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Adesuwa Ifedi, Bridge Vice President of Policy and Partnerships, Africa and Oladapo Olarinmoye, Managing Director of Bridge Nigeria collecting the Award for Best Technology Product and Service in West Africa MONROVIA – Bridge has won the ‘Best technology product or service in West Africa Award for its significant achievements in using technology to leapfrog education delivery and  improve learning outcomes in West Africa. In West Africa the social enterprise operates in multiple Nigerian states and in ten of Liberia’s counties, supporting hundreds of government schools and serving tens of thousands of children.

MONROVIA – The Nobel Women’s Initiative 2019 Conference would commence today at the Monrovia City Hall for the next three days. Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Tawakkol Karman, Rigoberta Manchu, and Laymah Gbowee, who are all Nobel Peace Laureates are all in the country for the conference. Madam Laymah Gbowee, host of the conference, told reporters on Monday that the group assembles every two years across the global to celebrate young people. According to Madam Gbowee, the group’s objective is to seek an end violence globally and create space for universal security in building human rights, justice and equality for people.…

Monrovia – Keeping Monrovia clean and green is a task the City Corporation cannot do alone especially with its meager resources. 

Klay, Bomi County – A conglomeration of youth groups in Bomi County, under the banner ‘Federation of Bomi Youth (FOBY)’ have identified large scale farming as the way forward in solving the county’s food problem.

Monrovia – The Independent National Commission on Human Rights (INCHR) is extremely worried over the persistent incidents of mob actions in the country, stressing that “it has the proclivity to destabilize the more than decade peace Liberia has enjoyed”. 

Cllr. Alfred Brownell with the Goldman Environmental Prize on Monday, April 29, 2019 Monrovia – Cllr. Alfred Brownell, a lead environmental campaigner with the Green Advocates, has won the 2019 Goldman Prize. He’s the third Liberian to land the world’s topmost environmental award. 

ANGOLA – Angola is preparing to host the World Tourism Forum from May 23 to 25, and before that, the country will on May 18, host the Presidential Golf Day (PGD), becoming the second African country to host the event. 

Monrovia – Opposition political party Liberia National Union (LINU) has described the impending June 7 protest as “empty, and a political charade” that has no substance to encourage Liberians to take the streets.

Monrovia – President George Manneh Weah promised of constructing new homes for fire victims of Popo Beach Community in New Kru Town has kicked off. However, some victims and others think the pace of the project is slow.

NIGERIA – Pan African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc with operations in 20 African countries and in the United Kingdom, the USA and Paris, over the weekend, celebrated 70 years of operations in an event that was as exciting as it was nostalgic.