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Sierra Leone’s Health Ministry exonerates Zainab Bangura

June 4, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Ministers of the government anxiously waiting for announcement of the new cabinet were not the only ones who became victims of the  dangerously malicious and envious press  media attacks that […]

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NEWS FLASH : NEW CABINET ANNOUNCED

January 5, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Just as COCORIOKO announced yesterday, President Ernest Bai Koroma today  released names of ministers in  his new cabinet. Here is the list so far : PRESIDENT ERNEST BAI KOROMA   […]

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EXCLUSIVE : Ministers Celebrate After Being Re-Appointed By President Ernest Koroma

January 5, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

This is the kind of quick-fire information you will get only in your popular COCORIOKO.  Shortly after the new cabinet list was announced to an anxious nation and diaspora this […]

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Development News : Ambassador Bockarie Stevens propounds on what Sierra Leone stands to benefit from winning the MCC Compact Award

January 2, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Just before Christmas, as  Sierra Leoneans celebrated the successful staging of the landmark Presidential, Legislative and Local Council Elections, good news came that Sierra Leone  has won the United States […]

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Fullah Progressive Union Ushered the New Year in a Spectacular Fundraiser

January 2, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 3

By Jacob Sax Conteh, Cocorioko Editor-in-Chief :   On New Year’s Eve, as hundreds of Sierra Leoneans in the Washington, DC metropolitan area clogged area churches, executives of the Fullah […]

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Minkailu Bah’s retention is unacceptable : A Rejoinder

January 2, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Tony Bee-Sydney, Australia. :    I always eagerly follow developments in my country Sierra Leone, be it political, social or otherwise, in spite of the great distance that lies […]

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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO OUR READERS AND SUPPORTERS : Cocorioko plans paradigm shift to Development Journalism this term

January 2, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The COCORIOKO Newspaper Limited is extending Happy New Year greetings to all our readers and supporters and to all Sierra Leoneans living at home and abroad. We hope that God […]

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Festive delight : How social media’s ‘infotainment’ capacity helped make it a memorable Christmas

January 2, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Kabs Kanu : I have enjoyed this Xmas to the marrow of my bones. This Xmas will go down as one of the  most memorable. Apart from one’s own […]

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President Ernest Bai Koroma : “We Will Do More In Our Agenda For Prosperity”

December 23, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By State House Communications Unit : Makeni, Northern Province, Sierra Leone, 22nd December, 2012; His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has reiterated his commitment to continue to strengthen local councils all across […]

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When the righteous is in power, God blesses the nation

December 23, 2012 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

President Ernest Koroma hails from a devout christian family where the father was a lay preacher and the mother insisted on christian values including saying the grace before family meals. […]

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