Monrovia – The College of Liberia (UL) has begun settling arrears owed to adjunct school, following the discharge of funds from the Authorities of Liberia by way of the Ministry of Finance and Growth Planning (MoFD).
A launch fairly the UL Comptroller, Mr. Togar Gibson, as saying the funds started with Ecobank account holders and at the moment are being prolonged to different banks. Mr. Gibson assured that every one excellent funds for adjunct school and people who taught overload programs shall be accomplished subsequent week.
He disclosed that the MoFD offered LD$50.7 million (fifty million seven hundred thousand Liberian {dollars}) to cowl arrears solely for the primary semester of the 2024/2025 tutorial 12 months. This disbursement represents the second half of the deliberate fee, with the primary fifty % made in August 2025.
He additional revealed that the UL Administration is actively participating the MoFD to safe an extra LD$71 million to cowl liabilities from the latest trip faculty and to settle all remaining school funds.
“We’re grateful to the Authorities of Liberia, by way of the MoFD, for the extra funding and its unwavering help to maintain the College operational,” Mr. Gibson said.
“School and employees stay a high precedence of the UL Administration, and we’re decided to offer the fiscal area for them to be efficient and environment friendly.”
Mr. Gibson defined that delays in paying adjunct school for the primary semester resulted from a budgetary adjustment, during which US$1 million was redirected to settle arrears from the 2023/2024 tutorial 12 months.
In the meantime, the President of the Adjunct School Affiliation of the College of Liberia (AFA-UL), Madam Wilhelmina Garr Stevens, confirmed that her members have begun receiving their funds.
“I can verify that I’ve been paid, similar to most of my colleagues,” Madam Stevens mentioned, citing notifications from the affiliation’s chatroom displaying members being credited throughout completely different banks.
A number of adjunct school additionally expressed appreciation by way of phone interviews with UL Relations, commending the Administration’s immediate motion. They famous assurances from UL Authorities that arrears for trip faculty lessons shall be settled as soon as the remaining US$550,000 is obtained.
