The little known neighbourhood of Ntatru in metropolitan Bamenda has a lot to show with a local initiative that unites youths in the spirit of peace and development. In the short and long of it; Pilaco is the six letter word that inspires hope for youths with a stated mission to research and carry out vocational and professional training for youths and women on skills as a vital means of achieving...
The national community had hardly finished heaving a sigh of relief following the end of repair work that enabled Bamenda, the North-West regional capital, to be reconnected to the rest of the country after the collapse of a section of the lone highway to the area when tragedy struck again a few days ago.
The colonial Bamenda Central Prison with 329 inmates began a new chapter recently with Lamya Mama Njanjo commissioned to check indiscipline and other speed breaks blamed for the massive escape of some inmates .
The urgent need to resettle the 13th Governor of the North West Region elsewhere in metropolitan Bamenda has been expressed. The danger posed by the 107 year old residence of the governor is on every lip. In effect, the residence is seriously haunted by surrounding landslides which threatened to swallow the building and its surroundings should heavy rains continue.
Barely a month to the end of the summer holidays hawking by students and children is still in vogue on the street of Bamenda. It is common to find children as young as five hawking in their claim to help their parents fetch their fees and school needs. They hawk groundnuts, sweets, bananas, boiled corn, paw-paw, pineapples amongst others. They dash from one car to another, covered long distances with...
Metropolitan Bamenda and the North West region at large are in pain since threats of killer floods, landslides and collapsing bridges hit the area with the heavy rains to blame. It was against this background that the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Clobert Tchatat and the Secretary of State for Public Works, Hans Nyetam Nyetam arrived in the Akum disaster area yesterday by midday with a...
Regular blackouts in electricity supply in Bamenda and the North West Region continue to haunt inhabitants giving rise to new vocabulary in their frustrations. In effect, homes, business houses, offices and re-established street lights suffer as many as ten electricity cuts a day leading to what many now call 'per second electricity supply'. The frustrations are many within the photocopy business,...
Nkemassoua Augustine, 35, of Mile five Nkwen, Bamenda, has been sentenced to serve ten years in prison, by the Kumbo Court three of First Instance presided over by Magistrate Ignatius Che Ajuyo. In passing the sentence recently in Kumbo Magistrate Ignatius said the accused used tricks to part with the sum of 2.580.000 francs from one Mr. Nubong Peter in three instances.
The Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists, CAMASEJ, is aiming high with the new executive taking some laudable steps to keep the association on the move. The new executive led by the president Tricia Oben was in Bamenda over the weekend for its first national executive meeting just one week into office.
Review by Fatou A. MinahSusan Nkwentie Nde. Second Engagement (Paperback). Bamenda, Langaa Publishers, 2009. 208 pages. This second novel by a high school language teacher in Buea in Cameroon (in the heart of Africa) is a journey through the...
Originally published in Museke (South Africa) Born in the politically radical city of Bamenda in Cameroon in 1981, Wax, aka Nde Ndifonka, has made a mark across the African continent as one of Africa’s influential youngsters, excelling as a social...
Bamenda I( Mezam): The government of Cameroon has as one of its major objectives to alleviate poverty and to improve the livelihood of its citizens. Owing to the fact that the informal sector occupies about 80% of the Country's economy but contributes less than 10% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The government put in place some structures to help improve efficiency of actors in this sector. Consequently,...
Bamenda, Cameroon - "English-speaking," I have learned, is a relative term. When we first arrived in Bamenda six days ago, I was excited to be in a region of Cameroon where language would be less of a barrier to interacting with the locals. Then we went out to Bamenda's most posh restaurant--we're still talking fluorescent lighting and 3,000 CFA ($6) entrees here--and I got a reality check....
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