IVFCam Boss Receives Performance Award for 20 Years of Service to Humanity

 By FEN Lenjo

The prestigious Cameroon Performance Award CPA has been conferred on Mrs Anne Stella Fomumbod, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of  InterFaith Vision Foundation, Cameroon. This was done on Saturday the 19th of December 2020 in recognition of 20 years of  work  at the service of Humanity.

Anne Stella Fomumbod and the media.

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According to facts made available by the Organising Committee of Cameroon Performance Awards, InterFaith Vision Foundation Cameroon from when it was founded by Mrs Anne Stella Fomumbod till date has remained steadfast in it’s efforts to protect the Rights of the Woman and to increase the participation of women in decision making. Through the efforts of IVFCam, Laws Protecting the Rights of Women in Cameroon have been passed. A case in point is the “Metta Charter on Widowhood.” Together with dedicated individuals like the Programmes Manager Nigel Mbaya Fomumbod, IVFCam has stayed on course unperturbed focusing on the promotion of Gender Equity and Participation through the Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy at the Grassroots and Advocating for the Protection of Women’s Rights.

IVFCam partners and collaborators recognised for work done with IVFCam by CEO.

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Speaking within the confines of Faith Tower at Ntarikon in Bamenda, the National Coordinator of CPA Mr Francis Ekongang Nzante said “the Founder, CEO of Interfaith Vision Foundation Cameroon started her selfless Service to Humanity some 20 years ago, reason for which she is being recognized by Cameroon Performance Awards CPA. When she created her initiative it was called Aid International Christian Women of Vision. The name was changed to Interfaith Vision Foundation Cameroon in 2008. In keeping with it’s mission, IVFCam has been working hard to make sure that wealth and health are made available to the needy and the vulnerable through Feasible and Realistic Actions of Charity and Human Development with an aim of promoting Gender Equity and participation in Development issues with the ultimate goal of improving the Living Standards of the needy and Vulnerable Persons and Communities. While her Programmes with IVFCam are focused on Charity, Development and Humanitarian Activities, her strategy has been that of Synergy with Organisations and Communities. In this manner, she mobilises, networks, capacitates and empowers these Community Partners for full participation. The consistency of her activities for twenty years could not go unnoticed by Cameroon Performance Award.”

CEO in the heart of Keynote address while Programmes Manager looks on

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The Founder and CEO of IVFCam Anne Stella Fomumbod reacting after the conferment of the award on her during the occasion which also marked the 20th Anniversary of Interfaith Vision Foundation Cameroon said this was not only a recognition of what they had been doing over the years but also an encouragement to continue serving humanity and transforming the lives of needy individuals and Communities. IVFCam she intimated was now working not only with Communities in Cameroon but had created an international network in some African countries and the United States of America.

She also seized the occasion to present Awards to some hard working collaborators who had accompanied her as she worked for humanity all over the years.

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Deputy National Coordinator of DDRC Procures Jobs for Hundreds of Ex-fighters

 

By Francis Ekongang Nzante

The Deputy National Coordinator of the DDRC, Disarmament Demobilisation and Reintergration Committee, Colonel Professor Francis Ekosso Lysonge has procured jobs for Hundreds of Ex-Separatist fighters. He made this declaration recently in Buea while visiting the Buea DDR Center.

Speaking to a crowd of Ex-fighters in the presence of the Regiongal Coordinator of DDRC in the Southwest Region, the Deputy National Coordinator said he had brought both good news and bad news. 

Hear him, “two months ago when I came to Buea I promised you people that I was going to work out something for you guys. What I promised to do has been done. The project has been acknowledged by President  Paul Biya. I have brought with me some documents indicating that the project in Tiko will begin soon. This means that any person amongst you who is prepared to work will have work to do.”

The only bad news he said was the fact that the Ex-fighters would have to stay at the center for two more months. He assured them that in the month of February at least a hundred and twenty-five of them would be employed.  

He said he met the Minister of Defense and complained to him that in DDR Centers, there were Ex-fighters who could drive and as such needed Driving Licenses and National Identification Cards. He said the services of those who had driving skills would also be in  great demand. 

Despite his short stay in office, the Deputy DDRC National Coordinator has reached out to some fighters still in the bushes. During his Buea visit, he gave his mobile telephone number publicly to Ex-fighters at the center and urged them to send the number to fighters who were still in the bushes. He further appealed to the Ex-fighters to also advise those still in the bushes to come out and go to DDR Centers. 

He said while their anger maybe justified, staying in the bush eternally was never going to provide solutions to their problems. 

“Even me standing here talking to you. I am also angry. This is because of what some Cameroonians are doing encouraging you to stay in the bushes. These Cameroonians doing this are not out of the country. They are here with us in the country. They deserve to be punished for brainwashing you and sending you into the bushes to lose you’re lives. 

As long as I am with the DDRC, this problem will come to an end and your lives will change. As this year draws to an end and the new year sets in all of you will leave this place for brighter futures. The only people we will find here are those presently still in the bushes.”

In a self effacing manner the Deputy National Coordinator of DDRC said he was just a simple poor boy like those fighters in the bush but said he determined to change his life by stubbornly pursuing his education at all odds. He called on them to have the same attitude towards life. Either going to school or learning a trade. 

Using personal experience as an example he said he had to work at building sites pushing materials on wheel barrows, he learned mechanics and did small jobs to pay his way through school. He said he knew how most of them felt and can understand why some of them usually feel afraid dropping their arms to come to DDR Centres.

“I promise you that you will be safe and that no person will harm you. Any person who attempts to harm you for taking the correct decision will not go free. Now that I am at this level after hard work, if you are under my protection and someone attempts to harm you, then I will have no option but to crush them.”

Acknowledging that there were  problems related to the safety of Ex-fighters, he said this was due to issues related to accurate identification. In this vein he said matriculation numbers for Ex-fighters were being established and that with this, all identification problems would be taken care of. After the Buea visit, Colonel Professor Francis Ekosso Lysonge headed for Bamenda where he met with Ex-fighters at the DDR Center in the Northwest Region.

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Dr Taiga Inaugurates New CDENO Main Office in Bamenda.

 

By Francis Ekongang Nzante

Dr. Taiga, the Minister of Livestock, Fishery and Animal Industry has inaugurated the newly constructed Main Office of CDENO, the Northwest Livestock Development Fund in Bamenda. This inauguration exercise took place on Thursday December 18th. 

The Minister during this brief working visit to Bamenda also visited some projects presently being carried out by the Regional Services of the Ministry of Livestock, Fishery and Animal Industry in the North West Region. The main project visited was the Hatchery which according to the Director of CDENO Mbah Shuppong Michael was going to greatly boost the production of Day-old-chicks in the North West Region.

Minister Receives Flower Bouquet on arrival at Ceremonial Ground accompanied by Governor Adolphe Lele L'Afrique..

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Speaking during the Inaugural Ceremony, the Minister said the structure was meant to boost the image of CDENO and also called on the staff and stakeholders to make good use of the structure. He said enhancing the activities of Livestock Breeders was a sure way to alleviate poverty and recalled that a large number of animals had been vaccinated in the Region in the year that was just rounding up.

The Minister flanked here by Governor Adolphe Lele L'Afrique and Mr Mbah Shuppong Michael, Director of CDENO

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Meantime, Ndoh David, the Deputy City Mayor in his welcome address said the giant structure was going to give a facelift to the city adding that the Hatchery in Bamenda was a welcome facility for people involved in poultry. 

Mbah Shuppong Michael, the Director of CDENO said the capacity of the new building could host the facility for the next 40 years. “We took into consideration the expectations of the Northwest Livestock Development Fund, since this structure will be reorganised very soon and will extend to other areas because it is already classified among the fifth category of Parastatals in this country. When a place is growing, you have prospects that you have to meet up with as you are growing.”

Mr Mbah Shuppong Michael further said that there was now an innovation which was rare in the Region referring to the production of Day-old-chicks. These he said were formerly brought in from the West and Littoral Regions. “The North West will have an opportunity of producing them on the spot and a building like this will boost the moral of the staff and certainly the quantity and quality of the services of the Livestock Breeders.”

Meantime, Nchunka Stephen Nchang, the General Manager of the “Urban and Rural Development Foundation” (URUDEF Construction), the company that executed the construction of the new CDENO main office in Bamenda said the structure was executed in two faces. Phase one he said was in 2019 while the Second Phase was in November  2020.

“What is happening here today is an Administrative procedure. The technical handing over was already done and I am here today because the project owner is happy with what I did and called me to be here.”

The new L shaped building is a one floor story building with 18 office rooms equipped with air conditions, 10 equipped modern toilets, one strong room built with reinforced concrete, one canteen, one conference hall and a double car park. The structure is equally equipped with both internal and external security cameras and a high speed internet facility as well as an intelcom connection in most of the offices, Nchunka Stephen Nchang intimated.

Mr Nchunka Stephen Nchang, GM URUDEF Construction

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URUDEV Construction Company Mr Nchunka Stephen  Nchang said was an old company that had been involved in major construction projects. He mentioned the Faculty of Health Sciences in the University of Bamenda as one of the projects so far realised by URUDEV Construction Company. He said it was an old construction Company that had partnered with structures like HELVETAS Cameroon covering their projects in the Northwest, Southwest and West Regions.

Recounting challenges encountered during the execution of the project, he mentioned difficulties in payment when bills were presented coupled with pressure from project owners which he said were regular problems that contractors encountered in Cameroon.

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MINAC NW and Cameroon Performance Awards throw weight behind Promotion of Local Culture

 

By FEN 

The Regional Delegation of Arts and Culture in the North West Region in collaboration with the Cameroon Performance Awards CPA recently engaged in an ambitious project which is to identify and encourage promoters of culture in the North West Region of Cameroon.

The talents that were identified came from domains like Traditional Fashion and Design, Films immersed in the Culture of the Region, Traditional music as well as Gospel Music tinted by sounds from the Region.

 The artists identified included Amstrong Fombi 

 Recognised for his efforts as a Cultural Promoter. Armstrong Fombi aka King Armstrong is the Founder of Fombillion Infinity,an organisation that promotes culture through the encouragement of artistic talents in the North West Region of Cameroon.

Fokumlah Magloire Babila on his part was recognised for his efforts in the domain of Traditional Music in the North West Region. He has been actively involved in the promotion of the Culture of the North West Region through Music.

 

Still in the domain of music,  Atangche Zita was recognised for her efforts in the promotion of culture through Music. She is the Chief Executive Officer of “New Breed Africa Foundation.” She is involved in the promotion of culture through Awards and Musical Shows. “Nsankwi”, one of her music tracks remains a landmark piece depicting the lamentations of a land in perils.

The second lady in the prestigious group of creative artists was Evelyne Biy Korduf, recognised for her efforts in the promotion of culture through the design of Traditional wears inspired by the Culture of the North West Region. She gives Traditional Colour to weddings and other similar occasions and in this manner has contributed meaningfully in the promotion of culture through her craft. “Biy Eve's Craft and Design” an outfit that she runs is also involved in manual embroidery using dominantly local material.

Still in the domain of Fashion and Design, Prisco Ndiko was recognised for the promotion of the culture of the North West Region through Modeling, Fashion and Design and Beauty Contests. He runs a group called SHOSA Empire, the medium through Which his Cultural Promotional Activities are carried out. 

 Samson Vugar Visimbi was recognised for his efforts in the promotion of the culture of the North  West Region through the domain of Film and Theatre. As an actor, a Theatre Coach, a Producer cum Director, Writer and  promoter of Theatre for Children and young people, he has produced seventy five Radio Plays, two films and acted in over 50 films.

Mfikela Solomon Festus who  was equally recognised for the promotion of Arts and Culture in the North West Region made his debut in the year 2000.  Over the years he developed a unique style on the guitar that blends folk, classic and at times jazz into a rythm of its own called "shimihti". 

Because of his uniqueness in style playing solo with a simple guitar and voice, he won the first prize in "concours de la chanson” in Kumbo playing with a band in 2002.

He released a major album in December 2003 entitled "Tarawonin" a song which like many others in the same  album  was highly appreciated and has repeatedly been played over many radio stations in Cameroon.

Because of his creativity, he has been guest in TV and Radio programs such as “Morning safari” with David Chuye , “Wake up show” with late Becky Ndive, “Radioscopie d'un artiste” with Bingono , “Cultural Outlook” with Suzan Bamu on CRTV National Radio.

On the National Television he has twice been guest on the weekly slot “Tamtam weekend” , “Monday show” and “Hello”.  In all these outings his talent did not fail to catch the attention of the host , audience and viewers.

He has succeeded in giving a modern touch to his native music "Njang" and hopes by this to raise it to a rhythm that would be appreciated nationally and  internationally!

 Mokum Tambi Charles on his part was recognised for his promotion of Arts and Culture of the North West Region through the medium of  Gospel  and Circula Music. 

He made his debut in 1988 with the Military Band in Yaounde.

Released his first album "let peace reign in Africa and the world" in 2002 and followed up with a second album “Lift Jesus Higher” in 2005.

As an engaged prolific artist, he released “No to Terrorism” in 2010. “God you too much” in 2014 and in 2016 he released “Na peace we need” and a hit single titled “Chop my money”.

He is the President of the Association of Cameroon Artist for Peace (ACAP).

Last but not the least was Shusi Elvis, recognised for the promotion of culture through the medium of Gospel Music.  “Dream World Music” an outfit that he runs is a private organization dedicated to the growth and development of Gospel Music in Cameroon. 

The organization through training, recording and promotion of talents is striving to promote the Gospel Music Industry in Cameroon.

This interest in Gospel Music stems from his early orientation in School and more recently in the Presbyterian Church Musang congregation where he joined the Congregational Choir and became Music Director and Regional President of the Presbyterian Choirs Association for the North West Region. He is a song writer and presently has a single in the market tittled “Children of the Lord.”

The Awards were conferred by Mrs Comfort Wanje Mbonghe, the Regional Delegate of Arts and Culture for the North West Region and Mr Francis Ekongang Nzante, National Coordinator of Cameroon Performance Awards CPA.

This maiden edition was equally rendered feasible through the collaboration of the Bamenda City Council, the Bamenda I Council, Guinness Cameroon SA, and Farmer’s House as well as the direct collaboration of some elite of the Region like Honourable Emmanuel Yoyo. 

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Ekosso Lysonge Francis Poised to use Experience in Rebuilding Peace, Stability in Cameroon.

 

By Francis Ekongang Nzante

Lieutenant Colonel Ekosso Lysonge Francis, Deputy National Coordinator of the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Committee, DDRC recently installed and tasked to get to work immediately, brings in about twenty years of experience working at the service of the nation, Cameroon. He was installed on Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 at the National Head Office of DDRC in Yaounde by the National Coordinator, Fai Yengo Francis.

Speaking during the installation ceremony, the National Coordinator described his deputy as a distinguished, hardworking and intelligent servant of the State, having spent over 20 years on the field in the service of the nation.

Fai Yengo Francis said the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel Ekosso Lysonge Francis comes as “an added impetus to the achievements of the DDRC which is about to celebrate its 2nd anniversary and a very sure way and means to continue achieving the global and specific objectives of this specific strategic and operational structure.”

In a very optimistic tone, the erstwhile Governor said Lieutenant Colonel Ekosso Lysonge Francis was equal to the task set before him and urged him to use his operational experience to execute the activities of DDRC on the field. Hear him, “You should invest your energy and join your efforts so that together with our collaborators we should, without fear or complex and very far away from politics and all sorts of flimsy distractions, materialise the dream of an orderly reintegration of the youths who yesterday were involved in a senseless struggle against their fatherland but today have responded favourably to the fatherly hand of fellowship from the President of the Republic, His Excellency Paul Biya.”

In a brush with the media , Lt. Colonel Ekosso Francis said he was ready to serve and to carry out the tasks set before him. “We have fighters in the bush whom we want to bring out for the peace of Cameroon but we are doing a very detailed scientific analysis of it and it is not only a matter of the ex-fighters, but those who have ideological inputs into this kind of crisis from the Far North to the North West and South West. They too have to lay down their ideological arms because they are the ones who instigate it all. It is not just the children who have been fooled to lose their lives, but many people” Lt. Colonel Ekosso Francis said.

The new National Deputy Coordinator of DDRC has in the past served in several capacities with the National Defence  Force. The last post he held before his latest appointment was that of Chief of Division in the National Fire Brigade at Mimboman in Yaounde.

The Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintergration Committee was created on the 30th of November 2018 by Presidential Decree to organise, disarm, demobilise and reintegrate ex-Boko Haram fighters and armed groups in the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon. The DDRC has centers in Mora, Buea and Bamenda. The centers have already received hundreds of excombatants and continue to do so.

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Prof Enow Orock Enonchong George Recognized for Resilience in Medical Practice.

 

By FEN Lenjo

Professor Enow Orock Enonchong George, Director of the Bafoussam Regional Hospital and erstwhile Director of the Buea Regional Hospital Annex has bagged the prestigious Cameroon Performance Award. This took place on Sunday November 22nd within the confines of his office at the Bafoussam Regional Hospital.

Speaking during the Award Event, Francis Ekongang Nzante, the National Coordinator of Cameroon Performance Awards recounted some peak moments in the professional life of Prof Enow Orock Enonchong George. Hear him. “From your earlier years of practice at the Akwaya and the Zoetele Sub Divisional Hospitals to your present position as Director of the Bafoussam Regional Hospital, it has been a trajectory of continuous hard work. Step by step you crafted your trade as Chief of Service of Pathology at the Yaounde General Hospital. You eventually became visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Buea and grew within the ranks to become Seniour Lecturer in the same establishment. 

Your appointment as Director of the Buea Regional Hospital Annex came as no surprise and gave you an opportunity to demonstrate your administrative qualities, one of which is working in collaboration with partners. With you as Director, the Hospital received four Haemodialysis Machines from Lady Grace Elone of the Elone Foundation in the UK. In Bafoussam with the challenges imposed by the COVID 19 Pandemic you have worked and continue to do so to fight the pandemic. In this race of continuous work, you have a rich record of research work.”

Harping on the unforgettable moments of his professional life Prof Enonchong recalled an operation that he carried out on the wife of a Pastor about 30 years ago in Akwaya under near impossible conditions. He described it as “Razor Blade Surgery” and went ahead to state that he was impressed that recognitions for what he has been doing were beginning to come in.

He said at the time certain paper work had to be done for the state to give him a medal in Recognition of his efforts. However he didn’t find it necessary to be applying for a medal of recognition. When good work is done, it should be Recognised and encouraged he said. “If thirty years afterwards, God has inspired you to give me this Award, then I want to express my total joy and thanks. This Award will further encourage me and I want to dedicate it to my patients. I am a Pathologist and most of my patients are cancer patients so I want to dedicate it to all cancer patients in the country.”

The self effacing Director of the Bafoussam Regional Hospital said the person who inspired him to pursue medical studies was an Uncle, Dr Benjamin Mengot who coincidentally was present at the Award Event. He took the spellbound audience that had turned out to witness the event through his tumultuous life as a student struggling to get through school despite all the odds. Next the hospital director journeyed through the early years of his practice fraught with challenges and the final thing that this reporter gleaned from it all was his Resilience. For example, Prof Enow Orock Enonchong George said it took him eight years to become the first English Speaking trained Pathologist. This is a course that normally takes 4 years he explained.

He is the first Professor of Pathology of English-speaking expression in the country and as he puts it, he was encouraged by very pathological minds like the late Professors Mbakop and Anomangu who made him to take interest in research. 

With regards to managing of health establishments, the hospital director said he has always preferred a consensual managerial policy.

“A lot of ground has been covered in the health sector though a bit haphazardly and at a pace that we the scientific minds would like to be improved upon. If you look at the training then the country has covered a lot of ground from a single medical school to eight medical schools. That is quite a lot but where we are having problems is in the training of specialists. We expect that there should be at least five centres in the country for the training of specialists” he said.

He hinted that specific universities could make arrangements for the importation of competences in the absence of specialists.

He also suggested that there should be long term planning in the domain of training of health Professionals.

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National Polytechnic University Institute Bamenda

 Recognized for Transforming Private Higher Education

By FEN

The National Polytechnic University Institute Bamenda has been recognized for efforts put in over the years to help in transforming the Private Higher Educational Sector in Cameroon. This recognition came in the form of an award issued by the Cameroon Performance Awards CPA recently within the confines of the School campus.

The National Coordinator of the CPA Francis Ekongang Nzante before handing over the Award described the strides so far made by National Polytechnic University Institute Bamenda in the following manner: “Through the hard work of talented and dedicated individuals inspired by the indefatigable Pah Yong Francis you build an institution that today stands as the pride of Private Higher Institutions of Learning in Cameroon. The National Polytechnic University Institute formerly simply referred to as National Polytechnic Bambui played a major role in the Professionalization of Higher Education in Cameroon. Presently a national and international destination, National Polytechnic University Institute Bamenda has contributed enormously in bringing respect to Higher Education in Cameroon.”

Mr Francis Nzante further said the institution had churned out professionals in wide and varied fields and in this manner had contributed enormously in the building of the Cameroonian nation. Considering that the rationale of the CPA was to encourage hard work, Performance and results Mr Francis Nzante said the story of the CPA would be incomplete if the efforts of National Polytechnic University Institute Bamenda remained unrecognised. 

Present to receive the Award were the Vice Chancellor Dr Christopher Akob, the proprietor Mr Yong Jaques, the Registrar Dr Aduh Francis Ngalla among other members of staff. 

Dr Christopher Akob on reception of the Award said “This is totally in line with the vision of the founder Pah Yong Francis which was to provide Cameroonians with the necessary skills to be able to procure jobs and create job opportunities. National Polytechnic University Institute Bamenda is proud to say that we are doing this to the best of our capacity. This Award has come to encourage us to continue working hard and to keep contributing towards the building of our country” Dr Akob said.

Dr Aduh Francis Ngalla on his part retrospectively said when the Cameroonian Government introduced University Reforms with an intention of decongesting the lone University of Yaounde at the time Pah Yong Francis seized the occasion and applied for the creation of the institution. 

Dr Aduh Francis Ngalla revealed that the institution was first authourised to offer Higher National Diplomas after two years of studies. Five years later, the institution was permitted to offer Bachelor Degrees under the mentorship of state Universities. National Polytechnic University Institute has through the years been working with the Universities of Buea and Dschang. Much more recently the institution signed partnership agreements with the University of Bamenda. The National Polytechnic University Institute Bamenda now offer Master Degree Programmes thanks to these MOUs signed with State Universities Dr Aduh Francis Ngalla explained.

He further intimated that in 2013 the Ministry of Higher Education classified National Polytechnic University Institute Bamenda as the best all round Private Higher Institution in Cameroon adding that just a year ago the institution was classified second best. “There is no doubt that Cameroon Performance Awards made the right choice” he said.

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Eulogy For Batonnier Tchakounte Patie Charles

 Yaounde, the 13th November 2020

(In The Form Of A Letter To Him),

FROM Senator/Barrister KEMENDE HENRY GAMSEY

Dear Learned Brother, Mr. President, Sir,

What really happened to you after you and I in your Bar office in Yaounde, drew some lessons from the passing-on of your Learned Brother and predecessor, Batonnier SAMA Francis ASANGA. This was after you had consoled me upon joining you at the club of orphans. I had not finished thanking you for the show of solidarity in that regard when you decided to exit the world of the living. One of the lessons we drew from SAMA’s death was that he was late in seeking medical attention and that by the time he seized the hospital, it was already too late. What then happened in your case such that you were rushed to France and died less than three days after? I would want to think that you were overtaken by work to an extent whereby you forgot about some of your supposedly delicate medical dispositions. No, No, Mr. President, you fell into the very trappings we analysed of Batonnier SAMA Francis and it would appear, from the look of things, that nobody is spared that temptation, for all of us most often forget we are made of flesh as opposed to iron, even though iron equally gets weak.

I had often told you personally that since joining us in the Bar Council (after you had stayed off for some time), I never for one minute regretted knowing you. Without waiting to praise you through an eulogy like this, I praised you in your face for your piercing and didactic contributions over every topic under discussion in the Bar Council. Proof of my appreciation of your intellectual wealth is when after specially inviting me for the Elective Bar General Assembly in Douala in 2018 that saw you elected Bar President, I put in all it took for that successful outing. I even supported some of your candidates I would never have supported but for my love for you in particular, and the Cameroon Bar at large, for I had withdrawn my candidature in a bid to concentrate on my debut of the Senate experience. Thereafter, even though I watched you from a distance (i. e. away from the Bar Council), your performance did not the least disappoint me. Until your untimely departure, your second mandate was a foregone conclusion. However, God the Almighty knows why he has called you home just when you were at your best.

Batonnier TCHAKOUTE, permit me hereby inform you of the aftermath of your departure in the life of the Cameroon Bar Association. To tell you how human being make meaning only when alive, shortly after news of your death covered the entire social media and other media landscapes and while the Cameroon Bar was still gripped in an atmosphere of disbelief, who to fill the vacancy created (both in the short and long terms) became the subject of discussion, some openly and others behind the scene. I hope you do not take offence hearing about this, even if it has to do with some of your hitherto closest associates. After all, you are quite conversant with our grassfield tradition that the throne is never left vacant and that meetings by Kingmakers for a new Chief multiply with each passing day. Never mind, for you shall hear more to your disbelief when the first witness shall personally meet you.

Batonnier, to conclude my short story of events after your demise, we are presently feeling what it takes to be professional orphans. You would not want to believe that the Courtroom at  Bonanjo – Douala; the official shrine of Justice; the pride and source of the Lawyers’ power; ‘caught fire’ in the night of the 10th December 2020 when your colleagues were teargased and others received bullet wounds. Our bereavement through your passing-on meant nothing to the Forces of Law and Order and the Authorities commanding their actions. The treatment that was earlier meted out to the Common Law Lawyers repeated itself before the Douala – Bonanjo Court of First Instance. From the streets and now into the Courtroom, there is no gainsaying the fact that our professional identification papers and windscreen stickers shall soon have no meaning. God forbid! 

Please, Batonnier TCHAKOUTE, intercede for us in order that the good Lord and Most High could save our world-cherished profession. You cannot imagine that everyday everybody in one way or the other, play the role of the Advocate but nobody wants to see the professional Advocate. This can only happen in Cameroon, a country of the ‘jamais vus’.  Let this incident not however, worry you a lot since you cannot return to do what you could have done in the circumstances. What I can tell you in order that your spirit can rest in peace is that unless some of us are taken off the scene, we shall not see the worst happen. Faced with the challenge of survival, the Lawyers are expected to sharpen their legal fighting skills, for that remains the only weapon they understand manipulating better. With you, Batonnier SAMA Francis and Batonnier Bernard MUNA on the other side, we are sure to succeed, God being our helper.

Without much ado and in order not to disturb your quiet and deserved rest, permit me end here by wishing you safe journey to the world of no return. We shall live to remember you as the Bar President who made a historic tour of the country in a bid to ensure continuity in the life of the Cameroon Bar Association. We now understand you bid us farewell as you moved from one Court of Appeal to the other, over-seeing the swearing-in of young colleagues.

ADIEU, ADIEU, Most Learned Batonnier, Our Bar President !!  You are FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS.

MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN PEACE !!

Yours truly

Senator/ Barrister Kemende Henry Gamsey

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38th Anniversary of President Paul Biya

 

Advantages of Special Status for the NW and SW Showcased

By Francis Ekongang Nzante

One of the highlights of the 38th Anniversary celebrations of  the ascension of President Paul Biya to power was the revisiting of the benefits of the Special Status accorded to the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon. Speaking during the anniversary celebrations in Bamenda, Minister Mbayu Felix said the Special  Status was going to take into consideration Language Specificity and Historical Heritage of the two English Speaking Regions. 

He also said following the Regional Elections on the 6th of December, the Regional Assembly will be made up of a House of Chiefs with 20 members and a House of Representatives made up of 70 members. This he said will enhance governance since decision making will be more collegial and more Democratic. Under these circumstances people will be more empowered to create development opportunities in the English Speaking Regions.

In the domain of education he said there will be the preservation of the specificities of Anglosaxon Education such as Curriculum Development, number of years in school amongst many other issues.

In the domain of Law he said the issue of language will be ironed out since hearings would strictly be carried out in the Language that locals could understand.

Importantly, Minister Felix Mbayu talked about the creation of a Public Independent Conciliator with the role of independently examining and solving conflicts that may exist between people and the system. Special Status minister Felix Mbayu said  “confirms our belonging to a nation.”

Talking about Decentralisation, an issue which ran through most of the speeches during the anniversary celebrations, Mbayu Felix said Cameroon was in the last Phase of the Decentralisation process which he said was it’s implementation.

Decentralisation was an effort to bring the Administration closer to the people he said adding that rules applicable to Councils had already been applied but not at the level of regions. This he said would take place after the Regional Elections in December.

Meantime, the message of the Chairman of the CPDM Central Committee Mr Jean Kwete akso focused on Decentralisation and it’s advantages. The message quintessentially presented Decentralisation as being synonymous to Local Development.

Though only a CPDM List will be present during the Regional elective exercise every militant was urged come to come out on voting day.

All voting it was explained would be done in Divisional Head Quarters. It was as such advised that preparations should begin immediately so  that there should be atleast a 90% participation rate.

Mayor Mbigha N Felix who is also YCDM President for Mezam I and Vice President of UCCC talking on behalf of the North West Mayors lauded the achievements of the party in the Northwest Region. He said out of the 35 councils in the region CPDM controlled 34. 

The NW he said had three key positions in the UCCC national body. His central message was that emphases should be laid on unity and that attention should be drawn to the fact that everything came only through elections.

The erstwhile Prime Minister Philemon Yang said the 38th Anniversary was a celebration of the past, present and future. “Our future can only be shaped by us. Despite the difficult circumstances successes were registered. Schools are going on and the Regional Elections are around the corner. We should never respect an institution that is not a product of our constitution” the PM further said.

Cameroon he said remained one and focused on the future. Stating that Cameroon like any other country in the world was not perfect, he said the nation building process was going on. 

The Special Status provision he said “will make us better governed. We will become more economically viable.”

Decentralisation he said meant that there was a government at the Municipal ,Regional and National levels. Everyone in this way participates in governing he said adding that this was a product of the 1996 constitution. He described it as “a rich constitution which gives us an opportunity to decentralise.”

He pleaded with militants to go out on the sixth of December to elect their fellow militants into the Regional Assembly. “Do not focus on the difficulties of the past. Focus on the future” he urged.

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CBC Education Secretary Receives Award for Good Performance, Hard work

The Education Secretary of the Cameroon Baptist Convention Education Department, Mr Nyanganji Job Indi has been recognized by the Cameroon Performance Award CPA as deserving of an award in recognition of his hardwork since he took office as Education Secretary. The Award Giving Authorities also took cognizance of the immeasurable contributions of the Cameroon Baptist Convention CBC towards the education of countless Cameroonians and the immense impact this has had on the development of Cameroon as a nation. 

  Presenting  Mr. Nyanganji Job Indi as a performer and a hard working individual, the National Coordinator of the Cameroon Performance Awards Mr Francis Nzante took the attentive audience through the years the deserving laureate served as principal in some Secondary Schools before eventually getting into the Adminstrative aspect of Baptist Education in Cameroon. 

Throughout his career, indelible signs of hardwork have been left in his wake as he moved on majestically the National Coordinator explained adding that Mr Nyanganji Job Indi took the office of CBC Education Secretary at the most challenging and turbulent moments in the History of the CBC Education Department.

In the heart of the Anglophone Crisis he sailed on putting in place the much acclaimed Sustainable Inclusive Education Programme SIEP. This unprecedented move saw the construction of a structure at the CBC School premises in Nkwen that took into consideration those people living with physical disabilities amongst other issues. 

Difficulties notwithstanding, the CBC Education Department under the stewardship of Nyanganji Job Indi built a state of the art primary school at Ndamukong Street in Bamenda.

While the Secondary Education Sector has seen the implantation of colleges in French Speaking Regions of the country, the indefatigable Nyanganji Job Indi is now eyeing the Higher Educational Sector, a domain hitherto untouched by the CBC Education Department.

Retrospectively, the National Coordinator of the Cameroon Performance Awards catalogued the top quality Secondary Schools that CBC Education Department had created in Cameroon from the earliest years of the existence of Cameroon as a nation. Some of the elite institutions mentioned included Saker Baptist College Victoria (now Limbe), Baptist Boys Secondary School BBSS Buea (now Baptist High School), Baptist High School Barombikang in Kumba, Joseph Merrick Baptist College Ndu, Baptist Teachers Training College Ndu amongst others.

On reception of the Award, the self effacing Nyanganji Job Indi dedicated it to his wife and colleagues who had supported him all through.

Conclusively, while Nyanganji Job Indi is a true symbol of Performance, hard work and results, the CBC Education Department which he heads has been the vehicle propulsing his ideas into concrete realizations.

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New President Insists AZICCUL Needs Changes to maintain its leading Position

 

By Francis E Nzante

Barrister Divine Nde Momulluh, the newly elected President of the Azire Cooperative Credit Union has declared that changes have to be made in the modus operandi of the institution if the structure has to maintain its leading position in the Credit Union Landscape in Cameroon. He was speaking during the Annual General Meeting AGM on Saturday the 31st of October at the Ntamulung Presbyterian Church Hall in Bamenda shortly after a landslide victory that saw him being elected as the youngest President ever of the huge Cooperative Credit Union. 

Speaking to the media after the elective exercise he said “I feel fulfilled. It’s been a long journey. It’s a dream come true and I want to say history has been made today the in Azire Cooperative Credit Union. I want to thank everyone that actually put their hands behind me to see that this dream actually comes true. I want to thank even those who did not vote for me. You know that’s democracy.”

Questioned on whether he was going to bring in revolutionary changes he answered in the negative stating that changes were going to come but that these changes could not be described as revolutionary. Hear him, “I don’t want to say revolution for it’s a very hard word to use but there are going to be changes. Laws are changing everyday and so we are supposed to adapt to the system. You should look 20 years down the road so that you should not become  trapped in a circle that will put you in difficulties. We will make changes but we can’t describe them as a revolutionary.”

Insisting that change was unavoidable he said from the beginning people may see it as revolutionary but eventually they would come to realize that for AZICCUL to maintain it’s leadership position changes will have to take place. “I want to promise them that at the end of the day, we are actually going to enjoy the Credit Union that was built by our fathers and grand fathers.”

Drawing attention to the fact that he was the son of one of the best managers in the history of AZICCUL, he said he was also going to work really hard to make sure that an indelible mark was left by his reign.

In this race for the Presidency, four candidates were involved. They included Rev. Njeh Mutanga Joseph, the erstwhile Vice President, Barrister Divine Nde Momulluh, Mr Nji Sivan Tanny and Dr Asanga CA. Out of the about 1800 votes that were cast, Barrister Divine Momulluh in a landslide victory bagged 1065 votes. 

Another elective exercise that took place was that of the post of Vice President and the election of members into the Women's Committee.  In the race for the post of Vice President, Mrs Sonatas emmerged victorious with 708 votes. She was tailed by Mr Mumbai with 468 votes while Rev Mutanga tailed the queue with 383 votes. Madame Comfort Banyong was elected as the new Chair Lady of the Women's Committee. Following her election she said she was going to continue working on what the previous Chairlady had done over the years. The duty of the Women’s Committee she said was to sensitise and bring in more members into the credit union. She promised to put in all her efforts alongside all the members of the committee to make sure that set goals were met with.

Despite the tense atmosphere that reigned during the AGM that was brought to bear on the occasion by the threat that some candidates were going to be eliminated because they had been found guilty of breaking the rules that restricted them from carrying out campaigns, everything eventually went on smoothly. 

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“ Cameroonians are wasting Precious Time Killing each other”

– Ngufor Peter

By Francis E Nzante

  In the wake of the macabre killings that took place in Kumba recently, there has been an unprecedented clamouring for an immediate end of the war and an immediate return to peace in Cameroon. It was against this backdrop that Mr Ngufor Peter, the CEO of Farmer’s House declared that Cameroonians were wasting time busily killing each other instead of focusing on the much needed development. He was speaking during a press briefing organised within the confines of the Headquarters of Farmer’s House in Bamenda on Thursday October 29th.

“We are begging the Head of State to bring the war to an end” he said adding that this should be followed up with a thorough investigation and the results of the investigation publicly made known. Any culprits apprehended should be publicly punished he said insisting that if this had been done for the massacre in Ngarbu then the situation in Kumba would not have occurred. “What happened in Kumba cannot be sufficiently condemned and is a disgrace to all of us.”

The development stakeholder stated emphatically that events that had taken place in the past four years had given rise to situations that couldn’t be identified with the President Paul Biya that he knew. People talking on behalf of the President may not be truly reflecting what the President would have done but as the head, when things go wrong, he should receive the blame. He likened the situation to that of a Chief in the Grassfield Culture in Cameroon stating that a Chief is referred to as a child because he depends on many people for his decisions.

He however said the Cameroonian problem originated more from legacies of the Ahidjo regime. “The President was not appointed in good faith. When you give somebody a position that he wasn’t prepared for, the chances that he must stumble are always very high. Ahidjo did not give him the Presidency in good faith but President Paul Biya 1 took the Presidency in good faith.”

This not withstanding, Ngufor Peter said that frustration can never be cured by fighting as is presently the case in Cameroon. 

He said instead of building the nation with the limited available funds, Cameroonians were buying arms and using them to kill each other. “There are bad roads all over the country but we are only focused on killing ourselves” he said adding that President Paul Biya still had to build his legacy. 

The problems inherited from the Ahidjo regime had not yet been solved. These problems had to be addressed to give the country a sense of direction he explained further stating that as a nation Cameroon wasn’t moving towards the right direction.  

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Flenhihbs Bamenda Recognized for Stainless Top Quality Results for Ten years

The Cameroon Performance Awards has found the Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences Bamenda a worthy recipient of its mark of recognition. During an Award Event that took place at the School campus on Wednesday October 7th, Mr Nkwain Joseph, Director of the Higher Institute said the recognition was certainly due to the stainless top quality results that the school had registered in its ten years of existence. 

"This institution was created ten years ago and since then it has always scored a hundred percent in all examinations be it examinations organised by the Ministry of Higher Education or the Ministry of Public Health. Under the Ministry of Public Health we train State Registered Nurses and Nursing Assistants and under the Ministry of Higher Education we have been training HND candidates in Biomedical Sciences and throughout we have been scoring a hundred percent. Last year, we were ranked the best school in the whole Republic of Cameroon as far as the HND is concerned and I am sure that all of this has contributed to our success."

Mr Nkwain Joseph further explained that the Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Bamenda. "As a Higher Institution of Learning, we are not a full fledged University and we can only offer certain specialties in collaboration with State Universities and that is why we have signed this partnership with the University of Bamenda so that we can extend our programmes to the Bachelor Degree and maybe later to the Masters and why not PHD" he explained.

He called on students interested in the Biomedical Sciences to take the Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences as their priority adding that it was the quality of the products of the school that has been attracting attention from different quarters in the Cameroonian society. "We don't advertise but students still come here. You should have noticed that we don't even have a notice board. If the CBC Health Services select our students, then it means our products are of top quality."

Dr. Njini Rose, General Supervisor at the Bamenda Regional Hospital who was present at the Award Event said she had collaborated with the institution for long and was impressed by the quality of personnel that had been churned out from there. The Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services she said has also been making use of products from the Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences. This among other examples she said was an indication of the good work that was being done at the institution.

Present during the event was the staff of Flenhihbs and a cross section of some collaborators of the establishment.

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Frontline Academician and Health Developer Receives Performance Award

 

By FEN Lenjo

Professor Egbe Philip Egbengu, Head of Department of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the Catholic University in Cameroon CATUC, Bamenda and Medical Director of the Royal Victoria Clinic in Bamenda has received the Cameroon Performance Award. This took place on Saturday in the city of Bamenda within the confines of the Royal Victoria Clinic premises at Loh Benson Quarters, Foncha Street. 

According to the Organising Committee of Cameroon Performance Awards through the words of its National Coordinator, Francis Ekongang Nzante, the Award is in recognition of the efforts Professor Egbe Philip Egbengu has been putting in the Academic Field building a formidable Department of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the Catholic University CATUC Bamenda. "It is also in recognition of your efforts as Medical Director of the Royal Victoria Clinic during these trying moments of the COVID 19 Pandemic" he said.

The CPA Organising Committee emphasised that because of these inputs, Professor Egbe was truly a Frontline Academician and a Health Developer.

On reception of the CPA Award, Professor Egbe said, he wasn't aware that sometimes when you do some of these things you were observed. He recounted how he started the clinic in the heat of the Anglophone Crisis. Against all the challenges as well as advise from friends and colleagues who discouraged him, he went ahead. "Professor Berynyuy who was one of the first patients here certainly remembers how this place was very bushy. We maintained our focus and started from no where and today we are where you find us. Some people may think it is time to sit on our laureals but no, it is time to work. We have just realised only 30% of what we set out to do."

 The professor did not fail to mention contributions from well wishing Cameroonians. He equally mentioned Rev Father Bintum and Professor Berynyuy whom he said had constantly chipped in very constructive ideas as he worked on the Royal Victoria Clinic Project.

The next thing in his program would be a Mental Health Outfit he said adding that he had been receiving lots of encouragement and ideas on this project from Reverend Father Bintum whom he said had been a driving force in his project all along.

 Talking about his dream for Royal Victoria Clinic the Health Developer said "It is not just us here. We have a lot of inputs from friends of the clinic and well wishing Cameroonians who have visions which impact on our professional calling. Visions which we incorporate into the grand project of Royal Victoria Clinic. It is not just about opening a clinic. It's about opening a standard clinic." He said it was unfortunate that when Africans study abroad and see top quality structures, they always failed to maintain the same standards when they wanted to build their own structures back home. 

Royal Victoria Clinic he said was trying to fill all those lapses. "This project is trying to meet all those ramifications, the technical quality, the professional calling, the social impact or the impact on society. We are trying to incorporate all of these and come out with a strong Blueprint that will represent health in Cameroon not only in our contemporary time but also in the future."

Professor Egbe Philip Egbengu has been involved in teaching and the practice of Professional Medicine for almost fourty years. Commenting on this, he said medicine was not just the intellect but the application of what had been gathered over the years. 

In building the clinic, cognizance was taken of certain present realities like the COVID 19 Pandemic. The reception area at the entrance to the clinic as well as the entrance to the Laboratory are provided with glass shields that separate the patients from the health personnel attending to them. 

Medical Practice today he said goes with the necessary technology adding that in that domain, Royal Victoria Clinic could comfortably hold its head above water level. 

Though Royal Victoria Clinic provides Health Services, the professor unequivocally stated that they were also in business. "We've gone past that stage when health was considered as a humanitarian activity. When you make health a business, you do it better."

Proudly stating the achievements so far made by the clinic in one year seven months, the professor said there was no hospital in Bamenda and by extension the North West Region that had the standards of Victoria Royal Clinic. He said  that's why when you come to the clinic your health problems were solved. 

Professor Egbe Philip Egbengu said he was very gratified to be recognized by the Cameroon Performance Awards. "I am not the only Medical Doctor around and if I can be singled among the few that have been recognized by your Award out of the 2900 doctors in the country it gives me the greatest pleasure. Secondly it's like a showcase to my establishment. There are very few occasions where five media organs will visit an organization like ours so I have every reason to be grateful."

The Professor seized the opportunity to take his guests on a guided tour of the clinic from the reception area through the spotless and we'll equipped Laboratory to the wards.

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University of Bamenda Signs Partnership Agreements with Higher Institutions of Learning

By Francis E. Nzante

The University of Bamenda on Sunday September 27th signed partnership agreements with some fourteen Higher Institutions of Learning from across the country. The nature or categories of these partnerships included Memorandums of Understanding MoUs, Specific Partnership Agreements SPAs and Specific Partnership Agreements for Expansion.

The Vice Chancellor in her speech at the opening of the ceremony

MoUs were signed with two institutions. Theses included the Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences Bamenda Flenhihbs, and Skyhigh Higher Institute of Engineering and Business SHHIEB, Douala. 

Mr Yong Jaques on behalf of Institute Superieur JIMIT Yaounde and the Vice Chancellor

Meantime, Specific Partnership Agreements were signed with the Access  Higher Institute of Professional Studies ACCESS-HIPS, Douala represented by its promoter Dr Leke Charles. Other schools which signed partnerships in this category included the Yaounde Higher School of Economics and Management YSEM and Institute Superieur JIMIT, Yaounde represented by Mr Yong Jaques who sat in for the promoter.

Mr Nkwain Joseph Director of Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences Bamenda with Vice Chancellor.

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The bigger chunk of establishments involved in the signing of partnerships fell in the third category which was Specific Partnership Agreements for Expansion. In this group were the Havard Higher Institute of Science and Technology HHIST, Bamenda, Institute Superieur des Sciences Appliquees a la Sante INSSAS, Bafossam, National Polytechnic University Institute NPUI Bamenda, Lead Higher Institute Yaounde, Higher Institute of Business Management and Technology HIBMAT, Buea, Higher Institute of Management Studies HIMS Buea, Institute Superieur des Sciences Biologiques et Appliquees ISSBA Yaounde, Institute Universitaire Siantou IUS Yaounde and Institute Des Science Economique Et Informatique De Gestion ISEIG Yaounde.

The Vice Chancellor of National Polytechnic University Institute Bamenda with the UBa Vice Chancellor after signing of Partnership

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Highlights of the signing ceremony included a speech by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Bamenda Professor Rose Akenji in which she appropriately placed emphasis on the importance of the exercise in the lives of these Private Higher Institutions of Learning. This was followed by a ceremonious signing exercise with all the necessary academic paraphernalia with each establishment involved taking its turn at the podium in the University Restaurant. 

Dr. Leke Charles of ACCESS-HIPS Douala poses here with UBa Vice Chancellor after signing of SPA; Specific Partnership Agreement

The closing remarks at this very important rendezvous in the lives of Private Higher Institutions of Learning in Cameroon were made by the Vice Chancellor of UBa.

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Senator Barrister Kemende bags Prestigious Performance Award

 

- Dedicates it to Suffering Masses in the NW & SW

Senator Barrister Kemende Henry Gamsey on Sunday September 27 in Bamenda, received the Cameroon Performance Award in a gathering of friends, family and colleagues. According to the National Coordinator and Chairperson of the Organising Committee, this award was given in recognition of what Barrister Kemende Henry Gamsey has been doing since he became a member of the Upper House.

 The presence of this outspoken gentleman in the Senate had made debates to better reflect the presence of Opposition parties. The organizers further explained that his constant media outings had made him an indespensable ingredient in the Political Transformation Process of Cameroon. "Your ideas and prescriptions have fuelled the National Debate on how the country should move forward" the organiser stated. Meantime, the senator has dedicated his award to the suffering masses in the crisis riddled Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon.

In a press briefing shortly after reception of the prestigious award, the Senator expressed the way he felt in the following words: "This award means a lot to me. Even as the war rages on, there is always room for the market to hold. Permit me use that African adage. In my vernacular, there is an adage to the effect that while the war goes on, market days don't fail to hold.  During these market days, the ongoings are discussed. To me this Award Event represents such Market Days during war and I have dedicated it to the people who are victims of the ongoing crisis."

He explained that while some parties that were directly involved in the war were not suffering, many innocent civilians had been forced to undergo untold hardships as a result of the crisis. The Senator said it was for the suffering people that he constantly intervened in the Upper House and that it was as a result of these constant interventions that this award was being given to him. 

"Without the ongoing crisis I don't think I would have had the chance to keep intervening through the media. I want to thank the organizers of the CPA for organising this and for recognizing me."

He called on the suffering masses in the two crisis riddled regions to stay calm and pray for peace to return soon.  

Explaining why he felt he had been recognized, he said apart from what had been written on the award, the recognition comes against a backdrop of a parliament that is dominantly made up of hand clappers who contribute nothing towards the advancement of the democratic process but simply serve as rubber stamps to endorse anything that is rammed down their throats. In such a parliament he felt he had to constantly speak for the people. "I thank the God Almighty for empowering me to see things differently and to propose different solutions. Maybe if the solutions proposed by me and my political party were heeded to we would not be where we are today."

Hinting on the rationale behind Cameroon Performance Awards the Senator said people should always allow the potential that's in them to sprout. People he said should always show the exceptional qualities in them adding that if God deemed it necessary to create you after creating millions of other humans then there was certainly an extra reason for creating you. Each individual had an extra quality that must always be worked upon he said.

The National Coordinator of the CPA Francis Ekongang Nzante was accompanied for the Award Event in Bamenda by some members of the Organising Committee; Mr Emmanuel Bah Toko from Bamenda, Mr Leonard Sigeh L. from Yaounde and Mr Belack Ernest Jimbam.

Meantime the Senator was accompanied for the event by his wife, kids, relatives, close friends and colleagues amongst whom were the President of the Northwest Lawyers Association NOWELA, Barrister Acha Collins, Justice Taminang Ignatius ATTE amongst many others.

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HND 2020 Results

 Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences Hits 100%Target

By Francis Ekongang Nzante

Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences Bamenda has once more hit the 100% target following the release of the 2020 results of the Higher National Diploma HND. This revelation was made recently by the the Director of the institution Mr Nkwain Joseph in press chat with Edev Newspaper.

The Director revealed that through out the ten year's existence of the school, the institution has never scored less than 100% at the Higher National Diploma Examinations.

"This school has existed for ten years and as far as this examination that is organised by the Ministry of Higher Education is concerned, the institution has scored a hundred percent throughout its existence. Last year this school scored the best results in the whole country. This year for all the options that we went in that is the Nursing and Medical Laboratory Sciences, we scored a hundred percent and the number that we put in was quite substantial. We have been doing so much in terms of quality and quantity. Even with the Ministry of Public Health, that is with State Registered Nurses, for all the years we have also been having a hundred percent. This is because we have a very experienced and competent staff in the various disciplines."

With this series of successes registered by the school, the establishment is now poised to move to the next level. Firstly, Bachelor Degrees will be offered by the establishment in the 2020-2021 Academic Year. It is in preparation for this that the Higher Institution of Learning is Signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Bamenda.

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New Age Oil Company Donates FCFA 25 Millions worth of Equipments to the Limbe Regional Hospital

The New African Global Energy Company with acronym "New Age" has donated FCFA 25 Millions worth of Anti COVID-19 Equipment to the Limbe Regional Hospital. The equipments were handed over to the Director of the Limbe Regional Hospital, Dr Kinge Thompson Njie on Friday September 11 by Diane Bakehe, the Human Resource and Management Officer of the Oil Company within the confines of the premises of the Regional Hospital.

 While handing over the equipments, Diane Bakehe who represented Mr Bruno De Vinck, the Director of New Age Oil Company noted that the Limbe Regional Hospital despite its 75 years of age still looked very clean. She said the African Global Energy Company had branches in London, China, amongst others. All these branches she said contributed to the equipments that were being handed over to the Limbe Regional Hospital. She said Corporate Social Responsibility has always been taken very seriously by New Age Oil Company. To butress her point, she mentioned aid that had been provided by the company to some Educational Establishments like Government Primary School Debunscha and Government Primary School Idenau Group 2 and 3. She said the company was now shifting it's attention to the Health Sector.

The Limbe Regional Hospital she said, was just one among other hospitals earmarked to benefit from the company's 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility package. 

On reception of the equipments, Dr Kinge Thompson Njie, Director of the Limbe Regional Hospital said the donation was timely considering the fact that the hospital had been facing some challenges in tackling COVID-19 cases due to the absence of certain equipments. He said the hospital had registered 265 comfirmed cases adding that the last five cases were comfirmed within 72 hours prior to the reception of the equipments. 10 patients he said had been lost to COVID-19 mostly due to lack of oxygen supply. The supply of the new equipment he said would certainly take care of this problem since most of the deaths occurred as a result of lack of intensive care. He said the hospital staff felt strengthened by the equipment and promised to make good use of it. 

Some Administrative authorities present appealed to the population to have confidence in the expertise of the staff of the hospital and called on them to observe barrier measures and to do the COVID-19 screening test. Meantime the City Mayor to the Limbe City Council who was represented congratulated Dr Kinge Thompson Njie for his Reception of the Cameroon Performance Awards CPA 2020 adding that he was an example for the younger generation to emulate. 

On behalf of the Regional Delegate for Public Health in the Southwest Region, Mr Njie Esasa expressed gratitude for the gesture by New Age Oil Company and said it was timely because of the challenges being faced coupled with the upcoming 2021 African Nations Championships CHAN slated to take place in Cameroon with Limbe hosting one of the groups. He further said the personnel of the Limbe Regional Hospital was well trained and would make good use of the equipment. The equipment he said would go a long way to improve upon the health status of the Southwest population as a whole and called on other companies to emulate the example of New Age Oil Company.

The Divisional Officer for Limbe I Acha Nkwenty Mofor equally called on others to join in strengthening the Limbe Regional Hospital and reminded the population that COVID-19 truly existed and that barrier measures should continuously be respected.

Present at the Limbe Regional Hospital to participate in the reception of the equipment were Traditional Rulers from around Limbe.

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