During her 10th State of the Nation Address on January 26, 2015, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was correct when she renamed corruption from ‘public enemy number one’ to a ‘vampire’ of development and obstruction of progress.
OP-ED: The Future of Partnership Schools For Liberia
Recently, education providers, stakeholders, funders and the Government of Liberia, led by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, huddled in Ganta and Monrovia to discuss the future of the much-heralded Partnership Schools for Liberia’s (PSL) “Investing in Education for the Future†Conference.
OP-ED: Tackling Voters’ Hesitation in the Voter Registration Process
There has been a plethora of challenges and constraints for the National Elections Commission since the start of the current voter registration exercise, such as inadequate resources, unqualified VR staff, insufficient awareness, VR equipment failure, lack of security personnel at some VR centers and other problems.
OP-ED: Politics Versus Entrepreneurship – Where Should the Youth Venture the Most?
In Liberia, young people play a vital role in our politics. They spend hours on social media serving the interests of their political leaders, and even more times at intellectual centers discussing issues.
OP-ED: The Liberian Legislature – An Unholy Political Theater of Unrepented Crooks
Why must a poverty-stricken nation like Liberia spend over US$170.8 million in four years on just 103 lawmakers when the education system is a mess?
OP-ED: Voter Disenchantment Might Lead to Low Voter Turnout
On Saturday, January 28, I joined some of my colleagues as part of a program to raise awareness in Margibi about the ongoing voter registration process.
OP-ED: Join PATEL to Bring Participatory Democracy to Liberia
Undue economic hardships are the incubators of democracy. Whether we were talking about the origins of democracy in America, Great Britain, Switzerland, France, or the European Union, economic hardships caused by excessive taxation imposed to enrich the political elites are the driving force for systemic change.
OP-ED: The Role of the Library in Getting from Mess to Best
Since the president declared the Liberian education system a mess, many solutions have been put forward by government educators and education stakeholders to improve it.