President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has said that the “Renewal, Unity, and Reception of experience from God” is very relevant to not just the physical development of the Sierra Leone,…
BY ANTHONY KARIM KAMARA SNR (CANADA) : Let me begin by saying that the response to the above posting should have come immediately that posting was made for the benefit…
Washington, D.C., May 16th, 2012: In recognition of his role in documenting the historical link between the Gullah people in the United States of America and Sierra Leone, and for…
ALHAJI ALPHA KANU Making Human Rights Real in the 2012 Elections 30 May 2012 Mr. Chairman, H. E. Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen, ERSG My Lady the Chief Justice of the…
By I K Musa in Kenema : The Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources, Abdul Ignosi Koroma, has dished out monies for the diamond mining community development fund to the tune…
It seems as if those praising the Ernest Bai Koroma-led All Peoples Congress Government are not short in supply. Apart from the celebrated IMF projection of an extraordinary 35% economic…
The inhabitants of Koinadugu, the largest and sparsely populated District in Sierra Leone, have overwhelmingly embraced President Koroma’s hatched vision of rebranding his nation by changing the poor attitudes and…
Convicted war criminal Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison Wednesday, marking the end of a years-long legal process to hold the former Liberian president accountable for atrocities…
This morning Mr Justice Lussick, the Presiding Judge in a courtroom in The Hague, sentenced Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison for “some of the most heinous crimes in…
Sierra Leone Police officers bring pride to the nation as UN gives them medals for meritorious service
By KABS KANU : Indeed, indeed good things certainly do come out of Sierra Leone. Yesterday was another day of pride for the nation as two of the…
Pictorial : UN honours fallen peacekeepers
By the Department of Information and Public Affairs -Sierra Leone Mission to the UN : One hundred and twelve fallen United Nations Peacekeepers, including four Sierra Leoneans, were…
Brutality : Why the SLPP chose former junta leader Maada Bio as their presidential candidate
By Moisa S. Keikura : Many people would not know the actual reason why the opposition SLPP manipulated and bent last year’s flag bearer election to go in…
SLPP, like a lover spurned, cunningly expelled Wusu Boie to pre-empt another much-publicized defection
By KABS KANU : COCORIOKO has been sounding the opinions of Sierra Leoneans about the reasons that the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP ) had the guts…
“Madingoes are NOT Hypocrites. We now Support APC!!!”
The Madingo people all over Sierra Leone, led by their leaders in and out of government – Hon. Mabinty Daramy, deputy trade minister; FereMusu Kawuse-Conte, deputy marine and…
President Koroma briefs UN Security Council delegation about Agenda For Change
By State House Communication Unit : Sierra Leone, Freetown: The United Nations Security Council visiting team to Sierra Leone led by Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant of the United…
Another victory for President Koroma : Visiting UN Security Council delegation is impressed by Sierra Leone’s progress
By KABS KANU : One of the favourite sayings of Old Man Zubah, the wise,…
If Umaru Fofana, of all people, chastised Maada Bio for lying to the BBC, how much integrity is left for the SLPP Presidential candidate ?
By KABS KANU : Mr. Umaru Fofana , the President of the Sierra Leone Association…
Football is a painful game, but why has it survived for more than a century ? SLPP should listen to this
Anybody who is a true football fan will readily confess that the past two weekends…
So where did Ernest Koroma say he is a Lokko by tribe and that he is no longer a Temne ?
In recent weeks, the dangerously tribalistic Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP ) supporters have…
Bio’s UK trip a public relations disaster
Despite all the hype and showboating from supporters and all the propagandists and bootlickers, the…
Is Maada Bio antagonizing a neighbouring country so early? What kind of diplomacy is this ?
For those very keenly watching the trend of politics unfolding in the little West African…
Bio to bring shame to Sierra Leone in exchange for power -Freetown newspaper says
The Torchlight Newspaper of Freetown has sent us a copy of its front page story published…
PART 1 : The Reluctant Retreat to the barracks : How Maada Bio tried to hijack democracy in Sierra Leone in 1996
Today, we start serializing an immortal article written by our publisher , Rev. Leeroy Wilfred…
Sierra Leonean mass murderer at Chatham House : Will Britain arrest Maada Bio or let him off the hook ?
From all the speeches one has heard from members of the Permanent 5 ( P-5)…
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By KABS KANU : One of the favourite sayings of Old Man Zubah, the wise, old man of Liberia whose words of wisdom COCORIOKO has been featuring , is that ”When Chicken white, it is white “. The parable can be interpreted in many ways but, generally speaking, what it means in essence is that [...]
The Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP) stronghold of Kailahun District has fallen to President Ernest Bai Koroma. Kailahun District went red last weekend when the President took his development projects to a district that once stoned anything APC . The massive throng that wore red and came out to welcome and hail President Koroma [...]
President Ernest Bai Koroma remains the Man of The People in Sierra Leone. Let the idle critics continue their “Labo” (Empty talk ) against the Head of State. President Koroma remains immensely popular with the people of Sierra Leone. Wherever the President goes , thousands of people come out with undisguised and natural passion to hail [...]
Today we are celebrating the 51st anniversary of our independence. This is also the very first year of our journey into a future in which we have collectively vowed to become an advanced economy and a donor nation. This is the major aspiration for the coming decades that the people of this country have [...]
