By Ralph Geeplay The Liberian Football Association (LFA) is yet to release the list of the national team that will go against the Super Eagles of Nigeria, in Monrovia on September 8. The Nigerian Super Eagles have already named 11 professionals players in anticipation of a tie with Liberia. Nigeria’s Coach Stephen Keshi left out Chelsea midfielder John Mikel [...]
By Ralph Geeplay President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is being applauded for signing the Table Mountain Declaration, which aims to boost press freedom, and stop the criminal prosecution of journalists in Liberia. Sirleaf deserves commendation. However, it is important to note that the signing comes from the Executive Mansion, at a time when assaults and libels [...]
By Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh Metro Atlanta is again the destination for Liberian government officials who arrived here this month to promote another government program, which officials believe needs the input of Liberians in the Diaspora before it can be successfully implemented as the nation’s petroleum policy. The national petroleum policy consultation forum sponsored by the independent state-owned National Oil Company of [...]
By Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh My daughter Nanu Twaloh Sungbeh, who is a rising junior studying public health at metro Atlanta’s all-women’s Agnes Scott College, embraced the opportunity this year to do her summer internship in Africa. Her first choice obviously was her ancestral homeland of Liberia. But because Liberia is not on the list of [...]
By Pianapue Kept Early In recent news reports (as recent as August 10, 2012), Senator Bannie of Rivercess County and Representative Byron Brown of Grand Bassa County are at bitter odds concerning the marriage or dowry of one of the Representative’s sisters, Cecelia Boe (Bannie). This sister, Cecelia Boe (a second cousin of mine on [...]
By Ralph Geeplay Nigerian Super Eagles coach, Steven Keshi, is about to lose his job if he fails to beat the Lone Star of Liberia for his team to qualify for the African Cups of Nations’ finals finals next year in South Africa, Nigerian football officials are saying. Echoing the sentiments quite recently was Mike [...]
By Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh If one were to take a random poll of soccer enthusiasts in Monrovia about the most dominant player ever to grace the Liberian sports scene over the years, probably George “Oppong” Manneh Weah would be selected unanimously. Oppong, once a poor kid, grew up in the swamps of Gibraltar near Clara Town [...]
By Ralph Geeplay Entertainment impresario and Liberian business magnate, Barkue Tubman, who returned to her native Liberia in 2005 is a trailblazer in the entertainment industry. Having achieved incredible triumph in the United States while cracking the glass ceiling in a field normally reserved for male executives, Barkue is a gem, who it seems everything [...]
By Moco McCaulay The growing hullabaloo between the evidently pissed-off elderly Nobel Peace Laureate, who also happens to be the first woman to be elected President of an African nation, and an irreverent young Danish filmmaker, who became an ‘Ambassador’ of her country only to then go on to represent her country in a [...]
By Ralph Geeplay Foreign Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan comes to the job with a core strategic objective of promoting Liberia’s policy initiatives. President Sirleaf and Minister Ngafuan referred to that policy initiative as “economic diplomacy.” It means building bridges with investors and foreign governments to win investments, which the duo believes can also advance peace and [...]
