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By: Ibrahim Jalloh - ( Jallomy ) There is a bankrupt truism that a man cannot be ahead of his time and generation! This philosophy draws strength from the the conflicting reality of disconnect between a generation bracket and ahead of time rationalization and behavioural patterns. Certainly, some people are far ahead of their generation, time and the dictates of the age. Often in Western Literature, this can be neatly described as " the generation gap". You think something or some direction is wrong but the greater and often gullible majority think it is right. Invariably, they will give you descriptive terms: a dissenter, a leftist, a non conformist, a rebel, the list goes on. Society largely thinks and behave in stereotypical manner with the ruthless expectations that all must follow and comply. This perhaps the cradle or that which is loosely called societal norms. Realistically, norms are ridiculous conditioned patterns of behaviour. They have the huge potential to i...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson - (AR-Wilson) New debutant into the Sierra Leone Premiere League, Suffian Kalokoh has catapulted into the first eleven team of 2018/2019 league season of the National Premiere League Board. Suffian 16, played for Old Edwardians and scored 10goals in the just concluded 2018/2019 Sierra Leone Premier League, which positioned him third on the highest goal scoring list with a six goal margin behind the league top goal scorer E.E Lions' Musa N. Kamara (Tombo). Kalokoh who is fondly called *"Country Attacker"* performances in the just concluded league to many football pundits has been referred to as an inspiring moment for the talented young attacker. These ratings and more has however, added up to the developing soccer flames of Kalokoh whose motto is "training hard and playing easy." Kalokoh is currently on trails with the Home based National senior side of Sierra Leone (Leone Stars) ahead of the world cup preliminarily qualifiers and A...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Highly rated football youngster Suffian Kalokoh, who scored ten goals in the 2018/2019 Sierra Leone Premier League and ended 3 rd in the league behind Eastern Tigers and Eastern Lions Bambay  with 12 and  Musa Tombo with 15 goals, is currently proving well at the SLFA football pitch in Kingtom in Freetown, where himself and 50 other invited home based players are undergoing training to catapults into the national Leone Stars squad,  which is expected soonest in September to face the Lone Stars of Liberia in the 2022 World Cup preliminaries Qualifiers. Suffian 16, has scored (8) eight goals in just five days of training with the national home base side all against three of the five invited goalkeepers from top football clubs in country, ranging from the League Champions E.E Lions 3, Runners up Kallon 2, Johansen Goalkeeper 2, with the exception of E.E Tigers and Bo Rangers Goalkeepers who are yet to conceive goals from the to...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) One amongst the hugest challenge that has been affecting the Sierra Leone National Team (Leone Stars) in away matches in one way or the other over the years is lack of enough supporters at such games.  The Western Area Football Association– (WAFA) in collaboration with other partners is working positive behind the drops towards ending this age long deficiency on the September 4, 2019 away game of Sierra Leone to the Lone Stars of Liberia in the 2020 Preliminary World Cup qualifying which is expected to be played in the Liberians’ Samuel K. Doe Stadium. A sample of the  Leone Stars WAFA Supporters Jersey. David Turner, WAFA’s Head of Media and Communications in an exclusive interview with northern times said that: WAFA the largest regional football body in the country is hyper charged to complimenting the efforts of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) by ensuring that they provide a cost recovery scheme for a an e...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) In their efforts to empower, protect and stop all illegal abuses on the girl child and to help primarily northern region teenagers and young girls become the next generation of vitreous societal women in the region and the country at large, the Northern Region Women’s Network (NRWN) has on Thursday 8 th August, 2019 at the regional office north of the Ministry of Social, Gender and Children’s Affairs provided support of Five Hundred Thousand Leones (Le 500,000) cash plus food and cooking condiments to one 13 years old Minor that was sexually by her uncle in Makeni some six Months ago. The donation was double packed, for it was also extended to the Ministry of Social, Gender and Children’s Affairs (MSGCA) Northern Region Headquarters, who were also provided a cash sum of Five Hundred Thousand Leones (Le 500,000) to cover transportation cost on follow ups made on the minor’s sexual accuse case. In her statement prior to the presentation...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) In their strives to promote gender sensitivity, and to continue to implement development projects that will positively impact the people of the north, the country and other implementation areas at large, Action Aid, through its Makeni based office in the Bombali District of Northern Sierra Leone with support from European Union (EU) has successfully launched the “District Citizens Report on Community Score Card in Bombali District” at the Sierra Leone Teachers Union Hall in Makeni. The day’s event brought together various stakeholders in the district plus Action Aid staff who all sat and dialogue on the report and it set goals. Statements after statements were made by some of the stakeholders all geared towards checkmating the report and it was indeed confirmed by them all that the report is the exact one that was gathered by the enumerators from their communities that were selected and trained to carry out the  they survey. Th...