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On 22 February 2017, the Federal Council of Nigeria approved the project to construct a bridge linking the country with the highest population in Africa to Cameroon, we learn from Nigerian media sources. The estimated cost of this project is US dollars 40 million (FCfa 24.8 billion equivalent), of which US dollars 38 million (FCfa 23.6 billion) for the actual bridge, and US dollars 1.9 million (FCfa 1.2 billion) for supervision of operations. According to the details given by the Nigerian authorities, this bridge will be built in the area of Ikot Efiom in Nigeria, and should join the 403-km road being completed, linking the towns of Enugu (Nigeria) and Bamenda (North-West Cameroon).

Financing for this cross-border road project, according to the Nigerian government, will be provided by the African Development Bank (AfDB). As a reminder, with its market of almost 170 million consumers, Nigeria is the primary supplier of Cameroon (22 and 17.8% of imports in 2011 and 2012), with whom trade exchanges total on average FCfa 382 billion a year, according to the Cameroonian Ministry of Commerce; not to mention contraband products, which are traded on both sides of the 1500 Km border separating the two countries.

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Rita Akana

24.Feb.2017

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Police in Dubai have taken into custody 10 Cameroonians  who are said to be members of a gang that  robbed Dh3.6 million($1.5million) from a money exchange office on February 15, according to reports on Gulf News.

Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, Deputy Chairman of “Police and General Security” in Dubai, said the 10 suspects were arrested and the money was recovered from them within 48 hours.

“The gang stole money from an exchange office in Dubai, but we arrested them and recovered the money. Officers from the Criminal Investigation Department played a great role in arresting the gang and recover the money,” Lt General Tamim said.

Major-General Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, Assistant to the Dubai Police Chief for Criminal Investigation Affairs, said on February 15 the police received a call about a robbery at a hotel at Muraqabbat area.

It was found that an Arabic businessman was conned by the gang members who told him that they would invest his money and he called the exchange office asking them to bring the money to the hotel room.

“He was a trusted customer and the exchange officials knew him, so they sent three Asian employees who brought the money in bags. When the employees and the businessman entered the room, the gang attacked them and used tape to muzzle them and tied their hands and legs before stealing the money,” Major-General Al Mansouri said. The suspects fled the hotel with the money.

A cleaner who was checking the room, found the four men and informed the police.

The police launched a major hunt and managed to identify the men before arresting them in a neighbouring emirate. Another suspect was arrested while trying to leave the country.

However, three suspects had left the country to Oman, and Dubai Police arrested them in cooperation with Omani police authority. They were caught with Dh100,000 and the rest of the money was recovered in Dubai.

“It was a hard task for Dubai Police as the Arabic businessman didn’t know they were a gang and he thought they were investors. He made a mistake by transferring the money to a hotel room without using a proper transportation company to secure the money,” Maj General Al Mazroui added.

The ten suspects will be referred to Dubai Public Prosecution.

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Rita Akana

21.Feb.2017

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Weil immer mehr Gegner sein gnadenloses System aus Korruption, Ressourcenraub und kontrollierten Medien bedrohen, hetzt er sein gutbezahltes Militär auf seine Lieblings-Sündenböcke: die Anglophonen im Westteil Kameruns, die sich Ambazonier nennen und gegen das Unrechtssystem aufbegehren und schon lange einen eigenen Staat wollen.

Dort wird jetzt auf protestierende Studenten geschossen, Frauen werden vergewaltigt, Kommunalpolitiker und Richter werden verschleppt und gefoltert und der gesamten Bevölkerung von Ambazonien (circa 8 Millionen Einwohner) wurde seit Januar ganz fies der Strom und das Internet abgeschaltet, um so das Schul- und Wirtschaftssystem der Ambazonier vollends zu zerrütten.  

Massengräber wurden mittlerweile gefunden und geöffnet. Und alles nur dafür, dass es die Anglophonen mehr als die Frankophonen gewagt haben, Biya zu kritisieren und Demokratie, Fairness und Rechtsstaatlichkeit einzuklagen! Frankreich muss endlich dieses Monster Paul Biya fallen lassen, der das halbe Jahr im Genfer Hotel Interkontinental für 25000 Franken pro Tag aus kamerunischen Bürgersteuergeldern wohnt und unter dem nicht nur die Anglophonen, sondern auch die Frankophonen in Ost-Kamerun leiden, und der einzig den Zweck hat, Milliardengewinne aus Bodenschätzen und überzogenen Zöllen direkt in französische und schweizer Konten umzuleiten.

Ganz Europa muss jetzt den Druck auf „Françafrique“ massiv erhöhen und nachhaltig fordern, mit diesen Marionetten-Diktatoren-Schweinereien in Afrika aufzuhören.

Ambazonia ist kein Einzelfall. In allen ehemaligen französischen und belgischen Kolonien leiden Hunderte von Millionen Leute unter dieser Art Raub-Postkolonialismus und sie werden wohl alle sehr bald Europa geflutet haben, wenn Europa, China, Amerika das der „1. Welt“ weiterhin so feige und doppelmoralisch durchgehen läßt. Denn es ist eine Lüge, dass es eine "3. Welt“ gäbe, in der die Menschen weniger intelligent und fähig wären.“ 

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15.Feb.2017

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Nigerian anti-drug officers found 9.15 kg (20 pounds) of cocaine worth $4.7 million "factory-packed" inside a new pair of shoes that arrived at Abuja airport on a flight from Brazil, authorities said on Tuesday.

It was Nigeria's biggest drug seizure of 2016. West African nations are often used as transit points by gangs moving drugs between South America and Europe. 

Nigeria's NDLEA drug enforcement agency said a 34-year-old Nigerian motorcycle parts dealer was arrested after the discovery of the cocaine during a screening of passengers and luggage arriving on a flight from Sao Paulo.

"It is our single biggest seizure of cocaine in the last year. We have had bigger seizures of methamphetamine but for cocaine this is a big seizure. And the mode of containment was ingenious. It was a factory-packed concealment because they were brand new footwear," NDLEA spokesman Ofoyeju Mitchell said.

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Rita Akana

04.Jan.2017

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A 22-year-old Cameroonian citizen residing in Nigeria by name, Joel Ludguo, is currently in police custody at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, of Yaba, in Lagos State, for allegedly killing his boss, Miss Temidayo Adeleke.

Joel was a cleaner and lived with the victim on Prince Tayo Adesanya Street, Park View Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos. According to the PUNCH Metro(a local newspaper), Ludguo had approached his boss, whosewedding was scheduled for early 2017, in her apartment at around 10.30am on that fateful Tuesday, asking her to give him an advance payment of N15,000 out of his December salary so he could travel. 

It was gathered that Adeleke explained to him that she didn’t have cash on her and told him to be patient. He is said to have walked out on the lady in anger only to return with a knife with which he stabbed her in the chest.

Sources say that Ludguo wanted to flee the house, but the woman’s driver and a security guard put a distress call to the local Police Division.“which led to his arrest.

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Rita Akana

24.Dec.2016

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Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has held true to his promise to leave the United States if Donald Trump won the presidency, announcing Thursday that he has "disengaged" from the U.S. and thrown away his green card.

Soyinka, who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature, was born in Nigeria but has resided in the U.S. for more than 20 years. He's held teaching jobs at Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Cornell and Yale, but most recently worked as a scholar in residence at New York University.

Returns to Nigeria

Before the U.S. election took place November 8, Soyinka vowed to start cutting up his green card "the moment they announce [Trump’s] victory." Now that Trump has been declared the victor, Soyinka says he is upholding that promise.

“I have already done it. I have disengaged [from the United States]. I have done what I said I would do,” Soyinka told the French news agency AFP during an education conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. 

“I had a horror of what is to come with Trump. ... I threw away the [green] card, and I have relocated, and I'm back to where I have always been,” he said, referring to his native Nigeria.

Time in U.S. called 'useful'

While Soyinka made the commitment to vacate the U.S. due to political differences with the now president-elect, he said he wouldn't discourage others from seeking residence in the country.

“It's useful in many ways. I wouldn't for one single moment discourage any Nigerians or anybody from acquiring a green card ... but I have had enough of it,” he said.

Soyinka was the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature.

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Rita Akana

02.Dec.2016

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