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BREAKING NEWS: Traffic Blocked along Bamenda-Ndop

By Bakah Derick Blogger @ hilltopvoices Commercial Motorbike riders  in Bamali The people of Bamali have expressed discontent with Government efforts to reinstate the dethroned Fon of the Village. Reports reaching us say the administration of the Northwest stormed Bamali today arrested the people enthroned Fon with the intention to replace him with the dethroned. In show of dissatisfaction, the population has packed stones on the bridge entering the village from Bamenda preventing traffic flow across Bamali to other places like Ndop, Kumbo and Nkambe. According to our sources, traffic has been blocked for well over two hours now. A traditional display in Bamali The population says they want their Fon not that of the administration. It should be recalled that the Fon the administration is trying to reinstate was dethroned since 2010 by the population and since then has been living in Bamenda and working for the state as a Gendarme officer. After he was dethroned t

BREAKING NEWS: Bamokumbit and Baligansin inter-tribal war resumes

Reports from Ngokitunjia Division Northwest Region say the tribal conflict between the two villages has resurrected this December 28, 2014. Our sources say a fight broke out at about 6:30am and before the forces of law and order could intervene four people were already injured. It is exactly one month since the last incidence which ended with one person dead. Northwest Governor visited the waring villages on the 29th of November to broker a peace deal. From the new developments it is clear no meaningful deal was reached. The Two communities are waring over a piece of land for which two separate government documents have been issued. While one said the land belonged to Bamokumbit another said it belonged to Baligansin. A school was finally constructed on the land carrying Baligashu. During the November out break of war, local sources we contacted on phone say the school was ordered to be demolished. We cannot independently confirm who ordered or whether the school has been broken. Howe

Bamenda City Council adopts 2015 budget

By Bakah Derick Blogger @ Hilltopvoices Bamenda City Board in Session The Bamenda City Council has adopted 3.623.563.235FCFA as its budget for 2015. This amount was adopted on Tuesday 23 rd December 2014 during the city board budgetary session. Compared to the 2014 budget, 2015 witnessed an increase of 167.243.235FCA. In his budget memorandum, the Government Delegate observed that the 2015 budget “has been drawn under difficult conditions. Mr Ndumu Vincent Nji cited the scarcity of revenue sources, increase in fuel prices, and the 5% salary increase of staff amongst others as the conditions. The budget which gives the Bamenda City Council a possibility to invest 1.772.344.000FCFA representing 48.91% in 2015, will only be realized if everyone works “in view of ensuring Revenue Collection and improving the living conditions of our population” Ndumu said. Under the supervision of Mr Nguelle Nguele Felix Senior Divisional Officer for Mezam, the city board members fond

NORTHWEST: CAMASEJ Endorses new executive.

By Bakah Derick Blogger at Hilltopvoces Obah Rosaline CAMASEJ President NW Chapter during sports The Northwest chapter of Cameroon Association of English speaking Journalists now has a new executive. The new team lead by Rosaline Obah was given the mandate to function during the association’s monthly meeting Friday December 12, 2014. The New Executive is as follows: President: Rosaline Obah , PCC Communication Department (NW Coordinator) Vice President: Richard Ndeh Lanjong , Radio Evangelium Bamenda and Publisher Editor Herald Tribune Newspaper Secretary General: Chifu George , Publisher Editor The Website Newspaper Vice Secretary: Gerald Ngeh , NW Regional bureau chief LTM TV Financial Secretary: Mbi Clememntine ; Journalist and Press Officer Free HIV NW/SW project of the CBC Health Services. Treasurer:   Emmanuel Woloko Mbua : Station Manager CBC Radio Bamenda Social Coordinators: Philo Happi , Eden Newspaper NW                                      

BAMENDA III: Deputy Mayor dies on Session Day.

Late Bati Rose L. 1st Deputy Mayor   By Bakah Derick Blogger at Hilltopvoices On arrival at the Bamenda III subdivision Council premises Friday December 12, 2014 almost an hour 30mins late from the announced kick-off time for the budgetary session, this reporter was received by a cluster of councilors like journalists with fallen faces. The unexpected had happened. Madam Bati Rose Lailam 1 st Deputy Mayor to the council had collapsed a few minutes’ earlier and confirmed dead at the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic hospital Ntasen in Nkwen. Talking to hilltopvoices , Yufanyi Ezekiel Secretary General to the Bamenda III Council explained “Mami came here for the session today. In fact we were together at the civil status registry. I later went with her to see the Mayor. After discussing with the Mayor she was now supposed to come so we discuss about the council Agric show on Monday. When we left the mayor’s office since I was ahead I turned at one point just to see mami on the

MPs’ Plenary on Boko Haram, CAR insurgencies: Biya hardly learns!

OPINION MPs’ Plenary on Boko Haram, CAR insurgencies:                              Biya hardly learns! By Felix Teche Nyamusa, SDF 2018 Presidential hopeful.         Unavoidable crises/insurgencies sometimes befall countries with accompanying catastrophic impact hugely incapacitating those with wanting good governance practice. The Cameroon national assembly, 27 November 2014 plenary on insecurities meant in principle for the executive to explain her modus operandi vis-à-vis the Boko Haram, Central Africa Republic (CAR) crises on Cameroon rather than a beginning interactive session on charting solutions helps the country in little or no way!         I, Felix Teche Nyamusa, SDF 2018 presidential hopeful(pending primaries) in line with my party, the SDF , and other goodwill Cameroonians advised President Paul Biya, like in most instances at the beginning of the Boko Haram, CAR crises to diagnose the nature and depth of the predicament through the people’s legislature