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Mass vaccination was supposed to be our get-out-of-jail-free card. We should be so lucky. Despite the fact that Britain’s rapid inoculation programme has been a spectacular success, the Government is taking no chances. The parole board is having second thoughts. We’re not so much getting out of jail free as being released on licence, wearing an electronic ankle tag. We’re also going to have to check in regularly with our probation officers. Every single one of us is being urged to take two self-administered Covid tests every week. Even a dodgy ‘false positive’ will put us straight b...

President of the LNBA I am greatly honored and elated to be here this morning to speak to the gallant men and women of the Armed Forces of Liberia as a keynote speaker at the beginning of this very important week in the life of the Armed Forces of Liberia which, under normal circumstances, should end on February 11, 2021, with an elaborate national program. Such an elaborate celebration is not possible this year for the insecurity situation created by the COVID 19 pandemic. As a person who, over the years, has expressed critical views about g...

Keynote Message Delivered By Cllr. Tiawan S. Gongloe, President of The Liberia National Bar Association at The 2021 Armed Forces Symposium Keynote Message Delivered By Cllr. Tiawan S. Gongloe, President of The Liberia National Bar Association at The 2021 Armed Forces Symposium “Enhancing Military and Legislative Interaction in a Democracy: Liberia in perspective” I am greatly honored and elated to be here this morning to speak to the gallant men and women of the Armed Forces of Liberia as a keynote speaker at the beginning of this very important week in the life of the Armed Forces of Lib...

Legal Affairs Director at the Ministry of National Defense (MOD), Attorney Emmanuel B. Yates The Legal Arm of the Ministry of National Defense and the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL), as well as several stakeholders from the security sector, has concluded a one-day working session on the draft Court Martial Regulation for the new AFL. The one-day stakeholders’ workshop, which was held on Thursday, December 10, 2020 at the Barclay Training Center (BTC) in Monrovia, was graced by the Independent National Human Rights Commission (INHRC), the Liberian National Bar Association (LNBA), the U.S. Em...

The method by which Nigeria allocates revenue between the central government and states impedes the development of a truly federal polity. The 1963 constitution granted regional governments control over natural and human resources found within their territories as well as broad powers to use these resources to fast-track local development. Consequently, big strides were made in areas such as education and agriculture. The oil boom of the 1970s, however, led to an overdependence on oil revenues and the relegation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors. The growing preeminence ...