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After the 31st day of play, mighty Canon amid match fixing scandals has finally joined Tonnere in the relegation zone of Cameroon's League 1. This is how the league table stands:

1- Coton Sport 58 points

2- Union 56 points

3- New stars 53 points

4- Botafogo 53 points

5- Apejes 47 points

6- Panthère 45 points                                   

7- Yong Sport 44 points

8- Bamboutos 43 points

9- Astres 41 points

10- Unisport 41 points

11- Dragon 41 points

12- Lion Blessé 37 points

13- Cosmos 36 points

14- UMS 35 points

15- Fovu 34 points

16- Canon 33 points

17- Njalla Quan Sport 31 points

18- Tonnerre 15 points

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Ngwa Bertrand

23.Aug.2015

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Clinton N'Jie, like many non-European Union-based players, can't just waltz into England and start playing for Tottenham Hotspur. Instead, he needed to secure a work permit in order to earn his paycheck in the UK.

That hurdle has now officially been crossed.The Premier League's regulations limit work permits to only non-EU footballers "of the highest calibre," meaning they must meet the following criteria:

A player must have played for his country in at least 75% of its competitive A team matches of which he was available for selection, during the two years preceding the date of the application The player's country must be at or above 70th place in the official FIFA world rankings when averaged over the two years preceding the date of the application.

Clinton has already made 11 appearances for theIndomitable Lions, and Cameroon is a solid CAF country whose FIFA rank has never dipped below 65th place since 2003.

By either criteria, N'Jie was a shoo-in for a permit, which is why Tottenham didn't think twice about signing him even before his work permit came through. Now that he's "legal," Clinton is eligible for selection for Tottenham's first team squad.

Tottenham arrived at Leicester City ahead of their 1-1 draw on Saturday without Clinton Njie in the squad.

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22.Aug.2015

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Match fixing scandals have rocked Cameroon's Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 prompting the holding of an emergency meeting this Friday in Yaounde. The Professional Football League of Cameroon (LFPC) headquartered in Yaounde, the nation's capital has summoned members of the National Union of footballers of Cameroon (Synafoc), referees and club managers including Peter Kwemo, the founding president of the Union for the Advancement of Sports in Loum,all involved in corruption allegations. 

Today's meeting is expected to examine match fixing complaints recorded during the AS Etoa Meki versus Racing encounter, counting for the 31th day of Ligue 2), Botafogo opposing UMS of Loum hosted on the 29th day of Ligue 1 and Panther against UMS Loum staged on the 30th day of  Ligue 1. Cameroon Concord has been told evidence of corruption and attempted corruption are hanging over these games. A senior football official who spoke to Cameroon Concord late yesterday but sued for anonymity observed that "Joseph Owona and his Francophone acolytes are destroying the beautiful game in Cameroon."

In the game AS Etoa-Meki and Racing which ended (1-2) played on Tuesday in the Ahmadou Ahidjo stadium in Yaounde,  the referee Olle Paul reportedly received one million CFA from Pierre Chesneau Kwemo. On August 13, Synafoc launched a "No to match-fixing" campaign that is aim at protecting the integrity of football while raising awareness about the dangers of manipulating matches and above all, to protect and train footballers including other members of the football family on how to identify, resist and report any attempted manipulation before and during a game. The SYNAFOC initiative has received the blessings of Fifpro, the International Federation of Professional Footballers, FIFA and Interpol- the international police.

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21.Aug.2015

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Preparations are underway towards the 2015 edition of the Grand Prix international Chantal Biya. The first preparatory meeting to this effect took place on Friday August 14th at the seat of the cycling federation in Yaounde. Speaking on the occasion, the president of the Cameroon Cycling Federation, Honoré Yossi called on members of the organising committee to come up with ideas towards a successful holding of the event; implement them meticulously so as to make the 2015 edition of the race a great success. It would be recalled the 2015 edition of the Chantal Biya International Cycling race has been billed for October 14th to 18th with the prologue to take place for the first time in Douala in order to lure the business community to sponsor the event. So far, the federation has invited 10 cycling teams to the competition, four European and four African countries in addition to the two from Cameroon. There will be two teams from France in the European delegation together with a team from Slovakia and another from Switzerland. The African teams are namely, morocco, Egypt, Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso. 

Two more teams will be invited from Africa to complete the number of participants to 12 teams. The Cameroonian cyclists retained for the Chantal Biya cycling race will have to take part in the upcoming Tour of Côte d’Ivoire which will take place before the Grand Prix Chantal Biya. It would be recalled that because of budgetary constraints; cycling was scraped from among the disciplines to take part in the All African Games next month in Brazzaville-Congo. So therefore the Tour of Côte d’Ivoire will serve as preparation for the Cameroonian cyclists for the Grand Prix. Meanwhile, the International Cycling Union wrote to the Cameroon Cycling Federation on August 6th commending Cameroon for the organisation of the 2014 edition of the race. However, the ICU called on Fecacyclisme to improve certain aspects of the organisation such as the circulation of vehicles during the race and the good functioning of the tour radio. According to the ministerial decision setting up the organisation committee, there are fifteen sub committees, coordinated by the president of the federation and put under the direct supervision of the Minister of Sports and Physical Education, Adoum Garoua.

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18.Aug.2015

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