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LIBERIA:  President Weah Makes Additional Promises During Recent County Tours LIBERIA:  President Weah Makes Additional Promises During Recent County Tours Eddie D. Jarwolo, Executive Director, Naymote Partners for Development Naymote Partners for Democratic Development, the implementer of the President Meter Project tracking the President’s promises to the people and citizens of Liberia has tracked 32 new promises during the president’s recent nationwide tours. This brings the total...

Eddie Jarwolo, Executive Director, Naymote partners for Deocratic Development Naymote Partners for Democratic Development, the implementer of the President Meter Project, tracking the President’s promises to the people and citizens of Liberia, has tracked 32 new promises during the president’s recent nationwide tours. This brings the total promises to 145, including those promises made before and after taking office in 2018. Cumulatively tracked promises before now amounted to 9 promises fu...

Liberia: President Weah Makes Additional 32 Promises while on County Tour; Only Nine of Previous 113 Fully Completed Liberia: President Weah Makes Additional 32 Promises while on County Tour; Only Nine of Previous 113 Fully Completed Share MONROVIA – Naymote Partners for Democratic Development, the implementer of the President Meter Project tracking the President’s promises to the people and citizens of Liberia has tracked 32 new promises during the president’s recent nationwide tours. Th...

Professor Robert van Voren, of Vytautas Magnus University, argues for a more nuanced approach to wartime accounts of the...

The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) in the presence of our Melanesian Partners held the first webinar of the Democratic Development in Melanesia Webinar Series 2021 on 31 March. The webinar’s topic was “ Electoral System of Fiji: Electoral Formula and Ballot Paper Design”. This webinar focused on Fiji and it was designed to help iron out misunderstandings and misgivings about the electoral system in place in Fiji. The 2013 Constitution o...

A Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management of the University of Ghana Business School, Dr Gordon Abekah-Nkrumah, says the best way to address financial challenges in the health sector is to create a system that independently manages revenue of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). According to him, this would save revenue purposely for the NHIS from the control of the Finance Ministry. Although the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) promised...

705 Despite measures put in place by the government to ensure that cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are no longer imported into the country, the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) continues to receive positive cases from travellers arriving in the country and the number keeps rising. Between April 21 and 24, some 120 positive cases were recorded from arrivals, a situation that has been described as “unprecedented” by the management of Frontier Health Services. "On April 24, a tot...

NAYMOTE Enlightens Young People As part of its educational program on governance under the Young Political Leadership School (YPLS), Naymote Partners for Democratic Development is now organizing debates aimed at educating young people on the influence of “Big money” playing in the political space of Liberia. The program is also aimed at molding students’ minds on the issue of integrity to help deepen their understanding in the governance process of the country. The event which began on Mo...

Graphic Online BY: Maxwell Akalaare Adombila 705 A new study on citizens perception on tax collection and its utilisation has found that most taxpayers hardly trust the tax collectors, with more than 80 per cent of respondents saying that they perceive some staff of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to be corrupt and culprits of tax evasion. The Afrobarometer survey, which sampled the views of 2,400 Ghanaians, also showed that another 34 per cent of citizens thought that "most" or "all" the ta...

Ghanaians Willing To Pay Taxes - Afrobarometer Study