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Sierra Leone : A shameful country with a compromised opposition , media, civil society , judiciary, Parliament , religious council and intelligentsia

May 13, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

By Kabs Kanu President Maada Bio and his wife, Fatima Bio , are getting away with everything in Sierra Leone. The couple and the  ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party ( […]

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Bio family scandals: Useless opposition and accountablity institutions hand foreign outlets the initiative to expose President and wife

May 13, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

President Julius Maada Bio’s regime, unopposed by a weak and feeble opposition, unhindered by a compromised Anti-Corruption Commission, unchecked by a largely self-censored media, surrounded and propped up by sycophants […]

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VIDEO : How did Sierra Leone’s First Lady come about all this unexplained wealth ?

May 13, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

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US’s Cut to UNFPA Funding Risks Lives of Women and Adolescent Girls

May 13, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

US’s Cut to UNFPA Funding Risks Lives of Women and Adolescent Girls John Baimba Sesay As hope awakens with the first light of dawn, a woman’s life becomes the true […]

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VIDEO : Where did First Lady Fatima Bio get the money to buy and build all these estates and hotel in the Gambia ?

May 13, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0
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Tensions Rise at Sierra Leone–Guinea Border as Military Buildup Continues in Yenga

May 12, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

By Franklyn Amoah Kemokai Tensions Rise at Sierra Leone–Guinea Border as Military Buildup Continues in Yenga Tensions are escalating along the border between Sierra Leone and Guinea over a disputed […]

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Inside the vulgar riches, deluxe estates and posh hotels of Fatima Bio- Sierra Leone’s First Lady , a former Nollywood film star who once lived in a London council flat

May 11, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

   

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British newspaper reports explosive story of Maada and Fatima Bio’s grand scale corruption and posh estates and marquee hotels

May 11, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

  Sierra Leone’s first lady rents a council flat in south London As 336,000 households wait for accommodation in the capital, Fatima Jabbe-Bio retains tenancy of her old home in […]

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Africa, and 50 shades of democracy to make Africa great again

May 10, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

Africa and the Fifty Shades of Democracy to Make Africa Great Again. Donald Trump and Ibrahim Traore are two leaders who could be best described as “Strange Bedfellows”. Despite being […]

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Yenga : Brotherhood abandoned at the border

May 10, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

Sierra Leone : The betrayal of Yenga By John Baimba Sesay I have written a few opinions on Yenga. But in January 2021, I wrote about why diplomacy should remain […]

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  • A Divided Nation Cannot Prosper: Confronting Tribalism in Sierra Leone
  • *Mr. President, Listen to the People’s Cadence*
  • The Long Return: Between Duty and Aspiration
  • THE 55% CONSTITUTIONAL THRESHOLD AND THE FRAGILITY OF NATIONAL TRUST
  • *Maada Bio: The Hypocrisy That Cuts Deep*
  • Sierra Leone will never become a great nation if truth continues to be criminalized
  • 65th Independence anniversary : Echoes of a dark and ugly past ; Appeal to President Bio not to drag Sierra Leone into another war
  • 65 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE have been Cruel luck for the people of Sierra Leone
  • Sixty-five years after independence, one painful truth remains: we, as a people, have failed Mama Salone.
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FREETOWN, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) — The government of Sierra Leone on Wednesday established a special investigation committee to fully probe into the recent unrest that led to the killings of […]

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Should children be exposed to such frightening volumes of trash and deadly health hazards in the name of national cleaning exercise ?

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While we at COCORIOKO  commend the President Maada Bio government for re-instituting the 1990s era military junta first Saturday public cleaning exercises, we think that the exercise must not be […]

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