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Nude photos of Diane Shima Rwigara, could be breaking the internet, but possibly, not her spirit.
The Rwandan presidential candidate on Friday morning was shocked to learn about her private naked photographs were making rounds around the world.
Nude photos of Diane Shima Rwigara, could be breaking the internet, but possibly, not her spirit.
The Rwandan presidential candidate on Friday morning was shocked to learn about her private naked photographs were making rounds around the world.
The move to humiliate the woman, who has recently boldly come out to attack President Paul Kagame’s bad governance, is likely to attract criticism from women rights activists.
The 35-year-old tough talking woman is a daughter of the late Assinapol Rwigara. He died in a motor accident in 2015
It is hardly a week since she announced her presidential ambitions and a photo bomb has fallen on her.
In the conservative Rwandan society, Ms Rwigara is likely to get shunned by moralists, while the youth might warm up to her candidature but for only excitement.
However, analysts ask, “who will take seriously a woman who finds idle time to take nude photos?” Nudes are not new in Rwanda, but no high profile woman has been rudely exposed to this extent. This has been a territory for musicians, socialites and corporate prostitutes.
How Rwigara will respond to this photo bomb will tell a lot about the substance she is made of. For now, an innocent act such as this is a little set back to the fire she had infused into her campaign
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The Director of cabinet at the Prime Ministry has warned that there is no compromise for schools in the Anglophone regions which do not comply with 2017 schedule for official exams. Prof Paul Ghogomu Mingo who was addressing the Executive Members of the North West Fons Union vowed that not even repeated ghost towns will stop the exams .
Ghogomu believes that those blocking school resumption in these regions are individuals who are bent on causing disorder. He told the traditional rulers that Government is bent on ensuring a hitch free conduct of the exams and security imperatives will be put in place to that end He encouraged the Fons to talk to their subjects and make them see the need of sending their children to school, reiterating Government's good will to solve the grievances raised by Anglophone lawyers and teachers.
The Fons in two motions of support said they were behind President Paul Biya's bid for a new mandate and also welcomed the creation of the Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism.
They expressed their desire for constructive dialogue to end the growing imp-ass.
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Of late the government of Cameroon has been held by the scrotum by Anglophone protesters to demonstrate bilingualism in all its facets. The ageing government in its desperation seems to be getting in more trouble to proof to the Cameroonians that it is truly bilingual. Some have described the “Get Bilingual Quick” schemes employed by the government as a big joke; they say the government is simply crucifying the queen’s language.
Many individuals have confirmed that translations made on signposts and texts contain many mistakes and it is more trouble for country especially now that the government is taking steps to boost its tourism sector.
“The government needs to accept that French was almost the lone language used in Cameroon. They should not hastily go and add wrong English phrases on old sign posts as though they existed long time ago. They should take time and employ a competent body to systematically change the signposts. Now when tourists will visit Cameroon and pass across such sign posts, it will be more disgraceful for the whole country” says an onlooker.
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The chairman of the Cameroon GCE Board has announced that the proprietors of confessional and Islamic schools are calling on their students to come and sit the GCE examinations at their respective centres.
So far there has not been any independent confirmation from the proprietors.
Pr Peter Alange Abety made the announcement on Saturday after an in-camera council meeting of the board meant to examine the administrative and management accounts of the year 2016 as well as the degree of preparedness for the 2017 session the examinations.
“Were are very happy to inform the general public that schools run by Catholic, Protestant and Islamic denominations have assured us that they are preparing to call back their candidates, who will come back to their institutions and write their exams,” Pr Alange Abety disclosed.
The two-week postponement of the examinations as declared by the Ministry of Secondary Education is unchanged, said the Registrar of the GCE Board, Monono Ekema Humphrey. While the practical phase comes up on 15th May 2017, the written phase begins on 12th June 2017.
Certain changes will be observed on the individual timetables of the candidates. Afternoon papers will be taken at 1 p.m. instead of 2 p.m. due to what the board calls “security reasons”.
“Most afternoon papers will begin as from 1 p.m., no longer 2. This is for security reasons, and that exams should begin early enough in the afternoon and close quite early while it is yet day to give candidates time to go home and join their family early enough,” Mr Ekema disclosed.
Pr Peter Alange had earlier expressed concerns over the credibility of the 2017 GCE certificates should the strike continue. He was speaking in March 2017 during an extraordinary council session of the GCE Board.
In the meantime, the Minister of Secondary Education will make a tour of the two regions of Southern Cameroons to evaluate the state of affairs of the examinations organized by his ministry. Jean Ernest Masséna Ngalle Bibehe’s tour starts on 8th to end on 11th May 2017.
Schools have been very inactive in Southern Cameroons since the start of the Anglophone Struggle in November 2016.
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If Biya so desires, one billion BIRs as well all the soldiers can run through the streets of the entire Southern Cameroons as he did yesterday with a handful of misfits and misguided fellows tagged as soldiers.
Yesterday our satellite Television, the Southern Cameroons Television will ridicule and drag the rotten regime into stinking mud. Gone are those days of intimidation and false bravado by these poorly trained and Ewondo Tribal cabal tagged Soldiers. How I wish they saw the hand writing on the wall and unconditionally released those kidnapped from Bamenda and taken to Yaoundé's dungeon,Kondengui?
Today they are stupified and downcast and there is no exit route any longer for them. They never forsaw this kind of humiliation and stiff risistance from those they thought unwittingly as "les anglofools" du Cameroun.
Our new mouth piece and guarantor of our voices and fire fighter against the false propaganda released from the infamous Cameroon Radio and Television that the Regime has over the thirty long years and still counting to pour saw dust into the eyes of the good people of Cameroon. Today our liberation is at hand and nobody can stop it and we no longer want any Federation with la Republique du Cameroun.
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The University of Buea has started a crucial first semester examination session after which the majority of the students have been out of the classroom for over five months now following the unrest in West Cameroon.
The examinations which kicked off on Friday are witnessing ‘an encouraging turn-out’, claimed the vice-chancellor of the University of Buea
“The exams are going on very smoothly. The number of students who have come out to do their exams is impressive,” Pr Nalova Leonga revealed.
Pr Leonga went further to urge students who had not yet shown up for the examinations to react as soon as possible.
With the state of affairs, Continuous Assessments (which are always obligatory) will not be taken into consideration, disclosed the authorities.
But a source on the ground (in Buea) has countered most of the claims, stating that the turn-out was not that impressive, and that most of the students were not very happy with the questions. Our source said students were shocked to see that the questions covered nearly the entire syllabus.
During normal circumstances the first semester examinations are taken either in late January or early February. Second semester examinations come up next month for most, if not, all universities in Cameroon.
Since the start of the Anglophone Problem the majority of students in West Cameroon have been away from the classroom. As the University of Buea takes this bold step, we wonder what will become of the second semester evaluation and the type of knowledge and quality of certificates students will obtain.
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