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Former defender of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, Benoit Assou-Ekotto has dismissed claims from his former coach that he was about to switch from football to the porn industry.

Assou-Ekotto was responding to claims by Harry Redknapp that he wanted to drop his football career and become a porn star. Mr Rednaknapp, former manager of Assou-Ekotto at Tottenham had suggested to the Spurs Show podcast that the former Lion needed some persuading to join his ranks at St Andrew’s, Goal reports.

“The only trouble is that he’s admitted he wants to be a porn star. Maybe I can get another year out of him before he decides to do that,” the coach had said.

However, Mr Assou-Ekotto has come out to discredit the claims. “It was just a joke. What is absurd is that it has been taken seriously. As if I wanted to become a porn actor [...] the joke didn’t bother me at all, it made me laugh,” the football star told France Foot.

The news had gone too far to engulf his personal life. “My mother discovered it on Mother’s Day. She told me that she would have preferred a different gift,” he added.

But the 33 year-old former Lion admits that the porn industry had already contacted him. “The worst is that since it came out, some of them have contacted me on Twitter […] but I believe I will continue in football,” he disclosed.

Benoit Assou-Ekotto last played for Cameroon during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil where he almost turned the pitch into a wrestling ground, as he tried to pick a fight with the current captain of the Lions, Benjamin Moukandjo.

He is currently playing for Metz.

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Rita Akana

30.May.2017

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A journalist of the Afrik 2 radio station based in Yaounde, is reported to have been inhumanely dealt with by millitary men, cameroon-info.net relates.

Polycarpe Essomba, the Director General of the media organ, made it public in his Facebook post on the 26 May, that one of his journalists, Bertrand Mvondo had been molested by unscrupulous men of the law.

According to the story the DG told, Bertrand Mvondo, a sports reporter of the concerned radio station, had gone to cover a Division 2 championship match at the millitary football stadium in Yaounde.

It happened that, a dispute erupted between a club president and a uninformed officer. Bertrand Mvondo being a journalist put his camera in use. The military man did not welcome the idea of taking images of their dispute, so he asked the reporter to stop and delete all the images he had taken.

Afrik 2's sports journalist stood on his grounds, saying no such thing will happen. In reaction to Bertrand's resitance, the enraged soldier called his colleagues who together with him, mercilessly inflicted pain on Polycarpe Essomba's employee.

The DG further added that, they will make sure the authors of this irresponsible act pay for it.

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Rita Akana

29.May.2017

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The university community of Douala was Wednesday afternoon shocked after witnessing a public display of love demonstrated by two of its students.

The final year students who seemed to be cut in an uncontrollable romance affair were spotted in a compromising position kissing and caressing each other very passionately. The students were immediately identified and summoned to the disciplinary committee of the higher institution of learning. According to the internal regulations of the school the act is abominable. 

Students of the University of Douala say this is not the first time students are manifesting love for each other in a public spectacle. They fear that western civilization is eating deep into the Cameroonian youth to the extent that it is now taking away their ethical and moral values.

“It is not the first time students have kissed in public on campus. When students come to read on campus in the night, some of them are often spotted in very compromising positions” says a level 3 physics student. “This kind of act contributes to moral decadence in our society and must be stopped” he adds. 

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Ndi Derek Giyoh

26.May.2017

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Parents join teachers to ask for unpaid salaries from Proprietor of Prestige Bilingual Nursery and Primary School Douala.

Parents whose children are attending Prestige Bilingual Nursery and Primary School in the Logbessou neighbourhood of the Douala 5 municipality went on rampage yesterday 23^rd May 2017 in front of the institution calling on the school authorities to pay salaries of their teachers who have stopped teaching their children for several weeks now. The teachers are demanding 3 months of unpaid salary.

After blocking the entrance into the Primary and Nursery School the parents of the pupils brandished placards bearing messages calling for the payment of teachers.

According to the angry parents, their children have not been receiving adequate lectures for the past 2 months.

“We are very disappointed with the management of this school. Our children have not been learning for the past 2 months now. My children are at home since Monday because nothing is going on in school. This has to stop. We want the teachers paid to the last Franc so that learning can continue again.” says a disappointed parent.

Reports say a previous negotiation between the angry teachers and the school management seems to have ended in a deadlock, reasons why the teachers decided to send the pupils back home to the surprise of their parents.

However, a meeting has been fixed for today Wednesday between the proprietor and the angry teachers alongside the commander of the 4^th central police station Logbessou to try and resolve the problem for the children and teachers to go back to the classroom for the final term of the academic year.

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Ndi Derek Giyoh

24.May.2017

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The government of Cameroon has found the French rail company Camrail responsible for the fatal Eseka train accident that claimed more than 100 lives and left close to one thousand persons injured in 2016. Camrail is blamed for excessively high speed, 96 km/h on a terrible rail track where the normal speed ought to be 40km/h. The president has disbursed FCFA 1bilion worth of supplementary assistance to victims and relatives of the derailment. The president has also announced the erection of a monument at Eseka in remembrance of the victims of the accident.

The incident which is one of the most deadly train accidents in the history of Cameroon occurred in Eseka, Yaounde on 21st October 2016. After the terrible incident, the president of Cameroon instructed the prime minister to lead a commission to investigate the causes of the derailment, propose ways of preventing such catastrophes , determine the people to carry the blame as well as evaluate the management of the accident… That was on 25th October 2016, four days after the accident The results of the investigations hold Camrail (the French company in charge of rail transport in Cameroon) responsible for the accident.

According to the government, Camrail did not only fail to respect speed limit. In fact, the locomotive had unreliable brakes. Camrail failed to examine the locomotive and wagons before departure. And most importantly, complaints from the conductors were ignored, they say. The investigations also revealed the problem of overloading. Rumours that followed the accident claimed that some passengers stood up while others even took refuge in the toilets. Government recommends better involvement of the State in Camrail in a bit to curb further complications. The people who are to blame for the accident are to be duly held responsible, says the message.

President Paul Biya has instructed the prime minister to ensure the respect of the measures and decisions outlined in the communiqué. The president also urges CamraiL to finalise reparation measures it undertook as soon as possible. The results of the investigation were to be published after one month, that was in November but they took several months to reach the public on Tuesday 23 May 2017. The communique was read on Tuesday on the state-run CRTV.

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Rita Akana

24.May.2017

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A truck carrying sand has crushed two people in  Nyala, in the economic capital of Cameroon, Douala.
The incident occurred on Monday, 22.02.2017 at 10:30 a.m.
The two victims are a callbox operator by name, Ngo Minong Elizabeth, 45 and the rider of the motorbike involved in the accident, Kambe Alain Georges.
According to  Tresor Tanon(Journalist) from Canal2 International, the accident happened when the rider of the motorbike tried to overtake another vehicle. He reportedly came face-to-face with a taxi before the truck came from behind and ran over two of the three occupants of the motorbike.
The third person,who could have part of the blame, reportedly jumped off the vehicle upon seeing the imminent danger.
This fatal incident comes barely two days after the celebration of "National Unity Day".
Road accidents have become too frequent in Cameroon. At least 14 people lost their lives in road accidents in the last two weeks.

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Rita Akana

22.May.2017

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