Author: FPA Staff Reporter

CAPITOL Hill, Monrovia – The Liberian Senate faces increasing criticism over funds used for their recent retreat held in Buchanan. Reports indicate that the Senate spent a hefty sum of for the two-day event. Exiled Liberian activist Martin Kollie has claimed that the Senate is not disclosing the actual amount used.

MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai campaigned on promises to bring relief to his fellow Liberians, who viewed him as a veteran statesman capable of delivering the change they longed for. Under the Coalition for Democratic Change government, numerous public officials faced sanctions from the United States for alleged corruption, and reports of massive graft were rampant. The government was criticized for appointing incompetent partisans to public offices. Citizens were frustrated and weary of seeing their fellow Liberians die mysteriously without any actions taken.

MONROVIA – Local shareholders are alleging that INVESTCOM/LLC’s refusal to recognize their rights is based on discrimination against Liberians, whom the company profiles as “poor and low-level,” according to a report available to this paper. The shareholders find this troubling, considering that Investcom/MTN makes millions of dollars and benefits from having these Liberians as shareholders.

Monrovia- FrontPage Africa has gathered that a vessel carrying smuggled petrol products from crisis pronged Russia is attempting to dock in Monrovia to have the smuggled petrol products put on the Liberian market.

MONROVIA — The former standard bearer of the Liberian People’s Party (LPP) and his party have taken a swipe at Joseph Boakai, accusing the Liberian president of violating Liberia’s Public Financial Management (PFM) Law of 2009, when he reportedly requested and received $80K from the National Social Security and Welfare Corporation (NASSCORP) to purchase vehicles while former President George Weah was still the President of the Republic of Liberia.

Monrovia – The LFA has completed a two-day training for 31 Beginners’ Match Commissioner at its HQ on 11 June as the president of the football house called on would-be commissioners to NOT be “politicians”.

TGS has partnered with the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) to undertake significant additional multi-client seismic data reprocessing offshore Liberia.

CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia – Bomi County Senator, Edwin Melvin Snowe, who played a pivotal role in renegotiating the operations of Western Cluster Liberia Limited, has backpedaled on his previous endorsement of the company to transport iron ores via the roads in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) it signed with the Government of Liberia (GOL).

MONROVIA — Lonestar Cell MTN Mobile Money Inc., one of Liberia’s largest mobile money companies, has been slapped with a massive fine of millions of Liberian dollars by the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL), the official regulator of all mobile money operations, for non-compliance with various regulations of the CBL. In a sternly-worded letter addressed to the CEO of MTN Mobile Money, Mr. Rahul De, (a copy of which is in the possession of FrontPageAfrica), the CBL informed the company that it was being fined because of “continuous violations of CBL’s mobile money regulations and failure to conform to the…

MONROVIA – Tension is said to be brewing at the Governance Commission as the acting chairman, Alaric Tokpa, has reportedly threatened to sack employees he singlehandedly deems non-essential.