LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Liberian leader and football legend George Weah conceded defeat to opposition leader Joseph Boakai after a tight presidential run-off, saying it was “time to put national interest above personal interest”. The latest and nearly complete results showed Boakai leading with nearly 51 percent of the votes in Liberia, Africa’s oldest republic founded…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of protesters gathered on Saturday at the outer section of the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in Monrovia to protest against soaring costs of living, a day before President George Weah’s return from a 48-day trip abroad. The protest was organised by the Coalition of Collaborating Parties – an opposition alliance…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-George Weah Jr, the son of the Liberian president George Weah, has been handed a six-month suspended sentence for disturbing the peace and noise pollution at his home just outside Paris. “This is a first warning but there won’t be a second,” said Judge Pascal Humbert-Massa at Versailles criminal court. Weah’s neighbours took him…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-George Weah Jr, the son of Liberia’s president, was brought into custody on Wednesday morning over charges of public disorder for noise nuisance related to a house party in Paris during the Covid-19 lockdown, according to French media. George Weah Junior, son of the president of Liberia, was brought before the judicial…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A fire at an Islamic school in Liberia has killed at least 27 children, police said on Wednesday. “The kids were learning the Koran when the fire broke out,” police spokesman Moses Carter said. He added the blaze was caused by an electrical issue and that further investigations were ongoing. Carter had…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)- – Hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police in Liberia’s capital Monrovia on Wednesday during a march against corruption and economic mismanagement under former footballer turned president George Weah. Police fired tear gas to stop the demonstrators from approaching the parliament building in Monrovia, an AFP reporter at the scene said, while…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Authorities in Liberia have blocked the internet in what is perceived to be a move to suppress ongoing anti-government protests in the capital, Monrovia. Netblocks, an organisation that monitors internet disruptions and shutdowns, confirmed the shutdown on Friday afternoon, saying access to social networking platforms Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Snapchat had…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Local bank notes worth about $60 million, printed abroad and brought into Liberia in two huge consignments, have “vanished”. The consignments were brought in between November 2017 and August 2018. According to BBC, there were reports that the money left the port in Monrovia, and was accompanied by security agents in March….