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Section Presidents of the Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement, CPDM, of the Northwest Province, have told Prime Minister, Chief Ephraim Inoni to remind President Biya that, "he has not been to his second home, Bamenda, for close to fourteen years."
PM Inoni in traditional regalia
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The strike embarked on by students of the University of Buea, UB, on April 27 has been suspended following the intervention of Higher Education Minister, Jacques Fame Ndongo and the mediation of Buea Mayor, Charles Mbella Moki.
The March on UB: Buea Mayor Mbella Moki (suit) marches arm-in-arm with students as he leads them into the UB campus to meet with Minister Fame Ndongo
By Pegue Manga
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Buea, Dr. Dorothy Limunga Njeuma, has said the over 180 lecturers who constitute the Buea branch of the Syndicate for Higher Education Lecturers, SYNES, have contributed nothing to the beauty of the University, The Post has learnt.
Theresia Mubang, a 42-year-old Cameroonian who escaped after conviction by a US Court was on Friday, May 27, arrested in Bamenda by US Police, working in tandem with Cameroonian police. Theresa was sentenced to 17-year jail term for charges related to human rights abuses, child molestation and financial impropriety by a US tribunal late last year.
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By Chris Mbunwe
The Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement, CPDM, joined the Social Democratic Front, SDF, on May 26, at the Bamenda Municipal Stadium to celebrate the SDF 15th anniversary. The Mezam CPDM Section President, Abel Ndeh Tadzong, and his entire executive dressed in CPDM outfits, took many by surprise as they honoured the invitation from SDF militants.
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Following the dialogue between the students of the University of Buea and the Minister of Higher Education, and considering the fact that a good number of the grievances on the memorandum has been met, the University of Buea Students' Union, UBSU, have called off the strike action.
In the eye of the storm: Fame Ndongo in a heated exchange with a student
Continue reading "University Of Buea Students' Union (UBSU) Communique" »
Considering the tense atmosphere that characterised the crisis at the University of Buea; considering the status of UBSU to promote dialogue and non-violence as a means of resolving their problems and in a number of efforts to open dialogue with top government officials in a bid to end this strike action, we have resolved that:
UBSU President and Minister of Higher Education sign agreement while Mayor Mbella Moki (with tie) looks on
Veteran journalist and human
rights consultant, Peter Essoka has indicated that despite the concessions made by Higher Education Minister, Jacques Fame Ndongo last weekend in Buea, following the University of Buea strike, the students ought to stay subordinate to the varsity authorities.
Continue reading "Time For Fence Mending At UB - Peter Essoka" »
First of all, we have to thank Prime Minister Chief Ephraim Inoni, whom we consider as our brother. I also want to say this visit is a celebration of his appointment for which we thank the Head of State, Paul Biya, immensely for bestowing total confidence in one of us. 
A gang of thieves on the night of Wednesday, May 25, attacked the Parish Priest of Elak, Oku Subdivision, demanding FCFA 2 million. In the struggle that ensued, one of the bandits was killed. Rev. Fr. Hermann Gofla, 64, an Austrian, The Post gathered, had just finished
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Fame Ndongo Visits ‘Bethlehem’ May 27, Minister of Higher Education, Jacques Fame Ndongo, on his way into the UB campus to address striking students, stopped at a spot christened ‘Bethlehem’ on University Street, on UB campus, where the students had been gathering in the course of the strike action.
Students released from jail on the basis of agreement
The atmosphere was gradually getting tense again on the University Street leading into the University of Buea Friday, May 27. The police and gendarmes who had been guarding the place for over three weeks were better armed and reinforced in numbers. A special squad of policemen had also been deployed.
UB students:Savouring a hard earned victory
By Olive Ejang Tebug
The Branch Manager of Community Credit Company, CCC, Kumba, Reymond Ngoh has said there is gross exaggeration in Post Office crisis as almost half of the demonstrators are not customers of the savings bank.
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SDF-Sans Domicile Fixe
In Douala Despite being the opposition party with the largest following in Douala, Social Democratic Front, SDF, party does not yet have a permanent secretariat. Whoever is SDF Littoral Provincial Chairman allocates part of his office, if possible, or part of his parlour to serve as the temporal secretariat of the party in Douala.
Hon. Calvin Foinding, President of Mount Cameroon Football Club, MCFC, Buea, has expressed disappointment with the coaching staff of the team."We have a problem of coaching. If our coaches do not change for good, we will be obliged to change them," he told The Post
Calvair Foinding(In glasses) & Barrister Ngu
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Prisons Social Club of Buea aka Home Boys, Saturday, May 28, at the Molyko Omnisport Stadium beat Pool B rivals, Mount Cameroon Junior (Mt. Cam Jr) 2-1.The encounter, which marked the last playing day of the first round of the Southwest Division II Championship, was punctuated with nerve-breaking moments. 
Prisons Social Club shortly before they beat Mt. Cameroon Junior
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Alain Achuo Amu, a taxi driver was shot dead and several students received bullet wounds in a second round of clashes between security forces and students of the University of Buea, UB, on Tuesday, May 24. In the first of such clashes some two weeks earlier, security forces killed two students.
Continue reading "UB Students,Troops In Another Bloody Clash" »
The prologue was a violent outburst of tempers on a stage occupied by armed men against calm students. In the tragic melodrama of the insurrection and anti-riot, the students and the troops portrayed violence apparently prompted by the Governor of the Southwest Province, Thomas Ejake Mbonda's instructions.
The students later returned to re-light the fire
A Female Gendarme And The Students.
Enanga Munyenge, a female gendarme brought in from Limbe, Tuesday, May 24, sat in the sentry at the Buea University gate, nursing her wounds, alongside her male colleague. Protesting students had just pelted them with stones and they were asked by their bosses to relax in the sentry
Fri
tz Makoge, ever so lively, is no more. He was plucked by a gunshot; not as a result of a capital sentence in any court of law, but during customary practices in a typical grassficious (of Grassfield origin) death celebration. Having caused human death, the typical behaviour at cry die becomes topical. Let's talk of it while mourning a dear friend.
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