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Africa: CAF Envoys Explore Buea, Limbe Stadia
By Nkeze MbonwohIt was a professionally discrete inspection last Saturday, August 11, 2018. The technical inspection team of the African Football Confederation (CAF), led by Anthony Baffoe, otherwise Deputy Scribe of the continental body, has inspected four training grounds and a match arena in the South West Region on 11 August, 2018. The football infrastructure visited and scrutinized by CAF envoys includes the Molyko-Buea Stadium as training ground in Buea, capital of the South West Region.
Cameroon: Bonjo-Limbe Landslide - Government Reassures Victims
By Nkeze MbonwohThe Regional Governor and the Territorial Administration envoy visited the scene of the incident yesterday afternoon in Limbe III Council. The corpses of William Mbua Abange, Mukom Smith and another whose only name we got as Sepherin have been dug out of the rubbles with the help of the military meanwhile William David and Ara Abange are still missing.
Cameroon: French Secretary of State Visits Buea
By Nkeze MbonwohSouth West youths will henceforth enjoy greater empowerment through France-Cameroon partnership. In the heat of the prolonging Anglophone crisis ignited since November 2016, the visiting French Secretary of State to the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, has sojourned in Buea, capital of the South West Region on June 29, 2018. He was accompanied by a high delegation of French Diplomats including French Ambassador to Cameroon, Gilles Thibault.
Cameroon: South West - Elecam Board Chair, DG Meet Regional Personnel
By Nkeze MbonwohEnow Abrams and Essousse Erik were in Buea Friday, June 22, 2018 to mobilise staff ahead of expected national elections. The 241 regional staff members of Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) in the South West Region have been assured of their career advancement, their National Social Insurance Fund (NSIF) dues, work bonuses and a new career protection system.
Cameroon: South West - Authorities Brainstorm On Ways of Return to Peace
By Nkeze MbonwohAfter exchanging notes last Thursday, officials will overhaul techniques in protecting people and property. Following an eight-hour security meeting on June 14, 2018, in Buea with top administrative and military personnel combing through the economic and security situation of the South West Region, Governor Bernard Okalia Bilai has declared that his territorial jurisdiction was being prepared to host up-coming national and international events.
Cameroon: South West - Fallen Police Cadet Officer Honoured
By Nkeze MbonwohChemu Mbangue Denis, killed last 20 May in Ekona, was given military honours last Friday. The top brass of the Regional Administration, Police and sympathisers of the South West Region joined the offspring, wife, mother and friends of assassinated Police Cadet Officer, Chemu Mbangue Denis, to bid him eternal farewell last Friday in Buea.
Cameroon: Bakassi Peninsular - Recruitment Begins for 500 Young Farmers
By Nkeze MbonwohThe exercise took place in Buea from May 24- 31, 2018. After regaining full ownership of Bakassi on August 14, 2008, the government of Cameroon has been leaving no stone unturned to resettle Cameroonian citizens on the peninsula to trigger an economic boom through fishing, agriculture and ordinary life activities.
Cameroon: South West - Heightened Security Sees Exam Through
By Nkeze MbonwohParents and Forces of Law and Order were determined to ward off any threats. Some 11.846 candidates who registered for the 2018 Common Entrance Examination in the South West Region have sat for the exam in 98 centres across the Region. Equally, the "Entrée en Sixième", Francophone equivalent of the Anglophone Common Entrance was also being written in the region.
Cameroon: South West - Concerted Efforts for Return to Normalcy
By Nkeze MbonwohGovernment and the population are working tooth and nail to ensure a smooth May 20. Ahead of the 46th edition of the National Day celebrations on May 20, 2018, authorities and the population of the South West Region are working hand in hand for a return to normalcy and a hitch-free celebration of the National Day. Although pockets of resistance still persist, there are concerted efforts by all and sundry to give the region total calm and serenity.
Cameroon: 'We Need to Clear Peoples' Minds'
interview By Nkeze MbonwohBernard Okalia Bilai, Governor of the South West Region. What is the state of security in the South West Region barely one week to the celebration of the National Day, 20 May, 2018? The situation in the Region is such that all the six administrative units (Divisions) are functioning. The Senior Divisional Officers who are the heads of the Divisions are there. The two new Senior Divisional Officers of Ndian and Lebialem have been installed.
Cameroon: South West - NEF Injects 22.000 Youth Into Jobs
By Nkeze MbonwohThe figure is part of the 33.596 candidates received and counseled in their Limbe premises. From inception in 2002 till last year the South West branch of the National Employment Fund (NEF) has injected 21,871 seekers into job positions. This figure was released in Limbe last 24 April, 2018, as the job Fund opened its third edition of "Job Discovery Day" in its GRA branch office yard.
Cameroon: Tiko Wears Smiles of Living Together
By Nkeze MbonwohInhabitants of the locality are eager to speak of their good neighbourliness. The example of living together is nowhere better illustrated than in Tiko, the gateway to the South West Region from the nation's economic capital, Douala. Its privileged location opening to the sea and harbouring the airstrip at the time used by the British colonial masters had attracted many settlers who bathed in businesses to include hotels, farming, trading, tailoring and transiting of goods.
Cameroon: Bilingualism, Living-Together - Mafany Musonge Leads Commission to Buea
By Nkeze MbonwohAs a first stop-over to the 10 Regions of Cameroon, the NCPBM began listening to the masses in Buea on April 25, 2018. The National Commission on the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism (NCPBM) has launched a nation-wide "listen-to-the-people mission" in the South West Regional capital, Buea.
Cameroon: Forwang Takes Command Over Ndian
By Nkeze MbonwohAmid ground security threats from separatists' campaigners, the new SDO for Ndian in the South West Region was installed by Governor Bernard Okalia Bilai. Fifty-two-year-old Senior Civil Administrator, Nwafua Lawrence Forwang, appointed 6 April, 2018, by Presidential Decree Number 2018/238 as Senior Divisional Officer for Ndian Division in the South West Region, has taken over function. He replaced Mbokaya Ashu transferred in the same capacity to Lebialem Division.
Cameroon: Parliamentary Grants - Hon. Monjowa Lifaka Hands Cash, Farm Tools
By Nkeze MbonwohThe Fako West MP delivered the gifts at the Bonakanda community field on April 5, 2018. Some 3,000 inhabitants of the Bonavada area in Buea Sub-Division (Fako Division) were happy recipients of farm tools, trolleys, maize seeds and cash recently. The area comprises of three Sub-Sections of the Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement (CPDM) under Fako III, Buea.
Cameroon: National Police - Mutengene Graduates 1,288 Cadet Police Officers
By Nkeze MbonwohThe epaulets and diplomas award ceremony last 23 March, 2018 was presided by the Delegate General for National Security, Martin Mbarga Nguele. Aand practical training, a total of 1,288 fresh Cadet Police fter 22 months of theoretical Officers, among whom 301 females, have graduated from the Police Training College in Mutengene, Tiko SubDivision of Fako in the South West Region. Of the total, 95 graduates are from the neighbouring Equatorial Guinea.
Cameroon: 'Lebialem Elite Should Not Allow Insecurity'
interview By Nkeze MbonwohBernard Okalia Bilai, Governor of the South West Region. Where is Professor Leke Tambo after his release and how was he saved from captivity? Professor Ivo Leke Tambo was released on Monday (19 March) and presently he is in Yaounde. He is in good health. He has been released thanks to the efforts of all the sons and daughters of Lebialem. I commend the joint efforts and encourage them to continue working in solidarity so that peace returns in that community.
Cameroon: South West - Prof. Ivo Leke Tambo Freed
By Nkeze MbonwohThe Board Chair of the Cameroon General Certificate of Education was released on Monday, March 19, 2018. Professor Ivo Leke Tambo is no longer in the possession of unidentified gunmen. Following the freeing of kidnapped Professor last Monday, Governor Bernard Okalia Bilai has called on the South West population to remain calm and collaborative.
Cameroon: Ban On Moto-Bikes - Worrying Causes, Effects
opinion By Nkeze MbonwohCommercial Motor-bikes that hitherto were useful are today appearing dangerous. The strong measure embossed last 8 March, 2018, by the new Minister of Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji, to suspend movements of bikes in some localities of the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon have gingered the talk of the day. The text banning the bikes is self-explanatory.
Cameroon: Ndiva Kofele-Kale - Legal Luminary Gunning for Senate
By Nkeze MbonwohThe Professor of Law is leading the list of the Social Democratic Front; SDF, in the South West Region for the senatorial election of March 25, 2018. With the SDF Party having launched their campaign for senatorial last Saturday in their party Regional head-Office in Wotolo-Buea, their list head, Professor Kofele-Kale, for the South West Region will in the 15 days of campaign be touring the six divisional capitals in the South West Region.
Cameroon: South West - Gendarmerie, Ex-Service Men Get New Bosses
By Nkeze MbonwohDefence Minister Delegate, Joseph Beti Assomo commissioned them Wednesday and announced new benefits for military personnel serving in the troubled Anglophone area. Appointed by a Presidential Decree of 21 February 2018, the new South West Regional Gendarmerie Legion Commander, 48-year-old Colonel Tchinda Mbouzikeu Henri, has been commissioned to his post. He is a graduate of the Cameroon Military Academy (EMIA), batch of 1996 where he came out overall best.
Cameroon: Mount Cameroon Race of Hope 2018 - Gabsibuin, Tatah Lift Trophies
By Nkeze MbonwohThey were among some 226 runners from nine countries who thrilled the population in Buea. Gabsibuin Godlove Bobuin from the North West Region of Cameroon has won the 2018 Mount Cameroon Race of Hope in Buea. He lifted the trophy worth a cashprize of FCFA 10 million last Saturday 17 February, 2018 in the male senior category. Gabsibuin finished the race at the Buea Omnisports Stadium (Molyko) in 4 hours 30 minutes 47 seconds.
Cameroon: 2018 Mount Cameroon Race of Hope - Buea Catches Event Fever
By Nkeze MbonwohAs spectators and athletes vigil for tomorrow's 23rd edition, the Regional capital of the South West Region and theatre of the event, has been gripped by anxiety. Tourists, athletes and spectators are being signalled as bookings have increased in the 25 hotels in Buea city. The first mark of the event is the sparkling cleanliness of Buea city, an attractive aspect that has been masterminded by the Buea administration.
Cameroon: Presidential PB-Hev Laptops - Distribution Begins in UB
By Nkeze MbonwohHigher Education Minister, Jacques Fame Ndongo, personally handed over 130 laptop-computers to UB students last Wednesday. The 13.898 bio-metrically registered students of the University of Buea (UB) for the Paul Biya-Higher Education Vision (PB-HEV) laptop computers have started receiving the gadgets. After Douala same day, Professor Jacques Fame Ndongo, Minister of Higher Education, headed the computer distributing caravan to Buea, 14 February, 2018.
Cameroon: Buea University Teaching Hospital - Project Five Percent Achieved
By Nkeze MbonwohThe Minister of Public Health visited the project recently to give tonic to works. The about CFA 15 Billion Buea University Referral Hospital under construction since 2 May, 2017, is only 5.5 percent into completion mid-way into the time schedule. The project was planned for 18 months and the government intends it as a University of Buea Teaching Hospital as well as to serve the African Cup of Nations planned for Cameroon in 2019.
Cameroon: Buea - Hectic Home Coming for CPA Chair
By Nkeze MbonwohAll roads recently led to Bonjongo-Buea where the kindred and international visitors gave Honourable Lifaka a befitting homage. After her election last November 2017 in Bangladesh as new Chairperson of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), the Bonjongo-Fako-born Emilia Monjowa Lifaka has received heroic home blessings from her kindred at the Saint Paul College field in Bonjongo Sunday, January 21, 2018.
Cameroon: Drug Abuse - South West As Test Ground
By Nkeze MbonwohDelusive-driven drugs and other concoctions that derail the mind and pretend body armour are endemic in streets across the Region. Crime is definitely on the rise in the South West Region. With or without statistics, it jumps to every eye that street killings, gang operations, defying the Forces of Law and Order, highway robbery, child kidnappings and personal arrogance in the streets are prevalent these days.
Cameroon: 'Tramadol Is a Social Malaise'
interview By Nkeze MbonwohDr Agwe Samuel, Mental Health Specialist, South West Regional Delegation of Public Health, Buea. We observe a lot of agitation these days among youth with claims that Tramadol is used alongside "Indian hem" or "banga" to muster courage and act without fear of the forces of Law and Order. What is it really? Actually, Tramadol is not a new substance. It has been existing for as long as medicine.
Cameroon: South West - Governor Defuses Limbe Shipyard Tension
By Nkeze MbonwohLimbe (Fako) - The week-old tension between 134 workers of the Limbe branch of the Cameroon Shipyard and Industrial Engineering Limited (French acronym, CNIC) has been brokered Friday, 19 January, 2018, by the South West Chief Executive, Governor Bernard Okalia Bilai. The Governor promised to send an envoy to Limbe today (23 January) to check if all have received their dues.
Cameroon: South West - Calm Returns in Schools
By Nkeze MbonwohAdministrators made rounds in schools to ensure effective classes after last Monday's panic. Schools resumed yesterday in many parts of Meme and Fako Divisions following Monday's distractions sending pupils and students fleeing. The origin of the rumour has been traced by the Regional Administration to Malende near Muyuka.
Cameroon: Stampede in South West Schools - Governor Dispels Rumours of Attack
By Nkeze MbonwohThe chief executive of the Region called the press to clarify the situation. Rumours of attacks on schools in the South West blew across the parts of the Region yesterday morning sending some pupils and students fleeing from school premises in Meme and Fako Divisions. Such areas affected by the stampede included Kumba, Limbe, Muyuka and Buea.
Cameroon: Contraband and Piracy - Intensity, Routes, Tricks Uncovered
By Nkeze MbonwohAvailable statistics show trafficking climbed to 25 percent in the Region year before last. The art of outsmarting the Customs with imported goods is recurrent in the South West Region. Its coastal inlet/outlet stretching over a good part of Cameroon's 402 Kilometre coastline along the Atlantic Ocean makes the area even more vulnerable to dealers in contraband and pirated goods.
Cameroon: 'We Anticipate a Hitch-Free Academic Year'
interview By Nkeze MbonwohProfessor Ngomo Horace Manga, Vice Chancellor, University of Buea. Professor, the academic year 2017/2018 has begun today 27th November, 2017 in the University of Buea unlike other Universities in the country. Have effective classes begun today? Yes effective classes have begun today. That I can confirm to you.
Cameroon: Overlying Past Glitches
By Nkeze MbonwohThough programmed to come this late, resumption at UB yesterday aims at repairing past ills. As the University of Buea (UB) opened its doors to the current academic year yesterday, many students and parents have heaved a sigh of relief. This happens to pull a curtain over the mess of last year when students could not cover their academic programmes.
Cameroon: UB Resolves to Sail Free of Troubles
By Nkeze MbonwohThe place to be was in a beehive mood yesterday as students and lecturers were in campus to begin the academic year. The University of Buea (UB) effectively resumed the academic year 2017-18 yesterday (27 November, 2017). Resumption had delayed in this prestigious Anglo-Saxon institution due to adjustments made to ward off the perturbations of last academic year.
Cameroon: South West - Commonwealth Remembers Lost Forces
By Nkeze MbonwohThe British High Commissioner to Cameroon led some authorities to Limbe to mark the centenary of the consequences of both wars. History has it that World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945) slaughtered 1.7 million human beings on the front of Commonwealth forces. This happened on 23,000 sites in 150 countries.
Cameroon: Prevailing Insecurity in NW/SW - SW Governor Orders Nine Security Measures
By Nkeze MbonwohAmong the measures, all traditional rulers must identify strangers and report to the administration regularly. Governor Bernard Okalia Bilai has ordered a series of measures to protect citizens, property and territorial integrity for the entire South West Region. In a communiqué number 139/L/G/SEC22/SP signed last Friday, 10 November, 2017, the Chief Executive of the Region prohibited the circulation of motorbikes within the hours of 7pm to 6am.
Cameroon: South West - Peace Mission Tallies Report
By Nkeze MbonwohThe Regional team was at the Governor's Office on October 22, 2017 to finalise their mission statement. En route to Yaounde to hand his field reports, Peter Mafany Musonge, former Prime Minister and head of mission to appease the South West population following uprisings across Anglophone Regions has compared notes with delegation members in the South West Governor's office.
Cameroon: South West - Grassroots Consultations Intensify
By Nkeze MbonwohThe Regional team will hold a final evaluation meeting with the Governor on Sunday. The Head of the Regional consultation team for the South West, Peter Mafany Musonge, will stage an evaluation with Governor Bernard Okalia Bilai this Sunday, October 22, 2017.
Cameroon: South West - Dialogue Getting Afield
By Nkeze MbonwohBuea Sub-Division was yesterday combed by emissaries of peace. The government-sent dialogue-delegations to meet grassroots for socio-political exchanges on the field, is breaking grounds in the South West Region. As they entered the second day of field contacts yesterday, October 17, 2017, some of the teams went to the villages, schools, traditional palaces, and others were penetrating socio-professional groups.
Cameroon: South West - Dialogue Train On Rails
By Nkeze MbonwohThe various delegations, as assigned by the Government, are meeting their populations in their localities After meeting the Regional Governor last Sunday, the various peace and dialogue teams dispatched for grassroots in the South West Region are already loading their peace pipes. The teams were in the various Divisional Offices yesterday (Monday) to take administrative blessings before diving into the sea of appeasement at Sub-Divisional and village levels.
Cameroon: South West - Elite Mobilised for Dialogue Crusade
By Nkeze MbonwohThey held a closed door conclave at the Regional Governor's Office yesterday morning The political elite of the South West met in the Regional Governor's office in Buea yesterday from 10.30 am. The selective delegation was led by former Cameroon's Premier and now Chair of the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism, Peter Mafany Musonge, who is a son of the soil.
Cameroon: South West - Generalised Harmony Is Back
By Nkeze MbonwohHundreds who travelled out of the Region last weekend are returning to their activities. Echoes of conducive calm returning to the South West Region resounded from Bongo Square ceremonial ground in Buea yesterday where hundreds of teachers of Basic, Secondary and Vocational Training assembled to mark their 24th professional World Day.
Cameroon: Bernard Okalia Bilai - 'Security Officers Acted With a Lot of Professionalism'
interview By Nkeze MbonwohGovernor of South West Region. Mr Governor, following the agitations recorded on 1st October, 2017, in both Anglophone Regions, what appraisal have you for the public in what concerns the South West? In many localities, people came out to threaten the authorities and the institutions despite the sensitization carried out by administrative authorities, elite and traditional rulers.
Cameroon: Ils S'opposent À La Partition Du Cameroun
By Nkeze MbonwohKingsley L. Ngange: "Violence And Secession Is Not Acceptable" Ph.D Senior Lecturer University of Buea. "There is nowhere in the world that violence has ever solved a problem. We can learn from the Nigeria experiences that are just recovery from the effects of the Biafra civil war. And they have not yet fully recovered. Peace is what supposed to prevail in times of our differences. That is how Martin Luther King Jr and the civil rights movements in USA succeeded.
Cameroon: South West - Protective Measures Against Secessionists Threats
By Nkeze MbonwohAdministrative, traditional and religious authorities are on their heels to discourage manifestations over the weekend. The South West Region has been put on guard against secessionists threats announced on social media for October 1 in Anglophone Cameroon. The situation is even more worrisome owing to last September 22, 2017 protest marches staged with surgical success in the Regional capital, Buea, and numerous other major centres of the Region.
Cameroon: Buea - Calm After Agitations
By Nkeze MbonwohRoad circulation, markets and shops regained activities in the weekend following street protests observed on September 22, 2017. Calm has returned to Buea, capital city of the South West Region, following last Friday's upheaval with hundreds taking to the streets in protest marches. The Governor of the Region, Bernard Okalia Bilai, called for calm and asked parents to keep their children at home or at school preventing them from going to the streets to cause havoc.
Cameroon: South West - Schools Being Well Protected
By Nkeze MbonwohThe Administration is sparing no effort to enable safe learning and teaching in schools. Following a coordinating meeting summoned early August by the South West Governor, Bernard Okalia Bilai, boarding schools in particular as well as all schools were assured of State protection against attacks and calls for school boycott by invisible persons.
Cameroon: Preserving Achievements
By Nkeze MbonwohThis academic year starts on two streams for francophone and Anglophone Universities 500.000 laptops coming out of industry, Anglophone Universities resuming next November and professionalization preserved. These are the corner bricks of the new University reopening that started yesterday in some parts of Cameroon.
Cameroon: Dr. Andrew Tazi Mbencho - "Teachers Are Adjusting More Than Students"
interview By Nkeze MbonwohPrincipal, GBHS Kumba How is your school going about with the remedial classes ordered by the Minister of Secondary Education to bring students to the level after missing two terms of studies last year? To cover that period that was lost last academic year, we have to take classes from 7:30am to 3:30pm instead of 2:30pm. Then, we gain one more hour per day. On Saturday we take classes from 8:00am to 12 noon which means we have four periods.
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