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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Sierra Leone, one of Africa’s Football loving nations whose supporters dearly anticipated making it to the finals of the 2023-TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations tournament proper in Cote D’Ivoire qualification hopes ended on Sunday evening at the SKD Stadium in Monrovia. Despite putting out what is believed to be a good show against their Group-A opponents (Super Eagles of Nigeria) whose in-form forward Victor Osimhen took advantage of John Keister’s disorganized back-four twice to have a brace to his name before the first quarter hour mark. In the last five minutes to the end of the first half Sierra Leone’s forward Mustapha Bundu renewed hopes for this side as he pulled once back to make it 2-1 in favour of the visitors from Nigeria. Returning from their dressing rooms, Sierra Leone’s coach John Edward Keister introduced some fresh legs when he substituted Mustapha Bundu for Musa Noah “Tombo” Kamara and Saidu Fofanah for skipper Steven Caulker, a move t...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson For the first time in Sierra Leone’s football history, two senior officials, the Vice President-II and an Executive Committee Member of the local football federation (SLFA) Alie Badara Tarawallie and Kweku Lisk will be contesting for two prestigious local council positions in their nation’s general elections slated for June 24. Although both officials have been awarded tickets under the same political party (the All People’s Congress), they will be racing for the two prestigious local council seats in different municipalities respectively the Northwestern regional city of Port Loko and in the nation’s capital Freetown. While the SLFA second Vice President Alie Badara Tarawallie has been awarded the APC ticket to contest in the upcoming general elections next month for the Mayoral top seat in the city of Port-Loko, his Executive Committee (EXCO) member Kweku Lisk has been awarded the APC ticket as the deputy to Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr the incumbent mayoral candida...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Veteran Broadcaster, Entrepreneur and 2018 Member ofParliament aspirant under the National Grand Coalition (NGC) in the West Area Alhaji K.Tarawally  alias “Laj-K” has publiclyendorsed the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) and NGC ProgressiveAlliance. Tarawally, a famous entertainer and former broadcaster atPremier Talk Radio and the Africa Young Generation (AYV) television that’s alsothe founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lake Production, has made a numberof public endorsement via his social media handles of the latest alliance betweenhis party and the ruling SLPP’s for the upcoming general elections scheduled forJune 24 this year, according to the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone(ECSL). For him, the alliance agreement signed onFebruary 23 this year between NGC and SLPP at the Bintumani InternationalAuditorium on behalf of their two political entities ahead of June 24 Presidentialand Parliamentary Elections is an “acceleratingprocess of p...

By: Paul Kamara Email: paulkamara772@gmail.com Contacts: +23278888309/+23290888309/+23232888309 The newly transferred Regional Police Commander South, AIG Brima Kanneh has assured residents under his jurisdiction of quality policing. He assumed office on Monday 1 May 2023, replacing AIG Harold Andrew Michael Charles Hanciles who has gone on his leave to retirement. Addressing pressmen upon his first day in office, AIG Kanneh underscored, he is happy to be in the region and noted that he's fully ready to carry out the force's core constitutional mandate which is to protect lives and property. According to AIG Kanneh, he believes the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) cannot effectively and efficiently carry out its constitutional mandate in isolation but through partnership and collaboration. He informed he is therefore placing his emphasis on community policing and called on members of the public to always help the police with vital information that will aid them in their operations....

By: Bashiru Barrie BWB FC dominates the DANIEL SALIFU TOURNAMENT as they won it for the second time in their third appearance. They were crowned champions after picking up a solid 2-0 victory over Mabanta Stars in the grand final on Sunday, at the Mabanta community playing field. The reigning champions (BWB foundation) demonstrated a good football performance against their opponent which earned them the victory and emerged as the better side, thanks to Alhaji Kanu, (man of the match) for opening the scoring for his side in the 22nd minute of play after making a great dribble pass the defender of Mabanta stars and struck in the ball with his left foot, and 7 minutes after the opener, his teammate Amadu W Jalloh netted the 2 goal. Knowing what they wanted the BWB lads kept the match to their advantage, denying their opponent goal scoring chances to stamp a well deserved 2-0 win to clinch the trophy and the NLe 1,000 champions prize money. In addition to winning the title, BWB fo...

SLFA Deputy Scribe reveals hosting of WAFU A’ U20 Female Championship By: Alusine Rehme Wilson The Deputy General Secretary of the Sierra Leone Football Association – (SLFA) Mohamed Benson Bawoh has disclosed that work is in progress for the hosting of the 2023 edition of the West Africa Football Union (WAFU) A-Zone U20 championship for female national teams. Benson who’s reportedly the current Acting General Secretary also said that matches will be played in the east and southern regional cities of Kenema and Bo where the tournament has been scheduled to be hosted simultaneously from May 22 to June 3 this year. As the momentum develops toward the West African football loving nation’s match to host its second zonal championship after hosting the maiden edition three years again respectively in the North and Southern cities of Makeni and Bo, the local football federation (SLFA) has made a historic announcement of the appointment of the National U20 Female team. Impressively, the techn...

By: Ibrahim Benjamin Brima Kanu The Valley Contractors Football Club has today the 4th May 2023 defeated the Korombo FC from Binkolo by 1:0 in ongoing SLFA FA Cup Tournament in 2023 in the 2nd round fixture of the Bombali district preliminaries. The match started at 4:15 local time at the prestigious Wusum stadium saw both teams in their ambition of winning the match, the valley Contractors fc were in their blue Jersey and the Korombo fc in their green Jersey. After several chances between both teams in the start of the match, Salifu Mansaray of the Valley Contractors stunned a lovely goal in the 10th minute of the match which put Valley Contractors ahead of Korombo fc in the first half of the match. The match resumed later after the break and the strike continued so hard especially from the side of Korombo fc just for an equaliser and in the 78th minute the goalkeeper of Valley Contractors was sent off the pitch. The pressure mounted on the valley Contractors but after many attempt...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Ahead of today’s first leg meeting between Sierra Leone’s Brand Global Football Ambassador Antonio Rudiger side Real Madrid and his former club Chelsea in the quarter finals of the champion’s league at Santiago Bernabeu, the celebrated defender has reacted to the anticipated clash. Rudiger, who won the Champions League in 2021 with the Blues before signing for Real Madrid, has told Marca that: “The Chelsea team I played for is nothing like the current team. But what is clear to me is that the match will be tough, they have plenty of quality players.” The German/Sierra Leonean footballer and founder of Antonio Rudiger Charitable Foundation for sports and education remains upbeat that his current team will edge his former club but believes they’ll have a good run for their money. With the return leg set for Tuesday, 18th April at Chelsea’s 40,341 capacity Stamford Bridge stadium both sides will be hoping to return to winning ways in their first meeting behind t...

By: Ibrahim Kanu Sierra Leone's leading banking institution Ecobank has on Monday 3 April 2023 officially opened their newly constructed ultra-modern bank at Lunsar road Makeni. The branch bank was earlier located at the wusum hotel in 2008 but later relocated to flower corner, Makeni city for better accessibility. Due to numerous concerns by their loving customers about the constraints to access the bank as a result of the various trading activities around the premises of the bank, the management thought it fit to finally relocate the bank to a more accessible and conducive location. Speaking at the official opening ceremony of the bank, the managing director told the attendees that the bank is a pan-African bank which was established in Freetown in November 2006 and now boasts 15 branches nation-wide including Microfinance services. She proudly said their bank is the leading bank in terms of digitalization as the first to have a mobile app which makes banking so easy and com...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson The West African sports loving nation which has huge love for football putting it above the other 48 registered sporting disciplines with the country's National Sports Authority - (NSA), National Senior Men's football team is nicknamed “Leone Stars”. For the first time since 1994, Leone Stars of Sierra Leone will be taking part in the finals of the TotalEnergies African Cup of Nations-(AFCON) this year for the delayed 2021delayed-2021 African Cup of Nations schedule to take place in Cameroon between January 09 to February 06 where the nation will be looking forward to not spike surprises with their performances, Awoko Newspaper’s Alusine Rehme Wilson opined on the team’s chances and possible starting eleven in their tournament openers against Algeria, one of their three Group-E opponents: Sierra Leone will battle reigning AFCON Champions Algeria at the Jerome Stadium in Cameroon on 11th January, that match is said to be a real cracker and tracing Sierra...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-WILSON) Popular  home based Dancehall Musician and song writer Rap Gee,  in solidarity with the #Justice4KhadijaManinatuSaccoh campaign have    joined hands with  Sierra Leonean Striker and last season Swedish top flight golden boot winner, Mohamed Buya Turay  to release a song titled “Justice for Khadija” which  calls to  action Authorities in Sierra Leone to help end  rape in the country. The song which was released on June 21, 2020 following the sad News about the death of an infant girl child aged 5 years, Khadija Maninatu Saccoh who’s corpse autopsy confirmed on Saturday, June 20, 2020 that she died of rape break out. On that same day Buya reacted to the unprecedented act of rape and wrote the following on his Facebook page: “Today I am sad. I am angry. The death of this child, Khadija Saccoh because of rape is EVIL and UNACCEPTABLE. My heartfelt condolences to the family. We cannot look away from t...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-WILSON) The current President of the Makeni Artist Union – (MAU), Milton Franklyn Koroma alias Stuntman who doubles as a multitalented Song writer and producer has on Sunday, July 5, 2020 discharged self centred Disc Jockeys and other imposters attempting and meddling into the affairs of the union with selfish intentions geared towards bringing disrepute into the unification process and affairs of the elite group which has over the years posed threats to the smooth running, he stressed. He said this on a local network in Makeni few days after some embattled Executive Members of the Union and some DJs took to a low key media campaign against his leadership, whose tenure of office they claimed have elapsed since July 1 st this year but that he is still tight lipped about announcing a date for another election since he was elected some two years ago. In an interview with Northern Times, the MAU President, Stuntman referred to the said claim as a fallacy...

By: Amadu Wurie Jalloh Say what you may, but I assure you the beef thing between and among our hip-hop King-Kongs are yielding a market  viability.  KaoLastingKingDenero, Sarkordi, Lyrical Joe, Khaligraphy Jones and all those entrapped in this lyrical tug-of-war game are  working on a big project: amalgamating the hip-hop industry and fanbase of Africa for their own good.  The diss and lyrical confrontations should be cheered up by fans across the continent. It is helping in widening the listenership of their lyrical proclivities and opening up an industrial space for hip-hop across Africa.  This gives a hope to musicians from smaller countries with small fan base compared to those of Nigeria and Ghana.  Gone are the days when the best selects of our nightclub DJs are Western Hip-hop and R&B songs.  Today, more than ever, African artists are touring across the continent. Their hustle is intensifying in the continent. Their followers on YouTube and other platforms are almost matchi...

By: Mohamed Simbo Kamara - (Super MS) As the fight against Corona Virus (COVID19) requires Collective efforts, the Makeni Artist Union has not limited their efforts few weeks after they released a sensitization song featuring various stakeholders to raise awareness about the virus campaign which many music followers rates as the best so far in the country. MAU on 9th April 2020, donated veronica buckets to studios in Makeni as part of their efforts to promote hand washing in the municipality to fight against Corona virus which has now turn into a global invisible enemy. AR-Wilson's Entertainment Media spoke with the President of the Union, Milton Frank Koroma AKA Stunt Man in an interview and he said as a Union that always care for the people of the country they are enthusiastic to have joined the fight using their craft, what they are known for by passing awareness message through music to the public. He also said they donated various ...

By: Mohamed S. Kamara (Super M.S) Sierra Leone based Award winning multimedia organization AR-Wilson’s Entertainment (AWE) has inked an exclusive deal with Eagle Records sensational gospel and multipurpose breed Christian Mariama Koroma (Lady Chris). The contract will give the uprising gospel singer access to feature and collaborates with AWE vocalists Foday Kargbo (Zefab D’ Adonis) and Ibrahim Marrrah (Ibay), help promote her mucia career on her new team’s social media handles and co-managed her entertainment activities to get to new audiences globally. Having been under the management of one of Sierra Leone’s popular producer and sound engineer David Francis Turay alias Red Wine of Eagle Records, Christian who’s stage name is Lady Chris has composed three songs including her tending DeCMaTT Song, a song she dedicated to her college in Makeni where she is pursuing a diploma program. In 2010, AR-Wilson’s Entertainment, a multi-award winning organization final...

By: Hakim Bangura One of the country’s oldest and most consistent youth owned organization, AR-Wilson’s Entertainment, that strives to advocate for the voiceless and thus promote music, volunteerism, education, pageantry, sports, gender responsiveness, good governance, agriculture and other facets for development has over the weekend at the second edition of the Faces of the North entertainment Awards (FaNEA) awards ceremony hosted at Wusum hotel conference hall in Makeni city, Bombali District Northern Sierra Leone received a Prestigious Gold Award as Best Promotional Team of the Year. Receiving the award last Friday, December 13, on behalf of other members of AR-Wilson’s Entertainment was its signed Artist Foday Kargbo alias (Zefab D’Adonis). Upon receiving the award, Zefab lifted up the gong and the crowd went bazaar in cheering him up and his team for their unique contribution to the lives of others most especially in the entertainment sector. He thanked the customer...

Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) “From January to December this year, our test statistics shows that 13,143 Male and 14,049 Female in the North have been tested for HIV disease, 140 male and 224 female out of the population tested results showed positive and have also joined the 70,398 people that have benefited from the Anti-Retroviral Drugs (ARV)from various Health Centers in the country, exclusive of children that have also been tested some of whom are living positively with the disease while others are responding well to Anti-Retro-viral Drugs treatments. A District Health Management Staff revealed to attendees at the Makeni City Hall during the commemoration and celebration of the World Aids Day. This year’s commemoration of the World Aids Day marks the 36 th Anniversary of the day which is celebrated every year globally on December 1 st . In the Northern Region of Sierra Leone like other parts of the world, this year’s celebration stimulated several act...

Name: Elijah Musa Deen Nickname: “Filmkaka the Film-Prophet” Date of Birth: Early 80’s Nationality: Sierra Leonean Occupation: Director/Actor Contact: +23230 - 426 - 930 Elijah Musa Deen is a young and passionate Sierra Leonean who attended the school of Languages (Saint Francis Secondary School) in Makeni, Bombali District, Northern Province of Sierra Leone, where he became the first gentle man from among the school pupils when he became the Head Boy in 2007. Upon completing secondary school he successfully gained admission at the Fourah Bay College in Freetown where he was appointed Minister of Energy and Power in 2010, became President of Nicol Hall and attained his tertiary education. Thereafter, he continued his movie career and dedicated himself to empowering others and to give back to society through movie. His career as a renowned Actor flourished and he rose to prominence as a Director based in the North who double...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) Match day one in the 2019/2020 Sierra Leone Premier League turns out to be laudable for South and Eastern region hosts, Bo Rangers and Kamboi Eagles who both sent visitors Central Parade and Freetown City FC home in tears after both teams lost away in Bo and Kenema respectively. Last season’s third place owners Bo Rangers in the absence of their striker Suffian Kalokoh started their Premier League campaign well over FCFC with a 20 th minute goal from the former Hafia sensation Prince Barrie. The visitor’s efforts to equalize in the game proved futile as the Rangers wasted no time but hold on to their first half lead till full time which made their southern region supporters enjoyed night-live in the country’s second largest city Bo few hours after Prince Barrie was voted is as man of the Match. Central Parade were also beaten 2-0 by Kamboi Eagles. Abubakkar Kanu’s 35 th minute curtain raiser dislodged the Western area visitors ...