Ndu Council ECCUFORUM/ TRADE FAIR 2015( Not-to-Miss Event of the Year)

 Information and Interim Program

To:

The Administration of Donga Mantung;

The Economic Operators in and outside Donga Mantung

Traditional Rulers in and around Donga Mantung

Traders, Farmers, Livestock breeders

Citizens of Ndu and its environs

The General Public

The Ndu Council hereby announces that there will effectively be an Economic and Cultural Forum (ECCUFORUM) 2015 that shall run from Friday December 11, 2015 to Saturday December 19, 2015.

The Ndu Council will take a giant step with the organization of a Trade Fair during this period involving economic operators, the formal and informal sectors of the area and beyond. Expected to animate and promote their goods and services will be those from various sectors like Telecommunications; Construction; textile; Food processing firms; gastronomical institutions; tradi-practitioners; Educational Institutions both at the Secondary and Higher Education levels; Brewery companies as well as whisky companies ( with products from ADIC Company etc)

There will be games of chance; raffle draws and lots and lots of entertainment from artists and musicians from Ndu, Donga Mantung, Bui and other areas of Cameroon. There will be musical concerts and film shows on giant screens.

The Ndu Council is thus inviting business operators to come and register at the Council office in Ndu or go to the Vanguard Documentation office, City Chemist round about, Bamenda  and register there. Thereafter, they will identify the appropriate site at the Old market to erect their stand for their exhibitions, sales or displays.

It should be noted that the commercial activities at the Old Market adjacent the Council Hall will be very hot, and thick and traders will be busy throughout the week, selling and buying.

In order not to regret that others have come from elsewhere to occupy the best stands, those in Ndu and its environs are advised to rush to the office and register before the 7^th of December 2015.

Here is the detailed program of the ECCUFORUM/ Trade fair Ndu Council 2015 Dec. 11-19

Day/Date	Activities	Concerned	Venue	Time
Friday Mruh Dec. 11, 2015	General juju Displays	Socio-cultural Committee	Ndu and other palaces	12 noon -6p.m
Saturday Ndvung Dec. 12, 2015	Agro-Pastoral Show	MINADER/ MINEPIA/ Ndu Council/ SDO	New market	8 a.m.- 12 noon
Saturday, Ndvung Dec. 12, 2015	Official Launch of Renaissance Community Radio Programs	SDO D/M; Div. Dele. MINCOM D/M; Ndu Council	Renaissance Radio Premises	1p.m- 3p.m.
Sunday, Ngang Dec. 13, 2015	Prayers in Churches for the Municipality	Rev. Fathers; Pastors; Citizens	Various Churches in the Municipality	7a.m-11 a.m.
Sunday Ngang Dec. 13, 2015	Assembly of citizens and dignitaries	Population; Ndu Council; Invitees; Groups; Traditional rulers	Ndu Municipal Grand stand;	11 a.m- 6p.m.
Sunday Ngang Dec. 13, 2015	Display of services, goods and arts products	Traders, artists, economic operators etc/	Various stands at Old market Square	8 a.m- 6 p.m.
Sunday Ngang, Dec. 13, 2015	Speeches; Manifestations, Exhibitions/ Reading Competitions	Ndu Council; Socio-Cultural Committee; Groups; Leaders/ Knowledge for Children	Municipal Grand stand/ Ndu Council Hall	12 noon – 5 p.m.
Monday Ntala Dec. 14, 2015	Trade fair cont./ Musical and artistic displays	Ndu Council; Economic Operators etc/ Artists	Old market Square/ Municipal Grand stand	7 a.m- 11 p.m. ( night)
Tuesday Seng Dec. 15, 2015	Trade fair cont./ Usual Trading	Economic Operators	New market and Old market	6 a.m.-7 p.m.
Dec. 16-18, 2015	Trade fair cont./	Economic Operators	Old market	6 a.m.-7 p.m.
Dec. Mru’ Sat. 19, 2015	End of Trade fair Forum Discussions	Ndu Council/	Ndu Council Hall	10 a.m- 3p.m.

N/B. This program is subject to modifications and alterations.

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CPDM Reorganization: Outrage in Jakiri as Prof. Uphie Melo Declares Elections Results in Police Station

Militants of Bui IV Section of the CPDM, Jakiri have decried the high level rigging machinery at last Monday’s elections. Though Hon. Wirngo Buba was declared winner with (51.19%) over Gamsi, both candidates decried that the elections were massively rigged. Voters cards were gathered were being shared like bonbon while children below 15 years were also spotted casting votes.  

Matters came to a head when the Divisional Committee members headed by Prof. Uphie Melo Chinje transferred to the nearby police station to declare the election results. Some recalcitrant militants stormed the police station threatening to set it ablaze. Sensing the danger, Uphie Melo ordered her driver to take off her car. While some CPDM militants were chanting SDF slogans in disapproval and declaring the end of the CPDM in Jakiri, Madame Uphie seized the opportunity to declare election results after over 3 hours of waiting. Tongues are still waging in Jakiri to the fact that SDF militants infiltrated the CPDM party to support a weaker candidate. Yet Gamsi’s supporters had promised that CPDM a meager 2% at the 2018 local elections while Wirngo’s supporters say they will take over the Parliamentary seat and the council.From all indications, the reorganization process has put the CPDM in Jakiri in serious difficulties, It is even reported that in some localities, voters cards were seized from fraudsters who were paid. At one point, it was rumoured that poll agents were each promised 150.000 FCFA to rig elections. 

Apparently, the CPDM is suffering from the monster it has nursed over the years. 

Hon. Wirngo Buba

 



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U.S billionaire, Robert F. Smith Offers to pay for schooling of Chibok girls

Robert F. Smith, investment tycoon and the second richest African American has offered to sponsor the education of the girls who escaped from Boko Haram in Nigeria. Some of the girls could not go back to school because there were no funds to pay for their education.

U.S. billionaire, Robert F. Smith, businessman and the second richest African-American has pledged to pay for educational expenses of the girls who escaped from Boko Haram in Nigeria. The 21 girls have taken a risky step by going back to school and attending the American University of Nigeria (AUN).
It has been 588 days since the school girls were abducted in April last year by Boko Haram terrorists who stormed their secondary school in the town of Chibok in Borno state, kidnapping 276 girls.
The plight of the abducted girls and the fifty-seven who managed to escape appears to have been largely forgotten.
Struck by the plight of the girls the founder, chairman and chief executive of Vista Equity Partners resolved to play his part. The billionaire pledged to “cover their expenses for as long as they needed it”.Reports suggest that the girls who managed to escape have been left “traumatised and ostracised, they had then been largely left to their own devices, bar a handful sought out by aid workers”.
 According to Dr. Margee Ensign, vice chancellor of AUN, in April this year about 46 Chibok girls who escaped wanted to attend the school, but there were no funds to pay for their education, Atlanta BlackStar reported.

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Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to Sanction MTN, Airtel, Globacom Over Auto Data Service Migration

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is set to sanction a couple of telecommunication companies in the country over the violation of some set rules and regulations.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday  said it would sanction MTN, Airtel and Globacom for defying its directive on automatic migration to Pay-As-You-Go data bundle.
The Commission made this known in its ‘2015 third quarter Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Report’ obtained pasted on its website. NCC said it had continued to receive complaints from subscribers on automatic migration of data bundle package to Pay-As-You-Go Billing on depletion of their data bundle.
Consequently and pursuant to section 53(1) of the NCC Act, 2003. The commission on 3rd August 2015 directed all mobile service operators to comply with the data bundle directions.
According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), NCC said "where a subscriber’s data bundle account is fully depleted before the due date, service providers should notify the subscriber via SMS, giving information regarding the tariff/ billing rate for automatic migration.

"That all service providers should henceforth stop auto-migration of subscriber’s data service to the Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) account upon depletion of the data bundle account, except with the express consent and authorisation of the subscriber via SMS."

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Transfer Me to Prison Custody - Radio Biafra Boss, Nnamdi Kanu Begs Court

 Source: Vanguard

On resumption in court yesterday, the prosecution counsel, told the court that Nnamdi Kanu was yet to fully meet the requirement for his bail and asked the Abuja court to discontinue its case against the IPOB leader.

Nnamdi Kanu raising his hands to applaud his supporters after he left the court in Abuja

 

We reported it here yesterday that the State Security Service asked an Abuja magistrate court to discontinue its case against the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

At the resumed hearing on the matter yesterday, Kanu, who the government accused of engaging in criminal conspiracy, managing and belonging to an unlawful society, as well as indulging in criminal intimidation, contrary  to section 97 (a)&(b) and section 397 of the Penal Code, begged to be transferred to prison custody.

His lawyer, Vincent Egechukwu Obeta, insisted that transferring his client to prison would enable him to have easy access to his legal team.

He made the application shortly after the DSS urged the Magistrate Court to hands-off Kanu’s trial. The DSS, through its lawyer, Moses Idakwo, told the court that it has already secured an order of the Federal High Court in Abuja to further detain Kanu for another 90 days.

It said that the order which was granted by Justice Ademola Adeniyi, was to enable the government to conclude investigation into an allegation that Kanu was involved in terrorism financing.

Consequently, the DSS, applied to withdraw the initial First Information Report (FIR), it lodged against Kanu before the Chief Magistrate Court, maintaining that the government would file a fresh charge against Kanu before a higher court, once its ongoing investigation is concluded.

Idakwo therefore asked Magistrate Usman to step down from the trial on the ground that his court lacks the power and jurisdiction to prosecute terrorism charges.

The application was vehemently opposed by Kanu’s lawyer Obeta, who  insisted that the bail earlier granted the accused person must firstly be complied with before any application for transfer of the case to a federal high court could be entertained.

After listening to both parties, Magistrate Usman adjourned the case till December 1 for ruling.

 

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Biafra Agitations: Sultan of Sokoto Speaks Out

 The Sultan of Sokoto has aired his view on the increasing spate of agitation by the Biafra supporters.

Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar

 

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has expressed worry over the growing agitation for an independent Biafra state championed by some Igbo people and promised that a delegation from the northern traditional council will be sent to Igbo leaders to meet on the issue.
The Nation reports that the sultan raised this concern at the second general assembly of the Northern Traditional Rulers’ Council which held in Kaduna on Monday, November 23.
The Sultan who is the chairman of the council noted that there were millions of Igbo people living and doing business in their states peacefully and helping the economy to grow. He said millions of Igbo people were against the agitation for an independent state and that a delegation would be sent so that peace would reign.
“We are very much concerned about this issue because we know we have millions of millions of Igbos residing with us in our homes, in our towns, in our states, very peacefully, very industrious, helping our communities and our economy to grow and so many of them as we know, keep telling us that they have nowhere else to live than where they are presently living.
“Since we have this coordination with millions and millions of them, what is happening now is a thing of concern to us and we believe we should look at this issue and most likely set up a small committee of senior traditional rulers to go to South-East and engage our brothers there (traditional rulers) so that we will know how we can come in to stop this agitation.”

He applauded Igbo leaders who were against the separation and that the agitation must be totally condemned.
He said: “We believe in dialogue, whatever the problem is with anybody, we believe we should sit down and discuss and a solution will be found.”

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BREAKING News: Turkey Shoots Down Russian Fighter Jet in Syrian Border after Violating Air Space

Turkey has shot down a Russian fighter jet close to its border with Syria, it has emerged. The plane exploded in the air causing a huge fireball which fell on the Turkmen mountain on the Syrian side of the border.

 

A Russian war plane, Sukhoi Su-24, was reportedly shot down by Turkish army F-16 fighter jets early on Tuesday morning, near its border to Syria.

 

According to Dailymail, Turkish army officials say the Russian plane had violated the country's air space close to the Syrian border and was shot down after ignoring several warnings. 

 

Turkish officials say the plane was warned 10 times in five minutes before it was eventually shot down.

 

 

Russia's Ministry of Defence however claimed that the jet was in Syrian airspace, and was shot down from the ground. 

 

Footage of the incident has emerged on Turkish news websites and shows the plane engulfed in flames as it comes crashing down in a woodland area on the Syrian side of the border.

 

Both pilots ejected themselves from the jet and could be seen parachuting down to the ground, where at least one has been reported as captured by Syrian rebels, according to Turkish media.

 

Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the warplane crashed in the Turkomen Mountains region in the coastal province of Latakia. 

 

 

The Russian Defence ministry said in a statement: 

 

'Today on the territory of Syria supposedly as a result of shooting from the ground, a plane of Russian air force group in Syria, a Sukhoi-24, crashed in the Arab republic of Syria.

The plane was at the altitude of 6km(3.73m). The fate of the pilots is being checked now. According to the first information, both managed to eject.'

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Coordination of Councilors and Mayors of Cameroon Writes to President Biya

 Press Release

Coordination of Councilors and Mayors of Cameroon on Pending Salaries for Mayors

The Coordination met in Yaoundé this 18^th Day of November with close to sixteen Mayors, 38 Deputy Mayors and thirty-eight municipal councilors assembled from all the ten Regions of the Republic.

They evaluated the state of issues surrounding the September 16 Presidential decree harping on the allowances, emoluments and salaries of municipal councilors and mayors:

            Considering that Municipal Councilors are dully elected on the same tickets like the (s)elected mayors and their deputies;

            Mindful of the fact that Government Delegates and their Deputies are appointees of the head of State and are on very huge allowances already;

            Given that the task of running the day to day affairs of the municipalities are more arduous and tasking at the local level, reflecting the decentralization spirit;

            In view of the fact that the Minister of territorial Administration and Decentralization as well as the prime minister had severally assured these Municipal officials that the budgets from 2013 had been taking care of the envisaged salaries, voted by the representatives of the people since 2010.

The Coordination notes:

            That it is unfair and dangerous in an evolving Cameroon to have councilors depend only on sitting allowances which have even been taxed up to 16.5%.

            That the huge salaries allocated to Government Delegates who are simply doubling for Sub Divisional Councils and holding down their efforts to work independently, is a big smack on the faces of the elected Mayors;

            That the arithmetic and formulae for the allocation of allowances as per classes is unfair, given that the idea encourages rural exodus, as those who are swelling our cities and towns all come from these so-called smaller councils;

            That the delay of payment even after the Presidential Text of Application of September 16, 2015 is an indicator that work is being done to calculate the arrears from 2013 till date.

The Coordination therefore resolves as follows:

            Thanks the Head of state for finally signing the September 16 2015 Presidential Decree, allocating allowances, emoluments and salaries accordingly;

            That in a subsequent circumstance, what is being allocated to appointed Government Delegates and their deputies be rather directed to mayors and their deputies;

            That the so-called smaller councils with very low Administrative Accounts, especially falling on classes three and four are there not because of any cause of theirs, but simply because the citizens are all exuding to towns and cities because of the hardship in the rural country. It will be sensible for the state to empower these poorer councils to encourage the youths to remain in the villages and get employed by their councils;

            That the Government ensures that all the arrears for mayors and their deputies be calculated as from their being installed into office in October 2013 till date. This is not only being prudent but being just and fair.

The Coordination of Councilors and Mayors of Cameroon look forward to a presidential Decree allocating full salary to the elected municipal councilors who are doing a tremendous work at the base. Anything can happen if these many Cameroonian elected representatives of the people are not taken seriously.

We count on the continuous understanding, clairvoyance and fatherly approach of the head of State, president of the Republic of Cameroon.

DONE IN YAOUNDE, THIS SEVENTEEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER 2015

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