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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Onward to Sunday’s Sierra Leone Premier League match day-22 encounter between Wusum Stars Football Club and Mighty Blackpool Football Club, AWE-Media.SL awexamines the worrying and welcoming team news of the host. What’s the Worrying News: The host Wusum Stars Football Club who are currently seated on 5th place in the league table with 34 points after 21 games will for the first time be forced to make a slight change in their starting-Xi upfront as one of their star forwards Sulaiman S. Kargbo’s injury status remain unclear since he was replaced in their match day-20 clash against the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces Football Club-(RSLAF) after he picked an injury in his left leg. The forward who have made an overall total of eighteen appearances for the Bombali based Sierra Leone Premier League returnees in the Sierra Leone Premier League since he joined the team on loan from Sahid Conteh-U Football Club has netted five goals and is currently 9th on the ...

By: Amadu Wurie Timbo Newly established humanitarian Organization Bathuly Timbo Foundation (BTF) on Tuesday 8th March 2022 held a day long induction meeting with Under-12 Officials. The event which was hosted at the Mabunduka Community in Sanda Tenderen Chiefdom North-western Sierra Leone brought together Team managers and Coaches of all four Under-12 soccer teams existing under the canopy of the Foundation in Karene District. The engagement focused at equipping team administrators with well-heeled knowledge on their respective roles and responsibilities. Equally, they were able to earn knowledge on leadership, Laws of the Game and some other essential soccer skills which were done in both theoretical and practical. Mr. Alpha Bellah Bangura, BTF Board of Directors Chairman Chaired the event which kick starts the foundation's 2022 events, said he believe officials are worthy to get utmost attention in order to rightfully help make relevant the soccer officials in discharging their r...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Leone Stars midfielder Kwame Quee took to the internet to share his excitement after having a bit of playing time with his new club Najran SC of Saudi Arabia. The talented Sierra Leone winger turned midfielder says he is happy to have played a part during the Arabian side’s Najran SC 2-1 win which they picked up last Wednesday at the King Abdulllah Sports City Jaddah their day’s opponent Jeddah Football Club home stadium. The 25-year-old Sierra Leone soccer sensation who represented his home country at the 33rd Edition of the Africa Cup of Nations before he joined the Saudi Arabian side some two weeks ago from Island based outfit Vikingur Reykjavik where he won several laurels including the 2019 Icelandic Cup, posted two photos of him donning the green, red and yellow colors of his new team on all his social media handles with the caption: “First experience in the Arab world. Some minutes in the tank +3 point. Vamos Najran. To the Fans Shukrann.” His agilit...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy) Yes, we look back and look forward to the great day. The world sometimes, if not most times, portrays men as the monsters in the corridors of women's "enmancipation" and "gender equality". As a man I have worked for women all my life. Yet, the global space entertains that women are marginalized by men. No man is responsible for the current gender configuration in our society. It is the way it is as a cultural conditioning. Simply put, gender is societal ascription of roles between men and women. So let us all work to do cultural reconfiguration on gender. Year in year out, celebration of the international women's day is a stalk reality, confined in the urban corridors of our society with elite women making the loudest uncoordinated noise but extremely not countenancing the majority of women in the farms, the quarries and water sides struggling to give a little meaning and hope to their aptly described horrible lives. I think th...

STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT OF SWASAL, SAHR MORRIS JR. ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY ON THE THEME: "GENDER EQUALITY TODAY FOR A SUSTAINABLE TOMORROW" The international theme set out by the United Nations is "Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow". However, this theme is being popularized with a hashtag theme: "Breaking The Bias"(#BreakTheBias). In all these considerations, SWASAL joins women of the World to celebrate their political, social, cultural and economic contributions in making the world a better place for us all. Every year on March 8, the whole world gives itself time to reflect on gender equality; celebrate women's contributions and achievements in their various spheres of endeavours and safeguard their fundamental rights. Rightly so, therefore, today's reflection is popularized by the hashtag "BreakTheBias as a way of ensuring the sustainability of gender equality in all spheres of interest of women around the world. The...

By Abdulai Fornah  The Director General of the National Aids Secretariat (NAS) of Sierra Leone  Abdul Rahman Sesay has in an exclusive with AWE-Media.SL earlier today disclosed that persons that have been enrolled for Prep drug are 99% safe interms of contracting the HIV and AIDS. He made the disclosure while speaking to AWE-Media.SL about the Prep Drug at the National Aids Secretariat premises in Dwarzack Farm in Freetown. "Prep is a new intervention that have been introduced into the national response of HIV and AIDS, adding that it is a prevention intervention or prevention strategy for the vulnerable population of persons at high risk zones where the HIV and AIDS can be easily contacted, especially for persons involved in commercial sex. "But once you are on prep, your chances of getting the virus reduces by almost 99%," he assured.  And further disclosed that "Sierra Leone has a lot of commercial sex workers, but the consistent and correct use of condom still r...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Morlai Kargbo, the court clerk attached at local court No. 1 located at Turntable area in Makeni Northern Sierra Leone said Challenge cases tops the total number of cases they deliver judgments on since 2021. He further revealed that such cases limit the court to levying fines because most of the cases that are sermons at our court range from depts. cases, alleged use of abusive languages, married palavers amongst others and both plaintiffs and defendants normally agree to striking compromises for out of courts settlements. “Since 2021, we’ve received over 100 summonses and dealt with the majority of such summons but to be frank, the majority of such cases are challenge contests between plaintiffs and defendants with a bulk of these cases being redrawn for home settlements. “We’ve stated provisions to act on, that will help to see persons being tried and if found guilty of the alleged crimes be fined according to law and such monies be paid to boost the treasur...