Up Station Mountain Club

President Paul Biya's end-of-year address to the nation

Fellow Cameroonians,

My dear compatriots,

At the beginning of the year now drawing to an end, we had every reason to believe that the time was ripe for us to devote our efforts to the attainment of our set objectives, namely the consolidation of our democratic institutions and the revival of our economic growth. In fact, the legislative and municipal elections had resulted in large and homogeneous majorities and furthermore, our economic recovery prospects were encouraging.

Message To Our Readers

We Are on Break!!!

This issue is the last one we are serving for 2008. We are taking a break to be back on Monday, January 5, 2009. We hope to return with our batteries sufficiently recharged to serve you better. Meanwhile, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year 2009!!!

The Post Front Page-Monday, December 22, 2008.

Mbanga Pongo Crash Report Delay Angers Victims

By Kini Nsom

Families of the victims of the Mbanga Pongo plane crash have accused government of deliberately delaying the report of the crash to cheat them of their right to sue for compensation.

Journalists Call For Press Offences Decriminalisation

By Daniel Gwarbarah

Close to 30 journalists of the public and private media drawn from some countries of the Central African Sub Region, have re-echoed calls for African governments to decriminalise press offences.

UB To Get ICT Exchange Programmes Soon

By Daniel Gwarbarah

Masters and PhD students as well as lecturers of the University of Buea, UB, have been promised exchange programmes with western universities.

   

1st Generation ICT PhD holders with gov't officials

Justice And Peace Commission to Crack On Human Traffickers

By Chris Mbunwe

The Justice and Peace Commission which is a Universal Structure of the Catholic Church whose origin came at the heels of Vatican II has vowed to put an end to human trafficking with focus on children and women.

Mrs. Ngwa Naddin:Cordinator of Justice and Peace Commission, Bamenda

MPs Stop Gov't From Frustrating 5,000 Temporary Workers

By Kini Nsom

An attempt by the Ministry of Public Service and Administrative Reforms to sack some 5000 temporary workers was recently rejected by MPs.Government had tabled bill No 827/PJL/AN that borders on settling disputes relating to temporary employment in the public service.

DO Intervenes In Customer/AES SONEL Crisis

By Olive Ejang Tebug Ngoh

The Divisional Officer, DO, of Kumba I Sub-division, Thomas Tambe Tabot, has intervened in the present crisis between customers and AES SONEL in Kumba.Tambe visited the Kumba AES SONEL centre December 17 where he dialogued with disgruntled customers, struggling to pay bills.

600 Vulnerable Children Receive Free Vaccination

By Victorine Biy Yongka

Some 600 exposed children in Yaoundé December 15-16 were beneficiaries of free typhoid and meningitis vaccines from a Yaounde based humanitarian foundation christened Shemka Foundation.

Buea Streetlights Finally Come On

By Elvis Tah

The Buea streetlights that have suffered successive destruction from rioting students and reckless drivers have finally began to glow.The lamps, most of them replaced at least twice, came alive in Molyko on Friday, December 12, thanks to efforts of the Buea Rural Council.

 

Buea lighted after centuries of darkness

Manual To Combat HIV/AIDS Published

By Chris Mbunwe

Due to requests from NGOs during a two-day workshop last July for a Peer Educators Manual to be produced, the organisers of the seminar known as the Platform of Actors in the Fight Against AIDS in Cameroon, PAFAC, have published a manual to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS pandemic.

 

PAFAC members pose after launching of Peer Educators Manual on HIV-AIDS in Bamenda

RUMPI Trains Technicians, Town Planners To Supervise Rural Infrastructures

By Olive Ejang Tebug Ngoh

The Rumpi Area Participatory Development Project has trained some 30 technicians and town planners in the Southwest Region on the supervision of rural infrastructures.This took place at the Community Development Training and Specialisation School, Kumba, from December 11 to 12.

Effective Communication Is Vital For the Elimination Of Malaria

By Kini Nsom, Edith Wirdze & Victorine Biy Yongka

Experts involved in the fight against malaria have indicated the necessity of an effective communication for the eradication of malaria.

I have been nurtured by CODESRIA through different research & training programmes

Interviewed conducted by Francis Wache, Kini Nsom & Orock Eta

Sam Moyo, the incumbent President of   CODESRIA, is a Professor of Agrarian Studies in Zimbabwe. He works with the Institute of Agrarian Studies in Harare, mobilising research around agriculture, food and land issues as part of the broader agenda of elaborating scholarship in Africa in collaboration with organisations such as the one he now heads.

Fons Renew Confidence In Ntumfor

By Peterkins Manyong

Northwest Fons have renewed their confidence in Ntumfor Nico Halle, saying he remains their one and irreplaceable ambassador.The confidence renewal took place in Awing during the 10th anniversary celebration of Fon Fozo'o, Fon of Awing.

We Have A Solid Financial Base - UBC Board Chair

By Joe Dinga Pefok

The Board Chairman of the Union Bank of Cameroon Plc, UBC, Eric Njong, has reassured its clients and the general public that the bank now boasts of a solid financial base and a good management team.  He made the disclosure on December 18 in Douala.

Orange Cameroun Presents Livebox To Bamenda Population

By Chris Mbunwe

The Chief Executive Officer, CEO of Orange Cameroun, Mr. Jean Michel Latute, and his collaborators were in Bamenda recently launched its new product known as Livebox in Bamenda.

 

Orange CEO-Jean Michel Latute with Northwest administration after theLivebox launce

Gas Fire Victims In Critical Condition!

By Azore Opio

This is a distress call!
Simon Mukoko Mundenge, 60-year-old retired civil servant and his nephew Princely Elongo, in his 20s, are lying in CDC Cottage Hospital, Tiko, in searing pains from third-degree burns.

 

Mukolo: In his sick bed

Illegal Forest Exploitation Is High In Cameroon - WWF Director

By Kini Nsom

Despite the current efforts by the World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF, to stem the tides of illegal logging and unscrupulous hunting of wild animals in Cameroon, WWF Country Director, Dr. Martin Chamba, says the phenomenon remains high.

 

Unscrupulous timber exploiters deplete Cameroon's rich forests

PMUC Staker Bags FCFA 70 Million!

By Joe Dinga Pefok

Christmas and New Year is going to be all rosy and honey for a Douala-based staker of the Pari Mutuel Urbain Camerounais, PMUC who in the Quinté + 4/5 on December 12, won FCFA 70 million.

 

PMUC family celebrates with Christmas millionaire

Hon. Nkwain Lauds SDF MP's Support To Rural Women

By Kini Nsom

Former Minister, Hon. Bochong Francis Nkwain, has lauded the SDF MP for the Boyo Constituency, Hon. James Ntam Mubain, for bringing succor to rural women in the area.The politician expressed his word of appreciation in Fundong, recently, as the MP donated tools to some 20 farming women's groups in his constituency.

 

Hon. Ntam with rural women

 

Synagogue Church Donates To Prisoners

By Peterkins Manyong

The Synagogue Church of All Nations, led by Prophet TB Joshua, has donated three TV sets and three satellite dishes to inmates of the Bamenda Central Prison.The equipment was given to Francis Musi MacTata, the Northwest Regional Delegate of Penitentiary Services.

Lawyers Accuse Police, Magistrates Of Miscarrying Justice

By Azore Opio

Participants at a one-day seminar-workshop in Limbe on Friday, December 19, observed that in spite of the new Criminal Procedure Code, CPC, the police and some magistrates have a way of cutting corners with it. 

CDC Begins Planting Boa Plain Oil Palms Next April

By Francis Tim Mbom

With some 266,000 oil palm seedlings already growing luxuriantly in a new oil palm seedling nursery at Bounjari Village, Bamusso Sub Division, Ndian Division of the Southwest Region, the Cameroon Development Corporation, CDC, is set to begin planting the very first oil palm trees in April, 2009.

 

Luxuriant nursery waiting for April planting