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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson The Sierra Leone football community is in mourning following the tragic passing of legendary defender Lamin Bangura. Bangura, an ex-Leone Stars defender, etched his name in history when he led his former club, Diamond Stars of Kono, to victory in the Sierra Leone Premier League Cup in 2012. Notably, he was the first coach to secure a national men’s top-tier title with a provincial team. Bangura’s illustrious career spanned both playing and coaching. He proudly wore Sierra Leone’s national team jersey until his retirement from international football. As a coach, he served as the head coach of the Sierra Leone Premier League side Ports Authority Football Club from 2021. Tragically, at the age of 59, Bangura lost his life in a road crash. The accident occurred while he was traveling with players and officials of his club to honor a league fixture against Kahunla Rangers of Kenema. Their hired team bus collided with a stationary truck along the Mile 91 - Bo Highway...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Bombali district soccer outfit Wusum Stars Football Club (Northern Rock) wrapped up its final preparatory training to face East End Lions Football Club (The Killer) from Freetown at 4:15 PM local time today at the Wusum Stadium. Wusum Stars Head coach Mohamed Lamin Kamara who has previously coached East End Lions has emphasized the importance of today's match saying “this match is a must win. We need to beat Lions and reclaim our pride as the “Northern Rock” and to do so we must put behind our back our mid-week 3-2 defeat to Old Edwardians, Kamara advised. The coach who has since told AWE-Media Sierra Leone that his season objective is to win the 2023/24 Leone Rock Premier League (the national top-tier) team currently in ninth place with 23 points after 18 league games with six wins, five draws, and seven defeats. Despite they are 10 points behind table toppers Bo Rangers, Coach Lamin has not ruled out his chances to compete for the title with 16 more games...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  The contest for the 2023/24 Sierra Leone Women’s Premier League (SLWPL) title will take center stage later today at the Rutile playing field when holders Mogbwemo Queens lock horns with title contenders FC Kallon at 4:15 PM. This encounter promises to be exciting after both teams (Mogbwemo Queens and FC Kallon) wrapped up their first round with a whopping 6-0 away win over Koinadugu Albitaya Female Football Club and Mena Queens Football Club in Makeni. With 33 points from 11 league matches in the first round of this year’s SLWPL defending champions Mogbwemo Queens skipper Kadiatu Mohamed Kamara has told AWE-Media Sierra Leone that their ultimate goal is to beat FC to stretch their lead at the top and maintain their unbeaten run. “FC was the team that broke our unbeaten run last season, although we won the league cup and became the inaugural champions of the first ever organized national women’s cup in Sierra Leone, we felt pain when our unbeaten run was br...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Onward to their first match in the 2023/24 Sierra Leone Women's Premier League - (SLWPL), Maway Tarawalie, the Head coach of Patricia Umu Strikers Football Club of Kambia District said in a Friday interview with AWE-Media.SL that he and his players “are determine to seek revenge against Mena Queens.” In the interview held at the Makeni Wusum Stadium during his side’s final preparatory training for their match day-12 tie against Mena Queens who became the only team to beat Patricia Umu Strikers Football Club on their home soil in the SLWPL first round, Coach Tarawlie recounted how dishearten that 2-1 home defeat was to him and his team. “We were shocked, left in pain after losing in January to Mena Queens and it did take us time to recover from that sock which affected our team overall performance in the first round of this season’s league,” he reminisced revealing his team ambition to seek revenge in their match later today at the Wusum Stadium. “As of now,...

By: Mohamed Simbo Kamara Renowned academic, advocate and philanthropist Mr. Edwin A.J Turay, the Assistant Registrar Academic Affairs Makeni Campus at the Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology, who doubles as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bee Neet General Suppliers Ltd. And Bee Neet Agribusiness Farm has emphasized the need to embrace Entrepreneurial training, growth and competitiveness. He made the call while delivering his Keynote address as the Guest of Honor of the joint convocation and matriculation ceremony of the Destiny College of Management Theology and Technology (DeCMaTT) Makeni held at its main campus on Azzolini Highway. His speech was centred on the topic: "the Role of Entrepreneurial Training, Growth and Competitiveness for Young People. Mr. Turay started his speech by calling on the attention of those that present and requested them to deliver the message to others who might benefit too, Education has a very important role in shaping you...

By: Abubakarr Kargbo On 8 April 2024, MASK TOTEH in collaboration with Think Port Loko officially launched the 2024 Sierra Leone Independence Concept Note titled "Peace and Reconciliation." The ceremony which took place at Bakeh Loko Native Court Barray, Port Loko City attracted dozens of stakeholders of Port Loko City including Mayor of Port Loko City, Chiefdom speaker of Bakeh Loko chiefdom five Head of mask devil ordelain and Local Unit Commander of Port Loko Police Division. The stakeholders say the Launching of the Peace and Reconciliation celebration of independence, reflects the desire of celebrating Port Loko sixty years and breaking political barriers of political parties, promoting socio-economic activities and creating significant milestones to restore the Black Man's London. In his address at the launching, Mr. Azick Mustapha Conteh, the Chief Executive Officer of MASK TOTEH, said: "this year's celebration is deferring from the various years....

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Three-time winners of the Norwegian cup Mjondalen IF Football Club have officially welcomed 19-year-old Alie Conteh, a former FC Kallon and East End Lions forward to their current squad. Conteh arrived in Norway on Friday and the eight times Norwegian cup finalists with excitement took to their official website to announce the arrival of the Godrich Strikers football club graduate stating that “work and residence permits are now in place,” adding that the Sierra Leonean attacking player is thus ready for Mjøndalen in the 2024 season and is ready for training with his new teammates. The club further informed that Conteh who has been in the spotlight of several clubs in Europe, made Mjøndalen IF his ultimate place, but that it took them some time to put in place work and residence permits for the skilful and ambitious teenage forward from Sierra Leone. Conteh’s deal which details are yet disclosed follows his successful trial with Mjøndalen IF in the summer ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has announced Mr. Umaro Fofana and Mrs. Asmaa James as Masters of Ceremony (MC) for its anticipated Annual National Media Awards 2023 underway at the Bintumani International Conference at 6:00 PM on Saturday, March 2. The announcement of both MCs was made on Thursday evening via the official social media handles and platforms of SLAJ igniting reactions from both members of the public and SLAJ members. Both MCs announced are no strangers to the microphone, Mr. Umaro Fofana, a former president of SLAJ, owner of Politico Newspaper and Freelance journalist who recently moderated a high level accountability dialogue event organized by local Non-Governmental Organization SEND-Sierra Leone will be teaming up with Mrs. Asmaa James, a former President of Women in the Media Sierra Leone (WIMSAL), now Station Manager at Sierra Leone’s first female owned local network Rise Radio who has moderated other high profile events ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Blaise Djounang, General Secretary of the Federation of Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) has confirmed the nation’s preparedness to commence search for coaching staff to take charge of the affairs of the Indomitable Lions. His confirmation follows an earlier announcement by the Minister of Sports and Physical Education Professor Narcisse Mouelle Kombi that the ministry and the local football federation have unanimously agreed after long speculations not to renew the contracts of their former Indomitable Lions coaching staff previously headed by their former skipper Rigobert-Song Bahanag. According to Djounang, FECAFOOT will in the next few days, announced the details of the recruitment of process for a new Indomitable Lions coaching staff. On behalf of the Federation of Cameroon Football Federation Executive Committee, the FECAFOOT General Secretary notified members of the Indomitable Lions coaching staff of the their end of contract to manage Cameroon’s...