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By: Alsuine Rehme Wilson Some residents in Makeni, mainly women, have told Awoko Newspaper that they’re unhappy with the extensive power outage in the city and its environs especially with the way and manner the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority in the area is regulating the supply of electricity. Most of them in conditions of animosity said they’ve and are still being subjected to suffer a lot of damages with their freezers, televisions, fans plus their other electrical devices as a result of the irregular-rotational supply of lights in the city. “Our livelihood for over ten years now depends on our freezers from where we freeze and sell cold water and assorted drinks on daily basis but since EDSA started giving us on an off supply without any public notification, most of our freezers and other electrical device have been damaged, some are beyond repairs which has increased the burden on us. “Our once bright city is no longer called the city of light and it’s now hard fo...

After the Sama Foundation donated it's first consignment of sport equipment nearly 15 years ago, little did the organization's Sierra Leonean founder imagined how much goodwill it would attract. Based in the state of Texas, Sama has wooed interest from Albion and Imperial Soccer Club, who have pledged to donate more football equipment soon. The Albion and Imperial Soccer Clubs are partners of the Sama Foundation and they intends supporting the foundation with football kits.  The Founder of both clubs Ive Cheema said she is confidence of supporting the clubs with football equipment as usual. Albion and Imperial clubs are managed by the Cheema family and they proposed to continue to supports the Foundation In an online interview, Ive Cheema said “Analisse (my daughter) has taken the lead on this project to help kids like herself. My son has also helped but he’s younger. I’m just a supportive parent. She plans to continue to collect items throughout the year. Reaching out to her f...

By: Alsuine Rehme Wilson   April 1st every year in Sierra Leone is recognized as “April Fool’s Day” and many people across districts in the West African country do make attempts to cajoling others to fall in their prank traps.  But this year’s April’s 1st saw two of Sierra Leone’s most trending comedians Kindo Armani and Yematta one minutes, fifty seven seconds-(1:57) long skirt stole the show as things turned out to be unfortunate for Comedian Kindo Armani whose attempt to use the day to prank comedian Yematta after he was being trapped backfired.  In the video, Kindo Armani who was being slapped thrice by Yematta haven loose his guards in an attempt to see his girlfriend named Fatu, Yematta’s treasured daughter and ventured to Connelly bale himself out pretending he was at Yematta’s compound to cajole and also prank him being the day was April 1st (Fools Day) as he has been doing over the years on the said date. The video by the experienced duo remains trending on the internet as now...

The management of Loreto Health Services, a leading Health Services clinic in Makeni city since 1997 has revealed during a day's awareness raising workshop on Epilepsy and mental illnesses organized for Police, Prisons Officers, Nurses, Epileptic patients, CSOs and stakeholders in Bombali District that: "they may stop seeing Epilepsy patients if Government don't come to their rescue." The clinic which is the sole health center raising awareness about epilepsy and mental illnesses, at the  same time treating thousands of epileptic patients in the North, East and Southern region has called on the Government of Sierra Leone and  other well wishers to urgently intervene and support them financially to further upkeep its health services delivery on epilepsy. Nurse Adama Micheal an experienced nurse and epilepsy champion who also doubles as the deputy overseer of the clinic explained that: “It’s 23 years plus now since our Clinic started delivering health services for thous...

Friends of Ahmadiyya-(FOA), a group of Alumni and well wishers of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Senior Secondary School Rokupr on Wednesday, 29th March, 2022 made a cash donation to the Principal of the School Musa K.D Mahmood on behalf of the school. General Secretary of the Association Madam Fatima Mahamood presented the donation together with a cross section of the (FOA) membership at the school’s multipurpose sports complex during the second and final day of the school’s 37th Annual inter-house sports meeting marking the fourth from Friends of Ahmadiyya to the school since the establishment of the group some two years ago. During the outbreak of the Coronavirus, FOA donated hundreds of face masks to pupils and staff of the Ahmadiyy Muslim Secondary School in Rokupr, donated texts books to the school’s library and earlier this month donated sporting gears to the school’s sporting committee. Receiving the donation, Principal of the school Musa K.D Mahmood expressed thanks to the association f...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson One Hassan Kamara a resident of Rogbom Sala Village, father of three children and husband to Nafat Tarawalie(now deceased) is in police nest after he was arrested on Tuesday for alleged malicious damage and assassination, the North-East Region Police has confirmed.  The suspect, Hassan Kamara was reported to have locked-up his wife together with their child Mamayo in their house at Rogbom-Sala which is located in the Bombali Shebora chiefdom, Bombali District in the Northern part of Sierra Leone over jealousy that led to the eventually death of his wife who together with the house which he has earlier set ablaze burnt down, grace for their child Mamayo who was rescued from the fire accident by neighbors after she was saved through one of the windows of the house.  Meanwhile, the corpse of the deceased wife has been housed at the Makeni Government Hospital for postmortem and Police attached at the Rogbaneh Police Station where the matter was reported says inves...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson   As the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone are set to battle their Togolese counterparts at an international friendly to be played at the Mardan Sports Complex in Aksu, Antayla in Turkey at 16:00 hours GMT, John Keister’s men will be aiming to get their second ever victory or at least their second draw against “the Sparrowhawks”.  Thursday’s meeting of the two nations will be their maiden meeting for an international friendly encounter and Sierra Leone’s trainer who has lined-up 23 players that consists of eight home based and fifteen foreign based players with 10 of the 23 players in camping eyeing their debut appearances for Leone Stars, says “we’re in Turkey for three friendly matches and our desire is to make our nation proud at the same time continue to be respected in terms of Football.”  In all meetings between the two nations since, the Togolese Senior Men’s National team has over the years proved too tough for their Sierra Leonean counterparts.  The Leone St...