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Just when you think the Biya regime has hit rock bottom and reached the nadir of bad governance, signalling for a national rebirth, the regime somehow finds a way into further depths of ignominy. Higher Education Minister, Jacques Fame Ndongo, ostensibly in tribal solidarity, appointed the Minister of Small and Medium-size Enterprises, Laurent Serge Etoundi Ngoa as Head of Department at the Faculty of Medicines and Biomedical Sciences in the University of Yde I. i

How could Fame Ndongo not have known that Etoundi Ngoa has been a Minister since 2006? In the same communique, Fame Ndongo appointed Dr. Siddi Tengeleng, as head of the Information and Telecommunications Dept at the Higher National Polytechnic in Maroua. Unfortunately, Dr. Siddi died five months ago in Maroua. Fame Ndongo was merely copying from Biya who once appointed a dead man as DO in Akwaya. This are classic examples of digging your own grave beyond the proverbial six feet. i

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Ekinneh Agbaw-Ebai

23.Aug.2017

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UBSU MEMORANDUM

The 15 man UBSU Council just met to review the stakes at the University of Buea. We took notice that what is going on in our loving citadel of learning is NOT school but a political witch craft by the new UB administration. We also took notice that the new appointments from the Minister of Higher Education is a plan to harmonise the University of Buea Education with French Universities. We say over our dead bodies. We resolve to inform the few students in Molyko to GO HOME until our lecturers in jail are free. Actions shall begin soon. Send us email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for strategic thinking. The council meets again on Thursday for final communique and implementation

Thank You
UBSU Interim Chairman.

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Rita Akana

23.Aug.2017

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The dreaded and blood thirsty Buea-Kumba highway has once more drained blood from users of the inter-urban road network, with one of the most fatal incidents recorded last weekend. The accident, between a nineteen-seater bus and a cargo truck which occurred in the wee hours of Saturday 19, August at Mile 29, Ekona, is said to have claimed some seventeen lives at the spot.

Eye witness account hold that, the heavily-loaded cargo truck from the nation’s industrial hub, Douala, collided with a nineteen-seater bus transporting members of the Buea-based “wana wa wonja” choir, from Muyuka to Buea.

As reports hold it, upon descending the sloppy Mile 29 hill, the cargo truck, cripplingly loaded with beverages and other consumer goods, experienced a brake malfunction which delivered the truck into the unwelcoming arms of the nineteen-seater bus whose members, this reporter gathered, were from a night vigil.

Even though it is yet unclear how many passengers boarded the bus, the corpses recovered from the accident scene were nineteen while the driver of the cargo equally lost his life bringing the death toll to twenty. The sole survivor of last weekend’s accident was the conductor, AKA “motor boy” of the cargo truck.

Even though he acquired severe bruises, by the time of this report, he was said to be receiving medical attention in a nearby health centre. Speaking at the scene, the Divisional Officer for Muyuka, Tambe Tabot, called on the all whose relatives travelled to Muyuka that morning and never returned to visit the Buea mortuary for identification and collection of corps.

Meantime, while elements of the national Gendarmerie were trying to scrap and assembly the body parts spread all over the scene, “smart” youths of Muyuka neighbourhood were busy scatting away with cartoon of the beverages and consumable goods. Not even the pool of blood at the since of the incident or those on the ground could deter them from turning the ugly scene into a profitable one.

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Amos Fofung in Buea

20.Aug.2017

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Rita Akana

18.Aug.2017

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Abadi Choudi, a British citizen of Lebanese origin, has just been arrested at the Douala international airport, the Cameroonian economic capital, with a cargo of rough diamonds worth an estimated FCfa 630 million, we learned from customs sources.

Born in Monrovia, capital of Liberia, a country ravaged from 1999 to 2003 by a civil war financed in part by so called blood diamonds, the smuggler arrested in Douala was apparently tailed by Cameroonian intelligence agents, before being caught red-handed.

Some sources close to the case suspect that the diamonds seized in the luggage of Abadi Choudi come from the Central African Republic (CAR), big producer of these precious stones, which shares a long land border with Cameroon, in the Eastern region.

We can recall that on 2 December 2016, on the eve of an assessment mission by the Kimberly Process (international mechanism to track diamonds sold worldwide, to avoid using them to finance wars, Ed.) in Cameroon, a report from the NGO Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) had denounced “the incapacity” of the Cameroonian public authorities “to implement the Kimberley Process”. 

Entitled “From conflict to illicit: Mapping the diamond trade from the Central African Republic to Cameroon”, this report revealed in particular that “Cameroon is allowing conflict diamonds from the Central African Republic to cross over its borders and into the legal supply chain due to poor controls, smuggling and corruption ».

These accusations were denied by the local monitoring Committee for the implementation of the Kimberly Process, and were also not confirmed by the mission of experts from the international committee, who investigated in several towns in the Eastern region of Cameroon, during the first half of December 2016.

As a reminder, the logging and mining region of Eastern Cameroon officially hosts approximately 60,000 Central African refugees supervised by the UN-HCR, and whose links and communication with their homeland were not but, mainly due to the porous nature of the border between Cameroon and CAR. 

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Rita Akana

15.Aug.2017

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More schools set on fire as a Baptist college is visited with flames in Nkwen Bamenda by unknown individuals. This took place on Sunday 13 August 2017, early in the morning.

Residents of the concerned neighbourhood were shocked as they woke up to see Baptist Comprehensive college, uncontrollably consumed by fire. They sought to know those behind the act but instead, they found themselves facing more unanswerable questions like, why the school was chosen of all the other schools around the area. 

No time to waste with irrelevant questions at that moment, fire fighters had to be called. They arrived and battled with the fire but could not save the building from being razed down by the heavy flames.

Soon it will be the so called school reopening in September. Where will the students of that institution have their lessons? No one knows. 

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Rita Akana

14.Aug.2017

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