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Cameroon says the Exim Bank of China has made available the amount of FCFA 75billion loan package for the provision of 500,000 laptop computers to students.
The information was made public by the Minister of Higher Education on Tuesday during a news conference in Yaoundé.
The firm to supply the machines is ready to start assembling, the statesman said.
The lone agreement was signed last year in China between the bank and Cameroon, represented by prime minister Yang Philemon.
Paul Biya announced the controversial offer in July 2016.Students from public and stade-recognized private higher institutions of learning are set to benefit from the controversial gifts.
The offer is limited to the 2016/2017 academic year.
Registration is ongoing at some institutions meanwhile others have already completed.
This has been considered by Biya's critics as a political move, especially given the closeness of the 2018 presidential election.
But the president argues he wants his children to join the digital race.
In the meantime, the exact date for distribution is yet to be disclosed.
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Custom officers at their Fotokol control duty post, are said to have seized 200kg of drugs which were destined for the Nigerian based terrorist group Boko Haram, KOACI.COM reveals.
The information was confirmed yesterday morning, by a security source serving as a member of the multinational mixed force, fighting against the insurgency, who preferred to remain anonymous.
According to this source, 3000 packets of tramadol were intercepted by agents of the Cameroon customs, working around the Fotokol border between Cameroon and Nigeria in the Logone and Chari division of the Far North Region.
Besides the packets of tramadol, Indian hemp which was on its way to Chad where Boko haram is trying to make their presence felt after pledging their allegiance to ISIS, was equally seized. The Indian hemp was put in gallons, sachets and cartons.
It is with these drugs that, the terrorist sect transforms the young minds of girls at a tender age, who become courageous enough to commit suicide without having to think twice. It is equally used on their baby boy fighters, whom they capture from villages. At the initial stage, they are still shaky, but when they must have been transformed with the narcotics, they are ready to shoot and kill anybody who stands on their way.
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Th director of the National School of Administration and Magistracy has issued a communiqué launching the most awaited competitive entrance examination into that institution.
The 2017/2018 session of the exams has 405 places for both cycles, A&B.
A special session of the exams was launched several weeks back to recruit English-speaking Cameroonians in the wake of the unrest in West Cameroon.
This other session is the normal entrance organized every year.
ENAM is one of the most coveted institutions in Cameroon. Unlike most public institutions, ENAM gives students the opportunity of receiving meaningful allowances.
Above all, integration is more than 100% guaranteed.
That may explain why it is rumoured that people by their way into it.
Whether it is true or not, you must be 'someone with a golden spoon in your move'.
As details fall in, we will keep your informed.
Or you can visit the websites of ENAM, as they post the communiqué.
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As Schools remain grounded in the North West and South West regions, Moslems have created home schools to intensify the teaching of Koranic values to children. These schools we gathered are scattered across towns in Anglopone Cameroon as Moslem leaders hope to guard children at a time when the shutdown of schools has led to untold youth deliquency.
Parents have been urged to use koranic scriptures to teach their children the importance of upholding moral values so as to maintain a healthy relationship with Allah.
Each Moslem is expected to pay a token to enroll their kids for the classes . The centres also offer various handicrafts to keep the children busy with manual work. Girls in particular are being drilled on purity before marraige and the need to shun prostitution which is rife at this period.
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Felix Teche Nyamusa has made known his intention to challenge long serving chairman, John Fru Ndi for the National Presidency of the country's opposition party, the SDF in October's highly anticipated convention .
Teche made his ambitions known recently in Bamenda . The practicing journalist aims to be the candidate to face President Paul Biya in the 2018 elections. We learnt he has paid the sum of 100.000FCFA as the required caution for the contest.
Asked why Teche is bent on taking over the SDF leadership, he says John Fru Ndihas done alot for the party but needs to go on rest and give room for a new impetus in the party. To him, the time Fru Ndi was useful to the pary is over .
He has recently released a book where he has outline his vision for the party in case he wins the National chairmanship. His candidacy is the lone one registered at the party secretariat.
It still remains unclear whether the incumbet who has been the flag bearer of the party since 1992 will stand again for re-election.
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Denis Njang , the National Organisng Secretary of the People Action Party has finally been released. He was arrested Saturday June 17 in government's effort to foil a planned campaign by the PAP to woo 11 million voters before 2018. The rally was eventually banned by Yaounde authorities.
Speaking to the press after his release, Denis Njang said he was picked up by elements of the 18th Police district in Yaounde after he made a declaration to hold a rally. The officers on their part dismiissed his story insisting on an authorisation. He reveals that his arrest is related to the detention of Ayah Paul , President of the party who is being held since January.
The PAP official has made it clear that the party is different from Ayah Paul, so authorities should not infringe on civil liberties and freedom of association. He wonders why the rally was sqwashed when the party has on previous occasions held meetings with a declaration to the D.O.
Readers of the situiation believe that the government is determined to do everything to neutralise any activity or people related to the retired Justice Ayah Paul. Recently mr Ayah's son, Ayah Ayah was also arrested detained and released 24 hours later. Retired chief justice Ayah Paul has been incarcerated at the Gendarmerie headquarters Yaoundé for months now without any charges levied against him.
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