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Chaos at Lungi Airport and incompetence in dealing with Coronavirus

March 19, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Idrissa Salaam Conteh All the press releases and statements being issued by the authorities have not been translated into concrete actions as manifested in the chaos that ensued […]

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Quarantined KQ Passenger Writes from Port Loko! My Version of the “Suspected Case from the Kenya Airways flight”

March 19, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Quarantined KQ Passenger Writes from Port Loko! My Version of the “Suspected Case from the Kenya Airways flight” I came in today 18th March 2020 with Kenya Airways. Yes, the […]

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State House is a cesspool of corruption : Maada Bio gave his wife over $1 million from Consolidated Fund for launching program of HANDS OFF OUR GIRLS Campaign

March 17, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson & Mark Feldman In the first two articles of our Sierra Leone investigation series, we highlighted the existing disparities in the national salary […]

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SIERRA LEONE HAS ONLY ONE VENTILATOR TO TREAT CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS*

March 17, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Dr. Asad Naveed01039 The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to wreak havoc around the globe. Africa was initially thought to be a safe zone for the disease, but now […]

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SQUANDERMANIA : Concealing Fiscal Costs: How Sierra Leone’s Single Treasury Account leads to Unauthorized Public Spending

March 16, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  THE FASTEST AND WORST EVER CORRUPTION BY ANY GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN UNCOVERED BY THE AFRICANIST PRESS INVESTIGATION. SIPHONING MONEY FROM THE CONSOLIDATED FUND INTO HIS WIFE’S SELF-ENRICHMENT ,”HANDS OFF […]

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Payroll Corruption in Sierra Leone: The Ministry of Finance’s Scandalous Wage Bill

March 5, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Payroll Corruption in Sierra Leone: The Ministry of Finance’s Scandalous Wage Bill  PUBLISHED DATE:MARCH 1, 2020  7 COMMENTSON PAYROLL CORRUPTION IN SIERRA LEONE: THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE’S SCANDALOUS WAGE BILL  By […]

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Late Solomon Berewa showed an example of good statesmanship that Maada Bio better copy and follow

March 5, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

When he was defeated in the 2007 Presidential Elections by Ernest Koroma,  Mr. Solomon Berewa , who passed away in  Freetown today, demonstrated great statesmanship and patriotism by immediately conceding […]

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More political repression by President Bio as civil society leader, journalists and Limkokwing University students arrested for demonstrating in demand of their tuition

March 5, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Suerra Leoneans today woke up to more political repression by the President Maada Bio government as Police arrested the  Executive Director of the Citizens Advocacy Network (CAN), Thomas Moore Conteh , […]

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There Was A Presidential Wedding And Now An Audio

February 27, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) Now that the presidential wedding is over in a Catholic church; now that the wedding reception and party are over at State Lodge; now that […]

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Citizens & CSOs led by Native Consortium stage peaceful protest at Parliament

February 27, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Citizens & CSOs led by Native Consortium stage a peaceful protest at Parliament for the following:* *1. PARLIAMENT MUST TERMINATE THE FRAUD NETPAGE PASSPORT CONTRACT WITH A SENSE OF JEOPARDY […]

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President Maada Bio over the weekend stirred chaos in Sierra Leone and the diaspora when he declared that any member of the SLPP who declares for the opposition APC will […]

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Is Edmond Sylvester Alpha the Only Man for the Job? Sierra Leone’s Electoral Integrity at a Crossroads

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APC advises Sierra Leoneans not to heed SLPP’s call for violence and chaos in Sierra Leone

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STATEMENT BY THE ALL PEOPLES CONGRESS (APC) PARTY ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL MATTER REGARDING THE DISMISSAL AND APPOINMENT OF A VICE PRESIDENT BY PRESIDENT ERNEST BAI KOROMA The National Secretariat of […]

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Ambassador Koroma lectures Communication Experts in Ethiopia

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    By Abdul Karim Koroma   Sierra Leone’s youngest Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Ismael Koroma has […]

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EXCERPTS FROM THE 2019 U.S STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ON SIERRA LEONE

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EXCERPTS FROM THE 2019 U.S STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ON SIERRA LEONE UNDER PRESIDENT BIO Despite many instances of under reporting , this Report exonerates critics of President Bio […]

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The cries of the innocent people in Sierra Leone

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By Kabs Kanu EVERYBODY IS CRYING about the brutish economic conditions in Sierra Leone and the ominous reality that President Maada Bio does not care. He is neither able nor […]

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Commonwealth wants free, fair, credible and transparent elections in Sierra Leone

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BREAKING STORY : COMMONWEALTH WANTS FREE, FAIR, CREDIBLE, INCLUSIVE ELECTIONS IN SIERRA LEONE According to our diplomatic sources, the Commonwealth has stressed to President Bio and his main opponent, Dr. […]

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