Author: Mae Azango

Monrovia – Three non-profit organizations have donated several assorted items to disadvantaged Liberians, including the blinds. Their donation comes at a time when Liberians have been told to stay home in order to keep safe and stop the transmission of the Covid-19.

94-year-old Bade Baker Harris Nance isn’t sitting idly; she is here stitching patterns on her table clothes Monrovia – While others are putting their talents to use by making masks to cover noses and mouths so as to prevent people from contracting the coronavirus, 94-year-old Bade Baker Harris Nance isn’t sitting idly, too.

Deputy Minister for Codification at the Ministry of Justice, Cllr. Nyenati Tuan is accused of meting out inhumane treatment to the kids after he allegedly ran them over with his car Monrovia – Deputy Minister for Codification at the Ministry of Justice, Cllr. Nyenati Tuan, is being accused of using his position to thwart justice from three kids he allegedly injured when his vehicle ran into a motorbike carrying the children on March 1, 2020. Cllr. Tuan is also being accused of abandoning the kids, while their poor mother struggles to medicate them.

Crowded Red Light market in Paynesville outside Monrovia six days after Liberia recorded its first case of the novel coronavirus March 22, 2020. FrontPage Africa/Harry Browne (UPDATE: April 20, 2020—Story is updated to reflect nine more coronavirus cases and adds an additional paragraph on the denial of the gold rush by the Ministry of Mines and Energy.) Monrovia – Artisanal miners are flocking to Belleh Yallah in Gbarpolu County amid a new gold rush there, with mining authorities fearing an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the western mining hub.    

The Jackson Fiah Doe hospital in Tappita, Nimba County Tappita, Nimba County – Health authorities in Nimba County, mainly at the Jackson Fiah Doe Memorial Hospital, recently announced that a 42-year-old man died on April 3, 2020 in Tappita, Lower Nimba County was a result of the Covid-19. The passing of the man, put Nimba on the record for a case of the virus with other counties including Montserrado and Margibi.

Michelle Gwaikolo, Kate S. Faraj, and Kormassa Vankpannah 17 educating some residents of the Cowfield Community in the Duport Road Community, Paynesville on the prevention of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Monrovia – As the fight to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease in Liberia intensifies, three teenagers, under the banner “Girls Ending Covid-19”, have voluntarily began carrying on awareness in seven communities within Du Port Road area in Paynesville. By Mae Azango, [email protected] Michelle Gwaikolo 17 (founder), Kate S. Faraj 15 (co-founder), and Kormassa Vankpannah 17 (co-founder), told FrontPageAfrica recently that they had spoken with Liberians residing in Cowfield…

Robert Harrison allegedly raped the 16-year-old while she was being kept in custody at the police depot which he heads Monrovia – The last thing 16-year-old Diana Kollie, not her name, expected was to be raped by a police officer, Robert Harrison of the Criminal Investigations Division at Zone 9, Depot 4, Jacob Town Rehab. She had been placed behind bars at the station on allegation of phone theft. 

Two remaining schoolgirls at the Ellen Johnson Public School sit alongside boys in November 2019. FrontPage Africa/Mae Azango TODEE – In November, the current school year was just midway, but in Tumay Town, Todee District, it was already over for more than 100 girls at the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Public School. They had abandoned their classrooms to attend Sande school. This contributed to a drop in enrollment from 250 students at the beginning of last academic year to 48 this term, according to the public school’s administration.

Monrovia – A young Liberian writer, Edwin Olu Bestman of Stella Maris Polytechnic, last week won an online award from the World Nation Writer’s Union (WNWU) based in India. WNWU also has branches in other parts of the world including Africa. 

Kokoyah – Making good on their promise in assisting in health and education, the Liberia Research and Development Networks, (LRDN) distributed a dozen of hygiene buckets with faucets, three packs of pens and 300 pieces of LRDN branded copy books to Saye Weh Town and Dean Town in Kokoyah District, Bong County.