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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson    A 33-Man delegation consisting of players and officials of the Sierra Leone Men’s Home base team (Leone Stars Team-B) have arrived safely in Liberia ahead of their first leg CHAN second round qualifiers encounter with their Malian counterparts. The team’s delegation list is yet made public by the Sierra Leone Football Association-(SLFA) but they departed Kenema at 8:00am for the Liberian capital Monrovia where they arrived at 3:10pm according to Ibrahim “Bugalo” Kauu, the media officer attached to the team.   WAFA Chairman Pastor Philip Buck is the leader of the delegation that includes the Team Coordinator Victor Lewis, SLFA’s Director of Competition Sorie Ibrahim Sesay, recalled Bo Rangers Goal Machine Musa Noah “Tombo” Kamara, new recruit David Janneh among others are lodged at the Seaview Residence in Monrovia ahead of their match against the Eagle of Mali which is scheduled to be played at the SKD Stadium on Saturday, 27th August, 2022.

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson    The Women’s Premier League Board for the proposed first-ever National Female Championship will at 10:00am today engage players and officials of Mena Queens Football Club, key stakeholders in Bombali District and other football enthusiasts to discuss matters relating to the champions which is scheduled to kick start in September this year. Wusum Stadium in Makeni has been announced as the venue for the meeting which forms part of the nationwide consultative tour the Board is conducting across the five football administrative regions for players, officials, supporters, key districts stakeholders among other football enthusiasts of all the twelve teams tipped to compete in the proposed maiden National Female top-tier. Meanwhile, the management of Mean Queens Football Club through its media department has in a presser extended an invitation to stakeholders in Bombali District and the Northern Region to grace the visit of the Women Premier League Board s...

​ IBRAHIM KOROMA’s AUTOBIOGRAPHY Edited by: Alusine Rehme Wilson(Researcher & Multimedia Journalist)✍🏾    My name is Ibrahim Koroma from Sierra Leone, West Africa. I was born in Matotoka,  a town in the Northeastern district of Tonkolili, and I will be turning 30 on November 25 this year.    I’m the 25 th  child and the second youngest son to my father who married seven wives including my mother (now late), to whom I am her child.   From a family of thirty-three(33) with twenty-five(25) step brothers and sisters, I was initially raised by my mother in Matotoka town where I started my primary school education and in 2005 until I was admitted at the Magburaka Primary School for Boys which is located in the heartbeat of the Tonkolili district headquarter town of Magburaka, where I attended until I sat to the National Primary School Examination-(NPSE) in 2008.    Haven excelled from the NPSE, I furthered my education at the Magburaka Governm...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  As the effects of COVID-19 and the Ukraine-Russia Cold War continues to ravage the economies of other nations especially low income and developing countries across the globe, Sierra Leone is among the bald hit nations whose economic recovery now needs an urgent rebirth. It is evident that the twin global misnomer have not only succeed to adding flames to the high level of unemployment in the country but have also given raise to alarming rate of lawlessness as seen in contemporary occurrences in some parts of the country including Freetown, Makeni among others. In addendum to these seemingly hard to beat challenges the West African nations is experiencing and battling with, there is also wild rate of hike in the prices of basic commodities especially food stuff which some traders have allegedly “is as a result of the rapid increases in the pump prices of petroleum products in the country.” While out and about on routine facts findings and News hunting, I wa...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Mr. Tamba Tappia Fornah alias Mr. Tee, the Northern Region Amputee and War-Wounded Association Chairperson has revealed things are becoming unbearable for his membership. He told AWE-Media.SL: “his membership is suffering acutely,” and they’re getting no regular assistance from either the government or the private sector.” Mr. Fornah who was voted to the post unopposed by delegates of the Amputee and War-Wounded Association in Bombali in September last year to replace the Association’s earliest chairman Mohamed Bangura (Soccer Med), on a three years mandate in charge of handling the activities and programs of the Amputees and War-Wounded Associations at both district and regional levels he is gradually achieving some of his manifesto promises to increasing its membership, creating an office space, keeping our football team in good form as well as collaborating with fellow Amputees, Key Government and Non-Stakeholders including NCPD and related bodies. In t...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Sierra Leone’s U15 lads hope of returning home from the ongoing WAFU-A tournament hosted in Monrovia with silver medals was battered by the host Liberia following a 2-1 defeat on Saturday morning. The visitors failed to hold grip of their early lead that was engineered by forward Osman Mansaray’s fantastic goal scored three minutes on, no doubt the young Sierra Leonean was named man of the match. It was Ezekiel Varney who responded two minutes after Mansaray’s curtain raiser to keep both nations at per in the first half until Emmanuel Flomo doubled the lead for the host two minutes on to the end of the match. The result follows a Friday earliest 3-1 defeat to Senegal and now means end of the road for the Sierra Leone U15 Male team in the second edition of the WAFU-A youthful competition, after falling to win one of their two matches in the new plan of this year’s contest which started on bright notes for the Sierra Leonean Lads after they walloped Mauritan...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson    On their home turf, the Makeni Single Leg and Amputee Sports Association Football team was demonized 2-0 by the National side on Friday evening at the Wusum Stadium. Both goals were scored in the second half following a goalless first half and Gbassay Koroma, one of the two Sierra Leone Single Leg and Amputee Professional Footballers plying his in Turkey who scored the second goal for the Single Leg and Amputee Sports Association of Sierra Leone -(SLASA) Football Team said “it feels good to play against my former teammates after a while.” Koroma adds that he’s impressed by the good show put up by his former Makeni teammates despite the number of challenges they are faced with to play Single Leg and Amputee Football locally.  “What I’ve felt and saw during the match is a good signal that our nation is gifted with a number of talented players at local level and if they are given the much needed support our national team can be more competitive at...