Dateline Liberia - Monday (31 July 2017)

 

Dateline
Name of Program: Dateline Liberia
Date: Monday July 31, 2017
Time 10:00am with a Repeat at 9:15pm
Duration: 45’
Producer: Olive Thomas

Interviews or recorded pieces-subject matter and/or content.
  • The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General has reaffirmed the UN’s support to Liberia’s electoral process.
  • The National Elections Commission has announced the final figures from the 2017 voter’s registration exercise.
  • President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has submitted a Draft Act to decriminalized free speech and media offences to the National legislature.
  • The Chairman of the Technical Committee of the West Africa Monetary Agency (WAMA) has called for the stepping up of efforts to ensure a common monetary zone in the region.
  • The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), a civic organization, says its latest investigation into the use social development fund scheme has discovered massive misspending of $10.5m US Dollars donated by the Chevron Oil Company of Liberia.
  • Liberia’s 170th Independence Day Orator has called for collective effort in transforming Liberia in to an informed society. According him it will be a good recipe for national and better growth.
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