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Images of President Maada Bio—What Sierra Leoneans think of him (In jest)

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

PRESIDENT MAADA BIO  is the most ridiculed Sierra Leonean head of state ever in the history of the country. Not a day passes without the president being cartooned in the […]

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Cotton Tree is no more : Historical landmark brought down by heavy windstorm

May 25, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Kabs Kanu The historic and iconic Cotton Tree , which for hundreds of years towered majestically at the center of Freetown ( The capital of Sierra Leone ) as […]

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President Bio launches SLPP manifesto for June 24 Elections

May 24, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has launched his party’s manifesto for the forthcoming June 24 elections from which he is seeking re-election. “Today, I launched the Sierra Leone People’s […]

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Citizen takes Maada Bio government to task for substandard voters ID cards and failure to publish list of voters

May 24, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

ELECTIONS COMMISSIONER MOHAMED KONNEH  

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SLPP unleashes thuggery on APC at Mile 91

May 24, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

*SLPP starts Thuggery In Mile 91* Today, the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) members including Paramount Chief Shebora Thelle II of Yoni Chiefdom, Regent Chief one Attatie are unleashing […]

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European Union launches elections observation mission in Sierra Leone

May 24, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0
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SLPP THUGS WAGE WAR ON APC , AS POLITICAL CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF IN SIERRA LEONE

May 23, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

There are very disturbing reports and photos of thuggery by supporters of President Maada Bio, who today attacked opposition members campaigning for their party at Sierra Rutile and left the […]

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National Security Coordinator assures EU that security Sector adequately prepared for elections

May 23, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

*”The Security Sector is fully and adequately prepared to conduct the upcoming multi-tier elections”…* The NSCoord assures the EU. *22nd May, 2023 – ONS Hq, Tower Hill Freetown.* The National […]

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Man beaten up in Makeni for recording video of President Bio’s convoy

May 23, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

As President Maada Bio’s convoy passed through Makeni, heading for Koinadugu where his political party has been campaigning recently, a man stood on the sidewalk innocently videotaping it with a […]

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Prices of basic necessities and food have gone through the roof in Sierra Leone under the shambolic leadership of President Maada Bio

May 23, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

PRICES OF BASIC COMMODITIES AND FOOD HAVE GONE INSANE IN SIERRA LEONE : HOW DOES PRESIDENT BIO EXPECT PEOPLE TO EAT AND HOW DOES HE HOPE TO WIN ON JUNE […]

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  • Maada Bio to seek third term: Creation of new districts and cities part of the plan.
  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The Truth Teller We Never Deserved
  • An idiot’s guide to winning an election
  • The Crumbling House: APC’s Internal Chaos and the Systematic Marginalization of Political Pluralism in Sierra Leone
  • For corruption : Sierra Leone suspended from all IMF programs
  • Sierra Leone will defend herself to the last against Guinea, if necessary– Interior Minister
  • Taking the Mining discourse to another level:  Patriotism Must Be Grounded in Reality:
  • Big losses for Sierra Leone media: Accident claims lives of SLBC camera journalist and female intern
  • The Battle for Hearts and Minds Descends into The Abyss of Moral Politic, Witch-hunt and Gas lighting
  • The Voice Returns: Christiana Kamara Stuns Sierra Leone in Her Triumphant Return with Bormeh.
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  • Phebean Samura: Watch and see what will happen soon. Sierra Leone will be a Democratic country very soon. FORGET ABOUT 2028. WE…
  • Catherine Higgins: Remarkable how journalists can write about APC and what not... but you never seem to have the spine to demand…
  • Amadu M. Kamara: Comment no. 2 above continues thusly: if the firebrand do seriously intend indeed to show their numerical strength versus the…

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SLPP operatives said to be planning to stir up chaos in Sa. Leone, using Kailahun as launching pad

May 17, 2009 0

  WRITTEN BY COCORIOKO NEWSPAPER LIMITED SUNDAY, 17 MAY 2009 News making the rounds in the United States is that the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP),which has still not accepted […]

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Sierra Leone Government damns kangaroo ECOWAS Court

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  The ECOWAS Court today ruled in favour of former Vice-President Sam Sumana in a matter that the court has no jurisdiction. Though the Sierra Leone Supreme Court , the […]

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