URBAN Grooves crooners, Stunner and Roki have come together to honour women, in their recently released single, ‘Kudakwashe’, an affirmation of self love and acceptance. The song’s title loosely translates to God’s will. The new song was in collaboration with music promoter’s Kayse Connect who are passion about empowering and supporting women, having recently donated […]
Tag: Sports
“We hold our universities in high esteem, and we believe that a healthy university system will translate to a healthy society… “ Over a year after conflicts between the governing council and the management of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, almost tore the 59-year-old ivory tower apart, University of Lagos (UNILAG), on Thursday broke […]
Monrovia — The Independent Information Commission (IIC) has validated “Liberia Access to Information Records Management Guidelines”. The validation exercise was done on Tuesday at a local resort in Congo Town. Speaking at the opening of the workshop, the Commissioner of the IIC, Cllr. Mark Bedor-Wla Freeman thanked UNESCO for the support in drafting the guidelines […]
Paynesville — The program officer of Community Health Initiative (CHI), Ms. Orfina Foday has encouraged females, especially adolescent girls across the country to take proper care of themselves during their menstrual period. Speaking during the observance of World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2021, Ms. Foday told the young women and girls attending the program that taking […]
The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) is making considerable efforts to improve production of organic food through promoting bio-fertilizers (BF) and bio-pesticides (BP). Even though the MoA has carried out a number of interventions for promoting natural pesticides and fertilizers over several years, the impact was not promising until 2020. In early 2021, the MoA, along […]
Monrovia — Mr. J. Aloysius Tarlue Executive Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) designate and his deputy Dr. Musa Dukuly Deputy Governor for Economic Policy-designate Thursday, July 8, 2021 faced the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency to justify why he should be maintained to that position for the second time. Governor Tarlue and Dukuly were […]
Many Nigerians have inadvertently booked and paid for flights on fraudulent airline sites, which are either cloned or copied to look like that of the airlines by fraudsters. In fact, it is projected that air travellers may have lost about N2 billion on such fake sites in the last five years, but as airlines strive […]
Namibia received a consignment worth N$180 million from Germany to aid in the combating of the Covid-19 pandemic. The consignment, which will be delivered in two parts, include personal protective equipment, ventilators, hospital beds and rapid antigen tests. Receiving the first batch of the consignment, delivered by Antonov AN255 cargo plane, minister of international relations […]
I am thrilled with the announcement that vaccination clinics will operate 7 days a week from 1 August, following a meeting between the National Treasury and the Department of Health. When we vaccinate more than 1 million extra people every month, because we vaccinate over weekends, then this will undoubtedly mean thousands of lives saved […]
Keetmanshoop — To sensitise residents about the importance of vaccinating against Covid-19, the //Kharas governor, young people, health workers and members of law-enforcement agencies started door-to-door visits this week in Keetmanshoop. When New Era visited the team in the Tseiblaagte residential area, governor Aletha Frederick explained that the objective of the initiative is to raise […]
As the fight to curtail the third wave of the deadly coronavirus continues here, Liberia’s biggest GSM Company, Lonestar Cell MTN has donated facemasks, hands sanitizers, and other detergents to members of the Liberian media, a key partner in the ongoing fight. Lonestar Cell MTN on Thursday, July 8, 2021, presented a huge quantity of […]
Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, this week reiterated his call for 10 percent of people in all countries to be vaccinated by September and for that figure to rise to 40 percent by the end of the year. This would position the world on the path to vaccinating 70 percent of […]
Acting Public Works Minister Ruth Coker has disclosed details of 20 ongoing projects embarked upon under President George Mannah Weah’s administration, noting that most people do not have the opportunity to travel outside of Monrovia to see some of the things the ministry is doing. At the Ministry of Information’s Thursday, 8 July 2021 press […]
Following their Thursday meeting to consider the dispute between Sudan, Egypt and Addis Ababa over the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the United Nations Security Council has pledged full support for African Union efforts to mediate in the dispute over water rights along the Blue Nile. Egypt and Sudan called for the intervention of the UN Security […]
South Sudan marks ten years of independence from Sudan this Friday with little fanfare, as the world’s newest country faces economic chaos and a hunger crisis, three years after the end of a devastating civil war. There will be none of the joyous scenes in the streets of the capital, Juba, that accompanied the historic […]
Tunis/Tunisia — 8,315 COVID-19 infections from 23,952 conducted tests (incidence rate of 34.72%) and further 126 fatalities had been reported on July 7, the Health Ministry said Thursday. As such, the death count now stands at 15,861 and that of infections at 473,229. Recoveries rose by 2,771, hitting 375,756. 403 patients were hospitalised in 24 […]
Former High Court judge, Justice Erica Ndewere, axed for being incompetent, has filed an urgent chamber application with seeking permission to the full judgement which led to her firing. Ndewere claimed she only got to know about her dismissal by President Emmerson Mnangagwa through social media. It is her submission that she is supposed to […]
Efforts by the New Dispensation and the private sector to revive the country’s tourism have been well noted by the international community, an indication that so far so good given the circumstances fronted by the Covid-19 pandemic. This is despite attempts by some Western countries to sideline Zimbabwe from the international community through measures such […]