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By Abdulai Fornah  The Director General of the National Aids Secretariat (NAS) of Sierra Leone  Abdul Rahman Sesay has in an exclusive with AWE-Media.SL earlier today disclosed that persons that have been enrolled for Prep drug are 99% safe interms of contracting the HIV and AIDS. He made the disclosure while speaking to AWE-Media.SL about the Prep Drug at the National Aids Secretariat premises in Dwarzack Farm in Freetown. "Prep is a new intervention that have been introduced into the national response of HIV and AIDS, adding that it is a prevention intervention or prevention strategy for the vulnerable population of persons at high risk zones where the HIV and AIDS can be easily contacted, especially for persons involved in commercial sex. "But once you are on prep, your chances of getting the virus reduces by almost 99%," he assured.  And further disclosed that "Sierra Leone has a lot of commercial sex workers, but the consistent and correct use of condom still r...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Morlai Kargbo, the court clerk attached at local court No. 1 located at Turntable area in Makeni Northern Sierra Leone said Challenge cases tops the total number of cases they deliver judgments on since 2021. He further revealed that such cases limit the court to levying fines because most of the cases that are sermons at our court range from depts. cases, alleged use of abusive languages, married palavers amongst others and both plaintiffs and defendants normally agree to striking compromises for out of courts settlements. “Since 2021, we’ve received over 100 summonses and dealt with the majority of such summons but to be frank, the majority of such cases are challenge contests between plaintiffs and defendants with a bulk of these cases being redrawn for home settlements. “We’ve stated provisions to act on, that will help to see persons being tried and if found guilty of the alleged crimes be fined according to law and such monies be paid to boost the treasur...

By: Alusine Rehme. Wilson During Monday's court hearing at the Local Court Number-1 located at turntable, in Makeni City, Northern Region, two petty trader namely Sama Sesay of Number-2 Timbo drive, Mabanta in Makeni and Isata Kamara of Number-87 old Mabanta Road in Makeni for their failure to pay the plaintiff’s long standing dept of One Million, One Hundred Thousand Leones which saw them being summoned to the court on 10h February, 2022. According to the particular of offences of the said matter, both petty traders who admitted to owing the plaintiff that stipulated amounts as stated above but refused to show signs of remorse and willingness to pay the money which they respectively owed the plaintiff. The particular of offences states that the two petty traders, Sama Sesay and Isata Kamara had collected vegetables from the plaintiff since November last year amounting to the sum of Two Hundred and Seventy Thousand Leones-(Le 270,000) and Eight Hundred and Thirty Thousand Leones-(L...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Few days after the Wusum Stars Football Club Management announced the suspension of their team captain Abass Push Kanu for allegedly inciting players and production of team jerseys, I  interviewed the skipper to react to the club’s decision against him. According to the Secretary General of Wusum Stars Football Club, Mohamed Papa Bangura, who told Journalists that the club resolved to suspend Abass Push Kanu for three League matches and has also been banned from training with the club until his suspension elapsed in March incitements on the players as well as the production of jersey. Kanu says he’s surprised to hear about his suspension being announced on the radio by the club Secretary before receiving the official correspondence from the club. “I’m not really happy to be suspended from the club at a time when the team is struggling to move top of the league table. “What’s paints me most are the false acquisitions the club has leveled on me while I was only t...

By: Amadu Wurie Timbo Popular heavy machinery operator working with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) Madam Hawa Foday has bitterly expressed dismay on the Government of Sierra Leone following her eight years tireless-working period that reflects no salary. The highly focused woman started her working exercise as Machinery operator in 2014 with the ambition to actualize adequate food for the citizenry of Sierra Leone through her selfless efforts in operating heavy-duty machines for large scale farmers, farming in the northern part of Sierra Leone. In an exclusive interview with this medium, Madam Foday revealed that, her decision to join the trade is considered as a better way to complement government effort in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal two (SDG2), which is ‘Zero Hunger’ and either perceived as a better way to realize livelihood for herself and her dependent family. According to her, female gender must not be considered as disability in nation building in...

By: Amadu Wurie Timbo  The Acting Head Teacher at Royal Academy Primary School, Robine community in Makeni Municipality Abdul Dauda Kamara has desperately called on Government to provide school support to his community school. He made this statement after serving nearly half a decade without receiving school subsidies in a school that has been approved by the Sierra Leone Government through the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary School. According to him, the school was earlier established as a community school in 2018, with inspiring supports from Mr. Alhaji Unisa Kuyateh, the Proprietor who had been actively providing stipends to volunteer teachers with fair supply of both Teaching and Learning materials.  He noted that school was later approved in 2019, an event that manifested the end of support from the School Proprietor who believed that Government funding is fair enough for the day-to-day running of the school.  But unfortunately, all appeared as irony towards the process, wh...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson For the first time in the history of Sierra Leone’s Media, the elite vocation is set to get its maiden Journalism Welfare Fund launched for Journalists, the Sierra Leone Association of Journalist-(SLAJ) announced on Friday. According to the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists-(SLAJ), the launching of the Journalism Welfare Fund will take place at the Association’s multipurpose hall in Freetown on Monday, 14th February, 2022 as part of SLAJ’s Golden Jubilee Celebration. SLAJ President, Ahmed Sahid Nasralla says the time is now for members of the public to show some love to Journalists and by extension to the media family in Sierra Leone by contributing to the Journalism Welfare Fund which he confirmed has already been embraced by Mercury International among other key national development partners of the Sierra Leone Association of Sierra Leone. On the purpose of the Journalism Welfare Fund, the SLAJ President has since said: “the fund will be exclusively use...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Baller without Boarder Football Club surrendered 2-1 to Young Sayenor Football Club on Wednesday at the Liberty Stadium, Mabanta in Makeni Northern, Sierra Leone during the opening day of the Daniel Salifu Samaura’s Under-14 Football Tournament 3rd Edition. The following day, Lion Mountain Football Club of Mabanta Community edged Swamp Rangers Football Club 3-0 at the same venue in an all Mabanta Community derby with Lion Mountain’s forward Ibrahim Koroma bagging the star player of the match award on the day. The tournament which is contested by a total of eight-(8) teams selected from within and outside the Mabanta Community will be played between February 9th and 25th at the 1,000 capacity Liberty Stadium, the sole sporting complex at the Mabanta Community. According to the organizers of the Daniel Salifu Samura U-14 Tournament, the rationale behind the organization of the football showpiece for Under-14 Boys from 2019 is to let them showcase their soccer ski...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl  Since the early morning of yesterday, Commercial Moto Bike Riders in Makeni have been busy storming main streets in the municipality and its environs protesting over the death of one of their 30-year-old commercial bilk rider colleague who’s alleged to have been harassed and stabbed to death on Sunday night at Conteh Street in Makeni, Northern Sierra Leone.  Hundreds of Bike Riders first converged at Conteh Street where the remains of their late colleague alleged to have been attacked, stabbed and killed by unknown arm rubbers were left unattended.  Angrily, the Bike riders then took the remains of their colleague to his resident at the Magbenteh community, informed the deceased relatives while others have already stormed the center business area of the city as well as other areas around Conteh streets where they stopped movements of other road users in protest of their colleague’s tragedy.  About 15 minutes later, the protest caught the atten...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson "Big money spending team" Bombali Shebora Football Club of Bombali defeated rivals Kholifa Stars Football Club of Tonkolili on their home turf at the Magburaka mini-stadium 1-0 on Sunday evening to continue their unbeaten run. Ace skipper and midfielder Ahmed Didat Kalokoh silence the host crowed as he netted to put his side ahead before the quarter hour mark and the visitors from Bombali kept their press for more goals mounting in the match which most sports pundits have from the time described as an inter-district derby but they faced some stiff resistance from the host defense. Kalokoh’s goal turned out as the match decider after they repeatedly frustrated all scoring efforts from their Kholifa Stars opponents mounting the ace Bombali Shebora Football Club’s goal tally to three out of seven appearances in the ongoing Northern Region Men’s Super-10 maiden edition while his team remain at the top of the championship’s log with 19 points collected fro...