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Freetown Mayor warns of existential threats to full-scale dictatorship in Sierra Leone and urges noise for the world to know

May 18, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

KABS KANU REPORTS Somerset, New Jersey : Sunday May 14, 2022. Today was another defining moment in the politics of our motherland when the ever- vibrant APC New Jersey hosted […]

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EDITORIAL : “This Bio Government needs prayers” : Who beats up or arrests a mad man for speaking his mind in public ?

April 29, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

A mentally-challenged man in Freetown , known simply as BLACKER,ย  was on Thursday arrested by the President Maada Bio SLPP Government for speaking out his mind in public. Blacker’s outspokennessย  […]

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Very sick Kamarainba transferred from Pademba Road Prisons to Military Hospital, and is being denied visitors

March 22, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Just ย as feared by human rights and political activists who have been clamoring for his release from detention at Pademba Road Prisons, Alliance Democratic Party ( ADP ) leader Mohamed […]

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Maada Bio receives dubious award from Nigerian public relations agency in UK

October 17, 2021 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leoneโ€™s President Maada Bio has been given the BEST PRESIDENT IN WEST AFRICA award by a Nigerian Public Relations Company in the United Kingdom, called the Cater and Merger […]

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President Bio Justifies his Tribalistic Beliefs: “I Only Know My Mende Peopleโ€™s Work Ethics”

April 13, 2021 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Abu Shaw in London (11/04/2021) Unashamedly, the Sierra Leone President has publicly confirmed his tribal vision steered by the SLPP govt since they assumed office in 2018. President Julius […]

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Transfer of audit fees to the Consolidated Fund : Who is right -Auditor General or Solicitor General ?

March 16, 2021 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Lawyer Basita Michael I have seen on social media a memo purportedly written by the Solicitor-General to the Financial Secretary dated 22nd February 2021 on the topic โ€œLegal Opinion […]

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SLPP’s intimidation of journalists will not work

March 8, 2021 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

BY KABS KANU Cocorioko Publisher Any journalist worth his salt will at one time or the other or perpetually in his life face threats of arrests, physical harm , ostracization, […]

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An urgent call to all Africans : Please do this today for you and your people. It costs you nothing

February 22, 2021 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

AN URGENT CALL TO ALL AFRICANS: PLEASE DO THIS TODAY FOR YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE – IT COSTS YOU NOTHING! I am respectfully asking every African who has access to […]

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Sierra Leoneans concerned about the wasteful spending of President Bio and his wife Fatima Bio

January 23, 2021 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

With the Africanistpress investigative journalism unearthing an undeclared and unapproved state funds secretly and illegally transferred into the Sierra Leone bank account of the country’s first lady Fatima Bio , […]

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Medical Doctor Cries For Help to save her life

January 8, 2021 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Medical Doctor Cries For Help By Pastor Sinneh of Mortuary Evangelical Ministry Dr. Mariatu Tamimu a young hard working Obs/ Gyn resident attached at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital (PCMH) […]

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  • Rest in Peace Comrade Alhaji Minkailu Mansaray
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The Curtain Falls for Minkailu Mansaray, But the Spirit Endures

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Sierra Leone : No excuse for a weak, ill-trained and ill-equipped Armed Forces

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Whatever may be said about the imperatives of diplomacy and peace, there is no excuse for a country like Sierra Leone not having a real army with an air force […]

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Hundreds of landslide victims buried in Freetown

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By KABS KANU : GRIEF and sorrow lay thick on Freetown, the Sierra Leone capital, yesterdayย  as hundreds of people killed in Monday’s deadly landslide were laid to rest in […]

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