{"id":202581,"date":"2025-07-16T21:16:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-boakai-aides-push-to-overturn-massaquois-nomination-as-lta-chair-despite-official-letter-to-senate\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T21:16:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:16:51","slug":"liberia-boakai-aides-push-to-overturn-massaquois-nomination-as-lta-chair-despite-official-letter-to-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-boakai-aides-push-to-overturn-massaquois-nomination-as-lta-chair-despite-official-letter-to-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Boakai Aides Push to Overturn Massaquoi&#8217;s Nomination As Lta Chair Despite Official Letter to Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Monrovia \u2014 FrontPage Africa has learned that top aides to President Joseph Nyuma Boakai are making frantic efforts to reverse the appointment of Clarence Massaquoi as the new Chairman of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA), despite the President&#8217;s formal communication to the Senate nominating him for the position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Mr. Massaquoi was earlier appointed as Acting Chairperson of the LTA following the suspension of Abdullah Kamara in June 2025, amid allegations of corruption stemming from a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507160549.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 FrontPage Africa has learned that top aides to President Joseph Nyuma Boakai are making frantic efforts to reverse the appointment of Clarence Massaquoi as the new Chairman of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA), despite the President&#8217;s formal communication to the Senate nominating him for the position. Mr. Massaquoi was earlier appointed as Acting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,36428,7324,6412,5747,4712,1107,8232,51880,257,9072,5092,21344,6354,8115,254],"class_list":["post-202581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aides","tag-boakai","tag-chair","tag-letter","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lta","tag-massaquois","tag-news","tag-nomination","tag-official","tag-overturn","tag-push","tag-senate","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}