Editorials

TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2023, Liberia will be celebrating 176 years of independence. In other words, it means that it has been a whopping 176 years since our founding fathers signed the historic declaration of independence,…

ON TUESDAY, JULY 4, 2023, the United States of America will be celebrating its 247th independence anniversary as a sovereign nation having fought and granted a statehood from the British empire on July 4, 1776. However, the US mission in…

TODAY, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 2023 marks another United Nations International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking which is celebrated every year. It’s a day set aside by nations of the world to re-invigorate efforts aimed at…

AS THE ELECTION season approaches in Liberia, it's disappointing to see that the major opposition political parties are not cooperating with each other. Instead, members of the four parties are attacking one another for the lead position.…

ON OCTOBER 3, 2022 the government of Liberia announced the discovery and seizure of a large consignment of drugs worth $100m, unarguably one of the largest seizure made in recent time in sub-sahara Africa. The news took the centerstage of…

ON THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2023, the second phase of the biometric voter registration in the last nine of the remaining counties came to an end which also marked the end of the entire BVR exercise conducted by the National Elections Commission…

AS LIBERIANS ENTER the electioneering season towards the 2023 general elections, it is becoming increasingly clear that the poll would be very competitive and frenetic at the same time. But there have been growing concerns as to how to…

A MAJOR WATERSHED on the journey to the crucial 2023 general elections was recorded on Monday, April 17, 2023 when the National Elections Commission (NEC) released the outcome of the just concluded phase one of the Biometric Voters…

ON TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2023, political leaders of virtually all the political parties in Liberia participated in the Farmington Hotel Declaration organized by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations…

FOR SOME TIME now every electoral season politicians and their enablers engage in what is referred to in the Liberian parlance, “Voters Trucking”, a situation where someone often under monetary inducement is taken from one constituency to…