FAKO NEWS CENTRE

Chief David Molinge, Chief Of Muea And President Of Fako Chiefs' Conference, Calls On Government To Review The Status Of Chiefs

If there is a chief from Fako division who is most heard of and read and spoken about in the Cameroon media, it is HRH Chief David Molinge of the Muea Chiefdom. His recent strides calling on government to up-grade the status of traditional rulers in Cameroon, contributions in handling the worries of Fako chiefs as president, upholding the traditional values, customs, and well-being of his subjects among others have earned him the Guardian Post 2009 Traditional Authority of the Year Award............

FIRE DESTROYS TIKO MAIN MARKET

An uncontrollable fire has burnt down close to 80 per cent of the Tiko main market in Fako Division in the South West Region of Cameroon. The fire incident that began at about 5.30pm consumed over 800 shops on Tuesday 3rd March, 2010. The shops were erased completely, leaving shop owners helpless before fire fighters reached the scene from Douala ......................................................................................

Mount Cameroon Race Finally Takes Place: A New Champion Is Made and Lyonga Mondoa Uplifts The Spirits Of Bakweri People After Coming Fourth

The 15th edition of the Mount Cameroon Race that recently raised dust in Buea between the organisers and the local inhabitants has finally taken place, with athletes running from the Molyko stadium to the summit and back, instead of stadium to Hut 2 and back as the organisers had earlier planned. This year’s edition saw the emergence of a new champion, Joseph Tiben Wirba, who hails from the North West Region of Cameroon. The sprinter conquered the Chariot of the Gods in 4hrs 36ms 9secs to win the race.

MOUNT CAMEROON GETS A NATIONAL PARK

The official launching of the Mount Cameroon National Park has taken place in the German colonial capital of Buea, Cameroon. The launching took place on Wednesday 17 February, 2010, at the Pan African Institute of Development (PAID-WA) Buea. The project, which covers a surface area of 58,178 hectares, is a development programme of the .........................................................

Cameroon Sports Authorities Respect Local Call To Retain Mount Cameroon Race To The Summit

For once, the elites and traditional leaders of Fako Division have been praised for speaking with one voice to achieve a common goal. Many people throughout Cameroon have always taken advantage of an existence of division in opinions to short-change the people of Fako. This time around, those responsible for organising the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope failed to realise their plans to

2010 Youth Day Celebrations in Buea: Christian Schools Receive Applause For Maintaining Anglo-Saxon Tradition

The thousands who turned out to witness Cameroon National Youth Day celebrations in Buea have praised students of Saint Joseph’s College at Sasse, Bishop Rogan College Small Soppo, Baptist High School Great Soppo and other mission schools in Buea sub-division for keeping to the traditional Anglo-Saxon organisation during the match pass. The match pass exercise that took close to five and a half hours on Thursday 11 February, 2010, went to ..................................................................

2010 Mount Cameroon Race: Buea Inhabitants Frown At Innovations To Limit The Race To Hut 2

The Mount Cameroon Race of Hope will from this year be run from the Molyko stadium down to the Mile 17 Motor Park, then up the mountain to Hut 2 and back to the Molyko stadium in Buea. The president of the National Athletic Federation in Cameroon, Jacques Sébastien Mbous has ..................................................

Buea University Support Staff Go On Strike

The services of the support staff (secretariat, security, cleaners etc) of the University of Buea, Cameroon, have gone stand-still since the early morning of Wednesday 13 January, 2010. Workers of this department are on a sit-down strike demanding that the university authorities see that they receive their risk, productivity and technical allowances. They are also requesting that the university make sure their Social Insurance allowances are deposited into the National Social Insurance Fund ..........................................................................................

African Nations Cup 2010: What Would The Gun Attack On The Togolese Team Teach Africa?

It is extremely sad when society or politics visits its violence on sport. Sport is one of society's clean cultural creations that is observed and practised in the spirit of friendship and honour. Society is therefore worse for it when the poison of politics and money is injected into the bloodstream of sport and is infected by the virus of jingoism, xenophobia and greed. What happened in Angola yesterday was ..............

2009 Buea University Graduation: Bakweri Students Shine To Bring Pride and Honour to Their Tribe

Click here for the list of 2009 Bakweri university graduands, their courses and some pictures.

CAMEROON FORUM GREAT BRITAIN Pulls Men and Women From All Walks of Life For the Unfortunate Children of Cameroon, Back in Cameroon

Second time better, Cameroon Forum upstages itself, going posher at the Grand Porchester to ensure the best-ever Cameroonian event in Europe for a good cause. '' If any community can, Cameroon community can'', says Chris Lifangi Nasah, head of Cameroon Forum Great Britain. They were all there .. Peers of the British Realm, African Diplomatic corps, Cameroonian Doctors and allied medics, Financiers, Teachers, Nurses, Footballers of the English Premier League, etc etc. Click on the link below to see the event in pictures.

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PRINCE JOHN NJIE MOKOSA IS CROWNED CHIEF OF GBWITINGI VILLAGE: DIVISIONAL OFFICER TELLS OTHER CHIEFDOMS TO LEARN FROM GBWITINGI

The Divisional Officer (D.O) for Buea Sub-Division, Samuel Kuemo, has recommended that bordering chiefdoms copy the approach of the Gbwitingi people on the issue of handling land disputes and other community crises within their chiefdoms. The D.O. made this suggestion in Gbwitingi during the coronation of the chief of that village, HRH Chief Jonh Njie Mokosa, on Friday 20 November , 2009.

Jaweaneh, A Douala-based Bakweri Group, Awards Scholarships to Fako Students Studying At Buea University

A group of 12 ‘Jaweaneh’ Bakweri people have presented scholarships to cover the registration fees of 10 Bakweri students in the University of Buea (UB). The members honoured the laureates with the sum of 50,000 CFA francs each on Saturday November 14, 2009, during a ceremony at Mountain Club, Buea. During the occasion, the

Cameroon Youth Council, Buea, Gets New Executive

Delegates of the Cameroon National Youth Council (CNYC) Bureau in Buea Sub-Division, have voted a new executive into office. The 14-member team was voted on November 7, 2009, at the Youth Affairs office in Buea. Heading the team, Jaba Wose, was elected with

Some Strange Happenings At The University Of Buea Campus

Students and authorities of the University of Buea, Cameroon, were on Monday 2 November, 2009, taken aback when they turned out to witness strange paintings on the walls of some buildings on the campus. The paintings that have been attributed to some sort of ......................................................................

Wonakanda, Wova and Wokova Area Development Association(BONAVADA) Rewards Youths For Academic Excellence

Some kids, pupils and students from the Wokova, Wova, Wonakanda Area Development Association (BONAVADA) in Buea have been rewarded for academic excellence. More than 100 laureates received prizes that ranged from basic school needs like books, pens, and rulers while others gained cash prizes. This took place during the 6th General Prize Award ceremony the BONAVADA Community organised on .........................................

ANALYSIS OF THE 2009 CAMEROON GCE EXAMINATION RESULTS

SUMMARY OF THE 2009 GCE EXAMINATION RESULTS IN CAMEROON: AN ANALYSIS THAT REVEALS THE TOP 9 SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANGLOPHONE CAMEROON BASED ON GENERAL PASSES AND THE QUALITY OF GRADES ACHIEVED BY THE STUDENTS

Regulation of African Traditional Medicine in Cameroon

An African traditional medicine practitioner, Richard Fru, has prayed the Cameroon government to bring an order in this sector as a means to ensure patients security. The doctor in African traditional medicine maintained that there are ...................

Chief Ephraim Inoni, Former Prime Minister Of Cameroon, Returns to His Home Village Of Wvakingili in Fako Division

Thousands of family members, friends and well-wishers thronged the sea-side palace of retired Prime Minister His excellency the Right Honourable Chief Ephraim Inoni on Saturday 01 August 2009 at Wvakingili(Bakingili), Limbe, for .......

OBITUARY: FRANZ GOBINA MONYONGE, WINNER OF THE 1983 GUINNESS MOUNT CAMEROON RACE

THE BAKWERI NATION AND THE REST OF CAMEROON HAVE LOST A GREAT ATHLETE, FRANZ GOBINA MONYONGE...........

Bakweri Affairs: Lysoka-Bwilei Village Gets New Chief

The Divisional Officer for Buea has hailed the inhabitants of the Buea village of Lysoka Bwilei for their collaboration and......................

CALL-BOX BUSINESS: Salvation for some Cameroon University Graduates

Some graduates of Cameroon universities have testified that callbox(telepone booth) business has rescued them from unemployment. They say that the small profit they.........................

BUEA: Molyko Landlady Negotiates With Tenants For Liberty After Being Held Hostage

A landlady in Molyko who has been avoiding listening to her tenants in solving their water crisis has ended up refunding part of their water bill. The tenants, made up of students, took away the lady's freedom by .............

BUEA: 55 YEAR OLD MAN PAYS A PRICE FOR GOING AFTER YOUNG GIRLS

An 18 year old girl travelling from Douala to Buea has duped a 55 year old man of 65,000 frs and a mobile phone. The story goes that the 55 year old man met this young girl on his way from........

Shirley Ardener in Buea to Launch 'Encountering Transformation and Identity'

When you listen to her speak, you might mistake the identity of British-born Shirley Ardener for a Bakweri indegene because of ..........................................................

WORLD CUP AND NATIONS CUP 2010: QUALIFICATION STILL POSSIBLE FOR CAMEROON

The indormitable Lions of Cameroon, bottom of their group with no goal and a solitary point after two games, could top their group with two wins in their upcoming head-to-head clashes with the Azingo Nationale of Gabon. Cameroon's 0-0 stalemate with Morocco at home in Yaounde on Day 2 of the ...........................

Douala Food Vendor Disappears After She Confesses Her Misdeeds To Pastor Joshua

Muyuka Baptist Convention Rally: Having the Heart and Hands of Jesus in a Decaying Society

Close to one thousand people of the Soppo Field Youths of the Cameroon Baptist Convention that attended a rally at Bafia(Wafvia) in Muyuka have been called upon to put on the attitude of...........

FAKO WORKERS RECEIVE LABOUR MEDALS

Some workers from private and para-states establishment in Fako Division have been honoured with medals. They received the medals on Friday 1 May, 2009, at the Manga Williams Avenue, Limbe, during the 123rd labour day celebrations.....

Some Girls in Buea Go into Hiding after the Death of a Male HIV/AIDS Suspect

Some young girls in Buea who dated a taxi driver fondly called The Boss; have gone into hiding after his death. Before his death, he was suspected of being HIV/AIDS positive. ...........

SON OF SARAH LIENGU ETONGE, QUEEN OF MOUNT FAKO, DIES FROM GUN SHOT WOUNDS

Victorian Etongo , the last born of the Queen of Mount Cameroon Race Sarah Liengu Etonge, has died from gun shot wounds. Victorain Etongo died at the Buea Hospital Annex on Saturday 11 April 2009....................................................
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PICTURES OF BUEA VILLAGES

CLICK HERE FOR PICTURES OF BUEA VILLAGES. Buea is the most beautiful town in Cameroon. Most of its beauty is natural, with the Fako Mountain(Mt Cameroon) providing much glamour. From Bokwaongo to Wondongo, down to Small Soppo and across to Great Soppo, then to Wonakanda and across to Wonduma(Bonduma), then down to Molyko and Muea and across to Bonjongo, covering more than forty five villages............................................................................................................................

Gas Fire in Wondongo Village in Buea Leaves Three People Severely Injured

Women's Day Celebration in Cameroon: Rural Women Accuse Urban Women of Misleading Women

The 2009 Mt Cameroon Race: Organisational Lapses and Alleged Fraud Spoil The Race

The thousands who turned out to witness the 14th edition of the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope have described the entire organization as a failure. They blamed the authorities of the National Athletics Federation and the Ministry of Sports and Physical Education for ....................

2009 MOUNT CAMEROON RACE

CLICK HERE FOR A FULL REPORT ON THE BUEA MOUNTAIN RACE, WITH MANY, MANY PICTURES.................................................................................................................
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Buea Prepares for The 2009 Mount Cameroon Race of Hope

Mount Cameroon Race athletes are already in the Regional Capital of South West, Buea, to register and get used to the atmosphere. Some are training on the mountain so as to get used to the terrain before the race itself. Fako News Centre reporter, Moki S. Mokondo, followed some of the athletes up the Buea mountain recently to watch them train, and now gives a picture of what it takes to race on Mount Cameroon, a race he considers the cruellest African ‘Foot Race’.

Buea Inhabitants Use Unsafe Water Sources

Hope is Around: God Bless Obama

Obama may have been dreaming of today for a long time, but I suspect that like many of us, he probably never believed that 2009 would be the year. Sometimes, however hard we prepare and wait, the day never comes but such thought is thought of destiny. That belongs to another dispensation. Obama worked hard to ..........................................

Fako 2008 Traditional Wrestling Finals: Buea Zone Steals the Show

Buea Zone wrestlers have won the 2008 edition of the Fako Traditional Wrestling finals. They won a total of thirteen bouts, had two ties and lost five, while their Limbe zone counterparts won only five bouts out of a total of twenty three. A bout was cancelled due to the poor behaviour of the wrestlers.....................................................

Cameroon and World Events in the Month of January

Politics, music and many more. Some of the events, good and ugly, that happened in Cameroon and the rest of the world.

Fako Division Prepares For FECA UK Traditional Wrestling Finals in Buea

Fako indegenes and its populace would on Saturday 3rd January trunk the Buea Town Green to encourage their favourite athletes in the Fako Traditional Wrestling finals. The finals to pit ..........................................................................

BUEA UNIVERSITY GRADUATION, 13th DEC. 2008

The over two thousand graduands who turned out for the University of Buea, Cameroon, 13th convocation ceremony have been called upon to put all the knowledge and skills they have acquired as students together with their individual talents to serve humanity.
. The Vice Chancellor of the University Prof. Vincent P.K. Titanji who made this call, explained that the graduands are only going to be recognised in their various communities if they effectively contribute to building the society.............................................

Thieves Besiege Molyko, Buea

The rate of theft in the Molyko neighbourhood of Buea is on the increase since men of the underworld have evolved new strategies to get their victims
The bandits are placing residents of Molyko in a state of constant unrest and sending petty traders around Malingo Street to bad business.....

Mysterious Chameleon Scares people at Buea Town Market

The population of Buea was taken aback on Wednesday December 3rd 2008 when a mysterious chameleon was discovered on a palm nut trader’s wares. Reports say the woman’s market neighbour discovered the chameleon soon after she went home to drop something. .....................................................................................

AFTER MAKING LOVE TO A SNAKE, WOMAN COLLAPSES.

A 26-year-old woman in Likomba, Tiko, Fako Division, has paid the price for dating 'sugar daddies'. The woman, Sandrin Ngum,
is reported to have collapsed after her sugar daddy forced her to make love to a snake............

Fako News Centre 'COMMENT' on the 2008 'O' Level GCE Exam for Schools in Fako Division, Cameroon.

GCE 'COMMENT' for the attention of the President of Cameroon, the Prime Minister of Cameroon, the Secretary of State for Secondary Education, the Members of Parliament for Fako division, the Mayors of the towns in Fako division, the ..............................

TABLE 1: 2008 'O' LEVEL GCE RESULTS ANALYSES FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN FAKO DIVISION--- passed in ANY four or more subjects

Passing in four or more subjects is good, atleast there is comfort to those students whose names are called out on the radio that they have passed. However, the shock to some of those who have passed comes in when they realise that they have to re-sit the GCE exam because they didn't pass in English and/or Mathematics, especially if they have ambitions to go to university. Passing in any four or more subjects therefore is not good enough especially if a student fails in English. ..........................................

TABLE 2: 2008 'O' LEVEL GCE RESULTS ANALYSES FOR SCHOOLS IN FAKO DIVISION--- passed in any 4 or more subjects INCLUDING English Language

The English Language has become the world's Language. Anglophone Cameroonians should consider themselves lucky (putting all politics aside) that the medium of education in Anglophone Cameroon is English. Buea University, the only Anglophone State university in Cameroon will not admit any student who doesn't have a pass in 'O' Level English or equivalent. The million dollar question is 'how many students passed in four or more subjects including English Language? If a student fails in English, irrespective of whether they had grade A's in all other subjects, they have to re-sit 'O' Level GCE English if they want to go to university. Lets now look at table 2 and see how our schools performed. ................................................................

TABLE 3 : 2008 'O' LEVEL GCE RESULTS ANALYSES FOR SCHOOLS IN FAKO DIVISION---- passed in any 4 or more subjects INCLUDING Mathematics

This table contains the the percentages of all the 44 schools in Fako division on passes in four or more subjects including Mathematics. Mathematics, the queen of science, usually stretches the nerves of students to breaking point when it comes to pulic exams. Look at this table carefully and try to think of what can be done to improve Mathematics results in schools in Fako division and the rest of Anglophone Cameroon
Only one school achieved a grade A performance in Mathematics ....................................

TABLE 4 : 2008 'O' LEVEL GCE RESULTS ANALYSES FOR SCHOOLS IN FAKO DIVISION. This table contains the total points scored and the overall STATUS GRADES based on general passes, passes including English, and passes including Mathematic

If any school in Fako division wanted to describe itself based on their performances in the GCE Ordinary level, this is the table the school should use. This is the table that tells the general public how well a school is doing, with the core subjects, English Language and Mathematics, coming into play. SAKER BAPTIST COLLEGE, the 'darling' school of Fako division, comes out on top in the overall performance table. They are the only school that achieved a grade A Status in all the categories(Tables 1,2,3 and 4). Is there any school out there in this world that can beat SAKER BAPTIST COLLEGE, a 'girls only' High school in Cameroon? Given the right conditions, these girls of Saker Baptist College will match all the best schools in the world.Five schools in Fako division achieved a Grade A status overall. Mathematics destroyed most schools, and we are quite sure that those schools that had very low percentage passes in Mathematics will have a lot of explaining to do to the general public. .....................

Buea: Suspect Allegedly Connected With a Robbery on the Run

Police in Buea, Cameroon, are now hunting a certain boy whose names we couldn't get, alleged to have had a connection with the a robbery that took place in one Mr Nkenti's house in the government residential neighbourhood of CAMSIC, an area between Small Soppo Woteke and Bokwaongo(Wokwaongo)......................................

Cameroon:university lecturers go on 'warning' strike over pay and working conditions

Teachers of higher education in Cameroon have begun a six day warning strike calling on the government to secure and improve their living and working conditions. According to a ...........

Cabinet reshuffle rumours hit the charts in Cameroon

Cabinet reshuffle rumours hit the charts in Cameroon.
Within the last couple of months, most newspaper columns have................................

Preparing for the Mount Cameroon Race: Lyonga Mondoa speaks to Fako News Centre

Lyonga Mondoa speaks to Fako News Centre about the Mount Cameroon race, and what Bakwerians have to do to bring back the glory days.
The Mount Cameroon Race is the biggest sporting event in Cameroon. It takes place in the Bakweri town of Buea every year, organised by the Cameroon ministry of sports. The last time an indegene of the tribe(Bakweri) won the race was in 1988. However, this coming year could be the year that the Bakwerians re-claim the top position, if and only if help is given to their local athletes.............................................

BUEA: shoplifter surrenders her mobile phone for freedom

One shoplifter, a woman, surrendered her mobile phone for freedom after she was caught stealing a blouse.
The woman claimed to be a student of the University of Yaounde 1. ......................................

Historical events in Cameroon and the rest of the world in the month of November

Here are some of the historical events that took place in Cameroon and the rest of the world.
In the month of November: Ahmadu Ahidjo resigned as President of Cameroon, Paul Biya became President of Cameroon, Herbert Endeley died, John F Kennedy was assassinated in America, and many more............

Historical events in Cameroon and the rest of the world in the month of October

CLICK HERE AND READ ABOUT SOME OF THE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED IN CAMEROON AND THE REST OF THE WORLD IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER.
Southern Cameroons votes to join Francophone Cameroon, the fight for women emancipation in Europe and America, scientific inventions and ........

CAMEROON'S MISS TOURISM 2008 MADE IN FAKO DIVISION

The 2008 tourism pageant in Cameroon is 19 year
old Christiana Eposi Ikome who hails from Fako Division.

Christiana Eposi Ikome's victory brought so much joy to the people of the South West province whom she represented. In her native town of Buea, her victory was talked about non-stop in bars, off- licences, nightclubs, and even after church services. One Mola Mafany from Great Soppo said '' this young Bakweri woman has brought some sunshine in the Bakweri tribe. We have never had any sunshine since 1988 when Reginald Esuka won the Guinness Mount Cameroon Race, the last Bakwerian to win it.........................................

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES COMMONLY AVAILABLE IN CAMEROON.

Some of Cameroon's healthy fruits and vegetables; what they do in your body.
What made our grand parents and great grand parents live into their eighties and nineties, even though most of them had little or no money?................

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