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By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor in Monrovia The Weah administration targets roads as priority, and the government is going all out to achieve its road program. The coastal road network is trending. That is why the Liberian Government is sending a high power delegation to Japan and elsewhere to lobby that foreign government $500,000,000 for road construction project. Stat Minister Nathaniel McGill told our Correspondent in Monrovia over the weekend that the Liberian government will on March 27th, send a high power delegation to Japan, friendly nations and international organizations globally to lobby and borrow US$500 million for the commencement…

By Hasbin Shaw in Freetown, Sierra Leone “I want to retire and leave a country that is peaceful and united,” says Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma. He made the statement when received the new President of ECOWAS Commission Jean-Claude Brou at the State House. President Koroma reiterated his commitment to peaceful transfer of power through a credible election. President Koroma has completed his two terms of office and expected to turn over to the winner in the pending presidential run-off elections on March 27 between the candidates of his ruling All People’s Congress (APC) party and the main opposition…

By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor in Monrovia The Liberian government has broken grounds March 26, 2018 for the construction of a military medical hospital at the Edward B. Keselley Military Barracks on the Roberts International Highway, and the government has already started saving up $2m for the project from local revenue. Minister of State Nathaniel McGill said that the government of Liberia has already raised US$2 million locally from Liberia Maritime Authority for the construction exercise. He said the facility would be constructed by the Engineer Department of the Armed Forces of Liberia with help from partners. According to him,…

Press Release President George Manneh Weah on Monday, March 26, 2018 toured the Bali Island, which is situated in the middle of the Mesurado River. The Liberian leader intends to transform Bali Island into the New Monrovia commencing with the construction of a state-of-the-art International Conference Center and other standardized structures. Speaking during a boat-ride assessment tour, President Weah commended Liberians for giving him the opportunity to lead the country with a view to enable him transform it. “While coming up as a child; growing up in Clara Town, on Bushrod Island; playing just across the shores of the Stockton…

Press Release The Liberian Community in the Federal Republic of Nigeria has bestowed honors on Ambassador Al-Hassan Conteh and Justice Micah Wilkins Wright for their respective services rendered to the Community and Liberian nation. Under the auspices of the Organization of Liberian Communities in Nigeria (OLICON), the Diaspora Community said it was honoring the two ‘distinguished Liberian personalities’ for being ‘sources of pride’ for Liberia in Nigeria in particular, and the ECOWAS sub region in general, a release from the Liberian Embassy in Abuja says. The program for the presentation of awards in honor of Ambassador Conteh and Justice Wright…

Press Release Citizens hailing the Kparblee Administrative District in Nimba County, residing in Montserrado County, have accused Nimba County Senator Prince Johnson of masterminding the continual marginalization of the people of Kparblee District using ethnocentric or tribal cleavages. The citizens alleged that Senator Johnson is doing everything to prevent Mr. Peter Sarpka Karngbaye, a citizen of the District, from serving as the Assistant Superintendent for Development of Nimba County. In a press statement read by their spokesman, Marcus Sawi Kpou, on Thursday, March 22, 2018 in Monrovia, the Kaprblee citizens said Mr. Karngbaye, who chairs their mother organization, Kparblee District…

“When her aunty was in Ghana, you defendant firstly began to finger her.” That was the averment on the face of the writ of arrest issue by the Paynesville Magisterial Court against Momolu Sirleaf, an official of the Ministry of Health in Monrovia. READ FROM FPA Magistrate James Cooper of the Paynesville Magisterial Court is holding Mr. Sirleaf and has sent him to jail on allegation that Defendant Sirleaf raped an 11-year old niece of his wife. The Court said Sirleaf has been fingering his victim and subsequently sexually assaulted her while his wife was away to Ghana. READ FROM…

By Charles Gbayor in Harper, Maryland County The Resident Bishop of the United Methodist Church of Liberia (UMC), Rev. Dr. Samuel J. Quire has donated 25 gallon of gasoline to the local Radio planet station in Harper, Maryland County. According to Bishop Quire, his donation was aimed at bolstering the efforts of Radio Planet management to keep the station running to continue providing quality news, information and entertainment, and quality broadcast to the people of Maryland County and the entire southeastern region. The Rev. Quire said that information sharing is important and as such it is significant to keep the…

By Hasbin Shaw in Freetown, Sierra Leone The main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) is blaming President Ernest Bai Koroma for the escalation of tribal hate speeches spewed by politicians and their followers due to his silence and his government in action. The campaign chairman of SLPP party Dr. Alie Kabba told a news conference at the party headquarters in Freetown on Monday, saying, “In the face of these attacks, intimidations and hate speeches, President Ernest Bai Koroma has remained conspicuously silent.” The SLPP observed that giving the impression that he either supports the attacks against other Sierra Leonean…

By Joseph S. Margai in Beijing, China President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, has stated at the closing meeting of the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC), in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, that China will never use its development at the expense of other nations. The 64-year old President, who was re-elected last Saturday for another term, also stated that China’s development would pose no threat to any other country, thereby easing the growing tensions of China becoming “world super power”. President Xi said China will never seek hegemony…