President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has said Nigeria was ready and fully committed to a successful handover of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon on August 14, 2008, in accordance with the Green Tree Agreement signed between the two countries.

The British Prime Minister, H.E Gordon Brown, will on Tuesday July 22, hand the Sheila Mckechine Foundation's International Global Human Rights Campaigner Award, to Francis Nchii Njuakom, Director of the Community Development Volunteer for Technical Assistance, CDVTA- Cameroon.

THE Cross River State caucus in the National Assembly yesterday charged the federal authorities to defer the August 14 scheduled final handover of Bakassi to Cameroon until after the election of a substantive Governor for the State.

Game rangers in Southeast Cameroon, July 14, 2008, confiscated 22 ivory tusks and 11 elephant tails.

The Director of Programming of Investment in the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Paul Tasong, has hailed Northwest Province for occupying the first position when it comes to the execution of Public Investment Projects.

Cameroon U-17 soccer selection Tuesday, July 22, lifted the trophy to become the pioneer champions of the maiden edition of the Union of Football Federations of Central Africa, UNIFFAC.

Contrary to beliefs held by many that Germany must have attained full democracy, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Resident Representative for Cameroon, Central African Sub-region and Mali, Dr. Reinhold Plate, holds quite a different view.He says Germany nurtured its democracy for 90 years and Adolf Hitler pulled it down after 50 years and they had to start from scratch. To him, Cameroon's democratic ...

The Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Prof. Elvis Ngolle Ngolle, has warned some 33 forest exploitation companies to pay over FCFA 2 billion as outstanding forest royalties or face sanctions.

The first-ever Central African Handicap Games that was initially scheduled for Yaounde from July 16 - 19 has been postponed to August 2-4, following a series of organisational lapses by the different commissions and committees.

The Bishop of Buea, Mgr Immanuel Banlanjo Bushu, has praised the Christians of Buea Diocese as being enthusiastic and hardworking for the interest of the Diocese. The Bishop, who is currently on a tour of the Diocese, calls on Christians to live holy lives. In this interview, the Bishop talks about his pastoral mission, newly created institutions, the recent transfers made within the diocese and ...

A Buea based businessman, Adolph Molua Bibi, who trades in forest products, is considering legal action against an Assistant Superintendent of Judicial Police, Solomon Dibonge, for assault.

Cameroon's football legend, and Roving Ambassador, Albert Roger Mila, was in Bertoua on Saturday, July 19, to watch the finals of a holiday championship dubbed Festi-Foot Lemma Lecco Guillaume.

The protracted Wum Farmer/Grazier problem recently took a new twist with the Divisional Officer, DO, of Wum, Augustine Awa Fonka, threatening court action against a grazier.

Members of the Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists, CAMASEJ that gathered in Buea from July 18-19 for the General Assembly meeting, took far reaching decisions to rebuild and reassert Anglophone journalism.

Partners in the fight against malaria have resolved to be actively implicated in the fight against the disease.

The National Executive Committee, NEC, of the SDF has accused the Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation, MINATD, Marafa Hamidou Yaya, of refusing to sign an authorisation for the flow of subventions to the SDF and other opposition parties represented in Parliament.

The United States Ambassador to Cameroon, Janet Garvey, on Thursday, July 17, donated soccer kits valued at over FCFA 350,000 to the African Volunteer Football Academy for the Less Privileged.

One of the leading mobile telephony companies in the country, Orange Cameroun, in its commitment to promote journalism activities , is working hand-in-glove with the Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists, CAMASEJ, for a brighter future.

Conversation and information are fast becoming a lost art and many people are rescuing that fascinating art from the flaccid substitutes of back-fence gossip, bar room badinage, and parlour platitudes.

The newly installed Northwest Representative of the Order of Civil Engineers, Patrice Ngu Ndiangang, has been told to respect laws governing that profession.

Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture, ACAT, has condemned in very strong terms the atrocities committed on aquatic life by Chinese fishermen.

The Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Prof. Elvis Ngolle Ngolle, has disclosed that FCFA 108 billion has been contributed for the Congo Basin Forest Fund abbreviated in French as CBFF.

The call by the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, ICC, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, for the arrest of Sudanese President, Omar al-Bashir, is already a subject of debate among journalists in Douala.

Northwest Governor, Mahamat Abakar, has told 34 Mayors of the Northwest that the axe will fall on those of them who have engaged in swindling council funds.

The opening date for Cameroon's 2008/2009 football season has been slated to start-off on September 13 at the Douala Reunification Stadium with an opening MTN Elite One derby to pit newly promoted Elite Two sides AS Matelot of Douala and Danay FC of Yagoua from the Northern Province.