Sports

By Kemoh Sesay

The Secretary General of Premier League club FC Kallon football Blamor Roberts has dismissed rumours that his club's players have withdrawn from the national under - 23 squad. He described the rumours as 'baseless and unfounded.'

Roberts said playing for the national team was a 'national assignment which will benefit the players, the club and the country as whole, so how can we be an obstacle to that?'

Hassan Sesay

By Kemoh Sesay and Crispina Taylor  

By Kemoh Sesay

FA Cup Champions Kamboi Eagles are due to leave Freetown today 10^th February to take part in a CAF Confederation Cup match against their Algerian counterpart Amel- Saad Olympic Football Club.

The Central One Football Association has warned people using the parade grounds in Freetown for recreational activities to desist with immediate effect because of the  temporary suspension of such activities until the end of the Public Emergency in the country.

The Secretary General of COFA Philipson Cline-Cole who spoke to this press expressed that people were still in the habit of defying the Public Emergency restrictions even when the perimeter wall and the a pavilion are under construction.

The National Under 23 Coach of  Sierra Leone has been convicted on count two of trespass by a magistrate in Freetown. John Kiester and Daniel Abdel Konteh were charged with three counts of assault, trespass and public insult against the editor of Salone Times Newspaper Thomas Dixon.

In his ruling, magistrate Bangura of Pademba road court No. 5 acquitted and discharged the two accused persons on one count of assault, public insult and provocation because of "inconsistencies on the part of the prosecution."

By Kemoh Sesay

Sierra Leone's FA Cup winners Kamboi Eagles Football Club are preparing to take on their Algerian counterparts Amel-Saad Olympic Football Club in the preliminary stages of the CAF Cup tournament schedule for 14 and 15 February 2015.

By Kemoh Sesay

The international Olympic Committee IOC through its Solidarity Fund has provided scholarships for two Sierra Leonean athletes Catharine Hudor and Afsatu Koroma currently based in the USA.

The president of Sierra Leone Athletics Association Abdul Karim Sesay said the scholarship will cover training and personal expenses to help the athletes take part in Olympic competitions.