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Catholic church clears Maada Bio for tomorrow’s state wedding, but more questions and cynicism provoked

February 20, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  The Archbishop of Freetown Most Rev. Dr. Edward Tamba Charles of the Diocese of Freetown has said that the church has found no impediment to the marriage between  President […]

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Sierra Leoneans condemn President Bio and First Lady Fatima Bio’s second wedding tomorrow as economic waste , wrong timing and wrong priority

February 20, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

A firestorm of public dissent and condemnation has spread through Sierra Leone and the diaspora as President Bio takes First Lady Fatima Bio to the altar on Friday, though the […]

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SLPP Is Still Failing The Nation

February 20, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) If the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) “inherited a battered economy” that still allows President Julius Maada Bio to fly out of Sierra Leone […]

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Andrew Lavali : Government Year -of -Delivery performance targets unknown

February 19, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Mr. Andrew Lavali, one of Sierra Leone’s noted civil society activists, has said that the performance targets expected by goverment from Ministries, Departments and Agencies ( MDAs ) are unknown.  […]

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The Maada Bio-Fatima marriage : Is President Bio violating the doctrines and theology of the Catholic faith ?

February 19, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  I was deliberately dismissing the President Bio getting married hoopla in the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church because I thought it was just APC being mischievous and spreading […]

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WHY WOULD PRESIDENT BIO REMARRY HIS LEGAL WIFE IN THIS ECONOMICALLY DIFFICULT TIME IF IT IS NOT TO PUT ON AN OSTENTATIOUS PSYCHODRAMA AND WASTE SCARCE PUBLIC RESOURCES ?

February 18, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Kabs Kanu NOW you can see why our country never goes forward and will remain backward. Our priorities are very wrong. Now you can see how some of our […]

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Why no SLPP politician will stand up to Maada Bio

February 14, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By IBRAHIM SOURIE MANSARAY PHILADELPHIA,USA Leadership is about taking decisions that produce results for generations unborn, especially when you are leading a country. It was the toughest period of […]

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Sierra Leone to help Liberia ameliorate fuel crisis

February 13, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  A shortage of fuel that grew more serious by the day has affected neighboring Liberia for three weeks now, virtually crippling vehicular movement in the capital Monrovia and other […]

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Local Government Minister alleges attack on his vehicle on Makeni Highway

February 13, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Just how much Sierra Leone has become unstable under the Government of President Maada Bio,  the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon Tamba Lamina  today alleged that he […]

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NGC Leader Kandeh Yumkella tells President Bio that 2019 was Sierra Leone’s horrible year

February 10, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU Dr. Kandeh Yumkella, the leader of the National Grand Coalition ( The party formed by breakaway members from the now ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party –the SLPP) […]

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  • Timothy Kabba is out : Mohamed Rado Swaray is now Foreign Minister as President Bio reshuffles his cabinet
  • *The 2028 Election May Have Already Begun*
  • Sierra Leone cannot afford another democratic collapse and war, but Maada Bio is driving us rapidly back into it
  • Sierra Leone’s constitutional faultline: A walkout, a two-thirds dispute and the stakes for 2028
  • Another sad day for democracy in Sierra Leone, as SLPP passes constitutional amendments without 2/3rd majority parliamentary vote
  • 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
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