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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Yesterday, the 2023-AFCON qualifier match-day-1 host the Super Eagles of Nigeria flew higher on their Mohamed K.O Abiola home turf in Abuja as they came from behind to beat John Edward Keister’s men 2-1 in their Group-A opener. Eleven-(11) minutes on in the crunch Group-A tie, it was the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone that waved their tri-national colors of green, white and blue flags way higher at in front of a frustrated Super Eagles home crowd after Sierra Leone’s talismanic winger Jonathan Mosaray scored to put his team ahead in the match but that lead was short-lived as the hosts restored parity five minutes later courtesy of Alex Iwobi. 17 minutes on in the much talked about tie, it was all leveled between the West African football rivals  and both nations worked their guts out in search of the vital days win but the host doubled their lead just four minutes left to the end of the first half as Victor Osimhen slide through the visitors defense and comfor...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  With barely six more games left for each of the nine participating teams to complete the ongoing North East Region Football Association’s maiden Men’s Super-10 championship, the time was ripe to determine whether current league leaders Bombali Shebora FC’s unbeaten. But the Makeni based high flying side has failed to beat their Ocean Boys FC’s counterparts twice this season to win the much trumpeted first ever NERFA Men’s Super-10 Championship, after bowing 1-0 last Sunday at the Wusum Stadium in Makeni. The defeat was after Shebora’s 1-1 draw with Yoni Shooting Stars who currently sits second behind them and the win was the first for “the Blue and White Boys” who had successively lost 3-1 to Dogoloya and Makelleh Football Clubs their clash with current league leaders saw them seek revenge of their 1-0 defeat they had suffered in the first round of the tournament. Forward Santigie Kamara netted the vital goal which turned out to be the sole in the encounte...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Madam Patricia Umu Dankay Brown, the founder and owner of Kambia District based female football outfit, Patricia Umu Strikers Football Club of Kambia has historically secured a training pitch for her North-West Female soccer powerhouse, becoming the second team after Katara Ladies Football Club of Rokupr to own a training arena in the entire district. The newly unveiled pitch is situated at Olivani Street in Kambia Town, Kambia District in the Northwestern region of Sierra Leone just a few meters near the Kolenten Senior Secondary School premises. Players and officials of the club as well as officials of of the local Football Federation(KDFA) and residents of the area have welcomed the development which they believed will help to keep female football alive in the district. Morlai Gbla, spokesman for the Kambia District Football Association-(KDFA) says the pitch size of of standard quality. “It’s equal in size to the sizes of national and international pitc...

By: Sulaiman Stom Koroma ​ The thirst for overseas travel is gaining interest from youths in Sierra Leone, Africa, and other parts of the world.  For some, it’s a real struggle, a struggle that will see them go through the huddles and difficulties of Africa crossing points to their final destination of hope, for others, it’s a new way of making money, spending less to travel to an Africa country and seek repatriation home and make more money, while for others, they are duped and literally sold to work in other counties as slaves. Ibrahim Yayah Kamara has attempted to travel abroad two consecutive times, and even with those failed attempts, he is still considering a third. “I still want to travel no matter what, this is my ambition to fulfill. My mother and other relatives are looking up to me as the current breadwinner, it is not possible to achieve what I want in Sierra Leone, overseas is where the possibility lies, and I must go there” he said.  Ibrahim Kamara was introduced...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Sierra Leone Men’s Top-flight Record-Breaker Musa Noah “Tombo” Kamara and 10 other players from the season’s top four clubs have been named in the team of the season. The Bo Rangers and Leone Stars Forward who netted 18 goals to defend his Golden Boot Award, becoming the first ever to achieve such record and now remains the overall highest goal scorer in the Sierra Leone Top-tier was unveiled on Saturday, 4th June, 2022 by the 2021-2022 Sierra Leone Premier League Board. Bo Rangers Coach Jose Solomon Cortes and four other players that involved in their historic and maiden Champion Win for the club namely: Saidu “Malian” Mansaray(Defender), Esheik Kamara(Defender), Saidu Bah and Mohamed Fogbawa both Midfielders together with Wusum Stars debut defender Ishmail Kanu, Alimamy Buya Kamara, East End Lions Skipper Kemson Fofanah, Prince Barrie as well as Mighty Blackpool’s goalman and forward Saidu Kamara and Donald Wellington all formed the season’s best XI. Thi...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson   On Saturday, June 3, the United Kingdom Commissioner to Sierra Leone Lisa Chesney visited the former President Ernest Bai Koroma at his Makeni resident. At Koroma’s Robureh premises, he dialogued with the UK High Commissioner on a range of national and international issues including emerging political issues. For the Former President, he says he’s pleased that, the British High Commissioner stopped by whilst she is in his hometown-(Makeni). He sized the opportunity and extended his “warmest congratulations to the Queen on her Platinum Jubilee on the throne, her 70 years of service to the UK and the Commonwealth. And described the dialogue as “fantastic” via a statement he posted on his official Twitter account with 51.7K audience.  Commissioner Lisa on the other hand, Retweeted the former statesman’s twit with an appreciation note saying, “Thank you Ernest Bai Koroma for a productive and wide-ranging discussion. We covered a lot of ground, including ...

By:  Alusine Rehme Wilson  Sources from the Shooting Stars, the National Men’s U-17 team of Sierra Leone Camp in Liberia have confirmed that entire squads “is in high gears to face their Morrrocan counterparts later today at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium.” Head coach Mohamed Lamin Kamara believes their ultimate goal, “is to make Sierra Leone Proud at the end of the friendly matches.” Earlier, Mansurr Koroma, the Media officer attached to the team told AWE-MEDIA.SL on Saturday afternoon that, “the team will kick off first of the many friendly matches expected to be played in Monrovia against the Moroccan U-17 and U-20 teams as well as the Liberian U-17 teams. Explained that, “the Shooting Stars of Sierra Leone will first battle their Moroccan U-17 counterparts on Sunday, June 8 at 4:pm at the Antoinette Tubman Mini Stadium with the return leg set to be played three days later at the same venue and time and then the other friendly matches will come up in succeeding dates to be eventually...