The Liberia National Bar Association (LNBA) has expressed its disagreement with several key aspects of the Supreme Court’s ruling on April 23, 2025. In this ruling, the Court declared Speaker J. Fonati Koffa as the legitimate Speaker of the House of Representatives and deemed the actions of the Majority Bloc, led by Representative Richard Nagbe…
Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of J. Fonati Koffa, declaring him the legitimate Speaker of the House of Representatives, five loyalists from Koffa’s Minority Bloc have surprisingly crossed over to Representative Richard Nagbe Koon’s Majority Bloc. This recent action by Representatives Taa Wongbe, Moima Briggs, Romeo Quiah, Emmanuel Dahn, and Priscilla Cooper increases…
The Government of Liberia (GoL) has broken silence on the recent Supreme Court ruling in the case involving embattled House Speaker Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa and Majority Bloc Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon, urging lawmakers to heed the ruling and use it as a foundation to craft a peaceful, political resolution to the crisis. While calling…
The Monrovia City Court at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia has sent five women to jail for allegedly trafficking 14 Liberian children to Burkina Faso. On Friday, April 13, 2025, a case was filed of an alleged Human Trafficking involving 14 children who were traveling along with four women before being arrested by the…
Since the landmark opinion rendered by the Supreme Court of Liberia in the Bill of Information filed by embattled Speaker Jonathan Fonati Koffa to get clarity of the previous ruling in the House of impasse, the nation’s highest court has received commendations from individuals and organizations from different spheres of society. Among the latest to…
After four of the five Justices of the Supreme Court of Liberia granted embattled Speaker J. Fonati Koffa an Amended Bill of Information to assess the constitutionality of actions taken by the Majority Bloc lawmakers in the House of Representatives, Associate Justice Yamie Qui-qui Gbeisay dissented from his colleagues, calling their decision a “slap in…
Prison Fellowship Liberia, with support from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, has officially launched a project aimed at amplifying the voices of Liberian youths to help them access justice. The Country Director of the Fellowship, Reverend Francis Kollie, announced that the project, titled “Collecting the Voices of Liberian Youths to Access…
As Liberians await a major decision from the nation’s highest court, the Supreme Court of Liberia, on tomorrow, this paper has reliably gathered that the Court will deliver a judgment that seems not too far from its previous opinion – a decision that tends to uphold the doctrine of Separation of Power (SOP). The signals…
The Monrovia City Court has issued a writ of arrest for Mustapha Yassine, Khadoun Ismail, and the Management of Auto Spare Garage following serious allegations of forgery, deceptive writing, and criminal conspiracy. According to court documents signed by His Honor Judge L. Ben Barco, the defendants are accused of orchestrating a scheme to defraud Lebanese…
The Supreme Court of Liberia has scheduled a ruling for Wednesday, April 23, 2025, to address the longstanding impasse between the majority and minority blocs of the House of Representatives. This follows a Bill of Information filed by the embattled Speaker J. Fonati Koffa against the junta-style Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon. At 11 AM on…
