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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  The once deplorable Makeni Central Business District area road on Rogbaneh road by the city’s clock tower was rehabilitated over the weekend by Youth Groups from various areas in Makeni city and its environs who had teamed up with famous businessman and politician Abubakarr “Lamtales” Kamara. The youth groups included youth from the Makama Young Shall Grow Organization, Friends United, Stocco Area and Ade Street Youth Groups that collaborated with members of the Friends of Lamtales to rehabilitate the road on Sunday. According to representatives of some of the Youth Groups, their latest collaboration was born out of the desire to save lives of the people of Makeni and other users of the rehabilitated from getting injured in the deplorable Makeni CBD area. “We’re into this partnership with the sole ambition to give back to our city through development of this nature and to also send a signal to duty bearers that we are thirsty for development which is why o...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Scarcely a little over two weeks since the National Women’s League was officially launched in Makeni by President Julius Maada Bio, his wife and the rest of the football family in Sierra Leone, the league is being received with open arms within and across the country for a number of reasons with many anticipating for regular games to be hosted in their localities. One of those locals wanting fe male games to be played in his locality is Osman Conteh, a bike rider in Kabala town for nearly 10 years now. Conteh told Awoko Newspaper at the Yogomaya playing field in Kabala town after the cracker between host Albitaya Queens and Patricia Umu Strikers Football Club from Kambia that he’s had made enough money on the day through transporting passengers from various areas in Kabala to the match venue. According to Osman, he did not watch the match but he was excited to learn that their own girls of Kabala were playing a female top-tier for the very first time in th...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Koinadugu District based sole representative team at the maiden edition of the National Women’s Premier League Albitaya Queens Football Club was on Sunday dislodged 3-1 in Freetown by their Sierra Leone Police opponent. Police Women’s FC trios Mabinty Sama, Elfrida George and Messie Swaray goals were enough to secure all three points at home for their side leaving the visitor’s from Kabala heartbroken after losing their second straight match in the ongoing National Women’s Championship, following their 0-1 home defeat to Patricia Umu Strikers of Kambia. On the day, Albitaya FC’s Promising goal-machine Gbassay Kamara scored the only goal for her side in their 3-1 away defeat to Sierra Leone Police FC, the goal which is now the first goal for team, says she's excited to have netted on her debut appearance in the League after missing out their opening game at home last on 17th October in Kabala. Regardless of the successive defeats, Albitaya Queens team Capta...

​ By: Amadu Wurie Timbo The Bombali Deaf Development Association has  set new goals at a well-attended meeting held on Saturday 22nd October 2022, at the Pastoral Center on Dr Ernest Bai Koroma Road, Makeni city in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone.  The meeting was organized to solidify the living force of unity amongst members of the Association,to discuss golden and set new goals with hopes to uplift the Association and equally its treasured membership.  Securing an Office space and  to expand its membership empowerment were throughly discussed by attendees of the meeting.  Mr. Abdulrahman Barrie is the President of the Bombali Deaf Development Association, in his statement during the meeting, he reminded attendees that: ‘the Association is a kind of special body that gears towards redeeming the deaf from the many daily challenges they face in their moves as a result of their disability, ranging from illiteracy to unemployment, discrimination and others.’...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  With fund from their CEO Unisa Kamara, who’s currently based in the U.S, the Bombali District Deaf Development Association on Saturday held their maiden planning meeting since the organization was established six years ago. The meeting took place at the premises of Pastoral Center on Teko Road in the northeastern regional city of Makeni, where cross section of non-governmental organization for hearing impaired persons in the district had converged to update their leadership about their sufferings and jointly mapped out their strategic plans for the current year and succeeding ones. During the meeting, which was chaired by the organization’s Prediction Mr. Abdulrahman Barrie, he told members that the C.E.O of the Bombali District Deaf Development Association has sent in the sum of NLE 2,000 to facilitate for members to converge, deliberate, and plan together for the better. During the engagement, attendees of the meeting highlighted on a number of concerns ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Latest team photo of Area Best FC (P.C: Abu Hassan Kargbo). Four teams namely Smart Foundation, Urban Football Club, Area Best and Masongbo Football Club will today battle each other in the semifinals of the 2022 Preliminary Qualifiers of the EBK-Trophy. At 2:00pm local time today, Smart Foundation will lock on with Urban Football Club for the first match while Area Best and debutant Masongbo Football Club will face each other at 4:15pm later today. Latest Team Photo of Smart Foundation FC The winners of both games will automatically pick up tickets to this year’s group stages of the tournament prosper which is expected to commence in due course, according to the organizers of the yearly tournament sponsored by Honorable Chernor Maju Bah of the All People’s Congress party. Today’s clashes will bring to end the long walk of what has been described by sports pundits as tournament’s most competitive preliminary qualifiers that featured a record number of 24 t...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Following the release of his new single titled: “Say no to Tribalism,” Awoko Newspaper interviewed Abubakarr Kargbo alias “Anderson,” the Footballer turned Musician and Comedian, about what inspired his song’s title and more? In his response, the former Katara football club midfielder who is now signed to growing musical brand Rokupr Borbor Entertainment says his new song’s title is inspired by the growing rate of hate speeches, nepotism, sectionalism, regionalism, as well as the wide spread of misinformation, misconception and mainly tribalism on party lines. “As a musician, I’m equally concern like many other Sierra Leoneans over the alarming rate of tribalism which in some way is causing some amount of instability and to a large extent igniting hatred among countrymen which to me are all deterrents to national cohesion which will also prevent lasting development in the country. “This is why I took my time to rhythmically sensitize countrymen in my two m...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Sulaiman Sillah Sesay, the Founder and Leader of Augu-B’s Advocacy Entertainment Network-(ABEN), on Friday told Awoko Newspaper that his brand’s signed multiple award-winning soloist and actress Augusta Kabia alias “Augu-B” will officially premier three new singles this weekend. According to CEO Sillah, of the three singles underway, Augu-B featured two other performers namely Favour and Yayo respectively in “Tori Mi” and Ka Chay Kom” while she single-handedly outshined the beat in the other single titled: “Tholon Pepeh Reply”. He went on to reveal Saturday, 22 October 2022, mid day, as the date and time when the singles which have been produced by Heziko, “will firstly be officially premiered on Amzas  Radio Top-Six weekend show. “Afterwards, the songs will be available for steaming on YouTube and multiple online streaming platforms, and on local broadcasting networks in Makeni, nationwide and beyond, as part our plan to further trade her craft acros...

​ By: Emmanuel Jim  In what is called an on the spot monitoring , the National Coordinator for Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme, UNDP, Abdul Rahman A. Sannoh has on the 21st October, 2022 visited the eWomen SLC Play Ground in Makeni.  The visit which is to monitor and evaluate how far the project which is also funded by UNDP is going, has created an impressive impact after taking some snap shots of the project site which is on the verge of completion and set to be handed over to the school administration.  In his address to a few staff and authorities of the school namely, Mrs. Kafiatu T. S. Bangura, Head Teacher senior section, Mr. Brina Kargbo,  Teacher and Elizabeth E. Bangura, Head Teacher, Nursery Section, Mr. Sannoh stressed on the need for a formation of a committee to manage the Playground. He said one of the responsibilities is to source out funds from the little charges as access to the facility. This he said would create an opportunity fo...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Following their successive representations in the WAFU-A U15 and U17 tournaments in Liberia and Monrovia, the National Male U15 and U17 teams will today play two friendly matches in Makeni against the Makeni U15 and U17 All Stars football teams. According to the coordinator of the said friendly matches Mohamed K-Plus Conteh, “both matches will be played at the Wusum Stadium with the respective kickoff times set for 8:00am and 10:00am (local times). He also said that “no entrance fee will be required at the gate for spectators to watch both matches which are exclusively organized for the purpose of scouting for players from Makeni to join the current players already enlisted to the National Male U15 and U17 teams of Sierra Leone.”

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  An astonishing achievement was made on Saturday by the football family in Sierra Leone as the West African sports loving nation officially kick-off its maiden national Women’s Top-tier at the Wusum Stadium in the northeastern city of Makeni with a record number of attendance. Spectators from all six regions nationwide including former players of both female and male national teams including former Sierra Queens Skipper Musu “Pele” Bangura and Leone Stars former captain Abubakarr “Tastao” Kamara,  made up the huge crowd. Other dignitaries in attendance were regional and districts football executive members, club managers, Journalists, the United Kingdom High Commissioner to Sierra Leone Lisa Chesney among others, joined the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone His Excellency Retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio, and his wife Mrs. Fatima Bio for the official launching of the nation’s first ever national top-tier. 
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​ By: Alusine Rehme Wilson The Government of Sierra Leone through the Ministry of Information and Communications has reaffirmed it commitments to a peaceful, stable and tranquil nation.  The assurance was stated in a Sunday presser, in which MIC had announced a state burial for unidentifiable corpes that lost their lives to the dreadful August 10 citizens protests in Makeni, Kamakwie and the eastern part of the country.  According to the Ministry of Information and Communications, the corpses whose total number they’ve refused to disclose, will be buried on Monday, 17th October, 2022 at Bolima in the Western Area Rural District of Waterloo in  collaboration with the bereaved families. MIC also stated that the bereaved family members have duly received from the Government the sum of NLE 20,000 each, as funeral rites assistance as it pleases the President of the Republic His Excellency Retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio.

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  As part of the Association’s decentralization ambition, Madam Hawa Dauda, the female representative of the Sierra Leone Swimming Diving and Water-polo Association–(SLSDWA) on Saturday schooled ten female swimmers in the Northern Region on Menstrual Hygiene, sexual harassments safety and related swimming best practices. Held at the Country house pool premises on the Makeni-Magburaka Highway, over the weekend, the training was called to order by the Northern Region Secretary, followed by brief statements from the Female Swimmers Coach AhmedMuctarr Koroma and the SLSDWA President in the Northern Region both encouraged the trainees to be attentive throughout the training, saying “this training is very important and will help to polish the future for you all to become professional and healthily swimmers the region and the nation would be proud of.” In her opening remarks, the trainer Madam Hawa Dauda who’s also a female journalist working with Mercury Radio in ...

​ By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Ten female swimmers in the northern region will be trained on Menstrual Hygiene and general rules of the Swimming Diving and Waterpolo, the National Swimmers Association-(SLSDWA) has confirmed. The training which is scheduled to hosted in Makeni, will be delivered by Hawa Dauda, the Female Representative of the Sierra Leone Swimming Diving and Waterpolo Association-(SLSDWA). Speaking to AWE-Media.SL, the SLSDWA Female Representative who doubles as one of the renowned female sports journalists in Sierra Leone, she said: “Female Swimmers are mostly challenged by Menstrual related problems, which has been scaring them away from regular involvements in the sports , and as the female representative I’m staging this training with support from the Association as the first of many clinics underway for our athletes, especially the females.”

​ By: Alusine Rehme Wilson     Assiatant Head Coach-I of Leone Stars and Former FC Kallon Head Coach, Amidu Kamara has been announced as Head Coach of the National Male U23 Football Team.   Karim’s appointment and the three others was publicized by the local football federation of Sierra Leone-(SLFA), Executive Committee Members. This means the experienced trainer becomes the head of the U23 male technical team onwards with his first task being to guide the team later this month for the nation’s back to back U23 AFCON 2023 qualifiers at home on 22nd and away, a week later this month.  He will be assisted by three others namely: Francis Zappa Koroma, Ibrahim Sillah and Hassan Kamara respectively as Assistant Coach-I, II, and as Goalkeeping Coach, the SLFA said in a statement on Tuesday evening.

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  The Sierra Leone Police has confirmed that an unidentified hearing impaired woman who was arrested in Makeni on August 10 during the irate civilians protest is still in their custody at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department in Freetown. Police say the hearing impaired women from Makeni remain in their custody because “she’s yet to be identified by any of her relatives from Makeni where she was arrested, and that they’re looking forward to receiving any relative of love one of the suspects to grant her bail.” So far, the surname of the hearing impaired suspect who says her first name is Musu is yet known because she has not disclosed it to us,” said Police Constable Kamara Fatu, a sign interpreter facilitator for deaf people in the Sierra Leone Police in an interview with AWE-Media.SL. The police sign interpreter further recalled that she was called to the Police headquarters, Criminal Investigations Department in Freetown to interpret ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Weeks after his followers and other acquaintances of popular Disc Jockey and Member of the main opposition All People’s Congress-(APC) Party in Bombali District, Mr. Alpha Mustapha Kabia alias  “D.J Dust” alarmed over his shocking demise in the northeastern regional headquarter town of Makeni, his party has announced that their Media member is on the run for his life. According to the APC Bombali branch announcement aired on Amzas Radio in Makeni, Alpha Mustapha Kabia was forced to flee to neighboring Guinea to find succor after he was declared wanted like few other members who were alleged to be associates of the late APC Social Media mouthpiece Hassan Dumbuya alias “Evangelist Samson” who was shot and killed in a Police Cross fire on station road in Makeni on 14th August 2022, a few days after the bloody August 10 insurrection which claimed the lives of both Police Personnel and some irate citizens that were protesting against the ruling government ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Area Business Manager of Orange Sierra Leone in the Northern Region Sorie Yeyeh Kamara has disclosed that the opening of a modern office in Makeni city is a show that the mobile telecommunication provider company is here to stay. An extension of this nature of our regional office in Makeni which is in the provinces is a clear indication of Orange Sierra Leone’s commitment to stay, and such large investment is not only meant to benefit our staff but our valuable customers and other members of the public that trusts in the reliable, affordable and services we provide as a multinational company operating in Sierra Leone and beyond, he explained. Furthering that, the office also showcase a clearer visibility of Orange Sierra Leone in the northern region headquarter city of Makeni, and that we’re investing in our staff who’ve been supported now to be able gather and brainstorm around issues bothering our operations and in turn go to the field to and execute the...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  After his charges paid off over the weekend against WAFU-A U17 championship host Mauritania, Sierra Leone’s U17 Male team Head Coach Mohamed Lamin Kamara has in post match interview told AWE-Media.SL that his side’s huge 3-0 win on Sunday is because, “We had a good preparation and got the organization right.” He also said he’s very comfortable seeing his players put on such a commendable performance, although he was initially worried due to their experience. “I think this team is capable of reaching the final and subsequently lift the trophy. That will make Mama Salone smile,” he added. Commenting on Daniel Deen Sesay who individually put out an outstanding show letting him secure a brace and winning the man of the match award in their 3-0 win over Mauritania, coach Mohamed Lamin Kamara  says, “Daniel is a brilliant and hard working striker, he gives defenders tough time throughout  and it's good for him and the team. “The difference now is, we a...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson A parent of the Kargbo Family of Bongay Street in Rokupr Town, Magbema Chiefdom in the Northwestern district of Kambia has said that they’re worried as a family, about the whereabouts of their son Mohamed Kargbo whom they have not heard from since for several weeks now. According to 48-year-old mother, her son Kargbo had left their residence on August 1, 2022 for Makeni city in the North East region to meet a friend named Mahmoud Osman Kamara who had urged him to come over for enquiry about a university scholarship opportunity for descendants of Kambia District, who’ve attained their university entry requirements but have not been able to gain admission at the university due to their family hardship and other destitute challenges. She further said that,  they as a modest Kargbo family were in constant communication with their son after he left home, "Mohamed even informed us of his safe arrival in Makeni, and did also spoke to his friend Mahmoud Osman Kama...

By: Sulaiman Stom Koroma HealthCare for the Aged, the government of Sierra Leone, and other partners have today October 1st, 2022 celebrated the international day of older persons at the New City Hall in Freetown.  The celebration brought together government officials, partners, and over two hundred (200) old people from different parts of Freetown.  Making a statement on how his organization has worked with older persons over the years, the CEO and Founder of HealthCare for the Aged, Mohamed S. Bah started by telling a story that he said was the idea behind the formation of his organization. “I witnessed a scene where a pregnant woman was carried on an ordinary blanket from the Gravel Boom Community, which is one of the deprived communities within Freetown, to a hospital that was miles away from their community.   The community is deprived, isolate, and not motorable making it difficult to access the community whenever something tragic happens. On this day, while some of...