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By Prince Wonplu in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County A female Baptist Prelate in Buchanan, Rev. Olivia Weah, is currently engaging a band of street movers, “Zoegoes”, referred in as criminals and drug users in the hop of removing them from the streets and reconnecting them with the families. Rev. Weah started the initiative to help Zoegoes to rediscover themselves. She said the mission is to bring them back home, which many see as a good effort because it would make the streets save at night. Zoegoes in Liberia are considered drug users, weed or marijuana smokers, and thieves, who do…

By Prince Wonplu in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County  The President of the National Rural Women of Liberia, Kebbeh Monger, is calling on women of Grand Bassa County to support female candidates in the 2017 elections. Madam Monger says she wants women to vote for competent female candidates so that there can be more women in the house of parliament. She said women in the past did not take leadership seriously, but now they do. She stressed that the number of women in both houses is less, adding that their cause can only be defended adequately when there are more women…

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By Jerry J. Gbardy, Political Commentator & Groove 106FM Contributor jeryongbardy@gmail.com From the looks of things, Lady Momentum is rapidly kissing your campaign good bye and shifting to a footballer. Your party is in complete disarray — split right in the middle between those who support you, Party Chairman Wilmot Paye and Cllr Varney Sherman who is having an acrimonious relationship with Madam Sirleaf in one corner and those who support the President in the other. You are finding it harder and harder to persuade and convince Liberians why they should give you another six years given the twelve years…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone Women in the Kono District have claimed that they have limited access to their own land for both mining and farming activities. Speaking during Thursday during a dialogue forum on the 2015 National Land Policy organized, by Graceland Sierra Leone at Satta Kumba Resource Centre in Koidu town, Kono district, the said women in the district want to gain access to their land. Madam Massah Bona, Chairperson of the Women’s Wing in Nimikoro Chiefdom, who doubles as the wife of thePparamount Chief of Nimikoro Chiefdom, said many women in the District have…

By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor in Monrovia We will lock down Monrovia, says Mr. Benjamin Sanvee, National Chairman of the opposition Liberty Party, announcing that his party supporters and well-wishers will come out in their droves on today, Saturday, September 9th, when the Party launches it political rally to signal LP Standard-bearer Cllr. Charles Walker Brumskine is elected President of Liberia. The political festival under the theme, “Green And White Day”, is intended to allow followers, and supporters of the Liberty Party to have clear and smooth interaction with their standard-bearer and vice standard-bearer, Charles Brumskine and Harrison Karnwea, respectively. Speaking…

By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor in Monrovia As the October 10th national President and Representative elections draw nearer, the campaign activities seems to have stalled normal legislative works at the National lLegislature. our Monrovia Correspondent says normal works at the two houses – the Senate and the House of Representatives are being seriously hampered. On Thursday, September 07, the two chambers at the Liberian Legislature were seen empty, while few members of that august body that had made their way to sessions in obedience of their statutory functions could not conduct normal business due the low turnout. There was no…

By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor in Monrovia What is expected to novel moved by the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) is about to occur during the October 10th presidential and legislative elections in Liberia. The Party’s Chairman, Nathaniel McGill says his party will announce the result of the elections before the National Elections Commission (NEC) does so, following the close of polls. Speaking in an interview with Our Correspondent via mobile phone, CDC Chair Nathaniel McGill told Groove 106FM September 5th morning from Bong County, where CDC is actively campaigning, that the party will not wait for the National Elections…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone Two individuals, considered by most Sierra Leoneans as ‘political heavyweights’ of the country’s main opposition party, the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), Dr. Joe Demby, former Vice President of Sierra Leone and Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella, also known as “KKY”, have resigned from the party. Both senior stalwarts of the SLPP announced their resignation at a press conference on Tuesday September 5, 2017, at the Sierra Light House in Aberdeen, Freetown. Dr. Joe Demby was a Vice President of Sierra Leone under the SLPP ticket from 1996-2002 during one of the two…