The Social Democratic Front SDF has ordered all their parliamentarians to be back in Parliament in November following social media claims that some of the party Members of Parliament had resigned from parliament. The decision to have the MPs back in Parliament is one out of the many decisions taken during a National Executive Committee meeting in Bamenda October 28, 2017.  According to Prof Ajagaji and Senator Tchach ang Paul who addressed the Press for the party, the MPs were elected to serve the people and could not be forced to resign on social media. “I don’t think any member of the SDF resigned. You don’t resign through the Social Media. They made statements which were released at the time on Social Media within the context of the situation. The committee meeting today has resolved that all elected officials senators, SDF Parliamentarians in general and Mayors and all elected officials should continue doing their work as normal because we are facing a constitutional a

The newly appointed and installed Divisional Officer DO for Bamenda III Subdivision Sone Clement Ngoe has embarked on an institutional tour of his area of jurisdiction.  The tour which started Thursday October 26 2017 took the Principal Civil Administrator to the Bamenda III Sundivisional council where Mayor Fongu Cletus Tanwe and staff treated him to a round the office tour. The vandalisation of the office and difficulties in revenue generation due to civil disobedience as part of the on-going crisis featured as some of the major challenges facing the municipal institution. While visiting the Inspectorate of Basic Education, the DO encouraged the Inspector to intensify efforts towards ensuring effective school resumption. While putting the figures in rate at about 50% of school attendance, Feni Peter Bulawah Inspector for Basic education regretted that school going is not effective. The Inspector used the DOs visit to call on parents to make schools vibrant again. “Befo

Tim Immaculate CEO ICON display her Awards  By Bakah Derick in Bamenda  Tim Immaculate a Bamenda based civil engineer has emerged winner of Africa’s most influential Woman in Business and Government Award 2017. The physically very happy Civil Engineer announced her award on her Facebook page Saturday October 21, 2017 with location indicating Accra Ghana.  Expressing her joy she went memory lane “When I found my passion in Building and construction about 20yrs ago, I never knew a day like this would come.” The founder of Immaculate Conception ICON did not forget the company she created some years back and the work she has been doing. “When I created ICON in 2010, I never knew a day like this would come. When I embarked on building school infrastructures including gender sensitive toilets to provide conclusive learning environment for children and also reduce the rate of disease outbreak in my community, I never imagined a day like this would come.” The construction indu

By Bakah Derick   It was an uncommon show of satisfaction and fulfillment by a practically rejuvenated President of the Northwest regional league of the Cameroon Football Federation FECAFOOT John B. Ndeh Friday October 13, 2017 in Bamenda as he and his board members officially took office following the recent decision of the normalisation committee ordering the return of the 2009 executives of the football association at the helm of Divisional and Regional structures.      

Kinaka blog's picture  A chaotic scene could be relatively fair to describe the nature of things or state affairs in Bamenda specifically at the Azire Presbyterian Church area Friday October 20, 2017 following another explosive occurrence in the area. The loud explosion sound produced at about 7am in a Church compound hosting Presbyterian Nursery, Primary and Secondary Schools and obviously a church house was sufficient generate fear causing undirected movements. That a stampede did not occur remains a mystery as kids who were already in school were forced in panic to attempt escaping by themselves or with the aid of parents who immediately rushed to school to take them home while those still coming simply made U-turns. In a narrative whose truism is yet to be ascertained, this reporter gathered from an unofficial police source at the scene that the explosion that occurred earlier was a security operation to deactivate an explosive planted earlier by unknown persons. Acco

According to the National Anti-Corruption Commission better known by its French Acronym CONAC, the Prevention, Education, Conditions and Sanctions PECIS plan is the best possible plan to assess the effectiveness of any anti-corruption initiative in today’s world.  The corruption fighting institution while in Bamenda for a two day workshop from October 17, revealed that while using the PECIS plan tool in the Northwest, the region scored a disappointing 28.13% in the anti-corruption drive in Cameroon thus emerging fourth amongst the ten regions of the country. Samuel Fohtung a CONAC Coordinating Committee member who coordinated the Bamenda workshop, the assembly was assess the PECIS plan implementation in the region with the believe that the corruption decease can only be treated when the population is sufficiently sensitized, given proper education and better working conditions with effectiveness and efficiency celebrated   and failures punished. Presented the results us

NW Governor bids farewell to fallen Soldier Friday October 6, 2017 was another sad day for the entire Kom people particularly those of Mbam-Fundong Subdivision Boyo Division in the North West Region from where Warrant Officer Rodolf Wultof Ngam of the Cameroon Army hailed from. The late Soldier who was fondly called amongst his friends and colleagues as “Duracel” linked to a popular battery brand known for its durability met death on the 22 nd of September 2017 along the Dgibrilli-Zanga road while on regular patrol in the fight against Boko Haram. According to his Army Colleague Ngoe Thomas who presented his eulogy presented the departed 39years old Mbam son as engaged, rigorous, discipline and energetic during the 17years nine months and four days as he moved from one training to another and one promotion to another. Assigned within the fourth emergency plan to the 421 st Unit of the 42 nd Motorised Battalion in the Far North Region, the late Rodolf Wultof will be sai

The Government of Cameroon as a major stakeholder of the Livestock and Fisheries Development Project LIFIDEP has signed protocol agreements with Microfinance Institutions as part of engagements towards the effective implementation of the third technical component of LIFIDEP being the Microfinance Component. During the agreement signing ceremony October 6, 2017 in Bamenda, Mbipeh Pius Sidiki LIFIDEP Project Coordinator explained that this third component “is coming to complement and support the work that the other two components namely: the livestock and fisheries development components have done so far on the field since the project implementation took-off.” Family picture at the end of signing  According to the Project Coordinator, the goal of the Microfinance component is to “provide diversity and affordable financial services to the active poor, in a timely and competitive manner, that would enable them to undertake and develop long-term, sustainable entrepreneurial activiti

The self-styled SDF Presidential Hopeful pending Primaries Felix Teche Nyamusa has accused the Chairman of the CPDM Paul Biya and his colleague of the SDF John Fru Ndi of threatening his life. During a news meeting in Bamenda October 4, 2017, Felix Teche said “President Biya September 22 nd and October 1, 2017 neighbourhood has directed armed forces to fire life bullets and tear gas at the Musang Bamenda II residence of Felix Teche Nyamusa particularly as he generally sprays the entire Bamenda town, Northwest and Southwest regions wounding and killing Cameroonians in so doing as citizens take upon the last constitutional resort to free themselves from an entrenched dictatorship.” According to Teche this was part of the anarchy in Cameroon that intended to stifle democracy through taking his personal life. As to what brings the SDF National Chairman to the picture when he is an opposition and certainly has nothing to do with the military, the presidential hopeful told the pre