Author: Godfred Badu Quansah

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire-The TRANSCO CLSG Interconnection Project is anticipated to provide Liberia with a reliable electrical supply for the following two years, starting in December 2022. The most recent information came when TRANSCO CLSG and the Liberia Electricity Corporation signed a transmission services agreement on October 26 in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. With funding from the World Bank, African Development Bank, European Investment Bank, and German Development Bank, the TRANSCO CLSG project aims to improve rural people’s access to electricity in border areas of Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Cote d’Ivoire. Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire formally signed the Power Purchase Agreement…

Monrovia, Release-President George Manneh Weah has made additional nominations in government affecting the Ministries of Public Works and Commerce as well as the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA). President Weah on Monday, October 24, 2022, nominated Mr. Amos Yarkpawolo Barclay as Deputy Minister of Public Works for Technical Services, and Mr. Alexander C. Wento as Assistant Minister of Commerce for Administration. The Liberian Leader also appointed Mr. James Gbarwea, Commissioner of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority, and Madam Edwina Crump Zackpah, as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority. According to the Executive Mansion, in their respective letters…

Monrovia, Liberia-President George Weah has officially launched a one hundred million United States Dollars project towards community development and impacting under-privileges Liberians. The Liberian Leader noted that Liberia will continue to partner with the UN and World Bank to implement the project. The accelerated community development program which is a special flagship program under the office of president Weah will be implemented as a partnership between the government of Liberia and International partners. He added that the program will be implemented in a manner that is Transparent and has the full ownership and involvement of the respective communities. President Weah…

Authority at the Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-information services on Thursday appeared before the Senate committee on public Autonomous Commission regarding the conduct of the 2022 National Population and Housing census. During the hearing, the Deputy Director General for information coordination; Wilmot Smith said seventeen thousand seventy-one (17,071) applicants are currently going through the vetting process. He narrated that out of this number, two hundred and seventy-six (276) applicants will be selected as supervisors while the rest will be enumerators. He noted that the enumerators would collaborate with local county officials across the country after the vetting process. The…

A representative aspirant of electoral district three in Grand Bassa County, Mr. Togar Alexander Bealded says he will provide job opportunities for his District’s citizens if elected in 2023. Mr. Bealded said if he cannot provide job opportunities for the people, he should not be re-elected after his first six years. According to Mr. Bealded, too many people are jobless, something he said he wants to change the way things are. Speaking in Buchanan, he said there should be no one to get re-elected if they cannot provide jobs for the citizens. He mentioned that one of the major problems…

President George Weah is said to be under the radial of some security agents and is now a subject of observation by secret security agencies in connection to alleged sale and trafficking of cocaine in the United States. Former Deputy  Information Minister, Eugene Fahngon alleged that the report  about President Weah being a subject of observation and investigation is no joke because  it is a threat and a potential whip in the presidential election in 2023. Speaking on his daily face book post cast, Mr. Fahngon added that the radial on President Weah started between 2009 or 2010, when he…

The Director of the Sexual Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) Crimes Unit of Persecution at the Ministry of Justice, Cllr Isaac George, has stated that tremendous progress has been made in the fight against SGBV with assistance from the Liberian Government and international partners, such as the United Nations, UNDP, and European Union (EU). He said the issue of violence against women and girls is receiving more attention than it ever has in the history of the nation, and he adds that if statistics and analysis are done on those who have been penalized in Liberia for SGBV now, more people have…

Cllr. Margaret M. Nigba has been selected as the month’s Human Right Defender by an international organization called Defend Defenders. The organization that is part of the Human Rights Defenders initiative and network is situated in the East and Horn of Africa, respectively. The decision was made at the body’s just concluded 4th General Assembly in Kampala, Uganda. Human rights advocates aim to advance, safeguard, and realize economic, social, and cultural rights in addition to promoting and defending civil and political rights. The knowledgeable Liberian human rights lawyer hails from Grand Kru County in the south-Eastern part of Liberia and…

Madam Kleenweh Karnga, a local caterer in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, has made the decision to disrupt the LISGIS training session until she receives payment for the food items she purchased for the training session. The Grand Bassa County enumerators are being trained by LISGIS, the Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-Information Services. On Thursday, October 20, 2022, in Buchanan City, Madam Karnga informed journalists that LISGIS had employed her services through its Local Director Joseph Piah to provide food for more than 200 individuals in Compound #3. She claims that she pre-financed the catering services in accordance with the…

Grand Bassa-Senator Jonathan Lambert Kaipay has asked the Ministries of Finance, Development Planning, and Commerce to respond to questions about why there is a lack of rice, a staple food for the country, in the local market. Sen. Kaipay called the Senate’s attention to the political history of Liberia, which offers an educational lesson about the crippling impact that rice scarcity or unavailability has on peace and security in the country, in a communication to the Senate plenary on Thursday, October 20, 2022. It is in the realization of this obvious fact that it has always been a decision ofgovernment…