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SLPP Government Is Lies Personified

January 31, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

SLPP Government Is Lies Personified By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) You might be shocked to learn that though I have practised journalism for about 27 years now; I don’t read […]

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The Supreme Court Has Silenced The Silent

January 31, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Supreme Court Has Silenced The Silent By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Dr Abdulai O. Conteh, Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara aka JFK, and Ady Macauley; these three lawyers will go down […]

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Top NGC man resigns from party in anger at KKY’s decision to join the SLPP “Gravy Train”

January 31, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

MR. ALAN LUKE, one of the big brains behind the National Grand Coalition ( NGC ) has angrily resigned in protest against the decision by the founder of the party, […]

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BIG SELL-OUT BY NGC, AS THIRD FORCE PARTY ALIGNS WITH RULING SLPP ?

January 31, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The political atmosphere in Sierra Leone is becoming more and more predictable, demonstrating  how much and why Sierra Leoneans do not trust their politicians. The NGC  came out this evening […]

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The Kandeh Yumkella brouhaha : Andrew Keili weighs issues

January 31, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Let me set the records straight on a few issues surrounding NGC and KKY. I consider his spurt of anger and statements regarding meager financial contributions by some “noisemakers” within […]

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As Kandeh Yumkella abandons NGC Third Force cause to likely pitch tent with Maada Bio ( as predicted by COCORIOKO) , new problems and a can of worms await SLPP

January 31, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Kabs Kanu The COCORIOKO newsmagazine, Sierra Leone’s biggest and most widely read internet news portal, predicted it weeks ago and it has happened. The “Nearly Man” , the presidential […]

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Hon Kandeh Yumkella vouches to continue to have engagements with President Bio

January 28, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

*HON. KANDEH YUMKELLA VOUCHED TO CONTINUE TO HAVE ENGAGEMENTS WITH PRESIDENT BIO*‼️ The NGC’s Parliamentary Leader and 2018 Flagbearer, Hon. KKY in a meeting with his party’s stakeholders has told […]

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Supreme Court Dismisses Claims That President Bio’s Directive To Electoral Commission Was Unconstitutional

January 27, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Judiciary of Sierra Leone #Supreme Court Dismisses Claims That President Bio’s Directive To Electoral Commission Was Unconstitutional #Court No. 1, Main Law Courts Building, Freetown, 27th January, 2023: Sierra […]

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The students demonstration of 1977 : My role

January 20, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

I had been a radical and very eloquent journalist and political participant at FBC. I virtually controlled the media. My biting articles attacking the government downtown , the college administration […]

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Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio Signs Landmark Gender Law, Celebrates Women and Urges More Women Political Representation in the Elections*

January 20, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

*Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio Signs Landmark Gender Law, Celebrates Women and Urges More Women Political Representation in the Elections* *_Foreign Service Academy, Freetown, Thursday 19 January 2023 –_* […]

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  • Opposition APC distances itself from the controversial constitutional amendments by SLPP-controlled Parliament
  • 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
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