FEMALE IDPs RECOUNT SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN HOST COMMUNITIES IDPs queue for aid from an NGO in Boyo photo credit: Gambi Boyo Initiative, GBI Frida Nain,(not her real names), 30, had escaped from Belo, one of the epicenters of the deadly Anglophone conflict in the restive North West Region in early 2018, after clashes between government forces and separatist fighters saw her home go up in flames. Scampering for safety, she decided to relocate to Bamenda, the Region's capital where things were seemingly more stable. But that was only going to be the beginning of her travails in her new life as an Internally Displaced Person,( IDP). "I was well received when I first arrived and managed to secure a one-room house at Ntamulung in Bamenda," the desperately-looking woman told this reporter.  "The Landlord and neighbours were so sympathetic about what had happened to me back in my native Belo," she recalls. "He said we were a family and I could pay rents of FCFA 10,00

 J. MUBANG GIFTS PRIESTS WITH SACRED ITEMS   By Mildred Ndum Wung Kum Reputed for his humanitarian gesture, Joseph Mubang, has again ignited the public as he came to the aid of two newly ordained priests with sacred items.           Benefactor presenting gifts Reverend Father Peter Chefor received a Mass Box and a set of priestly vestments plus an envelope containing cash. The other priest Reverend Father Japheth Tibui received an envelope containing cash plus a set of vestments. J. Mubang handed the gifts to the priests on April 24, 2022 during celebrations marking a thanksgiving Mass of the two priests at Queen of Peace Parish Njimafor, Bamenda. The gifts to Father Peter Chefor was in recognition of him as an ex student of Saint Frederick Comprehensive College Mankon which is a school founded by Frederick Mubang, father of J. Mubang. The benefactor also said he is handing the gifts in recognition of his fellow countryman, a son of Mbatu who has been raised to the order of the ministe

ARCHBISHOP ANDREW COMMISSIONS PRIESTS TO DEFEND TRUTH By Mildred Ndum Wung Kum Nineteen deacons of the Roman Catholic church have answered God's call to the ministerial priesthood. The ceremony to raise the deacons to priests took place at the piazza of the Saint Joseph's Cathedral on April 20, 2022 during a concelebrated Holy Mass. His Grace Andrew Nkea, Archbishop of Bamenda presided at the  ordination. Laying of hands on a candidate during ordination rites (Photo credit: Archdiocese of Bamenda info) Of the nineteen new priests, seventeen priests were ordained into the Archdiocese of Bamenda, one into the Archdiocese of Garoua and one into the Capauchin Friary. The solemn gestures accompanying the ordination ceremony was marked by  the examination and scrutiny of the candidates, the promise of obedience to the Archbishop, the prayers of consecration, anointing of those being ordained and the peace kiss. The newly ordained were then clad in stole and chasuble to signify their

PHILANTHROPIC SON DONATES EQUIPMENT, PLEDGES FCFA 80 MILLION FOR HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION By: Mildred Ndum Wung Kum Spurred by sheer benevolence and love for humankind, Joseph Mubang who is reputed as a philanthropist has donated a forty feet container of medical equipment to the Saint Blaise Catholic Hospital in Bamenda. Container of medical supplies  The son of Mankon soil also gave his word saying that he shall single handedly fund the construction of the first floor of an envisaged six storey building of the Hospital project, a commitment which shall require him the sum of eighty million francs, meanwhile his family shall together finance the construction of the second floor. It was on the 12th of April 2022 at the Piazza of the Saint Joseph’s Cathedral Mankon during Chrism Mass and Cathedraticum that His Grace Andrew Nkea, Archbishop of Bamenda presented Mr Mubang Joseph to the public rendering thanks to him for donating medical supplies to the Hospital. During the same occasion, Mr