The President of Liberia, George Weah, is expected in Lagos to speak on the practice of democracy in Africa on February 6, at a conference organised by the Centre for Values in Leadership.
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The National Public Relations Officer of NANS, Azeez Adeyemi, disclosed this in a statement in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Friday.
The currency scandal has sparked outrage and confusion in Liberia, where the central bank has denied a report by the information minister that the cash – equivalent to about 5 per cent of gross domestic product – went missing over the past year.
Fifteen Liberians, including the son of former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, were banned from leaving the country on Wednesday.
The Ballon d’Or winner, who is now president of the country, was given the chance to wear his preferred No 14 shirt one last time in a friendly match with Nigeria.
Former Super Eagles’ captain, Joseph Yobo, has expressed his readiness to join partisan politics in the country.
Liberian President and former football star, George Weah, awarded ex-Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger with the country’s highest honour in a ceremony on Friday.
Former Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, is to travel to Liberia this week to receive the West African country’s highest honour.
Brazil international Neymar, making his first appearance in Paris since suffering a season-ending foot injury in February, struck in the 10th minute
Adamu Idris, the Head, Public Affairs Department of NIGCOMSAT, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Weah, who is said to be on a “Thank You’’ visit to Nigeria, arrived the Presidential Villa at about 12.33 p.m.
Bush, interviewed on stage at a business conference in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, said there was clear evidence that the Russians had meddled but whether that affected the outcome of the election was another question.
“The state of the economy that my administration inherited leaves a lot to do and to be decided,” the former international soccer star said in an address apparently aimed at lowering high expectations following his election victory at the end of last year to replace Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Seven names made the first batch of appointees, including former Senate Pro-Tempore, Gbezohngar Findley, who has been named Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Delivering his inaugural address, Weah promised to do everything within his powers to be the agent of change that Liberians had yearned for over the years.
Obasanjo’s plane touched down at the Roberts International Airport at 8:01 a.m. (9 a.m. Nigerian time) while Saraki arrived at 9:02 a.m.
Weah took his oath of office at exactly noon inside the 35,000 capacity Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in Monrovia.
Abubakar told the News Agency of Nigeria that the development was yet another testimony of the rapid growth and development of democracy in the African continent.
But Wenger, who signed Weah when he was Monaco coach in 1988, expects to be too busy to make the trip from London for the January 22 ceremony.
The Chairman of NEC, Jerome Korkoya, performed the ceremony at the commission’s headquarters in Monrovia on Thursday evening.