A Nigerian female pilot, Adzuayi Ewuga, has died in a plane crash in Central Cameroon. The late pilot is the second daughter of Senator Solomon Ewuga, a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nasarawa State and former Minister of State for FCT. The pilot reportedly died with 11 others on board a mini-aircraft […]
For the past five years, factions of a secessionist movement in southeastern Nigeria and a pro-independence movement in western Cameroon have been gathering momentum, mobilizing supporters through social media, and clashing with government security forces in both countries. Last month, leaders from both movements announced a formal alliance, which could ignite violence and instability in […]
Cameroon’s health ministry on Friday confirmed the country’s first case of coronavirus, a 58-year-old French citizen who arrived in the capital Yaounde on Feb. 24. It said the man has been quarantined in the city’s Central Hospital. “All measures have been taken by the government to contain potential risks of the virus spreading,’’ it said […]
The Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) on Monday said that the state was currently hosting 36,044 Cameroonian refugees in its settlements across the state. Mr Princewill Ayim, Director General of SEMA in Cross River, disclosed this in an Interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar. READ ALSO: C/River govt issues 7-day […]
Abuja – The Nigeria women’s volleyball team on Monday lost 0-3 to hosts Cameroon in their match at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games qualifiers in Yaounde. The Team Nigeria lost all the three sets of their opening game to the hosts. They lost 12-25 in the first set, 10-25 in the second and 8-25 in […]
Yaounde – Several security sources on Friday said eighteen civilians have been kidnapped by the terror group Boko Haram in raids in Cameroon’s Far North region. Sources said the terrorists stormed several localities of the region, looted foodstuffs, and abducted 18 men and women. According to local authorities, the Cameroon army is conducting a rescue […]
That Nigeria about two months ago closed its land borders with its neighbours including Benin, Niger and Cameroon in its efforts to stem the tide of smuggling of various imported items like rice, automobiles and small and light arms and ammunitions among many other things is no longer news. However, this development has not gone […]
Nneka Nwogwuwu The newly sworn-in Minister for Humanitarian Services, Disaster Mangement and Internally Displaced Perons, Sadiya Faruk, while receiving a total of 133 Nigerian refugees from Cameroon in Nigeria, has assured them of government welfare. Faruk, stated that the refugees will continue until all those who are willing to return are brought back home. The […]
The day after their exquisite and efficient performance against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa, conquerors of seven-time champions and host nation Egypt, that saw them reach the semi-finals of AFCON 2019, the Super Eagles received pledges of more dollar rain from two of Africa’s richest businessmen. On a visit to the team’s Le Meridien […]
Super Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr has declared that South Africa are the overwhelming favourites heading into Wednesday’s quarterfinal fixture of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. The Bafana Bafana put up a spirited display to knock out hosts, the Pharaohs of Egypt, 1-0 in the Round of 16 encounter last Saturday. Rohr believes that […]
Ahmed Musa says the Super Eagles can’t afford to fail their teeming supporters back home in Nigeria and around the world when they do battle with the Bafana Bafana of South Africa for AFCON 2019 semifinal spot at the Cairo International Stadium on Wednesday. The Super Eagles are looking to win a fourth continental title […]
FIFA opened disciplinary proceedings against Cameroon after their 3-0 loss to England in the round of 16 of the Women’s World Cup on Sunday, during which members of the team became upset following two VAR decisions. Several Cameroon players remonstrated with the referee and for a long time refused to restart the match after England’s […]
…Targets production cost of $20 per barrel Micheal Ajayi The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru, says Nigeria’s daily oil production has increased to 2.32 million barrel per day (bpd). The NNPC boss disclosed this on Tuesday, while hosting the executive members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists […]
Five Cameroonian athletes have gone missing from their accommodation at the Commonwealth Games in Australia. Press attache, Simon Molombe told the BBC that officials viewed it as “desertion” and that the missing athletes had been reported to Australian police. The three weightlifters and two boxers were last seen at different times on Monday […]
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) country representative, Antonio Canhandula, have said that the Federal Government would recognise 20,485 Cameroonian refugees on a ‘temporary protection basis’. The refugees are temporarily sheltered in the Southeast states of Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Benue and Taraba in the […]
The Nigerian government announced today that the search for the 110 schoolgirls who were abducted from the Government Girls Science and Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, Yobe State, has been extended to the neighbouring countries of Chad, Niger and Cameroon. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said top military and security officials on […]
The Amnesty International has revealed that life of 10 leaders of the independent movement in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon could be at risk of torture and unfair trials if extradited from Nigeria, where they have been arrested and detained in secret for one week. The human right’s group said that on 5 January, 2018, […]
Security forces in Cameroon have been conducting raids in the homes across the southwest region in the wake of deadly attacks by separatists. The country’s Anglophone regions – northwest (capital, Bamenda) and southwest (capital, Buea) are under curfew following deadly attacks on security forces last week. The BBC reports that residents in Munyenge – a […]
When Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai pensively declared in his speech at the ongoing summit on security in Abuja that “Insurgency remains one difficult form of asymmetric warfare. Nations must explore new frontiers of knowledge to understand this world threat,” it struck my heart thunderously. His words vibrated and […]
The United Nations (UN) Human rights body has urged Cameroon to respect the rights of Southern Cameroon in their bid to express their right to self determination. The concern was raised by the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights who recently commented on the political and security crisis in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions calling for caution […]