Sports

Rev. G. Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2019: The national football team of Sierra Leone, Leone Stars, have lost the first leg of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers preliminaries to the Lone Star of Liberia by three goals to one (3 – 1), after a 95-minute encounter at [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 May 2019: The suspended president of the Sierra Leone Football Association Madam Isha Johansen, along with the Association’s Secretary General – Chris Kamara, have today been acquitted and discharged by the High Court in Freetown, presided by Justice Reginald Fyn. Both were accused of impropriety and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 April 2019: Last Saturday, 6 April 2019, over 500 diverse youth across 6 time zones, witnessed the power of sport to bring unity on International Day of Sport for Development and Peace. Generations For Peace, a global non-profit peacebuilding organisation based in Jordan, engaged over 500 [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2018: Officials of World’s football governing body – FIFA, met at their head office in Zurich on Wednesday, 17 October 2018, with the vice president – Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, and the Attorney General of Sierra Leone – Mrs Priscilla Schwartz, to discuss the row which [Read More]

Dr. Kenneth Brima: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 October 2018: On Monday 8th October 2018, the Government of Sierra Leone through the Chief Minister, Professor David J. Francis and the Minister of Sports, Ibrahim Nyelenkeh convened a meeting at State House, involving the SLFA Executive and stakeholders to resolve the current [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 October 2018: World’s football governing body FIFA, yesterday rejected Sierra Leone’s appeal for its ban on taking part in FIFA organised football activities to be lifted. Responding to a letter from the government of Sierra Leone, which ironically was signed by the suspended head of Sierra [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2018: Today, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) nominated Senegal as the host country for the 4th Summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in 2022. It will be the first Olympic event in history to take place on the African continent. One of the highlights of the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2018: Football’s world governing body – FIFA, has today announced that it has suspended Sierra Leone’s Football Association from taking part in and benefitting from its activities. This decision comes after weeks of deadlock between the government of Sierra Leone and FIFA, regarding the government’s [Read More]

Mousa E. Massaquoi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2018: Following last weekend’s defeat of Sierra Leone’s national football team – Leone Stars by Ethiopia in the 2019 Africa Nations’ Cup qualifier, the Leone Stars team coach, John Keister has apologized to the nation. He made his apology on Thursday, at [Read More]