Eto'o Leaves Turkish Side Konyaspor for Qatar

Samuel Eto’o for captain of the Indomitable Lions has signed for Qatar league side, Qatar Sports Club, just days after he ended with Turkish side Konyaspor.

The former Barcelona, Inter Milan and Chelsea moves to Quatar as gears the country prepares to host the 2022 World Cup.

The four-time African player of the year will join former colleagues in Qatar, including ex-Barcelona teammate Xavi Hernandez, who plays for Al Sadd, and Wesley Sneijder who was at Inter with Eto’o.

In 2009, Eto’o won the Champions League with Barcelona playing alongside Xavi. A year later he won the same trophy with Inter in the same team as Sneijder who now plays for Al Gharafa in Quatar.

Earlier on Monday Eto’o said Ligue 1 clubs had contacted him after he announced he was leaving Turkey last week.

The 37-year-old is now in the twilight of a fabulous career. He enjoyed five hugely successful seasons with Barcelona from 2004 to 2009, before helping Jose Mourinho’s Inter team to win the treble of Champions League, Serie A and Coppa Italia titles in his first season in Italy.

He then had brief stints at Chelsea and Everton in the Premier League.

Eto’o also scored 56 times for Cameroon Indomitable Lions in 118 appearances and has won two African Cup of Nations with Cameroon.

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Minister Resigns Four Days After Appointment

 

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Monday accepted the resignation of his Minister of Culture Mauricio Rojas, who spent just four days on the job.

Rojas’s resignation came after revelations that he had questioned the role of the country’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights, which honors the victims of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).

“We don’t share his opinions and comments with respect to the mission of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, which preserves the testimony, evidence and what was learned during a very dark period in our country,” Pinera said when he announced the resignation.

In 2016, Rojas criticized the concept of the museum, saying it represented “a shameful and deceitful use of a national tragedy that touched so many of us,” according to the daily El Mercurio.

His controversial comments were published by another daily over the weekend, sparking outrage from different groups, including the museum’s directors.

 Rojas, a former speech writer for Pinera, had taken the post when Pinera made changes to his cabinet on Thursday.

 Consuelo Valdes Chadwick, the ex-director of the Mirador Interactive Museum, was chosen to replace him.

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Political Fishermania: Celestin Djamen Crisscrosses Carpet, Dumps Fru Ndi for Kamto

Celestin Djamen has resigned from the SDF to join CRM OF Maurice Kamto where he has been named National Secretary for Human Rights. Djamen whose ambitions to take over the post of Regional chairman of the SDF in the Littoral and post of National Vice chairman of the SDF flopped has decided to quit. Though SDF officials say his departure is non event. Expressionists have interpreted his departure at this very crucial moment as symbiotic.

Djamen during a briefing in Yaounde said he left the SDF ship because the values he believed in were no longer the same today.  He was however so excited to explode that he believes that with his new party, power alternation is at hand. Since politicians are who they are, Djamen continued that Kamto’s party will offer what Cameroonians could not have in 36 years.

However, on August 8, 2018, Jean Robert Wafo, the shadow minister of the SDF in charge of information and media rubbishes Djamen’s departure. Here are the main excerpts: "Célestin Djamen has just declared that he has resigned from Sdf. The reasons given for trying to justify his act are sadly empty. Wafo noted that during the Congress of 2018, Djamen wanted to contest for the post of 4th National Vice President of the party but unfortunately he was disqualified for the non-payment of the statutory contributions - condition sine qua non to be invested – Since then Wafo added, he has been a grassroots activist and has no responsibility in the cell, in the electoral district, in the regional office, in the National Executive Committee, let alone in the SDF presidential campaign team. “No structure can therefore be affected by his departure” he concluded.

However, it is worthy to note that when Djamen was living in France, he had never spared his efforts to attend the SDF National Convention. Severally, he even tried to contest for the post of National chairman of the party and before the last convention; he was even NEC member and secretary or so for human rights in the SDF. Maybe, Wafo even fail short to mention that Djamen was SDF councilor.

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Meet Ndansi Elvis, Lone Cameroonian at First Class of Obama Foundation at Columbia University

Ndansi Elvis Nukam is one of twelve pioneer fellows from across globe selected by the Obama Foundation to participate in a year-long program to promote civic engagement and improve public policy at Columbia University in the United States. He is a former fellow of the Mandela Washington Fellowship.

He is former national Youth President of the NUDP party, founder of the Unite for Health Foundation and title holder “Tamfu” of Mbum land, one of the prestigious titles. He is into record books as the youngest politician whoever headed a political list in the North West Region in the municipal and legislative elections of 2007 and 2012.

Last Saturday in Yaounde in a Press briefing Tamfu Ndansi Elvis Nukam throw light on the activities of the program and what the nation stands to benefit from the skills he will acquire.

He told journalists that “Scholars will participate in a required course, which will run for the length of the academic year, as well as be able to select a few courses offered by Columbia University that are relevant to their specific field or values-based leadership, or that fill in gaps in their previous studies.

Worthy to note that Tamfu Ndansi Elvis is a motivational speaker reasons why in 2016, he was one of 24 youths selected by US government to represent Cameroon at the Mandela Washington Fellowship (MWF) for Young African Leaders(YALI) – a brainchild initiative of President Obama to groom young Africans who have voluntarily led positive change in their communities.

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