THE EYE OPENER 24

IRIN NJUAKOM SMILES WITH THE BENEFICIARY A torch is an electronic device that helps show the way to the holder at night and in times of blackouts. At times it used by an individual or by a group. In desperate situation when in dire need for someone to lead or  point the torch and show direction in times of poverty, despair, malnutrition and deep rooted emotional debasement, a move in the same vain becomes much more welcoming. Irin Njuakom has found her way into the hearts of the many peasant families in Njinikom simply by her charity works. Year in and out, every December is a special month for the poor. It’s a special month, not because of several marriages and feast; it’s because of IRINA charity day. This year the number hit thousands. VOLUNTEERS ASSIST IN DRESSING THE KIDS History has repeated itself in Njinikom sub division. Some 1000 children selected from poor homes and from single parent homes have been comforted and reminded to be optimistic in their actions an

TEAM CAPTAINS PRESENTS TROPHY The grand finals in Njinikom, marking the close of the over two months of active sports amongst the youth of the area was emotalised in football in female and male categories. Dominated by the Balikumato quarter, the Balikumato ladies defeated their Atuilah counterparts3-0 to lift the trophy, while the same Balikumato boys urged the grave diggers of Bochain to back home the trophy in the male category. speaking at the ceremony, sponsored largely by the Cameroons leading brewery industry, les Brasseries du Cameroun, cup donor, mayor Terence Chah Bam thanked the youths of his municipality for their maturity demonstrated throughout the tournament and enjoined them to uphold virtue and not vice”as you return to school, work hard as you have shown in this tournament and you shall reap the fruits of your labour” he said. The occasion in Njinikom, was an opportunity for Some 700 youths to receive contraceptives in form of condoms and sanitary pads

CAGEAD TEAM WITH YOUTHS Youths within Njinikom sub division in Boyo division have been given some 700 condoms and sanitary pads as part of measures to discourage teenage pregnancies, school drop outs amongst young girls as well as adopt healthy hygienic conditions during their menstrual periods. This was august 27 at the Njinikom municipal stadium during the finals of the fourth edition of Mayor Terence Chah Bam, mayor of Njinikom council. The grand finals in Njinikom, marking the close of the over two months of active sports amongst the youth of the area was emotalised in football in female and male categories. Dominated by the Balikumato quarter, the Balikumato ladies defeated their Atuilah counterparts3-0 to lift the trophy, while the same Balikumato boys urged the grave diggers of Bochain to back home the trophy in the male category. speaking at the ceremony, sponsored largely by the Cameroons leading brewery industry, les Brasseries du Cameroun, cup donor, mayor Terence

The mayor of Belo council, Bernard Tosam Nenghabi has dragged the S.D.O for Boyo Joseph Oum II to the national communication council for what he has describe as a miscarriage of administrative decisions. He made the declaration in Bamenda April 9 upon his return from Yde. NSOM HILDA FUTELA.  B C RADIO MANAGER Following a live interview on state radio last week, the president of the national communication council, Peter Esoka in commenting on the closing own of the Belo community radio said, it is the council that gives instructions to the administration to close down any radio station and not the revers and that the council has not receive any complain from the management of the Belo community radio, Mayor Bernard Tosam Nenghabi quickly constituted a complaint against the Boyo SDO   and submitted to the council in Yaounde. According to the mayor for Belo, it was an opportunity for him to see the radio came to live again and remove his entire municipality which from 1950

Councillors of Njinnikom council have voted as satisfactory the administrative, management and stores accounts of the Njinijkom council for 2015.This was march 31 during a council session chaired by Terence Chah Bam, mayor of Njinikom council in the presence of the supervisory authority represented by DO for Njinikom, Justine Bongtang. Opening the council session, Mayor Terence Chah Bam announced that the council in 2015 collected over CFA 281 million as revenue and spend over 227 million as council expenditure leaving a balance of 54 million carried forward to 2016.To the mayor, projects like construction of class rooms, rehabilitation of health centres, construction of sheds and bridges, opening of roads, provision of benches, rehabilitation of electricity in Yang and the opening of the road to Mbueni through Jemchi as landmark realisations of the council in the past year. It was also an opportunity for the mayor to break the news to councillors that the council will soon b

Few years back, Njinikoms daughter of the soil, PHD student in nursing based in the United States of America challenged the Njinikom home based elite and put up a modern public toilet at the heart of the Njinikom market, second to none in the NW Region. The last quarter of 2015 saw her introducing an expansion of the project to the community, wherein individuals can now own their private toilets worth the sort in a bit to check the recurrent intestinal and health problems that come with poor sanitation. On the eve of the international women’s day, we at theeyeopener24 have decided to celebrate this unsung heroin of Njinikom sub division by publishing this interview we had with her way back in December 2015 in Bamenda Cameroon as our way of celebrating the values of a woman. Just to add councillors of Njinikom council recently recognised her in absentia in a council session for spearheading sanitation in Njinikom. Theeyeopener24: Why have you decided to personalise public hygiene