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Alphonso Toweh Has been in the profession for over twenty years. He has worked for many international media outlets including: West Africa Magazine, Africa Week Magazine, African Observer and did occasional reporting for CNN, BBC World Service, Sunday Times, NPR, Radio Deutchewells, Radio Netherlands. He is the current correspondent for Reuters He holds first MA with honors in […]
MONROVIA_Two banks in Liberia have confirmed the freezing of Bill Tweahey, Sarenus CEPHUS and Nathaniel McGill”s accounts. Multiple sources at the United BANK for Africa (UBA) and SIB(formerly GN BANK) told New Republic Newspaper that they received an official communication from the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) early Thursday to freeze the accounts of the three […]
MONROVIA-The only government referral hospital in Buchanan, Grand Bassa county is on fire with patients struggling to leave. Residents and other people struggle to remove the patients, eyewitnesses on the scene told this paper late Thursday. “Our hospital here is on fire. They are taking the patients from inside, a resident on the scene identified […]
By: R. Joyclyn Wea MONROVIA-The Government of Liberia is expected to remove harmonization weight on judges and magistrates across the 15 counties; this means that judges and magistrates will no longer be affected by the government’s salary cut or harmonization exercise. The process, according to Eva Morgan Mappy, outgoing president of the National Association of […]
MONROVIA-Top security sources told this paper Wednesday morning that Mr. Isaac Vah Tukpah, Chief of Staff in the office of the political leader for the Alternative National Congress-Alexander B. Cummings, is safe. “The man is safe. He is at the border with Immigration officers at the Bo waterside,” the source who declined to be named […]
MONROVIA-Following the resignation of Isaac Vah Tukpah, Chief of Staff in the office of the political leader for the Alternative National Congress-Alexander B. Cummings, his whereabouts are unknown, ANC sources told this paper early Wednesday. It can be recalled that he resigned based on the instruction of Mr. Cummings after a book he co-authored with […]
MONROVIA-After president George Weah delivered his state of the Nation Address on January 24, 2022, Alexander B. Cummings, political leader of the Alternative National Congress has described the Liberian economy as sluggish and said that corruption was still rampant. Moreover, president Weah has failed to create the one million jobs he promised Liberians. President Weah […]
MONROVIA-Several workers, mainly contractors at the Robert International Airport(RIA) early Thursday embarked on a go slow strike action in demand for their two months pay and also demanding to be paid off before an Arab company-National Aviation Services-NAS takes over three departments at the airport. “But management is telling us that we should be with […]
MONROVIA-There are some level of silence of the Liberian government over the whereabout of US$500.000 half a million given to the government of Liberia by the government of Norway to settle about 34 employees who were retired from the Forestry Development Authority. They were retired in 2018 by the Forestry Development Authority-FDA. Seeing the need […]
By MARK S. DAHN, GANTA GANTA- Normal activities in Ganta came to an standstill on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 as a result of violent demonstration over land dispute. Residents of the city were seen running in total disarray for safety. Academic activities have prematurely ended as parents and guardians of school going kids moved on […]