Month: February 2021

A UNIFIED LIBERIAN TVET SYSTEM

IPNEWS-MONROVIA: The government of Liberia through the Ministries of Youth and Sports and Education with funding from the European Union, Government of Sweden, and the French Development Agency and its implementing partners UNIDO, IECD, and UNESCO today concluded the 2-day National Stakeholders Consultative Workshop for a unified Liberian TVET system. The 2-day intensive consultative workshop …

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EU Ambassador Visits PUL Leadership -Promises Full cooperations

IPNEWS-MONROVIA: The Ambassador of the European Union Delegation to Liberia, Laurent Delahousse yesterday, Thursday, February 26, 2021, paid a courtesy visit on the leadership of the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) in Monrovia. The visit is part of series of acquittance meetings the ambassador has embarked on to various media institutions in Liberia. Ambassador DelaHouse …

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Breaking News! Extra Death at UL Graduation After-Party? As question Mounts over Poisoning vs Generator smoke

IPNEWS-MONROVIA: The authoritative Independent Probe Newspaper has reliably gathered that another person is now dead a day following the discovery of eight family household dead at last Wednesday’s after graduation party in the early hours of Thursday, February 25,2021. According to highly placed sources, the discovered deceased is a University Instructor, who allegedly attended the …

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Police Expresses Condolences for Tragedy in Paynesville; Cautions Indoors Generator Users

IPNEWS – Monrovia: The Liberia National Police (LNP) has expressed its deepest condolences to the family members of eight Liberians, who died on Wednesday, February 25, 2021, in the Samuel K. Doe Community, behind the SKD Sports Complex in Paynesville. Updating journalists at the Police headquarters on Thursday in Monrovia, Police Spokesman H. Moses Carter …

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PC(USA) joins call for wider global production of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments

By: Mosoka P. Fallah, MD,PHD, Columnist, Meet The Experts LEXINGTON, Kentucky — The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public Witness (OPW) is joining more than 400 faith, human rights, civil society, and labor organizations in calling on the administration of President Joe Biden to join a global movement to make COVID-19 vaccines more widely available …

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IRC Receives $17.8m USAID Grant to Scale Up Health Services in Liberia

IPNEWS-Monrovia — IRC Liberia has received a $17.8 million grant from USAID; the United States Agency for International Development to support the government of Liberia’s National Community Health Program. Approximately 29% of the Liberian population, and 60% of the rural population live more than 5km from a health facility. With a host of health challenges …

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U.S. Pres. Joe Biden Vows to Defeat Corruption across the world; Honors Anticorruption Champions

IPNEWS-WASHINGTON D.C.: Around the world, corruption threatens security and stability, hinders economic growth, undermines democracy and human rights, destroys trust in public institutions, facilitates transnational crime, and siphons away public and private resources. The Biden Administration recognizes that we will only be successful in combating these issues by working in concert with committed partners, including …

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EPA Conducts Training for Media Practitioners

IPNEWS – Monrovia: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in collaboration with Conservation International (CI) and with funding from the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) is conducting a two-day Capacity Building Training Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) on communication strategy for media practitioners and actors within the sector. The two-day workshop, which is being held at a local …

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Suspected Generator Smoke Kills 8 Household

IPNEWS-GSA Road-MONROVIA: At least eight persons died early Thursday morning, February 25,2021, from a suspected generator smoke in the paynesville suburb of GSA Road. According to residents madam Nancy Miller, a graduate of the University of Liberia, and seven others reportedly died from generator smoke/Carbon monoxide at their home behind SKD Sports Complex community in …

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S/Court Confirms Samukai’s Victory in Lofa County

-Mandates NEC to Have Jurisdiction IPNews – Monrovia: Sixteen days after four of the five justice’s of the Supreme Court of Liberia found Lofa County Senator-elect guilty of the crimes of Theft of Property and Criminal Conspiracy, but dropped Misused of Public Funds because it was private monies, the Court has this time around confirmed …

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