Banki is a community in Borno state, where the Cameroonian presence is quite strong, since it is a border town. Nigerians prefer to go to the Gendarmes to resolve disputes, and electricity and water supply is largely from Cameroon.

Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi, yesterday told a stunned Senate panel that former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, did not consult the military authorities before signing the Green Tree Agreement (GTA), which ceded the oil rich Bakassi Peninsula

For over 50 years, Bamenda city in the Northwest of Cameroon has experienced an increased rapid population explosion with considerable damage on the local specie of plants and health of the inhabitants.

Some CPDM MPs last week despised party discipline and refused to vote a bill that they disagreed with.

Ahead of what many suspect is Biya's hidden agenda to conduct elections in 2009, a Yaounde based CPDM stalwart of Northwest origin, Prince Marcus Chicks Fomiyam, has begun campaigns in Bamenda.

Body Lawson Tetevi, Northwest Baptist Education Secretary, has defended the practice of issuing queries to subordinates, which according to him, is a means to make workers sit up.

Cameroon's University don and legal luminary, Prof Ephraim Ndeh Ngwafor, has been appointed member of the panel of the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague.

You may say that it is Mongo Beti who wrote a novel titled "Perpetua and the habit of unhappiness". We know. But do you know what "strongmen" and "banana republics" are?

Some 29 Secretaries General of the 34 councils in the Northwest recently met at the Bamenda City Council and formed a Union that will protect their interest.

A startling revelation emerged yesterday about the Green Tree Agreement (GTA), the treaty ceding the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon, as military authorities spoke about the security implications of the agreement.

Like in Cameroon, the cover prices of most newspapers in Zimbabwe witnessed an increase in the beginning of this month.

The Chairman of the SDF, John Fru Ndi, has said if President Biya thinks that he can manipulate the court to crush him by imprisoning him he will readily accept if that will help Biya achieve what he did not

The Chief of Defence Staff, General Owoye Azazi, yesterday told the Senate ad-hoc committee on the Green Tree Agreement that the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, did not consult the military before the cession of Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon.

The military brass was not consulted before President Olusegun Obasanjo signed the Green Tree Agreement which ceded the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon, Chief of Defence Staff General Andrew Owoye Azazi said in Abuja yesterday.