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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.’...