President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met behind closed doors with the visiting Liberian President, Mr George Weah, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Weah, who is said to be on a “Thank You’’ visit to Nigeria, arrived the Presidential Villa at about 12.33 p.m. Weah was received by […]
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Liberian President, George Weah has pledged to cut his salary by 25 per cent. The former soccer star made the disclosure on Monday, in a nationwide address in which he warned of tough times ahead for a “broke” country. “The state of the economy that my administration inherited leaves a lot to do and to […]
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George Weah, football star, has been sworn in as the 24th President of the Republic of Liberia. Weah took his oath of office at exactly noon inside the 35,000 capacity Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in Monrovia. At least eight African Heads of States, including President Muhammadu Buhari represented by Vice Present Yemi Osinbajo, and […]
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Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) on Friday formally declared international football icon, George Weah of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), as President-elect of Liberia. Chairman of the commission, Mr Jerome Korkoya, made the declaration after announcing the final results of the Dec. 26 presidential runoff election at the NEC headquarters in Monrovia. The final […]
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Former footballer and the candidate of the opposition Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), George Weah gathered a total of 98.1 percent of results from the polling units to give earn an unassailable lead in the Liberian presidential run-off election. In results announced on Thursday by the chairperson of the country’s electoral Commission, Jerome Kokoya, Mr. Weah […]
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Liberia’s National Electoral Commission (NEC) has fixed today, Thursday for the commencement of announcement of the result of the presidential run-off. Meanwhile, the candidate of the opposition, Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), George Weah, has expressed confidence he would win the election. “The Liberian people clearly made their choice yesterday and altogether we are very […]
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The state is set for today’s presidential runoff election in Liberia, according to the country’s National Elections Commission (NEC). Spokesman of the commission, Mr Henry Flomo, on Monday said that the electoral umpire had done everything “humanly possible’’ for a smooth process. He said the commission had fully carried out the Supreme Court’s directives on […]
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Weeks after coming under criticism for unveiling a multi-million naira statue of President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state is set to unveil the statue of another African president. Okorocha’s latest statue, is a monument of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia and it is scheduled to be unveiled on November […]
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Former Liberia football star, George Weah, will perhaps, never have a more realistic chance of winning the presidency than on October 10 when some two million of his compatriots go to the polls to replace Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Of all the contenders for president, his candidacy is seen as the one that poses the most credible […]
Continue ReadingThe ECOWAS Parliament has called on Liberia to reconsider aspects of its constitutional review where proposals have been made to make the country a Christian state. Members made the call following the presentation of Liberia’s country report at the parliament’s ongoing 2016 first ordinary session in Abuja on Friday. Members noted that the aspect of […]
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