IPNEWS-Monrovia: A stalwart of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change, CDC, says a major shakeup in the Liberian Government is imminent at the end of the Ganta, Nimba County cabinet retreat. Montserrado County District ‘8’ Representative and former secretary general of the governing CDC, Moses Acarous Gray, told the Spoon Talk Tuesday night it is …
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IPNEWS: Liberia’s Agriculture Minister Jeanine Milly Cooper has said the commercialization of agriculture in that country was key to transforming the farming sector. She was speaking at the ongoing cabinet retreat in Ganta, Nimba County. Minister Cooper noted that despite the challenge of access to finance, Liberia’s Ministry of Agriculture had expanded the cultivation of …
IPNEWS-Monrovia: The Administration of the University of Liberia (UL) announces the suspension of classes affecting all campuses and programs across the University of Liberia, beginning this Friday, July 15, 2022, and Saturday, July 16, 2022. UL main Capitol Hill campus will be closed for the entrance exam According to UL press release signed by Cllr. …
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IPNEWS: Deputy House Speaker J. Fonati Koffa says the decision of the House of Representatives to pass the 2022 draft recast National Budget was done in good faith; contrary to public perceptions that there was an exchange of hands. Conversations leaked from members of the House of Representatives’ WhatsApp chatroom which went viral on social …
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IPNEWS: Senator Abraham Darius Dillon has questioned the suspicious appearance of $US 30 million in the 2022 Recast Budget by the Guinean concessionaire HPX also called Ivanhole. The Senator while critiquing the 2022/2023 budget on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, in the plenary of the Liberian senate raised the issue of a $30 million dollars revenue …
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IPNEWS: Residents of Nimba County District #9 and other commuters, between Liberia’s central and south-eastern regions, will have a guanine reason to smile this Independence Day July 26, as its direct Representative; Hon. Johnson N. Gwaikolo will dedicate a modern constructed Ferry over the St. John River. Speaking recently on the House’s Legislative Public Affairs …
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–Says There’ll Be No Room for Non-Performers and Under-Achievers IPNEWS-Monrovia: Delivering his farewell message to his cabinet before departure from Ganta, Nimba County, following a four-day Cabinet Retreat, President George Weah has instructed the Director-General of the Cabinet to ensure that every member of his Government remains focused on their strategic priorities for the next …
IPNEWS-Monrovia: The West African nation of Liberia is entering a period of accelerating vulnerability, threatening to create conditions for a resurgence of organized crime – according to a new report by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) conducted under the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Less than 30 years ago, Liberia …
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–France-Based Group Urges Liberian Authorities to Protect Journalists IPNEWS-Monrovia: France-based Reporters without Borders (RSF) condemns a wave of abuses against journalists in Liberia since late June in which an investigative reporter has received a one-month jail sentence and three journalists were attacked – either by police or a politician – in the space of two …
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By: James Lehmer Hiama, Jr., hiamajames@gmail.com IPNEWS-Monrovia: The Senate on Thursday, July, 2022 during plenary proposed that the Liberia’s only international airport, the Roberts International Airport (RIA) be allotted more money in the national budget or be outsourced, to curb the irregular electricity menace as well as to give the airport a conducive working environment. …
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