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.

 

WORLD ECHOES MEDIA GROUP Join Hands with Bambui Community to Conserve Major Wetlands..

✓ Fronts for wetland conservation at all fronts

✓Boost community Efforts and initiatives mobilized towards annual Cleaning and conservation campaign of the village

✓Spoil Bambui Women on the occasion with Goodies

✓Set up a Community volunteers network of women to generally oversee the day to day security of the  water Reserve areas

This was on the occasion of the annual village come together in mobilization to clean sacred grounds, forests and water Reserves. As it is established, on such a day programmed in the village calendar, women and men of a particular age group from each household, show up for the general clean up campaign and exercise.

The scene or venue we are talking of here is “Atunui” mega water source and “Nsah Fewouh”, all forest reserves and conserved areas which dates decades under Bambui myth and mythology.  

History have it on good notes that these two great water sources has for years sustained steady water flow and supply in and around the community. Adding to that, the sacred nature of the area enriches the cultural heritage of the people.

Coming back to the ceremony proper, what ensued around the early hours of 9:00 am on Thursday the 9^th of February 2023 was that men and women in their numbers gathered at the Atunui water shed, weeding, cleaning and clearing the environment. Ritual rites to adorn the gods followed, ending with the sharing of salt, soap and Omo by the Executive Director of WORLD ECHOES MEDIA GROUP as a source of motivation and encouragement.

Bambui rural women, from thence, took community based approach commitment as the most viable option to restore wetland conservation and ecotourism. Which according to them, should serve  as a model worth emulating for replication in other community water situations faced with similar challenges. Clearing the path ways of water and weeding the wetlands around catchment airs the environment and that alone gives the water reserve a good breeding space while enriching its biodiversity content.

Here communal and collective spirit was also harmonized by indigenes to the teeth, to reach out to a common goal and wish.

An initiative officials in the area saluted greatly, doffing their hats for this year’s exceptional planning.

What must be noted in addition is that this joint venture initiative to add additional push to wetlands restoration in Bambui forms part of the five years strategic media development reporting and action plan World Echoes MEDIA GROUP adopted last UN World Wetland Day to accompany some if not all community initiatives that has to do with wetland conservation and restoration in the Region.