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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.”