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Monday, January 9, 2017
Secondary Education Minister Angrily Quits Bamenda after "Bad Market"
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| Jean Ernest Massena |
The
Minister of Secondary Education, Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bihehe has
angrily left Bamenda for Yaounde after attempts to persuade school
reopening in North West and South West Regions flopped woefully.
Surprisingly, Jean Ernest Massena who announced a six day stay in
Bamenda has spent just three days. Initially, he had planned to visit
some schools in Mezam, Ngoketunjia, Bui and Momo, Tuesday and Wednesday
before taking off for Yaounde.
However,
the fact that schools were deserted pushed the two ministers to abort
their trip in the region. The most pathetic of all is that they angrily
left Bamenda without inaugurating some structures earlier programmed. It
is clear that the minister did their best but failed to convince
teachers and parents to send their kids to schools. Schools in the North
West and South West Regions were deserted, reports say. The ministers
who brought promises were shocked that even the chiefs who had promised
to transform selves into teachers were not in schools. Secondary
Education Communication officer who was heard boosting over the phone to
his colleagues in Yaounde how they have solved all the problems almost
collapsed at Ayaba Hotel. He was even unable to pick calls from Yaounde
cronies who were calling to find out the situation in the field.
Streets in the city of Bamenda have been deserted to the point that some
now serve as soccer play grounds for children. It is alleged that the
Minister of Basic Education also arrived Bamenda yesterday night and
allegations are rife at that the Minister of Basic Education also
vamoosed by mid day without visiting a school after having a test of the
realities of Bamenda.
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| Bamenda today |
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Secondary Education Minister Angrily Quits Bamenda after Today's "Bad Market"
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| Disappointed Jean Ernest Massena |
The Minister of Secondary Education, Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bihehe has angrily left Bamenda for Yaounde after attempts to persuade school reopening in North West and South West Regions flopped woefully. Surprisingly, Jean Ernest Massena who announced a six day stay in Bamenda has spent just three days. Initially, he had planned to visit some schools in Mezam, Ngoketunjia, Bui and Momo, Tuesday and Wednesday before taking off for Yaounde.
However, the fact that schools were deserted pushed the two ministers to abort their trip in the region. The most pathetic of all is that they angrily left Bamenda without inaugurating some structures earlier programmed. It is clear that the minister did their best but failed to convince teachers and parents to send their kids to schools. Schools in the North West and South West Regions were deserted, reports say. The ministers who brought promises were shocked that even the chiefs who had promised to transform selves into teachers were not in schools. Secondary Education Communication officer who was heard boosting over the phone to his colleagues in Yaounde how they have solved all the problems almost collapsed at Ayaba Hotel. He was even unable to pick calls from Yaounde cronies who were calling to find out the situation in the field. Streets in the city of Bamenda have been deserted to the point that some now serve as soccer play grounds for children. It is alleged that the Minister of Basic Education also arrived Bamenda yesterday night and allegations are rife at that the Minister of Basic Education also vamoosed by mid day without visiting a school after having a test of the realities of Bamenda.
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| Release issued by the Minister after consultative talks with stakeholders |
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Press Release: Hon. Fobi Nchinda Visits 14 Arrested in Bamenda at Kondegui Prison
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Anglophone Problem: Statement by South West Chiefs
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Sunday, January 8, 2017
Why Eating Catfish is Very Dangerous for Your Health - Medical Expert Makes Revelations
A
practitioner at the Federal Medical Centre in Abuja, has warned the
general public of the life-threatening repercussions of excessive
consumption of catfish.
Catfish peper soup (Photo: Sisi Yemmie)
Speaking in an interview with newsmen on Thursday in Abuja, a
medical practitioner, Dr Arikawe Adeolu, revealed that excessive
consumption of catfish could increase the chances of developing
cardiovascular diseases.
According to Vanguard, the practitioner at the Federal Medical
Centre, Jabi, Abuja, who gave the warning, said that catfish contained
omega-6 fatty acids, which could increase the level of inflammation in
the body.
He added that inflammation was the underlying cause of
cardiovascular diseases, certain cancers and diabetes. He said that
although catfish also contained omega-3 fatty acids, which had a lot of
health benefits, the ratio of omega-6 was far greater than omega-3 fatty
acids.
While explaining further, Adeolu said that this made it necessary
for the fish to be consumed in moderation to prevent health
complications. “Catfish is rich in two fatty acids – omega-3 fatty acids and the omega-6 fatty acids.
“The omega-3 fatty acids help reduce the concentration of bad
cholesterol in the blood stream and increase the concentration of good
cholesterol in the blood stream.
“It also helps protect the heart and the cardiovascular system
from any form of disease, prevents inflammation within the body and
helps reduce the quantity or concentration of inflammatory substances in
the body.
“The underlining basis for most cardiovascular diseases,
diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer disease and many other diseases that we know
today, is chronic inflammation, which signifies a long standing
inflammation in the body.
“This is where the catfish controversy comes in. A lot of
reports have advised against eating it and this is because although it
contains omega-3 fatty acids, which have many health benefits, it
contains more omega-6 fatty acids.
“Omega-6 fatty acids are pro-inflammatory in the sense that
they increase the level of inflammation within the body and make one
more predisposed to any kind of disease.
“When catfish features a lot in your diet, you consume more
omega-6 fatty acids in your diet than the protective omega-3 fatty
acids.
“Therefore, you are more predisposed to diseases if you consume
a lot of catfish. The optimal ratio of omega-6 fatty acids to omega-3
fatty acids is supposed to be four to one, but because the catfish is
reared artificially and is fed with synthesized food, the ratio can be
up to ten to one,’’ he said.
Adeolu also said even though there were a lot of controversies
surrounding the consumption of catfish, it still held some advantages
over most fishes consumed today, adding that catfish was a good source
of protein, rich in essential amino acids needed to build muscles, bones
and different tissues in the body.
He explained that catfish contained a moderate amount of calories
per serving or per gram, hence, was an ideal choice for those watching
their body weight.
According to him, catfish is rich in phosphorus and magnesium,
which are essential micro-nutrients that play a significant role in a
lot of biochemical processes in the body.
“Catfish has a very low amount of mercury, which is very toxic
to the human body and can, when consumed in large quantities, damage the
nervous system,“ Adeolu said.
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Barack Obama Breaks Down in Tears as He Recounts His 'Worst Day as US President'
The outgoing president of the United States, Barack Obama, has spoken about his worst moments as America's Commander-in-Chief.
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Barack Obama
Outgoing U.S. President, Barack Obama broke down in tears recently
while recalling one of his worst days while serving his 8 year tenure
which ends January 20.
While reflecting on his legacies in a series of exit interviews, he
said that the day he met with the parents of victims of the massacre at
Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 the toughest day of his
presidency.
“I still consider the day I traveled up to Newtown to meet with
parents and address that community as the toughest day of my
presidency.
“It’s the only time I ever saw Secret Service cry at an event. So it was brutal.”
Obama said in an interview which will be aired on January 15.
On other occasions while recalling the incidence which climed 20
children and 6 others, Obama himself have been moved to tears Obama
cried while delivering a statement the day of the massacre, at an
interfaith vigil in Newtown.
He also cried at the White House last January while announcing executive actions designed to curb gun deaths.
“Every time I think about those kids, it makes me mad,” Obama said Jan. 5, 2016.
He said that meeting with the grieving parents of the dead children continue to haunt him.
“It wasn’t just the parents,” he told Anderson Cooper.
“You had siblings, you know — 10-year-olds, 8-year-olds, 3-year-olds
who in some cases didn’t even understand that their brother or sister
weren’t going to be coming home.”
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Who is an Elite in West Cameroon today? Time to Stop Them
Opinion
by Martin Fon Yembe (Coordinator, Global Information Network..GLOBINET)
In Cameroon, politicians of the CPDM regime have
gratuitously allocated to themselves the label of elite, and use it as a passport to speak
for and on behalf of an oppressed and silenced people, especially in West
Cameroon…NW and SW. I began taking
interest in this until last week when a list of so-called ELITE came up with a communiqué
calling on teachers and students/pupils to go back to school and ignore the
ongoing strike!! My first worry was to find out who an elite is and what role
can an elite play in the community.
The conventional definition
puts it that Elite (from late
18th century French élite), is a term that originates from Latin eligere (“to
choose, elect”). In political and sociological theory for a small group of
powerful people that controls a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege or
political power in a society. In Great Britain, and elite is a
select part of a group that is superior to the rest in terms of ability or quality.
The political elite are the most informed, educated and politically active people who
have a strong influence on public officials. Thus the elite or e·lites or
élite or é·lites. Refers to a group or class of persons
considered to be superior to others because of their intelligence, social
standing…entailing that the elite
is something prestigious or the best of the best.
From
these definitions, are those who signed or purportedly signed the controversial
and ludicrous communiqué elite?
In
a recent publication in Le Messager and other French language newspapers, these
supposed signatories of the communiqué are described as “dupes”! These are
persons who, by dint of the fact that they have been able to please the Central
Committee of RDPC, they find themselves in the corridors of the dirty powers in
Yaounde. They are hostages who will accept to bear the brunt of the diabolic
acts and schemes of the regime against their people. Once you are out of
government, you are no more an elite…meaning that those supposed superior qualities
and abilities wane immediately you are
not in the favour books of the diabolic regime.
Imagine
this scenario going on currently in West Cameroon. None of these supposed elite
has gone to their home community to sample the opinions of their people they
purport to represent…yet, they sit in some air-conditioned luxurious rooms in
Yaounde and issue communiqués calling on parents to send their kids to school
and for teachers to resume classes!!! Elite indeed!
What
does it take for our supposed Prime Minister to use all the billions of Francs
cfa they are using now to buy Fons and press men, to rather dispatch teams of “elite”
say from Menji, Ndu, Wum, Tombel etc to actually get the true feelings of these
people who have suddenly gone into alliance with the Trade Unionists and
Federalists?! Instead, hey are resorting to what we know best of them…threats,
intimidation, buying of consciences and communiqués!!
Facing the Reality of
the Global Union Against the old “New Order”
The
regime is still grabbling with the reality of their being overtaken in their
own track by the Global Union of Social Media. These so-called elite had been
having it smooth in the days of the New Order where CRTV and Cameroon Tribune
could say Martin Fon Yembe is a Gabonese or Ni John Fru Ndi has escaped to
Nigeria and people will believe! Today, a Minute by Minute recording and
monitoring of developments has caught them pants down. I hear them asking
themselves “ What’s going on? What’s happening here? I don’t feel that I’m in
control of anything anymore.” There are some that are aware of what's happening, but
millions more would be shocked to learn the truth. The answers are slowly
emerging. They see people getting the information they had never wanted them to
have.
They are being stopped and they will
find themselves very soon naked in the middle of the market. But only if
everyone works very hard at the solutions, for nothing happens on its own, and
apathy is NOT the answer. We all must identify them, name and shame them in
public places.
However, violent efforts are
inappropriate because: (1) It is wrong to break our laws. (2) Many innocent
people will be killed or wounded and their property destroyed. (3) The Elite
control our courts…our banks, our offices and worse still our chiefs.
It is my humble opinion that these crooks are aware of the
fact that they are losing control…and we must not allow them recover. In the
words of Michael
Gove we join to say I think it's time
that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they've ever got
anything wrong: 'I'm sorry, you've had your day.' Unelected, unaccountable
elites, I'm afraid it's time to say, 'You're fired. We are going to take back
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Press Release: Anglophone Teacher Trade Union Leaders Issue Release after Meeting with Secondary Education Minister
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Anglophone Problem: Secondary Education Minister Meets Teachers, Parents, Others in Bamenda
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| Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle |
Secondary Education Minister Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bibehe has called on teachers, parents, principals and school proprietors to make sure that schools reopen on Monday. Talking to the various stakeholders in two separate meetings at the Regional Delegation of Secondary Education yesterday, Minister Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bihehe pleaded that if schools don't resume on Monday, UNESCO will declare 2016/2017 academic year, a blank year. He said the social and economic consequences of a blank year could be enormous on the children, community, education family and everyone. To him, principals and teachers should make sure that schools reopen on Monday while the dialogue is going on. He also revealed that the deployment of teachers as requested by the striking teachers. He made the plea to the principals after another unfruitful meeting with Anglophone Teachers Trade union leaders and the national President of the Union of parent teacher associations in a bid to get solutions to the ongoing strike action called by teachers. In a Press Release after meeting the minister, Anglophone Teacher trade union states that that the presidential commission be put in place ro quickly begin serious work that will enhance pacification of the aggrieved populations. Besides, "union leaders also acknowledge and sincerely thank H. E The Minister of Secondary Education whose pro-active approach and practical steps taken have brought about the much demanded redeployment of teachers to classrooms where their competence pre-disposes them to operate. In the release trade union leaders also prayed that the chairman of the ad-hoc committee to hasten the sitting of this committee so as to pave the way for concrete solutions to the other burning issues raised, so that the ice in place can be broken.
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Friday, January 6, 2017
President Biya Assigns Garga Haman to Mediate with Anglophone Lawyers, Teachers
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| Garga Haman |
Garga Haman Adji, the President of the Anti corruption commission and chairman of the Alliance for Democracy and Progress-ADP has declared that President Biya has asked him to mediate with the striking Anglophone teachers, lawyers and trade unionists. Garga Haman made the declaration over CRTV today adding that he was confined the mission during new year wishes at the Presidency of the Republic. From that declaration, Garga is expected to meet members of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium to better understand the Anglophone problem. He however sounded so optimistic that he will be up to the task.
It should be noted that Garga has held several high-level administrative posts,
working as Sub-Director of National Security, Deputy Director of the
Ministry of Finance, Secretary-General of the Ministry of the Civil
Service, and Finance Director of the National Electricity Company of
Cameroon. He then served as State Inspector and Deputy Director of
Inspection and Administrative Reforms. He was latter appointed Minister of Civil Service and Administrative Reforms and he resigned from the government on 27 August 1992.
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The Euphoria that Saluted Hon. Awudu at the Bfu Bfu of Bondi Sub Palace -Ngarum #PhotoNews 2
Hon Awudu stormed the Bondi sub palace in Ngarum with a powerful
delegation of over 100 men and women to pay his last respect to the
departed development luminary, Ndikfusibir. He was welcomed by jujus as
well as traditional dance groups including the Nfu. News in pictures
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The Euphoria that Saluted Hon. Awudu at the Bfu Bfu of Bondi Sub Palace -Ngarum #PhotoNews 1
Hon Awudu stormed the Bondi sub palace in Ngarum with a powerful delegation of over 100 men and women to pay his last respect to the departed development luminary, Ndikfusibir. He was welcomed by jujus as well as traditional dance groups including the Nfu. News in pictures
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CAF Awards: Riyadh Mahrez is Best African Player of the Year
Midfielder Riyad Mahrez is the best African football player of the year
2016. His election by some football technicians and some well-informed observers
was declared yesterday at a Gala night in Abuja, Nigeria. The Algerian international
got 361 votes against 313 for Pierre-Emerick Abameyang. Senegalese Sadjo Mané
completed the podium with 186 votes. Riyad Mahrez enters history as the second
Algerian player to win the prestigious African Best Player of the Year, after
the exploits of Rabah Madjer 30 years ago.
"Qualified" magician "by his teammates, he is famous for pure
techniques and devastating dribbling. In 2016, his coach Claudio Ranieri said
that "Mahrez is the light and when it is lit, the stadium responds beautifully".
After losing the titles of "Player of the Year" and "National
Women's Team of the Year", the Cameroonian delegation returns to the fold
with the Legend Award trophy awarded to Émilienne Mbango, a major figure in the
history of women's football in Cameroon. This Trophy of Legend Award is a
special award that CAF attributes to people who have particularly marked the
history of football on the black continent.
African player of the year
Riyad MAHREZ (Algeria & Leicester City) - 361
points
Pierre-Emerick AUBAMEYANG (Gabon & Borussia
Dortmund) - 313 points
Sadio MANE (Senegal/ Liverpool) - 186 points
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CAF Awards: Asisat Oshoala Voted Women's Best African Player
Nigerian Asisat Oshoala is best African female player. She crushed
Cameroonian Gabrielle Aboudi Onguene and the Ghanaian Elizabeth Addo to win the
prestigious continental title. The Super Falcons scorer, Osisat Oshoala, 22
years old, appears for the second time on the list of the best players. This is
following her exploits at the Female AFCON of 2016 organized by Cameroon.
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Tic Tac: Prophet Emmanuel Chukwudi Releases Shocking Prophecies for 2017
A man of God has released what many will call bombshells in his 2017 prophecies as he has predicted the death of the president.
The prophet predicted the release of Nnamdi Kanu and the death of President Muhammadu Buhari
Prophet Emmanuel Chukwudi of King of Kings Deliverance Church has
left many people in shock with his prophecies for 2017. The popular
cleric said that leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu,
IPOB will regain his freedom this year.
The prophet released another bombshell by saying President Muhammadu Buhari will die in 2019.
According to Daily Post, while addressing reporters in Asaba, Delta
State, Chukwudi said the release of Kanu will lead to the actualisation
of Biafra. Nnamdi Kanu has been in detention since he was arrested by
operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, in 2015.
The clergy man warned that the army would attempt to assume power,
but that the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo would “prevail” and lead the
country.
According to Chukwudi, “Tell pro-Biafrans to stop shedding
tears. Their leader Nnamdi Kanu shall not remain in prison custody for
too long again. He is already on his way out. As for their
(pro-Biafrans) agitations for Biafra, the Lord says it is already in the
horizon. Their day shall come soon”.
“The Lord is also speaking about Nigeria. Nigeria will come out
of its current recession before the end of 2019. Oil price will
stabilise and hardship shall disappear.
“But towards 2019, the president's health shall fail him, and
he shall go the way of all men. But VP Yemi Osinbajo shall wrestle with
the soldiers. They shall try to seize power and Osinbajo shall prevail.
He shall lead Nigeria into 2019.”
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