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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  On her debut appearance, gifted female rising forward Sarah Turay made history last Saturday for her new club Mena Queens Football Club of Bombali District as she scored late to restore parity for her side at home against Victory Football Club from Freetown in the National Women’s League. She was making her debut appearance since she joined the Makeni based club on loan from Konsho Football club after missing out from her team’s opening game against Kahulan Queens of Kenema due to delay in the processing of her life card by the league organizers. Introduced into the match as a second half substitute, Turay wasted no time to slot the ball in the back of their opponent’s net after receiving a cross from her teammate Fatmata Kamara to set their home crowd bazaar in celebration as they equalized in the late minutes of the weekend cracker. In an interview with Awoko Newspaper, the thrilled Sarah Turay thanked her fans and supporters of Mena Queens for cheering ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  The once deplorable Makeni Central Business District area road on Rogbaneh road by the city’s clock tower was rehabilitated over the weekend by Youth Groups from various areas in Makeni city and its environs who had teamed up with famous businessman and politician Abubakarr “Lamtales” Kamara. The youth groups included youth from the Makama Young Shall Grow Organization, Friends United, Stocco Area and Ade Street Youth Groups that collaborated with members of the Friends of Lamtales to rehabilitate the road on Sunday. According to representatives of some of the Youth Groups, their latest collaboration was born out of the desire to save lives of the people of Makeni and other users of the rehabilitated from getting injured in the deplorable Makeni CBD area. “We’re into this partnership with the sole ambition to give back to our city through development of this nature and to also send a signal to duty bearers that we are thirsty for development which is why o...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Scarcely a little over two weeks since the National Women’s League was officially launched in Makeni by President Julius Maada Bio, his wife and the rest of the football family in Sierra Leone, the league is being received with open arms within and across the country for a number of reasons with many anticipating for regular games to be hosted in their localities. One of those locals wanting fe male games to be played in his locality is Osman Conteh, a bike rider in Kabala town for nearly 10 years now. Conteh told Awoko Newspaper at the Yogomaya playing field in Kabala town after the cracker between host Albitaya Queens and Patricia Umu Strikers Football Club from Kambia that he’s had made enough money on the day through transporting passengers from various areas in Kabala to the match venue. According to Osman, he did not watch the match but he was excited to learn that their own girls of Kabala were playing a female top-tier for the very first time in th...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Koinadugu District based sole representative team at the maiden edition of the National Women’s Premier League Albitaya Queens Football Club was on Sunday dislodged 3-1 in Freetown by their Sierra Leone Police opponent. Police Women’s FC trios Mabinty Sama, Elfrida George and Messie Swaray goals were enough to secure all three points at home for their side leaving the visitor’s from Kabala heartbroken after losing their second straight match in the ongoing National Women’s Championship, following their 0-1 home defeat to Patricia Umu Strikers of Kambia. On the day, Albitaya FC’s Promising goal-machine Gbassay Kamara scored the only goal for her side in their 3-1 away defeat to Sierra Leone Police FC, the goal which is now the first goal for team, says she's excited to have netted on her debut appearance in the League after missing out their opening game at home last on 17th October in Kabala. Regardless of the successive defeats, Albitaya Queens team Capta...

​ By: Amadu Wurie Timbo The Bombali Deaf Development Association has  set new goals at a well-attended meeting held on Saturday 22nd October 2022, at the Pastoral Center on Dr Ernest Bai Koroma Road, Makeni city in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone.  The meeting was organized to solidify the living force of unity amongst members of the Association,to discuss golden and set new goals with hopes to uplift the Association and equally its treasured membership.  Securing an Office space and  to expand its membership empowerment were throughly discussed by attendees of the meeting.  Mr. Abdulrahman Barrie is the President of the Bombali Deaf Development Association, in his statement during the meeting, he reminded attendees that: ‘the Association is a kind of special body that gears towards redeeming the deaf from the many daily challenges they face in their moves as a result of their disability, ranging from illiteracy to unemployment, discrimination and others.’...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  With fund from their CEO Unisa Kamara, who’s currently based in the U.S, the Bombali District Deaf Development Association on Saturday held their maiden planning meeting since the organization was established six years ago. The meeting took place at the premises of Pastoral Center on Teko Road in the northeastern regional city of Makeni, where cross section of non-governmental organization for hearing impaired persons in the district had converged to update their leadership about their sufferings and jointly mapped out their strategic plans for the current year and succeeding ones. During the meeting, which was chaired by the organization’s Prediction Mr. Abdulrahman Barrie, he told members that the C.E.O of the Bombali District Deaf Development Association has sent in the sum of NLE 2,000 to facilitate for members to converge, deliberate, and plan together for the better. During the engagement, attendees of the meeting highlighted on a number of concerns ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Latest team photo of Area Best FC (P.C: Abu Hassan Kargbo). Four teams namely Smart Foundation, Urban Football Club, Area Best and Masongbo Football Club will today battle each other in the semifinals of the 2022 Preliminary Qualifiers of the EBK-Trophy. At 2:00pm local time today, Smart Foundation will lock on with Urban Football Club for the first match while Area Best and debutant Masongbo Football Club will face each other at 4:15pm later today. Latest Team Photo of Smart Foundation FC The winners of both games will automatically pick up tickets to this year’s group stages of the tournament prosper which is expected to commence in due course, according to the organizers of the yearly tournament sponsored by Honorable Chernor Maju Bah of the All People’s Congress party. Today’s clashes will bring to end the long walk of what has been described by sports pundits as tournament’s most competitive preliminary qualifiers that featured a record number of 24 t...