Editorial

Alive, erstwhile Buea Mayor, Patrick Ekema never erected self-aggrandizing edifices to assuage his inflated ego and flamboyant imaginary self-concept. In death, his paymasters decided to elevate him to a Greek god. and thoughtlessly gave him the sobriquet of Hercules; which to all intents and purposes, vilifies Ekema's memory.{loadposition myposition377]

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Ekinneh Agbaw-Ebai

18.Dec.2019

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In a rather bizarre display of self-aggrandizing impertinence, Biya used his address to engage in confrontational political snipping against the Diaspora, blaming them for financing and fanning the Anglophone crisis. The President in very unglamorous terms described the Diaspora as criminals who no longer hold Cameroonian nationality and urged their host countries to expel them.

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Ekinneh Agbaw-Ebai

11.Sep.2019

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A speech, meant to be historic, just simply demonstrated that Paul Biya is very consistent with himself. He gave the impression that only the citizens, especially the Anglophones, who are angry about their situations are those who are out of their minds because there was no marginalization in the first place.

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Wanah Immanuel Bumakor

11.Sep.2019

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From 1972-2018, Cameroon has earned $618 billion from Ambazonia crude oil sales with nothing to show for it. And Biya is killing our people because he wants to continue this theft at all cost. Would Abraham Johnson Batey Batey and sundry ranting SW provincialists and self-elected managers of the SW estate blame the graffi man for these unsettling statistics?
In the early 1990s, during an interview with state-owned CRTV, Jean Assoumou, then General Manager of the National Hydrocarbons Corporation aka SNH said the money from the sale of Cameroon’s crude oil was so complicated that only he and President Biya can understand it. He refused to disclose how many barrels of oil per day Cameroon produced as well as how much oil revenue Cameroon was earning. That was then; now thanks to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), Cameroonians now know that from 1972-2018, Cameroon has earned a jaw-dropping $618 billion from crude oil sales. And this oil has come from Ndian Division in the Southwest region of Ambazonia. 

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Rita Akana

29.Aug.2019

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The pig-headed life sentences of Ambazonia leaders is an act of judicial imbecility by a Kangaroo court that reinforces Cameroon's battered international image as a country with highly dysfunctional institutions where bizarre things happen. In its pleadings, the gov't sought the death penalty and never prayed for any specific or general monetary relief for damages, yet the court awarded FCFA 250 billion.

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Ekinneh Agbaw-Ebai

26.Aug.2019

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The downfall of Sudan’s military leader, Omar al-Bashir follows the same trajectory with that of Algeria’s 82-year-old Abdelaziz Bouteflika who was forced to resign, following mass protests against his regime. It was a popular and principled uprising, which shook the Algerian and Sudanese political establishment to their foundations. The denouement also sent a strong message to other African despots who promote the ignominious narrative that government should be at the whims and caprices of selfish and deluded individuals. The era of sit-tight leadership is over. Truly, sit-tightism has lost traction because it adds no value to good governance. Africa has only a few left, tired old men with a messianic complex who believe the nation would end without them. Presidents Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea (in power since 1979); Paul Barthelemy Biya’a bi Mvondo of Cameroon (since 1982), and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda (since 1986) are chronic cases of Africa’s leadership tragedy. Hopefully, these holdout dictators can hear the fire engines and begin charting ways for a smooth change of leadership.

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Ekinneh Agbaw-Ebai

26.Aug.2019

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