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The govenment of Cameroon, together with the Cameroon Baptist Convention health services say they are determined to make education available for all children living with disabilities.

“We are trying to teach teachers to have inclusive skills so they can attend to both children with disabilities and those without. We have equally donated equipments to the GCE board and to other schools,” Prof Tih Pius Mofe, Director of the CBC health service says.

“We have to think about putting in place strategies that will really transform our educational system. We have about 70 schools for inclusive education and we are working together with the Cameroon Baptist health service to give these children living with disabilities a chance at education just like other children,” Pauline Irene Nguene, Minister of social affairs adds.

“I have noticed that most of these children with disabilities are extremely smart and brilliant. We are calling on parents with children having disabilities to send their kids to school. We are trying our best to ensure that they become something in the society and are not forced to stay back at home while others get trained. It is not their making they were born the way they are. We love them too and want the best for them. I have a child with disability and I love him even three times more than the others. I make him feel extremely special. They need it. They get easily traumatized when they see other children doing what they cannot do,” Sophie Njie a CBC worker and a parent explains.

A campaign has been launched by the Ministry of Social Affairs together with the Cameroon Baptist Convention health services to step up the education of children with these disabilities. This campaign was launched in Yaounde this May 05, 2023. The Minister of social affairs, Pauline Irene Nguene says it is time to move from policy to action. She also urged every parent to send their disabled child to school or let them acquire skills.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

The president of PWD Bamenda, Pascal Abunde, has told his players and staff that the season is not yet over, despite the end of the Elite One championship which they struggled not to get relegated from.

Following the 3-2 victory over Renaissance of Ngoumou on the last day of play on Sunday, April 30, Abunde said that was just the completion of two out of three parts according to their programme.

“As I told you guys, this season had three parts. We played the first part, we had 10 points, we played the second part we had 15 points” the club president highlighted. “Now, the season is not ended, we have the third part of the season, that is the cup of Cameroon” he continued.

Pascal Abunde said the team has just a few days of rest “we are taking a few days of rest, bearing in mind that we have to start preparing for the cup of Cameroon. Because the objective we set for ourselves was to win something at least this season” he indicated.

He gave each player the sum of 100,000 FCFA following their defeat of Renaissance of Ngoumou.

PWD finished the season on the fourth position in group A with 25 points.

The top two teams in the group, Canon Sportif and Coton Sport of Garoua with 38 and 36 points respectively, will take part in the playoffs for the championship title. Gazelle and Bamboutos are the top two sides in group B.

There will be a relegation playoff as well. It will pit Yong Sports Academy against Djiko FC, to determine the fifth club that will drop alongside Renaissance of Ngoumou, Avion Academy, YAFOOT, and Dragon FC.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

Some authorities in the town of Bamenda have saluted the population who turned out to celebrate the 137th edition of International Labour Day in the North West region.

According to them, the turnout in 2023 was quite impressive and a way to note that peace is gradually returning in the crisis-hit region.

The authorities made up of North West Governor, Adolphe Lele L’afrique, the representative of the president of North West Regional Assembly, Hon. Ghejung Awunti and the president of the North West trade unions were speaking Monday, May 1, 2023, immediately after witnessing activities of the day at the Bamenda Commercial Avenue grandstand.

“It is thanks to workers that life is coming back to normalcy in the entire region. I am congratulating all those who took part in the mobilization to make sure that we have these workers here,” Governor Adolphe Lele Lafrique said.

Other authorities like the representative of the North West Regional Assembly president, Awunti added that the huge crowd that turned out is actually thanks to the efforts of the assembly, which is out to work mostly with the people.

“The Regional Assembly represents the people of the region. We stand here with the people including workers who came here to say thank you. This actually is in line with the vision of the president of the Regional Assembly where we are there to listen, learn, and take action for the people,” Ghejung Awunti said.

The president of the North West trade unions association said the turnout was more than that of last year. He congratulated all the associations including bike riders who were present and massively took part in the match pass activities.

This year’s international labor day took place under the theme “Resilience and decent work: acting together in the World of work to improve living conditions and social inclusion”

Some associations and personalities were awarded medals and prizes for their resilience and always working with you population and authorities. The celebration ended with match pass activities by some organizations, institutions, and others.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

Angolan minister of Education Luísa Grilo Tuesday said that valuing of human capital, with stress to the teachers, represents the Executive’s main challenge.

Luísa Grilo acknowledged this while speaking at the opening ceremony of the sector’s First Consultative Council held in municipality of Luau, eastern Moxico province.

The minister pledged the Executive commitment to continue working toward achieving and overcoming “the great challenges of the sector”, including that of appreciation of human capital, mainly the teachers.

In addition to this challenge, Luísa Grilo also spoke of tackling the problem of educational infrastructures to cater for the children outside the education system.

In her speech, she also spoke of the need to reduce the teacher-student ratio, “urgently” eliminate precarious classrooms and overcome the quality of learning.

She also said that the quality of teaching will be implemented in the review of the curriculum policy and other components, as well as due attention to the management model of the national assessment system and other domains.

As for the meeting, the minister said that she will analyse, among others, the causes and consequences of violence in public and private schools in the country, prevention and mitigation strategies, so that students find a peaceful, familiar and supportive environment at school, where the values of good and healthy coexistence are promoted.

Luísa Grilo said the event serves to promote a reflection on the paths of human resource management, in addition to reinforcing the Executive’s idea of continuing to train staff, so that the duties of primary education teaching staff are guaranteed by qualified teachers.

In turn, the governor of Moxico, Ernesto Muangala, asked the MED for more investment in the region, especially in the construction of technical schools in the interior unicipalities.

The two-day meeting will enable the more than 200 participants to address various issues, such as the national school calendar, expansion of the programme for pre-school and early childhood education, among other matters.

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

The University of Calabar will graduate 7,769 students during its 35th convocation holding on Friday and Saturday.

Prof. Florence Obi, Vice Chancellor of the institution, disclosed on Monday in Calabar while enumerating activities lined up for the week long convocation.

Obi said that Friday was for the award of first degrees, diplomas, masters and post graduate and also induction into UNICAL alumni for those found worthy in character and learning.

She explained that Saturday was scheduled for award of doctorate and honorary degrees to deserving students and awardees.

According to her, Thursday has also been scheduled for the investiture of the 6th Chancellor of the institution, Alhaji Aminu Ado-Bayero, the Emir of Kano.

The Vice Chancellor said that the convocation lecture would be delivered by Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari.

She said that the convocation topic is “The Leadership and Followership Question in Nigeria: Imperative or Ethical Re-Orientation.

“For the 35th convocation of our university, we are happy to announce that 11 students made first class, 899 students made second class upper, 3,396 graduated with second class lower, while 721 got third class.

“Also, we have 519 students for doctorate degree, 1,078 for masters and 556 for post graduate diploma and others.

“For our sandwich programme, 162 students made second class upper, while 251 made second class lower,” she said.

The VC also announced that the senate of the university accepted three personalities for the award of honorary doctorate (honoris causa) degrees.

She said they include; Dr Goodluck Jonathan, former President of Nigeria, Mrs Winifred Akpani, Chief Executive Officer of Northwest Petroleum and Ms Tola Johnson, a business woman and an advocate of women and youth empowerment.

She described Jonathan as a humble gentleman who places Nigeria above any other personal consideration, referring to him as a unifying factor in Nigeria, Africa and the world at large.

She commended staff and students of the institution for their support for her administration, adding that the university under her leadership would continue to strive for academic excellence and quality research.

Source: News Agency of Nigeria

The University for Development Studies (UDS) has held its 23rd congregation with 7,072 students graduating with various degrees.

A total of 27 students graduated with PhDs, 261 graduated with master’s degrees while 6,784 were undergraduates.

Professor Seidu Al-hassan, Vice-chancellor of UDS, in his address said enrollments over the past five years had sharply increased and attributed it to the Free Senior High School Programme.

Professor Al-hassan said the University needed to improve on its infrastructure such as science laboratories, lecture halls, students’ accommodation, robust internet service amongst others to cater for the increased enrollment figures.

He appealed to the government, civil society organisations, and philanthropists to support the University to improve on academic facilities on its various campuses.

He said the University had recently established new schools and faculties, which would train more human resources to enhance socio-economic development of the country.

He mentioned the new schools, which included School of Business, School of Economics, School of Dentistry, Faculty of Law, and the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Alhaji Shani Ahassan Saibu, Northern Regional Minister, who delivered a speech on behalf of President Nana Akufo-Addo, said government was committed to expanding the use of modern technology in institutions, by establishing e-platforms for distance and virtual learning to ensure quality education in the country.

He gave assurance of government’s commitment to address the infrastructural challenges facing the University.

He entreated the graduands to accept National Service Scheme postings to wherever their services were needed to contribute to the country’s development.

Source: Ghana News Agency