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By Joe Dinga Pefok
Competition for the prestigious Ngondo title, which is a major feature of the Ngondo Festival, a grand cultural jamboree of the Sawa people, will from this year be opened to interested female indigenes of the Southwest Province. This disclosure was made at a press briefing at the Ngondo Secretariat at Akwa, Douala, recently.
By Nformi Sonde Kinsai
All the makers of the game of football ranging from club presidents, coaches, players, supporters, re
ferees, spectators, FECAFOOT, etc, have been blamed for the increasing violence that is rocking football matches since the start of the second round of the ongoing division one championship.
Continue reading "Stakeholders Of Football Blamed For Violence In Stadiums" »
By Pegue Manga
Fifty prisoners escaped from the Central Prison in Buea, following a massive jail break on the morning of Sunday, August 14. At press time eight of the escapees had been sho
t and arrested by a mixed squad of warders, gendarmes and the police. One of them Konrad Forbi, said to be a hardened robber died after receiving several bullets around his hips.
Continue reading "8 Shot In Buea Central Prison Jail Break" »
By Pegue Manga
For the first time, the traditional Convocation ceremony organised yearly, to award degrees to graduating students of the University of Buea, UB, will not take place this year, The 
Post has learnt.
The decision was arrived at during a meeting of the University's Senate at the Amphi 750 on August 3.
Continue reading "Fallout Of UB Strike: Senate Cancels 2005 Convocation" »
By Nformi Sonde Kinsai
The Director of the National Institute of Youth and Sports, INJS, Dr. Oumarou Tado, August 9, ordered Youths from some 17 associations who had gathered at the institution to launch activities for the International Youth Day in Cameroon, to leave the institution's hall.
The Post learnt that when the youths showed up at the school premises in the morning of August 9, and moved over to the Director's office to indicate their presence, Dr. Tado scolded them, stating that he had received no correspondence requesting the use of the hall.
Continue reading "Administrative Conflict Mars International Youth Day Celebration" »
By Peterkins Manyong
A Bamenda-based former Assistant Superintendent of Police and court prosecutor was on Friday, August 5, sentenced to six months in prison for defamation and lying on oath.
David Chiatoh, the defendant in the case, was ordered to pay FCFA 50,000 and FCFA 150.000 or serve an additional three-month imprisonment and also pay to the plaintiff FCFA 3.5 million.Justice Anne Afong of the Bamenda Magistrate Court, passed the judgment.
Continue reading "Retired Police Superintendent Convicted " »
By Joe Dinga Pefok
Nigerian inmates in the New Bell Prison in Douala have told the new Consul-General for the Littoral and West Provinces, Gordon Harry Bristol, that his predecessor neglected and refused to receive them.
The prisoners complained to the Consul-General during the latter's visit to Nigerian nationals detained there.
Continue reading "Your Predecessor Neglected Us, Prisoners Tell Consul-General " »
By Joe Dinga Pefok
The bad state of roads in Douala is seriously impeding the operation of the Urban Transport Bus Company, commonly known by its French acronym, SOCATUR.
SOCATUR's General Manager, Jean Ernest Messena Ngalle Bibehe, told the Inter-ministerial follow-up Committee for the Rehabilitation of the Wouri (Bonaberi) Bridge, which met for the sixth time in Douala on August 5 that, "It is becoming almost impossible for our buses to ply most of these roads. It is also becoming almost impossible for the buses to leave our base in Ndokotti to other parts of the town," Ngalle Bibehe told the Committee.
Continue reading "Impassable Roads Might Stall SOCATUR Circulations" »
By Mirabel Azangeh Tandafor
Elizabeth Bessem Manga a.k.a Bebe Manga thinks everyone was not cut out for music. And even if they were, it is worthless, and even irritating to dare into genres that their sizes and voices are not meant for. Yet, music ought not to please just one class of persons, she says. The plump, but medal-poacher just returned from Ivory Coast where one more feather was added on her already overcrowded cap. The Post caught up with her recently for details on the Top d'Or and lots more. Excerpts.
Continue reading "Meet Bebe Manga The Woman Who’s Married To Music" »
THE HORSEMAN’S WOMAN
By Mbella Sonne Dipoko
Some Bakweri people in Great Soppo owned horses
When I was growing up in that village as a small boy, going to school
In the late 1940s of the just-ended century.
And on the Mission Hill too there were horses
On which white missionaries sometimes rode
For the fun of it for they also had their station wagons.
Maybe it was because of those horses
That I came to write
About a woman who never betted on the races, not being a gambler,
But who nevertheless was always dreaming of a big black horse
On which a man sometimes came riding through her farm,
A big black horse that sometime was No. 6
And at other times it was marked No. 9
And always it was painful to her
Whenever that man came riding through her farm
As if it was no longer her private property
But the village common or the Town Green
On which any black horse could gallop
And any cow graze.
Jacinte Noussi (UB Journalism Student On Internship
For the sceptics who feared that the advent of audio-visual CDs would wipe out stereo cassettes and albums, thus putting recording houses out of business, they were right to a large extent.
But they stopped short of perceiving the incredible resilience exuded by the recording houses with the development of communication technologies. Buea has witnessed a proliferation of musical and video shops. The walls of the shops bear posters of Nigerian movies or African singers.
Continue reading "Recording Houses Adapting To The Changing Times" »
By Yangange M. Wose
These gentlemen created a world of their own with the culture of music.
In their time, the three, "Troika of musketeers" benefited aid from the Ministry of Information and Culture.
It was a great pleasure when they released their respective albums by the year 1982.
Sammy Mafany registered his songs at the "24 piste "studio of the National Station during the test period. It was a modest. Afterwards, he moved to Lagos, Nigeria, where he waxed the album entitled "Na Keka" meaning "I will try".
Continue reading "The Great Entertainment Vacuum After Etub Anyang, Sammy Mafany And Francis Ndom" »
By Peterkins Manyong
Members of the Cameroon association of University Women, CAMAUW, have instituted an award bearing the name of its founder and pioneer President, Mrs. Grace Tima. "Grace Ngemukong Tima Award" as it is called, is a yearly scholarship award with the girl child as beneficiary. The award was initiated to honour Mrs. Grace Tima, founder and pioneer President whom the women are unanimous, has sacrificed enormously towards the implantation and growth of the Association in Cameroon.
Continue reading "University Women Immortalise Association's Founder" »
By Chris Mbunwe
"What the 1,700 students of ENS Bambili have for toilets are two pit latrines getting full, smelling and becoming a health hazard. There is no single public tap on ENS campus; hence we suffer daily from thirst. Restaurant facilities for both staff and students are non-existence." These, according to a secret memo, are some of the problems plaguing the 40-year-old Higher Teachers' Training College, otherwise known as Ecole Normale Superieure Annexe, ENS, Bambili.
Continue reading "Secret Memo Exposes Neglect Of ENS Bambili " »
By Joe Dinga Pefok
The new Nigerian Consul-General for the Littoral and West Provinces, Gordon Harry Bristol, has appealed to police chiefs in Douala to ensure that junior police officers who maltreat Nigerians are brought to justice.
Bristol made the appeal during his maiden courtesy calls to a number of police chiefs in Douala on August 5.
Continue reading "Consul General Wants Maltreatment Of Nigerians Checked" »
By Polycarp Ndikvu Chia
Thumbs up to the God-sent wonder boy who has panel-beaten the constitution to make him incarnate all the institutions of government. He has turned the country into a huge cemetery, thereby obliging gravediggers, coffin makers and hearse services good business.
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