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AWCON 2022: Ajara celebrates Bamoun Sultan Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya on big stage with winning goal

By Bakah Derick  She lifted her yellow Lionesses shirt presenting a photo of the departed Sultan King of the Bamouns Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya just shortly after scoring the lone and winning goal for Cameroon on Wednesday 20 October 2021 in Douala.  The match was a 2022 Women's African Cup of Nations qualifier against the Central African Republic.  "The King forever" was the message below the colour portrait of the King in Ajara's vest. This was a big way to celebrate the man many have mistakenly considered her father. Like many in the Sultanate  of Foumban, Njoya is a popular name emanating from the throne of the Bamouns.  Playing for the female national team of Camroon for the first time in the celebrated Japoma and carrier of the team's arm ban at the time after the passing on of the Sultan could not just be business as usual but an appropriate moment to mourn her King. She will turn the mourning to a huge celebration after gettin

AFCON 2021 Cameroon: Eto'o, others induce Presidency Chief Scribe to playing football as fact-finding mission turns sweet

By Bakah Derrck  Pictures of the Minister of State, Secretary  General at the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh playing football with retired football big names have been circulating on social media since October 16, 2021.  The Presidency Chief Scribe and the retired football hotshots played together in Douala at the Bonamoussadi training facility and the celebrated pitch of the Japoma sports complex.  At the Bonamoussadi training facility, four times African best player award winner Samuel Eto'o is seen in a ball control run with the Minisyer of State Secretary General.  In very stylish form, the two men share smiles that portray a pair with much familiarity and desire to "play" together.  In what looked like a remake of history at the Japoma, the SG is seen in a position of ball expectation in a semi circle to the goal post as Eto'o controls from the other end with El Hadji Diouf of Senegal, Cameroon and Africa's