-Defense Ministry Discloses
United States Ambassador accredited to Liberia, Linda Thomas-Greenfield is expected to deliver the keynote address for this year’s February 11 Armed Forces Day celebration. The program will be held under the theme, “Armed Forces of Liberia Supports the Foundation for Long Term Security and Economic Development in Liberia”. 
Making the disclosure on Thursday, acting Assistant Minister for Press and Public Affairs, David Dahn at the Ministry National of Defense told a news conference that the day was set aside on February 11, 1957 by an Act of the Legislature to honor gallant men and women in arms for their selfless and enviable services to the nation and its people since the inception of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL).

-Wants Ellen Intervene
The Press Union of Liberia has expressed disappointment over Criminal Court A's denying a Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request to provide documents in its possession.
The Union says it is beyond 60 days since it requested the Court to provide copies of the species of evidence presented by government’s lawyers in the case against three media entities that were seized on allegation of broadcasting ‘hate messages.’
While describing the Court’s denial as a bad example for the implementation of the law, the Union urges the government to remove the misgivings that the FOI was a mere publicity stunt.

-Rhodes University's Head Of Management Department Tells Liberian Journalists At SPI
Mr. Trevor Amos, head of the Department of Management at Rhodes University  in Grahamstown, South Africa, has described the five senior Liberian media personnel currently studying at the Sol Plaatje Institute of Media Leadership (SPI) as hugely disciplined and promising.
      “You're hugely disciplined. I have conducted trainings many places but your level of discipline is exemplary. You are the first team of trainees whom I didn't have to wait for in class; who never spent fifteen minutes of your lunch time late; who never added fifteen minutes on their coffee break. That is great and I appreciate that you have great understanding of your environment and situation in Liberia, which has helped your training,” Mr. Amos.
       Mr. Amos was speaking as he ended lectures in media leadership, human resource management and other management related courses at the SPI, where the journalists are undergoing trainings sponsored by the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) with funding from USAID.

- In Fighting Malaria, HIV/AIDS, TB; Pres. Sirleaf Tells AU
Taking over from Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete as the New Chairman of the Africa Malaria Alliance, (ALMA), Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was confident but reserved in her remarks as she braces to steer the affairs of that body.
     President Sirleaf told the ALMA forum in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa that the current global funding crisis is threatening and could roll back gains made in the fight against malaria, HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, etc, in Africa.