-As Number Increased by 1.78 Million from 3.4 Million in 2008; IPNEWS – Liberians have now reached 5,248,621. This is according to the Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS) as it releases ‘provisional results’ of the 2022 Liberia National Population and Housing Census (LNPHC). This means that the West African nation’s population increased …
According to the Daily OBSERVER, if anybody had thought that the rape trial hovering over Liberia’s Permanent Representative to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Moses Owen Browne and Liberia Maritime Authority’s Director of the Marine Environmental Protection Department, Daniel Tarr in South Korea, had not done much damage to the image of the country, another …
-HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ADDS US$17M; PASSES 2023 DRAFT BUDGET AT US$794,532,682.00; SOME OPPOSITION LAWMAKERS EXPRESS ANGER WITH BUDGET By Taisiah K. Merfee IPNEWS – The House of Representatives on Tuesday, February 21, 2023, passed this year’s Draft National Budget at US$794,532,682. The HOR added US$16,579,682.00 more to what President George Manneh Weah had proposed that …
GOV’T TAKES NAT’L BUDGET TO US$794M – REPRESENTS 16.6M INCREMENT Read More »
–Former Supt. Kortimai Declares Intention against Incumbent Sen. Zargo The October 2023 Presidential and Legislative Elections that are due in eight months’ time may spring lot of surprises as two publicly-known loyalists of Unity Party (UP) standard bearer and political leader, Joseph Boakai, are poised to come face to face to contest Lofa County senatorial …
Things Fall Apart? – Two of Boakai’s Loyalists in Lofa County’s Senatorial Battle Read More »
–Pleads with Media Institutions to Spread Message James Lehmer Hiama Jr.; hiamajames@gmail.com 0770334857/0888270604 Montserrado County Senator Abraham Darius Dillon is pleading with all media institutions within Liberia to help spread the message of Biometric Voter’s Registration (BVR) to the general Liberian populace ahead of the 2023 Presidential and Legislative Elections that is slated for October. …
Biometric Voter Registration Not Same As Electronic Voting – Sen. Dillon Read More »
Judge George W. Smith wants officials to know that “Liberia is a country of law, not of men” The Resident Circuit Court Judge of the 15th Judicial Circuit Court, George W. Smith has rejected “contemptuous disrespect and dishonoring of courts’ precepts” by some government officials. The Judge said they are not only an abuse of …
Education Minister Prof. Dr. Ansu Sonii Education Minister Ansu Sonii, has halted a recent policy statement from the National Commission on Higher Education (NCHE), which mandates all presidents and vice presidents of all tertiary institutions in Liberia to be holders of terminal degrees. Dr. Sonii, who is also the Board Chairman of the NCHE, noted that the …
–As Police Places Ban on Motorbikes Operations from 11pm to 5am A suspected notorious armed robber, 38-year-old Abu Weamie, known for reportedly terrorizing residents of Nimba County, has been arrested by the Nimba County Detachment of the Liberia National Police. The Ivorian, who was declared wanted by the police, was arrested at his girlfriend’s house …
Suspected Ivorian Armed Robber Arrested In Ganta Read More »
In an effort to fully try several individuals including some foreign nationals indicted for smuggling into Liberia a consignment of cocaine valued at US$100 million, Criminal Court ‘C’ at the Temple of Justice is seeking the assistance of the Embassy of the United States of America in Monrovia to aid the court with two interpreters/translators to …
Court Pursues America Help to Prosecute US$100M Cocaine Case Read More »
Cllr. Pearl Brown-Bull, a senior Supreme Court of Liberia lawyer Pearl Brown Bull, a Senior Supreme Court Lawyer has called on legal practitioners in Liberia to challenge the qualification of Magistrates to determine their competence to dispense justice without fear or favor. “If you go before a magistrate with your case and notice that magistrate …
“Magistrates Not Qualified To Dispense Justice” … Senior Supreme Court Lawyer Bull Read More »
