Christian Women Fellowship (C.W.F) In Tubah – Boyo Presbytery

Geographical Presentation
Tubah–Boyo Presbytery is made up of Tubah Sub Division and Boyo Division. The Presbytery shares boundary with Ngoketunjia to the East, Mezam to the North, Bafut to the North West, Donga Mantung to the South and Menchum to the West. Tubah–Boyo Presbytery is carved out into three zones: Tubah, Kedjom Keku and Fundong.

Economic Activities  
The inhabitants cultivate crops such as huckleberry, irish potatoes, carrots, cabbages, onion (gardening), maize, cassava and plantains. The best palm wine can be gotton from Bambili in Tubah. The staple food around here is Achu with egusi soup or black soup (Amba) or the traditional yellow soup. Corn fufu is consumed by ¾ of the inhabitants with vegetables in all its forms.

Founding Year  
Tubah–Boyo is one of the newest presbyteries founded in 2011 by the central church. Formerly, Tubah was with Bafut known as Bafut – Tubah and Boyo with Menchum called Menchum–Boyo. For the sake  of easy administration, Boyo was cut off from Menchum to join Tubah which was equally cut off from Bafut giving the new name Tubah–Boyo. When the presbytery was founded, they were 31 CWF groups with a total enrolment of about 1229 CWF women. This number included both dedicated and undedicated members.

Some of the already existing groups are:

Tubah Zone

1. Tubah   2. Bambili   3. CCAST Complex  4. Ntigi   5. Baforkum  6. Asangkwo  7. Fingieh  8. Tiaksa

9. Bieh  10.Ntebui  11. Down CCAST  12.Ntembang 
Kedjom Keku Zone

1. Mbwasu   2. Lih   3. Fuphense   4. Bamutoh   5. Mughu   6. Abobong   7. Tonguh  8. Mbingo

Fundong Zone

1. Fundong   2. Kitchu  3. Mbam  4. Ngwah  5. Ebossung  6. Alim  7. Ikujua  8. Ndawara  9. Ngwainkuma

10. Njinikom

Pioneer Executives (By–Election)

1) President – Yah Christina

2) Vice President – Nyuiky Theresia

3) WWH – Vuchi Esther

4) Secretary – Nubed Beatrice

5) Vice Secretary – Ambanasom Frida

6) Financial Secretary – Chungong Vivian

7) Treasurer – Ngwe Joan

8) Advicer 1: Neba Rebecca

Advicer 2: Pauline Wainkom

-Pioneer Presbyterial Secretary: Rev. Ajime Nelson on transfer and presently Rev. Akalambi Rogers.

-Pioneer Presbytery Chairperson – Ma Mofor Cecilia

-Pioneer CWF Pastors

1.  Rev. Fru Henry now at Sisterhood Emmanuel Bafut

2.  Rev. Asaha Ferdinand Chefor of PC Baforkum, now Parish Pastor of CCAST Complex Bambili.

There are three groups in the Presbytery that are pending inauguration: Bamutoh in Kedjom Keku zone, Ndawara in Fundong zone and Down CCAST in Tubah zone. The largest group in the Presbytery is Mbwasu with 125 members and the smallest are: Ndawara with 6 members, Ikujua and Njinikom with 9 members each.

By Mrs Yah Christina

Three Urgent JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Job Opportunity No 1
------Diesel Manager (Lucrative Salary)
------High degree in Electrical or Electromechanical Engineering
------A minimum of 4 years cognate experience
Job Accountabilities
A project management professional controlling all sites operational aspects based on Diesel Consumption. His main task is to Optimize sites’ performance by overlooking sites availability, batteries’ autonomy through Diesel consumption… Based on collected data from field and provided by Senior Regional Managers, Diesel Manager will advise of power solution optimization in line with Diesel Control and Consumption reduction
Contact:
Email your CV to info@jerrymaritime.com
JOB Opportunity No2
Job Title: Maintenance Technician (Lucrative salary)
---Technical degree in Electrical or Electromechanical;
---Cooling can be accepted
---Engineering is a plus
---A minimum of 2 years cognate experience
Job Accountabilities
A dedicate technical candidate controlling all his sites’ operational aspects (Optimizing Preventive & Curative Maintenance, organizing consumables/diesel orders, releasing daily detailed maintenance reports (maintenance, spare parts used, consumables, diesel, consumption…), correct utilization of set tools in place _ i.e. Online Maintenance Application), Supporting with specifications for better equipment selection and spare parts selection, controlling inventory & stocks in hand and providing detailed reporting, meeting set KPIs & targets by the management, optimize preventive maintenance and actualize for related Region versus budget.
Contact:
Email your CV to info@jerrymaritime.com
Job Opportunity No 3 (Lucrative salary)
I. JOB TITLE: Coordinator – Key Accounts Management
II. BASE: Douala
III. REPORTS TO: Commercial & Corporate Services Director
IV. AVERAGE SENIORITY: (Years of experience- 2-5 years experience)
V. JOB PURPOSE:
To support business expansion into Cameroon by developing market penetration – customer centricity and business growth strategies are defined and adhered to.
VI. JOB SCOPE:
Disciplines to be covered include:
i) Commercial
ii) Customer service
iii) Intelligence & Reporting
Contact:
Email your CV to info@jerrymaritime.com
The candidate is responsible for developing profitable growth strategies for the business, and coordinate delivery of key projects and actions to achieve this growth.
Responsibilities
1. Understands local market segmentation and key accounts profiling
2. Development and delivery of commercial plan for customer penetration and portfolio development
3. Preparation of relevant documentation for commercial offers, customer filling and business intelligence
4. Helps in interface with technical teams, Marketing…
5. Proactively screen customer business needs and translate insights into growth strategies.
6. Excellence in project management: time, cost and quality. Develop and maintain project tracking schedule, with tools and processes to adequately manage
7. Elaborate and/or participate in the conception of commercial presentations of technical solutions
8. Provide order and forecast information required for business planning
9. Ensure all reportings are timely delivered, with quality of contents
10. Ensure first level of understanding/knowledge of technical solutions/services
11. Manage properly customer complain arising and facilitate resolution in line with SLAs
12. Ensure high standard of customer satisfaction
VII. COMPETENCIES & SKILLS REQUIRED:
➢ Commercial acumen and project management skills
➢ P&L literacy, strong numerical skills, high level of computer literacy
➢ Ability to influence and get customer buy-in
➢ Ability to integrate learning from multiple market sources and generate insights, which requires good analytical skills
➢ Skilled in working within and with other functions, delivering results through cross-functional teams (technical, finances, legal…)
➢ Must have good negotiating skills. Able to seek multiple perspectives and listens openly to others’ points of views.
➢ Good knowledge of Telco environment, with the ability to penetrate customers. Ability to bring relevant, actionable external knowledge into the company to create competitive advantage.
➢ Capacity to build diverse, strong long-term and productive relationships with key customers and gain their respect.
➢ Capacity to learn and present technical information, capacity to analyze data from different sources and to prepare reports and presentations.
➢ Capacity to learn and present technical information, capacity to analyze data from different sources and to prepare reports and presentations.
➢ Excellent written and oral communication skills, ensuring effective and persuasive communications with a wide variety of internal and external interfaces.
➢ Personal and inscrutable integrity, Commits to ethical behaviour, proper use to materials and company equipments
➢ Action and results oriented.
➢ Plans activities effectively understanding priorities and acts quickly on request for action.
➢ Dress and behave in such a manner as to be perceived as professional at all times.
➢ Excellent command in English and French.

Mbum People Celebrate Academic Achievements In Bamenda (Photonews)

Mbum People Celebrate Academic Achievements In Bamenda

Mbum Is Looking For Developers And Not Elites

“Mbum has now joined the community of tribes that single families now have three PhD holders with children at the age of 24 years obtaining PhDs a thing we only heard of”. Mr. Bakary David, a Municipal Council at home said at the maiden occasion in Bamenda during which Mbum people converged to congratulate one of theirs Dr. Nfor Emmanuel Nfor. Expressing joy, Mr. Bakary said “Mbum should unite and put politics behind else as he said the peoples of non Mbum Councils in Donga Mantung who have taken sides and united for political gains will benefit more than Mbum people.

Two professors; Ta-Nformi Professor Ndikontar Maurice, Dean of the Faculty of Science UBa, Ta Nformi Professor Isaac Njilah of the University of Yaounde I, Ngenge Alfred Tamfu – a doctoral student and a host of other participants at the occasion rose with pride to heartily congratulate Dr. Nfor Emmanuel for the brilliant academic achievement after a certificate of achievement from Mbum elites was presented to him by Ta-Tamfu Prof. Ndikontar, Dean at UBa and hopefully Dr. Nfor Emmanuel will be joining him in that faculty of the University of Bamenda soon.

News broke out at the occasion about the tarring of the Kumbo–Nkambe stretch of the ring road disclosed to participants by Ta-Nformi Isaac Njilah who travelled far away from Yaounde to take part in the occasion. He said he got the news from the Secretary General, Ministry of Public Works that the memorandum of understanding has been signed already and contract awarded to a Chinese company and in less than three years from now we would travel safely on tarred road to Ndu and Nkambe.

Speaker after speaker at the occasion encouraged Mbum people to lease their guns, raffia bushes, houses etc and send their children to school. One speaker narrated how a person came to look for money at Ndu some years back to go and study how to feed fowls in Nigeria. Pa Ngala and friends laughed and asked whether he did not know that fowls are fed with corn. That was in the past, now if we send our children to school and they study to feed fowls; we will have more eggs than the fowls that were fed with corn.

The participants sounded messages of encouragement to the Mayor of Ndu to come out of the classroom and be Mayor so that they could enjoy him. They appreciated the works so far done by the Mayors and urged them to do more; redouble their efforts collaborate with their councilors, cooperate with their hierarchy and so on in the name of development of the Mbum municipalities. They were equally told and encouraged to consider social utilities such as water supply, schools, agricultural projects like the buying of water pumps, building of fish ponds which would assist farmers keep fish and grow especially vegetables at home in the dry season.

They said they did not understand why in the dry season vegetables should be lacking at home that it was not fair that Mbum people instead go and buy vegetables from Nso at Melim.

It was also added that a project to bottle gas at home was not useful asking councilors and mayors to consider useful projects to their communities, most especially infrastructural projects which will generate income to the local people.

Ta-Nformi Prof Isaac Njilah again disclosed that there are two masters’ degree students and one PhD they sent home who are doing studies to map out Mbumland and make available results of what is inside all of Mbum sub soil. One of the student researchers is doing studies on the coal deposits in Tabenken and the other two will map from Njap through Wat.  He appreciated the support of the Mayors concerned to these studies.

After disclosing that we have a lot in our sub soil he called on foreign investors to come to Donga Mantung Division and invest in industries that can make things like plates, cups, tiles etc whose raw materials are abundant in the Donga Mantung sub soil.

The organizing committee charged Dr. Nfor to take responsibility of such occasions as there are many other Mbum doctoral students undergoing studies who would be defending their thesis soon. A participant brief members about e-Connect and how to register with it and its advantages.

There was much merry making and feasting and the Chairman of the Organizing committee ‘The Teacher’ thanked all present and told Mbum people that when chasing an animal you go across and don’t follow but from behind; encouraging all to go across other areas such that soonest Mbum would be celebrating again. Mr. Karawa Lawrence closed the occasion with prayers in which he called on the Almighty God to give us Mbum people who would study and use their studies to develop Mbumland and for a safe and journey mercies to the participants.

Why Conversion Therapy Hurts All Of Us

Across the country, there are doctors working to convince people to change their sexual orientation or gender identity. It's known as "conversion therapy," but it could also be called brainwashing, or reprogramming.

Loving and compassionate parents and ministers who are trying to do the right thing are doing just the opposite. They are influenced by bad science, not grounded in fact. This so-called "conversion therapy" is harmful.

A couple of days ago, the White House came out in support of efforts to ban the use of conversion therapy. And as a transgender woman, this is especially personal to me.

No one should be forced to be someone they're not. Everyone should be valued for their authentic, true self -- who they are -- regardless of the gender with which they identify, or who they love.

I recently talked with a few other people in the Administration about why conversion therapy is so dangerous, and why it was so important for the White House to take a strong stance against the practice.

Here's what we have to say:

This isn't just a transgender issue or an LGBT issue -- it’s an American issue. Our nation was founded on the ideals of equality and acceptance for everyone, and forcing an individual to be someone they aren't goes directly against what this country stands for.

If we're going to grow as a society, we must move beyond the way things are, to the way things should be.

That's why I'm glad our Administration is standing up and making it clear that conversion therapy is unacceptable. Our society should allow every child and every person the freedom to be whoever they aspire to be.

And we've already seen the tragic effects of this therapy. Countless people have taken their own lives because they feel they can't fit into the standards that society demands. Others, although they haven't lost their lives, have been forced to live unfulfilled lives and to repress their feelings in the process -- feelings that come out in other ways that we can't always anticipate.

We can be better than this. We are better than this. We owe it to ourselves, and to all of the children growing up in this country, to work toward a society where everyone is accepted and treated equally.

I hope you'll take the time to listen to what we said, and learn more about why the White House came out in support of banning conversion therapy.

Amanda Simpson
Executive Director
U.S. Army Office of Energy Initiatives

 

EXPOSED: SDF Senior Official Brokered SCNC-Gov’t Secret Talks

Amadou Ali, then Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals fronted for the gov’t and authorized millions for the talks.

By Mbom Sixtus, April 09, 2015

Cameroon Journal, Yaoundé – It has now emerged that the Biya regime had in a bid to proffer some solutions to the Anglophone crisis, held nighttime meetings with some officials of the movement who, however, turned out to be fake leaders of the group.

Theodore Leke, SCNC 2^nd Vice National Chairman under the late Chief Ayamba, confirmed the secret talks in an exclusive revelation to The Cameroon Journal.  Leke disclosed that the dialogue was brokered by a top SDF national executive member living in Yaounde. He, however, refused to name the official whom he said linked them up with Amadou Ali who at the time was Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals.

Leke related that at the initial meeting, they met the minister in the presence of an interpreter. He said after a brief chat with the minister, he and other SCNC top officials were asked to return to the South West and come back with a representative delegation on an agreed date.

Leke said when they returned from Yaoundé where they were lodged at government’s expense, they briefed other SCNC officials about the meeting. On the basis of the briefing, then SCNC Executive Secretary General, Thomas Nwacham wrote to the minister: “We have been informed by one of the leaders of the SCNC, Mr. Leke Theodore that your government is inviting us through your good offices for contact discussions. We appreciate the long-awaited invitation and hope our exploratory talks shall be frank and sincere. We propose that this initial meeting be held on January 20, 2004 at a venue decided by you and look forward to your confirmation.”

The Cameroon Journal gathered that when the government confirmed the rendezvous, a quarrel later broke out within the ranks of the SCNC officials with accusations that millions that were initially made available by the Yaounde authorities were swindled.

Theodore Leke, he led the talks with Ahmadou Ali

Theodore Leke, he led the talks with Ahmadou Ali

Our sources said some SCNC officials wanted to know why the government had by-passed then National Chairman, Chief Ayamba and his immediate assistant, Nfor Ngalla Nfor and settled on Theodore Leke, third person on the SCNC leadership rank. Leke could not give any explanation since as he told The Journal, it was an SDF official who proposed him to the regime as the one to head the SCNC delegation.

Confirmed sources say Leke took a slim delegation of four to Yaoundé and after the meeting there, they were given an assignment to tour the North West and South West regions to compile the grievances of Anglophones and report back to Yaoundé.

In a summary of one of the reports to Amadou Ali, a copy of which we stumbled upon, Leke wrote: “We did not come across any group, fons, chiefs or leaders who rejected the dialogue to solve the Anglophone problem. Their utmost wish was that the talks should be frank and sincere between the two groups involved in the dialogue.”

In a latter report signed by Leke as “leader of the delegation” and Chief Enow Oben as one of the members, they said several meetings were held with traditional rulers in the two Anglophone regions. They equally claimed: “…open meetings were held with SCNC activists in Kembong, Mamfe, Menji and Bamenda.”

Their communication with Amadou Ali, we gathered, was done through an encrypted email address.  Amadou Ali himself confirmed the dialogue when at a question and answer session of the National Assembly in November 2009 he said “government was consulting with the SCNC.”

Leke admitted that government paid for his delegation’s assignment for the contact tours which was part of the “negotiations” but would not disclose the amount. It was on the basis of the continuing dialogue, Cameroon Journal learnt, that the government sponsored an SCNC delegation to the African Commission on four occasions to Banjul and one to Dakar, Senegal.

The objective of the government bench to the Commission led by Dion Ngute, Minister Delegate at the Ministry of External Relations in Charge of Relations with the Commonwealth was to have Leke and other SCNC members testify that the movement was in ongoing dialogue with the Biya regime and as such the SCNC/SCAPO complaint be delayed pending the outcome of the SCNC/government talks.

Leke also admitted that their air tickets and allowances were paid by Yaoundé on a total of five trips for the case at the African Commission. But he again refused to say the amount which speculators within the SCNC had said was in tens of millions.

It was at the Commission, we gathered from other SCNC officials, that the government knew belatedly it had all along been dealing with the “wrong people”. Dion Ngute then said the SCNC was in factions and that government did not know who to dialogue with. At this point the whole deal collapsed

Leke and Enow in another letter to the minister recalled: “We regret that the minister informed us during our last meeting that he has come to the end of his own part and that politicians should take over and complete the rest. Politicians especially those from the English-speaking zone cannot do it for obvious reasons,” they stated.

 In the meantime, government insiders say dialogue with the SCNC can only be possible when a credible leader emerges at the helm of the movement.