By Kemoh Sesay Sport-betting company, Mercury International over the weekend donated Le 90 million towards the ongoing Super League organized by ten Premier League clubs. Samir Hassanyeh, Chairman of Mercury Charity Foundation told the league organizers that his company wanted to see football grow especially when it involved the elite clubs in the country. He said “the premier league is yet to start... 

By Kemoh Sesay The new coach of Leone Stars Johnny Mckinstry has named the following twenty-four man squad for the crucial encounter world cup qualifier against Tunisia on the 8th June 2013 in Freetown. List of players    Goal keepers – Christian Coker, Ibrahim Tarawally Defenders-  Mustapha Dumbuya, Umaru Bangura, Aziz Deen Conteh, Samuel Bangura, David Simbo, Gibril Sankoh, Ibrahim Koroma,... 

By Kemoh Sesay Twenty-four communities are set to take part in the Soccer Promoters organization, annual inter community league starting on the 1st of June 2013. Speaking to Politico Sports the chairman of Soccer Promoters, Harouna Newland disclosed that this year’s competition would be different as all modalities were already in place, and that the coveted prize was a BMW car worth Le 20 million,... 

By Kemoh Sesay The Sierra Leone Swimming Association (SLSA) has started a ten-day training course for swimmers in Freetown and the provinces which started on 19 May and will end on 28 May 2013. The course expert, Mario Franchi who is also head coach of the Italian Swimming Association said that he was happy to be in Sierra Leone for the first time to train swimmers, noting that during the course swimmers... 

By Kemoh Sesay The International Olympic Committee (IOC) may ban Sierra Leone if the suspension of the country’s National Olympic Committee (NOC) by the Minister of Sport Paul Kamara is allowed to stand, according to the Administrative Secretary of the NOC, Alie G. Koroma. Koroma says the new executive successfully held their first meeting and wrote to the IOC informing them about the result of... 

a cross section of the stranded Sierra Leoneans in Libya By Umaru Fofana Sierra Leone’s Foreign Minister, Dr Samoura Kamara says his government is treating as “human-trafficking” the case of fifty Sierra Leoneans stranded in the southwestern Libyan city of Sabha. Speaking to Politico, the minister says that the embassy in Tripoli has been instructed to contact the stranded and respond to their... 

Pede Hollist A Sierra Leonean writer, Pede Hollist has been shortlisted for the prestigious Caine Prize for African writing for 2013. According to the announcement made yesterday, Hollist is the only non-Nigerian in the list of five, for his book “Foreign Aid”. The Chair of judges, art historian and broadcaster, Gus Casely-Hayford said, “The shortlist was selected from 96 entries from 16 African... 

By Bampia James Bundu Officials of the Freetown City Council have defied the instructions of the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Diana Konomanyi to handover the management of the Freetown Waste Management Company (FWMC) to a company called MASADA International. Speaking at a news conference at the FWMC conference hall, Councillor Ahmed Samba Turay of Ward 368 said the council would... 

By Septimus Senessie in Kono A mudslide, blamed on town mining, has claimed the life of Pastor Aiah Fengai Adama of the Church of Miracles in Motema, leaving his wife, Finda Adama with serious injuries. The Motema police division in the Nimikoro Chiefdom of Kono is looking into the accident which happened some 50 meters away from the police station. According to the injured wife of the deceased pastor,... 

By Septimus Senessie in Eastern Kono District International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has commissioned a newly constructed multipurpose Youth Centre in Koidu and a district agricultural office at Bengwema in the outskirts of the town. While the cost of the agriculture office was not disclosed, the youth centre was valued at Le 280 million with office space, improved ventilated latrine,... 

By Aminata Phidelia Allie Police Constable, 7930 Sheka Mansaray of the criminal investigations department at Eastern Police Division has told Magistrate Steven Conteh in Freetown that he conducted a search on the alleged crime scene at 10 Hagan Street where he met the body of a deceased, Abubakarr Bangura, lying on the steps in a pool of blood. “I also saw fragments of broken bottles around where...