Press Release President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says democracy is the system of government that surpasses all others; grounded in rule-of-law, respect for individual and human rights, and for institutions, which can arbitrate between competing political interests on behalf of the people. According to a dispatch from the U.S. the Liberian leader was speaking on Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at Georgetown University during a forum on the theme: “Women’s Political Leadership in Africa: The Next Generation”. Addressing the gathering, President Sirleaf said: “I accepted this invitation months ago, believing that Liberia’s historic 2017 elections, an event marking the first time since 1944…
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By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor in Mnorovia The Standard Bearer of the Coalition for Democratic Change and Montserrado Senator George Manneh Weah says thousands of people are trooping to his party ahead of the ruling in election fraud case by Supreme Court of Liberia. Senator Weah’s state came one day before landmark ruling by the Supreme Court of Liberia rejecting claims by the Liberty Party and Unity Party that there were massive irregularities that allegedly characterized the November 10th general and representative elections. The Supreme ruled against the LP and UP and ruled in favor of the National Elections Commission…
Press Release The Imo State Government has honoured President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf with a chieftaincy title, a merit award and a statue built in her honor, after being inducted into the Imo State Hall of Fame. The Imo State Government also named a street called Ellen Sirleaf Road in its State Capital, Owerri after the Liberian President. A dispatch from the Liberian Embassy in Nigeria says the Liberian leader received the honors during a two-day working visit to the Southeastern Nigerian State. The visit lasted from Thursday to Friday, the 9th to 10th of November, 2017. According to the dispatch,…
By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone Road traffic crashes have been one of the causes of most of the deaths and deformities of people in Sierra Leone. In most cases, the drivers are at fault. Most of them are sometimes in the influence of alcohol or might have driven for most parts of the night and could not take two or more hours of rest before sitting behind the steering again. In such cases, fatigue might be in control of the vehicle rather than the driver. Over speeding, careless and reckless driving, defective vehicles and lack of road…
By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone The Special Assistant to the registrar of University of Sierra Leone (USL) Registrar, Brima Bah, has told Groove 106FM that the university has rusticated (or reduced in class) one 127 students for various offences which breached USL’s rules and regulations. While speaking in an exclusive interview in his Tower Hill office in Freetown on Monday November 6, 2017, Mr. Bah said the rusticated students have the right to appeal the decision of the committee set up to investigate the offences to the requisite appeals committee. “Once their appeals come in, a committee…
By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone The ruling All People’s Congress (APC) party-led government of President Ernest Bai Koroma, has been accused of spending the total sum Le1,500,000,000 ($20,000usd) on paddle parade that took place in Freetown on Saturday, October 28, 2017. Sierra Leone is currently under economic austerity due to dwindling situation of the economy. The “East End Paddle” is a popular masquerade owned by residents in the east end of Freetown, Sierra Leone. The masquerade parade is organized on Eid-ul-Adha, a Muslim holiday which comes up every year. People in the Diaspora normally come to Freetown…
By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone A Lecturer at the Fourah Bay College (FBC) of the University of Sierra Leone (USL), Mr. Teddy Foday-Musa is eyeing the parliamentary seat for Constituency 81 under the ticket of the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP). He says he would transform his constituency into a hub of development if he is awarded the party symbol and subsequently win the March 7, 2018 parliamentary election. Constituency 81 used to be Constituency 73 prior to the boundary delimitation and redistricting process, and is situated in Bo District, southern Sierra Leone. Mr. Foday-Musa…
By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone Politics is taking a dramatic shape in Sierra Leone as the country braces for the general and presidential elections next March. The under-currents are moving too fast, strange bed fellows and likely minded politicians are joining forces and cultivating new paradigm of alliances to unseat the ruling All People’s Congress. As Joseph S. Margai reports from Freetown, Sierra Leone, another two opposition politicians pulling their resources and forming a coalition. Sierra Leoneans are preparing for the general elections slated for March 7, 2018. The power of the people is in their votes,…
By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor in Monrovia The Standard-bearer of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), Sen. George M. Weah, has told his supporters, friends, sympathizers and partisans that they should be prepared to protect their votes at the November 7th Presidential run-off election. Speaking to thousands of supporters of Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction (MDR) and the CDC in the commercial city of Ganta, Nimba County, Weah said that the CDCians are prepared to take charge of their votes, but Sen. Weah failed to state how the process of protecting their votes would be done. The CDC strongman, whose…
By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor in Monrovia Senator Prince Y. Johnson seems to give a damn about his critics over the endorsement of Sen. George M. Weah for President of the Republic of Liberia. The Nimba senior senator says, “To hell with them…” while responding to his critics. Johnson, Standard-bearer of the Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction, told his critics to go to hell and tell the devil he sends them to hell for criticizing his recent decision to endorse the Coalition for Democratic Change ahead of Unity Party Standard-bearer, Vice President Joseph Nyuma Boakai in the November 7, Presidential…