Author: Rodney Sieh

The late Mark Gibson captained the Liberian national team for ten years and was highly respected by his peers Columbus, Ohio – Mark Gibson was the ultimate footballer. At the peak of his game, he engineered the midfield of the Liberian national team, the Lone Star to key victories in regional African qualifiers and tournaments, aptly winning the admiration of fans and his peers who dubbed him, “The Midfield General”. Until his death last Thursday, April 11, 2019, family and close friends say he spent his final days in and out of hospital in Columbus, Ohio, his of residence for…

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ABIDJAN – If everything goes according to script, a 1982 policy agreement amongst the Heads of States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) could see Liberia taking a major step in alleviating its ongoing electricity fluctuation issues. Regional leaders agreed in ’82 to put in place a regional energy policy that would promote a regional energy market and to optimize resources in West Africa. Subsequently, in 1999 the West African Power Pool (WAPP) was created and its Master Plan was put in place in 2000 with a view to provide electrical energy at competitive and affordable prices…

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Monrovia – When Liberia was engulfed in a mystery surrounding the disappearance of millions of local currencies last year, Augustine Ford aka Fo4Doe, and his friend, Skinny boy Kpanto unleashed the hit single, “Bring our Containers Back.” Nearly a year later, reggae-beats man, Rabbie Nasrallah, aka Nasseman is continuing to trek the trail of the missing money with his latest hit making the rounds on the airwaves and sparking chatters on social media – “Who Stole the Money” (from the Central Bank)?

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Mr. Benjamin Sanvee fell short of explaining his reason for quitting the LPRC board, in a letter to President Weah Monday. Monrovia – Mr. Benjamin Sanvee, the former Acting Chairman of the opposition Liberty Party who was part of a faction within the party which endorsed the candidacy of George Manneh Weah in the second round of the 2017 presidential elections, has stepped down from his position as a member of the board of the Liberia Petroleum Refinery Company (LPRC).

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THE TRUTH of the matter is that in any other country, serious about weeding out corruption, greed and serious about accountability and transparency, Senate Pro Tempore, Mr. Albert Chie and those who benefited from that ExxonMobil deal would be in jail. But because Liberia is a country that turns its back on good governance, Mr. Chie now presides over a Senate which just lynched a sitting Associate Justice and is now looking to dishonor one of the few honorable members of the Liberian Senate, Bomi Senator, Sando B. Johnson. SENATE PRO TEMPORE Albert Chie last Thursday, wrote the plenary of…

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US President Donald Trump along with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Jake Menges was a strong political item during the last US Presidential campaign. The Weah administration in Liberia, eyeing an access to President Trump has tipped Menges as its new lobbyist in Washington, DC, ditching Riva Levinson, who represented former President Sirleaf for twelve years. Washington – President George Manneh Weah’s government has hired a former operative for Pro-Trump Super Pac to lobby for his administration in Washington.

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Washington – Which Senators voted to impeach Associate Justice Kabineh Ja’neh – and which did not? In the aftermath of last week’s decision to remove Justice Ja’neh, Senator Prince Y. Johnson (NUDP, Nimba) has claimed that he was among those who was against the impeachment along with Senator Thomas Grupee (Nimba) to keep the Associate Justice on the Supreme Court bench.

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Monrovia- In the moments leading to the reading of Chief Justice Francis Korkpor’s final verdict in the impeachment proceeding against Associate Justice Kabineh Ja’neh, murmurs and speculations heightened that members of the upper house in the national legislature received hefty payments to influence the outcome of the political impeachment of the embattled Associate Justice.

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