Briefs

Brenda Biya pays 200.000FCFA as taxi fare!
President Paul Biya’s daughter, Brenda Anastasie Eyenga Biya, currently in the USA for further studies, recently found herself paying 400 dollars (more than 200 000 FCFA) as taxi fare to get to a destination which The Median did not immediately get. It was not also clearly stated where she was coming from. Brenda herself made this revelation in a video, a copy of which this newspaper got in possession of, and in which she is decrying an act of racism committed against her person by a taxi driver in Uncle Sam’s country. “If she can spend this amount of money just to be driven from one location to another,” an observer hollered, “then you can imagine how much she feeds on every day!”

ID cards abandoned
More than 1 700 national identity cards are lying abandoned in the first police district in Douala. These are both the old and new versions of the identification document. Since their owners went and established them there, they have never gone back to retrieve them. Worried by this situation, officials of the first police district have made a number of radio announcements and come up with lists which have been posted at the police station as well as the esplanade of the Douala 1 sub-divisional office. They blame this on ignorance on the part of the public. Yolande Amougou, a police official explained that once those who come to establish national ID cards get hold of their receipts (“récépissés”) they never return to verify if the final product is available. Some of the ID cards are abandoned at the station until they get expired. Expired cards are handed to hierarchy for destruction, she said.

   
Magazine for youth education launched in Y’de
A news magazine to educate the youth titled “Youth Attitude” was officially launched in Yaounde on Wednesday, 27 January 2016. A property of the Association of Youths for the Promotion of Youth Values (AYPYV), it will not only educate the youth but also sensitize them on and inform them about the many societal ills that young people are known to embrace today. In an address at the launching ceremony, the president of AYPYV, Justin Ndengue Samba, said “Youth Attitude” is coming to guide the youth against moral decadence. He said at a time when the nation is looking forward to emergence by 2035, the magazine will give a particular touch to the edification of the youth who are the yardstick of the nation. Sold at 600FCFA, the 24-page magazine is going to be a monthly and printed in colour so as to attract young people.