The recent currency transfer arrangement between the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) and the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has sparked significant concern and debate regarding the financial management practices in developing countries.
The military overtake of power in Africa is resurgence, with military leaders becoming Africa's true rescue missionaries. Guinea, Mali, and Niger have experienced coups d'état, and the leaders are taking unprecedented steps to crack down on corruption, restore public trust, and boost their economies.
There is the saying that “LIB da Technique”; meaning, for one to survive in this society, to get what he wants, or to avoid a certain problem, he must be “smart,” which involves skillfully applying various tricks in the process. As UL students would say in their invented version of Matthew 4:4, “You fuck-up, you fuck.” Times are hard.
The National Association of Liberia School Principals and Proprietors writes to bring to your attention two critical issues that are currently affecting the education system in Liberia. These issues pertain to the delays in releasing the West African Examination Council (WAEC) results and the timeline constraints regarding graduation ceremonies and their linkage to the release of WAEC/WASSCE results.
Background In the early 1800s, a group consisting of philanthropists, clergy, and abolitionists who wanted to free African slaves set out to establish the American Colonization Society led by Robert Findley.
The first quarter of the Rescue Mission in Liberia has been marked by disappointment and a lack of progress. Senator Amara Conneh, who had previously prophesied that Liberians must manage their expectations, was rebuked by John Morlu, who stated that the mission was to deliver on promises and not to manage expectations.
It is a common practice in Liberia that if a man who is a Christian, but a member of one denomination or congregation, decides to get married to a woman who is also a Christian, but a member of a different denomination or congregation, the marriage ceremony must be held in the woman’s congregation.
Liberia’s prominent civil society and anti-impunity organization, the Solidarity and Trust for a New Day (STAND), condemns the August 22 police raid that allegedly targeted the Small Town community but spread into the headquarters of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC).
Liberia stands at a crossroads, where the actions of its leaders could either reinforce its democratic principles or push the nation into a quagmire of another civil unrest.
