Author: Gibson W. Jerue

Press Release   The Liberian Chapter of the West African College of Nursing (WACN) has joined other West African counterparts for the organization’s 14th Biennial General Meeting.   The WACN, a specialized agency of the West African Health Organization (WAHO), on Tuesday, July 4, 2017 began its week-long event which is being held at the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja. It runs from the 1st to the 7th of July, 2017.   A release from the Liberian Embassy in Abuja says the Liberian Chapter, comprising of over 20 professional Liberian nurses otherwise called Fellows, is led by its head, Mr. Joseph Gono and also…

Press Release The Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. B. Elias Shoniyin, has expressed gratitude for Nigeria’s contribution to the peace and stability that Liberia now enjoys.   “Knowing that you all are from Nigeria, a country that is so close to the hearts of so many Liberians, not just at the governmental level but also the people to people interaction and exchanges, Liberians remain grateful for Nigeria’s contribution during Liberia’s civil war in the 1990s. We remember the blood of Nigerians that was spilled on this soil to enjoy the peace we now enjoy and we recognize that,” Acting…

By P. Lincoln Nyanrue Jr., elincoln1986@gmail.com Stakeholders of the southeastern region of Liberia have concluded a three-day regional gender response budgeting training in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County. It was organized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs through the decentralization and de-concentration program of the government of Liberia. Speaking to our correspondent in Zwedru, the Gender Specialist on decentralization support program at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Charlyn Davis Wozie, said the purpose of the training is to acknowledge fiscal superintendents, project planners, and gender coordinators of Liberia. She said this will also place youth and women leaders along with people…

By P. Lincoln Nyanrue Jr., elincoln1986@gmail.com The Ministry of Health and its partners have launched an Inactivated Polio Vaccine “IPV” in Grand Gedeh County. The vaccination consists of injectable and drops in used in babies’ mouths. The “IPV” was launched by Mr. Olaska Wulu Barh, Administrative Assistant to the County Superintendent Peter L. Solo, who currently serves as acting superintendent of Grand Gedeh County. Mr.  Barh used the occasion to pledge local authority’s unflinching support to the health sector to save children from the crippling disease. At the same time, the Assistant Routine Immunization Officer at the Expended Program on…

 Picks Female Running Mate From Bassa By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor Nimba County Senator Prince Y. Johnson is still in the presidential race. He has picked a vice presidential running mate from Grand Bassa County, and he is warning all Nimba citizens not to vote for Vice President Joseph Boakai. Commenting on those who running to Nimba for votes, Johnson said, Nimbians are always there for him and those running there are fooling themselves. “Ask President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, she appointed many people from Nimba in her government thinking that our people will vote for her, but during Election Day,…

Grand Gedeans have a lot to worry about. Professor Bestman R. Charpy says the core problems confronting the County today are illiteracy, poverty and hunger, which are impeding the development agenda of the County. Prof. Charpy, Vice President for Academic Affairs of the Grand Gedeh County Community College, with Liberia’s overall illiteracy rate at 70%, Grand Gedeh County stands out as ranking higher, in addition to Hunger and what he called “mal-poverty”. Grand Gedeh was declared county in 1964 during the regime of former Liberian President William V. S Tubman, along with Nimba, Bong and Lofa. But Charpy decried the…

By J. Ebenezer Daygbor Credible sources are telling the Groove 106FM that former Senate Pro-Tempore Gbenzohngar Milton Findley is seemingly the last hope for Vice President Joseph Boakai’s pick for vice presidential running mate. The reports are yet to be independently confirmed but our sources say Boakai is proverbially on bended knees to win Findley’s approval. Vice President Boakai has been vascilating from one potential vice presidential candidate to another with no result. The Vice President’s bid for President of Liberia is said to be experiencing shadow-waters with lukewarm support from President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. In his search, Boakai reportedly…

Press Release President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has sent a Congratulatory Message to her counterpart, the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump on that country’s 241st Independence Anniversary on July 4th, 2017, a press release issued in Monrovia said.   Independence Day, also referred to as Fourth of July, in the United States, is the annual celebration of nationhood. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence which proclaimed the independence of the United States of America from Great Britain and its king, then George III.   According to a Foreign Ministry release, President Sirleaf, on…

Press Release Liberia’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Al-Hassan Conteh, has provided a briefing on Liberia to participants of the Executive Intelligence Management Course of the Nigerian Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Abuja, a release issued by the Liberian Embassy in Nigeria said. The lecture, which included History and Governance, Foreign Policy, Liberia-Nigeria Relations, Economy, Investment Opportunities, Executive-Legislative Relations, Culture, among others, was held recently in the auditorium of the ISS in Bwari, Abuja. The ISS is operated by the Department of State Services (DSS) of Nigeria.  Its curriculum includes country briefs on security and strategic topics…

By J. Ebenezer Daygbor The Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), a conglomerate of political parties that merged to forge a common front, is not taking the forthcoming elections for granted. The Party has issued a caveat that it will resist attempt by anyone to cheat during the process. The National Chairman Nathaniel McGill warned that cheating from the National Elections Commission or anyone against the CDC will be resisted in the highest term. Though the CDC’s chairman did not state what prompted the warning and he did not say how the party intends to deal with any speculations, partisans of…