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Jua Joins Race For Fru Ndi’s Job

By Pegue Manga
Member of Parliament, MP, for the Njinikom and Belo constituencies in Boyo Division, Northwest Province, Hon. Paulinus Toh Jua, has made known his intention to run for the post of National Chairman of the Social Democratic Front, SDF, at the February 2006 Convention of the party.
Jua, who declared his candidature for the SDF chairmanship, in Njinikom on Tuesday, September 27, is the second to do so after former Cameroon Bar President, Barrister Ben Muna.

Asonganyi Speaks Of Secret Gov’t Funding Of SDF

By Clovis Atatah

Outgoing SDF Secretary General, Prof Tazoacha Asonganyi, has told reporters in Yaounde that persistent allegations of shady financial dealings between members of his party leadership and the CPDM government, have greatly compromised the effectiveness of the SDF.
"There is persistent rumour that the leadership of the SDF not only has regular, secret contacts with the CPDM regime but also receives substantial secret funding from the regime," Asonganyi said, Tuesday, at a press conference at the SDF Secretariat in Yaounde.

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Nwalipenja Is Dead!

The death occurred in Kumba, Tuesday, September 27, of Hon. Lobe Ekwelle Nwalipenja, educationist and politician.
Born some 80 years ago in Lobe Batanga, Ndian Division of the Southwest Province, the Late Nwalipenja attended Native Authority, NA, schools in Lipenja and Kumba, completing in 1945.

YCPDM Youths To Develop Self-Financing Projects

By Francis Tim Mbom
Cameroon's one-time longest-serving female MP, Hon. Gwendoline Burnley, has called on CPDM youths in Limbe to desist from soliciting funds from the Party's hierarchy, and try to develop means of generating funds that could help in the running of their activities.    Hon. Burnley was addressing the youths at the opening of the YCPDM Conference on Friday, September 23, at the Limbe Urban Council Conference Hall. 

Verdict Of 1961 Plebiscite Was Final-SDO

By Jeff Ngawe Yufenyu

The Senior Divisional Officer, SDO for Ngoketunjia Division, Mr. Eboue Njoume, has said the verdict of the United Nations organised plebiscite in Cameroon on 11th  February 1961, in which a majority of English Speaking Cameroonians voted for independence by joining their French speaking counterpart, was final and irreversible.

Interview: Jua Runs for the Post of SDF Chairperson

The Post: What prompted you to run for the post of SDF chairperson?

Hon. Jua: We need change at least because the party has to be able to achieve its objectives as set out back in the 1990. Change at the leadership is the only opportunity we have to focus on our goals. This is good for all of us. We need a new leader to give the party a new direction.

Civil Society Mobilises Against Illegal Forest Exploitation

By Kini Nsom

Some 30 Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, have called on government to give them a chance in the fight against illegal exploitation of forests in Cameroon. The call was one of the resolutions the CSOs took after attending a two-day workshop in Yaounde on September 22.

SCNC Releases 'Independence' Celebration Programme

By Peterkins Manyong

Against a backdrop of heavy troop deployment, the Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, has made public a programme of what the separatist movement calls this year's October 1 Independence Day Celebrations.

Disconnecting Southern Cameroons

By Azore Opio

They went to Buea. Later, they went to Bamenda. It was September 30 or before. The Anglophone tourists of distinction arrived in Buea from Yaounde, in filthy weather and were driven to CEFAM, the Local Government Training School, what would have been Hotel de Ville d' Angleterre Camerounaise.

Cameroon's Economic Growth Slows Down

By Kini Nsom

A document published by the Ministry of the Economy and Finance last week indicates that the execution of the 2005 budget is on a good footing. Of the projected FCFA 1721 billion, FCFA 770.1 billion is said to have been collected within the first six months.

This is lauded as a major improvement because by this same time last year, only FCFA 620.4 billion had been collected.

Weriwo Murder:I Will Die If Transferred To Kumba, Accused Pleads

By Olive Ejang Tebug

Police Inspector, Stephen Ngu, standing trial for causing the death of one Weriwo Afuh in Kumba last year, told the Meme High Court on Monday, September 26, that he would die if transferred to await trial in the Kumba Principal Prison.

Mayors Blame MPs For Delaying Community Radio

By Wamey Panky

Mayors in Donga Mantung Division have blamed the delay in the realisation of the Donga Mantung Community Radio Project, earmarked over five years ago, on the lukewarm attitude of the Members of Parliament, MPs, of the area.

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Briefs

By Elizabeth-Mary Shuri( Journalism Student On Internship)

Northwest Military Officials Installed

The Minister Delegate at the Presidency In charge of Defence, Reme Ze Meka, Tuesday, September 27, commissioned a number of military officials in Bamenda. The Minister handed the baton of command to Colonel Ousanou Bindoho who was appointed by a March 11, 2005, Presidential Decree to head the Sixth Military Battalion in Bamenda.

I Share Full Responsibility For SDF’s Failure - Prof Asonganyi

Prof. T. Asonganyi.
Secretary General of the SDF

As you may be aware, the Primaries for the renewal of the National Executive Committee of the SDF were launched on 5 September 2005 in conformity with the texts of our party. This ritual has always been observed in the party, especially since I became Secretary General of the SDF on Sunday, 19 June 1994. Since then, I have worked selflessly for the SDF, and have always put party and national interests over self-interest; and of course, national interest over party interest.

Another October One

By Mbella  Sonne Dipoko

For Yang  Yang and Ngute and Egbe and Mbella Moki.
It is also for Eyeya Zanga and all the others
    the high table.

Letter From Yaounde ... to Buea

Dear Mbella

I hope you and you friends have heard the warning. It would be foolhardiness if you guys dare come out on your so-called independence day. Troops have been deployed to "deplore" your attitude of always coming out to ignite civil strive.

Presentation of People Not Be Fooled

Fr. Patrick ADESO, Catholic University

The Book People Not Be Fooled by Mathew Takwi, as it subtitle brings out is a collection of a fifty poems, carefully, passionately and beautifully written by the author. Poetry of-course seeks to express reality as in a creative, precise, beautiful and appealing literary mirror.

5 Franc Question

By Clovis Atatah

These Nigerian Cameroonians

In secondary school, the authority of the big boys in the dormitory was total. You challenged them to your own peril. They did not need evidence to flog you for any alleged offence. The flogging was often very severe.

How I Became A Homosexual

By Effa Tambenkongho In South Africa

She is young, soft and kind with all the effeminate qualities, but her urge to 'make love' to a woman is irresistible. She is a lesbian and she makes no secret of it.
These 'bizarre' emotional predispositions began manifesting in Valerie Ntombifathi Musa Ngubane, a South African from the Zulu clan, at the age of 14.

MTN's Contribution To Highway Africa Conference Lauded

By Joe Dinga Pefok

Chris Kabwato, Highway Africa Director, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, which organises the annual Highway Africa Conference, has lauded what he said was the immense contribution made by the Mobile Telephone Network, MTN, Group, to the realisation of the conf erence.

Joe Dinga Pefok (in Tie),Albert Ledoux&MTN Group Corporate Affairs Team

Kudos To Kumba Lakers, SW Interpools Representative

By Walter Wilson Nana

Kumba Lakers clinched the lone ticket to be Southwest flag bearers in the upcoming interpools tournament 2005. It was on Sunday, September 25, at the Molyko Stadium, Buea, when the K-Town Boys trounced their opponent, Tiko United, 4-2 after 120 minutes of play.

SCNC Communication Officer, 7 Others Arrested

By Chris Mbunwe
A week after government warned that it would not tolerate Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, secessionist activities towards October 1, considered as Southern Cameroons' Independence Day, gendarmes in Belo Subdivision, Boyo Division, working on the instruction of the Divisional Officer, DO, Chili Abdou, Wednesday, September 21, arrested the Communication Officer of the SCNC, Ngiewih Asunkwain, alongside seven other activists.

Why Asonganyi Won’t Run As SDF Scribe

By Charly Ndi Chia & Pegue Manga

The recent spate of disagreements and quarrels between Social Democratic Front, SDF, Chairman, Ni John Fru Ndi and his Secretary General, and an imminent hint that the latter would not be running for office, come February 2006, is most likely to be the kernel of Professor Tazoacha Asonganyi's Tuesday, September 27, press conference, in Yaounde.

UB's JMC Dept. Is Understaffed - Dr. Lilian Ndangam

(Interviewed In Grahamstown, South Africa, By Joe Dinga Pefok)

In 1996, Lilian Ndangam, then, a Journalism and Mass Communication, JMC, graduate of the University of Buea, UB, won a joint Guinness Cameroun/Foreign and Commonwealth Office in England scholarship, to do a Masters Degree course in Great Britain. She stretched it further to include a PhD and today, is at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, doing post Doctorate work.

Row In NEO Over Unpaid Bills

By Kini Nsom

The non-payment of election monitors of the 2004 Presidential election was at the centre of a row that nearly rocked the National Elections Observatory, NEO, during an ordinary session of the outfit that ended recently.Devoted to the examination of the Observatory's 2006 budget, the session gave NEO members the opportunity to decry the financial difficulties besetting the outfit.