Author: FPA Staff Reporter

Monrovia – Cellcom’s new mobile money service, which was launched late last week is already drawing hundreds of new subscribers and customers.  The new service, which is being called Smile Cellcom Money, has been created on a unique platform which gives consumers numerous advantages and convenience.

Monrovia – In improving quality tertiary education at the University of Liberia, the administration of the University has made a jump in tuition from US$2.05 to $4 for undergraduate students. Graduate schools tuition has also been increased from US$55 to US$75 with the exception of the medical and pharmacy schools.

The nomination and appointment of Liberia’s former Public Works Minister Antoinette Weeks, responsible for delaying the crucial Somalia Drive Road construction, is sending chills in the hierarchy of regional ECOWAS sources say.

“We have ordered the border with Guinea closed with immediate effect. The border will remain closed until the situation in Guinea improves. We are not taking any chance at all.”  –  Eugene Nagbe, Minister of Information

Monrovia – The last time Pearl Munah Forbes visited her homeland, Liberia was in 2004, to bury her late father, former Chief Justice James G. Bull. On her way home for her first visit in a decade, Mrs. Forbes was one of several Liberian who experienced closed calls Tuesday when a terror attack at Brussels International Airport and a city metro station, killed at least 31 people and seriously injuring scores of others.

Monrovia – An aging Dr. Ayele Ajavon-Cox is worried that when she retires from public service to private practice, there would be a shortage of dentists in Liberia.

Monrovia – The Liberia National Police (LNP) has suspended with immediate effect three officers assigned at the Zone Four Police substation in Gardnersville for harassing and intimidating motorcyclists. The suspension of the trio comes in the wake a recent report which linked top senior officers of the Police to armed robbery attacks in the country.

Monrovia – Liberia needed a bucket of sweat to beat Djibouti 1-0 in a 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifier at the Stade National El-Hadj Hassan Gouled Aptidon in Djibouti City on March 24. South Africa-based Anthony Snothi Laffor scored in the 57th minute to move Liberia leveled with Togo, who play Tunisia in Tunis on March 25, on six points in Group A.

“Provision of public education of good quality is the core function of the state, and abandoning this to commercial benefit of private company constitute a gross violation of the right to education”, Kishore Singh, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education

Monrovia – Living in the notorious Sugar Hill Community of the commercial district of Red Light is terrifying amid strong wave of criminal activities. Narcotic substances are sold at every corner in this rundown shantytown.