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LAST MONTH, President George Manneh Weah took a bold and controversial step when he presented a recently-constructed modern edifice to the Female Journalists Association of Liberia (FeJAL) as its headquarters. THE GESTURE, while unprecedented, raised a lot of eyebrows due to the proximity of the building so close to the President’s 48-unit multi-million dollar complex and a church aptly named the Forky Jlaleh Family Fellowship Church. Both edifices have drawn the president in a line of fire amid questions about regarding his failure to declare his assets and issues of how he secured the money to build these massive structures –…

Kakata, Margibi County – The 10 eleventh graders who were controversially registered by the administration of the Booker Washington Institute in Margibi County to write this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) were Thursday morning forcibly removed from the examinations hall.

Chairman of the National Elections Commission Cllr. Jerome Korkoya Monrovia – The National Elections Commission (NEC) says it has received a notification from the House of Representatives announcing a vacancy in that august body created by the death of the late Representative Adolph A. Lawrence of District # 15 in Montserrado County. The notification from the House of Representatives, dated Wednesday, April 29, said Representative Lawrence died during a tragic motor accident on the Robertsfield highway. The notification signed by the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives, Mildred N. Sayon, informs the NEC that the “document constitutes the legal…

ANC’s present political leader and former standard bearer is Mr. Alexander Benedict Cummings MONROVIA – Authorities of the Alternative National Congress (ANC) have declared Saturday, May 4, as one of those very important days in their history as delegates will elect a new crop of officers to take the party to the next General and Presidential Elections in 2023. ANC’s present political leader and former standard bearer is Mr. Alexander Benedict Cummings. According to an ANC’s release, those expected to be elected in Liberia’s second emerging industrial City of Ganta in Nimba County, will be the National Executive Committee members,…

MONROVIA – The Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA) has congratulated the winner of the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize. The Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Liberia EPA, Dr. Nathaniel T. Blama, Sr. in a statement issued in Monrovia on May 2, 2019 extended congratulations to the Environmental lawyer and activist, Atty. Alfred Brownell for snatching the world prestigious Environmental Award as the second Liberian to ever win such prestigious award after nearly 20 years. The prize was established in San Francisco in Richard and Rhoda Goldman, founders of the Goldman Fund, which for six decades donated $700 million…

Tecno Construction Ltd, President/CEO Leonardo Inghileri MONROVIA – An Italian company based in Liberia, Tecno Construction Limited headed by its President and Chief Executive Officer Leonardo Inghileri, is expected to construct a 10, 000 housing unit in three counties as part of President George M. Weah’s Pro poor housing project. The project when completed will bring relief the citizens residing in the targeted counties. The Government of Liberia and Tecno Construction Ltd signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of 10,000 housing units in Montserrado, Margibi and Bomi counties as to improve the living construction of Liberians. The construction…

MONROVIA – The President George Manneh Weah, has hailed Nobel laureates attending the Nobel Women Initiative (NWI) in Monrovia for their invaluable roles and contributions to peace and development in their respective countries and urged them to remain focused on promoting global peace and unity. “No doubt, it is a distinct record to be a Nobel laureate and to hold other prestigious awards because it brings joy and pride to one’s family and country,” the President said Thursday, May 2, at his Foreign Ministry office during a meeting with a plethora of Nobel Laureates from the United States of America,…

Washington, D.C. –  Liberia’s Ambassador to the United States, H.E. George S.W. Patten, Sr., has called on Liberians to unite and work together for the good of the country. Speaking to members of the Liberian community at a town hall meeting on April 26, 2019 in the City of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, U.S.A., Ambassador Patten said that unity of purpose is essential to ensure sustainable development and progress in Liberia. The town hall meeting was held under the auspices of the Organization of Liberians in Minnesota (OLM), the umbrella Liberian community organization in the State of Minnesota. “In order for…

House of Representatives Speaker Bhofal Chambers Monrovia – The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement in Liberia and the United Nations Renewed Efforts Against Child Hunger and Under-nutrition (or UN REACH) will tomorrow, Friday, hold a one-day nutrition awareness meeting with members of the House of Representatives of the 54th National Legislature. The gathering will be held under the theme “Legislature Engagement for Scaling Up Nutrition “. The SUN Movement in Liberia and UN REACH continue to engage nutrition stakeholders from various sectors of society including government line ministries, civil society organizations, donors, INGOs and parliamentarians. The SUN Movement and REACH…

Germany – The Germany-based international non-profit organization, Merck Foundation, has named Liberia’s First Lady Clar Marie Weah as Ambassador for its “Merch More than a Mother” program. The Merck Foundation is the Philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany and it works to improve the health and wellbeing of people and advance their lives through science and technology. Its “Merck More Than a Mother” initiative aims to empower infertile women through access to information, education and health and by changing mind-sets. It supports governments define policies to enhance access to regulated, safe and effective fertility care. The Foundation, through its Chief…