Author: Godfred Badu Quansah

The Children’s Educational and Developmental Support Center has unveiled a special home for children living with disabilities and less fortunate. The home seeks to provide shelter and a learning environment for children from birth to fifteen years who are disabled and less fortunate. The Chief Executive Officer of CEDs said his organization’s goal is to provide shelter, medical supplies & Equipment, food items, clothing, and special primary education among others for children with disabilities and the less fortunate. Alexis Worji noted that he was moved to give back to his country, especially to children who are disabled, and the less…

Over 225 flood victims have benefited from the Catholic Relief Services Emergency response program. From July 2022 to the present, there have been several days of heavy downpours of rain in Liberia. This has led to communities being flooded and thousands of families being made homeless, with some losing their valuable possessions, especially in Monrovia and its environs. Families that have been affected by the flooding, most of whom live in informal settlements and low land, launched an SOS called to the Humanitarian organization and the Government of Liberia for urgent assistance and international partners to help meet their most…

The Head of the European Union Delegation to Liberia Ambassador Laurence Delahousse has stated that Liberia is lacking behind in terms of the abolition of the death penalty which has been acted upon by some of its neighbors and regional countries. Ambassador Delahousse noted that the Liberian Legislature is taking slow steps toward the passage of necessary instruments for addressing critical national and international issues. Amidst the Ambassador’s assertion, in July of this year, the majority bloc of the Liberian Senate in a plenary sitting voted to pass a portion of the Penal Code to abolish the death penalty and…

The Liberia National Commission on Small Arms will carry out huge destruction of over 255,000 nine middle-meter rounds of Arms and Ammunition, explosives, and related materials in the nation on October 27. The ammunition destruction exercise, according to Chairman Maxwell Grigsby, will take place at the Edward Beyan Kesselley Military Barracks. Residents of the Community will be informed before the exercise in order to allay their fears he noted. The Small Arms Boss pointed out that the German government and its citizens donated the ammunition to the Liberian government. As a result of the majority of the ammunition becoming corroded,…

As Nigerians celebrated their nation’s 62nd anniversary of independence, the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s Ambassador to Liberia, Amb. Godfrey A.E. Odudigbo, urged Nigerians, Liberians, and Sierra Leoneans to coordinate and plan for peaceful, free, fair, and transparent elections so that the outcome would meet an international standard for the maintenance of peace and the advancement of the region. He issues a warning to all parties involved in Liberia to play by the rules in order to guarantee that the process will not only be orderly and transparent but also that all participating political parties will have an equal opportunity to…

The Rollers of Basketball have won the Liberia Basketball Association (LBA) first-division championship for the second time in a row. Bushrod Bulls was defeated by seasoned Mighty Barrolle by 46-38 points in the decisive game of the best-of-five series to claim the 2022 National Basketball First Division title, which was played under the direction of Julius Kpakolo, Richard Dorley, and Brian Nyangbe. Both sides entered the game with two victories each from the series’ opening four games, but it was the more seasoned Rollers that defeated their younger counterparts. The game took place on October 2, 2022, at the Paynesville…

The government of Liberia through the Ministry of Youth and Sports has constituted a three-man committee headed by Liberia National Olympic Committee Chairperson Philbert Brown and two members of the Sports Writers Association of Liberia to investigate the processes leading to Liberia being disqualified from the 2022 WAFU under 17 men’s Nations Cup due to over age players. It can be recalled on Monday, October 3, 2022, the President of the Liberia Football Association, Mustapha Raji informed the public that two of the 20 players were discovered to be overage after they failed the mandatory age test done by a…

Venice, Italy Release-Liberia, through the Armed Forces of Liberia, has become the newest member of the multinational Trans-Regional Maritime Network (T-RMN). The Accession Agreement was signed between AFL Chief of Staff General Prince Charles Johnson and the Chief of Staff of the Italian Navy Admiral Enrico Credendino and witnessed by Maritime Commissioner, Lenn Eugene Nagbe, in Venice, Italy, on the margins of the 13th edition of the Trans-Regional Seapower Symposium. Liberia also becomes a member of Trans Regional Maritime Virtual Regional Maritime Traffic Center (V-RMN) after a unanimous consensus gathered by the Italian Navy as a technical leading Navy of…

The Ministry of Agriculture, the Veterinary Services Department, and its partners have commemorated World Rabies Day to raise awareness about the deadly rabies disease in order to prevent and control its effects in the country. Rabies is a viral disease that is spread by the saliva of infected animals, mainly domesticated ones, dogs, or cats. World Rabies Day (WRD) provides an opportunity for people to reflect on the impact of the disease on the communities to eradicate it. Speaking during the program, Deputy Minister for Technical Services at the Ministry of Agriculture, Leelia Andrews, said since the launch of the…

Monrovia-The Project Implementation Unit at the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Identification Registry has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to register 30,000 smallholder farmers in various parts of Liberia. The smallholder farmers are beneficiaries of the Smallholder Agriculture Transformation and Agribusiness Revitalization Project ( STAR- P) and the Rural Economic Transformation Project (RETRAP), a World Bank and International Funding for Agriculture Development (IFAD) supported projects of the ministry. According to the agreement, the NIR will register the first 10,000 beneficiaries in early October and continue the process later this year. The registration of project beneficiaries using the national biometric…