Sinoe County Senator Crayton O. Duncan has raised concerns over water pollution and soil degradation by gold miners in the county. In a communication to Plenary on Thursday, February 20, 2025, Senator Duncan requested the body to invite the Executive Director of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to explain measures put in place against water pollution…
The Universal Peace Federation Liberia Chapter has ended a one-day National Peace Lecture series to educate and inspire the youths and citizenry to uphold peace as a means of nation building and development. Amb. Gerald Coleman, one of the lecturers, encouraged the youthful population to see the need to preach the doctrine of peace in…
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has officially designated Liberia’s National Public Health Institute (NPHIL) as a Regional Center of Excellence for National Public Health Institute (NPHI) Development. A release issued from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 8, 2025 said this prestigious recognition highlights Liberia’s leadership in strengthening public health systems…
President Joseph N. Boakai has dedicated and toured a newly built health center in Armbush Curve, Lower Margibi County, with the “Ma Juah Health Center.” The facility is worth over US$2 million and it is owned by a private Liberian based in the United States of America. Speaking Saturday, February 8, 2025, President Boakai said…
Following reports several days ago of a pox-like disease affecting several prison inmates in Sinoe County, the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) immediately conducted an intensive investigation of the cases and has confirmed that the inmates are Mpox-negative based on molecular testing results. According to a press release dated February 1, 2025, the…
The National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) says it is investigating reports of another Pox-Like Disease among Sinoe Prison Inmates. A Jan. 25, 2025 release issued by the institution said its attention is drawn to the reports, considering the ongoing continental and global Monkeypox outbreak to which the NPHIL is currently responding in Liberia….
Authorities in Margibi County have arrested two drug suspects in the Lango Town community. The couple, Amaddu Fodana, 36, and Aren Johnson, 36, were apprehended with 76 pieces of Italian White and a dispenser plastic bag of Kush. Despite their arrest, the couple has repeatedly denied any involvement in the illegal sale of drugs in…
The National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) has inducted fifteen recently recruited Laboratory, Research, and Diagnostics young Liberian scientists into the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) to serve as technical personnel. This will increase and strengthen the laboratory and research diagnostic capacities, shorten results-reporting time, and strengthen the Outbreak Preparedness and Response efforts, among others….
The recent action by the head of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) to have sacked two employees and suspended several others over allegations of grave corruption is apparently being resisted. The Director General of NPHIL Dr. Dougbe Chris Nyan in a Facebook on Wednesday, January 16, 2025, a day after he reportedly…
Patients with kidney problems and undergoing treatment at the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Dialysis Center at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital decried the delay in treatment that is leading to the death of patients at the facility. In an open letter to President Joseph Nyuma Boakai dated January 12, 2025, the patients under the banner Renal…
