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Liberia’s strive for girl’s education receives setback as seven counties including Grand Kru report drastic decline in girls enrollment

The counties are Gbarpolu, cape Mount, Bomi, Sinoe, Grand Bassa, River-Cess and Grand Kru.

Abraham Kiazolu who is the Coordinator and technical lead at the ministry of education said the survey was conducted recently in the seven counties.

Mr. Kiazolu who failed to tell journalists about the cause that led to the drastic increased of female drop out in the counties said the statistics are alarming.


Caterpillars invasion in several counties continues to threaten survivals of crops and farmers; but Ministry of Agriculture report progress in fighting the strange invaders

The situation according to report is also affecting the cultivation of farmland in areas such as Kpain and Domah towns and electoral districts one, of Nimba County.

According to the farmers, the caterpillars continue to destroy their crops and safe drinking water in several towns and villages.

But earlier this week the Minister of Agriculture constituted an Incident Management System assisted by an Incident Coordination Unit to provide coordination and collaborate with stakeholders and partners at international, national and local levels to address the current caterpillar infestation in the country.

According to a release, the MOA deployed technicians in the affected areas quipped with bio-pesticides, and motorized sprayers to stop the invasion and curb the damages to crops.

The pest is aggressive, feeds on plants and seriously deprives them of their leaves.


President George Weah commissions first ever football museum in Liberia; says the museum is in membrane of Liberian football legends and contributors to football

The Museum which is name "the Shoes we Aspire to Fill" was dedicated over the weekend and is located at the Invincible Park.

The new Museum is made mostly of Mr. Weah's footballing artifact and some photos and records of other players including legends that are only heard of through oral history.

At the dedicatory ceremony President Weah said the museum was constructed to ensure that players who contributed to the nation’s most cherished sports are not forgotten.

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Mr. Stanton Witherspoon has appointed Madam Tete Kanneh as the new CEO of Spoon Network while going through his legal process.

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Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor accuses election magistrates across the country of being corrupt; says they have overstayed thus rendering them compromised

Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor said magistrates in most cases take financial inducements in advance to decide the winners of electoral processes in the various counties.

According to her, most of the magistrates have overstayed in their areas of assignments which has rendered them compromised.

Speaking at the eighth edition of the Archbishop Michael Kpakala Francis Intellectual Discourse Thursday, the Vice President called for the immediate rotation of Election magistrates to ensure a peaceful elections comes October.

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