By Lekpele M. Nyamalon
Monrovia– The assurance of a quality life after a lifetime of work is the preoccupation of many professionals, civil servants and ordinary people. A random survey of working professionals, market women, civil servants about their top needs after retirement and their primary saving motivation points to access to housing, affordable medical care and transportation as post retirement issues. About 80% of market women, civil servants and other professionals spend a good portion of their active lives trying to build a home, educate their children and in most cases, retire without a savings account to take care of medical and other living expenses. Many have no investment; no life savings and their social and financial security after retirement become a responsibility of their children. At worst, about 60 % of working professionals retire without a home or retire to a home in a low-scale rented community. Most employees in concessional areas who are assigned hou
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By Lekpele M. Nyamalon
Monrovia- April 6, 2021 will make it twenty-five (25) years since the infamous attack on Monrovia on Good Friday of April 1996. I was a refugee student in La Cote d’Ivoire when the news of a sporadic attack in Monrovia took the headlines of all major International Networks. In retrospect, then rebel leaders Charles Taylor and Alhaji Kromah attempted to forcefully enforce an arrest warrant for warlord and ULIMO-J commander Roosevelt Johnson. Roosevelt Johnson was the leader of the breakaway faction of the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy. ULIMO was formed in May 1991 by Krahn and Mandingo refugees and soldiers in Sierra Leone, who had fought in the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL). From its outset, ULIMO was beset with internal divisions and the group effectively broke into two separate militias in 1994: ULIMO-J, an ethnic Krahn faction led by General Roosevelt Johnson, and ULIMO-K, a Mandingo-based faction led by Alhaji G.V. Kr
By Lekpele M. Nyamalon
Monrovia– The Lutheran Church in Liberia has flipped a major page over, through the passing of the Rt. Rev. Dr. Sumoward E. Harris, Bishop Emeritus of the Lutheran Church in Liberia.
Bishop Emeritus Harris represents a golden generation of the ecclesiastical body of the Lutheran Church in Liberia, the Liberia Council of Churches and the Interfaith Mediation Committee in Liberia.
I was a 7
th grader in Danané La Cote d’Ivoire when Pastor Harris was called to take the helm of the Lutheran Church in Liberia in 1995, taking over from renowned clergyman and statesman the Rt. Rev. Ronald J. Diggs. Bishop Harris took over at a time the Church and Nation Liberia were at major crossroads towards the path to stability, recovery and the search for healing.