AWE Media Sierra Leone

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Eight players were crushed to death while returning from a rural football match at Batkanu town in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. The incident took place between Makoth and Makarie axis along the Makeni-Freetown in the evening hours of Sunday February 28, 2021 when the vehicle carrying the players collided with a truck carrying timber logs.    A total number of sixteen players returning from a football assignment for Makarie community were involved in the fatal accident, eight died on the spot, one more has passed on at 17:05GMT on Monday, 1st March, 2021, five out of the sixteen have been referred to the Emergency Hospital in Freetown while the remaining three are still admitted at the Northern Regional Hospital in Makeni, a medic attached at the hospital told AWE Media Sierra Leone. Six out of the nine departed players have already been buried but all football activities in the region including the ongoing Second Division League in Bombali District ha...

The reckless exploitation of fuel dealers and "Jebu traders": By: Ibrahim Jalloh -(Jallomy) Fuel and its price have sky rocket today in the North Eastern Capital of Makeni City. Today, February 1, and days to come will be economic burden and social discomfort to residents of Makeni City and her immediate environs and, of course, the territorial communities of North East Region. A liter of fuel today in Makeni is costing between le 12,000.00 and 15,000.00.  The reason is hopelessly hopeless: Tanker drivers and mates heading up to Makeni from Freetown refused to take the test, the result of which is a major and absolute requirement to enter and exit the Western Area who has epidemiologically graduated as epi center!  Those violaters were refused entry and hence the shortage of fuel. The reckless situation is now being exploited by fuel dealers on the ground by facilitating a parallel market.  No action from any quarters: the police is complacently absent and a field day is comm...