NCSAPD to train 4000 youths on patriotism and self-reliance
-Centre region begins selection of its own share of 400 youths
By Numh Rogers in Yaounde
The National Civic Service Agency for Participation in Development has begun selection of youth and volunteers to undergo training nationwide. The selection process was launched at the governor’s office in Yaounde on Wednesday 2 July 2014.
The first training program is for youth aged between 17 and 21 years. For sixty days, the youth chosen from schools and vocational training centres will be trained in civic education, environmental protection, first aid, sports and national culture. Of the 4000 youth to participate nationwide, the centre region has a quota of 400 youths. 320 of them would be selected from schools in the ten divisions of the region, while 80 will come from vocational training centres.
It is hoped that the training will kindle the spirit of patriotism and nation building in the youth who will then spread it among their peers.
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Monday, 7 July 2014
New Ndian S.D.O told to command on land and in water
This was contained in the installation remarks of the Governor of the South West Region Bernard OKALIA BILAI as he installed the new Senior Divisional Officer for the Ndian Division, Ntou’ou Ndong Chamberlin, in Mundemba on Saturday June 28, 2014.
News Courtesy Christelle TELEWOU, SW Governor’s office
At the tender age of 37, NTOU’OU NDONG Chamberlin’s appointment is the illustration of the Head of State’s intention to give new impetus to the administrative machinery in Cameroon. The former Divisional officer of the Ebolowa 1 Sub-division makes a step forward in his administrative career, where he will be expected to display his “savoir faire” in the management of the maritime zone, notably the Bakassi peninsula which he is not familiar to.
Governor Bernard OKALIA BILAI drew the attention of the father of four on the important role he has to play with respect to the smooth implementation of national laws of Cameroon, the consolidation of peaceful coexistence between various communities and the socio-economic development of the maritime zone. “Act with maximum firmness and show no tolerance to lawlessness on land and in the maritime zone” he added.
News Courtesy Christelle TELEWOU, SW Governor’s office
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Governor Bernard OKALIA BILAI drew the attention of the father of four on the important role he has to play with respect to the smooth implementation of national laws of Cameroon, the consolidation of peaceful coexistence between various communities and the socio-economic development of the maritime zone. “Act with maximum firmness and show no tolerance to lawlessness on land and in the maritime zone” he added.
After failed Brazil campaign
Cameroon investigates match-fixing claims
Cameroon officials are about to investigate claims that seven of their players were involved in match-fixing at the World Cup in Brazil.
The ethics committee of the Cameroon football federation will look at allegations of “fraud” by “seven bad apples” in their three group games.
The allegations have been made in a German news magazine Der Spiegel by a convicted match fixer from Singapore.
The Indomitable Lions had Alex Song sent off for lashing out at Mario Mandzukic in that game, while team-mates Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Benjamin Moukandjo clashed late on in the game.
The allegations were made by convicted football match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal, who was detained by police in Finland in April on an international arrest warrant.
Cameroon officials are about to investigate claims that seven of their players were involved in match-fixing at the World Cup in Brazil.
The ethics committee of the Cameroon football federation will look at allegations of “fraud” by “seven bad apples” in their three group games.
The allegations have been made in a German news magazine Der Spiegel by a convicted match fixer from Singapore.
The Indomitable Lions had Alex Song sent off for lashing out at Mario Mandzukic in that game, while team-mates Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Benjamin Moukandjo clashed late on in the game.
The allegations were made by convicted football match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal, who was detained by police in Finland in April on an international arrest warrant.
Two teams withdraw from FECAFOOT
Two teams withdraw from FECAFOOT organized competitions
-Owner indicts NW FECAFOOT
Lawyer Sopo Ngwa Founder of America For Africa FC Bamenda and Rush Football Academy (RUFA) Bali, both teams in the North West Regional Second Division league and also owner of the former Phoenix FC Bali has withdrawn his clubs from all FECAFOOT organized competitions in Cameroon. The competitions include the NW Division II Football championship and the Cup of Cameroon. The withdrawal of both clubs takes effect immediately.
Lawyer Sopo Ngwa in a statement released to The Median said “I am fed up with those at the head of NW Fecafoot in Bamenda who are interested only in their own personal gains and putting aside the general interest. Even the fact that there are very few NW boys at the various levels of the National Teams in Cameroon means nothing to these officials. I am not even sure if registration fees collected from clubs in the NW Region are reported to Yaoundé. NW Fecafoot officials go on missions, collect huge sums of money for those missions but do not give an account to the very clubs that they are supposed to be representing. Yet, they contribute almost nothing towards the promotion of football in the NW Region”.
-Owner indicts NW FECAFOOT
Lawyer Sopo Ngwa Founder of America For Africa FC Bamenda and Rush Football Academy (RUFA) Bali, both teams in the North West Regional Second Division league and also owner of the former Phoenix FC Bali has withdrawn his clubs from all FECAFOOT organized competitions in Cameroon. The competitions include the NW Division II Football championship and the Cup of Cameroon. The withdrawal of both clubs takes effect immediately.
Lawyer Sopo Ngwa in a statement released to The Median said “I am fed up with those at the head of NW Fecafoot in Bamenda who are interested only in their own personal gains and putting aside the general interest. Even the fact that there are very few NW boys at the various levels of the National Teams in Cameroon means nothing to these officials. I am not even sure if registration fees collected from clubs in the NW Region are reported to Yaoundé. NW Fecafoot officials go on missions, collect huge sums of money for those missions but do not give an account to the very clubs that they are supposed to be representing. Yet, they contribute almost nothing towards the promotion of football in the NW Region”.
46th Annual General Assembly
Gov’t hails Camccul for fight against poverty
-Urge her to also assist Agric. Cooperatives
By Njodzefe Nestor in Bamenda
The Inspector at the Directorate of Community Development in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, MINADER, Assi Catherine has entreated credit unions to help agricultural cooperative societies by granting them loans to boost farming activities of their members.
This was during the 4th Annual General Assembly of the Cameroon Cooperative Credit Union League, CamCCUL that held recently at the Pastoral Centre, Bamenda.
Assi Catherine who represented the MINADER lauded the CamCCUL network for impacting the lives of about 20 million Cameroonians. “In fact, the credit union movement which started in Njinikom sometimes in 1963 has stood the test of time and should be respected as a successful movement in the CEMAC zone,” Mrs. Assi remarked.
-Urge her to also assist Agric. Cooperatives
By Njodzefe Nestor in Bamenda
The Inspector at the Directorate of Community Development in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, MINADER, Assi Catherine has entreated credit unions to help agricultural cooperative societies by granting them loans to boost farming activities of their members.
This was during the 4th Annual General Assembly of the Cameroon Cooperative Credit Union League, CamCCUL that held recently at the Pastoral Centre, Bamenda.
Assi Catherine who represented the MINADER lauded the CamCCUL network for impacting the lives of about 20 million Cameroonians. “In fact, the credit union movement which started in Njinikom sometimes in 1963 has stood the test of time and should be respected as a successful movement in the CEMAC zone,” Mrs. Assi remarked.
Ban on plastic packaging
Another classic case of passing the buck
When the joint ministerial order signed in October 2012 by the Minister of Environment and Nature Protection and the Minister of Commerce came into effect in April 2014, it was heralded as proof of the government’s commitment to protecting the environment. The order announced government’s decision to regulate the manufacture, importation and commercialization of some non-biodegradable substances - plastic, glass and metal packaging materials. Henceforth, manufacturers, importers and distributors of non-biodegradable packaging materials shall inter alia;
- Be responsible for their waste management;
- Put in place measures aimed at limiting their production while encouraging recycling and reuse as well as other methods of making use of the their waste;
- Their activity shall be subject to first obtaining an environmental permit so as to track down the recovery, recycling or destruction (in an ecologically friendly manner) of their products;
When the joint ministerial order signed in October 2012 by the Minister of Environment and Nature Protection and the Minister of Commerce came into effect in April 2014, it was heralded as proof of the government’s commitment to protecting the environment. The order announced government’s decision to regulate the manufacture, importation and commercialization of some non-biodegradable substances - plastic, glass and metal packaging materials. Henceforth, manufacturers, importers and distributors of non-biodegradable packaging materials shall inter alia;
- Be responsible for their waste management;
- Put in place measures aimed at limiting their production while encouraging recycling and reuse as well as other methods of making use of the their waste;
- Their activity shall be subject to first obtaining an environmental permit so as to track down the recovery, recycling or destruction (in an ecologically friendly manner) of their products;
Lions’ Brazil debacle
The trouble with the “Yang Inquiry” commission
By Tazoacha Asonganyi in Yaounde
Before the demise of the venerable Bishop Verdzekof, he wrote a little manuscript titled “Running on the wrong road?” In it, he reminds us of a 1961 editorial of The Daily Times Newspaper about the reunification process, brought to his attention by Dr. Anthony Ndi, which went as follows "We are bringing into this union a great inheritance, viz., Democracy; the English have not given us fine roads and fine buildings but they have given something far more valuable: a democratic way of thinking…With this inheritance we need not be afraid to meet our brethren across the border for we are not coming empty handed."
These high expectations were because the political class in West Cameroon hoped that the best they were bringing along would be married with the best from East Cameroon, to produce “common values, common understanding and common aspirations." They surely had good intentions, but they suffered from a misunderstanding of human nature and the nature of power.
By Tazoacha Asonganyi in Yaounde
Before the demise of the venerable Bishop Verdzekof, he wrote a little manuscript titled “Running on the wrong road?” In it, he reminds us of a 1961 editorial of The Daily Times Newspaper about the reunification process, brought to his attention by Dr. Anthony Ndi, which went as follows "We are bringing into this union a great inheritance, viz., Democracy; the English have not given us fine roads and fine buildings but they have given something far more valuable: a democratic way of thinking…With this inheritance we need not be afraid to meet our brethren across the border for we are not coming empty handed."
These high expectations were because the political class in West Cameroon hoped that the best they were bringing along would be married with the best from East Cameroon, to produce “common values, common understanding and common aspirations." They surely had good intentions, but they suffered from a misunderstanding of human nature and the nature of power.
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