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The teachers who were selected to mark the General Certificate of Education (GCE) scripts in Bamenda have been informed that, they will have to move to Buea and Limbe to do the job.

Insecurity and uncertainty according to the authorities who took the decision, are what is characterising the Northwest Region. They think the situation in the South West is better than that of the Northwest.

This marking is scheduled to start on Thursday 13 July 2017. The concerned teachers have to be in Buea before this date. Humphrey Ekema Monono, the Registrar of the GCE Board, even goes as far as threatening those who will not be at his centre before the dateline with severe sanctions.

 

Everything about this year’s marking session is bizarre, as the participation of students was so timid at the time the exam was being taken. Majority of the students stayed at home for fear of harassment and brutalisation by determined freedom fighters. 

The days set for the marking of the Advanced Level have been reduced from 10 to 8 days. This is due to the dropped number of candidates who sat in for the exam. GCE markers do not look at this reduction in the marking period with smiling faces as this will adversely implicate their pay package. They will not earn as much as they could, if the days were left at 10.

 

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The CPJ urge the President of the Confederation of African Football CAF Ahmad Ahmad to suspend hosting rights by Cameroon of the AFCON 2019 if Government does not release the journalists arrested within the context of the Anglophone crisis.

In a letter addressed on Friday by the African Program Coordinator Angela Quinta said CAF should not reward repressive governments for repression. She further elucidated that with the coming of the AFCON 2019 to Cameroon, visiting journalists will be scared of coming of the repression of the Cameroon Government for they cannot freely report. 

The coming of the AFCON to Cameroon has been hit with so many shortcomings such as the infrastructure which still needs serious touching. 

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The Minister of Secondary Education has issued a press release dismissing claims that examiners of the 2017 exam season in Cameroon have not been paid for their job.
Minister Bibehe states that payment is being done in stages following instructions given to regional delegates.
However, he admits that there has been some delay in three regions namely Centre, Adamawa and West. 
Newspaper reports on Tuesday claimed that the results of baccalaureate examinations are being held back because of lack of money. Examiners have not been paid for deliberation to take place, they say.
Le Jour cites an unnamed source from the Ministry of Secondary Education  who revealed that there was a financial crisis rocking the country. The money had not been disbursed for the programme, says the  source.
The same paper claims to have contacted the head of the body in charge of the baccalaureate examinations. Zackarie Mbatsogo is said to have failed to supply reliable information on the situation.
Further attempts to have him speak proved futile as he wouldn't answer the calls anymore, says the paper.
Whatever the case, Cameroon has borrowed huge sums of money in recent months to revamp its economy. 

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President Paul Biya has boycotted the meeting with bishops from the Central African subregion which is underway at the Yaoundé Conference Centre. He will be represented at the event by the Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, Rene Emmanuel Sadi, reports say. Paul Biya was highly awaited at the conference which comes at a very hard moment, as the death of Bishop Balla remains controversial in Cameroon and beyond. 

The conference is part of the 11th annual plenary of the Assembly of the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa. One of the major items on the agenda is likely the mysterious death of the Bishop of Bafia. Bishop Jean Marie Balla went missing at the beginning of last month. About three days later he was found dead on the banks of River Sanaga .

Recent preliminary reports of the post-mortem examinations suggest that the bishop had drowned. No trace of physical violence was found on the corpse, they say. But then catholic bishops in Cameroon had asserted that he had been brutally murdered. 

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Executives of all the Subsections of CPDM in Fako III, Buea, have resolved to slam a vote of no confidence on the Mayor of Buea, Patrick Ekema Esunge.

They took the resolution during a recent executive meeting and forwarded the resolutions to the CPDM Secretary General, Jean Kuete.

According to the executive, the party discipline is not respected by Mayor Ekema, who has formed an NGO that adores him more than the party that made him Mayor.

 “He does not respect party hierarchy, he is using money to destabilise party activities, he is creating congestion in town by building on any little available space, he is giving the party an unenviable image, he has reduced CPDM comrades and party officials to beggars, he has refused to pay some Council workers for 23 months, he has driven many militants away from party, he has demolished semi-permanent structures in Buea with impunity, he is arrogant, rude and insolent,” they said.  

The local party officials called for the disbanding of the “Fako Network Development Organisation.” 

Mayor Ekema is facing internal squabbles with his own party comrades a few days after reports went viral that the Mayor surreptitiously entered the University of Buea with fake certificates.

According to the reports, Ekema wrote the GCE A levels seven times and never succeeded to pass the exams.

It is reported that after dabbling into politics, Ekema used one of his political God fathers to gain admission into the University of Buea with just a paper.

After obtaining the Bachelor and Masters Degrees and enrolling into a PhD programme, his fake certificate chronicle only came to the fore after the UB administration started investigating those who used Kumba and Mutengene made certificates to gain employment in the citadel of learning.

The municipal administrator’s situation is very precarious among the Anglophone community because he has been using his position to fight against the Anglophone course.

Mayor Ekema bought 200 taxis to fight the phenomenon of Ghost Towns in Kumba, he hired thugs to take SDF lawmakers when they came to Buea to condemn police brutality on the University of Buea students and Common Law Lawyers.

Ekema also ordered Buea Council Police to close the shops of those who respect the ghost town calls and connive with Francophone administrators to grab and sell Fako ancestral land among other ills.  

 

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Sisiku Ayuk Tabe Julius, New Leader of the Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia designated by SCACUF Conclave yesterday with Tassang Wilfred as Deputy.More details of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government, as well as other resolutions from the SCACUF conclave, is yet to be made known to the public. 

Who is the new Interim President?

Julius AyukTabe (Chief Information Officer). In 2011 he made a career move from Cisco Systems and came to the American University of Nigeria as its pioneer Chief Information Officer. Here he supervises the university’s technology deployment, use and maintenance. He leads a team with three Departments: - the Department of Information Technology (DIT) which is in charge of the IT Infrastructure, the Department of Information Systems (DIS) in charge of the ERP applications, learning management and information systems, and the Department of Auxiliary Services (DAS) in charge of the professional and certification-training amongst other things.

Julius has over 22 years’ experience in the ICT industry, more than twelve of which have been in senior management. His career started in 1992 in utility distribution (electricity) where he worked as a Software developer. He wrote applications for Billing Systems & Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resources, Bank reconciliation management and Technical Maintenance and Evaluation. He was amongst the company’s first network Administrators in the early ‘90s. In 2002, he was promoted into Management as one of the regional executives of the company.loadposition myposition}

As part of his voluntary work, during his time as a software developer, Julius designed and implemented a complete examinations management system for the General Certificate Examination (GCE) board in his native Cameroon at both the ordinary and Advanced level. This application managed the registration of students, production of individual and school time-tables as well as production of results and result-slips.

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In 2006 he moved to Nigeria to work for Cisco Systems and managed the company’s Networking Academies for the 23 countries of West & Central Africa, from Mauritania in the North to the Democratic Republic of Congo in the South. In this capacity, he supervised Cisco certifications training programmes such as CCNA, CCNP, Wireless, Video, Security, etc.

Julius obtained a Master’s degree in Control Engineering from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom in 1989, a year after his joint honors BSc degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Keele University in the United Kingdom.

Julius is married to his lovely wife Lilian. They have five children (one adopted), comprising of four daughters, amongst them a set of twins, and a son. 

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09.Jul.2017

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