Africell extends support to Port Loko

Zakat (alms giving) is one of the pillars of Islam which Africell has fulfilled. The Muslim Community in Port Loko District, Northern Sierra Leone is the first to benefit in this year’s Ramadan gesture from Africell. The company donated five bags of rice, one goat, one hundred prayer mats, one hundred bundles of pure water, [...]

As the Sierra Leonean Muslims observes the holy month of Ramada; they are placed under a magnifying glass

Some of the few pieces I authored over the years regarding various important issues included the gruesome road accident I survived during my visit in Sierra Leone in November 2008, the plight of Sierra Leonean refugees currently resident in Germany which sparked a flame of media and political debates, and more. (Photo: Othman Sheriff) Some [...]

As Ramadan begins tomorrow… Ambassador Munu appeals to Sierra Leoneans to pray for nation

The Royal Court in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday, 10th August, 2010 that the Muslim fasting month (Ramadan) would start in the Kingdom on Wednesday, 11th August 2010, Saudi local tabloids reported. The announcement, according to the report, came after several people sighted the Ramadan crescent in different parts of the country. [...]

Youths Rescued

The National Youth wing of the New Harvest Ministries last Saturday received a windfall as the General Overseer of the New Harvest Ministries, Rev. S.B.E.B Johnson, after listening to their plight promised to give each of the 13 districts, two million Leones annually, a monthly allowance for every District President and a vehicle to the [...]

My Opinion – Restructuring Hajj management in Sierra Leone

As a Sierra Leonean Muslim who has worked with most of the Hajj agents as far back as in the late 1970’s, I want to highlight some important and burning issues regarding the abnormalities that have been taking place during the annual Muslim pilgrimage “Hajj” every year since my regular visits to the holy land [...]

2 Sierra Leoneans Meet Top Saudi Officials

Two Sierra Leonean Muslims  this week joined a good number of their colleagues around the world in the holy city of Mecca to commemorate  the 50th anniversary of the Mecca – based Muslim World League (MWL). (Photo: Alhaji Jalloh, Sierra Leone’s Information Attache, Riyadh) Sheik Mohamed Abdul Zackie Kallon, President of the Sierra Leone Missionary [...]

1,000 Youths Benefit from Leadership Training

Bo School campus in Bo city was the centre of attraction on Tuesday, July 27 as more than one thousand youth nationwide converged to exchange ideas in what could be described as a leadership training camp for youths and young adults of the New Harvest Ministries. The week long camp was designed by the ministry’s [...]

President Koroma’s envoys impress Saudi lecturer

As this year’s Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) draws nearer, a Sierra Leonean based Saudi Arabia Lecturer has commended President Ernest Koroma’s envoys in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the “professional and effective” handling of last year’s hajj to the holy land of Mecca. (Photo: President Ernest Bai Koroma) Ibrahim Yousuf Sillah, a Lecturer at one [...]

Sierra Leone joins African International Christian Leadership Centre (CACP)

Some Sierra Leonean Christians on Saturday 17th July at the Wilberforce Army Training Centre organized a one-day ceremony to welcome the President of the Africa International Christian Leader Hon Dr. Victor Dan- Jumbo from Nigeria. He was in Sierra Leone to officially deliver a Letter of Appointment to their new members in Sierra Leone who [...]

Sierra Leone invited to wash the Kaa’ba in Mecca

Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States and also Permanent Representative to the  Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Tuesday 13th July, 2010 joined high profile dignitaries in the ceremonial washing of the Holy Kaa’ba (The Black Stone) in Mecca.  (Photo: Prince Khaled Al-Faisal standing in front of the Black Stone – [...]

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