Day: January 27, 2023

For Child’s Alleged Murder – Police Arrest Mother, Father, Uncle, Others

IPNEWS: Police in the Western County of Bomi have arrested and are interrogating several family members and others for the alleged murder for the ritualistic purpose of two-year-old Saah Momoh. The Police CID Chief in the County, James Carter, said family members being interrogated as prime suspects, including the two-year-old’s mother, father, grandfather, and uncle …

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Pope Francis Says Homosexuality Not a Crime – Calls on Catholic Bishops to Welcome LGBTQ People

IPNEWS: Pope Francis has criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust”, saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” Francis said during an interview on Tuesday with The Associated Press. Francis acknowledged that …

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House Reviews US$44.6 Agreement for Women and Girls’ Empowerment

IPNEWS: The House of Representatives is probing a financing package intended to improve economic livelihoods and access to social services for women and girls in targeted communities, foster positive social norms, and strengthen the government’s capacity to advance women and girls’ empowerment in Liberia. On Tuesday, January 24, during the 3rd Day Sitting, members of …

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Senate Debates Bill to Equip Health Facilities to Stop Rejection of Patients

IPNEWS: A bill has been introduced on the floor of the Senate for the passage of a law that seeks to ensure that health facilities across Liberia are equipped to attend to patients seeking medical treatment, in order to reduce the high death rate in the country. It is reported that in addition to some …

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NEC Commences Mock Biometric Voters Registration Exercise

IPNEWS: The National Elections Commission (NEC) has commenced trial exercises in the usage of the newly introduced Biometric Voters’ Registration (BVR) process. The Commission says the mock voter registration exercise is intended to train new recruits and staffers and as well educate citizens about the BVR, ahead of the official opening of the National Biometric …

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Margibi Lawmaker Tarponweh Wants Black Sand Mining Stopped

IPNEWS: Margibi County District #1 Representative, Tibelrosa Tarponweh has written the Plenary of the House of Representatives to alert his colleagues, about the massive Heavy Black Sand Mining currently ongoing on the beaches of Marshall City in Electoral District #1, Margibi County by a Chinese Company known as the Liberia Mineral Export, Inc. According to …

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Opposition PLP Leader, Dr. Cassell Takes Final Rest in US Saturday

IPNEWS: New Castle, Delaware- The remains of the Vision and Standard Bearer of the opposition People’s Liberation Party (PLP), Dr. Daniel Cassell, will be laid to rest this weekend in the United States of America (USA). He will be buried at the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. According to Mrs. Bindu Cassell, widow of …

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UL Agriculture Students Disrupt Classes, Demand Bus, Electricity, Security

–Give 2-Day Ultimatum IPNEWS: Normal classes at the University of Liberia (UL) Fendell campus outside Monrovia was on Wednesday disrupted, as students at the College of Agriculture and Forestry (CAFSA) staged a protest, giving the authorities a two-day ultimatum to address their grievances. This is the latest in a series of student protests at this …

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Majority Lawmakers Won’t Be Re-elected – Cyril Allen Foresees ‘Doomsday’

IPNEWS: Ahead of the 2023 October presidential and legislative elections, the chairman emeritus of the former ruling National Patriotic Party (NPP) and now Head of the governing council of the governing Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), Chief Cyril Allen has foreseen that vast majority of incumbent lawmakers in the 54th Legislature would not get reelected …

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WAS SENATOR PYJ’S VOA INTERVIEW, AN ATTEMPT TO BLACKMAIL PRESIDENT WEAH?

AT ABOUT 10: AM on Thursday, January 26, 2023, this paper received a piece of breaking news suggesting that Nimba County Senator, Prince Y. Johnson, and President George Weah had smoked a peace pipe. BEING REFERRED TO as a kingmaker and political godfather of vote rich Nimba County, he recently told a Voice of America …

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