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Empowering growth and progress through impactful media. List of 2021 Officials of the Nimba County Sport Steering committee

* Mr Adonis David Menlor- Chairman
CEO Ma Queen ADM
* Mr Samuel Hart- Co Chairman
Business Man
*Miss Abigal Kou Laikarnue Freeman- Secretary General
Activist/ Politician
* Mr Sam Kpahn - Member
Politician
* Mr Tonton Seydou - Member
Business Man
* Mr Prince Yeah - Member
Head of Records, Nimba County
*Mrs Corina G Lee- Member
Prominent Business Woman

--Finance Committee
Mr Diamond Nyormie- Chairman
Mr Martin Fahn - Member

* Mr Othello Mansuo- Chairman on Mobilization
Administrator, Nimba County Health Team

23/07/2026

Honorable Musa Hassan Bility has expressed deep concern about the drugs bust in the country:

LIBERIA IS IN A DRUG EMERGENCY: MR. PRESIDENT, TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND ACT NOW

The discovery of approximately 3,971 kilograms of suspected co***ne, valued at more than US$317 million, has moved Liberians from shock to fear.

Only weeks ago, the country was shaken by the discovery of 237.6 kilograms of co***ne, valued at US$19.2 million, at Roberts International Airport. That shipment had already passed through critical layers of our national security system and was reportedly being prepared for export. Today, nearly four metric tonnes of suspected co***ne have been discovered stockpiled at a private property in Duazon.

This is no longer an ordinary drug investigation. This is a national security emergency.

We commend the officers whose intelligence and courage led to this latest discovery. Their success must be acknowledged. But the government must not confuse a successful raid with a functioning security system. The raid succeeded, but the prevention system failed.

Nearly four tonnes of co***ne did not simply appear in Duazon. The drugs entered Liberia, moved through our territory and were safely stored without detection. An operation of this magnitude requires financing, transportation, communication, storage and, possibly, protection. Liberians therefore have a right to know: How did these drugs enter the country? How long were they here? Who owns the property? Who financed the operation? Were any public officials or security personnel involved? Are there other stockpiles elsewhere? And how much may have already reached our communities?

The government now claims that this criminal network may have operated in Liberia for more than six years. That claim must be proven through evidence and a credible investigation. It must not become a political slogan for the Unity Party.

President Boakai has now been in office for exactly two and a half years. The Unity Party cannot continue hiding behind the previous government whenever something goes wrong under its watch. If this network existed before President Boakai took office, then his government has had thirty months to detect and dismantle it. If these drugs entered Liberia during his administration, then his government must explain how that happened. Either way, the responsibility for protecting Liberia today belongs to President Joseph Nyuma Boakai.

The Unity Party should be ashamed of its attempt to politicize this national emergency. Its efforts to drag opposition figures into the matter through unsupported insinuations, attack citizens exercising their constitutional rights and blame previous administrations are reckless, shameful and unpatriotic.

Liberians do not see this crisis through the colors of political parties. We see it through the prism of our families. We see our children destroyed, our homes disrupted and our communities overwhelmed by addiction. The victims of drugs are not Unity Party, CDC or CMC. They are Liberians.

Every minute the ruling party spends attacking political opponents is a minute taken away from identifying the owners, financiers, facilitators and protectors of this dangerous criminal network.

Mr. President, statements and press conferences are no longer enough. The country needs visible leadership, accountability and decisive action. As Political Leader of the Citizens Movement for Change, I call upon you to:

1. Address the nation immediately and provide a clear account of what is presently known.
2. Establish an independent investigation supported by credible international law-enforcement partners.
3. Investigate every security, customs, immigration, airport, seaport and other public official who may have facilitated or failed to detect this operation.
4. Provide regular public updates on arrests, charges, fugitives, financial transactions and assets connected to the network.
5. Conduct an immediate security audit of our airports, seaports, land borders, private warehouses and other vulnerable entry points.
6. Guarantee the secure custody, scientific testing and transparent destruction of the seized drugs under judicial supervision.

Mr. President, what more do you need before accepting that something has terribly failed? Co***ne has been discovered at our international airport, prepared for export. Nearly four tonnes have now been found stockpiled inside our country. Yet the decisive presidential leadership demanded by this moment remains absent.

I will no longer soften my words. You wanted this job, and the Liberian people entrusted it to you. Do the job. Lead the country. Take responsibility. Dismantle this network and restore public confidence before fear and distrust consume our nation.

The patience of the Liberian people must never be mistaken for indifference. Continued silence, political diversion and inadequate action will only deepen public mistrust and endanger the peace and stability of our country.

This is not about politics. This is about the survival of Liberia and the future of our children.

Hon. Musa Hassan Bility
Political Leader
Citizens Movement for Change

06/04/2026

The political leader of the Citizens Movement of Change celebrates his birthday on today. Happy blessed Birthday Honorable Musa Hassan Bility.

26/03/2026

When Will Liberia Be Free? Poverty, Mindset, and the Silent Weight of Illiteracy.

I have asked myself this question since childhood: When will Liberia be free from poverty?

Not free in speeches. Not free in conference reports. Not free in election promises. I mean truly free when an ordinary child can grow up without hunger chasing them from morning to night, when a mother does not have to choose between food and school fees, when a father does not measure his worth by how long he can hide his pain from his family.

Year after year, when global poverty and hunger reports are released, Liberia is too often mentioned among countries still fighting deep hardship. For many people, those rankings are only numbers on a page. For us, they are not numbers. They are memories. They are faces. They are homes with leaking roofs, empty kitchens, crowded clinics, abandoned dreams, and children learning too early that survival is a full-time job.

Poverty in Liberia is not just an economic condition. It is a human story. It lives in the child who goes to school without breakfast and cannot concentrate. It lives in the girl who drops out because her family can no longer afford basic supplies. It lives in the young man who is intelligent and gifted but grows up in an environment where no one tells him that discipline, skill, and vision can change his life. It lives in the market woman who works from sunrise to sunset yet remains trapped in debt. Poverty is not only the absence of money. It is the daily burden of limitation.

I know this burden because many Liberians know it. Some of us were born into it. Some of us were raised in communities where hardship was so common that suffering looked normal. We saw children with brilliance in their eyes but no books in their bags. We saw adults with strength in their hands but no real opportunities to rise. We saw people who worked hard and still remained poor. Over time, poverty stopped looking like a crisis and started looking like destiny.

That is one of its most dangerous effects.
Poverty does not only attack the body. It attacks the mind. It teaches people to lower their expectations. It teaches communities to celebrate survival instead of progress. It convinces a nation that “this is just how life is.” And once poverty settles into the mindset of a people, it becomes harder to fight than hunger itself.

This is why mindset must be part of the national conversation.
To speak about mindset is not to blame poor people for being poor. It is to tell the truth about what poverty does after years of disappointment, neglect, broken systems, and unkept promises. A poor mindset is often a wound, not a choice. It is born when generations grow up seeing little reward for honesty, planning, education, or hard work. It is strengthened when shortcuts are praised, when dependency becomes culture, when people stop believing they can build, lead, or own anything meaningful.

A nation cannot rise when too many of its citizens have been conditioned to think only of today and fear tomorrow. A country cannot move forward when young people are taught to admire quick money more than mastery, appearance more than knowledge, and connection more than competence. Poverty deepens where long-term thinking is absent. It grows where citizens no longer believe in effort, learning, and delayed reward.

Yet mindset alone is not the whole story.
Illiteracy has also quietly fueled poverty in Liberia in devastating ways. And I do not mean only the inability to read and write, though that remains a serious problem. I also mean economic illiteracy, civic illiteracy, digital illiteracy, and social illiteracy the inability to understand systems, opportunities, rights, responsibilities, and the changing world.
A person who cannot read may struggle. But a nation where millions cannot properly interpret contracts, understand public policy, manage money, use technology, or question manipulation will struggle even more.

Illiteracy keeps people dependent. It keeps farmers from understanding markets. It keeps small business owners from keeping records. It keeps citizens from holding leaders accountable. It keeps parents from guiding children through a modern economy. It keeps youth locked out of the digital age. It keeps communities vulnerable to deception, exploitation, and political control.

And so poverty continues not only because resources are lacking, but because many people have never been equipped to turn resources into transformation.
This is the heartbreak of Liberia. We are not a country without potential. We are a country with enormous promise. We have land. We have water. We have minerals. We have young people with energy and creativity. We have global attention, development support, and natural wealth that many nations would envy. Yet so much of that potential has not become broad-based prosperity. Why? Because resources alone do not rescue a nation. A changed mindset and an educated population do.

A country can receive aid and still remain poor if its people are not empowered to think, build, question, innovate, and sustain progress. A country can have resources and still suffer if the culture does not reward knowledge, productivity, integrity, and vision. Poverty remains where minds are chained, even when hands are free.

This is why the fight against poverty in Liberia must begin earlier and go deeper. It must begin in homes, where children should be raised not only with love, but with values of discipline, learning, and responsibility. It must continue in schools, where education should not only prepare students to pass exams, but to solve problems and create value. It must be reinforced in churches, mosques, communities, and youth spaces, where dignity, purpose, and character should be taught as strongly as hope. And it must be protected by leadership that sees citizens not as people to control, but as people to equip.

We must teach our children that poverty is not an identity. We must teach our youth that ignorance is expensive. We must teach our communities that begging for survival cannot be the highest form of ambition. We must teach ourselves that literacy is not a luxury and mindset is not a side issue. Both are weapons in the struggle for national freedom.

The Liberia I dream of is not one where poverty is discussed with pity, but one where it is confronted with courage. A Liberia where a child from a poor community can still dream boldly because systems exist to support effort. A Liberia where education is practical, skills are valued, and hard work has direction. A Liberia where people no longer think only about escape, but about building. A Liberia where we stop asking only what the world can give us and start asking what we can become.

The deepest pain of poverty is not just empty pockets. It is wasted human potential.
How many inventors have we buried in ignorance? How many leaders have we lost to hopelessness? How many children have mistaken limitation for identity? How many dreams have died quietly because no one watered them with education, encouragement, and opportunity?

That is why this conversation matters to me. It is personal. It is emotional. It is national.
I have seen enough struggle to know that poverty is real. But I have also seen enough human strength to know that it is not unbeatable.

Liberia will be free from poverty the day we stop treating it as only a money problem. It is also a mindset problem. It is also an illiteracy problem. It is also a culture problem. And until we confront all of them together, poverty will continue to wear different clothes while remaining in the same room.

But if we can raise a generation that can read, think, question, create, plan, and believe truly believe that they are capable of building a better Liberia, then perhaps one day those global rankings will no longer define us.

And maybe then, the child I once was and the children growing up now will finally have an answer to that painful question:
When will Liberia be free?

The answer will be:
When we free the mind, and educate the people, poverty will begin to lose its power.

24/03/2026

Here is a two-page technical brief I have developed from my research on the Liberia–Guinea border. This document is not an official statement from any government agency, nor does it represent the positions of the governments of Liberia or Guinea.

However, it provides valuable insight into the historicity of the Makona River boundary, along with references that may help guide your future research. Also, a map that is intended as an illustrative advocacy and discussion tool. It visually shows the disputed Guinea–Liberia border area in Lofa County, highlights the claimed 200-meter strip, and overlays the possible mineral significance of that corridor based on broader regional mineral patterns.

Link to the pdf document:https://kwipepper.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Liberia-Guinea-Lofa-Technical-Brief.pdf

20/03/2026

Liberia’s Social Media Dilemma

In 2015, Umberto Eco delivered a statement that sounded harsh, even controversial at the time. Speaking after receiving an honorary degree in Turin, he warned that social media had created what he called an “invasion of idiots.” His point was simple but unsettling: platforms had given everyone regardless of knowledge or expertise the same microphone once reserved for scholars, professionals, and thought leaders.

Back then, many dismissed his words as elitist. Today, in Liberia’s fast-evolving digital space, they feel less like an insult and more like a diagnosis.

Social media in Liberia began as a powerful connector. It gave small businesses visibility, amplified youth voices, and allowed everyday citizens to engage governance in ways never before possible. Platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp became digital town halls spaces where ideas could flourish and communities could organize.

But somewhere along the line, the line between voice and noise blurred.

Today, Liberia’s social media landscape is crowded with half-truths, misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and emotionally charged narratives disguised as facts. A single unverified post can spark outrage, damage reputations, or even incite real-world consequences before the truth has a chance to catch up.

One of the defining features of Liberia’s current digital culture is the rise of “instant experts.” On any given day, individuals with no background in law interpret court rulings, those without medical knowledge prescribe treatments, and political analysis is driven more by loyalty than logic.
The problem isn’t that people are speaking it’s that credibility has been flattened. In the algorithm-driven world of social media, confidence often travels faster than competence.

This shift has real consequences.
Reputations are destroyed in minutes. False accusations trend before investigations even begin. Public discourse becomes toxic, making it harder for meaningful conversations to take place especially on critical national issues like governance, justice, and social development.
For a country like Liberia, where information ecosystems are still developing, this is particularly dangerous. Social media doesn’t just reflect society it actively shapes it.

The same platforms that spread misinformation also have the power to educate, inspire, and mobilize. Liberia has seen social media drive business growth, highlight social injustices, and give young people a platform to tell their stories.
The issue, then, is not the tool but how it is used.

Eco’s words should not be seen as a condemnation of ordinary people, but as a call for responsibility in the digital age.
Liberia doesn’t need fewer voices it needs more informed ones.
We need:
* Critical thinking before sharing
* Fact-checking before reacting
* Accountability for what we post
Because in today’s world, every user is not just a consumer of information they are a publisher.

Umberto Eco may have called it an “invasion,” but perhaps the real challenge is not the presence of many voices it is the absence of discernment.
In Liberia’s digital future, the question is no longer who gets to speak.

A classroom round table conversation from a colleague Jelm Kitson inspired this article.

06/03/2026

By Laurina B. Lormia

As the world observes International Women’s Day (IWD) under the theme “Give to Gain,” it is not only a time to celebrate the progress women have made across societies but also a moment for reflection. For young women, this day should serve as a reminder that the future we aspire to embrace is quietly being shaped by the decisions we make today.

The future we desire depends on our character, discipline, modesty in dressing, and reputation. Yet, many young women are increasingly influenced by trends that prioritize temporary attention over long-term dignity.

https://medium.com//the-future-has-a-long-memory-a-caution-to-young-women-bf5920cf67ce?fbclid=IwRlRTSAQXYBNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeiHhz8MEvd8KWOj9yvD-kjGJkqSe6d6SQZBKYDDIIIsXb4xXtp9wnw6bG_jY_aem_qW0D012qchfdCLJK8TC_tg

03/03/2026

Let’s show some love to the recent graduates of UL. Drop your graduation picture.

03/03/2026

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16/02/2026

Statement from Abdullah Tani Konateh, Deaf Advocate, on the Proposed Disability Bill

We, the Deaf and broader disability community in Liberia, wish to express our profound gratitude and heartfelt appreciation to Representative Rugie Yatu Barry and the Members of the House of Representatives for introducing the proposed bill titled “An Act To Provide Inclusion, Employment, and Support for All Persons With Disabilities Within the Republic of Liberia.”

As persons with disabilities, we face significant challenges in accessing education, employment, and opportunities to fully participate in society. Many of us are educated, skilled, and eager to contribute to the growth and development of our beloved nation, yet the lack of formal protections and inclusion often limits our potential.

This proposed legislation is a historic and vital step toward ensuring that persons with disabilities are recognized, empowered, and supported as equal members of society. We respectfully urge the House of Representatives to deliberate with wisdom and compassion and pass this bill into law. We also call on the government to provide training, employment opportunities, and capacity-building initiatives to help persons with disabilities achieve independence and meaningful participation in national life.

Moreover, we strongly advocate for the provision of qualified sign language interpreters in key areas such as hospitals, schools, government offices, courts, and public service centers, to ensure that Deaf Liberians have access to essential information, services, and opportunities. This inclusion is critical for our empowerment, independence, and full participation in society.

We stand ready, on behalf of the Deaf and disabled community, to collaborate with the House and all stakeholders in implementing this bill. Together, we can build a Liberia that values inclusion, equality, dignity, and accessibility for all citizens.
With sincere thanks and highest respect.

Lawmaker To Introduce Disability Bill
https://thenewsnewspaperonline.com/lawmaker-to-introduce-disability-bill

Abdullah Tani Konateh
Deaf Advocate

11/02/2026

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