MTN-LFPC Partnership agreement:

MTN returns as official sponsor of Professional Football

General Semengue and PhilisiweSibiya exchange books at signing ceremony

-The telephone operator plans to invest 3bn cfa during a three-year period

MTN Cameroon, leader of the electronics communications sector in Cameroon, has on Thursday, 11 May 2017, signed a partnership agreement with the Professional Football League of Cameroon (LFPC) on the sponsoring of national football competitions organized by the League.

                According to the three-year-term convention, LFPC shall attribute to MTN Cameroon, the capacity of “Official and Exclusive Partner of the electronic communications and mobile financial services sector” for the organization of the National Division One and Division Two championships respectively re-named as MTN Elite One and MTN Elite Two.

                The Partnership Agreement symbolizes MTN’s come-back in the organisation of national competitions in Cameroon. MTN had already been the main sponsor of local football competitions in Cameroon between 2002 and 2013.

                “It is with immense pleasure and pride that I take the floor before the legendary Cameroonian football family represented here. Today, MTN CAMEROON is taking back its rightful place in this family, beside the Professional Football League of Cameroon……When General Pierre SEMENGUE, President of the Professional Football League of Cameroon, contacted MTN in November 2016, requesting that we come back as Official Sponsor of the League, we examined the conditions of such a come-back in consultation with the MTN GROUP, we considered how we could further contribute to the sustainable development of football in Cameroon,” said PhilisiweSibiya, CEO of MTN Cameroon, in her scripted remarks at the signing ceremony. 

Curbing ignorance among Konye councilors:

Mayor tells SDO to organize training sessions

-Promises improvement in development projects

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba

Dr. Barrister Musima George Lobe

The Lord Mayor of Konye council, Dr. Barrister Musima George Lobe has urged the Senior Divisional Officer, SDO of Meme to regularly organize quizzes for councilors of the municipality in order to reduce naivety and ignorance on issues regarding the council in the domain of development. The Mayor made the plea April 20 on the occasion of the examination and adoption of the 2016 administrative and management accounts of the Konye council at the council chambers.

                Mayor Musima’s plea comes on the backdrop of irrelevant and unnecessary questions posed by the councilors during the session which to him shows their ignorance of the said councilors of issues regarding them. While responding to sundry of such questions which had made some officials to term it the most boring session ever, the Mayor revealed the only way out from such embarrassing questions posed by councilors to raised unnecessary and unfounded debates will be curb if regular exercises are organized to edify the councilors of such situations.

                While addressing the councilors and officials present, Mayor Musima revealed “we worked very hard but we did not attend the level which we expected because of some short comings” while adding that the council however despite the shortcomings crossed the marked with a 58.9% in the budget realization. He noted the sum of FCFA 502 million was collected as revenue with expenditure of over 870 million.

Consequence of internet shutdown:

K’ba browsers complain of lost email addresses and passwords

By Johnson Batuo in Kumba

While most denizens of Kumba are still jumping for joy following the restoration of internet on 21 April 2017 by Government, many say they cannot celebrate because the long period of the shutdown caused them to forget their email addresses and especially their passwords.

                Those complaining are mostly persons who owned email addresses but cannot manipulate android devices.  Some of them told The Median that they have forgotten their email addresses as well as their passwords.

                And their frustration is not helped by the fact that some cyber café operators who created the emails for these “internet illiterates” have all relocated to other towns or have simply changed jobs.

Easy travel, study in Canada with Eden Inc.

By Nche Jude Mbah in Yaounde

The Eden immigration Canada.inc, a local NGO has unveiled a wide range of opportunities for young Cameroonians to go study in Canada, a country known for its easy and cheap college enrolment conditions.

                Canada being one of the countries in the diaspora that attracts Cameroonian students the most in recent times, Eden Immigration says she is available to intercede for any persons who would want to study in North American Country, but who are facing problems gaining admissions and visas.

                Speaking at a press conference in Yaounde, the promoter of Eden cooperation, Ndjang Georges Brice, encouraged all those who wish to study in Canada to contact the NGO which is there to make things easy for them. Alternatively, they can go online and follow the necessary admissions application guidelines of different institutions, many of which also provide tuition fees reductions and scholarships.

Against calls for work resumption:

K’ba Courts remain grounded, blackleg lawyers shamed

By Johnson Batuo

Despite claims by the president of the Cameroon Bar Association that Anglophone Lawyers had agreed to resume work on Tuesday 2 May 2017, lawyers in the Meme divisional headquarters of Kumba failed to appear in court on Tuesday.

                 The president of the Bar Council NgnieKamga, made his declarations after he allegedly met with some senior lawyers in the Southwest and Northwest regions. 

 The president’s claims later erupted into legal punches between him and some common Law Lawyers who alleged that his claims were not the opinion of the generality of Common Law Lawyers.

                 The Median gathered that NgnieKamga met with some four senior Anglophone lawyers in Kumba.  These ‘blacklegs’, whose colleagues are currently languishing in jail in Yaounde, later obtained authorization from the DO of Kumba I to convene sentisization meetings to try to get their colleagues to go back to court on May 2.

K’ba II DO imports mercenary bike riders to curb ghost town

By Johnson Batuo

Against the backdrop of ghost town religiously being observed in Kumba every Monday and on other days announced by the Anglophone consortium, the Kumba II administration has hatched a plan to import bike riders from the West Region to beef up circulation of passengers and their goods during ghost towns, The Median was informed.

                Most of the commercial Moto-bikes (Okadas) circulating in Kumba are owned by residents of Kumba II, most of whom originate from the West Region.

                               We have gathered that with ghost town being respected every Monday in Kumba, the Kumba II DO, who is from the West region is mooting plans to hire commercial motocycle riders from his region of origin to come ply in Kumba every Monday to mitigate the effect of the ghost towns on the population by transporting passengers and their goods from one part of the town to the other. 

Biya compensates B’da Food Market Fire Victims

Food Market Victims with North West Governor, Lelel’Afrique

Victims of the March 14th fire incident at the Bamenda food market where a total of six lockup stores, 91 open stores (temporal stores) and 12 trading benches were ravaged by fire have received the sum of over FCFA 75 million from the President of the Republic, H.E Paul Biya as compensation.

                Handing over the financial package to the victims recently in Bamenda at a brief ceremony at the Bamenda Congress Hall, North West Governor, Adolph LeleL’Afrique challenged them to put the money into effective use so that they can start their businesses anew and to repay the Head of State's good gesture by shunning calls for ghost town

                A total of 73,700,000 FRS was distributed to the victims. The six affected lockup stores shared a total 20 million FRS, 475,000 FRS each to the 91 temporal sheds and 100,000 FRS each for the 12 trading tables that were razed to the ground in the fire incident.

                The financial support he says is not a compensation for their loss but a gesture from the head of state to his compatriots.

                He also called on the victims to Shun all calls for civil disobedience and” stand by the state” as government has taken measures to resolve the current Anglophone crisis raised by Anglophone teachers and lawyers.

                Its popular believe in Bamenda that the shops were burnt because they did not respect the calls for ghost town that has paralysed economic activities in the Northwest and southwest Regions for close to four months now.

                One of the victims, MdzemniaEmmaculate, who owned a lock up shed said she received a total of 3.9 million FRS and express her gratitude to the head of state for coming to their aid though she acknowledged that the amount is meager compares to the colossal sum of about 27 million FRS worth of goods that she lost to the fire.

                One person, whose names has not been made public is currently held under detention in relation to the fire incident while the other perpetrators of the act are reported to be on the run, Northwest Governor said.