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Fifteen-year-old Welleh J. Cooper MONROVIA – Fifteen-year-old Welleh J. Cooper of Spiritant Academy, has won the `Back to School´ essay competition sponsored by MoneyGram International. Report by Edwin G. Genoway, Jr [email protected] Welleh was among 59 students from various high schools across the country, which took part in the essay competition. In order to promote education and improve the writing skills of students in Liberia, MoneyGram International as part of its regular yearly back to school program, requested high school students in the competition to write an essay not less than 500 words why their school deserves to win US$1,000…

A group pix of the 1st batch (uniformed) & 2nd batch (colored-clothes) Imo State, Nigeria – A second batch of five underprivileged Liberian school children has arrived at the Rochas Foundation College of Africa in Imo State, Southeastern Nigeria. The Foundation provides free quality secondary school education to orphans and indigent children between the ages of 11 to 14, including those from war-torn and disaster ridden areas. Accompanied by a chaperone from Liberia’s Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Mrs. Edwina Buckett-Mulbah, the new batch of five Liberian students arrived midweek and immediately began classes for Academic Year 2018/2019,…

Monrovia – Liberia’s House Speaker Bhofal chambers says the United States agents probing the missing L$16 billion will fail if they attempt to include members of the House of Representatives in the investigation. Report By Henry Karmo / [email protected] Chambers stressed that the House of Representatives will honor no invitation from investigators as they are exempted from investigation – as provided by law, although he failed to specify the exact stipulation in the law. “The people from the FBI know contemporary Democracy; they know contemporary constitution. They will never think of inviting the House of Representative for an investigation doing so…

ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, a group of Liberians or protesters under the banner, ‘#UNPROTECTED,’ marched throughout the principal streets of Monrovia to call the attention of key stakeholders to the plight of some teenage girls, who were allegedly raped at the very place that should have provided protection for them against what they went through. THE PROTESTERS, PREDOMINANTLY WOMEN and cladded in black, in their petition, they called on the government to revoke the license of the American charity organization, More Than Me, which began operations in Liberia in 2011 to offer protection and education for those teenagers. They presented…

Senator Johnson and businessman Cooper have been embroiled in counter allegations in recent months Monrovia – Bomi County Senator Sando Johnson is alleging that James Cooper, a Liberian businessman in the production of rubber, is a scandalous businessman. An allegation, the businessman has denied. Report By Al Varney Rogers / [email protected] Cooper runs a Rubber Processing Plant and he is the only Liberia exporting processed rubber. He is now aiming to jump into manufacturing of retreaded tires, rubber gloves and other rubber made materials. But Senator Johnson claims the businessman is using the rubber processing setup to dubbed banks and…

Liberia’s Comptroller General Janga Augustus Kowo says governmnet employees will enroll into the system voluntarily Monrovia – The government of Liberia on Thursday October 18, 2018 announced that the new system of Mobile Money Payment being rolled out to spending entities is to intended to reduce cost in getting salary across the country to employees. Report By  J.H. Webster Clayeh (0770745986)[email protected] Speaking at the Ministry of Information Regular Press Briefing, the Comptroller and Accountant General of the Republic of Liberia Janga Augustus Kowo said government will save more money when the service is fully adopted and implemented through voluntary enrollment of employees across spending…

Speaker Chambers has been an ardent critic and political foe of Madam Sirleaf for several years Monrovia – Many had thought that the handshakes and embrace between President George Manneh Weah and ex-president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at the opening ceremony of the international SHEROES forum on Wednesday were signs of rebuilding their ‘rocky’, if not ‘sour relationship’ in the wake of the alleged missing L$16 billion saga. Report By: Gerald C.Koinyeneh-0880881540/0777769531/[email protected] But listening to House Speaker Dr. Bhofal Chambers during a press conference on Thursday, October 18, you would sense that the acrimonious sentiments over the alleged missing billions saga…

Scar tissue makes it difficult for Watta Kanneh, 68, a survivor of the Maher Massacre, to draw water from a creek in Morris Town, Bomi County Morris Town, Bomi County – Watta Kanneh, 68, struggles to draw water from a creek next to towering palm trees, where she and other villagers make palm oil in two blackened drums sitting over huge fire hearths. Kanneh still suffers from wounds she received 16 years ago during the 2003 killings that became known as the Maher Massacre. Long scars on her back peek out from a sleeveless blouse. The tight scar tissue makes…

Parker (in blue dress) walks along with members of her legal counsel at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia Monrovia – Multiple sources at the Temple of Justice told FrontPageAfrica Tuesday, Oct 17, that several high-profile former government officials are set to testify in the trial of the former Managing Director of the National Port Authority (NPA), Ms. Matilda Parker and Comptroller Christiana Paelay. Report By Kennedy L. Yangian [email protected] Though the case has been suspended since September 17, 2018 by Judge Boima Kontoe until he can study a submission made by the prosecution and rejected by the defense that…

The observance of the day brought together a cross section of young people at the World Bank Liberia office in Monrovia Monrovia – In observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty- End Poverty Day (EPD) in the world, the World Bank is calling on member countries to invest resources in the building of human capacity while at the same time engaging in youth empowerment program if they are to end poverty by the year 2030. Report by Jackson F. Kanneh [email protected] A statement issued by the World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim, highlighted the Bank’s commitment…