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News that Dr. Omer Weyi Yembe has been called up by the Almighty continue to create disbelieve and chock among the (Wi) Mbum people, the entire Donga Mantung and the Anglophone communities and Cameroonians both at home and the Diasporas. Dr. Omer Yembe died on February 22, 2012 in the United States of America after a protracted illness. Dr. Omer Yembe who was born on January 29, 1939 was a very intelligent man and an educationist who left a mark of greatness in Cameroon as an educationist. As a young man, Omer Yembe started his rise to fame when he graduated with two degrees in flying colours from the university of Ibadan-Nigeria. Upon arrival in Cameroon in 1965, he was appointed Vice Principal of Sasse College where he started as a student in 1957. He went into record as the first Cameroonian to be appointed Vice Principal of Sasse College in those days. The intelligence and the dexterousness in which he administered student caught a lot admiration. In 1967, he entered into ...

Following a ban on public meetings and activities of the Cameroon Credit Cooperative Union League-CAMCCUL and its affiliated credit unions by North West Governor Abakar Ahamat, it is feared that a mafia network maybe scheming to take over the management of the union. Last February 13, 2012, North West Governor said that following a decision by the Minister of Finance, Alamine Mey, all elections have been suspended nationwide till further notice. However, it should be recalled that North West Governor issued the decision suspending all public meetings and activities of CAMCCUL and affiliates on February 3, 2012 a day to the date the Bamenda Police Cooperative Credit Union-BAPCCUL had announced its elective General Assembly, February 4, 2012 at the Bamenda Congress Hall. Yet, Governor Abakar Ahamat announced that he decided to slam the ban on CAMCCUL due to some violations of the law of 1992 by officials of CAMCCUL and following complaints and security threats. He also added that the d...

There was seventh heaven at     Nibe,Swie and Nchum in Bafut last February 17, 2011 when Langsi Abel, personally inaugurated three projects. Mayor Langsi Abel who was flanked by Bafut Council executive, councilors and the alternate Member of Parliament for Bafut/Tubah stormed the Nibe quarter to handover to the community a bridge and road leading to GSS Agyati. In an appreciative note, the senior quarter head for Nibe expressed gratitude to the Bafut council for responding to their cry. He added that Nibe people will only give their votes to someone who wants to work with them. He expressed gratitude to Bafut council for the timely intervention. To Mbah Patrick Fon, the Principal of GSS Agyati, the project will be used for the purpose it deserve giving that the bridge and the road is their future. He however noted with satisfaction the contribution and the sacrifices the mayor of Bafut has been doing to promote access to education. Like Oliver Twist the Principal s...

National Man of the Year:                                                                              *Fonkam Azu’u                                                                     Chairman of ELECAM             ...

We are in February 2012 and there are visibly no construction sites in view as promised by President Biya.   Whereas already in 2011 and at the end of the previous seven-year mandate, President Paul Biya announced that by January 2012 Cameroon will be transformed into a vast construction site. By December 2011, many Cameroonians bought helmets to protect themselves from any eventuality from the numerous sites that Biya announced. Increasingly, as day passes the nuance is becoming clearer and clearer that the greater accomplishments have unfortunately not been able to overcome the everyday problems of Cameroon . In some quarters in Yaounde , accusing fingers are already pointed towards the famous Generation 2011 for trying to frustrate Biya new philosophy. During October 09, 2011, Presidential elections while in Maroua, the regional capital of the Far North, Paul Biya declared: "I did evoke here the main lines of this new dynamic which will affect all sectors of our country an...

The National Vice President of the Cameroon Association of English-Speaking Journalists-CAMASEJ has been applauded for initiating a life changing medical program for the elderly people of Boyo and Bui Divisions in the North West Region. Choves Loh who doubles as the Regional Chief of Cameroon Tribune in the North West Region has demonstrated that a journalist can contribute to the welfare of his people by doing extraordinary things in a very common way. Taking into consideration all health challenges faced by elderly persons in rural area, Choves Loh recently initiated a health program that seeks to establish a society that is completely free of diabetes and high blood pressure. The team of medics consulted and treated anybody especially the elderly. The presence of a team of 16 medical Doctors at Akeh village in Boyo last weekend through Choves Loh’s effort continue to attract a lot of admiration from the local population who now look at him as a messiah. One of the benefici...

Vincent Nji Ndumu: Government Delegate to the Bamenda City Council Thomas Hobbes, the 17 th Century English philosopher in his classical work “Lorianthan” wrote that if personal interest goes above general interest, there is bound to be hatred and victimization. In such a situation Hobbes wrote that “ where everyone is enemy to every person, there is no place for growth because the fruit thereof is uncertain and consequently no culture of the earth, no room for changes, nastiness and worst of all, fear, poverty, character assassination and terror ”. Hobbes who at the time of the writing was against the notion of absolute power vested in one individual believed that self-centeredness makes man morally corrupt. And that once society gets to that state of nature, it is the responsibility of the state to intervene to curb those salvage instincts in order to prevent self-centered individuals from chaotic behaviors and a war of all against all. I do not know whether the emergence ...

Alhadj Abdou Borno: Looking to the Sky as the limit The President of the Youth Wing of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement for Donga Mantung I cum Islamic Education Secretary for Northwest Region, Alhaj Abdou Borno Kamfon has declared his candidature for the 2012 Parliamentary Elections.   In a letter to the CPDM Section in Ndu, he declared his intentions. Talking to this reporter in Bamenda he declared that " We have in our hands the power and obligation - never given to any other generation at any other time in human history - to aspire for elective positions inorder to make our contributions toward nation building” . Accordingly, Ahadj Abdou Borno Kamfon said he is politically mature enough to take up leadership positions to makes his contribution towards nation building. Notwithstanding his youthfulness, he says he is of the school of Hon. Tamfu Simon Ngeh , Shey Jones, Ngafeeson Emmanuel which has jam-packed him with a lot of knowledge and experiences practice...