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We Are destined to rot in poverty and hardship

December 20, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Idrissa Salaam Conteh The devastating hardship we are currently experiencing in Sierra Leone didn’t come unnoticed. It was boldly written on the wall. When the deteriorating economic situation first […]

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Former Sierra Leone UN New York Mission Head of Chancery Alhusine Sesay passes away suddenly

December 20, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By COCORIOKO Reporters The Sierra Leone community at home and the diaspora were shocked beyond words yesterday when news started spreading that the former State Chief of Protocol at State […]

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Anti-Corruption Commission to act on Audit General’s Report

December 19, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0
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SLPP National Cleaning exercise fraught with corruption

December 19, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The national cleaning exercise imposed by President Maada Bio when he came to power in 2018 is fraught with rampant corruption, as exposed by the Auditor General’s 2019 Report . […]

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Squandermania: Auditor General’s Report finds alarming embezzlement of government funds by Maada Bio SLPP Government

December 19, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP )  has only been in power for less than two years, but have embezzled and squandered government money at a rate that is […]

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Kono District unanimously endorses return of Sam Sumana to the APC!

December 18, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Breaking News: 18th December 2019Kono District Unanimously Endorses Return of Sam Sumana to the APC! In a colourful ceremony that attracted several dignitaries from all the chiefdoms that make up […]

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Giants Mighty Blackpool and East End Lions fight to battling 1-1 draw

December 16, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Kwame Nkeita scores to secure draw for Mighty Blackpool against EE Lions Mighty Blackpool’s Kwame Nkeita continued his good run of form as he struck an equalizer for the Tis […]

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INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL GUIDE ON SIERRA LEONE SAYS COCORIOKO IS THE REAL ONLINE HIGHLIGHT

December 15, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL GUIDE ON SIERRA LEONE SAYS COCORIOKO IS THE REAL ONLINE HIGHLIGHT July 28, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU COMMENTARY, INSIGHT 0   IT is a well-researched tourism book and […]

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NGC party acknowledges that hardship has worsened in Sierra Leone

December 14, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The political party that was once a replica or satellite of the ruling  Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP ) —-The National Grand Alliance ( NGC ) —is now at […]

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Why Sierra Leone woefully failed the MCC Compact : “Scorecards alone are incomplete portraits of a country’s policies and performance” ( MCC)

December 12, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU Despite all the showboating when  the Millennium Challenge Corporation ( MCC ) Scorecard was released in November which saw the SLPP Government scoring impressive grades in the […]

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  • BREAKING NEWS: APC walk out of Parliament , after Speaker rejects 2/3rd constitutional threshold for amendment of constitution
  • EDITORIAL : The world is looking up to the APC MPs to vote in the national interest today
  • Maada Bio will go but the harm caused by dictators last for generations
  • A CITIZEN’S REBUTTAL : Former SLPP UK Secretary General responds to President Bio ‘s miscues in Parliament
  • Sierra Leone’s Constitutional Amendment: Why We Should Not Put the Cart Before the Horse
  • Sylvia Blyden warns Sierra Leone in nation-wide broadcast : SLPP will never lose grip on State House , if constitutional amendments enacted
  • APC’S full position statement on the constitutional amendments going to vote in Parliament
  • APC stalwart Unisa Thorlu Conteh celebrates birthday today
  • *Sweating the Constitution for Electoral Gold* *By Oumar Farouk Sesay*
  • Let The Constitution Define The Government…..Not The Government Define The Constitution
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Lungi Bridge : Mouth-watering prospects and advantages no doubt; but at what economic costs to a dirt-poor nation ?

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  PART 1 By Kabs Kanu There is nobody who would not like to see the Lungi Bridge constructed at last. It is a mouth-watering prospect because it will bring […]

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This is the politician called SALONE TRUMP

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Many of our readers have been asking who the gentleman is that is being called Salone Trump. It can be recalled that two months ago we published a story sent […]

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PPRC resolves conflict between Kamarainba and party secretary General

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