Year: 2022

PERSPECTIVE: Free and Fair Elections are the Foundation of all Forms of Democracy

By: Jarwinken Wiah IPNEWS-Monrovia: In representative democracies, elections are the tools that citizens must use to practically hold political parties, candidates and incumbent governments accountable for their promises and performance. Even though there are legal or constitutional grounds for monitoring or requiring politicians to meet electoral promises. Liberians are yet to grasp this concept for …

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In County Meet Group Stage: Eviction Looms for Grand Gedeh Co. Men’s Team 

IPNEWS: Disenchantment and tension are said to be growing at the camp of the Grand Gedeh County football team.  According to the report, members of the team are now held up at a local hotel threatening to break down and shut down the hotel. An IPNEWS reporter on the scene saw members of the men’s …

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VINDICATED: A DAMAGED PUL –A Ruined Legacy; A Call To Save the Union

By Siebo Williams, a Liberian media practitioner In 2019 when “Team Octavin Togar Williams for PUL President Campaign” announced to Liberian journalists and members of the PUL, the Liberia nation as well as international partners that it was withdrawing from the 2019 PUL elections because it could not be part of an electoral process that …

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Koijee Receives More Lashes for CDC-CPP Collabo Claim: Bility Says “Shameless Thinking & Heartless Lie”

IPNEWS-Monrovia: On the tip of the 2023 presidential and general elections, contending political institutions and their stalwarts are leaving no stones unturned in upending one another, evidenced by what is currently trending between the governing Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) and the main opposition Collaborating Political Parties (CPP). Responding to CDC Secretary General Jefferson Koijee’s …

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Boakai Throws Tantrum at Ellen – Says ‘Liberians Will Decide’ With or Without Her Support

IPNEWS-Monrovia: It seems there is an everlasting bellyache between former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and her Vice President of 12 years, Joseph Nyumah Boakai. In the process leading to the 2017 presidential and legislative elections, some supporters of the then governing Unity Party (UP) had ganged up against their former political leader and standard bearer, …

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A Joke: CDC’s Quest to “Bring ANC Back” Ivah Tukpah

-Ellen’s Hands at Play? A stalwart of the Alternative National Congress (ANC), Mr. Isaac Vah Tukpah, has termed Jefferson Koijee’s disclosure of the ruling Congress for Democratic Change’s (CDC) quest to “bring ANC back”, as a joke. The main founders of the ANC, including Cllr. Lafayette Horatio Gould, Mr. Henry Pedro Costa, etc, all broke away …

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RAINBOW ALLIANCE LAUNCHES “I AM SOMEBODY YOUTH POWER CAMPAIGN”

IPNEWS: The Rainbow Alliance has launched what it describes as the “I Am Somebody Youth Power Campaign”, a strategy designed to encourage the development of self-esteem, confidence, and respect in the youths of Liberia. According to Z. Kwaque Coleman, National Vice Chairman for Public Affairs, the campaign was launched in Miatta Town, Todee, District No. …

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“ANC Won’t Collaborate with Wicked Regime” – CPP Refutes Mayor Koijee’s ‘Comical Assertion’

IPNEWS-Monrovia: The Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) has described as “disinformation” the assertion by the ruling party’s Secretary General, Jefferson Koijee that the CDC is in talks with the CPP constituent member, ANC, for a collaboration. The CPP now comprises the Alternative National Congress (ANC) which is historically a break away from the CDC and the …

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NPP Confusion Takes Different Trends: As James Biney Questions VP Jewel Howard-Taylor Constitutional Standing

Calls On Partisans to Abide by Executive Committee Mandate IPNEWS: Forth nights ago Vice President Howard-Taylor requested the Ministry of Justice to investigate Senator James Biney, for what she Vice calls ‘Terroristic Threats’. Vice President Taylor stated that the Ministry of Justice needed to investigate details of a leaked transcript in which Senator Biney’s commitment …

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Bad Omens for Democracy in Liberia – Team Kanubah Takes Justice Nagbe To Task

IPNEWS-Monrovia: The National Campaign Management Team of Julius Kanubah has described as dangerous omens for democracy in Liberia comments by the Justice presiding in Chambers, referring to a legitimate contending party in an electoral case as ‘losers who are always raising issues.’ According to a press statement issued by Team Kanubah on Thursday December 29, …

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