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29 Sep
Top African leaders are set to be honoured at the upcoming Democracy Heroes Award Africa in recognition of their contributions towards the enrichment of democratic norms in Nigerian society and the African continent as a whole. Leading the list of those who are set to receive the prestigious award is the President of Liberia, Joseph…
9 Sep
Forty-seven inmates have escaped from a prison in central Liberia, the justice ministry said Monday, adding that it was "taking all necessary measures" to ensure their recapture. Initial investigations showed the detainees were able to flee because of a breach in the prison's security system, the ministry said in a statement on its Facebook page.…
14 Jun
A brace from Harmony Chidi earned Nigeria's Flamingos a 2-0 win against Liberia on Friday in Abuja, and a ticket to the 2024 FIFA women's U-17 World Cup in the Dominican Republic. The Flamingos went through 6-1 on aggregate after winning the first leg 4-1 in Monrovia. In the final qualifying round, Chidi opened the…
11 Jun
The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) has wielded the big stick on Lonestar Cell MTN Mobile, Liberia's largest mobile money company and subsidiary of the South Africa’s telecommunications behemoth, MTN. According to reports, the West African country's financial regulator found the mobile money company guilty of several regulatory infractions and imposed on it (MTN) a…
21 May
About 50 parliamentarians from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will, tomorrow, open their second extraordinary session in Kano with issues bordering on regional and economic integration of member states. Addressing journalists shortly at the end of its Bureau’s meeting, yesterday, First Deputy Speaker of the ECOWAS parliament, Senator Barau Jibril, said the…
26 Apr
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the Republic of Benin, Liberia, and Sierra Leone have launched a large-scale rollout of the life-saving malaria vaccine targeting millions of children across the three West African nations.
6 Apr
It's no news that the bilateral relationship between Nigeria and Liberia, which started in 1960, has seen both countries establish Diplomatic Missions in each other’s capital.
29 Mar
Agricultural development agencies, researchers, and policymakers from Liberia are organising a summit to draw a seed road map for the West African country.
24 Jan
Liberia’s new president, Joseph Boakai, has been declared “perfectly fine” by his doctors, his office says.
8 Jan
The death toll from a petrol tanker explosion in central Liberia has risen to 74, the West African nation's chief medical officer said Monday.
29 Dec 2023
A mere fact that a leader who lost a second term election and could not in fact fulfil most of the promises of the first term is the one being deconstructed as a Person of the Year in a region that parades giants including the most populous...
29 Dec 2023
It was not an auspicious time for politicians to test popularity on the streets. While rich economies in the global north got richer, their poor and developing counterparts in Africa got poorer in 2023.
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