Month: August 2019

CDC Abu Kamara Declare Winner In Dist. 15 Contested By-Election By NEC, As Acarus Gray Unseal Plans To Unseat Senator Darius Dillion

By: Winston Blyden IPNews-Monrovia: Acting Chairman, Jonathan Weedor, has declared the Coalition for Democratic Change-CDC Candidate Abu Kamara winner of Wednesday’s August 28,2019, heavily contested rerun in district 15, Montserrado by-election. According to NEC’s acting chairman, Weedor, Abu Kamara received a total vote count of  8,678 constituting 49.2 percent, while his main challenger and lone …

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Mobutu Vlah Nyenpan In Hot Water for Missing 27M At Public Works, As House Sets up Committee for In-depth Probe

IPNews-Capitol Hill: The House’s Committee on Ways, Means, Finance and Development Planning of the Liberian Legislature, has setup an ad-hoc Committee to further probe the Ministry of Public Works unaccounted for US$27 Million. The unaccounted for US$27Million, is part of a US$40Million allotted to the Ministry of Public Works during the fiscal budget of 2018/2019, …

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Liberia Gets 100M ECOWAS Recovery Loan ; As World Bank Top-up  US$19m In Grant For Key Financial Programs

IPNews-Monrovia-2-19: A member of the ECOWAS Parliament Representative Edwin Melvin Snowe has disclosed that in a bid to further develop Liberia, ECOWAS Bank for Development has presented a 100 million United States Dollars Loan to Liberia for the construction of the South Eastern Corridors road project. The loan agreement, according to Rep. Snowe, was reached …

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Pres. Weah Submits Bills For Independent Civil Aviation

IPNews-MONROVIA,-2019: President George Manneh Weah has submitted to the House of Representatives for enactment two bills titled “An Act Amending and Restating an Act to create an Independent Civil Aviation Authority, to provide Regulation and promotion of Civil Aviation in Liberia to foster its safe and orderly development, and for other purposes incidental thereto, to …

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Liberia: Senate Directs GAC to Investigate NDMA Finances

IPNews-Monrovia: Senators Teahjay and Henry Yallah, both members of the Commission. The Senate Committee on Autonomous Agencies and Commissions has directed the General Auditing Commission (GAC) to conduct a timely and exhaustive investigation, to determine if any laws, criminal or civil, have been broken and/or violated in the management of the finances of the National …

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Land Authority Takes Awareness, Sensitization Campaign to Bong

IPNews-Gbarnga, Bong County – Awareness and sensitization on public land sale and inventory are being highlighted in Gbarnga by the Liberia Land Authority with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO). Land for Economic Development’, is aimed at minimizing land degradation by basing land use on its capability …

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Liberia: “Cut Down Travel Expenditure, Not Civil Servants Salary ” Rep. Edwin Snowe warns Govt.

IPNews-Monrovia: One time Speaker of the House of Representative of Liberia, now Bomi County District#1 Representative Edwin Melvin Snowe has strongly warned government not to ‘cut salaries of civil servants. Representative Snow stated that the government should put an immediate stop to ongoing payroll harmonization of civil servants’ salaries or else, because the exercise has …

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Liberia: Pres. George Weah Takes TICAD7 Rostrum Today; Poised to Market ‘Pro Poor Agenda’

IPNews-Yokohama, Japan-Wednesday, August 28,2019: His Excellency President George Manneh Weah is expected to address the 7th Edition of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) this Wednesday, August 28, 2019 – an address that will focus on strengthening bilateral ties with the second largest Asian economic power. According to the Executive Mansion, the President will …

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Liberia: Telia Urey Concedes Defeat In Contested Rerun by-election in Montserrado County

IPNews-Logan Town-Monrovia-2019: The only lone female in the highly contested district No. 15, Montserrado by-election, Telia Urey has conceded defeat to her main challenger, Abu Kamara , of the governing Coalition for Democratic Change-CDC. The rerun which was announced this week by the National Elections Commission, followed a long legal battle at the NEC’S hearing …

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VP Taylor Wants Health Sector Budget Carefully Reviewed

IPNews-Monrovia- 2019: VP Jewel Howard Taylor (seated, center) and other delegates at the opening of the 2nd Emmett Dennis Scientific Conference convening in Monrovia. The Vice President of the Republic of Liberia, Jewel Howard Taylor wants the health component of the national budget currently before the legislature carefully review as they go through the harmonization …

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