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Learn from these disastrous Craigslist experiences and avoid getting bilked, bamboozled, conned, swindled, and otherwise screwed on the Web’s most popular classified site.
Given everything from the “Craigslist killer” to Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal’s campaign against the site to the escalating battle over prostitution ads, you’d have to live under a rock to miss Craigslist’s [...]
February 9 2010 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »
Cameroon should finally be able to consume its own oil, with CFA 45 billion loan that a local bank recently granted to the National Refinery Company (SONARA), an official source told APA on Monday.
Under the terms of the agreement, the first phase of the project aims at maximizing the use of crude oil produced in [...]
February 8 2010 | Posted in Business, English, Headlines | Read More »
High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality — including nearly half the pills sampled in Senegal — raising fears of increased drug resistance that could wipe out the last weapon left to battle a disease that kills 1 million people each year, according to [...]
February 8 2010 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »
They were convinced by their friends to go swimming.
Pupils of PS Ntamulung in Bamenda are in a mourning mood following the death of their school mates, Fabrice and Jean Paul who drowned in the Mulang River last Thursday February 4. They were amongst four who were on their way for dance practice when disaster stroke. [...]
February 8 2010 | Posted in English, General, Headlines | Read More »
Tottenham defender Sebastien Bassong admits football rescued him from a life of crime.
Bassong grew up in a rough neighbourhood in northern Paris where drugs and law-breaking were rampant.
Cameroon defender Bassong told the Daily Star: “I came from a rough area. You had to be very strong. If you were weak, people would walk all over [...]
February 8 2010 | Posted in English, Headlines, Sports | Read More »
The ex-convict pretended to have offered his life to Christ during a public crusade.
The annual crusade of an evangelical church was marred at the Bepanda neighbourhood in Douala, last Wednesday, when an ex-convict snatched a basket of offerings, containing FCA 33,200, while believers adored Jehovah, with their eyes sealed. The criminal, not recognized in the [...]
February 5 2010 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »
Italy will play Cameroon on March 3 in Monaco and Switzerland on June 5 in Geneva in warm-up matches for this summer’s football World Cup, the Italian football federation announced on Friday.
The Azzurri, the reigning world champions, will also play a friendly on June 3 against a team to be decided, the federation adding that [...]
February 5 2010 | Posted in English, Headlines, Sports | Read More »
Wildlife conservationists say in Cameroon, protected species are more endangered than ever before. Experts say the continuing popularity of wildlife meat, or bushmeat, is encouraging armed poachers to gun down hundreds of thousands of animals. But the government has introduced new initiatives to halt the illegal trade.
From Cameroon’s hinterlands to the urban centers, vendors openly [...]
February 5 2010 | Posted in English, General, Headlines | Read More »
La Salle senior Yves Mekongo and junior Steve Weingarten have been named to the CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District II men’s basketball first team. Both players will advance to the national ballot for Academic All-America consideration, which will be announced on February 24.
La Salle is one of four Division I schools nationally to have two [...]
February 4 2010 | Posted in English, Sports | Read More »
Fox Davies Capital today published a report on Victoria Oil & Gas (VOG.L, LSE:VOG) entitled “More Gas Underneath Douala!”. In summary, the report says:
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Victoria Oil & Gas Plc announced an update on the passive seismic spectroscopy survey at its Logbaba gas and condensate project (“Logbaba”) in Douala, Cameroon. The data is the first new geophysical [...]
February 4 2010 | Posted in Business, English, Headlines | Read More »