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Date: 21-22 April 2022 Venue: Freetown International Conference Center (Bintumani), Aberdeen, Freetown, Sierra Leone Time: 9:30am   Opening Courtesies...   Today we are making another history as the first-ever National Media Viability and Investment Conference kicks off, marking the first conscious and determined step taken by media stakeholders with support from the Government of SL and the BBC Media Action’s PRIMED Project to begin to address the economic and other systemic challenges facing the media in Sierra Leone.   There is no better time this media investment summit could have come other than now, almost two years after the historic repeal of the criminal and seditious libel law. And one of the strongest arguments we put forward for the repeal was that that law was preventing private sector investment into the media in the country because no sensible investor would want to invest in a sector that could easily escort them to police cells or the Pademba Road Prisons (now the SLCS...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  On Thursday, 21st April, 2022 the first ever Girls Conference begins at the Magburaka Boys School hall, in Tonkolili District, Northern Sierra Leone.   The two days long (21st-22nd April, 2022) maiden Girls Conference is organized by Commit and Act Foundation-(CAF), a non-government organization championing campaigns against Female Genital Mutilation for the protection of girls in the Bo, Bombali and Tonkolili District with funds from German Doctors.   In a powerpoint presentation delivered at the conference by Hannah Bockarie the founder and Country Director of Commit and Act Sierra Leone, she briefly reminisced on her journey with the foundation which she disclosed she has single handedly started in Bo in 2013 with the desire to proving assorted assistance to women and girls in Sierra Leone which she says she is very happy about now counting on the progress and lives its has impacted positively.   “Today we've  gathered to dialogue together with our girl...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl Several Subscribers of Orange Sierra Leone’s Mobile Money Services “Orange Money” who won assorted food items as prices from the  leading telecommunication services provider Ramadan Promotion remains all cheering in the Northern region economic city. The Orange mobile money subscribers had won several food items as prizes from a raffle conducted by Orange Money staff at the entrance to the main market of Makeni city opposite the clock tower located along the central business district of the municipality. Food items won from the raffle by the pool of orange money subscribers from the Saturday Ramadan promotion includes boxes of tin tomato, Orange branded orange money backpacks, caps and t-shirts as well as tins of milk, 5kg sugar, and 5kg packs of rice among other condiments. Speaking on the purpose for the promotion, Abibatu Baxter, Head of Marketing Strategy and Partnerships for Orange Money Sierra Leone told Awoko Newspaper that: “the day...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl  Masongbo Community Health Center-(CHC), mosques and churches in the community have all been lit-up courtesy of one of its indigenes Foday “604” Tarawilie. Of the eight-(8) solar lights that were single handedly donated to each of the three mosques, two churches, the Community Health Center and two installed at the two entrances of Masongbo community have all brought succor to the community. The lights have now become the center of attraction in the community and parents interviewed have thanked the donor for the lights which they say are now used at night by their children to study, especially those in the primary and junior secondary schools NPSE and BECE examination classes. For health workers at the Masongbo Community Health Center, they say the solar light installed at the center is beginning to save them from much fear during the night’s hours and has so far boosted their confidence to attend to more patients in the night hours. As it...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl  The Senior District Officer-(SDO) of Bombali District Abubakarr Kamara has issued a two weeks ultimatum to the Bike riders, Motor drivers and Traders Unions as well as Fuel Station Owners to harmonize their prices. Kamara issued the stern warning during a DiSec meeting between the Bike riders, Motor drivers and Traders Unions as well as Fuel Station Owners that was hosted at the Wusum Stadium in Makeni where the urged the said stakeholders to prepare and present lists of prices for passengers as well as assorted commodities as a way to ensure stability in transportation costs as well as the prices of commodities in the city and its environs. He disclosed that: “his office is working hand in gloves with member of the District Security Committee of Bombali-(DiSec) with other key stakeholders to set up “the Makeni Model” a scheme that will make way for uniform prices in commodity costs as well as transport fares in the northern region city an...

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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Yesterday at the Magbenteh Black Field, Justice Football defeated Tigo Stars Football 1-0 in match day-1 of the maiden edition of Honorable Alimamy Kamara Trophy. Winger David Marah scored the all important goal for his side 10 minutes in the first half of the encounter to earn his team a comfortable win in the opening ceremony of the tournament, no surprise he was voted man of the match. The tournament which is organized for twelve men’s teams from several communities in Makeni, Northern Sierra Leone will be played daily at the Magbenteh Black Field for the next twenty-eight days. The twelve participating teams are: Tigo Stars, Santino, Justice, Channel one, Bombay Stars, Young Stars, Magebnteh Veterans, All Stars, Sowa, New York, Future Boys and Sico Football Club which have been already grouped from A-C in that order. According to Mohamed Titi Kamara, the chief organizers: “two teams each from the three groups including two overall best losers will progress ...