By Ibrahim S.Bangura Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA), an annual music awards designed to promote African music has recently nominated Aminata Bangura, aka Nata, a US-based Sierra Leonean rapper, for the category of ‘Best Female Rap Act’ 2023 due to her rich ‘lyrics and songs contents’. Nata has been nominated among other renowned African stars, like, Femi One of Kenya, Eno Barony of Ghana, Rosa Ree of Tanzania; Feli Nuna of...Read More
By Matt Le Cren Naperville North’s Hindo Allie missed nearly a week of classes, a game and several practices while he was out of town. But the senior midfielder had an excellent excuse to give Huskies coach Jim Konrad. “He called me and said, ‘Hey, coach, I’ve got great news. Bad news is I’m going to miss a couple games, but great news is that I get to play for my...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Mohamed Alie Bangura and Abubakar Sawaneh have made another appearance before Magistrate Sahr Kekura of Ross Road Court No .1 for allegedly conspiring with unknown persons to defraud Ansumannah Gbessay Conteh and Alusine Kargbo thousands of Leones pretending that they would facilitate their travelling to Canada knowing same to be false. The accused appeared before the court on four counts of conspiracy and three counts of obtaining...Read More
The National Women’s Cricket Team has departed Sierra Leone for Botswana. Before their departure they bade farewell to the Minister of Sports, Madam Augusta James-Teima and her Deputy, Kai Lawrence Mbayo (KLM) at their Bishop House office in Freetown, where Cricket Chairman, Francis Trevor Samura gave a rundown of their scheduled trip from Freetown to Botswana. “We are going to take part in the ICC Women’s TC20 World Cup Division...Read More
By Ibrahim S. Bangura Land ownership within the Western Area for construction of houses will take vegetable farmers out of job. Abu Bakarr Koroma Dumbuya, chairman of vegetable growers in Leicester, a village in the mountains overlooking Freetown, has said that recently land ownership within the community has limited the volume of their produce and their income. Dumbuya explained that the population increase within the community has meant much...Read More
