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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  The long walk that started on 10th July this year in the eastern regional city of Kono between 351 young footballers representing over 20, U12 and U14 Boys teams in the diamond rich district will climax today at the Kono Stadium before national football icons, sports administrators, government officials, pressmen among others. With the bronze owners of both categories of the twin youthful football contests organized by the Sports for Empowerment Foundation-(SFEF) in collaboration with the Kono District Football Association under the  theme ”Creating better people through the use of Education and Sports," already known,  all four finalists of both categories will be showing off their skills to win the prestigious U12  and U14 giant championships this Sunday. Legendary Football Administrator, former Sierra Leone skipper and Inter Millan Forward Mohamed Kallon, his elder brotherMusa Kallon, the Minister of Sports, SLFA President, fromer SLFA Sc...

By: Sulaiman Stom Korma In 2016 a tragic incident that has now turned out to be a solution for the aged happened.  Mohamed S. Bah witnessed a scene where a pregnant woman was carried on an ordinary blanket from the Gravel Boom Community, which is one of the deprived communities within Freetown, to a hospital that was miles away from their community.  The community is deprived, isolate, and not motorable making it difficult to access the community whenever something tragic happens, it takes the grace of God to salvage it, especially with pregnant women.  On this day, while some of the community members were carrying a pregnant woman to the hospital, one of them carrying her tripped and the woman fell, miscarried, and died. This terrible and pathetic scene created shock and dismay for Mohamed S. Bah, who turned this sorrowful event into inspiration and immediately considered humanitarian support to that community and other deprived communities.  “I was disturbed with t...

By: Emmanuel Jim The college of Human Resource Development (COHRED) one among the leading tertiary institutions in the Northern Region through the C&J Foundation is set to offer executive training and short term courses for the middle and senior management personnel of private and public enterprises, government departments, Ministries and Department Agencies (MDAs), Local Councils and NGOs. Speaking to this medium, the head of the C&J Foundation and Principal of the C&J partners in Makeni, Lawyer Chernor Benedict Jalloh said, the main objective of the courses is to build the capacity of private and public sector and senior management personnel in relevant areas of the law, adding that these courses will enhance their productivity and efficiency at work and minimise and or prevent legal liabilities against their organisations or institutions.  Lawyer Jalloh furthered that the importance of the courses cannot be over emphasized since their relevance is geared towards the ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson    16-year-old gifted teenage winger Fanta Queens has returned to action with Mena Queens after the club’s management made a u-turn on their earlier decision to suspend the player indefinitely from the club activities for alleged breach of contract. Kanneh on Wednesday had her first training session with the Makeni based club since returning from a two weeks long suspension. She told Awoko that she is excited to be back and takes the blame for her unfortunate attempt to breach her contract terms, saying “I’m back to full team action and I’m very determined than ever to give my best to the club especially in the upcoming national women’s premier league which I’m hoping my team to win. “To my fans and the rest of the football family in Makeni and beyond I’m sorry for what happened recently that earned me a two-week suspension from the club activities, such will never happen again,” she assured.

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...