Year: 2024

Liberia’s Governance Commission Acting Chairperson Prof. Dr. Alaric K. Tokpa has outlined poor governance, over-politicization of the civil service, overstaffing of government institutions, indiscipline, corruption, impunity, and the intimidation and killing of professionals as governance crisis inherited by the Boakai-Koung administration. Dr. Tokpa believes that public sector reforms must be carried out with utmost seriousness…

The Government of Liberia on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 presented to Criminal Court “A” Judge Roosevelt Willie pieces of evidence seeking to convict a Guinean accused of plotting to overthrow the current Junta President of Guinea Mamady Doumuyah. Prosecution earlier failed to submit their evidence to the court and were issued a writ of summons…

The Deputy Minister for Press and Public Affair at Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, Daniel O. Sando, says President Joseph N. Boakai and his government will not interfere with the investigation launched by Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) into alleged US$15 million off-budget expenditure. Addressing a press briefing in Monrovia Tuesday, October 1, 2024, Minister…

Liberia’s former Finance Minister Samuel Tweah has blamed the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC-led) government’s failure to prosecute alleged former Officials of Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s twelve years rule under the Unity Party Government on the departure of United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). He said the first government to be democratically elected after the…

The Director General of the Civil Service Agency (CSA) of Liberia Josiah Joekai has admitted that the country’s public sector is sick and it is by laws and policies the responsibility of certain governmental functionaries to work on it. Joekai spoke on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, when the Liberia Institute for Public Administration (LIPA), the Governance Commission…

The Resident Judge of Criminal court C” A. Blamo Dixon has issued a Writ of Subpoena Decu Tecum and Ad Testificandum on the Liberian Drugs Enforcement Agency (LDEA) suspended Director General Abraham Kromah. Judge Dixon’s decision was triggered from a motion made by one of the defense lawyers requesting Mr. Kromah to appear before the…

A renowned Liberian educator, Dr. John T. Wulu, Jr., has named the intervention of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) as Liberia’s pathway and tool to economic recovery, poverty alleviation and global accelerator to sustainable development, urging the Government of Liberia and students to prioritize it. Delivering a keynote address at a combined high school…

The Deputy Finance and Development Planning Minister for Administration Bill McGill Jones says the 2025 Budget and succeeding budgets will be shaped by insights gathered from ongoing consultations regarding the National Development Plans (NDPs). Speaking Monday, September 30, 2024 in Monrovia, Minister Jones underscored the importance of representing all 73 electoral districts, over 100 administrative…