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Kandeh Yumkella, after raising hopes for a third force, surrenders to President Bio , and leaves nation disappointed

April 14, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

What many Sierra Leoneans, including COCORIOKO ,  have been predicting for long that the huge hope for a third force to upset the SLPP/APC  duopoly in Sierra Leone–Dr. Kandeh Yumkella- […]

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Sierra Leone’s Voter Registration Data Discredit the Mid-term Census Data: What are the implications for the Presidential Election of June 2023?

April 11, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Yusuf Bangura Nyon, Switzerland April, 2023 Statistics Sierra Leone carried out a mid-term population and housing census in December 2021. The declared purpose of the census was to review […]

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Widespread condemnation of murder of police officer in Makeni, as steaming conspiracy theories begin to emerge

April 10, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  VICKIE REMOE Extremely distressing news from Makeni is that Assistant Superintendent Matthew Gbanya was murdered yesterday. First time I’ve heard of a police officer being targeted and killed in […]

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Politics of division in Sierra Leone : Divisive politics, callous political comments against southeasterners and incendiary remarks must stop

April 10, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Karamoh Kabba Like many or all protestant christian denominations from the Catholic Church, surviving political parties in the existing multi-party democracy in Sierra Leone are mostly products of protestations […]

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Killing law enforcement officers is reprehensible, heinous , callous and unacceptable

April 10, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

KILLING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IS REPREHENSIBLE , HEINOUS , CALLOUS AND UNACCEPTABLE By Kabs Kanu Where truth is concerned, the killing of police officers is reprehensible and must be roundly […]

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SLPP accused of producing blurred substandard and mediocre voter IDs with many errors

April 10, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Institute for Legal Research and Advocacy for Justice (ILRAJ) statement on the just-released voters registration cards  By all accounts, the 2023 voter identification cards produced by the Electoral Commission of […]

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Police Commander assassinated in Makeni by unknown assailant (s)

April 10, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The EASTER weekend peace and serenity in Makeni were shattered last Saturday evening in gruesome and frightening fashion as somebody assassinated the Operational State Division (OSD ) Police Regional Commander […]

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HOLDING OUR ELECTORAL PROCESSES TO ACCOUNT

April 10, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By: Winstanley. R. Bankole. Johnson           With the benefit of hindsight it is now appearing that the recruitments of the former Statistics Sierra Leone (SSL) Commissioner Prof. […]

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Sierra Leone is doomed if President Maada Bio is allowed to give himself a second term

April 7, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Poverty, unemployment, hunger, inflation, poor infrastructure, poor management of the country’s natural resources, corruption, injustice, inequality, and oppression are some of the driving forces we identified as reasons for […]

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Incumbent President seeks re-election amidst massive corruption and repression

April 7, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

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  • How can we have peace in Sierra Leone when the President himself does not want peace ?
  • Speaker of Parliament lectured on law by citizens: A court of law can overrule a speaker’s decision
  • 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
  • BREAKING NEWS: APC walk out of Parliament , after Speaker rejects 2/3rd constitutional threshold for amendment of constitution
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How can we have peace in Sierra Leone when the President himself does not want peace ?

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Commission of Inquiry on assets of former government officials starts

November 19, 2019 0

  On Monday the 18th of November 2019, Justice Biobele has started investigating assets of former Ministers and Deputy Ministers that served the last administration of the former president Dr. […]

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HARDY GABISI WRITES A BOOK : Insight to the Book, “ The Challenged Population “

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  This book, “The Challenged Population” subtitle, Understanding Intellectually and Developmentally Challenged Individuals gives an insight to part of our universal population. The challenged individuals now refer to individually served, […]

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Bishop John Yambasu of Sierra Leone dies in road accident

August 17, 2020 0

8/16/2020 – Bishop News By Maidstone Mulenga* Bishop John K. Yambasu, the Resident Bishop of the Sierra Leone Area of The United Methodist Church, died in a road accident this morning (August […]

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BREAKING NEWS : APC National Delegates Convention to go on, after all.

February 17, 2023 0

The opposition All People’s Congress( APC ) have been cleared by the Freetown High Court presided over by Justice Hannah Bonnie to conduct their National Delegates Convention this weekend. An […]

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The SLPP version of the Tonko Limba Elections Chaos

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SIERRA LEONE PEOPLE’S PARTY Press Release: ONE COUNTRY, ONE PEOPLE THE SLPP CONDEMNS POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN WARD 196 KAMBIA DISTRICT AND THE ATTACK ON THE NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSIONER. Freetown 1st […]

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