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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Impressively, Rising Queens Football Club of Makeni pummeled their Konsho Queens Football Club counterparts 2-0 in the grand final of the Starburst Park Equal Opportunity Championship 5th edition to clinch their 3rd title. On the road to lifting their 3rd Starburst Park Equal Opportunity trophy, Rising Queens shared the spoils in a goalless tournament opener, proceeded and dismantled tournament debutants and returnees Area Queens and Malimba Queens 6-0 and 4-0 respectively. The successive victories helped them to book a date with Konsho Queens who they eventually defeated for the second time in the same stage of the monthly female tournament’s grand finals. However, a total of 24 goals were scored by 12 players from the four participating clubs in all eight championship games played. Rising Queens forward Zainab Jalloh clinched the championship’s golden boot award for the second time in a row after netting five goals in four games. Championship runner-up K...

By:  Alusine Rehme Wilson  After last Friday’s Jumah Prayer Muslim worshippers of Masjid Sobereen on OIC Road in Makeni welcomed a new convert from Christianity to Islam. While Introducing the new convert to the Jamaat(worshippers) Sheik Gibril Conteh, the Chief Imam of Masjid Sobereen narrates that the new convert is legally weeded to a Christian man who has backed her wife’s decision to join Islam after she briefed him about how she has been repeatedly  directed in dreams to switch religion. As our Masjid’s name implies “Mosque of Patience” we are happy today to welcome Mrs. Mariama Koroma to the religion of peace as demanded for in the Holy Quraan we are now duty bound to happily recite Quranic songs by way of welcoming her to the religion. Adds that, the Holy book further directs “for Muslims to donate to the new convert as she recites the Khalimatu Shaada to complete her official switch from Christianity to Islam.” After receiving a warm welcome, Mrs. Koroma recited ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Effective Friday, 29th July, 2022 the pump price of all petroleum products in Sierra Leone now stands at 19 Leones per liter, according to a latest joint adjustment of the commodity  price by the Petroleum Regulatory Authority-(PRA) and partners. PRA and partners which includes the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, and the Oil Marketing Companies met and resolved to announce a second price decrease within 11 days after it earlier reduced the same products prices from Le 22 to 20 Leones on July 18, this year. However, the main factor the reduction of the fuel pump prices nationwide according to PRA reflects on the movement in international refined petroleum product prices for petrol and diesel.

By: David Lebbie in Bo The President of Golf Association in Sierra Leone Ibrahim Tito Sankoh has in an mobile phone interview disclosed to the Radio New Song 97.7Fm in Bo that he together with his Executive members want to take Golf to communities in Sierra Leone.  He however said the non availability of facilities is hindering the decentralization of the sport in Sierra Leone. He made the statement when highlighting his Golfers preparation for international encounters in September  this year. "We have the first tournament in Tanzanian for Females in September, African Championship in Egypt for Professionals and the Amateurs and finally we have received another invitation from Congo Kinshasa which is an open tournament all in September" Mr Sankoh informed. Ibrahim Tito Sankoh said his association has written a letter to the National Olympics Committee, National Sports Authority and the Ministry of Sports for supports and are expecting good response as usual in other to partic...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Godrich Football Club and Leone Stars forward Alie Conteh who netted a brace for the Sierra Leone Senior Men’s Home-based team against Cape Verde on Sunday at the Grande Stade Marrakech in Morocco says he “still has more to offer his country.” The promising forward was speaking in a post match interview in Morocco with smile beaming all over his face he noted that he’s happy to have scored all two goals against Cape Verde for the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone Home-based team in the CHAN qualifiers. Adding that his Sunday evening performance is just a tip of an iceberg as his ambition remains high to continue scoring more goals that will further elevate Sierra Leone in the international soccer stage. “I hope this win in our first leg of the CHAN qualifiers will help my country going into our next game on Wednesday as we hope to qualify for the very first time in the completion’s history,” Conteh further remarked. Conteh earned his brace after scoring in the 1...

By: Amadu Wurie Timbo Hon.  Dr.  Austin  Demby  the Minister of Health and Sanitation actively   quarterbacked  the ground-breaking event, the commissioning  of  the  well-constructed  and equipped State-of-the-art Laboratory that gears towards ending the high infant and child mort ality rate  and other emergencies across  Sierra Leone. This was done  all  together with Her Worship  Sunkarie   Kabba Kamara  of the Makeni City Council, Paramount Chief  Bai   Shebora   Kasangha   II  of  Bombali   Shebora  Chiefdom, H.E. David Reimer - US Ambassador in Sierra Leone ,  Dr. Ikechukwu   Ogbuanu , Director of  Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance  (CHAMPS)   and a long list of others who happily  met   at  the historic event hosted  on Wednesday 21 st   July  2022,  at the premises of the new lab...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson For the first-time since it commenced full fledged operations as a football academy in Makeni City, Born and Raised Academy has unveiled its U-12 and and U-14 youth teams. Both teams were unveiled at the premises of the academy located near the EBKUST-Makeni University College Practicing Field along the Makeni-Magburaka highway last Saturday. During the unveiling, each of the sixteen newly recruited players of the two youth categories were gifted with customized squad kits for the 2022-2023 football season. All thirty-two players, sixteen each for the two youth categories were rationally selected from a pool of other young lads who took part in a month trials with the academy. While unveiling the squads Academy Lead Lovel Fornah congratulated the players for making it through to the final squad, welcome them to the academy says “supplying  squad kits to players of the academy is part of their routine gesture as an organization that primes players’ welfare a...

​ By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Following their latest away defeat to their Maisaika counterparts last Thursday, the Northern Region Female Handball team is set for revenge later today at home in their return leg meeting scheduled to kick-off at 4:30pm local time at the Wusum Stadium. It was the Maisaika Female Handball team that carried the day in the last meeting between the two teams but for the return leg match, Isata Koroma, the Head Coach of the Northern Region Female Hand Ball team has called on the people of Makeni to put the team’s latest defeat behind their back and support them today. Saying her side is “still developing, assured the girls are prepared to triumph at home knowing that they will be playing in front of their home crowd that includes their relatives and loved ones.”

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson   The newly established Northern Region Female Handball team based in Makeni is set to face their Masiaka counterparts in Masiaka town today. Today’s match is the first  of two friendly meetings schedule for Thursday, 21st July, 2022 and Sunday, 24th July, 2022 respectively. According to the organizers, the Masiaka Female Handball Team face their Northern region counterparts three days later when they shall travel to the Northeastern region city of Makeni for the return-leg. President of the Northern Region Female Handball team Michaella Zainab Komeh says, the friendly is organized for the purpose of introducing the sports in the region as well as to test the players and evaluate their performances to see how far they have improved from the training skills they've so far received from their coaches. Handball is among the 49 registered sporting disciplines in Sierra Leone.  It is a team sport played by two teams featuring seven players each who pas...

By: Amadu Wurie Timbo Leading Grassroots Soccer group Born & Raise Academy has on Saturday 16th July 2022 provided new kits to newly selected under-12 and under-14 soccer boys. In a special event organized at the Academy’s complex located at the vicinity of practicing   playing grown, along Makeni-Magburaka Highway in Makeni, about 32 players who were selected following a remarkable one month trials converged and incredibly benefited from the historic day’s event. The golden kits package holds sets of Nike-made jersey, track suits, Footballs and few others. While distributing kits designed for the full picture of trainings, boys grown into cloud-nine believing that, they are in a new stage of footballing where they could improve their soccer skills and as well as achieving their living dreams in the world most cherished sport. Speaking to Northern Times Newspaper, Lovel Fornah the Academy Lead at the Born & Raise Academy stated that, providing soccer kits to players for bot...

Amadu Wurie Timbo Top Civil Society Organization Heal Sierra Leone has on Tuesday 28 th  June 2022 negotiated  unity  with People of Makeni  on the  terrifying  Tribal  division  that is said to have been slowly taught and practiced by  some  Traitor s  of the Land in regions across the Nation . The event was hosted at the  Auditorium  of the  Ernest  Bai Koroma University   located at  Azzolini  Highway in Makeni with Students, Lecturers and some others   who converged and participated in  the day’s event. Joseph  Abass   Sannoh  is the Executive Director at Heal Sie rra Leone who in his presentation vividly informed attendees on the current tribal speech  that has the potentials of instigating the nation to a new conflict that would be far worst  to  the gone 11 years Senseless Rebel war. He added that, Sierra Leoneans should deviate from any  form of ...

By: Amadu Wurie Timbo After operating for some several years in dwelling, the Office of National  Security (ONS- North) has finally officially opened its new office space on Wednesday 13th July 2022. The new office complex is sited at the heart of the city, 64 Rogbaneh road, along Makeni-Kabela Highway in Makeni, North Eastern Sierra Leone. Prior to the official inauguration, a brief meeting was held at the  conference room of the new office were authorities in the Region met and conversed.    Unveiling that plaque at the new office complex, Mr. Simenon Fatoma,  the Norther-East Region Provincial Secretary was afforded the honor  as the Chairperson of a conference that brought together security  institutions existing under the canopy of the state.  Welcoming guests and delivering the introductory remarks, Mr. Fatoma told attendees that the new office complex, he said, was a step in the right direction considering the vital activities needed to be ...

​ ​ By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Piles of neglected wastes at the Makeni main market have not only drove away buyers from coming to the market on daily basis for nearly eight weeks now, cutoff the free flow of movements along Campbell Street of both people, motorbikes, cars among others, it has now exposed traders and residents of the area to several health hazards.   Apart from them "being heartbroken, traders say they are at the moment very vexed and will not pay routine market dues any longer until cleanliness is restored in their business center."  Yesterday, I visited the said market with my face mask on to resist the stinking smell the waste is producing, interviewed some of the traders, mostly women about the situation and why they’ve resolved to halt the daily payment of market dues to the Makeni City Council. They replied, saying: "we’ve resolved to halt the daily payment of market dues to the Makeni City Council effective Monday, July 11, 2022 for failing to colle...