Monrovia, Sept. 18 -- Over the past few days, FrontPage Africa reporters have traveled across Liberia - from the market corridors of Monrovia and Paynesville to the trading cities of Kakata in Margibi County and Gbarnga, Bong County - sampling the views of ordinary Liberians on the government's announcement that domestic revenue has crossed US$1 billion for the first time in the country's 179-year history.

By Selma Lomax, Francis G. Boayue and Jaheim T. Tumu.

It is a number the Boakai administration has treated as a historic achievement, and by the raw arithmetic, it is. Revenue has climbed from about US$612 million in 2023 to US$699 million in 2024, US$848 million in 2025, and now past the billion-dollar mark this year, with the govern...