Author: Selma Lomax

MONROVIA — As calls mount against female genital mutilation, a renowned Liberian health practitioner, Obediah G. Weahweah, has joined the bandwagon in condemning the unwholesome and willful practice in Liberia. By Selma Lomax, [email protected] Weahweah said the act melted against   teenage girls in rural Liberia by traditional people is a gross violation of their human rights. Weahweah lamented how the practice is on the increase in Rivercess County, where he is currently assigned as a health worker. He further explained that the practice has denied many teenage school-going girls the opportunity to continue their primary and secondary education in most parts…

Bong County District#5 Representative, Eugene J.M. Kollie, has written House Speaker, Fonati Koffa, requesting the appearance of Finance and Development Planning Minister, Boima Kamara before that honorable body to provide clarity on government’s planned De-harmonization initiative.

BONG MINES, Bong County — In 2013, Foday Fahnbulleh led a group of student activists who were arrested for protesting the operations of a Chinese mining firm in Liberia.

Monrovia — Civil Service Agency Director General, Josiah Joekai, has disclosed that the agency has uncovered wanton disparities and other fraudulent activities at various government spending entities.

Gbarnga, Bong County-Nyla Bush, a 14-year-old philanthropist and young community activist has donated assorted medical supplies to the Phebe Referral Hospital worth two thousand six hundred eighty United States dollars (USD 2680.00) in Bong County.

MONROVIA — United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice, Beth Van Schaack, has urged Liberians to stand up and demand the establishment of a war and economic crimes court.

MONROVIA – Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority (LPRA) Director General-designate, Madam Marilyn Logan, has vowed to rebrand and make the institution viably policy driven when confirmed to the position.

MONROVIA — Health workers in across the country are calling on President Joseph Boakai to nominate Madam Martha Morris to the position of Deputy Minister for Administration at the Ministry of Health.

MONROVIA — FrontPageAfrica has gathered that the Supreme Court Friday issued a Writ of Prohibition on the acting executive director of the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia, Dr. Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo from carrying out functions of the EPA pending a conference with the Associate Justice Yussif Kaba.

Monrovia – The general notion that “What a man can do, a woman can do better” is being proven by some women in Liberia’s capital Monrovia as they daily make profits from driving commercial tricycles popularly known as “Kekeh”, a profession known to be dominated by the male gender.