AWE Media Sierra Leone

By: Amin Kef - (Ranger) In the bid to complement government’s effort in providing free health services to less privileged persons in the country, the Choithram Memorial Hospital is poised to undertake two days free Diabetes screening and treatment from the 7th to the 8th November, 2019 at the Choithram Memorial Hospital, Hill Station in Freetown. Speaking to this medium in an interview, Dr. Gowrinath M. George, Medical Superintendent of Choithram Memorial Hospital said this is part of their corporate social responsibility as an institution, adding that the two days free Diabetes screening and treatment from the 7th to the 8th November, 2019 is geared towards providing quality and free treatment for people with Diabetes across the country. He went on to say that during the process of Diabetes screening and treatment, medicines will be also given to patients free of cost. He maintained that consultation is free and that the time the free service starts is 9:00am and ends at 3:00p...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) Renowned man of God, Philanthropist and Author of popular book: “Under the Mango Tree” and partners: Concord Community Church (CCC) from South Carolina in the United States of America has on Monday 28 th October donated school bags, assorted cloths including other learning materials to one hundred and ninety – (190) vulnerable children   and have commissioned two newly constructed and well furnished buildings for thirty-eight – (38) Orphans and other vulnerable children at the Frank Vogenitz Children’s Home in Makeni, Bombali District, Northern part of Sierra Leone. The two building are both self contained consisting of six rooms and two rooms each which was funded by South Carolinian,   based Christian Family: Concord Community Church through Makeni based Man of God and sports personality: Bambay Sawaneh. The dedication ceremony of the two new building for Frank Vogenitz Children’s Home attracted and brought toget...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) Various Persons with Disability (PWDs) in the North including the NCPD Regional Coordinator North, Beatrice Koroma at the Polio Persons Development Association (PoPDA) camp premises situated in Magbenteh, along the Makeni-Freetown Highway on Friday October 18 ,  2019 ushered a rousing welcome to a high powered delegation comprising of officials from the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) including the commission’s Executive Secretary, Saa Lamin Kortequee and the Chairman, James  Taiwo  Cullen who later simultaneously presented various amounts in Cheque worth about twenty five million Leones (Le 25,000,000) to three Disable Persons Organizations (DPOs):  Vision for the Blind, Polio Persons Development Association and Disability Institute for Dignity and Development (DIDDA)  based and operational in the Bombali and Tonkolili District. NCPD outreach officer chaired the event and he invited...

Episode One : By: Abu Bakarr Kamara (De Luminary Sierra Phoenix) I had just completed my Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communication. Roaming around the street with no job to lean on for survival. As a young grad, from typical African home, the family now look forward to my support. This is without even considering the booby trap in society to gaining control of a lucrative job. I was pissed off. The atmosphere in my house couldn't favor my stay even for an hour during daytime. Imagine father had to call me a lazy boy, with not much meat on my bones. Momma will shout at me with insults, saying I'm a disappointment to the family. So being a songwriter, a poet and a guitarist, I had to hit the studio everyday from 8am to 9pm. That's the only way I was earning pocket money to meet my immediate needs; until when the studio manager sent me to deliver a letter to a nearby bar and restaurant. I took the letter along with my guitar. In my fresh looks and well curled dreadlocks,...

By: Francis Sowa A bill entitled ‘The Public Order (Amendment) Act, 2019’ has been gazetted. It seeks to “amend the Public Order Act, 1965 (Act No. 46 of 1965) by repealing Part V which deals with defamatory and seditious libel and to provide for other related matters.’ This followed Cabinet’s approval to repeal same. The next destination in the repeal process is Parliament. A bit of history: The Public Order Bill was introduced in Parliament in 1965 by Sir Albert Margai, the second Prime Minister of Sierra Leone. He apparently influenced parliament to enact a law that would serve as a sledge hammer to silent his critics and members of the opposition. Parliament, nonetheless, enacted the Bill despite the serious opposition (Kamara, J, 2007). The 1965 Public Order Act (a substantial extraction from the U.K Libel Act 1843 when it existed) is widely considered to be draconian and out of tune with the tenets of fundamental human rights. The fact that journal...

‼NEWS IN👁 ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Players and Supporters of the North have expressed concerns through display of placards picking on various neglects ranging from third party interference, selfishness, hatred and more by people they referred to as self centered individuals who has got little or no investments or expertise in football and related activities but has been purporting to be working for the general football family. The said players and supporters voiced to a mass audience at the Wusum mini stadium their dearest readiness to continue to show case    talents from the north to the nation and the rest of the world which is why they stand with the decision from the Executive Committee of adding two clubs from the North to maintain a geographical balance in the country's elite league. "We are calling on President Bio to enhance the nationalistic sport flavour an...