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Sierra Leone: Audit Report shows a Le2.1 billion missing timber revenue

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

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman A government audit report into the financial activities of the Maada Bio administration for the fiscal year 2019 shows major […]

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Police threaten to arrest distributors of CDs and VCDs of Makeni standoff

October 12, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Compact discs (CDs) and video compact discs of last Thursday’s standoff in Makeni between the Sierra Leone Police and supporters of Ex-President Ernest Koroma have gone viral on social media […]

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PRRC Statement on the Makeni incident

October 12, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

POLITICAL PARTIES REGISTRATION COMMISSION /’ OAU Drive, Tower Hill, Freetown, Sierra Leone Email: info@pprc.gov.sl Website: www.pprc.gov.sl 078290607/078201770 PPRC PRESS RELEASE – 10th October, 2020 The Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC), […]

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Sierra Leone Police launch wide-spread arrests after Makeni demonstration

October 10, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0
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Lunsar residents continue to suffer as SL Mining remains closed

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

Lunsar Residents Continue to Suffer as SL Mining Remained CloseL UNSAR (TV-New24) – The closure of the SL Mines commonly Marampa Mines in Lunsar Marampa Chiefdom, Port Loko district, is […]

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Anti-Corruption Commission Makeni meeting with Ex-President Ernest Koroma fails to convene

October 8, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The much-publicized meeting between tha Anti-Corruption Commission ( ACC) and former President Dr. Ernest Koroma in Makeni , during which the ACC would have questioned the ex-president on matters arising […]

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Hundreds of excited Ernest Koroma supporters out in the streets of Makeni to show solidarity with former President

October 8, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

As the Anti-Corruption Commission ( ACC ) meets with former President Ernest Koroma in Makeni today, hundreds of frenzied supporters have poured out into the streets to demonstrate their solidarity […]

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Tension high, as Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission meets with Ex-President Ernest Koroma in Makeni today

October 8, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By COCORIOKO REPORTERS Tension is high in Sierra Leone as the Anti-Corruption Commission ( ACC ) meets former President Ernest Bai Koroma today in Makeni to question him on issues […]

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For Sierra Leone to prosper, we must identify, prosecute, recover and penalise all those engaged in corruption–But it must be fair

October 8, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Albert Momoh For the love of Sierra Leone, we must refrain from defending stakeholders engaged in #corrupt practices or have been found wanting. We must instead continue to hold them #accountable. We […]

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*A genuine advice to victims of the White Paper!*

October 8, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

*RODNEY MICHAEL *A genuine advice to victims of the White Paper!* The White Paper is out and as was rumoured the recommendations are serious issues. A lay man like me […]

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  • 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
  • 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
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