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Four Cameroonians have lost their lives on the Douala Yaounde highway in a ghastly crash. According toauthorities, a private Toyota Prado jeep with registration number CE 913 HV collided with a mini-heavy duty vehicle at about 1:30 pm, killing three on-the-spot, while one person later gave up the ghost in Pouma Hospital, raising the death toll to four. The police said the Prado jeep heading to Yaounde from Douala was overspeeding. In an attempt to overtake another vehicle, it collided with the mini-truck.

The jeep’s driver, Seidou and two other occupants, Nkenye Wakam and Assiatou Sakira, died on the spot. Ibrahim Mamadou, one of the truck’s occupants, later died in hospital. The four seriously wounded are being treated in the Pouma Hospital, while the four corpses were kept in the mortuary of the said hospital.

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Details: Rita Akana; 01.Aug.2016; Hits: 3189

Dang Simon, Pouwo Fonter, Fosso Yannick, Kum Ernestine and Yangen Elizabeth, are presently helping the Judicial Police in Douala with investigations after they were arrested on July 25, 2016, for assaulting a passenger onboard their taxi. A passenger, Ndoumbe M, boarded the taxi at Bonanjo, Douala, when it was occupied by two young ladies and a man.

As he sat down on the seat beside the driver, another man entered the taxi few minutes after and sat next to him.

Ndoumbe complained of the overload and asked to alight, but the taxi driver, who is believed to be one of the robbery suspects, gave a deaf ear to his supplication. As the argument ensued, policemen of GMI N°2 spotted the taxi near DHL Bonanjo and discovered that it was the same taxi whose occupants assaulted other passengers previously and seize their hard-earned money. The police intervention vehicle trailed the robbery suspects and finally arrested them.

They were immediately taken to GMI N°2 where they revealed they have been operating for a year. With the two ladies, the gang leader confessed that they recently seized 700,000 FCFA from six victims. The group reportedly operates three times a week on the Bonaberi-Rond Point-Bonanjo stretch onboard their Toyota 92 taxi with registration number LT 187 FG. The vehicle is now in the keeping of GMI N°2 while the five suspects, who are also said to be rape masterminds, are in Judicial Police custody after a packet of cannabis, four mobile phones and two identity cards were collected from them.

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Details: Rita Akana; 29.Jul.2016; Hits: 2413

Tchinda Simplice, 37, a poultry farmer who is believed to have died is has been arrested and put behind bars. He was arrested following police investigations after his disappearance was announced on June 21, 2016 Tchinda Simplice is reported to have left a note beside the Noun River beside his car and dived into the River and died.

The note indicated that he could not reimburse money borrowed from the bank for his poultry farm, as a result of the outbreak of Birds Flu. But he was later seen in NGOUSSOU neighborhood in Yaoundé after Police investigation.

He was presented to the population of West Region as police used his case as a warning to unscrupulous businessmen .The family of Simplice, convinced that he had died, organized a funeral service in his honor. His supposed death almost raised an uproar among Poultry farmers in the West Region, the tense situation was only diffused by West Regional Governor, AWA Fonka Augustine who called on Poultry farmers to stay calm.

Details: Prince Nfor Hanson; 28.Jul.2016; Hits: 2190

Henceforth, those wishing to obtain any service from the Ministry of Mines, Industry and Technological Development (MINMIDT) will not need to worry on how to go about it. The User's Guide of MINMIDT was officially handed over to the Minister of Mines, Industry and Technological Development, Ernest Gbwaboubou by the Minister of Public Service and Administrative Reforms (MINFOPRA), Michel Ange Angouing.

The 186-page document contains information on all the services offered by MINMIDT, the conditions necessary for any services offered by the ministry, the legal provisions necessary to provide any services supervised by MINMIDT, documents needed and how to go about obtaining such documents or services.

Minister Ernest Gbwaboubou said the conception of the User's Guide document falls in line with the Head of State's policy on good governance. He noted that it will contribute to modernise the administration of MINMIDT as well as render administrative services more transparent, efficient and performant.

"It is an important instrument for good governance, so that transparency is instilled in the functioning of public services", Ernest Gbwaboubou explained. MINFOPRA boss, Michel Ange Angouing said the User's Guide gives the public directives on how to constitute a file, which channel to follow in depositing any document, for it is the public's right to obtain good services at any public administration.

Details: Rita Akana; 22.Jul.2016; Hits: 4111

The Second Deputy Mayor of the Buea Council, Lyonga John Efande, yesterday successfully defended his Doctorate Degree Thesis at the Board Room of the Faculty of Education titled: "Expansion of Technical Education in Cameroon and its Implications in the Development of Technical Skills."

Details: Rita Akana; 20.Jul.2016; Hits: 3075

Fotso Victor employees working at the battery manufacturing company of Cameroon (Pilcam), a company owned by billionaire Victor Fotso, have just expresses their ire in the economic capital, by organising a demonstration. This was to demand the payment of eleven months in salary arrears, we learned from these hard-pressed employees.

The anger of Pilcam employees increased, we learn, with the arrival of a new manager at the head of the company. The new Managing Director, Nicky Love Matué, has apparently implemented austerity measures meant to revive the company which had already been facing important financial difficulties for several months. Therefore, the new management decided, according to the employees, to cancel all benefits previously granted to the employees.

Even though the management of Pilcam is not very forthcoming about the real situation of this previously prosperous company, we can remember that this company in the Fotso group has not stopped complaining about the inflow of counterfeit products on the Cameroonian market, as well as the counterfeiting of its products.

In 2013, to resist the competition from cheap imported batteries, Pilcam even had to lower the price of its Hellesens brand on the local market. A decision which obviously was without real consequence on the treasury and the industrial relations in the company.

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Details: Rita Akana; 18.Jul.2016; Hits: 2298

Three suspected drug traffickers were apprehend by Cameroonian security forces in possession of 200 kg of cannabis, at a control post in the locality of Mbe Mbe (region Adamawa), according to state prosecutor Hamadou Bouba.

The Cannabis our sources learns, was concealed in bags of cabbages. The Traffickers left Bafoussam in the Western region of the country, en route to Kousseri in the region of the Far North.
The suspects were all taken into custody and shall appear before a judge this week.
We could not gather much information as to the final destination of the traffickers at the time of filing this report.