Author: FPA Staff Reporter

Monrovia – Hearing into a lawsuit requesting over US$4m in damages for breach of contract filed by the Management of the Semoh Group of Companies against Winnock International and that of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) failed to proceed at the Commercial Court at the Temple of Justice Monday.

Monrovia – The Management of the National Housing Authority (NHA) has commenced phase three of NASSCORP Village Housing Estate in Brewerville, outside Monrovia for the construction of additional 70 housing units in fulfillment of government’s mandate to provide housing for citizens across Liberia.

Tchien, Grand Gedeh County – Youth, women and elders of Tchien District in Grand Gedeh County have officially presented a petition to Liberian journalist Justice Randall Clarke requesting the youthful native of the county to contest in the ensuing 2017 representative election in their constituency.

Monrovia – Ahead of the 2016 United Nations General Assembly High­ Level Meeting on Ending AIDS slated from 8–10 June in New York, the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) on Friday, April 15, at its County Offices in Monrovia, concluded a day interactive engagement with six civil society organizations on fast tracking approach to ending the AIDS epidemic over the next five years.

Monrovia – At a two-day consultative forum, the Independent National Commission on Human Rights (INCHR) engaged stakeholders on operationalizing the Ethnographic Study Report.

Monrovia – The Press Union of Liberia is partnering with the National Civil Society Council of Liberia under the UNMIL Quick Impact Project to expand understanding and application of Human Rights for journalists and civil society organizations in 4 counties.

Monrovia – Solidifying his base to contest as standard-bearer against Vice President Joseph Boakai of the ruling Unity Party, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and vice President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Toga Gaywea McIntosh, paid a courtesy call on members of the party’s legislative caucus at the Legislature Wednesday.

Mr. Daylue Goah, a Journalist-turned backer (Public Relation Officer) for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Medical Center of Liberia in the larger part of 2013, has come out to expose, against the hospital, things he had often denied for the hospital whenever they were reported by an outsider.

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Monrovia – President Ellen Johnson on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 received a High-powered Delegation from the International Trade Center (ITC) at her Foreign Ministry Office in Monrovia. The delegation was led to the Office of the President by the Ministers of Information, Culture Affairs and Tourism and Commerce and Industry, Eugene Nagbe and Axel Addy respectively.