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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  To officially kickoff preparations for the upcoming West Africa Football Union-(WAFU) Zone-“A” U-15 tournament next month in Liberia, the Sierra Leone Football Association-(SLFA) has announced two SWASAL members Tejan Fredickson Fatorma and Mohamed Gassama, 7 others as caretaker technicial officials of the nation’s male U-15 team.  Their appointment was done by the SLFA Executive Committee on Thursday, 24th June, 2022 and all of the nine appointees have duly assumed their respective duties on the same date. SLFA also confirmed that a national U-15 trials for selected U-15 players from all five administrative football regions in the country had also been initiated at the Local Federation’s Headquarters at Kingtom in Freetown last Friday.  Full list of appointees:   Alimu Koroma(Head Coach), Musa Jalloh(Assistant Coach-I), Abdul Kandeh Lavali(Assistant Coach), Sheku Lahai Koroma(Goalkeeping Coach), Ibrahim S. Kamara (Masseur), Mary Thompson(Te...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  The Makeni municipality and its environs has been hard hit again by heavy rainfall and storm resulting to a number of houses and properties being destroyed to flooding which erupted on the early morning hours of Tuesday, June 28, 2022. It is the third time since April that the northeastern region city and its environs is been badly hit by the dangers of heavy rainfall and storm, the last two occurred in the first week of April and on the eve of this year’s pray day with over hundreds casualties including roofs of schools, dwelling house and shops been flown away by the breeze been reported earlier. The latest heavy rainfall and storm caused countless loss and destruction of valuable properties and houses on strategic locations near the central business area of Makeni, swampy areas and its environs. Kabala highway, Lower John Street, Station road, Mabanta road, Magburaka road, Rogbaneh road, Masuba, Talent town, Makama, Mabanta and the OIC community make up...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Alhaji Mohamed Bangura and Fullah Sesay, two of the newly FIFA certified Physical and Technical Local Referees Instructors in Sierra Leone from the North East Region Football Referees Association-(NERFA) have affirmed their readiness to "give football referring a facelift in their region and beyond.” The former Referees, upon their return from Freetown where they along with 28 other physical and technical local referees instructors selected from across the country have successfully completed a five-day intriguing course on several topics including: “Technical fouls, Challenges, Offside, Hand-Ball, Penalty area incidents, Positioning and reading of the game as well as Game Management.” They told that AWE-MEDIA.SL that: “We’re  now fell more professional in their areas haven acquired a lot of new knowledge relating to their duties as local instructors.” Further described the training which is organized by FIFA for CAF Member Association Referees and Ins...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Information Officer of the Makeni Police Division PC 13608 Osman Kamara has confirmed the arrest of four suspects and two motor bikes during yesterday’s Fuel Hike Protest in Makeni city, Northeastern, Sierra Leone. The four suspects currently in police nest were arrested by the Makeni Police patrol team which raided various streets namely:  Lunsar Road, Watson Street, Care Junction, Azzolini highway within and around the northeastern city’s Municipality, alleged to be among other fuel protesters including Bike Riders who used sticks and stones to barricade main roads while protesting over the week long scarcity of fuel and the unprecedented hike of the commodity price by black marketers from the routine cost of Le 20,000 to Le 40,000 and more per a liter. Meanwhile, all the four suspected protesters that were arrested in the early morning hours of Monday, 27th June, 2022 have been transferred to the North East Regional Criminal Investigations Departme...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  After three days of competitive search for the six available spots in the round of six, among twelve-(12) teams in the first-ever U-15 Football tournament organized by the Bombali District Football Association-(BDFA), Kim FC,  BWB Foundation, Mena Stars, Rogbaneh Strikers, Young  Moon Light FC and Sierra Avengers Football Club have all progressed to the tournament’s preliminarily final round. The said teams respectively qualified after beating their respective opponents: Iron Mental FC(3-1), Fothal FC(7-0),  AZ Foundation(6-5), Santino FC(3-2), Sektars Academy(4-3) and Korombo Football Club(2-0) in their the preliminary knockout matches played at the Wusum Stadium in Makeni from Friday, 24th to Sunday, 26th June, 2022. According to the Bombali District Football Association-(BDFA) competition department, “all six teams that are through to the preliminary final round of six will be eventually placed into two groups consisting of three teams ea...

By: AbdulRahman Barrie The Sierra Leone Taekwondo Association (SLTA) has elected Mr. Oneness Johnson as President for another term (third term) at the Henry Moore Auditorium, OLYMP AFRICA CENTRE, GODERICH.  But  Mr. Alfred Karefa Smart said:  “It is a sad day today in the history of sports in Sierra Leone and Taekwondo to be specific as we saw delegates been manufactured to vote whereas legitimate, registered and paid up members were denied to vote.  “The elections were manipulated and fabricated by the Electoral Commissioner to have Mr. Oness occupy the office of President for another term having served for over a decade,” the   certified Taekwondo coach/trainer, a black belt holder stated. Adding there: “there where even some registered and paid up member who among many other registered and paid up members that were denied the right to vote.”

By: Abdul Aziz Samura  Hopeful National Secretary-General aspirant of the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party, Lansana Dumbuya Esq, has wrapped up his provincial tour after visiting  bye-election places and urged his party’s stakeholders, grassroots, and sympathizers to stand firm, united and reserve their energy to make gains in the upcoming general elections. He commended his visit from Sunday, 19 th  Friday to 24 th  June 2022, in Bo, Kenema, Port Loko, Bombali, Tonkolili, and Karene districts. What is noticeable to all his outreach tours around the country is the over-enthusiasm of senior party supporters who are undoubtedly convinced that Lawyer Lansana Dumbuya is the National Secretary-General in waiting. As former Youth Minister and Ambassador to the Iran Republic, Almammy Kamara puts it “he is the right man for that seat, and it is now an establish phenomenon that his popularity is systematic”.    In his statement, Lawyer Lansana Dumbu...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  At the Kambia Sports Complex, the North West Region Football Association-(NWRFA), last Sunday made history as the first-ever region nationwide to decorate its team of the season. The new administrative football region uniquely dressed all eleven players from eight of the ten football clubs that took part in the just concluded Men’s Super-10 Football Champion in customized white and blue jerseys with green stockings. The historic event was done in the watchful eyes of Thomas Daddy Brima, President of the Sierra Leone Football Association and a barrage of other sports administrators few minutes after the last game of the season in the region, in which the reigning Men’s Super-10 champions Great Scarcies United Football Club defeated 5th place finishers Marampa Stars Football Club 1-0. Players who made the cut to the NWRFA Men’s Super-10 Best-XI and eventually being dressed are: Goalkeeper Ibrahim Sesay(Great Scarcies United FC), Defenders: Mohamed Bai Kamara...

​ By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  The anticipated preliminary for the proposed Bombali District Football Association-(BDFA) U-15 Men’s Championship begins on Friday, 24th June, 2020 with all matches scheduled to take place at the Wusum Stadium. The matches are already lined up to be played on the opening day in  a knockout format. On match day one, Kin Football Club, BWB Academy and AZ-Foundation football Club will respectively battle Iron Metal Football Club, Fothal and Mena Stars Football Club at 8:00am, 10:30am and 4:30pm local time at the same venue while Rogbaneh Strikers, Sektars United and Sierra Avengers will respectively battle their Santino Football Club, Young Moon Light and Korombo Football Club opponents at 8:30am, 10:30am and 10:30am in match day 2 and 3 during the weekend days of Saturday and Sunday. According to the Bombali District Football Association, the six winners from the preliminary matches will progress to the district’s round of six where new fixtures will ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  The Leone Stars of Sierra Leone, the nation’s senior men’s team have dropped five places downwards from 108th to 113th place in the World, and now ranked as the 25th Best team in Africa, according to the FIFA/Coca Cola latest Men’s National Teams Ranking. As of last March, John Edward Keister’s side slipped one place downwards from 107th to 108th with a total points of 1173.89 but have scored 5.68 points less to drop five place downwards and currently occupy 113th place globally with a total point of 1168.21. The ranking did not come as a surprise as many sports pundits had since predicted a drop for the side guided by the former East End Lions and FC Johansen technician following the nation’s 2-1 defeat to Nigeria and its 2-2 draw against Guinea Bissau in their Group-A qualifier matches for the 2023-TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations to be hosted in Ivory Coast. Meanwhile, Brazil still remains the number one-(1st) Men’s National team in the world followe...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl On Saturday, June 18, 2022, Alhaji Manika Kamara, the newly elected Secretary General of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists–(SLAJ) told pressmen during an interview in Makeni that his election triumph is “a win for SLAJ.” “My election triumph is the making of God and the general membership of SLAJ, I mean all those who voted for me and my colleague aspirant, so it’s a win for SLAJ as a whole, '' he noted with excitement. “I’m indeed happy that I emerged victorious over my senior colleague Mr. Asmiru Bah, who to me is not considered an opponent but a brother and I look forward to working with him hands in glove as and when necessary in the dispense of my duties while tapping on my two years and one year past experience respectively as Assistant and Acting Secretary General of SLAJ to position our secretariat the best way nationally and internationally.” He went on to thank delegates for their unprecedented show of love and suppo...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Despite votes being counted, the winner of the Nieni Chiefdom in Koinadugu District long awaited Paramount Chieftaincy Election is yet to be declared by  the election’s returning officer Simenon Fatoma, who doubles as the Provincial Secretary of the Northeast Region. This follows sudden misbehaviors of some supporters of the three other candidates that secured the list number of votes took to pelting stones on the roof of the Yifin town court barray where the elections took place. The pelting of stone was so intense that the Sierra Leone Police in the Northeast region intervened by firing tear gases as a remedy to halt the standoff which they eventually succeeded on, and thus paved the way for the continuation of the counting of the individual votes being casted in favor of each of the four candidates. Out of the total number of five hundred and six – (506) votes casted by Tribal Authorities from all nine sections in the Nieni Chiefdom, the four candidates ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  As part of its annual engagement plan, the ROFUTHA Development Organization has successfully wrapped up a day’s dialogue with Personnel of the Sierra Leone Police in the Northeast  Region attached to the Family Support Unit and other Heads of Departments on the topic: HIV and AIDS, Human Rights and Law. The day-long session which is desired to examine successes and challenges on the fight against, domestic violence, gender issues and other sexual offences related offenses was facilitated by Mrs. William Bah, Mr. Amara Lebbie, Mr. Idriss Songo and Mr. Isaac Ahemesah. All four facilitators ensured healthy dialogues during their respective presentations at the semi-annual partners meeting, told the participants that the meeting is not only held to discuss their work related success and challenges but to also strengthen collaboration between ROFUTHA and its partners, and at the end be able to map out a joint guide that will be useful for improving their c...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Tribal Authorities of Kolor Saradu Chiefdom last Sunday overwhelmingly voted Musa Koroma as their Chiefdom Paramount Chief. Koroma was voted over ten others candidates that were cleared fit to race for one of the thirteenth Chiefdoms in  Falaba District Paramount Chieftaincy seat. He was however, given a good run by the other ten candidates whose votes earned in the first round of voting delayed Koroma victory as his 129 votes secured only set him off for a run off with Alhaji Borbor Mansaray the second highest candidate who pulled a total of 85 votes while the nine other candidates whose votes were below 85 bowed out of the race. In run off, Musa Koroma pulled a whooping 274 out of a total number of 524 votes cast to best his opponent Alhaji Borbor Mansaray by a 51-vote margin while a record 27 votes were recorded as void votes. Without delay after the counting, Musa Koroma was declared winner of the elections by the election's returning officer Sime...

​ By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Last Thursday,  at the SLBC hall in Makeni, a cross section of members of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists-(SLAJ) Disciplinary Committee successfully engaged various District Media Monitors, assessed their monitoring work and mapped out plans for robust monitoring and reporting onwards. Madam Claudia Anthony, the Discipline Committee Chairperson chaired the meeting, in her opening remark she briefed the Monitors that the meeting is aimed at letting both the disciplinary committee members and monitors across various districts in the Northern region to interface, share their monitoring and reporting  experiences, evaluate success and challenges evident during the courses of monitoring and reporting on threats against Journalists and their work. She adds that, the meeting is part of the DC's nationwide engagements which she disclosed will climate next week in Freetown. And beseeched the Media Monitors to feel free and share their experi...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  While delivering a speech  at SLAJ's 2022 Triennial General Meeting, Juan Antonio Frutos, the  Deputy Head of Delegation and Head of Political Press and Information Section of the European Union Mission in Sierra Leone said, "EU is willing and ready to support SLAJ to protect press freedom." He stressed that Press Freedom is a right not just for media practitioners but for members of the public as well, recalled that the European Union has previously partnered with SLAJ and the Independent Media Commission-(IMC) to hosts events geared towards the promotion of press freedom including the recent "Press Freedom Walk" which he described as a huge success in terms of enhancing press freedom in Sierra Leone. Commenting on the Triennial theme: "Towards an economically viable and independent media" Mr. Frutos commend SLAJ for resolving to make advances to making the Media in Sierra Leone economically viable and independent, an approac...

By : Alusine Rehme Wilson  . At this year’s Sierra Leone of Journalists-(SLAJ) Black Tie Dinner hosted at the University of Makeni Auditorium on Friday night, Awoko Newspaper was named “Best Newspaper of the year 2021” during the presentation of Awards and certifications of journalists and institutions whose work stood out above all others. On behalf of the management and staff, News Editor of Awoko Newspaper Alhaji Manika Kamara received the Award on the night amidst rousing applauds from the crowd. In another development, three other staff of Awoko Newspaper namely Saffa Moriba, Abdul Rahman Koroma and Zainab Iyamide Joaque were also honored by SLAJ on the night. Respectively, Saffa Moriba was certified for his dedication to his services and SLAJ while Abdul Rahman Koroma scooped two awards for his outstanding reports on Corruption and Gender issues while Zainab Iyamide Joaque scooped home one of the prestigious gongs from the SLAJ 2021 Media Excellence Awards for her top level r...

​ By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  The Leone Stars of Sierra Leone Team B are set to play three friendly matches as part of their ongoing preparations for their CHAN outing opener next month against Cape Verde. The team which entered training camp in Freetown on Monday, 12th June, 2022 with a provincial squad of 50 players have trimmed the number to 30 as of Tuesday, 21st June, 2022, Head Coach Francis Zappa Koroma has confirmed. However, Ibrahim Kanu, the media officer attached to the team said: “Coach Zappa’s men will respectively face Luawa FC and Western Area FCs combined today and tomorrow before departing for Lungi to face Kafu Bullom All Stars on Saturday, 25th June, 2022.”

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Sierra Leonean female folk singer, activist, poet and performer Fantacee Wiz has shaved off her 15 years old dredged in solidarity with his fellow musician Alhaji Lamrama Jalloh alias LAJ who is standing trials on four count Charges. Fantacee’s decision to go bald headed follows public outcry over the forcefully barbing of LAJ by officers of the Sierra Leone Police attached at the Benghazi detention center in Freetown which many entertainers and others including Fantacee Wiz believed was a gross violation of the famous male Rapper’s right by the police while in their custody. Prior to the cutting off of her 15 years old and 5fts plus long dredged, the rising female multifaceted performer and actor posted photographs of herself and LAJ with some emotional message on her official Facebook handle saying: “it is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds is is beyond ch...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Forward Alhassan Baldeh who turns out for the reigning champions of the first-ever Northwest Region Football Association-(NWRFA) organized Men’s Super-10 Great Scarcies United Football Club impressively scooped the championship’s maiden golden boot Award. The 19-year-old striker came from behind other strikers to impressively score 10 times for his club to finish top of the goal kings list as the tournament first ever Gold Boots Award winner. Baldeh also made history as the only player to have fired home at least a goal against every opponent of the NWRFA Championship, helping his team to not only win the championship with a record 36 points to automatically qualify for the upcoming National Premier League Playoff next month, the promising forward was also involved in most goals scored in his side’s 11 winning recorded. Speaking about what the Award means to him, Baldeh said: “This Golden Boot Award is a motivation to my career as a player wanting to conti...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson   Victor Massaquoi, the Chairman of the Independent Media Commission-(IMC) while delivering a speech at the 2022 SLAJ Triennial General Meeting held in Makeni disclosed that: “Only 40% of the over 500 registered Media Institutions with the commission are fully paid up.” He urges journalists to read the IMC Act of 2021 and called on media owners to wait not for the commission to meet them soon before they comply with their yearly payment of licenses saying that: “We will be very proactive towards our next approaches to let every media owner comply fully with every obligation as enacted in the revised IMC Act. Furthering that, the commission is also worried about the act of some media owners teaming up with their Reporters and other employees to sign flamboyant payments vouchers in order to impress the commission while on their routine checks on the compliance level of media owners on the payments of employees salaries being at least above the minimum wage of...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl  Ahmed Sahid Nasralla, the incumbent President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists-(SLAJ) has confirmed receipt of the sum of One Billion Leones-(Le 1,000,000,000) from the Ministry of Finance as payment of Government subvention for two years-(2021 and 2022). President Nasralla made the disclosure yesterday while delivering a speech at SLAJ's 2022-Triennial General Meeting opening ceremony which was hosted at the University of Makeni Auditorium Hall in Makeni city, Bombali District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. "I can now confirmed that SLAJ have received the sum of One Billion Leones - (Le 1,000,000,000) from the Government of Sierra Leone through the Ministry of Finance as payment of Government's subvention to SLAJ for two years, last year and this year although the Ministry of Information and Communication had hurriedly  announced the payment even before we acknowledged receipt, we're however thankful ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  A total of three hundred players from twelve Under-15 football teams in Bombali District, Northeastern Sierra Leone have successfully undergone their arbitration for the proposed district U-15 tournament. The said teams are: AZ Foundation, Mena Stars, Rogbaneh Strikers, Sektars Academy, Sierra Avengers, Kin, Young Moon Light, Korombo, Fothal, BWB Academy, Iron Mental and Santino Football Club. The Bombali District Football Association-(BDFA) competition department says: “Now that the arbitration exercise is over, these teams are going to be drawn in a group of six for the preliminaries round of qualifiers in the district that will start on Friday 24th June, 2022.”

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  On Thursday 16th June 2022, a total of 604 Tribal Authorities from various sections of Morifindugu chiefdom in the Falaba District, Northeastern Sierra Leone voted Marah Mohamed Saio as their Chiefdom’s new Paramount Chiefdom. To become the new Paramount Chief of Morifindugu chiefdom Mr. Saio defeated Mr. Marah Fullah Lahai in a runoff having scored a record 408 votes as opposed to his opponent who pulled 190 votes following the first voting were the two candidates scored respectively scored 264 and 170 votes beating Marah Amara Alimamy(85), Marah Bockarie Sorie(16) and Marah Damba Bockarie(13). Meanwhile, only 6 void votes were been announced in the runoff, and the Election’s Returning Officer who doubles as the Provincial Secretary of the North East Region Mr. Simenon Fatoma duly announced Mr. Marah Mohamed Saio as the new Paramount Chief of Morifindugu chiefdom. Generally, the whole electioneering process was relatively peaceful.

By: alusienerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl Kambia District based outfit Great Scarcies United Football Club made history last Sunday on their home turf as they defeated Marampa Stars 1-0 in their last match of the season becoming the first ever champions of the maiden NWRFA men’s super-10 championship. Before Sunday’s clash the Kambia town based male football powerhouse club had confirmed their top spot finish in the first ever North West Region Football Association - (NWRFA) organized Men’s Super-10 Championship haven secured 33 points from 16 of the 17 overall league matches. At the Kambia District Sports Complex, GS-United grabbed all three points from 5th place finishers Marampa Stars to climax the season on the League’s top slot with 36points collected from 17 games played, haven won 11, drew thrice and bowing three times scoring a record 33 goals the highest number of goals scored in the entire championship. Thomas Daddy Brima, the President of the Sierra Leone Football Associati...

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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Sierra Queens, the National Senior Women’s Team of Sierra Leone is still ranked as the 136th Best Women’s team in the World according to the latest FIFA ranking of the National Women’s Teams published on 17th June, 2022. However, sports pundits believed the latest FIFA/Coca Cola ranking of the National Women’s team further points to the level at which Women’s football is in Sierra Leone With no evident organization of Women’s League and championship nationwide in the West African Football loving Nation of Sierra Leone the country’s women’s team still languishes as the 22 Best Women’s team in Africa while the Super Falcons of Nigeria sits top as the continent’s best women’s team and the 39th Best Team globally.

By : Alusine Rehme Wilson  Following his successful student union election victory in March, Abass Mohamed Kamara, the newly elected Students Union President of the Institute of Business Administration and Technology-(IBATECH SL) Kambia satellite campus and his appointees have been successfully inaugurated. Like the election, the historic inauguration of the IBATECH SL Kambia Campus Students union body took place at the campus premises under the distinguished watch of Staff and other key stakeholders in Kambia District. It is however, the first ever to be held since the satellite campus was set up in the northern district. Initially, the election was contested by Abass Mohamed Kamara of the Classics Camp and John Kamara of the Progressive Camp but it was Mohamed Abass Kamara that emerged winner having scored 38 votes, 12 more than his opponent to become the first ever Students Union Government President of IBATECH SL in Kambia. In an interview with Awoko Newspaper, the newly electe...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  On a rainy Monday evening at the General Lansana Conte Stadium in Ngoh, Guinea, the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone managed to salvage a point against Guinea Bissaue in thier AFCON 2023 qualifier Group-A tie. Host Sierra Leone started  the match on high with skipper Steven Caulker's  10 minutes header flying over the "Djurtus" cross bar letting the visitors stepped up, further resist all pressure as both sides settled for a goalless first half. Three minutes on in the second half, the visitors shocked the resilient host as thier skipper and forward Jorginho dribbled pass the Leone Stars defense and netted the curtain raiser. 15 minutes later,Jorginho completed his brace on the day after making use of a Kelvin Wright blunder but second half substitute Augustus Kargbo and his team Musa Noah "Tombo" Kamara regained Sierra Leone's prestige as they respectively scored in the 78th and 88th minute to finish 2-2, securing thier first point from...

By : Alusine Rehme Wilson While in the Guinean Republic for his first-ever experience to cheer up Leone Stars live, popular comedian signed to Diamond Line Entertainment Osman Bangura alias Sana Gbin-Gbin told Awoko Newspaper that his loyalty belongs to Leone Stars and he’s elated to have joined the rest of the Sierra Leone delegation to watch and support the team live. Adds that, deep inside his heart is Leone Stars. It’s the only team I support worldwide.” Sana further explains that his decision to journey along to Guinea to witness Sierra Leone’s AFCON match against Guinea-Bissau on Monday, 13th June, 2022 is inspired by his ambition to end his long time routine of supporting and watching Leone Stars from his residence through his short skirts and on the television screen. “I want to watch and support the Leone Stars, the only team I support worldwide live. Speaking about the prospect of his one of his players in the Sierra Leone team, the self-acclaimed second coach of Bo Rangers a...

​ By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  On Wednesday, June 8, Advocacy for Mental Health and Rehabilitation Sierra Leone-(AMHRe-SL), a newly established non-governmental organization successfully organized an inaugural training for its Staff to better orientate them on the organization’s ambition and to jointly draft an activity plan moving forward. The day’s training took place at the premises of the Future View Multimedia Center on Azzolini Highway in Makeni city, Northern, Sierra Leone and was rolled out in two separate sessions, facilitated by two mental health experts; Mr. Gift Abubakarr Deen Kamara and Mr. Desmond Tholley. A total number of eight AMHRe-SL staff including Margret Deen Kamara-(Client’s Manager) and Daniel Anthony Kamara-(Research officer) benefited from the inaugural training which also serves as an orientation meeting. Mohamed Simbo Kamara, the Founder and Country Director of Advocacy for Mental Health and Rehabilitation Sierra Leone says he’s pleased by "the high level ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Yesterday, the 2023-AFCON qualifier match-day-1 host the Super Eagles of Nigeria flew higher on their Mohamed K.O Abiola home turf in Abuja as they came from behind to beat John Edward Keister’s men 2-1 in their Group-A opener. Eleven-(11) minutes on in the crunch Group-A tie, it was the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone that waved their tri-national colors of green, white and blue flags way higher at in front of a frustrated Super Eagles home crowd after Sierra Leone’s talismanic winger Jonathan Mosaray scored to put his team ahead in the match but that lead was short-lived as the hosts restored parity five minutes later courtesy of Alex Iwobi. 17 minutes on in the much talked about tie, it was all leveled between the West African football rivals  and both nations worked their guts out in search of the vital days win but the host doubled their lead just four minutes left to the end of the first half as Victor Osimhen slide through the visitors defense and comfor...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  With barely six more games left for each of the nine participating teams to complete the ongoing North East Region Football Association’s maiden Men’s Super-10 championship, the time was ripe to determine whether current league leaders Bombali Shebora FC’s unbeaten. But the Makeni based high flying side has failed to beat their Ocean Boys FC’s counterparts twice this season to win the much trumpeted first ever NERFA Men’s Super-10 Championship, after bowing 1-0 last Sunday at the Wusum Stadium in Makeni. The defeat was after Shebora’s 1-1 draw with Yoni Shooting Stars who currently sits second behind them and the win was the first for “the Blue and White Boys” who had successively lost 3-1 to Dogoloya and Makelleh Football Clubs their clash with current league leaders saw them seek revenge of their 1-0 defeat they had suffered in the first round of the tournament. Forward Santigie Kamara netted the vital goal which turned out to be the sole in the encounte...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Madam Patricia Umu Dankay Brown, the founder and owner of Kambia District based female football outfit, Patricia Umu Strikers Football Club of Kambia has historically secured a training pitch for her North-West Female soccer powerhouse, becoming the second team after Katara Ladies Football Club of Rokupr to own a training arena in the entire district. The newly unveiled pitch is situated at Olivani Street in Kambia Town, Kambia District in the Northwestern region of Sierra Leone just a few meters near the Kolenten Senior Secondary School premises. Players and officials of the club as well as officials of of the local Football Federation(KDFA) and residents of the area have welcomed the development which they believed will help to keep female football alive in the district. Morlai Gbla, spokesman for the Kambia District Football Association-(KDFA) says the pitch size of of standard quality. “It’s equal in size to the sizes of national and international pitc...

By: Sulaiman Stom Koroma ​ The thirst for overseas travel is gaining interest from youths in Sierra Leone, Africa, and other parts of the world.  For some, it’s a real struggle, a struggle that will see them go through the huddles and difficulties of Africa crossing points to their final destination of hope, for others, it’s a new way of making money, spending less to travel to an Africa country and seek repatriation home and make more money, while for others, they are duped and literally sold to work in other counties as slaves. Ibrahim Yayah Kamara has attempted to travel abroad two consecutive times, and even with those failed attempts, he is still considering a third. “I still want to travel no matter what, this is my ambition to fulfill. My mother and other relatives are looking up to me as the current breadwinner, it is not possible to achieve what I want in Sierra Leone, overseas is where the possibility lies, and I must go there” he said.  Ibrahim Kamara was introduced...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Sierra Leone Men’s Top-flight Record-Breaker Musa Noah “Tombo” Kamara and 10 other players from the season’s top four clubs have been named in the team of the season. The Bo Rangers and Leone Stars Forward who netted 18 goals to defend his Golden Boot Award, becoming the first ever to achieve such record and now remains the overall highest goal scorer in the Sierra Leone Top-tier was unveiled on Saturday, 4th June, 2022 by the 2021-2022 Sierra Leone Premier League Board. Bo Rangers Coach Jose Solomon Cortes and four other players that involved in their historic and maiden Champion Win for the club namely: Saidu “Malian” Mansaray(Defender), Esheik Kamara(Defender), Saidu Bah and Mohamed Fogbawa both Midfielders together with Wusum Stars debut defender Ishmail Kanu, Alimamy Buya Kamara, East End Lions Skipper Kemson Fofanah, Prince Barrie as well as Mighty Blackpool’s goalman and forward Saidu Kamara and Donald Wellington all formed the season’s best XI. Thi...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson   On Saturday, June 3, the United Kingdom Commissioner to Sierra Leone Lisa Chesney visited the former President Ernest Bai Koroma at his Makeni resident. At Koroma’s Robureh premises, he dialogued with the UK High Commissioner on a range of national and international issues including emerging political issues. For the Former President, he says he’s pleased that, the British High Commissioner stopped by whilst she is in his hometown-(Makeni). He sized the opportunity and extended his “warmest congratulations to the Queen on her Platinum Jubilee on the throne, her 70 years of service to the UK and the Commonwealth. And described the dialogue as “fantastic” via a statement he posted on his official Twitter account with 51.7K audience.  Commissioner Lisa on the other hand, Retweeted the former statesman’s twit with an appreciation note saying, “Thank you Ernest Bai Koroma for a productive and wide-ranging discussion. We covered a lot of ground, including ...