Author: Lennart Dodoo

Buchanan, Grand Bassa – Another person linked to the killing of a German national in Buchanan city last week has been arrested, Grand Bassa County administration announced on Tuesday.

Monrovia – A nongovernmental organization, Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), has begun working with local people in Bomi to empower them resist a wave of land grab in that western county led by elites and concessioners. 

MONROVIA – The Government of Liberia’s reliance on an inventory that did not match reality is causing some inconveniences for citizens, staying in long queues for hours to buy gasoline which price has also been tripled by some retailers due to an unexpected shortage that is affecting every part of the country.

Monrovia – APM Terminals, the company operating the multi-purpose Free Port of Monrovia, has issued a new regulation on the size of ships that would be allowed to berth at the Free Port, Liberia’s biggest harbor.  

Monrovia – As part of efforts to get teenagers acquainted with saving and other banking activities, the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Liberia Limited has introduced “UBA Teens” –  a savings account tailored for teenagers in the country.

The Editor, It’s been several decades since a Liberian President entered office with a cleaned pair of hands, for instance, before President Samuel K. Doe took office in 1980, he had dirtied his hands by his role in the death of President William R. Tolbert, and early on in his Presidency, the young Head of State (Doe) went on to get his hands even dirtier with the extra-judicial execution of the thirteen deposed government officials on the shore-ways of Monrovia waters on November 22nd, 1980. Then Charles Taylor came along, and although he marketed himself as the liberator of the people, Mr.…

MONROVIA – Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor has harkened to the plea of her colleagues and other prominent Liberians to let go of her issues with the Executive and attend President George Weah’s Annual Message at the Legislature, contrary to her plans.

The Editor, The CDC-led government has gotten afflicted by three major scourges—meltdown of ideas, incompetence, and lack of respect for established laws. These three viruses undermine governance, cripple national output, and set sail a country on the path to the bottomless pit of underdevelopment. They are the challenges gripping the political regime of the CDC, and they are the once triggering the disproportionate levels of decay in the society.

A disease epidemic with the potential for pandemic proportions is upon us again. Unlike the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) which caught Liberia and neighboring Sierra Leone and Guinea off guide, there is a worldwide alarm on the emergence of a coronavirus in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.

I vividly recalled, about fifteen years plus when the then President of the Republic of Ghana John Ajekum Koffur, said and I quote” GHANAIAN’S ARE PRETENDING TO WORK WHILES THE GOVERNMENT UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP PRETENDS TO PAY THEM!”