Day: August 31, 2024

Who’s the Judas In WECC Executive Director Removal?

IPNEWS: Several members of the Liberia National Bar Association (LNBA) have expressed deep disappointment after their leadership publicly endorsed a campaign that led to President Joseph Boakai withdrawing his nominations of Cllr. Johnathan Massaquoi, as Executive Director, Office of the War and Economic Crimes Court. The condemnation comes barely a month after President Boakai decided …

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Indictment for Koijee, Varlee Telleh Imminent

—As Varlee Telleh “Flees” Liberia IPNEWS: Several sources have hinted to the authoritative Independent Probe Newspaper, that former Monrovia City Mayor, and current Secretary General of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), Jefferson Koijee, and former security chief, Varlee Telleh, are poised for a formal indictment as early as next week. According to highly …

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Liberia: Recast Budget on Pause

IPNEWS: The Draft Recast Budget received its first setback on Thursday because of the lack of supporting documents ‘of the first six months of the approved 2024 Budget’ from the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning and a report of allegation of budget tampering from its Specialized Committee. The Speaker and Presiding Officer of the …

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ECOWAS Officially Launches its Gender Programmes in Liberia

IPNEWS: The Liberian government, through the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, in collaboration with partners and the ECOWAS GENDER DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (EGDC), have officially launched the ECOWAS GENDER Programs in Liberia. Formally launching the ECOWAS GENDER Programs, covering Obstetrics Fistula, Girls of Excellence Scholarship, Agricultural Fishery, Arts and Crafts, and Food Processing, the …

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U. S. Ambassador pays Courtesy Visit to Minister of Labor

IPNEWS: The United States Ambassador to Liberia, H.E. Mark Toner, on Thursday, August 29, 2024, paid a courtesy visit to Labor Minister Cllr.  Cooper Kruah. The newly accredited ambassador of the United States to Liberia paid a courtesy visit to Labor Minister today at 2:00 PM. at the EJS Ministerial Complex, where the Ministry is situated. The …

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PERSPECTIVE: REMMEBERING THE 1980 COUP d’ etat

By: C. Cecil Dennis III On April 12 – 22, 1980, an unwarranted coup d’état brutally murdered our fathers, as did the 1990 senseless civil war, which slaughtered 250,000. It has been 44 years since our fathers were fiercely executed, yet the memory of their assassination seems like yesterday. As a son whose father was …

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