{"id":213806,"date":"2025-11-16T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-grand-bassa-lawmaker-seeks-bigger-budget-for-university\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:51:00","slug":"liberia-grand-bassa-lawmaker-seeks-bigger-budget-for-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-grand-bassa-lawmaker-seeks-bigger-budget-for-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Grand Bassa Lawmaker Seeks Bigger Budget for University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">CAPITOL HILL \u2014 Grand Bassa County District 3 Representative Matthew Joe is urging the House of Representatives to increase budget support for Grand Bassa University (GBU), arguing that the institution is being underfunded compared to other county-based higher education institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"65\">In a statement to the plenary, Joe noted that the 2026 Executive Budget Proposal, valued at US$1.21 billion, maintains GBU&#8217;s allocation at US$871,802 &#8212; the same as in 2025. He mentioned that this figure is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511140235.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>CAPITOL HILL \u2014 Grand Bassa County District 3 Representative Matthew Joe is urging the House of Representatives to increase budget support for Grand Bassa University (GBU), arguing that the institution is being underfunded compared to other county-based higher education institutions. In a statement to the plenary, Joe noted that the 2026 Executive Budget Proposal, valued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213807,"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":[258,256,11373,11292,6080,8994,12013,4712,1107,257,8111,254,5148],"class_list":["post-213806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bassa","tag-bigger","tag-budget","tag-grand","tag-lawmaker","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-seeks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-university"],"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\/213806","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=213806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}