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The Lions of Cameroon recorded a one nil victory in Banjul, capital of Gambia, against the local national team. The match was the second day of the qualification series for the Africa Cup of Nations to be hosted in Gabon in 2017. The Scorpions of  Gambia and the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon played a balanced game with both sides creating very few chances. The only goal of the game came in the 65th minute from striker Vincent Aboubakar.

Head coach, Volker Finke replaced Njie Clinton and Aurélien Chedjou with Joel Matip and Sallir Edgar. Cameroon currently leads the group with 6 points followed by Mauritania with 3 points. The Lions will be meeting a South African side that has gotten just a point ever since the campaign started. 

Here is the list of our starting eleven against Gambia: Goalkeeper: Fabrice Ondoua Defenders: Oyongo Bitolo, Nicolas Nkoulou, Joel Matip, Henri Bedimo Midfielders: Eyong Enoh, Stephane Mbia and Edgar Salli Forwards: Vincent Aboubakar, Choupo-Moting and Moukandjo Benjamin Reserves: Ndi Assembe (1); Jacques Zoua (9); Kombi Alexander (14); Dany Ndi (7); Kwekeu Léonard (2); Sebastien Bassong (5); Eboa Felix (15).

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Ngwa Bertrand

07.Sep.2015

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The Special Criminal Court has sentenced the disgraced former president of the Cameroon Football Federation and general manager of the Cameroon Cotton Development Corporation (SODECOTON), Iya Mohammed to 15 years in prison following a corruption scandal that rocked SODECOTON and did involve Lucien Fotso, accountant, Pierre Kaptene, Executive Assistant, Henri Clavier, deputy general manager, Mahamat Karagama, sales director, Christophe Mbaiougam, senior official and Jerome Minlend, CEO of Cameroon Audit Consulting firm (CAC).

The Special Criminal Court through the voice of its president Abdou Yap on Thursday in Yaounde, said Iya Mohammed was guilty and sentenced him to 15 years imprisonment. Similarly Mahamat Karagama absent at the hearing, and Christophe Mbaiougam, on the run, were sentenced to life. These three defendants must jointly pay the sum of 12.180 billion francs in damages to SODECOTON. 

Correspondingly, Fotso Lucien, Henri Clavier, Pierre Jérôme and Kaptene Minlend were declared not guilty for lack of evidence of misappropriation of public funds by coercion. Iya Mohammed and his gang were accused of embezzling a total of 11.293 billion FCFA. Five complaints were made against the main accused and a dozen of its employees at the Special Criminal Court. These included the undue payment of wage benefits, oil inventory losses and kickbacks and illegal spending on Coton Sport football club.

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Ngwa Bertrand

04.Sep.2015

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After the euphoria and big CPDM talks related to the organization of the African Cup of Nations women's soccer in 2016 and men in 2019, Cameroon is facing a delay in the construction and rehabilitation of infrastructure to host these sporting events. Faced with this disgusting situation, President Biya seems to have changed tactics by entrusting the preparation of Cameroon’s infrastructure to the Secretary at the Prime Minister’s office, Louis Paul Motaze.

Some reports have suggested that Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, current Secretary General at the presidency of the republic recently instructed the former economy minister to personally take over the entire file and complete the work of financing with detail account to be handed to the Head of State for the actual construction of stadiums and related infrastructure to begin. Our chief political correspondent in Yaounde observed that “when you operate a consistently inconsistent foreign policy, you are bound to fall into uncomfortable situations like this”. 

The current revelation clearly shows that the Chinese partners who were able to finance and build everything have abandoned the project. Cameroonians and members of the Confederation of African Football are yet to see the implementation of the scheme that was presented on September 1, 2015 at the Ministry of Sports by five French and a Cameroonian consultant for construction of infrastructure in Limbe and Yaounde- both cities that have been earmarked to host the Women tournament.

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03.Sep.2015

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The press officer of the Lions of Cameroon has announced that Njie Clinton will not be taken part in the encounter between Gambia against Cameroon on the 6th of September. The former Lyon player suffered a minor injury and has been replaced by Edgar Salli of St. Gallen in Switzerland revealed Vincent de Paul Atangana. 

Volker Finke and his men have arrive Dakar in Senegal, where they will perform their internship in preparation for the match in Gambia. On Tuesday, September 1, the Lions will play a friendly match with the Senegalese under 23 team. And on Friday, September 4, they will leave for Banjul,the capital of Gambia, where they will be hosted by the Gambian national team.

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Ngwa Bertrand

31.Aug.2015

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