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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Highly rated football youngster Suffian Kalokoh, who scored ten goals in the 2018/2019 Sierra Leone Premier League and ended 3 rd in the league behind Eastern Tigers and Eastern Lions Bambay  with 12 and  Musa Tombo with 15 goals, is currently proving well at the SLFA football pitch in Kingtom in Freetown, where himself and 50 other invited home based players are undergoing training to catapults into the national Leone Stars squad,  which is expected soonest in September to face the Lone Stars of Liberia in the 2022 World Cup preliminaries Qualifiers. Suffian 16, has scored (8) eight goals in just five days of training with the national home base side all against three of the five invited goalkeepers from top football clubs in country, ranging from the League Champions E.E Lions 3, Runners up Kallon 2, Johansen Goalkeeper 2, with the exception of E.E Tigers and Bo Rangers Goalkeepers who are yet to conceive goals from the to...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) One amongst the hugest challenge that has been affecting the Sierra Leone National Team (Leone Stars) in away matches in one way or the other over the years is lack of enough supporters at such games.  The Western Area Football Association– (WAFA) in collaboration with other partners is working positive behind the drops towards ending this age long deficiency on the September 4, 2019 away game of Sierra Leone to the Lone Stars of Liberia in the 2020 Preliminary World Cup qualifying which is expected to be played in the Liberians’ Samuel K. Doe Stadium. A sample of the  Leone Stars WAFA Supporters Jersey. David Turner, WAFA’s Head of Media and Communications in an exclusive interview with northern times said that: WAFA the largest regional football body in the country is hyper charged to complimenting the efforts of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) by ensuring that they provide a cost recovery scheme for a an e...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) In their efforts to empower, protect and stop all illegal abuses on the girl child and to help primarily northern region teenagers and young girls become the next generation of vitreous societal women in the region and the country at large, the Northern Region Women’s Network (NRWN) has on Thursday 8 th August, 2019 at the regional office north of the Ministry of Social, Gender and Children’s Affairs provided support of Five Hundred Thousand Leones (Le 500,000) cash plus food and cooking condiments to one 13 years old Minor that was sexually by her uncle in Makeni some six Months ago. The donation was double packed, for it was also extended to the Ministry of Social, Gender and Children’s Affairs (MSGCA) Northern Region Headquarters, who were also provided a cash sum of Five Hundred Thousand Leones (Le 500,000) to cover transportation cost on follow ups made on the minor’s sexual accuse case. In her statement prior to the presentation...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) In their strives to promote gender sensitivity, and to continue to implement development projects that will positively impact the people of the north, the country and other implementation areas at large, Action Aid, through its Makeni based office in the Bombali District of Northern Sierra Leone with support from European Union (EU) has successfully launched the “District Citizens Report on Community Score Card in Bombali District” at the Sierra Leone Teachers Union Hall in Makeni. The day’s event brought together various stakeholders in the district plus Action Aid staff who all sat and dialogue on the report and it set goals. Statements after statements were made by some of the stakeholders all geared towards checkmating the report and it was indeed confirmed by them all that the report is the exact one that was gathered by the enumerators from their communities that were selected and trained to carry out the  they survey. Th...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) Lahai Five Turay, the chief organizer of one of Koinadugu District’s biggest social event for the past three years, Mr. and Miss. Kabala Beauty and Designing Contest has disclosed to this writer that himself and his team, Youth for Peace Sierra Leone based in Kabala and other parts of Koinadugu District are all set to bring to the people of the mountainous District and the Northern Region the fourth edition of Mr. and Miss. Kabala Beauty and Designing Contest 2019. Lahai also explained that the idea of organizing Mr. and Miss. Kabala Beauty and Designing Contest was born from the ideas of young youths belonging to the Youth for Peace Sierra Leone organization in a bid to help contribute to the development processes of the land of milk and honey district and that since 2015 when the show’s first edition was staged they have gradually been playing their parts in the district’s development. Going further, he emphasized that this year’s sh...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) After a hectic 12 to 18 Months period of vocational, physical, mental and academic mentoring at Youth Build Sierra Leone’s (YBSL) Academy in Makeni City, Bombali District, in the Northern part of the country, thirty nine youths have successfully completed their various certificate courses and have been certified on Construction and Electrical, Catering, Mental Works, Driving, Tailoring, and Information Communications Technology (ICT). The certification ceremony took place on United Nations International Youths Day, August 12, 2019 in the watchful eyes of invitees from all works of life of society.  Speaking to Northern Times, two of the Participants certified on Driving and Tailoring Humu M. Sesay and Foday Alan Mansaray, both thanked YBSL for installing in them the new knowledge. They also urged other Youth to enroll with YBSL to be empowered too, hence they as well cited a line from YBSL’s Pledge “to improve our lives a...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh – (Jallomy) Life after the presidency can be painfully catastrophic. The culture of statesmanship is a degraded reality in Africa, especially in struggling democracies.  Most often than not, retired presidents are denied the privileges and niceties of statesmanship when once they walked out of the presidential palace.    When former presidents are subjected to disdain and dishonor, the face of the State is presented in a bad light. Regrettably, however, former African Presidents have an unending appetite for power and the glory loaded in the cauldron of power much to the unsettling comfort of the incumbency. Not wanting to let go the reins of power is always a solid source for conflicting realities and disrepute.  A great exception to this was the late President Ahmad Tegan Kabba of blessed bliss and memory.   The late President Kabba was extremely phenomenal. He came at a time when the prevailing circumstance and trying tim...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy)  +232 76865510/77939130 akempi@yahoo.com The political mood of the West Africa State of Sierra Leone has been one of denial, résistance to change and the seeming politics of revenge and retribution since the end of March, 2018. The members, supporters and sympathizers of the two giant political parties, the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) and the opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party, are enmeshed in a chain of protracted political upheavals unrivalled across the political ages. Though not an entirely new dimension in the political landscape of Sierra Leone, the ongoing political rancor is brutally revealing the country as one of unrestrained instability.  In the ugly circumstance, the country is losing out in faith and confidence of potential investors and the enabling environment for sustained development interventions. This is not good enough and cannot be good enough for a struggling democracy.  Admittedly, o...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh (Jallomy) +232 768860 akempi@yahoo.com Democracy has definitional variations. That said, the core elements of democracy are people centeredness in governance, the right to belong and be part of a political shade of opinion, loosely called political party and, of course, the right to aspire for a political position including but not limited to the presidency of a state as prescribed in a document intentionally called the constitution.  Democracy is mostly a theoretical construct and its applicability varies from state to state; therefore its universal relevance cannot be consistent across states in the world. For some countries in the world, that which is called democracy is nothing but a hopeless political ideal.  A beautiful example of such a country is North Korea, a country where some few years ago, the country’s Premier was executed under the expressed order of the country’s leader for sleeping during a meeting presided over by the leader. ...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh (Jallomy) +232 76 865510/akempi@yahoo.com Forgiveness, reconciliation and restitution are key elements in the character and nature of the Catholic Church. We are taught to believe that the Catholic Church is universal in character and as such its applications and practices have universal acceptance and relevance.  Today, more than ever before, the Catholic Church is challenged by the reality and permanent nature of change; and this is understood by the current papacy to the extent that reforms now being driven are sounding strange and shocking to the traditional segment of the Catholic Church.  Pope Francis is phenomenal, decisive and abrupt in driving the process of change in the Catholic Church. He is taking the risk, many will say, to drive change in a largely predatory religious arrangement. Pope Francis is simply being wise by deeply understanding the changing global trends. He thinks that the only thing that is permanent is change and t...