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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Members of the Makeni Artist Union last Sunday, August 29, 2021 unanimously voted in Multi-Award winning Hip-Hop Artist Samuel Yusuf Tarawalie popularly known by his stage name as Governor Blaq as the Union’s new President until 2023. Tarawalie secured a total number of 87 votes from the pool, the highest of all to edge the Union’s former President Milton Franklyn Koroma alias Stuntman, his former vice president Mohamed Lamin Fofanah-(Wanko) and Francis Sisto Kabia-(FSK) who scored 52, 27 and 10 votes respectively. Upon his vast winning from the pools to clinch the MAU top seat Samuel was duly announced as the Union’s boss by female Activist Emilia Jengo-one of the three members of this year’s Elections normalization committee in the presence of members of the public and MAU members had called on his membership to but all differences aside and work towards one motive. Following his election, Governor Blaq stated in his congratulatory message strong works o...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson The Chairman of the Northern Region Rugby Association Alex Kapotho Kamara yesterday told pressmen that the Association has resolved to postpone its National Rugby competition earlier scheduled to commence in the second week of September to October this year. Kamara said the decision to postpone the tournament arrives as a result of the ongoing West Africa Senior Secondary School Examination-(WASSCE) which many of the Rugby players are currently writing. “We cannot organize the tournament as proposed for in the second week of September because our players are busy writing to the WASSCE so we have decided that the competition be organized in October this year as we continue to plan and will eventually communicate the actual a final date.” He revealed. The proposed competition which is to be hosted in Makeni, North-East Sierra Leone will help to popularize the sport and also provide the opportunity for the public to watch competitive rugby games. Rugby is ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson The first female Executive Committee member Haja Ramatulai Kamara who also doubled as the female football chairperson at the Sierra Leone Football Association-(SLFA) together with the vice president-2 among other members of the local football federation during a familiarization visit in the North-Eastern city of Makeni last Sunday, August 29 pledged to jointly uplift the devastating status of female football in the country Kamara while addressing key female football stakeholders and other attendees at the Makeni city council conference hall during a brief engagement that was organized by the North-East Region Football Association following a warm welcome by players and officials of female football clubs based in Makeni and Magburaka said she is committed to collaborate with stakeholders to ensure female football becomes am envy of all. She furthered and reveals her plan to organize the first ever National Women’s League in the country, confirmed October 3, ...