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“I’ve survived wars, refugee life, epidemics, global financial meltdowns, national economic crisis, political retributions, and I’m now experiencing a global pandemic that comes with an unprecedented economic collapse.” Amin Modad, [email protected], Contributing Writer My entrepreneurial journey began about 30 years ago. It informally started in 1990 with the printing of t-shirts and shoulder badges for ECOMOG soldiers and soldiers of various factions. I stepped up a notch and began purchasing cars in Lomé in 1996, driving them through Ghana and Ivory Coast, to sell in Monrovia.

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The next time that you say ‘Let justice be done to all men,’ or when you portray Lady Justice as a blindfolded goddess that does not see colors, or genders, or economic status, etc, take a moment and think about the countless cases of untold stories of human indignations. Remember that the earliest Roman coins describing justice was much different from the symbol of scale and blindfold that exists today, the older coin actually portrayed Justitia (justice) without any hypocrisy, standing with her sword in the one hand and her scale in the other hand, but that symbol stood with…

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MONROVIA – Rider for Health Liberia, an international non-governmental organization that was established in Liberia in February 2015 in response to the Ebola outbreak, has called on the government and developmental partners to provide more assistance to ensure accurate health sample delivery system across the 15 counties.

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Representative Koffa is optimistic about the speedy eradication of the virus from the country but wants the Liberian Government to get ready for emergency aid if the virus escalates in the country MONROVIA – Grand Kru County Electoral District two Representative Jonathan Fonati Koffa wants the Government of Liberia (GoL) to provide free food and electricity for three consecutive months if the Coronavirus pandemic escalates in the country.

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Cllr. A. Ndubusi Nwabudike’s nomination to head the National Elections Commission is drawing controversy in Liberia. The Editor, On January 28, 2019, His Excellency, Dr. George Manneh Weah, was celebrated by Liberians in the Diaspora, when he called on, in his second Annual Message to the second sitting of the 54th Legislature, members of the honorable body to pass the “Dual Citizenship Bill” citing it as having “significant implications for the achievement of the country’s pro-poor agenda for national renewal (Liberian Observer, 2019).” One cannot help but wonder, is the President being wrongly advised on his nomination of a Nigerian-born…

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We have acknowledged in previous articles, that throughout the pages of history, humanity has strived to free itself of containment, and that the brave advocates of social justice who came before us always knew that it would require consistency and personal sacrifices to stand-up to the leaders of nations who prioritize self-aggrandizement over national interests, who prefer political prosecution and extrajudicial incarceration over equal rights and justice for all, and who advance policies that reflect systemic violation of human rights and international laws over democratic values and good ethical standard. Therefore, the process of condemning corruption, speaking up against the…

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