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MONROVIA – Supreme Court Associate Justice Kabineh M. Ja’neh has been impeached by the Legislature for granting a Writ of Prohibition petitioned by petroleum dealers in the country to stop the government from collecting levy/taxes of US$0.25 (road fund) imposed on the pump price of petroleum products. Twenty-two Senators voted to remove him, four voted against his removal, while three abstained from the process. However, said decision taken by Justice Ja’neh when he served as the Justice in Chambers, was endorsed by the full bench of the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice, Justice Francis Korkpor, who presided over the impeachment…

NINE MEMBERS OF the Liberian Senate sent a clear and bold message Thursday by expressing their desire to disassociate themselves from the ongoing impeachment trial of Associate Justice Kabineh M. Ja’neh. The Senate is expected to, through a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ vote, either concur with the House of Representatives on the impeachment of the embattled Supreme Court Justice or deny the impeachment. ON THURSDAY, the nine Senators – Dr. Henrique Tokpah (Ind. Bong County), Oscar Cooper (Ind. Margibi County), Armah Jallah (NPP, Gbarpolu), Conmany Wesseh (UP, River Gee), Daniel Naathan (ANC, Gbarpolu), Steve Zargo (LP, Lofa) and Sando Johnson (NPP,…

Monrovia – Representative J. Fonati Koffa has emphatically denied dispensing money on behalf of the Executive branch toward the impeachment of Associate Justice Kabineh J’aneh. Cllr. Koffa, who is also head of the Judiciary Committee in the Lower House, responding to a FrontPageAfrica inquiry said those spreading the false information about him are being unfair. “I must take this time and occasion to categorically deny that I have met any senator or distributed any money to anyone in an attempt to influence the results of the ongoing impeachment process. This is an unfortunate rumor disseminated by truth FM for its…

Monrovia – A stalwart of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change, Sheik Al Moustapha Kouyateh says it is impossible for young people in the country to be useful when they are not skillful.

Paynesville – The Liberia National Red Cross Society (LNRCS) has graduated 184 women in various skills training as part of its Women Training and Integration project launched in 2009. The training is intended to enable venerable girls and women acquire skills training.

Left-right: AIFO’s Silvia Pogglioli; disabled International Guest Speaker Richel Kachaje (former Minister of Malawi); and NUOD’s president Naomi B. Harris MONROVIA – A wheel chair-mobile former official of the Malawian Government has coached Liberian disabled people on how to be successful on their mission of getting  national government and private persons provide urgently needed facilities that make life  comfortable.

MONROVIA – The Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP), and the Republic of France through the Agencies France Development (AFD), Wednesday, March 27, 2019 signed a 5 million euros grant agreement towards enhancing support for youth employment in Liberia. Specifically, the Agreement is in line with the French Government’s commitment to support Liberia through agriculture and capacity building under the Youth Support Program where young people will be provided opportunities to enroll at the Polytechnic Institute in Abidjan, Ivory Coast for technical training. Making remarks at the ceremony, France Ambassador Terrance Wills said it…

Monrovia – The Micro Small and Medium Enterprise and Rural Finance Post Ebola Reconstruction Project have been extended from 3 to 5 years, the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning has said. The two years extension grant agreement is intended to provide finance to MSMEs on a sustainable term, enhance capacities of local private sector financial institutions to lend profitably. Out of the US$ 4.8 million, 4 million was used for direct credit to MSMEs while US$800k for operations and innovations capacity building for both the participating financial institutions and the MSMEs benefiting the fund. It can be recalled in…

MARGIBI – BRAC-Liberia has graduated several vulnerable adolescents under the auspices of its Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescent (ELA) project in Kakata, Margibi County.

Kakata – Judge Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay of the 13th Judicial Circuit Court of Margibi County Thursday sentenced two Liberian women to 10 years imprisonment for illicit importation of narcotics into Liberia, criminal conspiracy, and criminal facilitation.