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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Following acute scarcity of petroleum products precisely Petrol in the municipality of Makeni and its environs for almost a week now despite recent increase in the commodity’s pump price from Le 18,000 to Le  22,000, Commercial Motorbike Riders in the areas on Monday, July 4, 2022 suspended their routine services to members of the public demanding government’s intervention. It all started as early as 6:00am when some group of men identified to be commercial motorbike riders stormed strategic areas in Makeni city hunting their colleagues that will come out for routine riding, no surprise there was absolutely no commercial motorbike seen moving around the municipality as usual except for some privately owned. The situation has been experienced for the first time since July, 2020 when curfew was declared in the northeastern city of Makeni following a generator riot. Throughout the early morning hours of yesterday, school going pupils attending various sc...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  During its latest Executive Committee Meeting in the Moroccan city of Rabat, Dr. Patrice Motsepe, the President of the Confederation of African Football-CAF announced the federation’s decision to postpone the 34th TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations to 2024. According to Dr. Patrice Motsepe, CAF has decided to postpone the  TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations in Côte d’Ivoire “as a direct and sole result of the adverse weather conditions in the country and after also having received further technical opinion from experts on adverse effects of staging the matches in that period.” The tournament was earlier scheduled to be played in Ivory Coast for a month precisely from 23rd June to 23 July 2023, but it will now be played between January and February next year in the same nation(Ivory Coast) with 24 of Africa’s Best Men’s Senior National Teams that will progress from the qualifiers which started last months to compete for the prestigious African Trophy...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson   At the Vopad Mini-Stadium in Waterloo, Freetown the Sierra Leone National U-15 Male team impressively humbled Koya All Stars U-17 Football team 2-1 in their ongoing nationwide preparatory friendly matches for the WAFU-A Zone U-15 tournament underway in neighboring Liberia. Coach Alimu Koroma’s regular goal scorers Osman Mansaray and Alimamy Kargbo both registered their names on the score sheets respectively in the 17th and 36th minutes while Koya All Stars U-17’s consolation goal was netted by Abubakarr Mansaray(own goal) to end the entertaining youthful showpiece 2-1. It's the first win from a total of four friendly matches the U-15 side has earned since entering preparatory camp in Freetown on Friday, 26th June, 2022.

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Koinadugu District based outfit, Kabala City Football Club’s Head Coach Thomas Mara said the maturity of his day’s opponent Bombali Shebora Football Club is the main cause to his team’s 5-0 defeat suffered over the weekend at the Wusum Stadium during their encounter in the ongoing Northern East Region Football Association Men’s Super-10 championship. “When the match kicked off my players were playing well until Bombali Shebora evoked their team spirit, showed maturity over my team and started dismantling my side’s defense, netted five times against us to finish on a frustrating 5-0 score line,” he explained. Coach Mara further stated that his ambition now is not to win the ongoing championship but to do his best together with his players in their remaining league games to avoid defeats in order to be safe from relegation. His team’s latest 5-0 defeat inflicted on them by current league leaders Bombali Shebora Football Club is the 14th defeat his side has s...

​By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Makeni All Stars Football Club on Sunday defeated Leone Stars 4-1 at the Wusum Stadium in a warm-up match organized by Caribbean entertainment. It was the first defeat out of five friendly matches played so far by the Sierra Leone Senior Men’s National Team in their ongoing nationwide tour. Host Makeni All Stars which was guided by Former Wusum Stars and Bombali Shebora Football Club Ibrahim A.S Kamara entered into the match with much determination for victory and it did pay off as they played for pride at a crowded Wusum stadium thanks to former Sahid-Conteh-U Football Club’s forward Sulaiman Sheriff Kargbo hat-trick and Wusum Stars promising forward Abdul Bangura’s 50th minute finish. Bo Rangers talismanic goal machine Musa Noah “Tombo” Kamara, the back to back Sierra Leone Premier League Goal king winner scored the only goal for Leone Stars 20 minutes on to level the score at 1-1 in the first half but the host doubled up their efforts in second half scoring...

​ By:  Alusine Rehme Wilson There is no Sierra Leone Referee for the 2022 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations among the final list of 40 Female Referees published by the Confederation of African Football-(CAF) for the continent’s biggest showpiece for Women. Of the CAF Final Referees list, there are 16-Referees, 16-Assistant referees and 8-Video Assistant Referees (VAR) from 24 countries including the host nation Morocco, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and twenty other nations were selected after a rigorous process.   This means, like the Sierra Queens absence in the tournament, there will also be no Sierra Leonean representation in the continent’s. The Women’s National teams contest which kick-off today in Morocco that will be contested by twelve of Africa’s strongest Women’s National team including Botswana, Nigeria, Zambia and host Morocco will mark the return of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations after four years, will be played in two Moroccan cities: Rabat and Casablanca from S...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  After donning the colors of Swiss second division side Neuchatel Xamax Football Club for 18 months, Former skipper of the Leone Stars Umaro Zangalay Bangura is now a free agent, effective Thursday, June 30, 2022. Since joining the club in January, 2021 Bangura represented his former club 31 times across all major tournaments, although his spell there had not let him accomplish all he wanted but the Sierra Leonean international defender who is now free to join any club, believes “he still has more to offer on and off the pitch.” Bangura is among the six players including Samuel Kasongo and Yannick who were loaned to Maladiere and two whose contracts with the Swiss side will not be extended following the end of their contracts with the club this summer, as was announced a week ago by the management of Neuchatel Xamax.