Author: ultimatemedia

Cameroon, as many say, is the land of wonders yet everything in the country has been politicized to a disturbing degree. Today is May 1st, an Internationally celebrated day as laborers of every discipline, race and culture in the entire world commemorate the World Labour Day. It is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of workers. Labour Day has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest. It’s a day campaigners and trade unionists use to push for increase in…

The serenity of Sunday evening in Bakweri town, a neighbourhood of Buea, a region of southwest region of Cameroon, was broken when a man suspected of theft was burned to death. This action, known as “jungle justice” and sometimes called “crowd justice”, is a type of public extrajudicial murder practised mainly in Nigeria and Cameroon in which an alleged criminal is publicly humiliated, assaulted and brutally executed by vigilantes or an angry crowd. Four people attacked a beer depot in Bakweri town in order to extort money. Unfortunately for them, an alarm was triggered, alerting the population who were participating…

CDC Workers are on a “Peaceful” Industrial Strike Action from 1st to 10th of May, 2023 in order to put pressure on the Government and CDC Management to Respect their Labor Rights. Thousands of workers who belong to the country’s second largest employer have been working for many years without regular pay, many others chaotically laid-off and some even killed during attacks by alleged separatist fighters. Terrible management, alarming corruption and the Anglophone crisis have all contributed to bury what was a thriving state corporation and Cameroon’s second highest employer after the state. The company represents one of the few…

The first malaria vaccine will be available in Cameroon in January 2024. According to the Expanded Immunization Program (ENP), the country is preparing to receive 249,133 doses of the first malaria vaccine, RTS,S. For the first phase, only children aged 6 to 24 months will be affected, announced Dr. Njoh Ateke Andreas, Deputy Permanent Secretary of the ENP. To obtain the first doses of vaccine, the government filed an application with GAVI, the vaccine alliance. The RTS,S, a vaccine approved by the World Health Organization (WHO), should reduce the burden of malaria in the country by about 70%. In July…

Here are the 5 measures taken by telephone operators to improve the quality of services. The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (Minpostel) chaired a crisis meeting on Thursday, April 27 with the directors general of ART and those of telephone operators (Camtel, MTN and Orange). This sectoral consultation took place in the middle of a boycott movement of MTN and Orange. At the end of this meeting, consumer-indexed operators made five “immediate” resolutions. To this end, In the final communiqué issued by the Minpostel, we learnt that: 1- From now on, the mechanisms for repaying unused data credit will be…

The Cameroons International Film Festival (CAMIFF) , supposedly the glamour of the Cameroon entertainment industry, has been ongoing at the Buea Mountain hotel.  The festival resumed this year after it had taken a temporary standstill due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other unscrupulous reasons. As part of its usual activities, the CAMIFF rallies together the major actors in the country’s emerging film and entertainment industry. This year hasn’t been an exception rather, the festival seems to have attracted some international guests from Nigeria, Ghana, USA and other countries The week long festival has as part of this year’s edition; cultural…

Its CAMIFF season in Buea Cameroon and it’s that period of the year where the famous and rising stars of the country’s movie and entertainment industry make the highest costume investment as they battle with  each other in a weekly display of star power, fashion taste and well, maybe money. The Cameroons International Film festival CAMIFF is a forum which brings together Actors, Filmmakers, Film critics, comedians and other celebrities. Over the years, the festival has flown into the country famous movie names like ;Ramsey Noah, Zack Orji, Nadia Buhari and hosts of other high profile African celebrities. Film makers…

The denizens of Mutengene a metropolitan town in Tiko municipality for the past days have been enjoying the precious liquid of portable water. Public taps that have gone dry for decades are now wet with water flowing day inn and out. To the population, they are happy with Tiko Council under the stewardship of Mayor HRH Peter Ikome Mesoso III who is an inhabitant of mutengene to have fought very hard so that the issue of lack of portable water now belongs to history. From quarters one to twenty one, everyone is calling the name of mayor Mesoso as in…

The Vision bearer of the Fako Promote, a recently launched online news website; Hon. Fritz Ngeka Etoke has contributed to the one man, one lamp vision of the light up Fako Project by donating 20 poles/ solar lamps worth FCFA 1 Million to support the project of illuminating Fako and reducing insecurity.  Honourable Ngeka made the gesture this Saturday April 22 2023 during the charity fundraiser organized by the light up Fako team wherein sons and daughters of Fako came together to support the vision of Dr. Molua Smith Becke, the vision bearer of the light up Fako project.   In…

Committee and session allowances for the 1st deputy city mayor of Limbe, madam Karen Nora Muto Tanga, has been suspended following a press release that was issued yesterday 24th of April by the city mayor Paul Efome Ngale, through the municipal treasurer.  Circumstances surrounding the suspension are still void of clarity.  It should be noted that ever since Mayor Efome Paul Ngale assumed the mantle of leadership as the city mayor of Limbe, things haven’t been quite rosy between him and the 1st deputy city mayor madam Karen Nora Muto Tanga.  Many are calling on the authorities and CPDM bigwigs…