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Following the Independence Day Failure, is this the New Direction Sierra Leoneans Expected?

April 30, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Following the Independence Day Failure, is this the New Direction Sierra Leoneans Expected? By Musa Ronsho The government of Sierra Leone just led the nation in celebrating what is perhaps […]

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President Bio Receives Sierra Leonean Descendants from the United States at State House

April 30, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  State House, Freetown, Monday 29 April 2019 – His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has received Sierra Leonean descendants living in the United States of America during a courtesy […]

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TRIBALISING HONOUR AT THE BRIDGE

April 30, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Abdul Suhood Komeh, London, UK. The renaming of the Wallace-Johnson bridge in Freetown must be described for what it is: authoritarianism wedded to TRIBALISM in uppercases. No, this was not […]

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Famous and iconic SLBS broadcaster Gipu Felix-George passes away

April 29, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Kabs Kanu Mr. Gipu Felix -George, the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service  musical presenter and newsreader who became famous in Sierra Leone  for the Saturday morning musical hit program, Saturday […]

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Sierra Leoneans snub SLPP Independence Anniversary ceremony : What the people say

April 28, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Idrissa Conteh 11 hrs ·  Photo News: 27 April 2019 Poor Turnouts for Today’s Independence Day Anniversary Celebrations! The photos below speak for themselves about the very poor turnouts in today’s […]

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Empty stadium, as Sierra Leoneans boycott SLPP’s Independence Anniversary ceremony in open rejection of President Bio and his Government

April 27, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Siaka Stevens Stadium was virtually empty today as Sierra Leoneans boycotted the traditional Independence Anniversary Day program which always featured a march past of the armed and auxillary forces, […]

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WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

April 27, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Chez Winakabs Europe Publishing Limitedshared a post. Admin · 3 hrs WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? Many governments around the world encounter such rejection in their mid term or their last year before another […]

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President Bio’s Independence Anniversary address to the nation

April 27, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Address by His Excellency Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, on the Occasion of the 58th Independence Anniversary. Freetown, 27 April 2019. Fellow citizens, on Thursday, […]

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BELOVED SIERRA LEONE

April 27, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Today is the 58th Independence Anniversary of our beloved nation. The COCORIOKO Newspaper Limited would love to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY  to our beloved Sierra Leone. We pray that God bring […]

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President Bio tests his popularity in public and gets snubbed by the people

April 26, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Kabs Kanu Trying to copy Ex-President Ernest Koroma to test his public acclaim and popularity in public , President Bio stepped into the streets of Freetown yesterday unannounced , […]

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  • UPDATE!!! Uneasy Calm Returns to Central Freetown After Ojeh-Linked Tensions
  • Guinea expands illegal occupation of Yenga, opens fire on residents and forces everybody to flee
  • True Independence and Freedom can only exist in doing what is right
  • Video : Sierra Leone gains Independence from Britain and the 1961 Royal Visit
  • Reflections on Sierra Leone’s 64th Independence Anniversary : A nation still in waiting
  • There will never be world peace until imperialism is dead : Hands off Ibrahim Traore
  • Sierra Leone’s 64th Independence Anniversary Poem by Nicholas Godwin
  • Sierra Leone at 64 : A nation at the crossroads of reflection and regret
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Angry talk show hosts and callers now paint SLPP and APC with the same brush, as uncertainty over tripartite outcome threatens another war in Sierra Leone

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By KABS KANU Sierra Leonean commentators at home and in the diaspora on online talk shows and their  hosts  are fuming with anger. We at COCORIOKO  think that it is […]

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