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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Over the weekend, Sierra Leone’s first ever Youth Football Development League for U12 and U14 Boys ended momentously in the diamond rich district of Kono in the Eastern province. Hundreds of parents, young boys and girls as well as relatives and loved ones of the lads who took part in the tournament among other key stakeholders in the Kono District and Sport enthusiasts nationwide turned out for the grand closing ceremony that was hosted at the Kono community field. On the day the four finalists namely Sierra Rangers, Golden Soccer Academy, City Strikers and Golden Soccer Football Clubs of both U12 and U14 categories entertained the record number of spectators with some mind-blowing soccer exhibition. In the first encounter of the two finals played on the day, Golden Soccer Academy came from behind through Patrick D. Conteh’s late goal to batter the dreams of their Sierra Rangers opponent after beating them 4-2 on post game penalties shootouts to emerge ch...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Reigning Champions of the North-East Region Men’s Super-10 in Sierra Leone, Bombali Sebora Football Club and the rest of the football family in the sports loving nation are mourning the sudden demise of the Makeni based club’s Head coach David Paul Jr. who passed  on this evening  in Kenema. Medical report from the Kenema Government Hospital indicates that the Librarian Born technician died of hypertension. His death occurred few minutes after his team lost their opening game 2-1 to Edmond Michael Foundation from Bo in the Men’s National playoff. The results reviewed a similar bitter old memory that saw the same opponent’s battered the 2012 top-tier dreams of the highflying Bombali District based club  following their 2-1 triumph that season in the national men’s playoffs which doubles similarly as the qualifier to the nation’s elite league letting them to commence fresh long walk since until 2022 when they also reached their current stage. The fo...

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.