Author: Lennart Dodoo

Totota, Bong County – October 10, 2017 presidential and legislative elections in Liberia will most likely not be business as usual for country’s political elite and the electorate.

Monrovia – One time head of Liberia’s elections commission and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Cllr. Frances Johnson-Allison, says if Liberia would reconcile and forge ahead in development, then Liberians ought to vote for Vice President Joseph Boakai as President.

France – Senator George Weah, political leader of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), paid a courtesy visit on leaders of the European Union Parliament.

RIA, Margibi County – Ballot papers for the October 10 elections have arrived in the country via the Roberts International Airport (RIA). 

Delaware, U.S.A. – President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female head of state and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, will soon mark her country’s first peaceful, democratic handover of a head of state to a successor since 1944.

Monrovia – Not deterred by the rain, thousands of Unity Party supporters danced under the heavy downpour in a very jubilant atmosphere as they waited the arrival of the standard bearer and vice standard bearer of the party who arrived after 7:PM.

Monrovia – The 10,000 sitting capacity of the Antoinette Tubman Stadium in Monrovia is overwhelmed, the playing pitch is full and thousands of supporters are standing outside, awaiting the standard and vice standard bearer of the Unity Party to arrive for the launching of its election campaign.

Monrovia – For a first time presidential candidate like Benoni Urey, not many would have thought he would have garnered that much supporters who flowed in at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium to grace the campaign launch of the All Liberian Party (ALP) on Friday.

Zoweinta/Palala, Bong County – The standard bearer of the Alternative National Congress (ANC), Alexander Cummings, has said there will be a new Liberia under his government if he gets the nod to become president in the October 10 presidential election.

Gbarnga, Bong County – Commercial motorcycles operators in Gbarnga, otherwise known as “Pehn Pehn riders” in Gbarnga on Friday, September 15, 2017 pledged their support to the presidential bid of the standard bearer of the Coalition of Democratic Change CDC), Senator George Mannah Weah.