Gov’t worries over food prices
The government of Cameroon is worried that Yaounde dwellers are already spending more on daily needs since the increase in fuel prices which took effect on Tuesday 1 July 2014. The increase in fuel price has had the domino effect of increasing transport fares which has in turn led to an increase in food prices.
Food prices have increased in Yaounde because local markets are supplied daily with perishable foodstuff by commuters from rural markets, sometimes as faraway as the North West region. When traders spend much on transportation, they pass on the cost to the consumer by increasing the cost of the good. This is easy to do since the price of farm produce is not stable, but varies with the seasons.
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Monday, 7 July 2014
The fight against corruption will be intensified
- Issa Tchiroma Bakary, minister of communication
Full text of H.E. Issa Tchiroma’s opening remarks at a press briefing in Yaounde, Thursday
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is with a renewed pleasure that I welcome you, once again, in this conference hall of my ministry which has become the usual venue of our meetings, to exchange, in all conviviality and frankness, on issues of major importance relating to the life of our nation and the well-being of our populations.
It is about the fight against the embezzlement of public funds initiated by the Head of State, His Excellency Paul Biya, also known as the “fight against corruption”.
Allow me first of all, to acknowledge the presence, of His Excellency, the Minister of State, Minister of Justice, Keeper of the Seals, who has, in spite of his tight agenda, accepted to be here with me for this press briefing.
Mr. Minister of State, you are welcome to the Ministry of Communication.
Allow me also to take this opportunity to wish you all, fellow journalists, a warm welcome in this conference hall, and to thank you all, for your prompt reaction to the invitation I sent to you today.
Full text of H.E. Issa Tchiroma’s opening remarks at a press briefing in Yaounde, Thursday
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is with a renewed pleasure that I welcome you, once again, in this conference hall of my ministry which has become the usual venue of our meetings, to exchange, in all conviviality and frankness, on issues of major importance relating to the life of our nation and the well-being of our populations.
It is about the fight against the embezzlement of public funds initiated by the Head of State, His Excellency Paul Biya, also known as the “fight against corruption”.
Allow me first of all, to acknowledge the presence, of His Excellency, the Minister of State, Minister of Justice, Keeper of the Seals, who has, in spite of his tight agenda, accepted to be here with me for this press briefing.
Mr. Minister of State, you are welcome to the Ministry of Communication.
Allow me also to take this opportunity to wish you all, fellow journalists, a warm welcome in this conference hall, and to thank you all, for your prompt reaction to the invitation I sent to you today.
SCNC Leadership Crisis:
Beware of impostors and opportunists in SCNC
I read with a lot of consternation an interview granted by Mr. Leke Theodore in The Median newspaper No 0117 of 2nd June 2014who poses as 2nd vice National Chairman of the SCNC and the press release by Mr. Bisong Mathias Arrey published in the same paper on 16/06/2014 and wish to throw more light on these utterances . The SCNC which is the vanguard liberation movement of the over five million Southern Cameroonians has as main objective the restoration of the sovereign statehood of Southern Cameroons. Unfortunately, greed and egocentric interests by a few misguided individuals is stalling the work of the few devoted activists who have put the Southern Cameroons struggle above individual interests. Curiously enough Southern Cameroonians are more interested in discussing the leadership crisis than focusing on the ultimate goal and those actually pursuing that goal. Mr. Leke Theodore recognizes Chief Ayamba as the legitimate chairman of the SCNC and asserts that he is still alive so nobody can take over that position from him. He may be right because Chief Ayamba himself in a response to a petition from Meme county as to how he could chair a meeting of seven activists in Mutengene dismissing his constitutional Vice Chairman in December 2011 retorted that he was appointed by God to lead the SCNC and so was answerable only to God. I must make it abundantlyclear here that the SCNC is nobody’s personal estate where leadership has to be dictated by an individual
I read with a lot of consternation an interview granted by Mr. Leke Theodore in The Median newspaper No 0117 of 2nd June 2014who poses as 2nd vice National Chairman of the SCNC and the press release by Mr. Bisong Mathias Arrey published in the same paper on 16/06/2014 and wish to throw more light on these utterances . The SCNC which is the vanguard liberation movement of the over five million Southern Cameroonians has as main objective the restoration of the sovereign statehood of Southern Cameroons. Unfortunately, greed and egocentric interests by a few misguided individuals is stalling the work of the few devoted activists who have put the Southern Cameroons struggle above individual interests. Curiously enough Southern Cameroonians are more interested in discussing the leadership crisis than focusing on the ultimate goal and those actually pursuing that goal. Mr. Leke Theodore recognizes Chief Ayamba as the legitimate chairman of the SCNC and asserts that he is still alive so nobody can take over that position from him. He may be right because Chief Ayamba himself in a response to a petition from Meme county as to how he could chair a meeting of seven activists in Mutengene dismissing his constitutional Vice Chairman in December 2011 retorted that he was appointed by God to lead the SCNC and so was answerable only to God. I must make it abundantlyclear here that the SCNC is nobody’s personal estate where leadership has to be dictated by an individual
Sarkozy investigated for corruption
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is being investigated for alleged influence peddling and corruption. The official investigation was launched on 2nd July 2014 after he had been questioned by the Paris judicial police for 15 hours.
Marafa hospitalised
The former minister of territorial administration, Marafa Hamidou Yaya was rushed to hospital last week, after he reportedly took seriously ill in his prison cell at the SED. The former close collaborator and ally of President Biya, was rushed to hospital on the night of Monday 30 June 2014 breaking Tuesday 1 July 2014, according to family sources.
HTTTC Bambili to open its doors to the public
By Njodzefe Nestor
In an attempt to sell its programs to the general Cameroon public, The Higher Technical Teachers Training College, Bambilli, will on the 10th and 11th of July 2014 organize the maiden edition of its Open Doors Day at the Bambili, University Campus.
The open day to be held under the theme “Technical Education: The real Potential of Cameroons Economic Development” is placed under the distinguished patronage of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Bamenda, Prof. TAFAH EDOKAT O. Edward.
In an attempt to sell its programs to the general Cameroon public, The Higher Technical Teachers Training College, Bambilli, will on the 10th and 11th of July 2014 organize the maiden edition of its Open Doors Day at the Bambili, University Campus.
The open day to be held under the theme “Technical Education: The real Potential of Cameroons Economic Development” is placed under the distinguished patronage of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Bamenda, Prof. TAFAH EDOKAT O. Edward.
Call for liberation of abducted girls by Boko Haram
B’da Men march on women’s high heeled shoes
In an attempt to bring to public consciousness the plight of the 270 Nigerian Chibok Schoolgirls abducted by the extremist Boko Haram sect over two months ago, and as part of activities to mark this year’s Father’s Day in Cameroon, men from varied backgrounds put on women’s high heeled shoes and marched a distance of 1.2 km starting from the City Chemist Round-about to the Bamenda Commercial Avenue grand stand, on Saturday 5 July 2014. The march was also in protest against the physical, psychological, and mental torture being meted on the captured girls, and to fire an urgent call to action to the international community.
The “Men in Women’s High Heel Shoes Protest March” called for by “A Common Future”, a leading Bamenda-based NGO working with men and boys to end violence against women, was also intended to boost the efforts already undertaken by the Nigerian government and the international community to get the girls freed.
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The “Men in Women’s High Heel Shoes Protest March” called for by “A Common Future”, a leading Bamenda-based NGO working with men and boys to end violence against women, was also intended to boost the efforts already undertaken by the Nigerian government and the international community to get the girls freed.
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