)’s failed 2012 presidential candidate, Julius Maada Bio, shows the thought-process of a confused […]

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Street Traders and State Power

February 3, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Street Traders and State Power Yusuf Bangura Department of Political Science Fourah Bay College, Freetown February 2014 There have been sporadic confrontations between state authorities and street traders over the […]

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Mainstreaming agriculture in the development agenda of Sierra Leone

November 19, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

   By Umaru S. Jah, IA Germany :   Sierra Leone is a blessed country. A country blessed with multiple forms of natural resources.  If riches are only measured in […]

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THANK YOU GOD FOR LETTING MEN GIVE ME MY FLOWERS WHILE I AM STILL ALIVE

October 13, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 BY LEEROY WILFRED KABS-KANU :  In Liberia, we have a saying : “GIVE ME MY FLOWERS WHILE I AM STILL ALIVE .” This saying probably emerged because often, only when […]

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This Is No Longer A Question Of The SLPP Fighting The SLPP

October 10, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Tony-Bee3 (1)By Tony Bee : The recent frequent opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP’s) so-called intra -party political violence is a case for concern. It should therefore, be condemned by […]

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A Personal Analysis of President Koroma’s Six Years of Governance

October 6, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Ibrahim Sillah — True, six years in one’s lifespan is indeed a very short period of time; but in politics it is a whole lifetime. Leaders are often […]

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A MODERN AIRPORT IS A GATEWAY TO PROSPERITY

October 6, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

BY MC Bah- Atlanta, Georgia- USA Among all the Presidents of Sierra Leone – Mr. Koroma has made the modernization and expansion of Lungi airport and even the construction of […]

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Sierra Leone on a take-off stage to prosperity

August 13, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

   By Unisa Kanu : To a frequent holiday-maker with a whetted appetite for newsfeed, I found myself switched into an active observation mode the moment we touched down in […]

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  • A Nation That Has Stopped Reading Part I: When the Habit of Reading Begins to Disappear
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