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The Post Front Page-Monday,January 28, 2008.

CPDM Extraordinary Congress Holds February 9-10

By Chris Mbunwe

President Paul Biya, National Chairman of the ruling Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement, CPDM, has reportedly scheduled an extraordinary Congress of CPDM Section Presidents for February 9-10.

Kidnapped Woman Reunites With Family After 6 Years

By Elvis Tah

A woman aged about 30 whose names we got as Simplice Nguteh, allegedly kidnapped in the North by highway robbers some six years ago, has reunited with her family.

Biya Fooled Civil Servants About Salary Increase - Economist

By Kini Nsom

A senior economist and politician, Hubert Kamgang, has said President Paul Biya's promise in his New Year address to effect an increase in civil servants salaries, was a calculated attempt to fool state employees.

SDF Detainees Denied Justice - Mbah Ndam

By Kini Nsom

National Assembly Vice Speaker, Hon. Joseph Mbah Ndam, has decried the continuous pre-trial detention of some 21 SDF militants at the Kondengui Maximum Security Prison in Yaounde.

Douala Tit-Bits:Man Beaten For Ridiculing Indomitable Lions

By Joe Dinga Pefok

Twenty-seven year-old Martin Theodore Zang was in the night of January 23 beaten by some irate supporters of the Indomitable Lions when he ridiculed and even predicted doom for the team at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations.

Chief Tabetando Urges CAMASEJ To Purge Charlatans

By Joe Dinga Pefok

The Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists, CAMASEJ, has been called upon to discourage quacks, charlatans and adventurers from invading the profession.

Labour Delegate Promises Staff Better Days

By Willibroad Nformi

Northwest Labour and Social Security Delegate, Simon Adey Fru, has pledged better days for temporal staff of the Labour and Social service in the Northwest.

Dante's Corner

President Biya's Admission Of Failure

By Gerald Chenwi

Cameroonians have become used to bloated speeches and high-sounding words from President Paul Biya year in, year out. President Biya's New Year's speech was, however, a clear admission of failure by his regime. 

Is There Peace In Cameroon?

Interviewed by Chris Mbunwe, Francis Tim Mbom, Olive Ejang Tebug Ngoh & Elvis Tah

No Peace
Peace is a relative term as far as Cameroon is concerned. I wouldn't say that there is peace in Cameroon. Peace is not the absence of war.

Mother Tongue Learning Begins In Primary School

By Peterkins Manyong

Learning in home languages (mother tongue) has begun in 12 primary schools in Boyo Division of the Northwest Province.

Drivers Blame Kumba Councils For Double Taxation

By Olive Ejang Tebug

Drivers plying the Kumba-Buea-Douala road have expressed disgruntlement over the double payment of entry/exit fees to the Kumba I and Kumba III Councils.

Kumba City Council Received With Mixed Feelings

By Olive Ejang Tebug Ngoh

Some people in Kumba have reacted with mixed feelings to the January 17 presidential decree, uplifting the status of the former Kumba Urban Council to a city council.

Wum MP Received Amidst Worsening Farmer/Grazer Conflict

By Peterkins Manyong In Wum

Despite a degenerating farmer/grazer conflict, the people of Wum, Menchum Division, Saturday, January 19, welcomed their newly elected MP, Richard Wallang Ebua, on his maiden homecoming.

Biya Astonished By Delay Of Cement Factory

By Francis Tim Mbom

President Paul Biya was reportedly astonished when he learned that the files of a South Korean company, to construct the much-touted cement factory in Limbe, had been shelved in Yaounde for the past four years.


Containers of building materials left to rust on factory site

Vamoulke Installs Disgruntled CRTV Appointees

By Kini Nsom

The General Manager of the Cameroon Radio and Television Corporation, CRTV, Amadou Vamoulke installed the newly appointed officials of the corporation in a ceremony that was shrouded in euphoria January, 25.

Customs Director Says Drug Trafficking Remains Preoccupying

By Leocadia Bongben

The Director of Customs, Minette Libom Li Likeng, has expressed worry that trafficking in illicit drugs and psychotropic products remains preoccupying.

Commerce Delegate Seizes Hoarded Palm Oil

By Peter Mu_Nyete

The Menoua Divisional Delegate of Commerce and Industries recently cracked down on palm oil dealers in Dschang.

Balikumbat CPDM Back Section President

By Peterkins Manyong

CPDM militants in Balikumbat have resolved to stand behind Ignatius Dingha Bayin, Section President for the Balikumbat Special Constituency.

Ignatius Dingha Bayin, CPDM Balikumbat Section President

Mayor Refutes Embezzlement Claims

By Chris Mbunwe

The Mayor of the newly created Bamenda III Council Nkwen in Mezam Division, Prince Pius Amando, has refuted allegations that he embezzled council funds.

UBSU Elects President

By Elvis Tah

The University of Buea Student's Union, UBSU, elections that suffered an adjournment finally took place, Thursday, January 2.

UB Students during voting

Satellite Control Centre Soon In Douala

By Christopher Jator Njechu

Cameroon has been chosen alongside two other African countries to host one of the major network operational centres of the Regional African Satellite Communication Organisation, RASCOM.

Effects Of Climate Change On Agriculture In The NW

By Ernest Sumelong

The average rice farmer in Ndop, Ngoketunjia Division, Northwest Province of Cameroon, may not tell what climate change is, but they know their yields are dwindling, their children can no longer go to school and they find it difficult to manage their households, unlike before.

Rice Farmers 

Mami Lucy Tansinda Goes To Rest

By Walter Wilson Nana

Mrs. Lucy Ebude Tansinda, a pillar in the Buea Diocese Catholic Education, who died on January 11, in England, has been buried in her Sandpit residence, Buea, on January 26.