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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson FC Johansen’s Head Coach Ibrahim Sillah otherwise refereed to as “the prodigal coach” will later today at the Wusum Stadium in Makeni lead “the dream chasers” against his former side East End Lions. As both teams enters into today’s Sierra Leone Premier League match day 29 clash, stakes are high for both coaches who will be looking forward to securing the vital three points from the much talked about match. FC Johansen’s Head Coach Ibrahim Sillah is no stranger to the opposing teams, he had guided both teams in two capacities first as Assistant coach to John Keister at both FC Johansen and East End Lions and eventually became the substantive Head coach at both FC Johansen and East End Lions following the departure of the former. Earlier this season, Coach Sillah was the Head Coach of East End Lions but parted ways with the 2019 League Champions and returned to his former club as prodigal coach where he had recently signed a new contract at Head coach of FC Joha...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson East End Lions defense has been boosted once again following the arrival of its promising left back Abdul Razack Conteh. Conteh rejoined his East End Lions teammates for training on April 19 in Freetown and resumed top-tier action for the 2019 League Champions last Friday, after being overseas for nearly six months.  East End Lions FC’s Head coach Mohamed Lamin Kamara introduced the gigantic and promising left back together with his teammate Abu Dumbuya in the 88th minute during their match day 29 1-0 victory against Anti Drugs FC at the Wusum Stadium in Makeni. Prior to the end of the Sierra Leone Premier League first round last year, Conteh left the shores of Freetown for a proposed trial with Portuguese side FC Porto resulting to him missing out a spot from the senior national men’s team (Leone Stars) 2021-AFCON Squad.  The skillful defender who last skipped the national men’s U-20 at a WAFU-A tournament was reported to have been stranded in Gambia where h...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl Since joining “the killers” last February, Alie Conteh has been busy showing his goal scoring prowess for the Freetown based outfit in this season’s elite men’s championship. Conteh who’s on his debut Sierra Leone Premier League stint have been featured in 10 times for the 2019 SLPL Champions and has made history as the first player to score at hits first eight games. His impressive goals scoring skills earned him a debut call up to Leone Stars, the senior men’s national team of Sierra Leone and was part of Head coach John Edward Kiester’s 23-man squad to Turkey last February for the Antalya cup. He was eventually featured in  Sierra Leone’s last two friendly matches against Liberia and Congo Brazzaville.  Conteh has so far scored a total of 10 goals in all appearances for East End Lions Football Club including a brace against 2012 champions Diamond Stars football club. He has been also involved in hist teams last 15 goals in this season ongoin...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl Country Representative of German Doctors in Sierra Leone, Fanta Daboh has reassured the organization’s continued support to Commit and Act Foundation Sierra Leone. Madam Daboh says “German Doctors are so far impressed with the implementation work Commit and Act Foundation Sierra Leone is doing in Bo, Bombali and Tonkolili District in-terms of combating rampant FGM practices and other Sexual and Gender Based Violence against teenage school going griots and women through the “My Body, My Rights Project”. Continued saying: “The testimonies she’ve heard from beneficiaries of the “My Body, My Rights Project” are very positive to their work as donor. “I want to categorically state that German Doctors as the Project donor we moved and therefore assure of another funding for the next 18 months for a project targeting to provide Sowies with livelihood support as well as proving Financial packages to local leaders involved in the practices of Female Geni...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl A total of 30 Journalists from various districts in the North-West and Northern Regions have received capacity building training on Transitional Justice from the Media Reform Coordinating Group-Sierra Leone-(MRCG-SL). The day’s training which took place at the Where Else hall in Makeni city on Monday, 25th April, 2022 was facilitated by two UNIMAK Lectures namely Shebora Samba Kamara and Matthew Kanu, enlightened the Journalists working for several radio, television and newspaper institutions in the two northern regions on a number of topics including the meaning of Transitional Justice, Transitional Justice Mechanisms as well as Media and Transitional Justice. The Journalists were further trained on how to report on Transitional Justice issues in their respective regions and the nation by extension before they went on and identified Transitional Justice Issues evident in the North-West and Northern Regions, presented their work and proffered a...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists Electoral Commission–(SLAJEC) has on Monday, 25th April, 2022 extended the nominations deadline to close of business today. SLAJEC says they have resolved to extend the nominations deadline following several requests from members wanting to fill vacant positions in the national and northern regional executives. However, the nation’s elite Journalists Association further reminds the SLAJ membership that: “extending nominations beyond the above-mentioned date will ultimately disrupt the electoral timeline and, by extension, impinge on the outcome of the elections. And that “concession will be limited to accepting nominations for the available vacant positions of Assistant Secretary General (National), Assistant Secretary and Financial Secretary (Northern Region)." The latest SLAJEC correspondence follows its Monday morning announcement of nominees for the forthcoming National and Regional Elections scheduled for Sa...

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...