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BREAKING NEWS: president Weah nominates New Chief Justice

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 […]

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE _:Two banks confirm freezing accounts

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 […]

BREAKING NEWS: Buchanan Gov. Hospital on fire

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 […]

‘Bus’ Stops At Judiciary

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 […]

UPDATE- BREAKING NEWS: Cummings Aid is Safe….Security sources

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 […]

BREAKING NEWS: Cummings Aid Whereabout Unknown

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 […]

Cummings: “Economy Remains Sluggish”

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 […]

UPDATE: Airport workers go on strike

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 […]

Violent Demonstration in Ganta

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 […]