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By: Joseph Momoh Conteh in Magburaka In this of our erra, Public Relations plays a vital role between an organization and its public, and the role play contributes greatly for the progress of the organization. Because its practice aim at establishing a two way communication, by seeking common grounds or areas of mutual interest and extablishing understanding base on truth,  knowledge and full information.  There are times, an organization been associated with some forms of negative characteristic by customers for poor service delivery, delay in responding to customers needs,  and even to a large extent corruption. And as a result, the image of the Organization is negatively perceived by the public.  Having the fact in mind that, any organization no matter its nature, has a Public Relations unit simply by virtue of its existence. The function of Public Relations unit is to correct misunderstandings on how the publics see the organization and how others perceive it and...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  At the Pa-Alimamy Kafoire Mini-stadium of Rokupr town in Kambia District, the Rokupr Foreign Based Football Club on Tuesday wrapped up their annual end of year friendly encounters with a commendable 2-1 comeback against the Rokupr Home Based Football Club. The traditional end of year football encounter between the two sides who’re all descendants and friends of Rokupr Khaliza, a touristic town located near the banks of the Great Scarcies River in the Magbema Chiefdom in the Northwestern district of Kambia started on high, with the host shocking the visitors early to enjoy what turned out to be a short lived lead. Thrilling 1-0 in the first half of the encounter, the Foreign Based endured and showed class as their attacking midfielder Abubakarr “Anderson” Kargbo alias Rokupr Borbor netted from a wide range strike to level the score and few minutes later in the second half, his teammates Wurie Jalloh who’s was handed his debut appearance for the Foreign Base...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Like many other Journalists in Sierra Leone, I’m truly pained as I write the news of the heartbreaking death of Mr. Philip Neville, Proprietor and Chief Executive Officer of Media One Center a media company that comprised of Standard Times Newspaper, Star Radio and Star Television, who died on Wednesday Morning at the Choithrams Memorial Hospital, Hill Station in Freetown. His death came after he was reportedly being hit at Kosso village by an unknown motorbike rider who remains on the run. He’s among some 12 Sierra Leonean Journalists and the 3rd after Bill Wager and Patricia Ganda both former employees of one of his establishments Star Television who have joined our ancestors, leaving very many of us and other members of the public truly pained over their demised being that they’re among some of the biggest contributors of the journalism profession in Sierra Leone. The late man has been a Journalist for several decades, mentored several others, bagged a ...

By: Kadiatu Lamrana Jalloh  Mohamed Alim Kamara was the District Youth Leader for Kambia from 2019 until December 2022 when he resigned to run for Council Chairman for the upcoming 2023 Election. In one of his interviews he explained what led him to run for the chairmanship position under the ticket of the ruling Sierra Leone's People's Party -(SLPP). He said” working as a District Youth Leader there were problems his office faced as a Youth Council and they were unable to settle those issues because they were not part of the system” and this urged him and the youths to move their Leadership so that they can avoid such happenings again cause they want to “Build a Resilient, Inclusive and sustainable District. His round up message was on Gender Inclusiveness as his past Deputy was a Female and how he is sure that his Running mate will be a Female also.

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  As he remains the center of attractions among youth and others on the streets of Freetown, Swedish based outfit Malmo FF Forward Mohamed Buya Turay has for the first time in a while reacted to the public. It is the first time since the 2019 Swedish Golden Boot Award Winner is reacting to the public after he last came public after the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone had forced the Elephants of Ivory Coast in a 2-2 draw at the last edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, hosted in Cameroon. This time, the Malmo FF and Leone Stars Marksman did not go live as he did some ten months ago but rather on Tuesday took to his widely followed Facebook page to react, saying: “If the Jealousy and bad heart shall kill them, let them die.” Turay went on to state in “krin-glish” that “But na God dae run am for we.” Plus laughter and peace emoji, added to his Tuesday post. Undoubtedly, Turay’s reaction arrives after growing number of speculations aroused over his latest car – (a ...

​ By: Sullay Kamusu  The Designfor Greatness Ministries, a community based organization whose mission is to bring Glory to God by Leading People to God, Encountering Christ, Engaging in Spiritual Growth, and Extending God's Kingdom has on the 25th December 2022 organised Christmas party for orphans at the Vicent Hope Children Orphanage feeding over 100 orphans funded by Jenneh Boyah, CEO and founder of the Designfor Greatness Ministries. Following God’s call, the organization aims to establish a network of reliable aid and support for the poor and marginalized in Sierra Leone. Founder of the organisation, Jenneh Boyah noted “As God has commanded, we aim to demonstrate the love of our neighbors through charitable giving and outreach. We hope to lead others into contributing to this cause and sharing the gifts of life and love to all, this is why we are doing this Christmas party for the orphans” she noted during an online interview with Salone Messenger, a global multimedia and publ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Courtesy of the Achieve Women Network Sierra Leone, Musician Innocent aka “The Political Gina-Musa” who’s also the Leader of Money Making Machine-(MMM) will be performing live tonight  for music lovers at the Makeni City Plaza. Innocent’s has been booked by the event organizers to let him add spice to their organization’s official launching, but attendees will have to pay the sum of 15 Leones to access the venue where proceedings that will lead to the musicians performance have been scheduled to begin at 8:00pm local time. With tonight’s performance being Innocent’s second in two 24 months at the same venue where he had a sold out event in 2021, the self acclaimed Political Gina-Musa say his Christmas day performance at the Makeni city plaza will “not be funny, it will be dope, classic and one that will be full of extravaganza.”

By: Paul Kamara  The Sports Writers Association of Sierra Leone (SWASAL)-South on Friday 23rd December 2022 paid a courtesy call on the Deputy Director of Education Bo District Mr Ibrahim Yahaya Fofana at his Gbaima Road office in Bo City. The Purpose of the visit according to the Secretary General of SWASAL-South Abubakarr Buzzo Kargbo was to foremost familiarize themselves with the Deputy Director of Education in the district and next was to express their concern over the recent violence that led to the suspension of the Inter-Secondary Schools Soccer/Volleyball Competitions in the district. "As sports journalists we do not only report sports but as well promote sporting activities in the process. We find pleasure in doing this and the passion for it keeps driving us, he said." "Following our press release on 14th December this year, were we strongly condemned and expressed our disappointment over the spate of violent behavior among school pupils particularly Christ th...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Owner of Facebook and Instagram Mark Zuckerberg says “Leo Messi's World Cup post is now the most liked in Instagram history.” Mr. Zuckerberg took to his Facebook page on Tuesday evening to make the announcement in which he also informed users of his online community applications that on that day: “WhatsApp also reached a record 25 million messages per second during the final.” In less than a hour after Mark’s posted the record breaking announcement on his Facebook handle which has some 119 Million plus followers, his post got over 243,000 reactions plus 24,800 comments, and the it being shared some 15,000 times. Although, Mark didn’t stated in his post, the exact number of likes which the Argentine National Football team skipper Lionel Messi’s World Cup post had amassed to become the Instagram user with the most like post in the social media platform’s history, I’ve learned that the said post as of 18:00GMT on Tuesday was liked 64,108,732 times. Unarguably...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  After respectively picking up vital semi-final wins at the Makeni Wusum Stadium, Magburaka based football outfit Kholifa Stars and Bullom Stars Football Club of Lungi, are the finals of this year’s EBK-Trophy. Both sides grabbed their tickets to this year’s EBK-Trophy grand finals, respectively, after beating rivals Golden Dragons and Sella Stars Football Club-(the tournament newcomers) 1-0 and 3-1 on Saturday and Sunday to book a date for the grand finals underway at the Wusum Stadium in Makeni city, at 4:30pm on Christmas day. Like last season’s edition, this year’s EBK-Trophy is a Northeast and Northwest regions derby as both teams Kholifa Stars of Magburaka in the Northeast and Bullom Stars Football Club of Lungi in the Northwest region, have all got the backing of sports enthusiasts in their respective regions rooting for them as the hot favorites to lift the 2022 EBK-Cup.

By Pastor Mohamed Sesay As the country's environmentalists' attention is turned to Freetown as the main sand mining hub in the country, Lungi is being prepared for a mighty disaster by sand miners. With the destructive way that sand is being mined on the beaches of Lungi town, especially the Mahera area, it is only a matter of time before a very flood causes massive destruction for those who have built close to the beach area and beyond. When reporters from the Comment newspaper went to investigate sand mining at Lungi, they found trucks in large numbers transporting sand from the beaches with impunity. The truck drivers and their apprentices told the reporters that the Paramount Chief had permitted them to mine up to a hundred meters from the sea level. Comment newspaper reporters found the water from the sea having moved over 150 meters from the sea level and causing destruction upstream. Concrete fencing was found to have been destroyed by water and the water is moving very...

BY: Ibrahim Kanu The Ministry of Trade and Industry in collboration with the Ministry of Social Welfare, on Monday commenced two days training for trade monitors from across the Northern Province of Sierra Leone on cross-border trading best practices at the Bombali District Council Hall at Magbema on the Makeni – Freetown highway. The training attracted 30 trade monitors working for the Ministry of Trade and Industry from all the districts in the Northern province including; Bombali, Tonkolili, Port-Loko, Kambia, Koinadugu, Karena and Falaba district for revamping the trading sector after being greatly affected by the Ebola virus disease. Madam Mary Hawa Turay, a Lecturer at the University of Makeni (UNIMAK) who has vast knowledge in trade and Entrepreneurship was among the expereinced facilitators of the training, which offered a number of trade guidelines to the thirty (30) trainees who will serve as eventual trainers of locals among others doing business in their respective dist...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson The long walk in search of this year’s EBK-Trophy Champions is set to continue later today at the Wusum Stadium where Golden Dragons will battle their Magburaka counterparts Kholifa Stars in the first semi-final match while Sella Stars of Kamanwie and Bullom Stars from Lungi will lock horns in the other semi-final match at the same venue. Automatically, the winners of both games will secure the last two spots in this year’s competition since the semi-final will have been declared to be played on a knock-out format, noting the unavailability of a match venue in Makeni since the Wusum Stadium will also have to play host to a number of matches in the Women’s and Men’s top Tiers, a top official of the organizing committee has said. Meanwhile, there are growing concerns by the participating teams regarding the winners and runners prize money but the organizers of the league have chosen to pay deaf ears to the growing concerns raised.

​ By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Ishmael M. Kargbo and Moses M. Kamara, both SSS-II Science pupils attending the Saint Francis Secondary School in Makeni city, Bombali District , Northeastern Sierra Leone recently showcased at the school premises their newly developed electric Lamborghini prototype from scrap materials. The prototype they've developed is rechargeable and is regulated by a Play station-3 like keypad connected to the car through a long black cable which allows an operator to move the toy car back and forth with a flood of lights in the front on the middle top and back of the prototype car all shining bright immediately, the power button is being pressed to switch it on. The lads told AWE-Media.SL that “it took us two weeks and three days to develop this prototype to show what we can do as prospective Engineers, adding, we can also develop a larger electronic Lamborghini car that can carry up to five people if only were supported financially to be able to buy the items nee...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl    For the third time since August, the Senior Women’s National Team of Sierra Leone nicknamed “Sierra Queens” has failed to make any improvements in the global  ranking of the FIFA/Coca Cola Women’s National Football Teams, the team has been ranked 136th out of 185th Nations according to a December 9 ranking.  The top five Nations are USA, Germany, Sweden, England and France while Madagascar, Angulilla, Turks and Caicos Islands, South Sudan and Mauritius are rock bottom on 181, 182, 183, 184 and 185 places respectively. From being ranked 136th in respectively in March and June this year, the Sierra Queens of Sierra Leone are still stuck at 138th globally but 22nd in the African continent behind Guinea, Gabon, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and their Gambian Counterparts with Nigeria(45), South Africa(54), Cameroon(58) Ghana(59) and Cote d’Ivoire(65) leading the continental ranking as the top best Senior National Women’s Football Teams. ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Mr. Ibrahim Jalloh, the North East Region Coordinator of the newly transformed National Commission for Civic Education and Development – (NaCCED) has revealed that the commission's primary aim at the moment is “to partner to address the elements of ignorance in the country because we need to have a sense of responsibility as Sierra Leoneans.” He says the Commission is using multiple approaches to addressing the underlying problem, ranging from entering into partnerships for the reintroduction of Civics as a general subject to be taught at schools, investing in human capital development through capacity trainings for specifically Teachers across all levels as well as other key players in the education sector at community, chiefdom, district, regional and national level plus embarking on continued  sensitization. "You know Sierra Leone was glorified as the Anthems of West Africa but that glory today has been reduced to a bag of memory based on the sad o...

​ By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Tournament debutants and Masombrie village based soccer outfit Hadit FC 's hope of reaching this year's semi finals for the very first time was cut short on Friday after bowing 2-0 to former Sierra Leone Premier League side Golden Dragons of Magburaka at its mini stadium on Friday. The host who suffered a 1-0 defeat to Hadit FC in  the first leg encounter of the ongoing 13th edition of the EBK-Trophy, regrouped for and proved too strong for the visitors in the return leg, as they wasted no time to take the lead just five minutes on in the first half, and resisted all pressure from Hadit FC whose late defensive mistake saw them to conceive a second goal that was just enough for Golden Dragons Football Club to advance to the last four of the competition on a 2-1 aggregate. Three more teams out of six will be joining the former Sierra Leone Premier League side when the quarter finals matches round-up by Wednesday, a media representative of the organizi...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  The National Political Debates Committee -(NPDC) on Thursday, December 8 briefed the media on its plans to host the nation's first-ever political debates for youth, women and persons with disabilities. The day’s  event was hosted at the Harry Yansaneh hall on Campbell Street and was chaired by Mr. Ahmed Sahid Nasralla, the President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists-(SLAJ). In his opening address, Mr. Nasralla welcomed the journalists from both print and electronics media institutions in the country invited to the event, saying you're all welcome to this News conference organized by the NPDC which comprises of eleven organisations including SLAJ, SLUDI, CGG, IGR, PPRC and the SLBC to keep you all informed with the plans we've put together with regards the upcoming debates we will be organizing for youth, women and persons with disabilities. He conclusively called on journalists to take the message home ams spread if far an wide. Other ...

By: Paul Kamara paulkamara772@gmail.com With funding from the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA), the National Executive of the Sports Writers Association of Sierra Leone (SWASAL) on Thursday 8 December 2022 ended a-two-day training on Sports Commentary at the Harry Yansanneh Hall, SLAJ  Headquarters in Freetown. The training brought together 10 selected sports journalists from across the country in order to be better equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge needed to carryout sports Commentaries professionally and efficiently. The facilitators were carefully selected. All with sound knowledge and wealth of experience in their respective fields. The facilitators include: Durosimi Thomas, a senior BBC-trained and certified expert, Sorie Ibrahim Sesay-Director of Competitions (SLFA), Franklyn Angel Foray Marah-Referee's Manager (SLFA), and Ahmed Kanu-President of the Sierra Leone Volleyball Association. Speaking on the significance of the training, National President of...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Seven weeks since Sierra Leone’s first ever National Women’s League Kickoff at the Wusum Stadium in Makeni on October 15,  the race for the Goal Queen Award is proving to be very competitive amongst players of the 12 participating teams. After 84 games played so far, 42 players of all the participating teams have netted at least a goal to add their names respectively to the score sheet but the healthy race remains tighter among Kahulan Queens Football Club’s duos Matilda Kabba and Adama Jalloh who now leads the race with 7 and 10 goals scored accordingly in 7 games played. Earlier it was Matilda Kabba who netted the League’s opener against Mena Queens Football Club that was leading the race but her teammate Adama Jalloh who has been involved in the team’s last 13 goals scored over the weekend passed Matilda on 2nd place with three goals separating them. The other top five competitors of the maiden National Women’s Premier League are Kadiatu Musa Kamar...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  The expected Saturday, December 3, 2022 Elective Congress of the Sierra Leone Handball Association has been put on hold indefinitely, the National Sports Association-(NSA) has said in Friday presser. The statement reads: “NSA would like to inform the general public, especially the Outgoing Executive and the General Membership of the Sierra Leone Handball Association-(SLHA) that, following consultations with the Minister of Sports after meeting with Handball Stakeholders on Thursday, 1st December 2022, the elective congress slated for Saturday 3rd December 2022 has been postponed the following are addressed: 1.     Constitutionality of the association of which some members have written petitions to the National Sports Authority for intervention. 2.     Thrash out all compliances leading to the elective congress as agreed by members of the association on July 16, 2022 Annual General Meeting held at the Olympic Africa of which the outgoing...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Aimed at testing their players following nine months plus of trainings of over 60 scouted players, the Star Sports Academy on Friday kickoff its maiden edition of an intensive three days youth football gala. A total of eight U15 and U17 youthful football teams from Freetown, Lungi and Makeni namely Star Sports Academy, FC Kallon, Orthodox and Makeni youth teams are taking part in first ever double youthful tournament hosted in the northeastern city. The tournament is being graced by a number of sports enthusiasts in the country including the Youth Football Coordinator at the Sierra Leone Football Association-(SLFA) Alimamy “Kurish” Conteh among other football administrators who’ve all applauded the initiative by Star Sports Academy.

​ By: Amadu Wurie Timbo Hosted at the Sierra Leone Teachers Union hall in Makeni, Northern Sierra Leone,  the National  Council  for Civic Education and Development  ( NaCCED )  in collaboration with the Ministry of Basic and Secondary School  (MBSS) ,  the Teaching Service Commission  (TSC) and the Sierra Leone Free Education Project  on  Sunday 27th November 2022 ended a two-day National Civics training of trainers for teachers in  Bombali District . The event brought together over 104  selected  teachers from approved Primary and Secondary schools from all chiefd oms across the  Bombali  District, including facilitators. The 104 Teachers were offered the chance to learn a number of topics including Brainstorming on the Civics Syllabus implementation guides , presentation and discussion on the justification and general learning outcomes of civic and the civic education in Sierra Leone, discussion and group work...

By: Chikamed Atlantic Beach Hotel, Freetown, Tuesday 29 November 2022 - Chief Minister, Jacob Jusu Saffa, has engaged stakeholders in the clearing and forwarding sector to explore more robust ways of reviving the clearing processes at Queen Elizabeth II Quay and ensuring efficiency in government.  A build-up to the stakeholder engagement started with a consultation among key players in the sector on 9 November 2022, which was spearheaded by the Office of the Chief Minister and the Ministries of Finance, Trade, Transport and Aviation and private sector players. During those meetings, a term of reference was developed that led to the stakeholder meeting. The Chief Minister noted: "We are here to look at one of the perennial problems in Sierra Leone, the clearing and forwarding sector. It is no news that there have been challenges and there will continue to be challenges. We are also here to discuss the clearing and forwarding process with a view to streamlining and simplifying the p...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  All-around singer, songwriter, sound engineer and Bombali District Artist of the Decade “Alieu Melody” is set to offer something extraordinary this Sunday at the Wusum Stars Football Club “Black & Yellow Fundraising Musical Concert”  scheduled for the Makeni City Plaza. The back to back hit maker's anticipated performance comes after the concert organizers (the National Wusum Stars Football Club Fan Base) confirmed his booking for the weekend music fiesta. According to “Melody” he wants the people of Bombali and nationwide to show up for  the Sunday concert in a bid to help raise funds to support the Wusum Stars Football Club which is one of top-tier sides that is financially constrained the most. His plea has been backed by a number of officials, supporters and players of Wusum Stars Football Club who’ve also requested well wishers to grace the event which entrance price has been announced to be 15 Leones that will offer attendees to meet an...

​ By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  With the earliest kick off date for this season’s Sierra Leone Men’s Premier League annulled, the football family in the soccer nuts nation remains in the dark after all parties in charge of running the much awaited National men’s top-tier has chosen to remain tight-lipped on the expected kick-off date. Supports, Players, Managers and Sports Journalist nationwide were eager for the 2022-2023 Sierra Leone Men’s Premier League to have kicked off on Friday, 18th November, 2022 but their hopes were shattered having noticed there was no league fixtures unveiled nor did the League Board, the local football governing body-(SLFA) and partners made any public attempt to notify that general citizenry that the long awaited championship will not commence as planned. It’s gone pass a week  now since the national Men’s Top-tier to be contested by 18 teams across all regions in the country has not kicked off as earlier trumpeted to commence by the Premier League B...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Mena Queens Football Club of Makeni, the current 3rd place occupants of the ongoing 1st ever National Women’s Top-Tier will later today welcome Mogbwemo Queens Football Club from Bonthe District, the current league leaders as both side clashes at the Wusum Stadium in a top of the table clash. Seated third on the log, the host who had won the last four games say they’re upbeat to secure all three points to mark their third home win out of seven games played so far in the competition’s first round. “We’re upbeat not to suffer any other defeat in the League, especially to bow at home again having suffered a late 0-1 defeat in our opening game. We respect Mogbewemo Queens, they’re a good opponent but we’re ready to give them a good run for their money,” Mena Queens Skipper Mariatu Haja Conteh told AWE-Media.SL in a pre-match interview. On the other hand, the high flying visitors from Bonthe District, Mogbewmo Queens who are leading the League with 16 points ea...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  One of Sierra Leone’s most successful models Abubakarr Tarawalie, the owner of Kish Leone and President of the Makeni Models Union who doubles as a baker at the United Bank of Africa Makeni branch is set to host this Friday, 25th November, 2022 at the Garden State complex “the Faces of High School” inter-secondary academic and modeling contest for boys and girls attending nine secondary schools in Makeni city, Northeastern Sierra Leone. The event has been segmented into two, an inter-secondary brain challenge and modeling contest amongst 40 school going pupils representing the Birch Memorial, United Methodist, Makeni Comprehensive Academy, Saint Francis, Saint Joseph Convent, Benevolent Islamic, Every Nation Academy, Finoh International High School, Modern High School, International College of Makeni and the Sierra Leone Muslim Brotherhood Secondary School. According to the Model turned banker and former Mr. Supernatural Poland Sierra Leone representative,...

​ By:  Amadu   Wurie   Timbo Hosted at its office located at  Nicol  Street in Makeni, the Sierra Leone National Commission on Small Arms on Thursday 17 th  November 2021 officially launched the Northern Region office.  The daylong event attracted many dignitaries including  Honorable  David Panda Noah, Minister at the Ministry of Internal Affairs,  Honorable   Sahr  E. Juana, Member of Parliament representing the people of Constituency 002 in  Kailahun  District who doubles as the Chairman of the  Defense  Committee at the Parliament of Sierra Leone united   with the Resident Paramount Chief, PC  Bai   Shebora   Kasangha  II, Forces Representatives and other prominent stakeholders  grace the event that gears towards to the security and well-being of Citizens living in the country. In his statement,  Rtd .  Colonel  Binneh  K.  Konteh , the National Comm...