The House of Representatives under the gable of rebel-styled Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon has reveals plans to have suspension lifted on some lawmakers, an action taken as a result of events surrounding the removal embattled House Speaker J. Fonati Koffa. The Plenary of the House of Representatives has mandated its leadership to probe an appeal…
The Government of President Joseph N. Boakai has given suspended Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) Governor Aloysius Tarlue US$374,239 as settlement of claims of unlawful suspension by the government. It can be recalled that the General Auditing Commission (GAC) audit report revealed financial irregularities at the CBL amounting to nearly $300 million, highlighting unauthorized expenditures…
The Chief of Protocol to former President George Manneh Weah, Finda Bundoo, has been summoned by the Debt Court Judge James Jones for allegedly owing Jerome F. Walkely US$14,000. Madam Bundo was summoned based on Jerome’s complaint that he printed the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) victory balloon stickers and other campaign materials for the…
President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., has officially announced the establishment of the National Steering Committee for Liberia’s Bid for a Seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). According to an Executive Mansion release dated January 29, 2025, the strategic committee, composed of key government officials, civil society leaders, and diplomatic advisors, will lead and…
The Government of Liberia (GOL), through the Liberia Immigration Service (LIS), says it has completed all formalities leading to the issuance of VISAs upon arrival in Liberia. According to information gathered by this paper, President Joseph N. Boakai is expected to grace the launching ceremony at the headquarters of the LIS in Monrovia. The Liberia…
The Jury of the Civil Law Court Annex ‘B’ will on today, Friday, January 31, 2025, deliver its verdict in the ongoing US$700,000 libel lawsuit against Ecobank-Liberia, Alex Williams former Deputy Director General for Statistics and Data Processing at Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo Information Services (LISGIS) and Yussif Kromah, an employee of the…
The Rule of Law Caucus, formerly Majority Bloc, has described as blatant violation of constitutional norms, the recent “unprecedented and violent assault on Representative Yekeh Kolubah, a sitting lawmaker, during today’s session of the House of Representatives. In a statement dated Tuesday, January 28, 2025, the Rule of Law Caucus under the chairmanship of Representative…
Judge A. Blamo Dixon of Criminal Court “C” at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia has found George Obi alias Original Japan and three others guilty for the distribution of drugs along the Japan Freeway. The major landmark case which lasted for over two terms of court was a bench trial placing Judge Dixon as…
The Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit Civil Law Court at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia has set tomorrow, Friday, January 31, 2025, for final argument in the ongoing trial between the former Liberia Statistics Geo-information Services (LISGIS) Boss Wilmot Smith and Ecobank Liberia Limited. The decision as to whether or not the US$700,000…
The Financial Intelligent Agency has given Ecobank Liberia Limited 72 hours to provide requested banking transaction information to the agency. The action of FIA came as a result of the bank alleged refusal to submit said documents after many communications to them requesting such documents, which the ultimatum began from January 27, 2025. The FIA…
