Author: Olando Testimony Zeongar
Olando is a cleric, poet, career journalist specializing in print journalism, and an editor with decades of experience in media communication.
By Olando Testimony Zeongar MONROVIA – This year’s Orator for the country’s 178th Independence Day celebrations, Rev. Emmett Dunn, has blamed poverty in Liberia largely on moral shortfall, while quipping why so many Liberians are poor. National Orator Dunn stated that the fact that Liberians are being plagued by poverty is not just an economic issue, but a moral one. He recommended that Liberia focuses on economic justice, warning that peace without prosperity is fragile. “A hungry child cannot wait for macroeconomic policy. A farmer without tools cannot wait for committee reports. A mother who cannot afford healthcare for her…
By Olando Testimony Zeongar MONROVIA – Liberia’s 178th Independence Day Orator, Rev. Emmett Dunn, has outlined what he termed ongoing challenges confronting the nation, rallying all Liberians to collectively confront such challenges. In his Independence Day oration delivered at the historic Centennial Memorial Pavilion, in Monrovia, on 26 July, Dunn began pointing out challenges the nation is faced with, by asserting that public institutions in Liberia are deeply embedded with corruption. He emphasized that to uproot such systemic corruption from the Liberian society, it will take more than policy. “It will take moral courage and political will from the highest…
MONROVIA – A nationwide sports jamboree for high school students, under the auspices of an organization with international flare, the National High School Sports, gets underway in Lofa Monday, 21 July 2025, Rural Reporters News Network (RRNN), has reliably gathered. The National High School Sports organized nationwide sports tournament has been divided into five regions, with high schools within Lofa paired in Region-1 along with high schools from Bomi, Grand Cape Mount, and Gbarpolu. In Region-2, Bong, as the host county is grouped with schools from Nimba, Grand Bassa, Margibi, while Montserrado is Region-3, with schools within the county poised…
In his closing remarks at the United Nations’ Fourth Financing for Development confab recently held in Seville, Spain, Liberia’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of France, Dr. Teeko Tozay Yorlay, Sr., told attendees and conference organizers that the future yearned by African youth is already here. Organized by the Economic and Trade Cooperation of African Youth on theTheme: “Youth-Driven Capital: Unlocking Innovative Financing for Africa’s Green and Digital Future”, Dr. Yorlay told conferees that the essence of their gathering was to build real solutions, commit, and to energize what he referred to as a movement that sees Africa’s…
SANNIQUELLIE – Nimba County Superintendent, Kou Meapea Gono, has disclosed a plan to modernize an artificial lake, Lake Telleh, in the Northeastern Liberian county, for tourism purposes. An artificial lake or man-made lake is a human-created body of water formed by damming a river or stream designed to serve specific purposes such as water storage, power generation, or recreation. Other countries with large artificial lakes include Ghana, Lake Volta, Lake Kariba, which lies on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, Lake Nasser, located in Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan, and Lake Mead, located on the Colorado River in the United…
TAPPITA – Police in Nimba County have arrested, charged, and sent to court, Prince Wogbeh, a 53-year-old man, for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl (name withheld). The rape survivor’s grandmother, Sarah David, told Rural Reporters News Network (RRNN) over the weekend that the incident occurred during the night hours of last Tuesday, 28 October 2024, in central Tappita Community, Nimba County. Grandmother Sarah narrated that during the night hours of the fateful day, she had gone in the room of her grandchildren when she discovered that the rape survivor was not in bed as she usually would be along with…
BUCHANAN – Grand Bassa County Superintendent, Julia K. Bono, has died at age 69, Rural Reporters News Network has independently gathered. Bono succumbed to death early Monday, at the Liberian Government Hospital, in the port city of Buchanan, with the cause of her death yet unknown. On April 18 this year, the Executive Mansion announced Bono’s appointment as superintendent of Grand Bassa County. She was appointed along with five others including Paul Y. Piah, Grand Bassa County Financial Officer; Moses G. Henry, Grand Bassa County Development Officer; James W. Duen, Administrative Officer for Grand Bassa County; Lady Benson, Mayor, Edina…
MONROVIA – The Government of the United States of America through its embassy near Monrovia, has pledged support to working with the new boss of Liberia’s Office for War and Economic Crimes Court (OWECC), Cllr. Jallah A. Barbu. Following a recommendation from a search committee, based on Cllr. Barbu’s extensive experience and qualifications, he was appointed by President Joseph Boakai over the weekend to head the OWECC, after the man previously nominated to the post, Cllr. Jonathan Massaquoi’s nomination was withdrawn by the Liberia leader reportedly due to public outcry over Cllr, Massaquoi’s human rights record. In a U.S. Embassy…
UPPER NIMBA – Nimba County is poised to get its first-ever turfed soccer facility amid a groundbreaking ceremony over the weekend for an artificial turf project valued at over US$600,000 at the Gompa Sports Stadium. The Gompa Sports Stadium artificial turf project is FIFA-funded and forms part of the Liberia Football Association (LFA) football development plan aimed at modernizing football facilities across the country. Under its tailored support styled FIFA Forward Fund, the world governing body for football provides funding for football development projects in the countries of its member associations. The FIFA Forward Fund aims to promote sustainable and…
MONROVIA – At long last, President Joseph Boakai, has dismissed the suspended leadership of the Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency (LDEA), with the Liberian leader nominating a new Director General for the agency. In early June this year, President Boakai, with immediate effect, suspended without pay, pending investigation now dismissed Director General Abraham S. Kromah along with his two deputies, Gbawou Kowou, and Hassan Fadiga, who had also been sacked by the President. The men were suspended for a fracas that occurred between them, where there were reports of the brandishing of firearms, at the Sinkor Headquarters of the LDEA on…
