DR BERNARD NSOKIKA FONLON UNFORGOTTEN I hold Dr. Bernard Nsokika FONLON in very high regard. I first got to know him in Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu, Nigeria, in the years 1953 and 1954. He was in second year theology when I entered that Major Seminary in September 1953. When he and his classmates were due […]
Mali’s new military rulers said Thursday that former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who was detained during the country’s coup on August 18, had been freed. The announcement came on the eve of a summit by Mali’s neighbours, who are to decide whether to ratchet up pressure on the fledgling junta. Keita’s ousting by rebel troops […]
Unknown armed men burst on a beach in Cameroon’s border town of Ekok early Thursday and abducted 15 people, according to local authorities. Witnesses said the victims, all beach workers, were working when heavily armed men held them at gunpoint and took them away to an unknown destination. Authorities said preliminary results of an investigation […]
A road accident in Cameroon’s Far North region killed five people and injured several others on Thursday, according to local police. The accident occurred Thursday morning in the Bidzar locality along the National Road Number One, according to the police said. Police are still investigating circumstances that led to the tragedy but witnesses said a […]
US Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday cast the re-election of President Donald Trump as critical to preserving law and order and economic viability, warning Democratic rival Joe Biden was a stalking horse for the radical left. Amid widening protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Wisconsin, Pence and other […]
The European Union has suspended its training missions in Mali after the military coup this month that removed President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita from power, EU officials said on Wednesday. The two missions training Mali’s army and police as part of international efforts to stabilize Mali and extend the state’s authority are frozen because they were […]
The UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday declared that Africa was now free of the virus that causes polio, a landmark in a decades-long campaign to eradicate the notorious disease around the world. “Today is a historic day for Africa,” said Prof. Rose Gana Fomban Leke, whose commission certified that no cases had occurred […]
Many political commentators in French Cameroun have opined that the 87 year dictator Paul Biya is a liar, a corrupt man, fraudster, a cheat and he is cruel. Deep within the Anglo Saxon tradition which is in the DNA of every Southern Cameroonian, Paul Biya is indeed a reckless leader with no principles and he […]
The Vice President of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government has said that the people of Ambazonia must hold firm to their country stating that French Cameroun’s “Gendarmerie and BIR model of governance has proven to be a complete and total failure where human values no longer exist.” Dabney Yerima made the comments during a video-conference […]
Captain Lionel Messi has told Barcelona he wishes to leave the club immediately, a source confirmed on Tuesday. The club source said Messi, who has spent his entire career at Barca, informed the club about his desire to leave by sending a burofax, a service used in Spain to urgently dispatch a document that requires […]
