2022 GCE Results

War Thorn Bamenda Churns out Best overall Students!

By Francis Ekongang Nzante

The results of the 2022 General Certificate of Education has revealed that some Institutions in Bamenda, Capital of the War thorn North West Region of Cameroon have churned out some of the best students on the National Triangle.

This is remarkable considering the circumstances under which students in these parts of the country have been going to school during the past five years. After some years in the doldrums due to the crisis and the subsequent closure of schools, results in the NW Region started improving after last year’s GCE results. The 2022 results have however proven that the NW Region formerly considered to be the  power House of Education in the country is gradually regaining that prestigious position.

The traditionally good results of the denominational establishments have been completely re-established. Schools like Sacred Heart College Mankon, Our Lady of Lourdes Bamenda, PHS and young institutions like the Baptist Comprehensive High School Nkwen go a long way to give credence to this claim.

 This reporter also noted that this resurgence of good results had not only gained grounds in  Lay Private Institutions as well, but that this category of schools were gradually occupying center stage.

A close look at this year’s GCE CommercialAdvanced level results reveal that among the best students in the country is a certain Nyoh Alvin Nyuyfoghan from the Saint Michael’s Academy of Science and Arts Bamenda who came out on top with 8 A grades bagging 40 points in the process. Still from the same Institution is another student, Teh Hendrine Ma-ah who is undoubtedly amongst the second best students on the national territory. This student passed in eight subjects with 7 A grades and a B grade.

Apart from top quality results, the Saint Michael’s Academy of Arts and Science SMASA registered a 95.35% success with at least 34 students making it in six or more subjects.

At the GCE Ordinary Level, SMASA Bamenda scored 86.36% with 18 students succeeding in ten or more subjects. A certain Abbia Anna distinguished herself with a pass in eleven subjects bagging 8 A grades and three B grades.

SMASA also maintained it’s streak of good results at the GCE Advanced Level Grammar registering an 88.75% success. Twenty two students passed in Five Subjects and 43 in Four Subjects. Meantime the best student, Ndi Winston Nfor Kanjo had Five A grades thus bagging 25 points in the process.

With such quality results in Lay Private Institutions of learning in Bamenda, one can safely say that Bamenda and the North West Region at large is slowly regaining its place as the Educational Power House of the nation.

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Back To School 2022-2023

Institutions in Bamenda Fine-tune Conditions To Accommodate Economic Hardships!

 

By Francis Ekongang Nzante

Against a backdrop of very difficult times in the English Speaking Regions of Cameroon which are hard hit by an unprecedented hike in the prices of basic commodities and school needs, many establishments are cutting down on fees and segmenting the payment of fees into installments to ensure that these difficult conditions don’t keep too many children out of school.

Registrar, SHIPS, Bamenda

This reporter caught up with Mr. Bonkishir Aloys Fondreyuv, Registrar of Saint Michael’s Higher Institute of Professional Studies at Upper Bayelle in Bamenda to get a feel of the situation and he said things had been made easier for students who find themselves in a very difficult situation imposed upon them by the crisis. Fees he said had been slized down and were to be paid in installments. Hear him, “we are considering the hard times parents are facing as the school reopening draws near. We will as such take fees in as many installments as possible. This will involve entering specific agreements with parents and students who come to us for admission. Once both parties stick to their own part of the agreements the students are free to attend classes.”

 

Mr. Bonkishir Aloys Fondreyuv intimated that the idea of creating the Saint Michael’s Higher Institute of Professional Studies known in its English acronym as SHIPS was hatched in 2009. Given that Cameroon was an emerging country and that students graduating from the first and second cycles of the establishment were graduating and finding it impossible to put food on the table, the founders found it necessary to create this Higher Institute of Professional Studies. The aim was to professionally empower students graduating from their secondary school. It was also aimed at building in the students the ability to take initiative and to create so as to independently become creators and managers. The Registrar explained that the approach was to engulf students from their Secondary School; Saint Michael’s Academy of Science and Arts into the Higher Institute of Professional Studies.  These students were intended to be empowered in order for them to be able to create jobs and employ people instead of the other way round. Their vision he said was translated into the good results that the school had in 2015. The results were exceptionally good and one of their students of Civil Engineering who did urban planning stood out exceptionally as the best student in the country at the time. “This student today holds a Master Degree and is presently a PhD Research student. There are a couple of them who constituted the group that produced the good results in 2015 who also travelled abroad to further empower themselves. This was a concretization of the vision we had when SHIPS was created. Unfortunately, the Anglophone  Crisis set in a year after and  most of our dreams were shattered by insecurity. However SHIPS is back on course today like most establishments in Bamenda” the Registrar said.

SHIPS benefits from the services of teachers from Higher Institutions of learning in Bamenda with lots of experience in preparing students for HND, degree Programmes and much more.

SHIPS the Registrar said offers HND studies in Business, Education, Home Economics, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Engineering and Technology, Agriculture, Legal Carriers and Medical and Biomedical Sciences.

 SHIPS he further said was also into Fashion, Clothing and Textile as well as Bakery and Food Processing.

 One of the challenges that has been brought to bear on educational service providers by the crisis is insecurity. Hinting at efforts put in to ensure the security of students the Registrar said SHIPS campus which is located along New Road at Bayelle was completely fenced with guards permanently on duty at the entry point.

SHIPS CAMPUS

He didn’t fail to draw attention to the fact that the establishment had a state of the art Science Laboratory and a Food and Nutrition Laboratory that has been tested and confirmed by inspectors to be among the best.

“We are a bilingual country and we have language remedial courses for those who come in from the French background with just a little mastery of the English Language. Be sure that we will fill up the language gap and you will catch up as far as lectures in English are concerned. As far as security guarantees are concerned, we have already made arrangements for those coming in from foreign countries. Arrangements have been made for them to be given affordable hostels in a very secured environment.” He said.

 

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"Peace House Bamenda Urges Gov't to Review it's Policy of Disarming Citizens"

-Jude Nforngang

Mr.  Nforngang Jude Thaddeus, Director of Peace House CIG Bamenda has urged the Government of Cameroon to review it’s policy of disarming Citizens in Local communities. This he says has given armed robbers an upper hand.

He is a Legal Advisor and Mediator at the Peace House CIG Bamenda. He is an expert at law, professionally trained in Great Britain at the Institute of Legal Executives of England and Wales (CILEX Law School). He is equally a Community Development Expert and Philanthropist with over 23 years of work experience in Cameroon and other countries and has conducted several long-term researches relevant to solving problems on why majority of Africans remain poorer even with aid from the west. He co-founded the Peace House CIG Bamenda, the Elites Credit Union Cooperative, the Campus School Management System, the CashTelephone Project amongst others. He begins this interview by stating what  inspired them to create Peace House Bamenda.

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The Peace House Common Initiative Group  Bamenda was founded as a solution to provide urgent help and support to destitute people affected by conflicts, majority of whom are women and children.

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So what exactly are the objectives of Peace House Bamenda?

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The main objective of the Peace House CIG Bamenda is to provide Entrepreneur Training, Advocacy, Mediation, and Shelter to the Destitute.

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Let’s look at the modus operandi of Peace House Bamenda.

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The methodology used in achieving our objectives is simple.

Here at the Peace House CIG Bamenda, we have developed in-house methodologies originating from our long-term observations and research in local communities as a primary source as well as correlation from experiences consulting multinational issues on poverty alleviation, Human Rights Advocacy and Conflict Mediation processes.

We have developed the Social Media Community Centered Responsive Approach in its current Campaign on Human Rights Advocacy relevant to the Current raging Anglophone Violent Conflict.

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What are the grounds so far covered by Peace House Bamenda?

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The Peace House CIG Bamenda is currently well known and trusted as a Neutral stakeholder advocating for the Human Rights Protection of indigenous Anglophone people especially women and children. Our observations based on our social media responsive methodologies currently indicate that all stakeholders of the current Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon are looking up to the Peace House CIG Bamenda on the actual facts and data on the effects of the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon as we are the main neutral organization visible in the affected local communities able to give a credible report on the actual visible facts.

The peace House CIG also provides temporal Shelter and basic meals to IDPs who are mainly women and children escaping domestic violence and effects of the current violent armed conflict in their local communities. We provide psychosocial support and counseling to affected IDPs and destitute local community members seeking our help both from our Mile 5 Nkwen Bamenda Head Office as well as live online from our social media communication channels.

The Peace House CIG also currently provides Free Legal Advise as seen on topical issues expressed on social media as a tool to help ignorant communities to resolve conflicts and issues related to their Legal and Human Rights processes.

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Given the insecurity that presently reigns in the North West and South West Regions, what challenges have been encountered by your CIG in carrying out its duties?

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The Peace House CIG Bamenda is legally registered in Cameroon as a Common Initiative Group and as a standard not-for-profit charity organization. Our personnel and members are experts professionally trained in different areas relevant to our objectives. Members of the Peace House CIG Bamenda are neutral and do not support or stand for any particular political ideology. Some of our members have been victims of the current raging armed conflict in the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon.  The Peace House CIG   Bamenda's current observations show that the Cameroon Government and the Separatist Authorities are Negligent in the Protection of top economically strong elite necessary for the current and future development of the country. A case in point is the recent assassination of Madam Janna Fondo Anna in Bamenda. She was a Philanthropist and an Economics Teacher as well as Co-owner of Janna Enterprises and Super Market amongst other things. This highlights the alarming Security Vacuum in the crisis hit regions. This lady was one of our Key Advisors and Philanthropists. The lack of state protection is no doubt going to affect over 60% of our Philanthropic works in Bamenda.

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What is the outreach of the activities of Peace House Bamenda?

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It is legally registered with its head office in Bamenda. Its area of jurisdiction covers the entire national territory.

Our personnel are currently providing relief services to destitute communities at its head office in Bamenda, as well as directly to other affected communities in Cameroon. We also provide services on call as well as through social media channels.

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What is your take on the quality of Gorvenance in Cameroon?

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Our long-term observations show that Cameroon is a Centralized Democratic Unitary State with a very strong Presidency Unique from its State Government with the use of Elitist Political Governance. It would appear the governance institutions of Cameroon makes great er use of its retired administrators. This class of people are appointed as leaders of its newly created institutions relevant to current national economic and conflict issues.

Our expert opinion would be that, the Government and Presidency of Cameroon should seek credible neutral experts in their efforts of bringing social change, especially relevant to the current economic issues and conflicts raging in Cameroon.

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You certainly have national and international partners.

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We do not yet have international partners. Peace House CIG has relied on the Philanthropic support of its members and participatory inputs of its beneficiaries towards achieving its objectives.

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Any last message?

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The Peace House CIG Bamenda would urge the Government and Presidency of Cameroon to urgently review its policy on disarming the local ordinary citizens. We have observed over three  years and counting that since the disarming of local ordinary citizens in Cameroon  armed robbers are taking advantage of the  Security Vacuum created by the circumstances and causing grievous harm on local communities in Cameroon, especially in the Anglophone Regions occasioning loss of lives and property. This was never So when Citizens were perceived to be armed. Our observations also show that there was no significant misuse of fire arms by ordinary local community members in the Anglophone communities of Cameroon other than accidents occurring during funeral ceremonies (less than 0.3 %).

Interviewed by Francis Ekongang Nzante

 

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