Day: May 10, 2023

Final year pupils in various primary schools across the country are in full focus as they begin their official end of year exams.

Common entrance and entree en sixième examinations begin this Thursday May 11th 2023 and candidates are doing final touches in group as well as individual studies in order to maximize their chances of succeeding the exams.

“I am Steve, pupil of Class 6 at Government Bilingual Primary school Babadjou Toumaka. I am preparing for my common entrance exams that will take place on Thursday. To succeed, I do revisions in school and at home,” a class 6 pupil told us 24 hours to exam time.

When asked if he is confident he will succeed, Steve tells us he is.

“I am sure I will succeed because I did succeed in the mock exams and the lessons are easy.”

On their part, head teachers and teachers are confident that their pupils will make them proud judging from their performances in the mock exams.

The head teacher of Government Bilingual Practicing School Babadjou Toumaka, says he knows that his pupils will be successful because all instructions given are respected to the letter and the school put in place a preparatory system that also involved the psychological aspects.

“The children are confident of themselves because we made them so. The psychological preparation is there. We tell them that what they will meet during the exam will not be strange. They are things we teach them everyday and in which they score high. To make sure our strategy works out, we do revisions,” Aloysius, head teacher of the school tells us.

“I will estimate a 90% success rate because you know many of our children are from the restive North West and South West regions. These children are traumatized either with the distances they cover each week to reach school or with the environment in which they find themselves. With this we only have to boost them morally and give them full psychological support, ” Aloysius adds.

Teachers on their part are aware of the stakes of the exams and say the instructions given by hierarchy are strictly followed.

“As you can see we are fully engaged in revising the mock exams. We don’t know what the real exam will reserve but we are hopeful that 90% of the lessons we revise will appear in the exams,” declares a class 6 teacher.

The Common Entrance Examinations are taken by final year school pupils in Cameroon as part of selective admissions process into secondary schools.

After the common entrance, the pupils will have a month before they face their final examination: the First School Leaving Certicate.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

The 22 – year – old girl who abandoned a baby alongside a letter in Bamenda last week has been found in Mamfe and has been taken to the Police station for questioning.

According to Mefeka Mbanyui, she did not “dump” her baby but rather left the baby in his biological father’s compound.

“I did not leave the baby in the hospital, I dropped the baby in the father’s compound because I wanted him to take responsibility for the child. Since I got pregnant till when I put to birth he has never been there or shown any sign responsibility,” she stated.

“When I was staying with him, he kept on beating and brutalizing me and that is why we separated. Since then he has not taken responsibility neither has his family shown concern,” she continued.

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Mefeka Mbanyui who hails from Ndop said she did this because she was frustrated:

“I am sorry I did it out of frustration. I regret it now. I did not want to kill the baby. Had it been I wanted to kill the baby I wouldn’t have dropped the child in the father’s compound. I am ready to make amends for everything and take back my baby” .

Her older sister who accompanied her to the police station said she was surprised when she heard the news and has decided that she will accompany the sister to Bamenda to get her baby.

Going by the Mayor of Mamfe council Robertson Tabenchong Ashu, the girl was just being childish and he is calling on everyone to support her in getting her baby back.

It should be noted that Mefeka Mbanyui left the 8-day-old baby last Thursday May 4 at Ntefinki neighbourhood in Nkwen Bamenda III sub-division of the North West region alongside a letter explaining she lacked the financial resources necessary to take care of the baby.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

A business man was killed on Sunday May 7 at the Nkolmesseng Neighborhood in Yaounde for urinating in the wrong place.

The man whose name we got as Sylvester Banfila Nfonbuwi, who hails from Njoungo quarter in Lasin village, Noni subdivision was hit with a stick by a man who claims he urinated on his land.

According to Mr Denis, Coordinator of all the Njoungo people in Yaounde, it is heartbreaking that someone would be killed for answering the call of nature in a place where there was no signboard to indicate that no one should urinate there.

“It is disheartening to know that Cameroon has become so unsafe that someone will be killed for the mere fact that he urinated in a place, supposedly a wrong one. We have reported to the security and they have gone to the scene and picked a couple of people and are questioning them. They are yet to tell us what they have learned,” he said.

“There should be sensitization of the population so they avoid taking the laws into their hands. This is a case of jungle justice. I believe that even if it’s in a case where you have a signboard and someone violates, the person should be arrested and pay a fine but not be killed. We should learn to value one another,” he continued.

The Coordinator went further to reprimand the Yaounde General Hospital staff for neglecting the young man who was believed to be alive when he was rushed to the hospital.

“Another thing I want to complain about is the negligence of this hospital. I strongly believe this boy was still alive when he was brought here. After 4-5 hours of the incident he was still bleeding and no one checked on him since he was brought here.”

Investigations are ongoing.

Source: Cameroon News Agency