Why Trump Won
The results of the US Presidential election 2016 took the public, and many pollsters and pundits by surprise; they were stunned, I was too. Though the media had informed us that the race was close,...
Tag: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Trumps Victory And Eventual Presidency; President Sirleafs Concerns; Where I Disagree
Many Americans have and continue to express serious concerns about their president-elect, business executive Donald J. Trump, Sr. While some of these concerns may be legitimate, not all are real or...
President Sirleaf Saddened By Trump Win
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said on Wednesday she was saddened by the fact that U. S. voters had not elected a woman president, and expressed concern about what President-elect Donald...
US Presidential Election 2012
I will first begin with the Obama administration and its policy toward Liberia. The administration was faced with a weak economy left by the Bush government. When Obama took office in 2009,...
Obama’s Disappointing Legacy In Africa
The last we saw of President George W. Bush in Africa, he was literally dancing into the sunset of his presidency, on this occasion with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Monrovia, Liberia,...
A Plea To My People
Since the day I could think for myself for my 24 years on earth, I have been wondering why Africa, Ghana, northerners, Tamale and Dagbon are not thriving as expected. Upon all those sleepless nights...
US Presidential Election 2016
In my article four years ago on the US presidential election of 2012, I mentioned several factors that could determine the winner. The candidates, Baraka Obama and Mitts Romney, were known...
George Weah Owes Ecobank US$3,887
Liberia Presidential hopeful and former international football star, George Manneh 'Oppong' Weah, has been accused of owing the local subsidiary of Ecobank US$3,887. The amount is a loan the Liberian...
Only One Student Passes Liberia Exam
Only one student in Liberia, out of 42,000 who sat the annual west African regional examinations, has passed the Division One level exams for entry to university. Armstrong Gbessagee, 18, from the J....
A Good Lady In the Presidential Villa
“He who finds a wife finds a good thing…” – PROVERBS 18: 22 Fellow Nigerians, please forget the shakara of all men who try to act macho, most men are ultimately controlled by their wives, and...
Liberia’s President Ellen Sirleaf, Becomes First Female ECOWAS Chair
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has been elected as the new Chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
She was elected at the 49th ECOWAS heads of state...
President Ellen Sireleaf Dismisses Overseas Ministers
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has reportedly sacked all of her ministers and other senior government officials who defied her order to return to the west African nation to help in...
The Current State of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak.
Ebola still has the "upper hand" in the outbreak that has killed more than 1,400 people in West Africa, but experts have the means to stop it, these are the words of Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the...
Liberia Riot Police and Soldiers Use Scrap Wood and Barbed Wire to Seal off 50,000 People To Contain Ebola
Riot police and soldiers acting on their president's orders used scrap wood and barbed wire to seal off 50,000 people inside their Liberian slum Wednesday, trying to contain the Ebola outbreak that...
This Might Have Just Completely Worsened The Ebola Epidemic In Liberia, 50,000 People May Be In Danger Now
There are conflicting reports over the fate of 17 Ebola patients who vanished after a quarantine centre in the Liberian capital Monrovia was looted.
An angry mob attacked the centre in the city's...