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KAKATA, Margibi County – The Margibi University Students Union (MARUSU) has expressed their opposition to the senatorial bid of US-sanctioned former Minister Nathaniel F. McGill.

Monrovia – An assertion, attributed to Madam Massa Kandakai, Montserrado County’s Chief Female Traditional Leader, that the practices of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) will continue unless “2,000 Zoes” are paid to stop the tradition, has been strongly condemned.

The President of Students Against Corruption, Daniel K. Dennis and several civil rights activists have called on the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States Congress to lead the process of passing the Youth Peace & Security Act.

Daniel K. Dennis is a 25-year-old change maker and the first ever Liberian to be selected and attend the Community Engagement Exchange Program as Fellow – a program funded by the US Department of State.

Few years ago, if someone had told me that there would be a promising female comedienne to bulldoze the comic sphere like Keyshia, I’d have given that person a slap that would make Will Smith jealous.

By Anthony Stephens with New Narratives Momoh Gebah, commonly known as “Bull Dog”, an ex-aide-de-camp to warlord turned President Charles Taylor, has died. Gebah died on Saturday of XX, according to the National Patriotic Party (NPP) of which he was a member. Gebah was considered one of Taylor’s most trusted security chiefs and was seen weeping in videos of Taylor’s resignation and departure from Liberia to exile in Nigeria in 2003. Taylor had relinquished the presidency in an ECOWAS-brokered peace deal as rebels from the Liberians United for Democracy and Reconstruction (LURD) laid siege to Liberia’s capital, Monrovia. Taylor is…

Born and raised during the Liberian civil war, and having to navigate through the vicissitude of a daring past, John T. Sarboah Jr.’s story, like many Liberian Youths today, is that of a little boy who sees beyond the darkness of today with a furnace of hope in his eyes.

Monrovia – Minister of Gender and Social Protection, Williametta Saydee-Tarr says there is a need to strengthen community ownership in the fight to eradicate Gender- Based Violence ahead of the launch of the 16- Day of Activism Against Sexual Gender Based Violence. The 16 Days of Activism which starts on November 25 is an annual campaign that reinforces, elevates, and collaborates efforts to end all forms of violence against women and girls.

RE: DISMISSAL OF NEC CHAIRPERSON Mr. President: I present compliments to you trusting that all is well with you as Liberia experiences the most difficult time in her 175-year existence as an independent country. Liberians are nevertheless not in a state of despair, the difficult times notwithstanding.

During this Commencement Season, I have served as Commencement Speaker at some High and Elementary Schools. The Principals, Administrators, Teachers and Students at these schools were expecting me to give them some money. They were there not interested in thought but they were interested in money. I told them that I accepted their invitations because they were opportunities for me to teach them how to fish rather than give them fish. By learning to know how to fish they would not be sycophants, following the money giver to the wrong places because they want money. They would not be saying…