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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Sierra Leone will face Cape Verde in a doubleheader between 22-24 and 29-31 July, this year in the first round of qualifiers for the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship-(CHAN). This pairing was confirmed on Tuesday, 26th May, 2022 by the Confederation of African Football-(CAF) following the conduct of the draw by Algerian legend Djamel Menad and CAF Head of Competitions Khalid Nassar in Cairo. Sierra Leone is among the nine teams in Zone-A battling  to progress from the qualifiers to make it to the finals of this upcoming CHAN  that will be hosted in Algeria. Of the nine nations is Zone-A, three have been seeded to the second leg qualifiers, they are: Guinea, Mali and Mauritania while Sierra Leone, Cape Verde, Liberia, Senegal, The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau will in respectively face each other in two legs with the overall winners of 3 joining the 3 seeded teams in the tournament second round which is scheduled to commence on August 26-28 th...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Yesterday, the Northeastern city of Makeni would have lost valuable lives and prosperities as a result of widespread misinformation by word of mouth and on social media. This would have happened if not for the joint and swift interventions of the Media, Executive Members of the Bombali District Bike Riders Union, Councilors and the Local Unit Commander of the Rogbaneh Police Station, Assistant Commissioner of Police Esther Kaintor Dukuray to calm the two hours plus long unrest in the city. Between the hours of 11:00am to 2:00pm on Thursday, some bike-riders went bazaar and barricaded with their motorbikes main streets along the central business district-(CBD) of the municipality upon receiving rumors that one of their members has been shot and killed by a police officer. The increasing number of the bike riders and their motorbikes blowing their horns loudly feared away the petty traders who have converged at the central market to sell their products as us...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Turmoil was the aftermath of yesterday crucial Sierra Leone Premier League-(SLPL) encounter between East End Lions and Bai Bureh Warriors Football Clubs that took place at the Wusum Stadium in Makeni. The visitors from the Northwestern city of Port-Loko Bai Bureh Warriors who are relegation threatened in the ongoing National Men’s Top-tier shocked the hosts after coming from behind to beat them 1-2 on Wednesday evening, thanks to a reduction of Head coach Mohamed Lamin Kamara’s men to 10 following a reckless tackling and an-sportsmanship-like behavior by an East End Lions player in the second half. The host started the match on high wasting no time to put themselves ahead of the relegation threatened visitors  as their promising forward Alie Conteh scored five minutes on from a Momoh Kabba assist. Motivated by their resilient supporters who where still drumming and singing from the supporters stand at the 10,000 capacity Wusum Stadium, Bai Bureh Warri...

By: David Lebbie Bo Rangers Football Club's Sensational Striker Alusine Talibeh Kamara's close range strike was enough to beat Freetown visitors East End Tigers on Thursday as "The Elephants" stretched their lead at the top of the ongoing Sierra Leone Premier by 14 points more than 2nd place East End Lions. The Southern region based outfit Bo Rangers last week confirmed their championship status with two games to spare after beating FC Johansen 2-1 at a crowed Bo Stadium.  It's no secret that the fans and management's  support and motivation is fueling the players to continue to impress as they chase to set a record win of the National Men's Premier League with the highest adrift other title contenders. During the match, Talibeh who is believed to be among the youngest players playing in this season's League found the back of the net from Musa Noah Kamara's assist in the first half. Upon converting the assist from the defending and current highest ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Teachers nationwide are all ears to hear from the Government of Sierra Leone-(GoSL) through the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary School-(MBSSE) today since issuing a sit-down notice some three weeks ago for their salaries and other conditions of services to be improved. The Teachers notice follows an up and down like situation of laying down their teaching tools last April when schools reopened nationwide for the continuation of the second term of the 2021-2022 academic year. The seemingly disorganized Teachers strike became alarming following the arrest of the self acclaimed Teachers Solidarity Movement-(TSM) National Leader earner this month that ignited raining sympathy and concerns from some Teachers nationwide who taught the TSM leader was being intimidated for advocating on their behalf. Few days after the uprising, Teachers took to open advocacy demanding from the MBSSE to make their conditions of services better as comparable to that of other pub...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Members of Koinadugu Bike Riders Union has unanimously voted their former Vice Chairman Mohamed Dogolo Jalloh as the Union’s new district Chairman. He was voted in at the Kabala Youth Center last Sunday after securing a total of 95 votes four more than his opponent (Kalilu Mansaray) who lost the highly tensioned election. Upon the announcement of the final elections results at the polling center by the returning officer Musa Marrah, the defeated Aspirant Kalilu Mansaray congratulated Mohamed Dogolo Jalloh for winning the elections and called on his supporters to remain peaceful and to support the vision of the newly elected district chairman of the Bike Riders Union of Koinadugu.  But his peace message to his supporters was short-lived as was Patrick J.F Conteh, the Media Officer of the Kabala Police Division confirmed that, “there was a post elections tension mounted by supporters of the losing candidate, which he says was amicably policed by the Police troop...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Forward Amadu Wurie’s 83rd minute strike against Yoni Shooting Stars of Mile-91 earned his side Bombali Shebora Football Club a dramatic comeback last Sunday. Wurie’s goal helped the host to restore their pride in front of their home crowd after they were stunned by the visitors from Tonkolili District two minutes on in the first half. The visitors, returned angry for a win in their clash against the Bombali based outfit after playing to a 2-2 draw against Makelleh Football Club of Fadugu town in Koinadugu District but some unsportsmanlike behaviors by some of their fans at the Stadium during the crunch-tie haunted the team’s performance. The Unsportsmanlike behaviors of the visitors supporters saw the Central Referee, Bangura to instantly sent off 3 Yoni Shooting Stars fans from the perimeters in the 80th minutes before the host attained their dramatic equalizer there minutes later. The result stretched both Bombali Shebora and Yoni Shooting Stars unbeate...