By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on The New Dawn
Former Vice-President Jewel Howard-Taylor has called on the Liberian government to complete legal, forensic and investigative procedures before destroying recently seized narcotics. Her statement comes amid reports of an official plan to destroy the consignment, valued at US$317 million.
A Liberian Senate committee proposes setting aside 792,552 dollars in the 2027 budget for pay rises of up to 71% for 224 employees, as well as hiring four maintenance workers. The proposal, sent to the Senate’s acting president, Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence, comes as the government prepares the budget and half the population lives below the poverty line, reports FrontPageAfrica.
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The Council of Churches of Liberia says prosecutions and verdicts in the case involving the diversion of Saudi rice must be based solely on evidence and the law. Its statement comes after eight of the 13 accused, including two former ministers, were convicted, according to the Council of Churches of Liberia.
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Liberian economist Samuel Jackson is asking Judge Onesimus Barwon for permission to leave Liberia to receive specialised medical treatment. Still banned from travelling, he is being prosecuted in an investigation into the death of his wife, who was found dead in March 2026, reports FrontPage Africa.
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The Liberian government is preparing to digitise 16 priority public services with World Bank support, aiming to simplify procedures and make government departments more efficient. The project notably includes a single online services platform, an inter-institutional data-sharing system and the modernisation of data centres, reports FrontPage Africa.
🇱🇷 Liberia · Source: Frontpageafricaonline ·
Liberia imposes 21-day isolation on DRC travellers after Nigeria Ebola caseLiberia is imposing 21 days of self-isolation on travellers arriving from or transiting through the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with daily monitoring. Travellers from Uganda, Kenya or Nigeria will be monitored for the same period after Nigeria confirmed an Ebola case, according to Sia Wata Camanor and Liberian health authorities.
State police could soon be established in NigeriaThe constitutional reform allowing the creation of state police in Nigeria has passed the required threshold in state assemblies and should soon become reality. Presidential adviser Bayo Onanuga believes this decentralisation will strengthen local security, according to the Nigerian presidency.The week in Africa
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