Month: January 2022

Liberia: FDA in Play-for-Pay Over Nigerian Logging Company Unslung on Gola-Konneh Forest?

—–As Day Light Investigators Unearthed Troubling Happenings IPNEWS: In 2019, Gola Konneh Community Forest signed a logging agreement with Akewa Group of Companies. The parties agreed that the company would log in the community forest for 15 years and pay the community fees for the use of the land and felling of timbers. The company …

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“Traditional Legislative Ratification Needs Significant Structural Overhaul” ……Says Speaker Bhofal Chambers Capitol Hill

IPNEWS: House Speaker Dr. Bhofal Chambers says it is necessary that the first two Branches of Government jointly engage and participate in the crafting of all agreements, especially all concession agreements before submission to the Legislature for passage or ratification. Speaking Monday, January 24, 2022 shortly after President Weah’s State of the Nation Address, Speaker …

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Liberia: Pres. Weah’s 5th Annual Message to National Legislature (Full Speech)

Madam Clar M. Weah, First Lady of the Republic of Liberia; Madam Vice President and President of the Senate; Mr. Speaker; Mr. President Pro-Tempore; Honorable Members of the 54TH Legislature; Your Honor the Chief Justice, Associate Justices of the Supreme Court and Members of the Judiciary; The Dean and Members of the Cabinet and other …

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The Plot Within: NPP to Drop VP Taylor for Sen. Snowe for 2023

IPNEWS-Monrovia: The Independent Probe (IPNEWS) has reliably learned through impeccable sources within the former ruling National Patriotic Party (NPP), which is part of the three parties comprising the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), have it that its current standard bearer, Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor may be replaced during its forthcoming National Convention by …

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Criminality: Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency Falls Flat

— Fails to Turn Over Dismissed Rogue Officers to LNP or the Court; But Director Zehyoue Vows to Repay Affected Business Woman IPNEWS-Monrovia: Few months ago some officers of the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) who are now dismissed having being investigated and found guilty for armed robbing a business woman, Nelly Foster, and took away …

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LRA Customs Department to Celebrate International Customs Day in Gbarnga, Bong County

IPNEWS: The Liberia Revenue Authority Customs department will this Wednesday, January 26, join the rest of the world in celebration of the seventieth (70th) International Customs day. The World Customs Organization (WCO) dedicates the day to shaping a more sustainable and constructive business environment, and exploring forward-looking solutions under the global theme “Scaling up Customs …

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Burkina Faso Pres. Roch Marc Christian Kaboré Taken Hostage in Coup d’etat

IPNEWS: Burkina Faso’s President, Roch Marc Kabore’ has been arrested and detained by soldiers, according to local reports, in a coup attempt following heavy gunfire heard around his home in the capital, Ouagadougou, on Sunday night. On Monday morning, armored vehicles belonging to his presidential guard were seen covered in bullets and the seats soaked …

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Daylue Goah “Dragged” and Bruised on JFK Compound by Plain-Cloth State, JFK Security Men

Monrovia – Mr. Daylue Goah, former Communications Manager at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Monrovia, was on Sunday, January 23, evening allegedly dragged and bruised by plain-cloth state and JFK security personnel on the compound of the hospital. Goah explained that after being away from the country and in exile for eight years, …

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Over ArcelorMittal New Deal: GoL to Lose $3 Billion If!!! (PART II) 

IPNEWS: Warnings ahead of the  much anticipated  passage of the third amendment of the ArcelorMittal Liberia (AML)  iron ore investment deal continued to pull-in. Earlier IPNEWS reported that from Expert advice that signing or rectifying the AML  third amendment without proper revision would be a detrimental to Liberia’s mining sector and revenue generation capacity of the …

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Over Zogos Proliferation: Simeon Freeman Advances Suggestions; Rallies Women Groups for action Against abandoned Kids

IPNEWS: Recent catastrophe of the lost of 29 people at a crusade in New Kru Town, has risen  remedy discussion  about containing vulnerable youths AKA “Zogos”. Now the political leader of the Movement for Progressive Change (MPC), Simeon Freeman, says the initial remedy to bringing an end to the proliferation of vulnerable youths (Zogos), in …

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