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Monrovia – Pan-African financial services institutions, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, is set to showcase its unity in diversity as it joins the rest of the world to celebrate this year’s Africa Day.

Monrovia – Econet Media’s dynamic content business, Kwesé TV, has launched in Liberia. Arguably amongst the best entertainment and sports bouquets in Africa, Kwesé TV will make its first to market, exclusive, well-known and original programming content available to households across the country through its distribution deal with Orange Liberia. This will see the sale of Kwesé TV decoders through Orange stores in Liberia.

Report by Rodney D. Sieh, [email protected] Monrovia – Mr. Robert A. Sirleaf, the son of former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf who is among several former public officials recommended for prosecution on “economic sabotage and misuse of public money” after authorizing $500,000 in irregular payments at the National Oil Company of Liberia says the payment of bonuses is not unique to NOCAL but one practice at all state-owned enterprises (SOEs) of the Government of Liberia.

Monrovia – The Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of National Defense has presented a check of US$70,000 to the family of the late Ousmane Sherriff who was killed on a peace-keeping mission in Mali.

Monrovia – Government has reactivated the Liberia Diaspora Engagement Program in fulfillment of President George Manneh Weah’s inaugural address delivered on January 22, 2018.

Report by Mae Azango, [email protected] and Jackson F. Kanneh, [email protected] Monrovia – President George Weah’s effort to alleviate hardship on Liberians through the reduction of tariffs on consumer commodities like chicken feet, pig feet, mosquito coil and vegetable oil, among others, is rather receiving some backlashes from ordinary citizens and traders.

Report by Alpha Daffae Senkpeni, [email protected] Southeastern Liberia – There is a noticeable decline in the attendance of students at several elementary schools in the Southeastern counties of Liberia due to a long pause on the supply of food to schools in the region.

Report by Selma Lomax, [email protected] Suakoko, Bong County – The Cuttington University board of trustees on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 met for more than five hours with members of the Cuttington University Faculty Association before announcing its decision to suspend the president, Herman B. Browne.

Report by Edwin G. Genoway Jr., [email protected] Monrovia – President George Manneh Weah has announced the changing of the name of Somalia Drive Freeway upon completion to the ‘Japan Freeway.’

Grand Bassa County – Aggrieved residents of Kpogbah Statutory District in Grand Bassa County are claiming that the Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) has been polluting their major drinking water source.