Rep. Bhofal Chambers, Speaker of the 54th Legislature
The 17 members of the House of Representatives who contested the December 8 Senatorial election, only three were elected, creating pending by-elections that are expected to be held in 120 days.
Representives elected as Senators are Deputy Speaker Prince Moye (Bong County, Collaborating Political Parties); Rep. Zoe E. Pennue (Grand Gedeh County, Coalition for Democratic Change); Rep. Edwin M. Snowe (Bomi County, Independent).
The election of the three Representatives, created openings most especially the Deputy Speaker post; and the openings coincided with the appointment of chairmen and co-chairmen of statutory and standing committees, which Rule 54.1 mandates the Speaker to do after three years which initiated the power struggle.
The Platform for Dialogue and Peace (P4DP) with a project grant from Women Peace and Humanitarian Fund and Spotlight Initiative, through U.N. Women, has begun the validation of its early research findings under the project ‘Mobile4Women.’
The validation exercises that started last week in Grand Bassa County, was intended to contribute to the promotion of Gender-Sensitive Human Rights (GSHR) in Grand Bassa and urban Montserrado (Monrovia), using audiovisual methodology, to examine gender and social norms in order to understand the underlying factors contributing to SGBV and how Liberian women and girls in urban and rural communities experience marginalization.
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Three squad members of the Black Stars will go head-to-head on Saturday to be crowned the Footballer of the Year by Ghana’s sporting media, the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG).
Michael Essien, Sulley Muntari and Laryea Kingston have all been nominated for the Footballer of the Year category, an award given by SWAG every year at its awards night.
Football clearly overshadows the other award categories, even the topmost gong of the night, the Sports Personality of the Year award, which would go to international boxer, Joseph Agbeko.
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