Author: Godfred Badu Quansah

The Human Rights Advocacy Civil Society Group has applauded President George Weah’s decision to grant executive clemency to 500 inmates in accordance with the constitution of Liberia. In a statement issued by the institution on Thursday, February 23, 2022, read by it Secretary-General Adama Demster said, the number is very huge and the first in history for a President to release such a huge number of inmates in the country. He said the overcrowdedness of prison facilities around the country is of great concern to national security and praised President Weah for his action which is in the interest of…

Today is one week since the war between Russia and Ukraine started, U K Boris Johnson has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of committing war crimes in Ukraine. At Prime Minister’s Questions, he said bombing innocent civilians “already fully qualifies as a war crime”. He was responding to the Scottish National Party’s Ian Blackford, who called for Mr. Putin to be prosecuted. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has already accused Russia of war crimes after airstrikes on the country’s second city, Kharkiv. A week into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, attacks on key cities have intensified, with fighting raging in the north, east, and…

The Board of Commissioners (BOC), of the National Elections Commission (NEC), Wednesday dismissed the motion for Summary Proceeding as prayed for by the petitioners, Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence and al in the Interparty conflict within the Liberty Party, LP, involving Mr. Musa Bility. However, lawyers representing Senator Karnga-Lawrence, led by Cllr. Augustine Fayaih accepted the ruling and announced an appeal to the Honorable Supreme Court of Liberia. The BOC, on Wednesday, 2 March 2022 ordered the Hearing Officers to resumed jurisdiction in the Liberty Party’s interparty conflict between the respondents Musa Bility and petitioners Senator Nyonblee Karnga Lawrence all of the…

Youth and Sports Minister, Dee Zeogar Wilson says the installation of bucket seats at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex has now created a favorable condition for sports lovers. Liberia and several other countries were banned from playing home matches for Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers due to their stadiums’ failure to meet minimum new FIFA stadium requirements. FIFA and CAF asked every member Country stadium to have standard FIFA bucket seats, good playing pitches, quality dressing room for players and match officials, mini-clinic, media tribune, media center, and hosts of other requirements. As part of meeting up with…

The President of Liberia Wheel Chair Basketball Federation, Ambassador Lionel Johnson informed the media that Liberia has been fined eight thousand United States dollars by the International Wheel Chair Basketball Federation. According to him, the fine came as the result of the local body withdrawing its team from just-ended South Africa under 23 Men International World Wheel Chair Basketball Championship. Ambassador Johnson in conversation with Reports231 on Tuesday explained that IWBF has also threatened to impose three years suspension on Liberia’s failure to pay the fine of eight thousand United States dollars. The disabled federation President also said the International…

Blanco FC Acting President, Cyrus Yeanah, has resigned from his position as Vice President of women’s football. Mr. Yeanah told journalists on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, that his resignation is as a result of his current role at the Liberian Football Association as one of the Executive Committee Members. The sports personality earlier replaced Cllr Joseph Kollie who resigned his position as Executive Committee Member at the Liberia Football Association following his appointment as Labor Court Judge at the Temple of Justice. The Blanco FC Vice President was elected on a white ballot at the Liberia Football Association Ordinary Congress…

-Give company their blessings to operate in their communities Superintendents Sam Yealue and Philip Tokpah (right) present the blessings of the communities to Solway CEO, A. Boima Morgan (in blue shirt) Despite Solway Mining Incorporated, a ‘Liberian owned’ mining company which has been courting iron ores rich Gbehley-Geh, Yarmein, and Sehyi districts in Nimba County, facing glitches in acquiring a Mineral Development Agreement with the government, the local communities have given the company their blessings to operating in their communities. Major stakeholders, eminent citizens, and other residents of the three statutory districts at an elaborate endorsement and honoring ceremony held…

Members of the business community of Liberia, particularly, Mr. Dominic Nimely President of the Patriotic Entrepreneur of Liberia, and Mr. Mohammed Majah Barry, President of the Fulah Business Association of Liberia have expressed serious opposing views to the Digital and Electronic policy introduced by Liberia Revenue Authority aimed at promoting effective outcomes within the business sectors of Liberia through information Technology. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, Mr. Nimely said that Digital Liberia and Electronic which seek to roll out the integrated financial management system is intended to drive business people from doing business in the…

-As President Weah Names center in honor of former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf; everyone and anyone can get affordable dialysis treatment President George M. Weah has dedicated the nation’s first national Dialysis Center to help boost the country’s health sector and described the development as an important milestone to provide comprehensive and modern health facilities to the Liberian people and treatment. At the dedication of the facility held on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Sinkor, President Weah said for the very first time in the history of this country, anyone and everyone can get affordable dialysis treatment right here in Liberia. …

The Secretary General of the Civil Society Human Rights Advocacy Platform of Liberia, Adama Dempster, said those who advocacy for human rights need laws and policy because human rights issues are centered on laws. Mr. Dempster made the remarks at a four-day interactive and intensive initiative of human rights defenders from Lofa, Nimba and Grand Gedeh counties who gathered in Ganta City to share ideas, experiences and brainstorm on drafting a policy document aims at protecting them in doing their work in their various communities. “The process of drafting this key Human Rights policy document is for ourselves, therefore we…