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Sister Mary Laurene Brown retires, after a stellar and long educational career

February 4, 2021 admin20 comment

Veteran educator Sister Mary Laurene Browne, OSF, has retired after more than two decades as President of the Stella Maris Polytechnic University, an institution which under her leadership has become one of the prestigious institutions of learning for its strict academic principles. While at the helm of the university, she championed its transformation from being a little-known polytechnic to one of Liberia’s best higher learning institution that has molded some of the country’s best and brilliant minds. “I cannot be there forever, so this is the best time for…

Bobby Wine The next batch of results was due to be released at 9 pm when a nationwide curfew in place since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic kicks in. Bobi Wine, the 38-year-old former musician-turned politician has emerged as the main challenger to 76-year-old Museveni, who has been in power since 1986. “We secured a comfortable victory,” Bobi Wine told reporters in Kampala, the capital. “I am very confident that we defeated the dictator by far,” Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, said. “The people of Uganda voted massively for change of leadership from a dictatorship to a democratic government. But Mr. Museveni is trying to paint a picture that he is in the lead. What a joke!” he added.

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Kyagulanyi Ssentamu [Bobby Wine], Rejects Election Results

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 admin2Election, Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, Uganda0 comment

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine on Friday claimed victory in presidential elections, rejecting as a “joke” early results that gave incumbent President Yoweri Museveni a wide lead. The electoral commission said on Friday that with 6.8 million ballots counted, or 37 percent of registered voters, Museveni had won 4.05 million, or 62.2 percent, while main opposition candidate Wine had 1.99 million votes (30.6 percent), the electoral commission said just after 9 pm (1800 GMT). The next batch of results was due to be released at 9 pm when a nationwide…

Dr. Nyan is a medical doctor, a NIH-trained biomedical scientist and inventor of a rapid multiplex diagnostic test for infectious diseases that included the Coronaviruses (COVID-19), HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Dengue, the Hepatitis viruses and many more. The Nyan-Test can detect about 3-7 infectious and simultaneously identify them in less than an hour.

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New York State Senate and AIC Honour Dr. Dougbeh Chris Nyan, other Frontline Health Workers for COVID-19 Response

October 1, 2020 admin2Covid19, New York, Nyan0 comment

NEW YORK, September 29, 2020 – Over the weekend the New York State Senate and the African Immigrant Commission (AIC) of New York and Connecticut honoured infectious disease scientist, Dr. Dougbeh Chris Nyan, and several healthcare workers in recognition of their outstanding services during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ceremony was part of this year’s commemoration of African Heritage Month 2020. The US-based Liberian infectious disease expert, Dr. Nyan, along with other Diaspora health experts rendered the African and other minority communities with various services including direct care, contact-tracing,…

The Bong County Independent Senatorial 2020 candidate further alleged that Moye, while the head of Ways Means and Finance at the House of Representatives he stole millions of Dollars, more and no amount of endorsement will cover the crime that he (Moye) has committed in the Country.

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Liberia: Deputy Speaker Moye In US$508,000 Corruption Scandal

September 28, 2020 admin2corruption, Headline News, Liberia0 comment

By Socrates Saywon Gbarnga, Bong County – The Acting Chairman of the Council of Patriots and a Senatorial hopeful of Bong County, Menipakei Dumoe has accused the 54th National Legislature Deputy Speaker, Prince K. Moye of eating US$508,000 from the account of the Cuttington University. Recently, some aggrieved workers of Cuttington University under the banner “Concerned Workers” staged a day-long go-slow in demand of salary arrears owed by the institution, and threatened to continue if the administration refuses to adhere to the request. Cuttington University, a private University located in Suakoko,…

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‘Third Term’ is Also a Coup – Guinea Bissau’s President tells ECOWAS leaders to their faces

August 24, 2020 admin2Coups, Guinea Bissau, Third Terms0 comment

At the virtually emergency summit meeting held on the 20 August 2020, the ECOWAS member states in their resolution on the ongoing crises in Mali denounced the action taken by the military to depose embattled President Ibrahim Keita, something the regional leaders’ term as a negative and obstructive insolence towards the democratic order of the Malian State and West African region. The videoconference was hosted by the president of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou, current leader of ECOWAS. Former Mali’s President, Mr Ibrahim Keita, was arrested last week along with…

In different tweets on Monday, former leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance Mmusi Maimane, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) kingpin Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, Thuli Madosela and musicians AKA and Casper Nyovest, suggested that the South African government and other nations should intervene to stop the arrest and human rights violations.

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EFF Malema calls for the removal of Zimbabwe Embassy in SA over violence

August 5, 2020 admin2South Africa, Violence, Zimbabwe0 comment

Some opposition leaders, top musicians and other South Africans have urged the Zimbabwean government to stop arresting civic society activists and opponents suspected to have organized an anti-corruption protest last Friday. In different tweets on Monday, former leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance Mmusi Maimane, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) kingpin Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, Thuli Madosela and musicians AKA and Casper Nyovest, suggested that the South African government and other nations should intervene to stop the arrest and human rights violations. In his tweet, EFF leader Julius Sello Matema said,…

Her first novel Nervous Conditions won the African section of the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989. Other award-winning credits include Neria, Zimbabwe's most successful film released in 1993. Her latest book, This Mournable Body, is on the Booker Prize longlist, which was unveiled earlier this week. It is a sequel to Nervous Conditions, and "channels the hope and potential of one young girl and a fledgling nation to lead us on a journey to discover where lives go after hope has departed", the Booker Prize website says.***

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Famed Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga released on bail

August 2, 2020 admin2corruption, Writer, Zimbabwe0 comment

Tsitsi Dangarembga, an award-winning Zimbabwean author and Booker Prize nominee, has been released on bail after her arrest during an anti-government protest. Eleven other people detained on Friday – including Fadzayi Mahere, a lawyer and spokeswoman for the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change-Alliance party – were also freed on Saturday. They were ordered to return to court on September 18. Dangarembga was charged with incitement to commit violence and breaching anti-coronavirus health regulations after staging a two-woman demonstration in the capital on Friday, the day of planned protests against corruption…

Liberian Economy Group (LEG) Bella Casa Hotel Sinkor, Monrovia. Cell# 0777516641/088696999 Email: reservations@bellacasaliberia.com Hon. Albert Chie President Pro-Tempore House of Senate Mr. President Pro-Tempore: Please find attached the Report of the Liberian Economy Group (LEG) on the Current Statement of the Liberian Economy. We of LEG remain confident that the Action Steps indicated in the report, when taken, can lead to the solution of Liberia’s main problem, longstanding and widespread Poverty. Respectfully Yours Liberian Economy Group (LEG)

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Weah is Angry, Tipoteh Criticizes CDC Officials’ Lavish Lifestyle

July 18, 2020 admin2Liberia, Tipoteh, Weah0 comment

By Frank Sainworla, Jr, fsainworla@yahoo.com An internationally renowned Liberian Economist and former Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs, Dr. Togba Nah Tipoteh says corruption is entrenched in the country and stresses the need for President George Weah and his officials to change their mindset. This is contained in an interview with the Managing Editor of www.newspublictrust.com to be broadcast this Saturday evening (July 18, 2020)on WEEKEND FILE on Capital FM 89.7 radio in Monrovia. Dr. Tipoteh says one way to get to the root of solving the country’s…

Interestingly, the 2017 elections have come and gone and many are clinging on to the CDC victory as if it’s the triumph of their lives. Some of these very ones, like myself have always considered George Oppong Weah, grossly incompetent and unfit for the office of the President of the Republic of Liberia. But some of these people are somersaulting suddenly and are singing praises to Weah. You will not believe who they’re scapegoats, THE PROGRESSIVES!

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The Liberian government is only interested in using Covid-19 to gain money–Tokpa

July 13, 2020July 13, 2020 admin2Alaric Tokpa, Liberia0 comment

MONROVIA – The Director General of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL), Dr. Mosoka Fallah, has admitted to mismatching of data at the COVID-19 testing lab leading to the contradiction in the COVID-19 test result of Dr. Alaric Tokpah who was earlier declared negative for the virus but was actually positive. Dr. Tokpah, an educator and political activist received his clearance dated July 10, 2020 from NPHIL certifying him as negative after he went for voluntary testing on Wednesday, July 8. According to him, his results weren’t given…

You deprived yourself of all the social luxuries that a young man enjoys while growing up just to ensure that the tragedy that then presided over the state vanish! You exposed yourself to horrors and tyrannic menaces when it was not fashionable to do so.

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BREAKING…Weah govt prevents Pan African nationalist Alaric Tokpa from traveling…

July 11, 2020 admin2Alaric Tokpa, Liberia, Weah0 comment

According to reliable information received by this portal, the Liberian government led by former soccer star George Weah, President of Liberia, and his Coalition for Democratic Change or CDC is preventing progressive Pan African struggle icon Comrade Alaric Tokpa from traveling out of the country. Comrade Tokpa according to reports recently declared his intentions to contest for a senatorial seat in Gbarpolou county, a hotly contested legislative seat in which sources say, the CDC has interests, the Pan African nationalist was due to travel to the United States to meet…