Author: Lennart Dodoo

MONROVIA – The Mayor of the country’s capital city, Jefferson T. Koijee, has lamented that waste management in Monrovia solely rests on the shoulders of the City Government with no aid coming from donors or external partners, unlike previous years. He further regrets that citizens within the capital city are of the belief that solid waste management is squarely the responsibility of the government, therefore, they do little or nothing to help control waste. Mayor Koijee made the statement during the celebration of Monrovia Day last Thursday. “Like previous years since I assume the office of Mayor of Monrovia, getting the needed resources for…

The Honorable Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Honorable Supreme Court; Madame Vice President, Dr. Cllr. Jewel Howard-Taylor; Members of the Legislature; The Minister of Justice, Cllr. Musah Dean and other members of the Cabinet; Former Justices of the Supreme Court; All Judges of the Circuit and Specialized Courts and other courts; All Magistrates; The President, executives and members of the Liberia National Bar; All clergy present; The press; Ladies and Gentlemen. It is with great honor and humility that I stand before you today. The magnitude and significance of this day is not lost on any of…

Paynesville — TRIBE, a non-governmental organization on Thursday launched its first phase entrepreneurial academy, RE-Novate, in an effort to incorporate entrepreneurship as part of secondary curriculum education in Liberia.

A pall has fallen across the face of our country, a melancholy has possessed us. One of our own, whose greatness we cannot but extol, has left us. Gone to join our ancestors in the full knowledge that it is Not Yet Uhuru. We carry on his work for a better Liberia. We are undeterred because we deserve better and know that another Liberia is possible.

On a perplexing day in June 1983, I hurriedly went to see Dean Amos Sawyer on the Capitol Hill Campus of the University of Liberia (UL).   He was my senior colleague and former professor of social science at Liberia College, where I was serving as Assistant Professor of demography.

Rev. Father Sellee on elected on Saturday with 183 votes (74.7%) in an elected also contested by Rev. Father Herman Browne. MONROVIA – The Dean of the Trinity Cathedral, James B. Sellee, has been elected Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal Church of Liberia.

MONROVIA – Amos Claudius Sawyer was larger than national statesmanship; he encompassed a moral voice in an age of amoral politics; a moral political tutor who helped to pull Liberia back from the precipice of annihilation. He defined an era of restless resistance to monstrous and grievous national wrongs. This is why his passing on February 16, 2022 leaves an irreplaceable national void to be filled only by national recourse to the mores, values and principles that propelled him to heights of national significance.  

MONROVIA – On Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at about 17:55 GMT the Roberts International Airport was a color scene when members, Students, Teachers, and well-wishers of the Salvation Army Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Command converged to welcome to Liberia their World Leaders General Brain Peddle and Commissioner Rosalie Peddle.

Hamburg, German – Former World Boxer Organization European Welterweight Champion, Freddy Kiwitt will face undefeated Frenchman, Nurali Erdogan at the Universum Gym in Hamburg, Germany on Saturday, February 19.

MONROVIA – The standard bearer of the Unity Party, Amb. Joseph N. Boakai, has put the final nail in the coffin of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) by pulling out his party from the opposition conglomerate which, until Wednesday, he headed as a chairman. This move, many believe has further devalued the already dwindling morale of the CPP.