Author: Gibson W. Jerue

By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor in Monvoria With less than eleven days to the holding of the Representatives and Presidential elections, Liberty Party of Cllr. Charles Walker Brumskine has filed formal complaints with the National Election Commission (NEC) against the Coalition for Democratic Change of Montserrado County Senator George Manneh Weah alleging electoral violence perpetrated by CDCians Speaking at the regular press briefing Wednesday, September 27, at NEC’s headquarters in Monrovia, Chairman Jerome George Korkoya said that the Liberty Party complained the CDC alleging campaign violence which occurred in Sanniquelle, Nimba County. “This complaint has been referred to our independent…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone A press release issued by Marie Stopes Sierra Leone (MSSL) has noted that in 2016, the organization prevented 101,220 unintended pregnancies. The organization succeeded in preventing the pregnancies by providing contraceptive services and distributing condoms to sexually active youths and adults. The press release, which was issued recently during the commemoration of the World Contraception Day (WCD), also noted that in 2016, MSSL’s teams provided family planning contraceptive services to 444,456 countrywide, thereby preventing 59,510 unsafe abortions. “Excluding the free distribution of 1,080,002 condoms, MSSL was able to prevent 1,073 maternal deaths.…

The road leading to towns in Lofa County are deplorable, but that is not stopping politicians and presidential candidates and their campaign teams from venturing into the County to get their fair share of the votes. The latest presidential candidate to seek support of the Lofaians is the standard-bearer of the Alternative National Congress (ANC), Alexander B. Cummings. A press of the ANC statement issued in Monrovia, September 25th, says after touring Margibi, Nimba and Bong counties, Mr. Cummings and some stalwarts of his party including its Chairman, Mr. Lafayette Gould, were received by thousands of partisans and supporters who…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone The Program Director of Graceland Sierra Leone, Bondu Manyeh, has said that her organization always gives psychosocial support to people of Sierra Leone. Formed in 1994 during one of Sierra Leone’s war years, Madam Manyeh said Graceland Sierra Leone has been counseling and supporting lots of people by training them in areas that would help them to recover from their trauma. She said one of the areas that have been troubling women is land and chiefs have been finding it difficult to handle cases relating to women’s access to land. “We cannot…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone China Railway Seventh Group (CRSG) that company that is constructing the Wellington-Masiaka toll road is said to be losing greatly on a daily basis due to the failure of heavy-duty trucks to pass through the tollgates. The CRSG, which is implementing a US$161m project, has only constructed the road from Wellington-Yams Farm and has already instituted three tollgates that drivers are paying certain amounts of money to pass through them. However, drivers of heavy-duty trucks have been boycotting all the three tollgates and prefer to use the alternative road despite its horrible…

By Joseph S. Margai In Freetown, Sierra Leone Sierra Leone’s main opposition political party, the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has set out criteria for candidates aspiring for the presidential race requiring candidates wishing to contest in the March 7, 2018 presidential election to pay the sum of Le120m ($16, 000usd). SLPP was established in 1951 and upon independence in 1961. Sir Milton Margai became Prime Minister, and the SLPP became the ruling party. The party lost power to the ruling All People’s Congress (APC) in 2007 and 2012, respectively. In a press release published in the SLPP’s Unity Newspaper on…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone The alternative route used by motorist to duck paying toll on the route between Freetown and Makeni has its own problems. The road is bad and it is children in Brama, Makoloh and Konta Line villages in the Western Area Rural and Port Loko Districts are the ones who bearing the blunt of the problem, as they are being subjected to hard labor. The children are seen on daily basis clearing mud and filling the numerous potholes on the alternative road in order to make vehicles ply the route easily. They told…

By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor in Monrovia It appears that the public is far from getting the actual happenings that took place between the partisans of the Coalition for Democratic Change of Montserrado County Senator George Manneh Weah and the partisans of Liberty Party of Cllr. Charles Brumskine that led to the clashes between partisans of the two parties in Sanniquelle, Nimba County. According to the Vice Standard Bearer of the Liberty Party, who hails from the same county, Mr. Harrison Karnwea, officials of the party had earlier informed the police assigned in the county about its tour of Nimba…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone As Sierra Leoneans prepare for general elections in March next year, the National Elections Commission (NEC) has set the fees for the nomination of presidential candidates at Le30 Million, an equivalent of $4,000usd. The Parliament of Sierra Leone is expected to debate the fees for all positions. Already, the country’s National Electoral Commission has passed on the information to all political parties that the sum of Le30m to be paid as nomination fees for all presidential candidates in the various political parties in Sierra Leone. The other nomination fees proposed by NEC…

Press Release Ms. Martina Brooks, a Liberian female journalist, has been officially awarded as ‘The West Africa On-Air Personality 2017 Award’. A dispatch from the Liberian Embassy in Nigeria says Brooks was crowned at an event held at a hotel in Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday, September 17, 2017. According to the organizers, the Liberian won as a result of her “immense contribution to radio broadcasting in Liberia and Africa”. This followed an independent evaluation through a systematic vetting process. Her award makes it the first time that a Liberian female broadcast journalist has won such an award. According to the dispatch,…