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 2011

 

10/28/11 The Problem With Our Post-War Liberian Politics

10/26/11 COL's  Presidential Endorsement: WINSTON TUBMAN 

10/23/11  President Sirleaf's Son in Campaign Mood Ahead of NEC's Official Declaration

10/18/11 Chronicle of a Death Trail, Persecution And Conspiracy

10/09/11  Adultery Sells Defamatory Advertising

10/06/11 The "Ellen Effect" Blowing Like A Hurricane

10/05/11 Small Plane Crash Begets National Lesson: The Liberian Constitution

09/25/11 The Ensuing Liberian Elections: A Word to the Candidates

09/24/11  Weah's Claims Must Be Investigated!

09/20/11  AIDS Prevails in Africa

09/13/11  The New Education Reform Act of 2011: Perspectives and Implications

09/09/11 Decentralizing Education in Liberia: Prospects for Ownership and Improvement

09/04/11 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is Not Qualified to Run for Second Term, Says Presidential Candidate Dew Mayson

08/31/11 Liberia Lone Star Faces Uphill Battle in Harare

08/30/11 Amy Winehouse Could not Handle Abstaining from Alcohol

08/13/11 Somalia Needs Your Help!

080611   To the Candidates in the Ensuing Liberian Elections

08/02/11 Alcoholic Mothers, Malformed Children

08/11/11 Liberia's Political Candidates Should Provide Voters With A Plan/Platform

07/22/11 Concerned Liberians Speak Out About Upcoming National Referendum

07/17/11  Presidential Candidate Dew Mayson Elected NDC's Standard Bearer; NDPL and NPP Abandoned National Democratic Coalition

07/14/11 Fragmented Opposition President Sirleaf's Greatest Re-election Asset

07/12/11 National Democratic Coalition (NDC) Begins Leadership Training in Monrovia

07/11/11    The Liberian Family Must Form Part of Political Debate

06/30/11    Amos Sawyer and Governance Commission Shows Teeth

06/25/11   South Africa in Colours' Festival Opened in Vienna, Austria

06/24/11   A Paradigm Shift: Bringing Liberia's Foreign Policy into the 21st Century

06/17/11   Let's Give it Up for Helen Zille

06/15/11   Africa's Newest Robber Baron, US Billionaire Philip Falcone

06/14/11  The Lives of 5 Leaders

06/13/11  Remaking the Famous Samoa Bar Entertainment Center

06/02/11 Liberian official charged with arson

05/31/11  Zimbabwean Dr. Vivek Solanky in Epic Battle against African Medical Investments: Liberian Ministry of Mines Implicated 

05/13/11  Why the Liberian Press is Still Not Free

05/11/11  I am Free. My Time is Free

05/07/11 Winston Tubman Finally Gets His Bride

04/28/11 Nigeria Finds a Fresh Voice

04/13/11 When Democratic Relativism Turns into Dictatorship

03/31/11 Who Is This Jeffersonian?

03/30/11 Reform or Crackdown: Chairman Varney Sherman in Brawl With  UP-USA Leadership

03/21/11  Analysis of Liberia's 2010/2011 Budget

03/12/11 Women NGO Secretariat of Liberia Celebrates International Women's Day in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, Liberia

03/10/11 Open Letter to Leaders of Political Parties and Civil Society

03/02/11 President Sirleaf's Annual Message: A View From the Grassroots

02/06/11 World Bank Dishes $40m for Liberia's Education Sector, As Stakeholders Call for Passage of Education Law

02/03/11 Laurent Gbabo Shines the Spotlight on Africa in a Crucial Election Year 

01/23/11  Photos from the funeral service of Gabriel S. Gworlekaju Jr., held January 22, 2011, at Bethlehem First United Methodist Church, Bethlehem, Georgia   Courtesy: Emmanuel Abalo/Running Africa

01/19/11  Putting Maternal and Child Health on the Right Track

01/06/11 Liberia's Political Parties Lack Ideological Competence to Lead Nation to Prosperity

01/01/11 Liberia's Poverty Reduction Strategy and Public Perception

2010

12/24/10  Another US-Based Liberian Clergy Declares Presidential Candidacy for 2011

12/23/10  The Mystery and love of Christ at a convent in Spain

12//18/10  West African Children's Support Network (WACSN) Takes Child With Life-Threatening Defect to U.S., for Treatment

12//15/10   Demystifying the Tenure of Senators in Liberia

12//13/10 Tribute to An Outstanding Western Missionary, Rev. Fr. John Feeney, SMA

12//04/10 Dismissals Raise Speculations of Corruption and Doubts Over Our Sense of Patriotism

11/20/110 Deadly Pandemic

10/2610 Welcome to Nationalism: Where Nations Find Hope, Where Wings Take Dream

10/2010 Poverty Reduction and Governance: The Role and Place of Women in Peace and Development

10/19/10 Open Letter to Bishop John G. Innis

10/18/10 Abortion and Racism

10/14/10 Is President Sirleaf in Demand in 2011?

10/12/10 A Tribute to our Father, Samuel Barbay Gaye, Sr.

09/14/10 Combating the Fight against AIDS

09/13/10 Writing Pres. Sirleaf on the Cancellation of Liberia's Debt

08/18/10  The Next Liberian President Must Make Education A Priority

08/14/10  Child Exploitation

08/11/10  The Dual Citizenship Debate

07/23/10  We Must Embrace Peace As The Indispensable Factor Towards Lasting Economic and Political Progress

06/28/10  Gabriel Gworlekaju at Room 675

06/22/10 Lewis G. Brown, II: Social Justice Advocate or Mere Job Seeker?

06/18/10  Sympathy Is Not Enough, But It's a Good Beginning

06/12/10  Valuing Honest and Emotionally Intelligent Leader Such as Dr. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

06/04/10  Liberia's EPA: Global Challenges and Benefits

06/02/10  War Crimes Controversy in Post-War Liberia

05/31/10  Looking At the Successes and Potential Pitfalls of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Administration

05/07/10 "Expert" Views of Dr. Boley's War Record

04/22/10  U.S. to Allies: "U.S. Armed Forces "For Rent"

04/16/10  Shifting the Development Paradigm, and Mitigating Rural-Urban Disparities in Liberia

02/19/10 Writing Pres. Sirleaf On Her 2011 Declaration

02/16/10 Open Letter To The Concern United Methodists

02/14/10 Child Prostitution: Self Respect vs.The Fundamental Needs of Man

02/10/10   Iran and Pakistan: Terrorism States or Victims of Terrorism?

01/29/10  "The Gun That Liberates Shall Not Rule"

01/20/10  How the Media Contributed to Intolerance in Today's Society

01/17/10  Helping Bodioh Wisseh Siapoe in Times of Need

01/15/10  Campaigners of Two United Methodist Conferences in Liberia Are Under Devil's Influences: Divine Punishment Doom!

01/14/10   The Dark Side of Religion

01/08/10  Education and the Poverty Reduction Strategy

01/03/10  The Case of Environmental Importance: Front Page Africa Ignores EPAL Again

2009

12/28/09  The Need for Two United Methodist Conferences in Liberia: A Contextual Approach

12/27/09   The Dilemma of Implementing the TRC Report

12/25/09   It's Christmas: Where Are the Children?

12/18/09   Bertha Williams Must Go!!!

12/11/09   The Academic "Messiah" of Our Time

12/09/09  The Perfect Military Intervention in Afghanistan

12/06/09  The Need for A Child Poverty Survey

12/05/09  Inter-Agency Investigative Committee Report on Water Pollution By Firestone Natural Rubber Company of Liberia

11/27/09  2009: Year of the Ox, Gorilla, Astronomy or President? 

11/24/09  Putting Children's Health First

11/21/09  Culture and Religion Corrupts Gay Youths

11/18/09  Taking The Men Who Stare at Goats Seriously

11/17/09  U.N. Hunger Summit Fails in Italy

10/24/09 Barrack Obama and the Flying Circus

10/23/09  In Government's Fight against Corruption, Minister Bropleh Embarrasses President Sirleaf

10/12/09 New African Movie in Stores Near You

10/08/09 Liberians at Home And Abroad Launched Campaign to Draft Senator Franklin Siakor for President

9/23/09  North and South Korea: "We Want Reunification But They Don't Let Us"

9/20/09  Why Is Africa Poor?

8/26/09  Let Justice Be Done To All Men

8/18/09 Inter-Country Adoption: The Horrible Ripple Effects of False Accusation

8/16/09 Should Indigenous Liberians Blindly Support Indigenous Politicians?

8/12/09The TRC Have Spoken, But The Recommendations Shocked Some Liberians

8/01/09 Do The Right Thing: Honor Wannie Botoe and David Momoh; Football Legends Whose Time Has Come

7/26/09  Adoption, Politics and the State

7/23/09  Barrolle vs. IE: Legends Clash to Celebrate Liberia's Independence Day in Newark, NJ

7/20/09   Need To Support The TRC

7/14/09  The Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Resolution

7/12/09  "War Mongers, Come Clean or Deal with It"

7/10/09  Let's "Chakla" It

7/01/09 "Back To The Soil" : A Movement to Self-Sufficiency, Or Another Political Lip Service To the Liberian People?

6/29/09 The Dynamics of A Transforming Society

6/20/09 The 2009/2010 Budget Hearings: Our Inability To See the Forest from the Trees

6/21/09 Pertinent Historical Question: Which Country Really Rules the World? (Part III)

6/17/09 Analysis of Liberia's Fiscal Year 2009-2010 Proposed Budget

6/16/09 Governance & the UN Presence

6/15/09 Pertinent Historical Question: Which Country Really Rules the World? (Part II)

6/13/09 A New Liberia: At What Cost?

6/12/09 Seton and Larsah are Encouraging Lawlessness

6/11/09 Black Tuesday' Should Continue As An On-going Protest Against Corruption

6/07/09 Children, Sustainable Development is Fixed Poverty

6/03/09  Pertinent Historical Question: Which Country Really Rules the World? (Part I)

5/23/09  African Countries Making Progress on Investment Climates

5/19/09  Another Corruption Scandal or A Diversionary Scheme?

4/29/09  Don Bosco aids Ministry of Health in Illegally Removing Children from West African Children Support Compound

4/23/09  Liberia: Making A Mockery Out Of Adoption 

4/19/09  The Iron Lady with No Iron Children

4/15/09   Somali Pirates: International Hypocrisy and Pretext for Military Invasion and Economic Imperialism

3/25/09   Deceitful Relationship Between the United States and the United Kingdom

3/19/09    War Crimes Group Details Police Brutality in March 7 Catastrophe

3/15/09     Why I Left the Mormon Church 

03/02/09  Time is Now To Abolish Death Penalty in Mano River Union Basin

03/01/09  Trick or Treat, A Nation In Administrative Turmoil

02/25/09 Historical Lecture to the American People

02/20/09 Proposed Civil Lawsuit Against U.S. Government

02/18/09 Corruption is Somehow Bearable than Gun and Oppression

02/03/09  Airborne Toxic Chemicals to Fight Armyworms in Liberia, A Danger to the Environment

02/02/09 The Celebration of Black History Month, and its Importance to African-American Youth

1/30/09 Truth, Reconciliation and Lasting Peace: Is Liberia on the Periphery of Dissent?

1/28/09  War Crimes Advocacy Group Writes Pres. Obama

1/27/09   War Trend Will Soon Face Its End

1/15/09    Africa Must Produce or Perish

01/13/09 ULAA Member Resigns; Says ULAA is The Problem Not The Solution

01/03/09 Misfits of Road Construction - Liberian Style

01/02/09 The War Lord's 23rd Psalm

2008

12/30/08  Dilemmas of Dealing With Guinea's Military Junta

12/27/08  FrontPageAfrica's Right to Publish Audit Reports

12/25/08  Civility, Lawfulness, and Tolerance Taking Backseat in Liberia

12/23/08  Corruption: A De Facto Way of Life in Liberia

12/01/08  Community Organizations in Diaspora Face Serious Leadership Deficit

11/28/08 World War II: 63 Years After

10/17/08 Environmental Crisis Demands Urgent Answers

09/27/08 Mittal Steel Donation to National Legislature: Ethical Implications 

09/26/08 Failure of International Law, and Tyranny at The Security Council

09/24/08 Can Barrack Obama Ever Be President?

09/21/08 What is the Value of a Liberian Legislator - A Mitsubishi Pickup?

09/20/08 Russian Recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia: New Political Reality

08/15/08  Georgia vs. South Ossetia: From Conflict to War

08/06/08  We Cannot Allow Death Penalty to Silence the Past

08/05/08  "Rename Stadiums After Wannie Bo Toe and George Oppong Weah" The Prejudice in Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh's Commentary"

07/27/08  Radovan Karadzic: One Way Ticket to The Hague

07/25/08  On Liberian Philosophy - Part I

07/24/08   Deceptions of Elections

06/01/08  Challenges of Healthcare, Hygiene and Bio-hazardous Wastes

05/31/08  What Should Be the Definition for a Millionaire?

05/30/08 Guinea: The Potential for Continued Stability in West Africa

05/29/08  Air Pollution and Public Health

05/22/08 Sustainable Solutions to the Solid Waste Crisis

04/25/08 Armed Robberies, A Scary Thing When Thinking of Returning Home

04/25/08 Effects of Growing Rice Shortage on the World Market

04/24/08  Rice or What...?

04/22/08  God's Mafia

04/10/08 Government and Organized Crime, A History of Co-existence

2007

11/11/07 A Diplomat, a Diplomat, my Kingdom for a Diplomat

11/08/07 Lack of sustainable environmental policy obstructs Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy (IPRS), and growth

11/05/07 Pres. Sirleaf's advocacy of AFRICOM in Liberia, and the Progressive's propaganda

10/26/07  Bad policies, the lack of policies, and policy inconsistencies undermining development of Liberia

10/20/07  My personal recollections and experiences with the music of Lucky Dube: A Tribute

10/14/07   European Union - The Grand Experiment

10/12/07   Technology widens rich-poor gap

09/13/07   Police Inspector General Munah Sieh must go!

09/08/07    Treason trial takes a U-turn

09/06/07    UN vs. NGOs: One against many

08/31/07    Open letter to Pres. Sirleaf: The expiration of TPS

08/20/07   The perpetuation of the master/slave relationship

08/16/07   A peep at Pres. Sirleaf's visit to the Monrovia City Prison

08/13/07  On plan to appoint Mary Broh Mayor of the City of Monrovia

07/18/07 Mark of a great man 

07/15/07 Regime change: Target Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe

07/07/07 Liberia remains uncompetitive in a highly competitive world

06/24/07 President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's foreign travel 2007

06/23/07 The Golden Rule II - Warmongers and the golden rule

06/14/07 Justice for all: Charles Taylor and other war criminals

06/06/07  Establish national development plan for Liberia

06/04/07  The case for A Strategic Partnership

05/31/07   The Golden Rule - The Mark of Cain

05/23/07   George Kiadii is my father, I am looking for him

05/07/07  Open letter to Archie Williams, Director of Civil Aviation

04/13/07  The "Holy Prostitute"

03/22/07  State-owned radio worker's grievance against Charles A. Snetter Jr.

03/18/07   Truth and Reconciliation Commission eyes Atlanta

03/04/07    A cursory comparative review of the past and now

02/24/07   West Point, Liberia: An environmental menace

02/23/07  The Knuckles sexual scandal - A fraction of the Liberian ills

02/08/07   Africa remains a dumping site for hardzadous waste

02/03/07   Census: Why it matters for Liberia

02/02/07   Hardboiled  - An unyielding Legislative rebel base

02/01/07   Economic nationalism is the way forward for Liberia

01/25/07  What's new in Liberia's finite National Resource Management?

01/24/07  An ecological perspective of Liberia

01/19/07  Eliminating persistent security challenges in 2007

01/11/07 "Stomach another crisis?" Not through extrajudicial means

01/10/07  The Liberian media and poverty

2006

12/17/06  Open letter to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

12/10/06  Award reconstruction contracts to qualified Liberians

12/09/06  Prosecuting corruption to the full extent of the law

12/01/06  Rowan International Church of Salisbury simmers in rumors of corruption

11/16/06  Oh my Waterside (OOP's - Vai Town) Bridge: An apostrophe to a fallen bridge

10/13/06   Liberia: How should poverty be alleviated to propel growth?

10/12/06   A rational examination of the economic and social policies of the Johnson-Sirleaf administration

10/07/06    Liberia: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is not the panacea

10/06/06    Liberian press crying wolf

09/23/06    Liberians should give the Johnson-Sirleaf administration a chance

09/20/06    Lazarus on a September Saturday. (My time at the NKAA Convention - 2006)

08/09/06   The Mittal deal and fleecing of wealth in Liberia

 06/13/06  What if the warlords don't accept responsibility for their crimes 

 06/12/06 Guinea: The next crucible of implosion in West Africa?

05/19/06  David Kortie must not belittle sports writers (Part One)

04/28/06  Post-election fever grips Liberian Community in New York City

04/22/06  As world celebrates Earth Day, Liberia's environmental plight mirrors Earth Day

04/12/06  Lead or resign: A call to President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf 

03/17/06  Pres. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's Speech to the
 U.S. Congress

03/15/06  How political parties in Africa contribute to failed states and one-party rule 

03/4/06    A scare for Charles Taylor in Calabar (A short story)

02/15/06   To celebrate or not to celebrate?

01/31/06   Unveiling the truth at the Central Bank of Liberia

01/25/06  "Liberian Real Estate Auditor:" Solution to Liberia's land issues

2005

12/21/05  Message to Jewel Howard Taylor

12/20/05  Open letter to George Weah and the CDC: Stop attacking the media 

12/19/05    Using Six Sigma to reinvigorate public corporations

 12/05/05  "No war, No peace" in Cote d'Ivoire and the way forward

 12/04/05  Liberian Journalist raises concern over transitional media committee

11/24/05  D. S. Pewu lives on ( A tribute to David Sumuwoi Pewu, A good brother) 

11/23/05 Thieves as "honorable" officials in the outgoing Liberian government

11/14/05 Open letter to George Weah

11/08/05 Give our Liberian women a chance 

11/07/05 Steps to rebuild Liberia 

11/02/05 Africa's insurgencies: Training on demand from Libya 

10/08/05 Debunking the George Weah myth 

10/07/05 What does George Weah have to offer? 

10/05/05 Death Announcement: David Sumoiwu Pewu departs this world

10/04/05 Conspiracy of silence 

09/30/05 "For the sake of our country:" A rejoinder to Dolo's "Where's your apology?" & Tamba's hustlemen & scoundrel 

09/29/05  Omissions to elections: Dangerous and unjust precedents

 09/28/05 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf finally confesses to funding Liberian civil  war 

 09/24/05 What is at stake for Liberians in the 2005 elections? 

09/16/05 GEMAP will save Liberia from vampires: What are the issues, and  who are the vampires?  

09/15/05 An open letter to Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 

09/10/05 Liberian national elections: A panacea? 

08/13/05 "Liberians are not stupid " 

08/04/05 Liberia devises national strategic plan to combat malaria 

 08/02/05 The pathway to a new Liberia 

07/22/05 What is the Liberian National Commission up to?

07/20/05 Business group honors Ambassador Minor during Atlanta visit 

04/07/05 A Call for Environmental Revolution

03/27/05 Is the Liberian Observer a public relations tool or an independent     news medium?  

01/26/05 Combating Malaria in the Next Liberian Republic  

 01/05/05  Revisiting A Systemic Problem: Poor Sanitation Undermines Water Quality

2004

12/27/04  Soccer Violence: What Ails Our Fans?       

12/14/04  The Degenerative Public School Situation In Liberia

12/09/04  Facing Reality       

12/03/04  The Importance Of Education and Experience: Does George Weah Have What It Takes?  

11/30/04   Let's Give George Weah His Time !!!! 

11/20/04   What Give Rise To The African Exodus?

10/18/04   Where Is Reality In The Sinoe County Ass? (LETTER)

 10/16/04   Corruption In The Liberian Government

09/30/04   Should Gus Major Speak About Honesty Too?  

09/08/04   It's All About The People

07/24/04:  Is Federalism The Answer?


 

 

 

 

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