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By Hasbin Shaw in Freetown, Sierra Leone There has been very tense atmosphere at the National Electoral Commission (NEC) headquarters in Freetown on since Sunday, April1, 2018 afternoon when representatives of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) announced they will walk out of the NEC center of operation over disagreement with the All People’s Congress (APC) Party as the parties bicker over which system of tallying to use. The center computes results from tallying centers across the country. The SLPP said they would rather walk out of the NEC center of operation than be a party to what they described…

By Charles Gbayor in Harper, Maryland County A downpour of torrential rain hard hit Radio Gee 92.2FM broadcasting and finance departments destroying the roof. Major broadcasting equipment in Fish Town, River Gee County were also damaged. Some of the equipment destroyed includes three desktop computers, studio mixer, the Audio system, among other vital broadcasting materials. Speaking to Groove 106FM Correspondent, Radio Gee Station Manger George Kayee said a quick fix solution is needed to help remedy the situation or management risk losing more equipment to the constant rainfall or storm. Mr. Kayee said the there is no technical person on…

By Charles Gbayor in Harper, Maryland County He was one of the several lawmakers elected in the 2014 special senatorial elections. J. Gbleh Brown was elected senator of Maryland County, Republic of Liberia. But since his election, Sen. Brown has not rested until he carried out several medium projects across the county. Senator Brown is currently carrying out projects in two of the three electoral districts in the County. Those projects included a modern youth center in New Kru Town, the Tobyville Township Hall in Harper District and the completion of the Manolu Health Center in Kaluway District. The health…

By Hasbin Shaw in Freetown, Sierra Leone Tens, perhaps hundreds, of citizens in the Sierra Leonean capital of Freetown on Tuesday April 3, 2018 held a peaceful protest calling on the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to release the 31st March presidential runoff results. The protesters were carrying placards in front of the Chamber of the Chief Justice and Judiciary of Sierra Leone on Siaka Stevens Street in central Freetown. Some of the placards read: “NEC must announce the elections result,” while others screamed, “We don’t want any injunction this time around,” and “The children need to go back to school.”…

By Hasbin Shaw in Freetown, Sierra Leone “According to our tradition, a girl should get married when she reaches puberty,” said Zainab Binta Jalloh, a 23-year-old from Sierra Leone’s Koinadugu District. She was married when she was 15 years old 45-year old man. Two years early, when she was only 13, a 45 year-old man approached her parent with a marriage proposal. “He was rich, and he was using his wealth to influence my parent. My parent was pressuring me about him every day,” Zainab said. But she was opposed to marrying so young. “I always resisted them,” she recalled.…

Press Release Liberia’s Semah G. Weefur and Nigeria’s musical icon Chinedu Izuchukwu Okoli aka “Flavour N’abania” on Saturday night thrilled thousands of fans in Enugu when they took the stage live in concert. It was their first live public stage performance since their collaboration started few months ago. A Liberian Embassy release from Enugu, Southeastern Nigeria says several top-notch Nigerian artists, including Tecno, Phyno, Zoro, among others, entertained the fans on the night, but it was little Semah’s inspirational appearance that heightened the emotions amongst the thousands of people that showed up for the much publicized Easter Holiday Concert. It…

By Hasbin Shaw in Freetown, Sierra Leone The National Electoral Watch (NEW), a coalition of local and international organization, has frowned on recent heaped of inciting statements coming from politicians and political leaders in Sierra Leone in the wake of general and presidential elections. The group says it has observed inflammatory statements in the media coming from political leaders. “Our attention has been drawn to recent statements made by the presidential candidate of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), Rtd. Brig. Julius Maada Bio, whilst responding to the party’s position relating to the recent interim injunction,” the group noted Tuesday,…

Press Release Some 58-protocol officers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have undergone three weeks of training to prepare them for the task ahead. The training is one the promises Foreign Minister Gbehzohngar Milton Findley he made to senators during his confirmation two months ago. The training concluded on Thursday, March 29th. When Foreign Minister Findley appeared before the Liberian Senate’s Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday, January 24, two days following the inauguration of His Excellency Mr. George Manneh Weah, President of the Republic of Liberia, he vowed before those Honorable Senators that he was going to make sure that…

Police in Monrovia have arrested four suspects in connection with gruesome murder of Joyce Otu, a Liberian mother of two, who recently returned home from Minnesota in the United States of America to start a small business and contribute to the local economy, according to the FrontPageAfrica newspaper. READ MORE FROM FPA Joyce’s was killed in a gruesome fashion, her throat slit and her body dragged from the living room into the bathroom where it was laid against the bathtub. The four persons arrested included the deceased’s son, Sylvannus Freeman, a friend of the deceased, Peter B. Brown, Isaiah Togbah,…

By Joseph S. Margai in Beijing, China African journalists undergoing studies in the People’s Republic of China say they are looking forward to learning more about the Chinese people and real images bordering on politics, economy, technology, culture and history of the country. Speaking recently at a ceremony at the China Public Diplomacy Association (CPDA), Vincent Mbonihankuye from Burundi, who spoke on behalf of his colleagues recalled that the CAPC was established in 2014 by CPDA with the purpose of encouraging Chinese and foreign media to conduct pragmatic and friendly exchanges and to allow big news happened in China and…