Nigeria’s oil reserve are the 9th largest in the world.also,agriculture is the main economic activity of Burundi with coffee as its biggest contributor.lastly,Madagascar is the 4th island largest in the world.its coastline is 4828klong
The Association of student journalist in the university of Buea[ASJUB]will tomorrow June 3rd 2011 celebrate the 16th edition of its open door day.This will be celebrated at the open commons of the university under the theme ’21st century corporate communication,challenges and prospects.Sponsored by Orange Cameroon S.A the ocassion shall have as guest speakers Roland Ghislain Chumbang,communication Manager for AES Sonel,Dr.Bony Dashoco CEO ARMAN Partner Douala.talks will be welcomed from these guets and the day shall also witness the awrd of prices to students and lecturers from the department.worth noting is the fact that its is an activity to crown asjubs academic year.this shall be followed by a gala at mermoz banquet hall buea
I really don’t know why, neither can i say why. I really can’t say all, same as i do not have anything at all to say on this one. It’s so confusing, so frustrating, unbelievable and more like a dead-end where you see no other possible route to explore or create to venture.
Just like a dream where you don’t know how you got there but suddenly find yourself in a well furnished luxurious suite and the next minute, it’s like another Pandora Tomorrow scene where you don’t know whether or not your mission will be successful, man is ever so changing.
Despite all facts, one evident fact remains; Man never fails his task of being complex. In simple terms the fact that man has many several forms and can portray them in many ways does not only bring out the cunning nature of man, or the unreliability, but the Inconsistent nature which defines all beings.
There as such are some questions which can be asked whereas there are other questions which need not be put forth at all. Man’s nature should not be questioned cause today it’s one way and tomorrow another.
Be happy with the friends/acquaintances you make today and be happier if you see them tomorrow as you saw them yesterday. Be happiest if they stay a life long time. Don’t get upset if what is today isn’t tomorrow. Rather be grateful that you had the chance cause what is today, definitely won’t be tomorrow.
There is a generality in the mannerism in which we live our day-to-day lives here on earth. There are sunny days, gloomy days and sometimes you’re just so indifferent with virtually every decision or action you take.
These Seasons come along with how you develop them and grow with them. Depending on what you do and how you do it, you can make a single day a happy day with lots of golden memories to keep and share a life long time while that same day can end up a very miserable one.
However, there are two types of factors which influence the way these Seasons fluctuate. These factors are some how interwoven. Firstly, you have the Direct Influence Aspects (D.I.A), which deal with the individual and his actions, both intentional and non-intentional and secondly, you have the External Influence Aspects(E.I.A), which obviously deal with environmental aspects such as family, peers and everything external to the individual. What we must understand is that Man in all possible ways will seek for means to get a happy life. Joy and Peace are the best fruits of achieving a happy life, no matter your status in the society. Some will rather sacrifice a thing or two just to get happy while others may even get to extremes of doing right or wrong just to get happy.
The D.I.A is the most important in our lives because we have full access and control over it. With our behaviour patterns, actions and decisions, we shape how our lives turn out to be. We give it a route to follow. You want it good, you will get it and the same goes vice-versa. But then, this is the part of life which faces the greatest challenges of both factors. A slight error in whatever decision or action you take can become very fatal to your personality and life stand. You may fall into severe depressions and live the rest of your life regretting the action you took. We therefore must uphold this aspect with great degrees of importance.
The E.I.A is all about how the environment influences our behaviour, actions and decisions. We must also note here that we Humans are not islands and can never stand alone in a society. We are born into a society and must interact with our environment (society) in order to survive. These factors have a range of elements ranging from your family background, your peers, your life partners, etc. However their influence on you the individual all depends on whether you flow with its changing winds of time and space or you stand your ground in certain areas. Its influence therefore isn’t so direct as the above because you decide whether or not to accept its influence. You also cannot avoid its existence.
A lot more can be said about those aspects. But briefly said, you can of course make meaning of what these Seasons are and how you can control and change them. Life at any times can become difficult same as it can become easy. Good or Bad, they are Seasons of life. It all depends on how you take on life and adjust to its seasons.
Henry Monono
The juju which used to dance behind the house is now dancing in the market place. ….Anonymous.
Since Paul Biya received John Fru Ndi tongues have not stopped wagging. The advent of multi –party politics put Paul and John apart. They were unlike poles that people thought would never meet. The fire brand rhetoric of the SDF at that time was such that it was rumored that the head of state turned down many opportunities to meet the opposition chieftain. The SDF was a hotbed of revolution and its rallying cry of “power to the people” was in sharp contrast to the tame and vapid “oye ye ye ye” of the ruling party.
The chairman cuts the picture of an uncompromising no nonsense revolutionary who is ready to overturn the apple cart with his advocacy of a socialist revolution. It is more leftist then centre of the road. Many observers believed that it was this stance which informed the western powers to side with Biya and the ruling party when many of the SDF supporters generally believed he had won the elections in 1992. Fru Ndi’s mantra in every political rally was “Wunna want make I chop Soya?” To the ordinary SDF militant chopping soya meant and was meant to mean, Do you people want me to compromise with the government , tone my hard stance and become a middle- of- the- roader like the other opposition parties ? Fru Ndi refused to tone down his rhetoric or in the words of Professor Bole Butake he refused to be “La Piroed”. The masses loved it. This is a man who was on their side who was ready to buck the system. Even when Fru Ndi was bereaved and the government paid the medical bills of his late wife and word went out that Joseph Owona a baron of the system had visited him with a briefcase or was it a” Ghanamust go” bag the masses of the city did not loose confidence in their man. He remained the only one who could cock a snook at the government and stir it out of its comfort zone. The greatest strength of John Fru Ndi is the facility with which he connects with the hoi-polio. He speaks the language of the streets and his down to earth style is far removed from the staid and starchy manner of Paul Biya. It is not only in their sense of dress and body language that the two who hold the destiny of the country differ. Biya is an arch conservative His language, manner and attitude are like that of the haughty and uncompromisingBourbons of France who in the words of Talleyrand “had learnt nothing and forgotten nothing”. Biya has been heard to say “If you find yourself on a good road stay there” and “They want change, what do they want to change?” Fru Ndi on the other hand wants to bring the status quo down but it is not apparent if he wants this for altruistic reasons or merely for his own interest in order to perpetrate himself in power like Biya.
Fast forward to Bamenda December 2010 and the lion of Mvomeka came to the den of the lion of Ntarikon and the two men met , held hands, looked into each others eyes sat down and talked. Then they met again at the unity palace over dinner, then they met again at the agric show and Fru Ndi showed Paul Biya his cows. The two who could not meet for twenty years have suddenly met three times in less than forty days. Who has changed or is changing?
In retrospect the two have some common ground. They are both sit-tight autocrats who do not brook any opposition within their parties. The democracy within their parties does not permit any opposition that can threaten their own positions .They are both pseudo-democrats. They have both lost wives and are both monolingual .Biya carries himself like a king and Fru Ndi like a tribal chieftain. They both encourage and court a fanatical following and the mystification or deification of power. They are both farmers, both rich, of the same generation and they have educated their children abroad. We do not know what they may have seen in each other because as the Yoruba’s say, when two witches dance a man does not go there to watch.
This new look Fru Ndi has confused quite a few people. Is the old lion loosing its claws? Is he becoming an establishmentarian? Is he now ready to moderate his stance and to temporize and disengage? Is he tired of fighting from the outside and is he now ready to join the party and eat some soya? Would he join the government if invited? How would this new understanding affect the chairman in the pools? All those who have dined with Biya have got their wings clipped. So if the chairman is coming to the party he better have a long spoon. On the other hand a new middle –of- the- road- image may augur well for the SDF as it would shake off its image of violence and revolution. There is nothing wrong for the leader of opposition and the head of state to talk to each other. There should even be a hotline between the two keeping in mind that the opposition is a shadow government always ready to blow the whistle, raise eyebrows and advance constructive criticisms. It is the SDF parliamentarians who started the Mouchipougate which ushered in the national cleansing now called operation epervier.
Paul and John have been around for too long and if anything is wrong with this country both of them are to blame. They have become unwitting partners in the delicate business of nation building. So the government should give the opposition the respect it deserves and cloth Fru Ndi with all the privileges, prerogatives and rights attendant thereto. The dance must go on.
Source: Lebs295’s Blog
By Julius Fondong
Someone recently quipped that if we were to go by the numerous motions of support addressed to President Paul Biya and read every day over CRTV, there will be no need to hold elections in Cameroon. As I write this there is a debate raging in Cameroon over whether university lecturers and intellectuals can send motions of support to the president. According to Professor Jacque FameNdongo, Minister of Higher Education, there is no reason why they shouldn’t.
Cameroon-Info.Net reports that at a recent conference on the subject of motions of support held in the Amphi 700 of the University of Yaounde 1, the Minister emphasized what he considers to be the “scientific “attributes of motions of support. Professor Fame Ndongo surmised that these motions are an expression of a profound political commitment to a respected governing class or governing authority. The Minister surmised that a motion of support is a literary genre and a form of political communication that must be taken seriously, not derided.
It is important to note that this conference was coming on the heels of a motion of support purportedly addressed to Mr. Biya by about 1000 University lecturers of some state universities, appealing to him to stand as candidate during the next presidential elections. Some of the university professors have since claimed that their signatures were forged.
Such claims (of forged signatures on motions of support) are not without merit. I remember sometimes in 1993 I was invited to take part in a meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office. According to the convener of the meeting, the objective was to discuss “development issues facing the North-West”. I showed up at the meeting at the appointed time but curiously there was no one. I signed the attendance sheet and left. That same evening, CRTV Radio read out a motion of support addressed to President Biya by the “elites of the North West Province resident in Yaounde”. According to the motion, these “elites” were pledging their unflinchingly support to the President for his appointment of Mr. Simon Achidi Achu as Prime Minister and Head of Government. To my total bewilderment my name was read out as one of the signatories of the motion!
Such is the dirty politics that surrounds motions of support in Cameroon. I have never understood why supposedly decent people will go to great lengths to forge motions of support to the president to give the impression that some sections of the population are still loyal to him, when most of the time quite the contrary is true. Some of those who tried to violently overthrow Mr. Biya in April 1983 are most likely to have appended their names and signatures to motions of support pledging their unconditional and unflinching loyalty to the President, just months before staging their failed coup. And I’m quasi certain that if we dig deep into the files, we’ll see motions of support bearing the names and signatures of all of Cameroon’s past and current so-called ‘opposition’ leaders.
So who is fooling who? Does the President really take these motions seriously? In fact, can any political leader worth his salt give serious consideration to such cheap political demagogy? Contrary to what Professor Fame Ndongo will have Cameroonians believe, Motions of Support are the by-product of a one-party authoritarian state, which have no relevance in a modern constitutional democracy like the one Cameroonians are yearning for. In both form and content these motions are a regressive, meaningless, antiquated form of political expression practiced nowhere else but in Cameroon, and may be also in a handful of some backwardFrance-Afrique countries.
Serious politicians use opinion polls to gauge the public’s attitude towards the great policy and political issues of the day. Thanks to well developed computer software programs opinion polling is now becoming almost an exact science.Public Opinion Polls (POP) are indispensable to any political leader or any governing establishment which cares about what the public thinks. As a man of science, I would have expected Professor Fame Ndongo to be promoting the use of more scientific methods of measuring the level of public support for the President’s policies; not trying to encourage his colleagues – fellow men and women of science – to indulge in the archaic practice of sending motions of support.
The rest of the world is modernizing and moving on, politically, socially and economically. And so must Cameroon. But first we have to wean ourselves from some these backward and negative practices like the gratuitous flattering of our leaders with meaningless motions of support. These are the kind of things that hold us back and make us the laughing stock of the world. If we can’t modernize things like our banking system or our road infrastructure, we can at least refine the way we do politics. It doesn’t take much to do it.
Source: Lebs295’s Blog
The University Of Buea school calender has been pushed forward.It is said to have been increased to 2 weeks ahead than the school calender had earlier stipulated.This push forward is contained in a press release signed by the institutes Boss Professor P.k.Titandji.
UBAM STUDENTS DRILLED ON BASIC COMPUTER OPERATIONS AND THE POWER TO REINVENT YOURSELF.
Posted: May 19, 2011 in campus newsThe University of Buea Association Of Management Students (UBAMS) were yesterday may 18th, 2011 trained in a workshop under the theme Basic Computer Operations And The Power To R e invent Yourself.The workshop which saw the coming together of students from different departments of the university took place at the Amphi Theatre 150E in the university of Buea.Students were trained in ares like microsoft word,microsoft excel,power to reinvent yourself,the power point and also on basic internet exploring.
Still in line with the theme,the registrar of Trustech Institute,Ngwa Landry,explained to students on how to get about microsoft word and this he said would help them go about their projects and assignments.
A JCI trainer Ngwa Jackson on his part advised these prospective managers on how to rediscover themselves given that every individual has a unique talent.At the end of the workshop,the president of the Association ;f Management Students together with other students present expressed their satisfaction.
class started at 9:00am.very interesting online journalism class.we are actually facing the challenges of modern or new media technologies
felicitasmunga 