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El Hadj Ardo Yougouda Bouba Adamou The National President of the Socio-Cultural Association of Breeders and Farmers commonly known has SODELCO cum Secretary General of Ardo's Union, Elhadj Ardo Yougouda Bouba Adamou has declared that some 700 delegates are expected in Nkambe for the upcoming General Assembly of the Association. According to Alhadj Yougouda Bouba, El Hadj Baba Danpoulo aka Ndawara is also expected to be part of the AGM which is aimed at restructuring the organization. Harping on the necessity of the meeting, Ardo Yougouda revealed for the first time, a delegation from Maroua will also attend the General Assembly. He also added that the new organs will be put in place for youths to get themselves involve in their activities. On the achievements of SODELCO, the National President said that the association from creation has been improving on the lives of grazers and farmers as well as those of the Mbororo and Fulanis. He cited the SODELCO Micro-credit Scheme as o...

Last Friday at about 5pm, President Biya carried out another cabinet reshuffle. Former Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization Marafa Hamidou Yaya, Former Minister of Finance Policarp Abah Abah and former General Manager of Camair, Yves Michel Fotso have been moved from the Kondengui Ministerial block to SED, at Camp Yayap. Confidential sources hinted that the move by government to transfer the three personalities out of the Kondengui Prison to SED is part of a strategy to control the numerous letters of Marafa as well as the recent tennis tournament that brings them together. More so, allegations that Abah Abah recently attempted to escape from Kondengui has also ignited government to reinforce security measures a source hinted. Yet another source hinted that in the days ahead five more Kondengui cabinet ministers will be transferred to SED where they will be kept in isolated areas. Besides, it is alleged that the decision by SDF National Chairman Ni John Fru N...

  Sources linked to SED Yaounde have hinted that the three luxury prisoners caught in the dragnet of the sparrow hawk have been confined in a solitary confinement since last Friday in cells furnished the Secretary of State for Défense. Polycarpe Abah Abah, Marafa Hamidou Yaya and Yves Michel were finally transferred to new individual cells in the newly designed basement of the Secretariat of State for Defence, located at the lake side, opposite the Gendarmerie Legion Centre in Yaounde. This transfer was announced since May 18, 2012 yet it finally became effective last Friday May, 25 2012.   It was about 19h30mn on Friday evening that some thirty elements heavily armed and masked Special Forces (bir), an elite unit that specializes of the police that fights organized crime transported the three prisoners from Kondengui to their present cells. The leader of the troop, an officer of the Central Research judicial, plunges immediately into the office of the Superintendent with...

Hon Esther Ngala & District Chairman for Ndu leading peaceful march DK Nfor presenting The Eye Achievement Award to SDF militants in Ndu Decamped CPDM militanst poised with local SDF officials   Celebrations marking the 22 nd anniversary of the Social Democratic Front-SDF took place nationwide today but in Ndu Sub Division of Donga Mantung Division in the North West Region of Cameroon, May 26 th was incomparable with over CPDM militants crossing the carpet. While decorating the new recruits, Hon. Esther Ngala said she was happy that finally these new militants have made the right choice. Hon. Esther Ngala used the opportunity to send a warning signal to her opponents that the SDF has moved from strength to strength and is still conquering new grounds in Ndu to consolidate its achievements. “We are sure to win elections at any given moment”. More so, she told SDF militants and sympathizers that it is unwarranted that the CPDM regime wants to kill in cold...

  Humphrey Monono despite all odds at the GCE Board may be heading for a crash this academic year. Information reaching us from Yaounde indicates that some teachers were spotted selling GCE papers. Yet it is not clear whether it was a scam or the GCE had leaked. Newspaper reports have already started raising the alarm and the credibility of this year’s GCE examination. Notwithstanding, the state media on the other hand says all is set to ensure a hitch-free GCE examination. However, over 142,000 candidates are expected to sit in for the 2012 Cameroon General Certificate of Education Ordinary and Advanced levels.   With a new electronic system used in registering candidates, the registrar of the Cameroon General Certificate of Education Board, Humphrey Monono, accredits self that innovative electronic method of registering candidates has helped in reducing errors linked to the registration of candidates although some surprising loopholes were noticed. But he failed woe...

Ta Nformi Gerard Ngala  in action "faroutage" There was elation and seventh heavens at the Nkambe Palace Pelencia where hundreds gathered on May 19, 2012 to join HRH Ibrahim Jabfu Nfor to celebrate his lifetime achievements. The celebration which was greased by cultural displays and merrymaking also added more colours and impetus to the celebration of the National day event in Nkambe. It was an exceptional occasion for the Mbum people of Donga Mantung Division of the North West Region in Cameroon to propagate their culture and tradition. HRH Ibrahim Jabfu Nfor’s success story paints a vivid picturesque of an astute auxiliary of the administration who for 51 years has served as the auxiliary of the administration and the ruler of the Nkambe village (present Divisional Headquarters of Donga Mantung Division) yet HRH Ibrahim Jabfu Nfor has been able to keep the cultural heritage of his people intact. As an auxiliary of the administration for 51 years, the government of Ca...

SDO Nzeki flanked by collaborators law enforcement officials Cross-section of the Fons of Nkambe central   Celebrations marking National day started in Nkambe on May 19 2012 with the return of Campfire. News reaching our desk also indicates that both elite from far and near traveled to Donga Mantung Division to be part of the celebration. Those who took the pains to travel to either Nwa, Nkambe, Ako, Misaje or Ndu to be part of the celebration went back more delighted than when they were going. Though the yearly activity has been decentralized from the Divisional Headquarters to the Subdivisions Nkambe Town still maintains the steam. The youth erected the traditional camp fire in front of the CamCCUL branch office in Nkambe and it arouse the excitement that cuts across the age difference in the community.   Nkambe central was privilege with the Senior Divisional Officer Mr. Nzeki Theophile presiding while Ndu, Ako, Misaje, Nwa were presided over by the Divi...

  American female ace singer, Donna Summer Sudano who died May 17 at the age of 63 of lung cancer at her home in Florida has been laid to rest. She leaves behind a lovely husband, Bruce Sudano, three daughters and four grandchildren to mourn her. A memorial service for Donna Summer was held Wednesday at the Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tenn., where the disco icon had resided since 1995. The service was attended by her family and close friends, including Tony Orlando, Jamal Anderson and Giorgio Moroder, her collaborator on her wildly influential and career-defining early hits "Love to Love You Baby," "I Feel Love" and "Last Dance." David Foster performed "The Prayer" with Natalie Grant in tribute to the late singer, and her sisters, Linda Gaines Lotman, Mary Ellen Bernard, Dara Bernard and Jenette Yancey sang "We've Come This Far By Faith. When News Breaks Out, We Break In. Minute by Minute Report on Cameroon and...

Felix Teche Nyamusa looking into the past for the future   Forcefully launched 26th May 1990 despite the butchering of six militants by the Biya anti-democracy regime, the Social Democratic Front, SDF today stands at crossroads with the none-provision of a sound electoral code. She has however caused irreversible changes in Cameroon .           Paul Biya, president of Cameroon (for over 30 years) cum the ruling CPDM party and fans argued vehemently prior the 1990s that Cameroon was not ripe for multiparty democracy. They marched on the country’s major streets denouncing plural party politics as called for by the opposition. Their absurd doctrine despite records and witnesses to the practice of multiparty by Cameroonians before and at independence in the 1960s!  However Cameroon opposition’s crusade for alteration and the strength of global pro-democracy wi...

  The Bamenda City Council where Vincent Ndumu Nji is Government Delegate is stinking corruption. Yesterday May 16, 2012, the administrative account of the Bamenda City Council also revealed another obnoxious practice. The alleged embezzlement is a carried forward from 2010 account. Even though the Government Delegate claims that the money was poorly managed by the former treasurer. With a surplus of over 400 million FCFA carried forward to this year, observers are of the opinion that the Bamenda City Council could be entirely transformed into a prison yard. It should be noted that even the council police recruited under the present management are also too corrupt. Besides, it is even alleged that some council staff also went as far as printing market tolls. During the session, grand councilors and mayors of Bamenda I, II and III were seen with gloomy faces yet they could not express their anger. The untold that is tearing the city council apart is that recently, the governmen...

      It is alleged former Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation, Mara fa Hamidou Yaya, detained at the Kondegui Prison is seeking support from SDF national chairman. According to information gathered Marafa is alleged to have sent envoys to SDF Chairman, Ni Fru Ndi to help him get 'credible' Anglophone lawyers to plead his case. Ever since Marafa was taken arrested, he has been writing letters from the prison cell. Yet, in his third open letter declares his intention to run for Presidency from his prison cell. However, it is runoured that both Marafa and Inoni will e removed from the Kondengui prison and relocated them in the better controlled and even more secured military confinement area in the Camp Yeyap in Yaounde, precisely under the care of the   Gerdermerie section of the town known as SED; controlled by the Secretariat of State for Defence. Yaoude inhabitants got up today morning to e greeted by pro-Marafa tracts requesting for...

  For two months, Nkambe quarter in Ngwayu has gone without electricity. According to the Nkambe collecting center Chief of AES SONEL, over 2010meters of cables fired (burnt) worth about 10million. He explained to The Eye that they in Nkambe only have power to read, distribute bills and collect money. The Ngwayu problem like any other problem, their job is to inform their hierarchy who then sent a team for examination estimate and subsequently repair. For the last problem of Ngwayu, it was alleged it only AES SONEL Baffoussam can rescue but they later shifted the responsibility to Douala that is not within their power. The worst is that the AES SONEL, did not communicate the victim of power failure as they were busy dishing out bills and collecting money where no electricity is used. Initially, the rest of the electricity users stage a peaceful match to the SDO Donga – Mantung to express their grievance. The SDO calmed them, promising to do his best for electricity to return ...

  The administration of Nkambe last week transferred their offices to the Nkambe district hospital where workers of the hospital launched their strike action after forwarded 21 points against the Director of the hospital Dr, Joseph Wirga Kun. Their problems among others were the poor management, no incentive to staff, and brutality of the Director. They questioned the lack of payment of salary, arias for over 2 years whereas income from mortuary, CD 4count drugs donated by a politician, Ngala Gerald worth Millions. The Staff said they sign money and receive a smaller amount over laboured and very few in number. No employment and few workers receive irregular salary below labour code. In meetings, the doctor speaks alone and allows no body to talk as some assistant doctors are shut up when they want to speak in the meeting. The Econome of the district hospital with the doctor were the accused person. It is alleged that some equipments of the hospital are at large and other exch...

  The three Criminals posed on pic with Stolen computers donated by GBHS Ex Students in the USA Three gangsters recently bugled  the Computer Lab of GBHS Nkambe where they almost vamoosed with twenty computers. According to information gathered, the three gangsters were arrested, detained and latter granted bail. Armand Thierry, age 26years considered as the gang leader was accompanied by two students of the French section of GBHS Nkambe. The most pathetic thing is that Armand Thierry is a worker with the Divisional Delegation of Forestry and he was the person who was earmarked to transport the computers to Yaounde where the will be sold. Police sources also hinted that the thieves revealed that they already had a potential buyer in Yaounde.  It is worth mentioning that the two students involved in the robbery has as parents, the Chief of Costume Post Nkambe and the Divisional Delegate of Forestry and Wildlife for Donga Mantung Division.  At Press time...

Administrative Bench in Ako   Primary school pupils marching CPDM militants in support of the Biya Regime Nobo David, DO for Ako Ako Sub Division during the 20 th May celebration witness an influx Nigerians for the celebration according to the security forces in Ako, Nigerians started floating the Sub Division from the 17 May. According to the records, a hand full of Nigerians have always joined their Cameroonian brothers in Ako for the celebration of the National day, but said the number this year was quite high. After the arrival of the Divisional Officer of Ako Sub Division Mr. Nobo David, activities at the grand stand commenced with the lone decoration of the Mayor for Ako council with the Cameroon National Order of Merit. The BIR lead the match past. Pupils, students of Primary Schools, and Secondary Schools both private and public matched in beautiful colours chanting patriotic songs of unity, peace, togetherness among them, ANDP, CPDM UDP Political par...

Youths enjoying Camp-fire in Nkambe on May 19,2012 Youths enjoying Camp-fire in Nkambe on May 19,2012   The coordinator of Kid’s Summer Camp who doubles as the national representative of the Lynn Kids Foundation in Cameroon, Ndi Eugene Ndi has said the Foundation will be organizing a summer camp for kids as from the 25 th of June 2012 dubbed “Mr Rights Kids Camp”. Addressing youths during the camp-fire that took place at the Nkambe old market Square on May 19, 2012 the representative of Lynn Kids Foundation in Cameroon revealed that by bringing back camp fire in the lives of youths of Donga Mantung he is setting the pace for the 2012 Kids Camp in Cameroon. It should be noted that the camp-fire and torch lighting in Nkambe which was aimed at promoting patriotism in youths was organized by the Donga Mantung Administration in collaboration the Lynn Kids Foundation Cameroon. Even though the camp fire was opened to the general public, the most interesting thing was tha...

  Cameroon National Day Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC May 18, 2012 On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I am delighted to send best wishes to the people of Cameroon as you celebrate your 40th anniversary of the Republic this May 20. Our two countries are partnering together to address issues of democracy, good governance, and economic development. U.S. companies are investing and expanding their activities in Cameroon. I am pleased that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is assigning two Americans to work on a range of development projects, including a new $16 million Food for Education program in Cameroon’s Far North Region. We hope to continue to work with Cameroon to consolidate democratic gains and economic growth; particularly as you embark upon municipal and legislative elections planned for 2013. We support your efforts to strengthen electoral institutions, enhance transpar...

  The Public Prosecutor did not submit the reports produced by the experts of the Supreme State Control, a report allegedly done in 2006 during a control mission and handed to the Presidency of the Republic. It should be noted that it was on the bases of that report that Zacheusse Forjindam was sentenced to 12 years in prison, then those facts on appeal that had ended in March last. During the hearing yesterday, Tuesday, May 15, 2012 the Court of Appeals for the Littoral was newly formed and in his opening remarks the President said that "the composition of the Court has changed. The speed of the other part of the trial will depend on you because the debates will be repeated again and will be opened" These introductory remarks, implies that Forjindam case will take a new twist and the hearing will be expedited. The new collegiality will continue by checking if the requirements that had been made to Public Prosecutor during the last hearing have been met. The Attorney ...