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By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl After their 2-1 loss to Malimba Queens, Suba United, a female football powerhouse team from Makeni, bounced back with a 1-0 victory against Rangers Queen on their home turf. Suba FC’s win in the ongoing Equal Opportunity Women's Cup, organized by StarBurst Park, has boosted their morale, thanks to their talented forward, Zeneba Koroma who took advantage of Rangers Queen weak defense to net in the last minute of the game, bringing her total goal tally to four and topping the goal scoring chart. Koroma’s crucial goal had not only propelled her team to second place in the league's standings with six points and six goals, but also closed the gap with current leaders, Malimba Queens, who are three points ahead. Presently, Suba FC’s Jeneba Koroma is leading the goal scoring chart with four goals. She has disclosed her determination to scoring more to help her team secure victory in the competition. However, Suba FC's fate to secur...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson The Media Reform Coordinating Group (MRCG) Sierra Leone, in collaboration with its international partner Minority Rights Group International and with support from the European Union, has initiated a three-day intensive retreat in the Southern regional city of Bo. This retreat is focused on educating and empowering activists and journalists in Sierra Leone to understand and effectively report on Minority Rights Issues (MRI). The retreat began on Monday, September 11 and is scheduled to conclude on Wednesday, September 13, as stated by project officer Patricia Sankoh. The activists and journalists in this retreat are a select group of journalists and activists who have been actively engaged in reporting and advocating for MRI-related issues in various communities across Sierra Leone's six regions. The retreat is being jointly facilitated by Victor Massaquoi, a communications, social, and governance expert with a Ph.D., and Madam Mary Antoinette Elogoma B...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl On Tuesday, 3rd May, 2022 the Makeni Police Operations troop arrested a certain man in full police attires with the rank of Assistant Supretendent of Police - (ASP) impersonating. Upon his arrest, the accused was taken to the Mena Police Unit in Makeni, Northern-Sierra Leone where statement was obtained from him and has been since detained in police cell.  Investigation mounted by this media indicates that the accused who was arrested “for impersonation, false pretense of being an officer of the law of the Republic of Sierra Leone is actually a former Policeman who has been since dismissed from the Sierra Leone Police for misconducts.” Meanwhile the police officers dealing with the said matter have declined to speak to the press while the North-East Media Office remain closed for interviews at the moment but one of the media officers John Abass Kamara, told Awoko that “ all media officers attached at the said office are currently in Freetown on...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl Led by the Executive Chairman Dr. Bondi Gevao, a team of staff from the Environment Protection Agency-Sierra Leone (EPASL), on Tuesday wrapped-up raids in mining sites along the Pampana river in Tonkolili district, Northern, Sierra Leone. The raid according to the EPA-SL Executive Chairman is a continuation of his nationwide unannounced visits to mining sites by way of upping their monitoring game as an agency responsible to protect the environment. He said they visited the Pampana river in Magburaka, Tonkolili District where they had seized and burnt down illegal dredges that were operational at the site.  He says the EPA has no control over the activities of people on artisanal mining, and the Mines Ministry do Issue licenses to miners with strict directives to protecting the land but many of these small scaler miners are not obeying those guidelines. “It’s challenging to note that locals who obtains licenses for small scale mining activities...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl Since joining “the killers” last February, Alie Conteh has been busy showing his goal scoring prowess for the Freetown based outfit in this season’s elite men’s championship. Conteh who’s on his debut Sierra Leone Premier League stint have been featured in 10 times for the 2019 SLPL Champions and has made history as the first player to score at hits first eight games. His impressive goals scoring skills earned him a debut call up to Leone Stars, the senior men’s national team of Sierra Leone and was part of Head coach John Edward Kiester’s 23-man squad to Turkey last February for the Antalya cup. He was eventually featured in  Sierra Leone’s last two friendly matches against Liberia and Congo Brazzaville.  Conteh has so far scored a total of 10 goals in all appearances for East End Lions Football Club including a brace against 2012 champions Diamond Stars football club. He has been also involved in hist teams last 15 goals in this season ongoin...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl Country Representative of German Doctors in Sierra Leone, Fanta Daboh has reassured the organization’s continued support to Commit and Act Foundation Sierra Leone. Madam Daboh says “German Doctors are so far impressed with the implementation work Commit and Act Foundation Sierra Leone is doing in Bo, Bombali and Tonkolili District in-terms of combating rampant FGM practices and other Sexual and Gender Based Violence against teenage school going griots and women through the “My Body, My Rights Project”. Continued saying: “The testimonies she’ve heard from beneficiaries of the “My Body, My Rights Project” are very positive to their work as donor. “I want to categorically state that German Doctors as the Project donor we moved and therefore assure of another funding for the next 18 months for a project targeting to provide Sowies with livelihood support as well as proving Financial packages to local leaders involved in the practices of Female Geni...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl A total of 30 Journalists from various districts in the North-West and Northern Regions have received capacity building training on Transitional Justice from the Media Reform Coordinating Group-Sierra Leone-(MRCG-SL). The day’s training which took place at the Where Else hall in Makeni city on Monday, 25th April, 2022 was facilitated by two UNIMAK Lectures namely Shebora Samba Kamara and Matthew Kanu, enlightened the Journalists working for several radio, television and newspaper institutions in the two northern regions on a number of topics including the meaning of Transitional Justice, Transitional Justice Mechanisms as well as Media and Transitional Justice. The Journalists were further trained on how to report on Transitional Justice issues in their respective regions and the nation by extension before they went on and identified Transitional Justice Issues evident in the North-West and Northern Regions, presented their work and proffered a...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  On Thursday, 21st April, 2022 the first ever Girls Conference begins at the Magburaka Boys School hall, in Tonkolili District, Northern Sierra Leone.   The two days long (21st-22nd April, 2022) maiden Girls Conference is organized by Commit and Act Foundation-(CAF), a non-government organization championing campaigns against Female Genital Mutilation for the protection of girls in the Bo, Bombali and Tonkolili District with funds from German Doctors.   In a powerpoint presentation delivered at the conference by Hannah Bockarie the founder and Country Director of Commit and Act Sierra Leone, she briefly reminisced on her journey with the foundation which she disclosed she has single handedly started in Bo in 2013 with the desire to proving assorted assistance to women and girls in Sierra Leone which she says she is very happy about now counting on the progress and lives its has impacted positively.   “Today we've  gathered to dialogue together with our girl...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl Several Subscribers of Orange Sierra Leone’s Mobile Money Services “Orange Money” who won assorted food items as prices from the  leading telecommunication services provider Ramadan Promotion remains all cheering in the Northern region economic city. The Orange mobile money subscribers had won several food items as prizes from a raffle conducted by Orange Money staff at the entrance to the main market of Makeni city opposite the clock tower located along the central business district of the municipality. Food items won from the raffle by the pool of orange money subscribers from the Saturday Ramadan promotion includes boxes of tin tomato, Orange branded orange money backpacks, caps and t-shirts as well as tins of milk, 5kg sugar, and 5kg packs of rice among other condiments. Speaking on the purpose for the promotion, Abibatu Baxter, Head of Marketing Strategy and Partnerships for Orange Money Sierra Leone told Awoko Newspaper that: “the day...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl  Masongbo Community Health Center-(CHC), mosques and churches in the community have all been lit-up courtesy of one of its indigenes Foday “604” Tarawilie. Of the eight-(8) solar lights that were single handedly donated to each of the three mosques, two churches, the Community Health Center and two installed at the two entrances of Masongbo community have all brought succor to the community. The lights have now become the center of attraction in the community and parents interviewed have thanked the donor for the lights which they say are now used at night by their children to study, especially those in the primary and junior secondary schools NPSE and BECE examination classes. For health workers at the Masongbo Community Health Center, they say the solar light installed at the center is beginning to save them from much fear during the night’s hours and has so far boosted their confidence to attend to more patients in the night hours. As it...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl  The Senior District Officer-(SDO) of Bombali District Abubakarr Kamara has issued a two weeks ultimatum to the Bike riders, Motor drivers and Traders Unions as well as Fuel Station Owners to harmonize their prices. Kamara issued the stern warning during a DiSec meeting between the Bike riders, Motor drivers and Traders Unions as well as Fuel Station Owners that was hosted at the Wusum Stadium in Makeni where the urged the said stakeholders to prepare and present lists of prices for passengers as well as assorted commodities as a way to ensure stability in transportation costs as well as the prices of commodities in the city and its environs. He disclosed that: “his office is working hand in gloves with member of the District Security Committee of Bombali-(DiSec) with other key stakeholders to set up “the Makeni Model” a scheme that will make way for uniform prices in commodity costs as well as transport fares in the northern region city an...