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YOSA's Kongnyuy Jude; Player of the Month of July

By Bakah Derick Blogger@hilltopvoices The Team Captain and striker for Yong Sport Academy YOSA Bamenda has emerge as player of the month of July. The Announcement was made in Yaounde Sunday August 16, 2015 after the Day-30 fixture of the professional league One between Canon and YOSA that ended 0-0. Kongnyuy Jude -Captain YOSA Bamenda The award was handed over to the potential highest goal scorer of the season by the National Trade Union for Cameroon Footballers better known as SYNAFOC in a short but significant ceremony in the Amadou Ahijo Stadium. The former player of Union of Douala, Fovu of Baham, Junior and Olympic National teams with short stays in Syria and Algeria received the award and the sum of 150000frs with joy saying "....i am very happy. I work very hard..... my wish is to be best scorer of the season...." Kongnyuy Jude in official Function A native of Nso in Bui Division, Kongnyuy Jude has played for several ye

We cannot employ teachers for persons with disabilities....Mayors

OPINION By Bakah Derick Blogger@hilltopvoices This is one of the most embarrassing things I have heard in the recent past. Some 15 Mayors drawn from selected municipalities in the Northwest Region recently assembled in Bamenda for a Two day workshop on the invitation of the Socio Economic Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities SEEPD, a disability development programme of the Cameroon Baptist Covention CBC Health Board. The Focus of the Wokshop was to school the Municipal Heads on how to involve persons with disabilities in the development process of their municipalities. After a careful presentation of the Memorandum of Understanding, MOU expected to serve as the cardinal way forward, I was taken abark when Mayor Njong Donatus of Kumbo Council took the Microphone and submitted that the decentralisation law in Cameroon does not permit Mayors to recruit teachers. Mindful of the fact that Mayors are responsible for the recruitement of staff for the Council, I decided to gate c

Can the Disabled contribute to Development? NW Mayors in Search for Answers in SEEPD Workshop in Bamenda

By Bakah Derick Blogger@hilltopvoices  Persons with disabilities are challenged by either economic, social, physical or attitudinal aspects of life which negatively affect their access to, education, adequate health care, quality jobs and social participation. Following government’s resolve to use Councils as key argents of decentralisation and eventually key actors in the development process, thinking of an inclusive development society without the council will certainly be a mistake. It is within this frame of mind that the Socio Economic Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities SEEPD; a disability development programme of the Cameroon Baptist Convention CBC Health Board has initiated a partnership with councils of the Northwest Region of Cameroon to push for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the development process of various Council areas. During the opening of a Two-Day workshop in Bamenda this Tuesday August 11, 2015, SEEPD officials stated that

Flooding; a Daily Occurrence in Bamenda

By Bakah Derick Blogger@hilltopvoices Users of the Bamenda-Bambui highway Sunday August 9, 2015 during the late afternoon and early evening hours where embarrassed by the stream separating Mile Three and Mile Four Nkwen when it over flowed it banks. It took less than 20 minutes for the over-flowed stream to go wild bringing traffic to a standstill. Mulang Bamenda, City Chemist and Mugheb are other areas in Bamenda where flooding has become a daily occurence.  When we rushed to the scene we spent over an hour capturing pictures for you. Here are a few of them.

Security: Northwest Administration on the Alert

By Bakah Derick Blogger@hilltopvoices Anyone who travels to the Northwest Region or the Regional Capital Bamenda to be more specific will certainly not get it easy with the security setup in Abakwa. From the Matazem gateway into the region it’s just a simple tollgate. As you drive in, there is a heavy deployment of mixed security official just before blue-moon. They are charged with searching both individuals and cars to make sure no one enters the regional capital with a “bomb.” Meeting during a security meeting in Bamenda early this week chaired by Government a series of measures were announced in a bid to check security treats. NW Governor Adolph Lele L'Afrique with hand up and Mezam SDO Nguele Nguele  According to the Regional Governor Adolph Lele L’Afrique many of the measures will assist city dwellers detect potential terrorists or suicide bombers. This follows a series of meetings and other decisions taken to keep at bay the continuous attack on Camer

FECAFOOT Disciplinary Committee rules in Favour of YOSA over BOTAFOGO FC Protest

  By Bakah DErick Blogger@hilltopvoices As Bamendas’ Yong Sports Academy YOSA FC and fans were busy celebrating their subjugation of Botafogo Fc 4-1 in Bamenda during a day 27 fixture of the League one, Botafogo FC under the leadership of the President General Mr Hugues Tsobni captain and goalkeeper Hugo Nyame were busy compiling and forwarding a protest to the Disciplinary and homologation committee of the Cameroon Football Federation FECAFOOT. YOSA Bamenda According to the Botafogo FC protest which hilltopvoices got a copy, Ako Bechem Benjamine who used jersey no 30 was not a player of YOSA FC. The protest said he was player of Oryx Football Club of Douala for the 2014-2015 football season and since the amateur license expires only after two years and no liberation according to Botafogo was signed it was illegal for YOSA to use him. All of this the protest states is against the laws of the Professional Football league and FECAFOOT.   Quizzed on the matter, Authorit

Multiplicity of media organs stifling Bamenda City Council communication

Bakah Derick Blogger@hilltop Bamenda is one of the few cities in Cameroon with an avalanche of media organs. The city has over 30 newspapers, over 12 radios and over 10 televisions based or represented. These figures according to Senior Councilors of the Bamenda City Board meeting in Bamenda Tuesday August 4, 2015 are stifling communication in the city.   Bamenda City Board in Session The councilors argue that you cannot read all newspapers, listen to all radio stations or watch all television stations in the city. The councilors hence requested the Government Delegate to the Bamenda City Council Ndumu Vincent Nji to hence forth send all announcements to the Senior Councilors in hard copy for eventual dissemination to their population. The Government Delegate reacted saying that the issue will be given deserved attention. It is worthy of note that since the liberalisation of the press in Cameroon in 1990, the country has witnessed on unprecedented growth in the num

Bamenda Streets to be relighted soon

BY Bakah Derick Blogger@hilltopvoices Among  the many issues that filtered from the Tuesday August 4, 2015 Bamenda city board meeting with direct bearings on the lives of Bamenda City dwellers was the relighting of streets in Bamenda.   Bamenda Commercial Avenue at night Noting that after the visit of the President of the Republic Paul Biya to Bamenda in 2010 that came and went with streetlights leaving Bamenda into pure darkness, Senior Councilors questioned the Government Delegate on what was being done to relight the city. The councilors cited several cases of burglary in the city caused by the darkness and according to them something rightly needed to be done. "There is no security in darkness" a participant at a recent security meeting in Bamenda said addressing self to the government delegate. The City council was generally faulted at the security meeting chaired by the regional governor on the street light issue with submissions that it could h

Bamenda Government Delegate to drag Government Hotel to court

By Bakah Derick Blogger@hilltopvoices Senior Councilors of the Bamenda City Council meeting in session August 4, 2015 raised a worry over unpaid profits by authorities of Ayaba Hotel; a government hotel in Bamenda to the City Council.   The Bamenda City Board in Session  According to the Senior Councilors during the construction of Ayaba Hotel in 1982 there was a certain FCFA 27million to be paid as building permit to the then Bamenda Urban Council BUC under the late Jomia Pefok. Following a municipal decision taken at the time the Senior Councilors say the BUC decided to contribute that amount as a share to Ayaba thus making them shareholders of the hotel. As shareholders the councilors say the City council has a right to some of the profits made by the hotel in the past 32years. In a reaction the Government Delegate to the Bamenda City Council Ndumu Vincent Nji said he has been talking to Ayaba authorities yet no concrete action. The Councilors ended the issu

Heavy Rains interrupt Cosmos FA –YOSA encounter in Ayem.

By Bakah Derick Blogger@hilltopvoices It was a very bright Monday afternoon in Bafia until 3:40pm when the heavens opened pouring down water on the Ayem Stadium in Bafia just 9:37secs into the game Cosmos FA and YOSA. The heavy nature of the rains though without ice blocks forced the referee Kalla Mounjo to suspend the game.  COSMOS FA VS YOSA FC Fifteen minutes later the rains subsided giving way for the continuation. This continuation will however not be effective until the playground marked lines were retraced and water carried out from the pitch in buckets with rags even used in what looked like dry-cleaning. Play finally resumed at about 4:30pm and went uninterrupted till the end of the first half. At the end of the 15minutes break, the day’s actors returned into the pitch only for the rains to return in full force. The referees persisted up till the 25 th minute when 2 nd assistant Referee Dorihnea Claude submitted to his Boss Referee Kalla Mounjo that

Kumbo Strikers Clinches Cup of Cameroon final phase Ticket

By Bakah Derick Blogger@hilltopvoices 2000 Cup Winners and 2014 quarter finalist Kumbo Strikers Sunday 2, August 2015 clinched One of the regional tickets to represent the Northwest at the final phase of the Cup of Cameroon. KUMBO STRIKERS  Kumbo Strikers qualified after beating 1979 finalist PWD Bamenda 1-0 in the crowded Bamenda municipal stadium. Thousands who showed up for the game with a majority from Kumbo-Bui Division home town of Kumbo Strikers watched a good football spectacle staged by two historic football teams in the Northwest Region of Cameroon with many expressing satisfaction with the level of play. “I am very happy like anyone who gets a win …… I am satisfied with my boys though more work has to be done to better prepare them to ably represent the Northwest Region…… I cannot say how far we will go but it is our wish to go pass last year’s record of quarterfinals.” Coach Festus Ngwafang told hilltopvoices. PWD Bamenda According to PWD’s c