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CNYC:North West Bureau Counts Achievements, Outlines 'Mouth-Watering' Plans for Youths Come 2024

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By Martial Gnoukapasi  NW Bureau president, flanked by the national president, regional delegate youth affairs and SG governors office The North West office of the Cameroon National Youth Council (CNYC) headed by Mekom Samuel Taleh has outlined a number of Social, Cultural, Economic, Peace and development projects which they say upon implementation, will arm youths of the North West morally and benefit them economically come 2024. This was at the budget orientation debate of the structure that took place Wednesday December 27th at the auditorium of the North West Regional Assembly, bringing together delegates of the youth Council from all seven divisions of the region, with the National president of the CNYC Fadimatu Iyawa, North West regional delegate for youth affairs and representatives from some opposition political parties in attendance.  Members of regional executive team of the council, speaking at the start of the session chaired by North West Governor, represented at the eve...

MIDENO Presents 2023 Report Card to the Media

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By Martial Gnoukapasi GM Cletus Matoya flanked by director of technical services and that of finance The Northwest Development Authority popularly called by it's french acronym MIDENO, has presented a balance sheet of it's 2023 activities to the press family in  Bamenda. The annual press conference which has become a laudable habit of the structure took place Thursday December 21st at the epic event centre. The General Manager of MIDENO - Cletus Anye Matoya, speaking to the Media men and women that answered present said "the purpose of this conference is to keep media abreast with the activities of the Authority for the past 12 months, highlighting the major realisations and also the challenges faced in the execution of the planned actions" He said in order to mitigate the consequences of the crisis, characterized with the abandonment of farms in rural areas where the population has been displaced, MIDENO in 2023 continued with it's mission of standing by the farm...

Bamenda II Council adopts over 2.1billion as budget for 2024

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By Martial Gnoukapasi Mayor Chenwie Peter granting interview Infront of newly acquired truck The budget, voted and adopted by councillors of the said council Thursday December 21st according to mayor Chenwie Peter, has seen an over 20% increase as compared to the 2023 budget. Speaking on the feasibility of the budget and reason for this increase, the mayor said " irrespective of the crisis, i have hard working councillors and through my travels abroad I've been able to sign deals with equipments coming in. We have negotiated funding from partners like Feicom and Minepat which will help us in realizing the low cost housing project, there's Mindevel and also other deals with non governmental organisations that will help us realize the budget and projects" Mayor Chenwie Peter also used the session to lobby for space through the senior divisional officer for Mezam, to permit the council erect stores that will help them raise revenue for projects in the municipality Counci...

Breaking News: Cameroon Becomes 5th African Country to Sign Up to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence

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Colbert Gwain, Digital Rights Advocate Head of PGA National group Hon Agho Oliver with Partners at Cybercrime conference The state of Cameroon has been hailed for its determination and astuteness in joining the rest of the international community in combating cybercrime in real-time. This was during the closing ceremony of the Octopus Conference on Cooperation on Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence that took place this Friday, December 15, 2023, in Bucharest, Romania and attended amongst others by the young Member of Parliament for the Bafut/Tubah Constituency of the Mezam Division of the North West Region of Cameroon and head of the Parliamentarians for Global Action National Group, Hon. Agho Oliver Bamenju The Cameroon delegation to the all-too-important meeting to see Cameroon admitted to the treaty was made up of Tsadjia Celestine Roger, a diplomat at Cameroon's External Relations Ministry, and Jean Yves Meo, representing the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications. After the su...

Stakeholders Hail CAMTEL'S Efforts In Fostering Local Development

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By Gnoukapasir Martial CAMTEL'S GM poses with regional and local authorities in a group photo Stakeholders who answered present at the 'CAMTEL Decentralisation Day', a one-day forum organized by Cameroon's telecommunication giant to discuss the contribution of digital technology in fostering local development in the country, have saluted strides made by the company in promoting local development. Under the theme "Digital Development : Vector for the acceleration of the local development process in Cameroon" , participants of the forum which took place Tuesday December 5th in the nation's capital Yaoundé, discussed on the challenges and approaches to digital development as well as the stakes and challenges of digital development within local and regional authorities. Regional and local authorities at forum The General Manager of Cameroon Telecommunication (CAMTEL) Judith Yah Sunday epse ACHIDI who opened and closed discussions at the forum, said at the e...