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Yaounde-The president of the Republic of Cameroon,Paul Biya has expressed gratitude and warmness to the students who went on the streets to appreciate his gesture of promising them Laptops to ease their studies at their various universities.

On the presidential website and social media channels of the presidency, there was press release with the president in his own words saying:

E-National Higher Education : Students say thank you

Thousands of students from public and private universities in Yaounde marched from the Conference Centre to the centre of the city to express their thanks and gratitude to the President of the Republic on Wednesday 3 August 2016.

The laudable initiative comes in the wake of the distribution of 500 000 computers to students, the setting up of nine computer laboratories in State Universities and the interconnection of all the universities, in a major push for the digital economy under the programme of e-National Higher Education.

Meanwhile in the community of the State University of Bamenda, the laptops gifts have been seen as a welcome gesture towards the modernisation of the learning process and an instrument in the training of youths toward the realisation of Vision 2035 projects.

Messages of gratitude, songs and dance summed up the event in the Bambili campus of the University on August 2, 2016 where students showcased Thank-You messages before telling North West Governor, Adolphe Lele Lafrique to tell President Biya about their commitment to stand by his Emergence Plan for the youths of Cameroon.

Evidence of their appreciation was on placards, some of which read, “One Student, One Laptop. It is real. It is a focus on virtual University, a move towards digital economy. A move towards quality higher education. Tools in the formation of youths towards vision 2035. Laptops for portable education. Thank you, Mr President, father of android generation for making our dreams come true”.

Their message of appreciation, presented by a postgraduate student of the History department, Musah Pagbe Christian, encouraged President Biya to continue in his drive to modernise higher education. He revisited the President’s excellence awards to enhance research by students and said the new project to offer laptops will make things to happen with E-learning at the reach of all students.

It was against this backdrop that, North West governor, Adolphe Lele Lafrique hailed the students for mobilizing to show the gratitude and said the government will deliver for the advancement of higher education through the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Nkuo Therese Akenji.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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: 3114

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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