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Looking Back Moving Forward: Predictions For November’s Presidential Elections

December 11, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Solomon Sesay : Editor’s Note:- We republish this article written on March 27, 2012 predicting the results of the Presidential Elections. It is difficult to imagine, some expected Bio […]

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Will Ernest Handle Unprecedented Power To Transform Salone?

December 11, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Oswald Hanciles : “You gave us a mandate to deliver…We delivered the change we promised…Thank you for trusting us with the leadership of our beautiful country in 2007….We inherited […]

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Usu Boie Unveils School In Romando Village

December 11, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 By UBK Press : One of Sierra Leone’s heavyweight politicians, Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara on Saturday December 8th unveiled a newly constructed school named ‘the Usman Boie Islamic Junior Secondary School […]

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President Koroma’s Cousin Charles Koroma To Be Buried In Makeni Today

December 9, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

One of the most friendly Sierra Leoneans in the diaspora–Mr. Charles Koroma , the cousin of President  Ernest Bai Koroma–who died weeks ago  , will be buried today in his […]

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Parliament Sworn In As Justice Abel Stronge Returned Unopposed As Speaker

December 7, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Sierra Leone House of Parliament has today convened for a parliamentary swearing in ceremony for the newly elected Members and the election of  Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House […]

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SLPP calls off plan to boycott Parliament

December 7, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The  opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP ) yesterday called off their planned boycott of Sierra Leone’s Parliament. An announcement from the SLPP ‘s National Executive Council  said :  ”In […]

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Paramount Chiefs Storm State House To Hail President Koroma For His Elections Victory

December 6, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 By State House Communications Unit : Freetown– His Excellency President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has on Thursday 6th December 2012 told Paramount Chiefs (PCs) drawn from the one hundred and […]

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SPECIAL COMMENTARY : Democracy Is About The Will Of The People

December 6, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By *Abdulai Bayraytay :  The politics of post-colonial Africa has usually been replete with the nauseating phenomenon of the winner-take-all syndrome which, according to some scholars, has been attributed to […]

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Special Court For Sierra Leone Runs Out Of Funds

December 6, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Dennis Kabatto : The Special Court of Sierra Leone (SCSL) will run out of money in December and that it will not be possible to secure the necessary voluntary […]

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Agriculture for Prosperity

December 6, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By John Pa Baimba Sesay : By 2010, during his first term in office as President of Sierra Leone, Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma encouraged the nation, during the Business Bomba […]

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  • Lessons from the Sierra Leone Bar Association’s Postponed Elections: Why Bad Precedent Is a Dangerous Inheritance
  • Sierra Leone Police block Bar Association from holding annual general meeting at Bintumani
  • A Nation That Has Stopped Reading Part I: When the Habit of Reading Begins to Disappear
  • The wounds no constitution can heal
  • Hope the constitutional amendments strengthen our democracy
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  • APC leadership storms Parliament on a big day to witness vote on constitutional amendments
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MR. YANSANEH BLOWING HIS MIND   ———————- Karma at the Bar: How Politicization Has Finally Turned the Sierra Leone Bar Association Against Itself, And How Partisan Interference Destroyed the SLBA’s […]

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A Dawn Interrupted: The Fight for the Soul of the Bar August 1, 2026 Freetown It was supposed to be a new dawn for the Sierra Leone Bar Association (SLBA). […]

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What Next For Sierra Leone, Post- Bintumani III ?

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By Victor Ako Mengot The Bintumani III Conference was intended to develop a framework for Peace and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone. The conference had a wide audience and participation from […]

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On Child Soldiers/Out of School Children in Armed Conflicts… Ambassador Kamara shares the Sierra Leone experience

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Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Permanent Representative to the African Union, Mr. Osman Keh Kamara delivered a statement  during the open session on […]

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We have to remain focused, says President Ernest Koroma

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  By State House Communications UnitPresident Ernest Bai Koroma Thursday 29 January called on all Sierra Leoneans and development partners to remain focused in the fight against the waning Ebola […]

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Ernest Koroma addresses the UN General Assembly

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Statement by His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone at the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York – Tuesday, 29th […]

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APC wants Chief Justice Babatunde Edwards to resign

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🔴CONSTITUTIONAL RAPE🔴 🔴🔴THE CHIEF JUSTICE MUST RESIGN🔴🔴 ©By Cornelius Deveaux The Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, Hon Justice Babatunde Edwards, may either be outrightly ignorant of the laws of Sierra […]

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