The Bai Bureh Warriors of Port Loko commonly known as Bai Bureh Warriors is a Sierra Leonean professional football (soccer) club based in Port Loko , Port Loko District , Sierra Leone .
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33-445: Is a major bauxite mining and trade centre. The town lies on the main highway linking Freetown to Guinea 's capital Conakry . It also lies on the over-land highway between Freetown and its major airport, Lungi International Airport , although most travellers complete this journey via the much shorter ferry or helicopter transit. The population of Port Loko is diverse, though the Temne
44-545: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Language and nationality disambiguation pages Port Loko Port Loko is the capital of Port Loko District and since 2017 the North West Province of Sierra Leone . The city had a population of 21,961 in the 2004 census and current estimate of 44,900. Port Loko lies approximately 57 km (35 mi) north-east of Freetown . The area in and around Port Loko
55-642: Is free and compulsory in government-sponsored public schools. The Port Loko Teacher's College , one of the major colleges in Sierra Leone is located in the city. Bai Bureh Warriors The club is currently playing in the Sierra Leone National First Division , the second highest football league in Sierra Leone.. Bai Bureh Warriors spent many years in the Sierra Leone National Premier League before being relegated to
66-638: Is the largest ethnic group. Although the Temne language is spoken alongside, the Krio language of the Sierra Leone Creole people is by far the most widely spoken in the town. Port Loko is home to the Port Loko Teacher's College , one of the oldest and best known colleges in Sierra Leone. Port Loko has its own local radio station called Radio Bankasoka. Port Loko has its own professional football club named
77-599: The Bai Bureh Warriors of Port Loko, which is one of the oldest and most famous football clubs in Sierra Leone. The club currently plays in the Sierra Leone National First Division , the second highest football league in Sierra Leone. Port Loko lies on the Bankasoka River estuary, at about the limit of tidal effects. Port Loko gets its name from the Loko people . The town was established by Portuguese merchants. However,
88-555: The Temne people subsequently came to dominate the area. The population of Port Loko is ethnically diverse, although the Temne ethnic group predominate, and the Temne language is widely spoken among the people of Port Loko, along with Krio , the national language of Sierra Leone. Port Loko has a football club named the Bai Bureh Warriors . The club currently plays in the Sierra Leone National Premier Division ,
99-499: The highest football league in Sierra Leone, after they were recently promoted to the top division. Like the rest of Sierra Leone, Port Loko has an education system with six years of primary school (Class 1–6), and six years of secondary school (Form 1–6); secondary schools are further divided into Junior secondary school (Form 1–3) and Senior secondary school (Form 4–6). Primary schools usually start from ages 6 to 12, and secondary schools usually start from ages 13 to 18. Primary Education
110-644: The second division in 2005. The club is named after Bai Bureh , a great Sierra Leonean warrior and military strategist who led the Temne Uprising against the British in 1898. Bai Bureh Warriors won the Sierra Leonean FA Cup Cup in 1978 and 1982 and their best performance in any Caf competitions came in 1979 when they reached the second round of the CAF Cup Winners' Cup . This article about
121-406: The title Loko . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Loko&oldid=1145558284 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
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