Author: Mae Azango

MONROVIA – Education Minister Prof. Ansu Sonii has disclosed that the best teachers will be awarded one million Liberian dollars and a newly constructed house for his best performance, while two other teachers and two principals would also be awarded.

File Photo: An Anti-rape protestor in Monrovia MONROVIA – When little Annie’s (not her real name) parents sent her to live with Pastor Lusinee Kromah and his wife, to afford her opportunity to go to school, she never thought her benefactor would have allegedly violated her.

MONROVIA – Parents of the seven-year-old little girl who was allegedly raped and killed by some unknown person(s) on July 23rd, 2022, in the Nimba United Community, Mount Barclay, are still waiting for justice as it relates to the brutal murder of their child.

MONROVIA – A decision by the Managing Director of the Forestry Development Authority (FDA), C. Mike Doryen, to skip a conference with donors in Cote d’Ivoire has put at risk funding of US$16.8 million which donors had agreed to give for conservation of the Tai-Grebo-Krahn-Sapo Park.

MONROVIA – Beatrice Wisseh Jalloh is a high school graduate with honors. She was opportune to get a scholarship from the Gbowee Peace Foundation and enrolled at the African Methodist Episcopal University, (AMEU) in pursuit of her dream to become a Lawyer. But that dream remains in limbo, as she is in the hospital with two broken legs.

Monrovia – A Liberian, based in the Netherlands, has written a book on International Criminal Law. The book, Linking High-level Accused to Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes in International Criminal Law, is available on Amazon and other major platforms.

Monrovia – Mr. Allen B. Neblett, an advocate of the children’s playground adjacent ELBC Radio Station, has vowed to use the five pillars of adverse possession to reclaim the land of the vandalized playground. Neblett wants to get the land from Mrs. Princess Andrews Howard, wife of John Wesley Howard, and a son to J.C.N. Howard, Sr., who is claiming the land. 

 This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Global Health Reporting Initiative: Vaccines and Immunization in Africa. MONROVIA – Twenty-one-year-old Satta Kollie (not her real name), a high school senior student, never thought her dream of becoming a Registered Nurse would be shattered when she contracted Hepatitis B that landed her in the hospital.  

MONROVIA – Rebecca Tokpah (not real name) now lives with the regret of not taking her 19-year-old step daughter along when she decided she could no longer live her father because of his abusive nature. The 19-year-old did not only become a victim of physical abuse, but also a rape survivor. She was alleged raped consistently by her own father.

MONROVIA – The grandmother of a three-year-old girl allegedly raped by her 17-year-old neighbor is crying out for justice and wants the police to wade into the matter as soon as possible.