Government Must Act to End the Gasoline Ponzi Scheme Now!
In short, the grand Ponzi Scheme has come to light and the LPRC finds itself in dire straits. Now it has come to head and the grand Ponzi scheme has been unveiled. In case they do, they should also let the public know in order to end the wild speculations. Now, as to whether the NPA has any role to play in this Ponzi Scheme other than its alleged corrupt involvement in the bid tendering process for dredging the Port remains unclear. It must end the Gasoline Ponzi Scheme NOW!
Source:Daily Observer
January 28, 2020 02:15 UTC
Liberia: EPA, Partners Engage Locals in Fight Against Climate Change, Launch Climate Saturday
According to the EPA Focal Point for Climate Action Empowerment (ACE), Teddy P. Taylor, Climate Saturday is a new platform aimed at promoting a climate smart and sensitive generation to boost the effort in creating awareness on the growing effects of climate change. Mr. Taylor said Climate Saturday will be a monthly event bringing together community members to discuss issues bordering on climate change and the environment. “Climate Change poses significant risks to Liberia in reaching its goals for sustainable development and climate action. The EPA, and pro Youth environment organizations, with support from the World Bank are engaging the locals to form part of activities in combatting the crippling effects of climate change. Giving the impact of climate change on the sustainability of development going forward, Dr. Nthara called for young people to be at the center of discussions on climate change and the environment.
Source:Front Page Africa
January 28, 2020 00:22 UTC
Liberia: UBA Launches ‘Teens Account’ at B.W. Harris Episcopal High School
Monrovia – As part of efforts to get teenagers acquainted with saving and other banking activities, the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Liberia Limited has introduced “UBA Teens” – a savings account tailored for teenagers in the country. UBA Teens was launched Friday, January 24, at the B.W. Harris High School on Broad Street, couple of blocks away from the bank’s head office. Speaking to journalists at the launch, UBA Liberia Marketing and Corporate Communications Manager Melody Mezay-Ketter said Teens Account holder stands to benefit an array of bonuses like 13-month cash reward, 50 percent discount on debit cards, complimentary invite to UBA Teens event and access to all digital banking products offered by UBA. Harris Episcopal High School, at the event, were excited about the possibility of owning an account and said it will enlighten their minds about the banking sector.
Source:Front Page Africa
January 28, 2020 00:11 UTC
National AIDS Commission Solicits Partners’ Inputs to Develop HIV Strategic Plan
Monrovia – The National AIDS Commission of Liberia (NAC) has concluded a two-day national stakeholders’ meeting to solicit the inputs of civil society organizations and development partners for the development of Liberia’s new HIV and AIDS National Strategic Plan II (NSP II). The new NSP II 2021-2025, is a five-year strategic document designed to fast track the effort of Liberia in ending AIDS by 2030. Presenting the draft NSP at the meeting, the Director for Program and Policy at the National AIDS Commission, Sandei Cooper told the stakeholders and partners that their inputs are critical to ensuring a roadmap document to guide the country’s HIV and AIDS response. Mr. Cooper said the AIDS Commission attaches serious attention in involving every stakeholder in writing the NSP II because it will encourage ownership when it is completed. The stakeholders meeting was presided over by two consultants, one local and one international who are leading the NSP II writing process.
Source:Front Page Africa
January 28, 2020 00:10 UTC
University of Liberia Lifts Ban on Campus-based Political Activities
UL president Dr. Nelson, during the weekend, declared the resumption of campus-based politics, seven months after political activities was put on freezeFendall – Scores of students of the University of Liberia have hailed the administration of Dr. Julius S. Nelson for lifting sanction on campus-based political activities. Another student, Sackie Gboyue, who studies Public Health, admonished campus-based political institutions to desist from the conflict that will hinder learning activities. UL president Dr. Nelson, during the weekend, declared the resumption of campus-based politics, seven months after political activities was put on freeze. The suspension affected political/solidarity marches, political gatherings, the wearing of symbols and emblems depicting and promoting campus-based political groups, student protests, among others. At the same time, Dr. Nelson has revealed that the student’s advocacy group, “Progressive Students Alliance” has been given status as a campus-based political party.
Source:Front Page Africa
January 28, 2020 00:00 UTC
Liberia: Agriculture, Harper Basin Bid Considered Paramount to Economic Recovery But Lawmakers Express Concern about Underwriting Cost
The nominee is a woman whose track record, competence and dedication match my vision for agricultural transformation in Liberia. On Monday, the President said, working in close collaboration with the legislature, they have been able to pass a credible National Budget at Five Hundred and Twenty-six Million United States dollars (US$526 million. Liberia’s last bid round was concluded December of 2014 with over $60 million dollars in commitments but concluded unsuccessfully due to political wrangling between the Executive and Legislative branches of government. Experts say the importance of Liberia’s next bid round cannot be overstated and will determine all future successes for Liberia’s fledgling oil sector. “As at end-December 2019, the total stock of public debt amounted to One point Twenty-Seven Billion United States Dollars (US$1.27 billion).
Source:Front Page Africa
January 28, 2020 00:00 UTC
Liberia Football Association Certificate 44 New Referees
Referee-trainees and officials of the Liberia Football AssociationMonrovia – Forty-four persons have been certified as referees following the end of a beginners’ course conducted by the Liberia Football Association (LFA). Raji thanked the Liberia Football Referees Association (LiFRA) for their continuous development of referees across the country. He also praised LFA director of referees Ebenezer Stanley Konah for being the first director to develop his plans of action for 2020. They were selected from Montserrado, Nimba, Grand Cape Mount, Grand Gedeh, Margibi and Grand Bassa Counties. Francis R. Kofi and Thomas A. McGill were selected from Grand Cape Mount County and Emmanuel S. Glay, Emmanuel S. James and Arthur Gaye came from Grand Gedeh County.
Source:Front Page Africa
January 28, 2020 00:00 UTC
Sports Writer Condemns Police Brutality on FPA Sport Editor
Several police officers, who were roaming the perimeter of the field without accreditations, targeted the FrontPageAfrica’s Sports Desk Editor, among several journalists and fans. In the process of forcefully taking the reporter out, the Police wearing PSU uniform damaged Christopher Walker’s camera, and a Samsung phone. The Sports Writers stressed that the officers’ action doesn’t only undermines, it also threatens the media and its work. “Many at times, members of the Sporting Press are molested, intimidated and harassed by unprofessional security personnel. SWAL called on the nation’s sporting authorities to ensure that security personnel are given trainings on their operations at game venues.
Source:Front Page Africa
January 28, 2020 00:00 UTC
A Pair of Dirty Hands
The Editor,It’s been several decades since a Liberian President entered office with a cleaned pair of hands, for instance, before President Samuel K. Doe took office in 1980, he had dirtied his hands by his role in the death of President William R. Tolbert, and early on in his Presidency, the young Head of State (Doe) went on to get his hands even dirtier with the extra-judicial execution of the thirteen deposed government officials on the shore-ways of Monrovia waters on November 22nd, 1980. Then Charles Taylor came along, and although he marketed himself as the liberator of the people, Mr. Taylor’s hands were already very dirty when he took office in 1997, the crimes committed under Taylor’s watch, as well as the execution of a sitting President by a break-away faction of his military junta, and the many direct orders given by the merciless Liberian President to summarily incarcerate and execute opposition figures are well documented. So, now we have President George Weah, who for many years was a Liberian sporting hero, and who is perhaps the first Liberian President to walk into office with a clean pair of hands in the last four decades or so. Our hope therefore is that he (President Weah), will listen to the concerns of his people and respect what democracy demands, and understand the words of Thomas Jefferson, that when the government fears the people, then there is Democracy, but when the people fear the government, then there is tyranny. Torbor Tee WonakayExecutive Director/FOHRD[email protected]
Source:Front Page Africa
January 28, 2020 00:00 UTC
Liberia: Face of Discontent – VP Jewel Howard Taylor Appeared Unsettled at Annual Message
“As a standard-bearer and vice President of the Republic of Liberia, she will do all she can in her power to ensure that is supported. He said respect must be shown not only to Vice President Taylor but also to the Office of the President and all other high-ranking officials of the government. “A ‘Feminist-in-Chief’ cannot suppress, neglect and preside over the flagrant disrespect of a female that is a Vice President! My expectations were that the president and vice president would work very closely together. On Monday, shortly after the President’s message, Senator Dillon threw pointed jabs at the President for proclaiming himself Feminist-in-Chief while indulging differences with his vice president.
Source:Front Page Africa
January 28, 2020 00:00 UTC
Liberia: Man, 38, Reportedly Admits Killing German Expat in Buchanan, Refuses to Disclose Motive
Nappy said that Emmanuel admitted to the commission of the crime but the police have not been able to establish the motive behind the killing. Nappy told FrontPageAfrica the police were still looking for people who may have been involved in the death of the German expatriate. Residents and employees of the company told FrontPageAfrica’s Grand Bassa County correspondent that Mr. Schedema was attacked by arm robbers, although no valuables were attacked away from him. The senior management team of the company including its finance Officer and several other expatriates resides in the log yard, where the incident occurred. He said three men kept them at gunpoint while the other five executed their plan by killing the German national.
Source:Front Page Africa
January 28, 2020 00:00 UTC
Liberia: Monrovia Mayor Has His Flaws But Linking Him to Chuckie Taylor Could Undermine TRC Quest
THE TRC WAS agreed upon in the August 2003 Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Accra and created by the TRC Act of 2005. TO PUT IT SUCCINCTLY, Mr. Koijee was born on Sept. 7, 1985, that would make him 12-years old in 1997 and at 18-years-old in 2003, the period during which the IJG claims Mr. Koijee was Chuckie’s bodyguard. MR. KOIJEE LAMENTED RECENTLY: “I too lost a parent in the civil war. MR. KOIJEE, in his own defense, says that he has never participated in any acts of violence in his life. If Mr. Koijee is proven to have been involved at that young age, then he should face the full weight of the law and deserves to face justice, if it is proven.
Source:Front Page Africa
January 28, 2020 00:00 UTC
LRDN to Distribute over 80 Dozens of Copybooks to Rural Liberia
John Yormie displaying the copybooks that would be distributed to school-going kidsMonrovia – The Liberia Research and Development Networks, (LRDN) celebrated its third anniversary at the same time, launched over 80 dozens of copy books to be given free of charge to kids of primary schools in three rural counties: Nimba, Bong and Margibi. Yormie further pointed out that there is no budgetary support allocated for research work. And Liberia is lacking behind other neighboring countries that prioritize the work of research. “We are committed to enhancing social and natural science research support to scholars and public agencies for research and education activities. Serving as keynote speaker, Madam Sondah Geepea-Wilson, of SEARCH, spoke making education a priority for Liberia.
Source:Front Page Africa
January 28, 2020 00:00 UTC
President Weah’s Annual Message At The Third Session Of The Fifty-Fourth National Legislature
Total cash expenditure for the period under review amounted to Four Hundred and Six Million ($406 million) United States Dollars. Approximately One Hundred and Ninety-Four Million United States dollars (US$194 million) of this amount are loans, and about Seventy-Nine Million United States dollars (US$79 million) constitutes grants. These loans and grants are allocated as follows: One Hundred and Twenty-Five point One Million United States dollars (US$125.1 million) for road construction linking Barclayville to Sasstown, Voinjama to Konia, and Sanniquellie to Loguatuo; Forty-Seven Million United States dollars (US$47 million) for improving results in secondary education; Twenty-Eight point Ninety-five Million United States dollars (US$28.95 million) for improving urban water supply in Monrovia; Seventy-One point Eight Million United States dollars (US$71.8 million) for improving agriculture; and Six point Five Million United States dollars (US$6.5 million) for youth empowerment and employment. Of the total debt stock, the share of domestic debt is Four Hundred and Nineteen point Eight Million United States Dollars (US$419.8 million(, while external debt accounts for Eight Hundred and Forty-Nine point Ninety-Nine Million United States dollars (US$849.99 million). Total debt service over the course of Fiscal Year 2019/20 is projected at Sixty-Five Million United States dollars (US$65 million).
Source:GNN Liberia
January 27, 2020 21:33 UTC
Analysis of Liberia-China’s Bilateral Relations and its Impact on National Development
But what is the ultimate push behind Beijing new diplomatic ties with African states and governments? Studies have shown that Beijing relations with African states bordered on south-south cooperation especially in the areas of infrastructural development, socio-economic growth, and national interests. The friendly relations and cooperation between China and Liberia enjoyed the sound and all-around growth evident by Beijing’s development pack in the country. According to MOFA (2014), China has had no negative impact on the political development of Liberia. China-Liberia cooperation development is blessed with shared needs, advantages, and opportunities, which make Liberia an important foothold.
Source:Front Page Africa
January 27, 2020 20:48 UTC