MAYOR TELLS AMBAZONIANS TO GRAB JOBS UPON DISARMAMENT BY MILDRED NDUM WUNG KUM Bamenda II Local government chairman promised employability to separatist militias commonly called Ambazonians. It was during the first council meeting March 26 after acceding the municipality. It took place at Mezam Divisional Delegation of Agriculture premises.  “The guys have been calling me and I asked them to come and meet me because we cannot discuss on phone. The council is there to provide jobs. Let them come and lay their arms down and we would give them jobs. We are looking for a means so that they come and be integrated in the community and be recruited in the council. They are our brothers and sisters and what is important is dialogue” Mayor Chenui Felix said while granting a gang interview to journalists at the close of the council session. He was responding to a question on when the council would resume functions at it’s office in Mbingfibieh. The Bamenda II Council Office in Mbi...

HOPE SUSTSAINS IN LOW KEY ELECTION RERUN BY MILDRED NDUM WUNG KUM The polls were opened March 22 to redo election of Cameroon’s legislators. Election reruns took place in eleven constituencies in the Anglophone regions as programmed. Parliamentary aspirants together with their apologists contested in a scenario short of political frenzy however holding out hope in the race to secure seats in the country’s lower house of parliament. The rerun pitted six political parties contesting thirteen seats viz-  UDP, BRIC, OPDC, RDPC, CPDM and SDF.  It was an activity to correct February 9th parliamentary elections noted to have been marred by electoral mal practices After visiting a number of polling centers in the northwest region, Info Trends observed a cross section of determined electorates braving the responsibility to vote amidst calls by separatists not to partake in elections.  When Info Trends caught up with some stakeholders in the e...

BARRING CORONAVIRUS: CLEAN UP BEGINS MARCH 17 BY MILDRED NDUM WUNG KUM Traffic would be disturbed as a special clean up campaign  organised for Bamenda City Council takes place this Tuesday and Wednesday in Bamenda one and two municipalities respectively. The City Mayor Paul Achobong Tambeng issued an announcement  to residents on the phone. He is determined to bar the fatal coronavirus from his jurisdiction after it was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation on March 11. An announcement issued by the Bamenda City Council states that Tuesday March 17, 2020 shall be the turn of Bamenda one Sub divisional Council, Wednesday March 18, 2020 for Bamenda two Sub Divisional Council  meanwhile the date for clean up for Bamenda three would be announced in the days ahead. The announcement further states that the special clean up campaign starts at 7:00 am and ends at 11: am each day. During the period, all offices and business ...

RuWCED BONDS WITH MULTIPLE STAKEHOLDERS TO FIGHT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN BY MILDRED NDUM WUNG KUM The Rural Women Center for Education and Development RuWCED has in a SWOT meeting engaged various facets of the community in an effort to stamp out violence against women and girls.  RuWCED was in Ngoketunjia Division of the Northwest region Cameroon March 12, where it met with multiple community leaders during which they agreed on asserting knowledge, attitude and practice in order to understand violence against women and girls as well as kick out the societal ill. The meeting took place at the Ndop District Hospital where issues of Gender Based Violence especially violence against women and girls were put on the table. Present at the meeting were the Communication Officer and Project Coordinator for RuWCED Rabiatou Aliyu, the Coordinator for RuWCED Vera Wirsiy and other RuWCED officials. Participants take pictures to immortalise the come tog...

WAILING WOMEN, NOTHING WORTH CELEBRATING ON WOMENS DAY BY MILDRED NDUM WUNG KUM At this time in the calendar, the trend usually tilts toward the woman with lots of buzz about the prowess of women keeping the air vivacious. At the moment, the contrary is unfortunately being felt as any woman in Cameroon’s Anglophone zone have but a painful tale. The idea of Women’s Day celebration is even a far thought. The mood is one of gloom. All dimensions of the woman’s life is touched; be it family life through professional life, love or romance, pleasure or leisure of the woman, the story on every lip evokes horror. It is the unending Anglophone crisis that has torn women apart, leaving each woman with sighs of distress, groaning and mourning. At the center of every talking point with a woman in this part of the country, you would hear the woman recounting the bitter experience of life.   The International Day of the Woman usually observed on March 8th is a day set aside to...

CITY MAYOR EMBARKS ON SANITATION AGAINST HEALTH HAZRADS BY MILDRED NDUM WUNG KUM The Mayor to Bamenda city Council is taking the task to clean up the city in a bid to prevent the dangers of disease infection. Paul Achobong Tambeng is leading a clean up campaign in his municipality which has lately been known for poor garbage handling with refuse being deposited in water ways and on streets. The city mayor on March 9 was at the Abangoh neighbourhood where he led an exercise to tidy up a stream linking Metah Quarters, Nancho and Ntanghang neighbourhoods. Stream takes tidy look after clean up Led by the city mayor,  with the assistance of the grand counsellor, city dwellers in Abangoh neighbourhood were mobilised to come out with cutlasses, hoes, spades and rakes to keep the water way and its surroundings neat. Male and female including the young and the old committed hours of their time until the area was tidy. Mayor Ach...

WOMEN'S DAY OF BOMBING AND RAVAGING FIRE IN BAMENDA  BY MILDRED NDUM WUNG KUM Though hard to comprehend,  the malicious act was conspicuous. Women who turned out to observe the 35th international women's day edition at the Bamenda grandstand on March 8th came under attack. This happened with the explosion of an alleged locally made bomb some thirty metres away from the ceremonial  ground leaving eight people injured. The bomb would later  aggravate to consuming flames. Among victims were four military men, three policemen and one civilian. The injured were immediately rushed to a medical facility. Minutes after, the bombing casualty graduated to a fire outbreak just at the site of the explosion which caught a block of buildings along the Bamenda commercial avenue reducing about nine shops to rubbles. The door of the vehicle of the army rescue unit was also damaged. It took about three hours for elements of the army rescue unit to put out the fire that was spread...