Author: Godfred Badu Quansah

India former Honorary Council General to Liberia, Dr. Upjit Singh Sachdeva commonly known in Liberia as Mr. Jeety yesterday, provided hot cook meal to 1408 inmates at the Monrovia Central prison popular known as Salt Beach. Speaking at the food distribution exercise, Dr. Jerry said has constant habit of providing food to the inmates is part of his company’s social corporate responsibility. He noted that as a religious person, God Almighty has given everyone the opportunity to help society one way or the order. He attributed the donation as God’s plain to his people in the prison compound. Dr. Jeety…

Liberia President George Weah, has expressed strong opposition to the military takeover in Burkina Faso, condemning the dissolution of the democratically-elected President, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. Addressing an Extraordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS on Friday, January 28, 2022, by virtual, President Weah reiterated Liberia’s policy of absolute zero tolerance for coup d’etats and called on the military authorities in Burkina Faso to, without delay, restore the duly elected President to power and return the country to constitutional, democratic order. “Liberia also recommends the use of multi-track diplomacy to address the grievances of stakeholders in…

President George Weah, has delivered pickup trucks and motorbikes to traditional leaders of Liberia, and ambulances to all county health teams of the country. The provision of 30 pickups, two each for a county, 150 motorbikes, 10 per county, and 1 ambulance each to the 15 county health teams was a fulfillment of his promise to the local leaders who had requested during his nationwide tour last year February 2021. The donation was made Tuesday, January 25, 2022, at the SKD Sports Complex, where multitudes of traditional leaders and counties superintendents from across the 15 counties gathered for the exciting…

President George Weah, on Thursday, January 27, 2022, launched the National Tourism Marketing and Branding Strategy, describing the country’s potential as heavily endowed and lucrative for investment. The Ministry of Information, Culture Affairs and Tourism (MICAT) and its partners have embarked upon a tourism branding process as a roadmap to develop and market Liberia’s emerging tourism sector which has long remained untapped. At the launching ceremony, President Weah indicated that the country is endowed with immense cultural and tourism potential. He said Liberians should take special pride in the diversity of their heritage and tourist attractions, the lush green vegetation,…

International certified Tennis Coach, Alfred Kandarkai wants tennis to be induced as P. E curriculum for secondary learning institutions in Liberia. According to him, several secondary learning institutions and Universities have expressed interest in the tennis sport. A charity sporting institution, Youth for Tennis through its Chief Executive Officer, Alfred Kandarkai said the need for tennis to be introduced in the various secondary learning institutions as a special Physical Education curriculum for all schools across the country is important. Alfred Kandarkai, who was certified in Valencia Spain as an International tennis Coach made the remarks when he appeared as a…

 The full Beach of the honorable Supreme Court of Liberia has handed down the final ruling in the case involving former Defense Minister Brownie Smaukai and one of his deputies and the Comptroller, for the crimes of “Money laundering and Economic Sabotage”. The Honorable Supreme Court in its ruling today, January 27, 2022, ordered the Sherriff to ‘arrest, incarcerate, and place in a common jail’, Former Defense Minister. It may be recalled, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Liberia, on Monday, February 8, 2020, upheld the lower Criminal ‘C’ conviction against Brownie Samukai for corruption during his tenure as…

Egypt beat Ivory Coast 5-4 on penalties to reach the quarter-finals at the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon following a 0-0 draw. The North Africans got the upper hand in the shoot-out when substitute keeper Gabaski saved Eric Bailly’s shorts in the third round of spot-kicks. Pharaoh’s captain, Mohamed Salah netted the decisive penalty to send the record seven-time champions through. Egypt will face Morocco in the last eight in Yaounde on Sunday at 16:00 GMT. The finale was somewhat harsh on Manchester United defender Bailly, who had performed superbly at the back while sporting a rugby scrum cap…

Senate Secretary Nanborlor Singbeh and wife, Deddeh J. Singbeh were among several other individuals, who were arrested on Friday, January 21, 2022, and are accused of duping the government of USD$ 418,654.93 by faking duty-free incentives documents and two Czech Republic investors, Martin and Pavel Miloschewsky of over US$ 5million in both cash and mining equipment. Mr. Singbeh and his co-defendants were charged with multiple criminal offenses including economic sabotage and theft by the Criminal Court C at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia. Mr. Singbeh and his co-defendants were later released on a USD$ 400,000 criminal appearance bond posted by the Sky…

The Commercial Court at the Temple of Justice was on Tuesday, a ground for drama arising from a dispute over legal representation in the Petition for accounting suit filed against Amos Brosius, the general manager of Ducor Petroleum Incorporated by the Monrovia Oil Trading Corporation (MOTC). The management of Monrovia Oil Trading Corporation ( MOTC), one of the disputed parties to the operation of Ducor, 2013 filed a lawsuit against Brosius, accusing him of misapplying funds that were generated from the sale of petroleum products, they claim Brosius denied the allegation which leads to a lawsuit. The confusion on Tuesday,…

Watanga FC has moved 3rd place of the 2021/2022 Orange 1st division league table with 17 points from ten matches following a 3-2 victory over table leaders, Freeport FC over the weekend at the SKD practice pitch in Paynesville. The Paynesville-based club came from 2-1 down to take all three points against the BushrodIsland based club. In other 1st division matches played on Sunday, January 23, 2022, 2nd place Bea Mountain and Mighty Barrolle settled to a 2-2 draw in the early kicked off at the same venue. Nimba United came from a goal down to secure a surprise 3-1…