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Dieudonne Tine Pigui passed on earlier on  Saturday in the US due to poor health.
Mr Pigui was credited with presenting the very first newscast  on national television on 20 March 1985. He also hosted an international news programme named "Regards Sur le Monde" , literally translated as " a look at the world ."
The media guru reportedly left Cameroon several years ago when he passed a competitive entrance to study in the US.
After his studies he decided to remain and work abroad because "they had made life difficult for him [back home ]".
He started working with the United Nations in the US where he died.
Mr Pigui is the second former Cameroonian journalist to die in under three weeks, after Zakary Nkwo who passed away several days back.

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Tasha Seidou

17.Jun.2017

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Fako SDO, Zang III, has outlined a plethora of problems awaiting the new DO of Idenau.

According to him, the work load that awaits Ngong Stephen Ngai will not give him time to rest.

“You will find a lot of grievances on your table concerning land surrendered by the Cameroon Development Corporation, CDC,” the SDO said.

Zang was speaking in Limbe, while commissioning Ngong Stephen Ngai into his function.

The SDO said the new DO will have to devise new strategy to resolve the boundary dispute between the villagers of Bomana, Enyenge and Sanje.

Zang also told the new DO that Idenau is plagued by chieftaincy crisis. “You will have to wrack your brain, as you take over command. But don’t be misled by some locals, who have proclaimed themselves as original kingmakers in a bid to instil confusion and end up benefitting from it.”

DO Ngai was further informed that Idenau was a border town to neighbouring Nigeria.

“By this fact, there is a lot of illicit importation of fuel from Nigeria called “Zua Zua” and some other business persons use the numerous creeks along the Idenau coastline to smuggle in goods from Nigeria.

You will have to fight against contraband goods and smuggling by those who want to evade custom duties through the creeks,” he further averred.

On his part, the Mayor of Idenau, Gabriel Lifange Tonde, thanked the outgoing DO for what he said was a job well done during his time at Idenau.

To the incoming DO, Mayor Tonde said; “We are happy to receive you with two hands. We are convinced you are a square peg in a square hole.”

The Mayor of Fundong, Denis Awoh Dang, who had come to witness the installation, urged the new DO to endeavour to work with the people and be humble.

Before his appointment as DO, Ngai was serving as the First Assistant SDO of Diamare Division in the Far North Region.

He took over from Basile Ekomba, who as from Tuesday, June 13, went on retirement.

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Rita Akana

16.Jun.2017

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The erstwhile Youth President of the CPDM Meme I, John Kingue,  died in a road accident that occurred around Ekona along the Kumba-Buea highway, Fako Division, in early hours of Wednesday, June 14.

Kingue was in his Carina E vehicle alongside his driver who is also reported dead. Their car collided with a 19 seater bus that moved out of its lane, in an attempt to avoid hitting a bike rider. The result was a head-on collision between the two vehicles.

Kingue was last seen in public on Tuesday, June 13 at the Kumba District Hospital following the death of an eight-year old girl run over by the convoy of Basic Education Minister.

Late Kingue was one of five CPDM councillors on the Kumba I Council board.
His political fame came to an end during the last CPDM reorganisation that ushered in a new team at the helm of the Meme 1A Section.
The new age limit of the party for the youth wing blocked him from vying for another mandate.

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Abeh Valery

15.Jun.2017

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The General Manager (GM) of the Cameroon Railway Company, (CAMRAIL), Didier Vandenbon and the Board Chair of the company, Hon Hamadou Sali, have finally paid the price for the Eseka train accident.

The duo was fired during an extraordinary Board meeting that held on June 9. After the meeting, CAMRAIL issued a press release, attributing their sacking to the Eseka train accident that occurred on August 21, 2016, leaving scores of passengers dead and hundred others injured.

It would be recalled that when the accident occurred, CAMRAIL officials in a desperate attempts to divert culpability for the accident, went on air, debunking all the reports concerning the accident.

Even the Board Chair, Hon Sali, read a statement claiming the company was not in any way responsible for the incident.

On the issue that the train was overstrained with about five extra coaches, which were also overloaded with passengers, some media organs focused their blame solely on the Minister of Transport, Edgard Alain MebeNgo’o, who was accused of having asked the CAMRAIL officials in Yaoundé to look for ways to transport the passengers to Douala, who had flooded the railway station, following the collapse of the culvert on the Douala-Yaoundé High Way.

The Commission of Inquiry, headed by Prime Minister, Philemon Yang, that was tasked to probe into the cause of the accident, after several waves of public criticism, made public the results of its inquiry, through a communiqué which the Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic issued on May 21, 2017, nine months after the crash.

In the Commission’s report, CAMRAIL was indicted for the train crash due to: “overloading, undue extension of the rake and defective brakes systems.

In the face of Government’s public indictment and the exposure of the grave faults that were committed by CAMRAIL officials, which led to the train crash, there was no way that the French group, Bolloré, could let the GM Vandenbon to continue.

The CAMRAIL Board Chair, Hon Hamadou Sali (Cameroonian) and the General Manager Vandenbon (French) were politely sacked by asking them to resign. 

Meanwhile, new officials have been appointed to head the company. Senior Civil Administrator, Aboubaka Abbo, who works at the Prime Minister’s Office in Yaoundé, was appointed as the new Board Chair of CAMRAIL, while French  born, Jean Pierre Morel, was appointed new General Manager. 

Gilbert Nkana Pondy and Michel Ossock, were respectively appointed 1^st and 2^nd Deputy General Managers.

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Rita Akana

12.Jun.2017

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Rita Akana

10.Jun.2017

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A man 72 has been arrested and detained at the Gendarmerie Brigade in Nkongsamba for raping a 4 year old minor. Maurice is said to be in detention and awaiting trial and the minor in question was taken to hospital where a mysterious substance was found in her private part.

An onlooker whose name we got as Ngapeu says, “This is no longer strange around here for we have been seeing such cases often, but what is mysterious here is the substance they authorities say it was discovered inside the private part of this minor. It is the devils work for this man must be performing some spiritual assignment.”

Whatever the case, the law will step in to deter others from committing such acts for the punishment which will be given to Maurice will discourage others if they do have that idea on their agenda.

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Rita Akana

09.Jun.2017

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