VOINJAMA, Lofa County – Students at Lofa County University will be denied their grade sheets and blocked from registering for the coming semester if their tuiti…
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MONROVIA – More than US$100 million in Liberian bank credit is tied up in loans that are not being repaid, starving farmers, traders and small businesses of fin…
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ECOWAS Judgment: In Togo, Pan-African CSOs Reframe the Constitutional Debate on Legal Grounds
by Alex Kpotorby Alex KpotorIn Togo, the controversy surrounding the constitutional reform of 6 May 2024 is now also being played out on legal grounds. What exactly does the judgment deliv…
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Liberia gave up about US$41 million in rice taxes in 2024 on the promise that the sacrifice would protect poor families. The World Bank now says most of the ben…
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Liberia Petroleum Regulator Joins African Regulators Forum
by Contributorby ContributorMONROVIA — The Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority (LPRA) has been inducted into the African Petroleum Regulators Forum (AFRIPERF), the continental body that…
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Liberia: Boakai’s 2023 Allies Air Grievances Against Unity Party
MONROVIA — The organizers who delivered President Joseph Nyuma Boakai the presidency in 2023 are now saying publicly that the Unity Party has no use for them, a…
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Liberia: Bannie Warns Boakai Against ‘Impulsive’ Justice
by Contributorby ContributorMONROVIA — The standard-bearer of The People’s Party, Joseph K. Bannie, warned the Boakai administration on Saturday against what he called the impulsive use of…
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Liberia: Bishop Merchant Returns to Lead Planned LoBoNi Diocese
MONROVIA – The Episcopal Church of Liberia plans to split into three dioceses within four years, ending more than 150 years as a single national diocese, and th…
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Liberia Honors Rev. J. Edwin Lloyd With Presidential Award
by Contributorby ContributorWASHINGTON — The family of the late Rev. Dr. J. Edwin Lloyd Sr., the army officer who became Liberia’s first veterans affairs chief and built the support networ…
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Liberia: Tubman University Faculty Urged to Research Southeast
HARPER, Maryland County — Liberia’s higher education regulator told faculty at William V. S. Tubman University that teaching alone no longer meets what the coun…
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Liberia: Judge Frees Four, Jails Two in Witchcraft Killing Case in Maryland County
HARPER, Maryland County — Four men indicted for the mob killing of Josephine Sieh walked out of the 4th Judicial Circuit Court on Monday after the judge found t…
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SANNIQUELLIE, Nimba County — From Thursday last week through Monday this week, Baha’is serving on institutions and agencies of the Baha’i Faith, alongside those…
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Liberia: FC Fassell’s Cassell Kuoh Sued for US$50K Over Alleged Loan Default
MONROVIA — Anthony Cassell Kuoh, head of FC Fassell, faces a debt action for US$50,000 after allegedly missing the first payment under a repayment schedule he s…
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Liberia: Ex-Police Crime Chief Gets Bond in US$10K Cocaine Bribery Case
MONROVIA — The former head of the Liberia National Police’s Crime Services Department will answer bribery and obstruction charges from outside a cell, after a M…
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PADEV Forestry Projects Reach 6,000 in Southeast Liberia
by Contributorby ContributorMONROVIA – Partners in Development (PADEV) has successfully completed three targeted interventions, reaching over 6,000 beneficiaries in four counties in southe…
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Police Charge Ex-Crime Services Chief Johnny Dean With Bribery
MONROVIA — The Liberia National Police has charged the former head of its criminal investigations arm with taking US$10,000 to compromise a US$317 million drug…
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Liberia Sitting on 5.3% of GDP in Lost Revenue, World Bank Warns
Monrovia – Liberia is leaving the equivalent of 5.3 percent of GDP on the table every year through weak tax compliance, inefficient spending and poor managemen…
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Liberia: Ex-VP Howard-Taylor Lawyers Say No Grand Jury Has Indicted Her
MONROVIA — Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor walked away from the hearing that would have tested the state’s cocaine-trafficking evidence because the co…
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YEIB-MANCO Opens Applications For 50 Youth-Led Businesses
by Contributorby ContributorMONROVIA – Liberia has no shortage of young people with ideas. What it lacks is the machinery to turn those ideas into businesses banks will lend to and investo…
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BWI’s WASSCE Setback: Only 59 of 190 Candidates Passed
KAKATA, Margibi County — Booker Washington Institute, BWI, recorded a 68.9% failure rate in the 2026 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, with 13…
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Liberia: YEIB-MANCO Business Training Opens for 50 MSMEs
Monrovia – The Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI), officially launched the Youth Entrepreneurship Investment Bank Manag…
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Liberia: Stephanie Kpoto Sues Martin Kollie for US$500,000 Over Facebook Posts
MONROVIA — Verity News publisher Martin K. N. Kollie has until Sept. 13 to answer a US$500,000 defamation claim over Facebook posts that businesswoman Stephanie…
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Taylor Lawyers Drop Preliminary Examination Bid As State Presses Cartel Case
MONROVIA — Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor’s lawyers have abandoned their request for a preliminary examination, clearing the way for the state’s coca…
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MONROVIA — Unpaid loans are tying up money that Liberian banks would otherwise lend out, and the government will spend three days beginning Wednesday trying to…