ICONIC: “Prof. Chi Asafor Estimated Beyond Measure”

"A Professor amongst Professors in his Divine Cosmic Circumference working for the common Good and the collective Welfare of All".

Prof. Chi Asafor Cornelius to the best of our knowledge since infancy has remained astute and perfectly gentle in the ways he says, think or does his things, meticulously. This is reflected in his academic records and distinct career profile. Which is our motivation today in  this write up, for the write up to inspire other young uprising  Cameroonian leaders.

Our Character  today in question has leadership qualities which are unmeasured,  and a behavior that is exceptionally unique.

True to what we are saying the personality of a man speaks volumes only from what people say about him in his absence and the aura he radiates in the presence of fellow humans.

Life says it all in one when you venerate and exonerate excellence in all you do think, or say.

Prof. as  he is fondly called,  we should not be misquoted is an academician who has stood the taste of time and has remained unblemished in his academic rob to the liking of all.

At the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism (NCPBM), he resonates good quality leadership rule as the sectary General.

What we are saying in effect is that, the fall out of his strict sense of focus is what has earned him the judicious respect he has in the assembly of men.

Sorry to say we are blowing Prof’s trumpet high, but the difference is clear and Prof. is highly classified amongst equals from our assessment. Because he has proven beyond all reasonable doubt to be a true son of the soil.

True to what we are saying, he is an accomplished man who is strict, straight, meticulous and God fearing, that no one can counter.

Fellow audience, with your permission, when the melody is sweet we must dance. Allow us of this Media group to go by the rhythm of our times, and  the foot path of all other dancers who celebrate this great personality.

Prof. as a certified auditor has left a lot of records in this country.  

Exhaustively, Prof’s human centered oriented activities cannot be measured. Prof has impacted and empowered quite a good number of Cameroonians as a charitable and a humanitarian leader.

Time and history has a register of his defined records and he has stood fast to without blemishing.

No amount of controversy has been able to override him from his Divine destined foot path and focus.

When a personality is  good we must admit and celebrate. Saying good things and the good works of others without celebrating such a great figure means not doing justice.

Our dear audience truth be told we have taken this pains because Prof. Chi Asafor Cornelius speaks and tells it all of a gentleman of high noble class or profile who has remained unquestionably loyal to Republican values and legendary.

Santa, have him in it’s good books just like the late Honorable Simon Achidi Achu and all other architects of hope and development.

Thanks to his community mobilization initiatives and the handy works of Santa CAUCUS, Santa is reanimated from the ongoing crisis in the Region.

Mixing it all, Prof. is CPDM and a roving humanitarian figure who has set records which has challengingly stood the taste of time.

Calling a “Spade a Spade”, Prof. is a Good MAN and Perfect in all he does. which is why he remains a model and our Legendary Icon in this month of February in the year of our Lord 2023.

 

 

WORLD ECHOES MEDIA GROUP Declares for PETER OBI and the Labour Party in the Highly Decisive 2023 Presidential in Nigeria

At the Mid hour of the day today Saturday 25th February 2023, going by the Vision of the Labor Party and it's leadership with the "NEW VISION" for Nigeria, We of this Media group, a Multidimensional News Agency in Cameroon Declare our unreserved and unalloyed support to Nigeria's President to be PETER OBI and his Labor Party. The ROCK on which a "NEW NIGERIA" will be belt. Victory is Peter OBI's name and we stand behind his leadership Praying God Almighty to Guide his foot Path.

The Colbert Factor: Ntumfor Nico Halle: A veritable example of a lawyer as catalyst for social change

The kom kingdom is populated by as many jujus as there are traditional compounds and villages. The jujus' main function is to entertain during burial and 'crydie' ceremonies, especially as it is believed that a deceased person's soul departs from this world after jujus must have performed during his/her crydie. When the jujus dance at such traditional ceremonies(invited or univinted), their payment usually constitute fowls, salt and sometimes, goats. After eating some of the fowls and goats and sharing the salt on the spot, one or two fowls are compulsorily reserved for the owner of the juju. That constitutes the juju owner's fee. The juju dancers' own fee is usually the money mourners support them with during the dancing.

Of the teaming number of jujus found across the Kom Kingdom, a negligible number perform other functions in and for society, apart from dancing during crydies and burial ceremonies. In this category is the dreaded Muteff mystical lodge in the Order of Nantang Yoh. In terms of dancing for entertainment, Nantang Yoh does not showcase any spectacular and admirable dance steps. Its greatest strength is in maintaining law and order in Muteff and across all of Kom kingdom through traditional foretelling and forth telling. During burial ceremonies and crydies in Muteff or in any part of Kom kingdom, Nantang Yoh would spend a greater part of its time revealing the ills in the affected family and in society and issuing warnings to all witches, wizards and sorcerers in that community. 

By performing this critical societal function, Nantang Yoh had and still remains a veritable agent of social change. This never came without challenges, threats and criticisms from ill-intentioned persons in concerned communities. They have argued and forcefully that Nantang Yoh had derailed from it's main mission; that of performing during burial ceremonies and crydies, to forth telling, foretelling and sorcery. Despite such distractions, many well-meaning Muteff and Kom people, have always been appreciative of central role Nantang Yoh have been playing, given that its crime detective and preventive role have saved and continued to save lives.

Just like Nantang Yoh have had its own share of negative criticism for its role in society, lawyers from generation to generation, have had same, and much more. Only in 2016, when Common Law Lawyers in Cameroon downed their tools and went to the streets demanding a stoppage to structural and societal injustices in the two English speaking regions of Cameroon, Justice Minister was wont to declare that lawyers had largely derailed from their main function; that of uniquely defending their clients in court. Laurent Esso had argued that it was criminal for lawyers to abandon their clients in court and descend unto the streets to fight for social causes.

Cameroon Justice Minister's statement reflected the thinking of most dictatorial systems across the world. It was also a huge undermining of the central role lawyers have historically played in changing societies. From Nelson Mandela through Gandhi to Nader and the collective of lawyers in Pakistan; lawyers by their training, have contributed immensely to social change by challenging real and perceived injustices in society.

Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle, a lawyer of international repute, have been Cameroon's own version of the Nelson Mandelas, the Gandhi's and the Naders. For over 30 years and counting, Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle has demonstrated in triumphant detail that despite the contrary, a lawyer can be a veritable agent of social change as he has been articulate in fighting societal ills and injustices, bribery, corruption, mismanagement, election rigging, and above all, working to promote peaceful co-existence among Cameroonians.

Undoubtedly, Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle knew almost 30 years ago that fighting for social change was one of a lawyer's role in a modern democracy; be it established or still emerging. Given that there's a difference in training and mindset between Common Law and Civil law lawyers in this regard, Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle has been a marked departure from the hundreds of thousands of lawyers that populate Cameroon. While Civil law lawyers think of their court work as the application of existing law, Common Law Lawyers like Nico Halle think of theirs as a process of law making.

Nico Halle as a lawyer has many skills that lend themselves to the public official's role. Although lawyers are trained to advance the interests of clients for a fee, Ntumfor's new and lifetime role as an agent of social change has remained pro-bono. As an agent of social change, Ntumfor have regularly been able to define societal problems, consider solutions and providing strategies for action. As a social movement leader, Ntumfor Nico Halle has been framing societal grievances, formulating ideologies, debating, interfacing with the media, writing, orating, devising strategies, and engaging in dialogue with internal and external elites.

Ntumfor's forensic ability, talent for reasoning, and knowledge of the legal background-all of these aid his work as social changer. My point in highlighting Ntumfor as a shining catalyst for social change, is to show the mesh between the skills and training and mindset of lawyers and the attributes of social change agents. For the past 30 years, Barrister Nico Halle has deliberately allowed his practice as a lawyer to remain a subordinate occupation, as it became necessary that he should concentrate on public work. 

Over the years, Ntumfor had used his lawyering skills to gather the facts about social injustices in Cameroon and to use those facts in reasoned arguments to support his social change cause. He has been pursuing social change causes in the same manner a lawyer pursues justice for his/her client. 

Barrister Ntumfor Nico Halle's surpassing prominence in Cameroon and beyond does not come from his writing a groundbreaking law review article, or from dazzling court watchers with a brilliant closing argument in a high profile trial, but from his efforts at contributing to the civilization of the Cameroon society through continuous advocacy for social change.

Elhadj Ngambo on the Bids; Celebrates Over 12 Years in Marriage in Pomp and Fanfare

Therese and Denis organized on Friday the 17^th of February 2023 in Bamenda at Skyline Hotel multipurpose hall a come and see weeding ceremony full of splendor.

History has this day in records and in it’s good books that one celebrated business tycoon in Bamenda cum contractor in celebrating his over 12 years in marriage gathered, fed and entertained almost half of Bamenda.

It was exceptionally a come and see ceremony this Reporter must emphasize as the cream of those who constituted the guests of honor were very important personalities, to note business men and contractors in town, members of the administration, the judiciary, the Muslim and the Christian community.

The court rites were conducted at Mayor Fongu Cletus Bamenda III Council hall, a civil rite which took almost an hour and a half that finally made recognizance of  both couples living together for years with over seven children husband and wife before the Bamenda public.

The last phase of the program was taken to the hills of up station at renown Skyline Hotel where plenty of music, food, drinks, champagnes, wine, whisky and music in an ambiance of multidimensional décor flooded the day.

To be Frank the Bamenda Man, came saw, eat, drank to stupor and the news is all round and wild in town that one Elhadj Ngambo a popular entrepreneur, made and carried the day of Friday February 17^th 2023 under the calendar of history exceptionally enjoyable.

 

 

Cameroon Health Minister Denies Presence of Marburg Virus in Cameroon

The Minister of Public Health, Dr Manaouda Malachie says there are no cases of the Marburg Virus in Cameroon. He was speaking in Yaounde during a meeting with partners of the Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday February 15.

Minister Manaouda Malachie was responding to information that has been circulating that two suspected cases have been reported in the South Region of Cameroon. The Public Health authority has dismissed this as he noted during the meeting that samples taken from the purportedly two persons pointed to malaria and not the Marburg Virus.

Meantime, movement has been prohibited by the Ministry of Public Health to the border area at the South region, sharing boundaries with the Equatoguinean Nsok-Nsomo District. The Ambam, Olamze and Kye-Ossi areas in Cameroon’s South region sharing boundaries with Equatorial Guinea have been called to be cautious.

Equatorial Guinea which shares boundaries on the South of Cameroon have since February 7, 2023 reported none cases of the virus. This was in the Nsok-Nsomo district of the Kie-Ntem Province of the country.

According to information from the WHO, samples of those infected in Equatorial Guinea were sent to a laboratory in Senegal that confirmed the disease. Sixteen other cases were detected by Equatoguinean health officials and 200 people were put in quarantine.

The Minister of Public Health has called on Cameroonians, especially those on the borders on Equatorial Guinea are called to practice preventive measures including; wash hands regularly with clean running water and soap especially after handling an animal or animal product or after taking care of a person with symptoms of haemorrhagic fever, avoid contacts with the body fluid of a sick person including sexual intercourse, avoid contact with wild animals that are sick or found dead, wash food before eating, cook food well and eat food when it is hot.

The Marburg Virus is a rare but severe hemorrhagic fever which affects both people and non-human primates causing the Marburg Virus Disease MVD. It is a genetically unique zoonotic (or animal-borne) RNA virus of the filovirus family. It has no treatment though the symptoms can be cured.

The virus was first noticed in 1967, when outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever occurred simultaneously in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany and in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia).

The African fruit bat is said to be the reservoir host of the virus. After the bat infects a human, the person could then begin the human-to-human infection cycle. The Marburg Virus spreads from one human to another through broken skin or mucous membranes in the eyes, nose, or mouth.

Transmission routes include blood or body fluids (urine, saliva, sweat, faeces, vomit, breast milk, amniotic fluid, and semen) of a person who is sick with or died from the MVD, Objects contaminated with body fluids from a person who is sick with or has died from the Marburg Virus disease (such as clothes, bedding, needles, and medical equipment, Semen from a man who recovered from MVD (through oral, vaginal, or anal sex).

The Marburg Virus, just like the Ebola Virus.

Statistics indicate that 16 countries have experienced outbreaks of the Marburg Virus with 11 cases reported in Africa.

Nkum Subdivision Celebrate 2023 Youth day in Great Effervescence

Contrary to rumors that 2023 youth day placed under the theme “Youth, moral, civic and entrepreneurship rearmament, a guarantee for discipline in building a united and prosperous Cameroon” and Celebrated nation wide that nothing took place in Bui part of crisis hit Divisions of the North West Region, some if not all the Subdivisions irrespective of the security challenges, braved the odds and celebrated the day in Pomp and Fanfare. That this Reporter can affirm.

Youth Day in Cameroon on February 11 is observed by children and youths from the country’s 10 regions. This commemoration emphasizes this new generation’s ability and commitment to contribute to the creation of a prosperous and stable tomorrow.

Youths this year have shown their strong resilience and potential despite four years of conflict in the English-speaking territories, sustained periods of civil unrest and displacement, violent extremism in the Far North Region, and a global pandemic with significant economic implications. 

The 57^th edition of this year’s youth day celebration, taking our radars to Nkum Subdivision placed under the supreme command of DO Mulutakwi Elvis, exceptionally was given another impetus and strength as it’s Sub-Divisional officer ceased the occasion to extend the Head of state’s olive plant to population, appealing to youths to follow the path of peace, regain schools and give room for social justice.

Dedicating the day to all peace lovers in Nkum and all of those who braved the odds, DO Mulutakwi prayed God almighty to continue guiding their foot path to keep on living as shinning examples dedicated in the strict respect of Republican values.