The author of many Bikutsi hits  Essamba Essamba and Nsono Nsono included died on Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at the L’hospital Jamot in Yaounde.

Mbarga Soukous rocked the nation with his high level of immorality in the lyrics of his song and eventually won the hearts of many a Cameroonian. His family has not made public the cause of his death.

However, Cameroonians are expecting more information on this sudden disappearance as soon as possible. Rest in peace, Mbarga Soukous!

Source: Cameroon Info.Net

US President Donald Trump has suggested that a contest should be held to determine which news network covers him in the most “dishonest” and “corrupt” way, as he has again labelled many of the outlets “fake news.”

“We should have a contest as to which of the Networks, plus CNN and not including Fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage of your favorite President (me). They are all bad. Winner to receive the FAKE NEWS TROPHY!” Trump tweeted on Monday.

Trump’s comments were his latest attack against the news media for the coverage he receives. During a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, in August, he called journalists “truly dishonest” and “sick people.”

The president also took repeated jabs at the media on Twitter over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend at his golf courses in Florida.

Trump has repeatedly used the term “fake news” to cast doubt on critical media reports about his administration, often without providing any evidence to support his case that the reports are false.

As a candidate, Trump had pursued the same anti-media rhetoric threatening to “open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money.”

Source: Presstv

Cameroonian MTV award–winning artist Stanley Enow premieres his latest smash hit single CARAMEL featuring multi-talented Nigerian artiste Davido in East Africa, with a focus on Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. CARAMEL is a certified feel-good banger produced by Soft Touch with its music video shot in Johannesburg by South Africa’s renowned director Justin Campos.

CARAMEL is a smooth track that can complement any function and feeling, perfect for your playlisting. In the release of his latest track, Stanley says: “I’ve been working on this single with East Africa in my mind. I felt like it’s a sound my fans there would like and it’s perfect because I am coming to East Africa soon.”

CARAMEL follows the success of Stanley Enow’s collabo with Mr. Eazi  “Adore You”. Both tracks will feature on his upcoming second untitled album that he supposes “might be given a Swahili name”. Touted as the most prolific urban artiste in Cameroon, Stanley has also worked with top African artistes including Sarkodie, 2 Baba, Ice Prince, Fuse ODG and Mr. Eazi.

Source: Lifestyle

Invitations to SOBA:UK Dinners are hard to come by, but there’s an easy way in: support heavily the interest and the brand of the Sasse Old Boys in the UK.

The President of SOBA:UK, Ayuk Akoh-Arrey released a list of expected attendees for  the November 11^th SOBA:UK Convention hosting SASSE heavyweights including UK lawmakers, administration officials, journalists, and celebrities—as well as a healthy crop of SOBA:UK sponsors.

Top on the SOBA:UK guest catalogue  invited to Rugby is our Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, the Right Honourable Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai placed alongside some of the VIP names on the list. Cameroonian celebrities and academics  all are expected to attend.  Below is the document sent to our Editorial desk today Sunday the 29^th of October 2017.

Invitation to SOBA:UK Convention

29th October, 2017

Dear Soter Agbaw-Ebai of Cameroon Concord News Group,

I am writing to formally invite you to the SOBA:UK Annual Convention on 11th November, 2017 at Dunchurch Park Hotel, Rugby, CV22 6QW, Warwickshire.

I would be most delighted if you can confirm your attendance to this event. The main event is on Saturday 11th, however on Friday night of the 10th we are organising a meet and greet, and networking with younger Sobans. There will be a buffet on the Friday night from 7 pm if you can make it.

The ticket to the event is complementary for you. Please let me know if you require any assistance with hotel rooms. There are very limited rooms still available at the actual venue, so if you would like to lodge there then please let me know as soon as possible.

For further information please check our website on: www.sobaintheuk.org, or promotional video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjqqTN0nv0g

I look forward to seeing you.

Yours sincerely,

Ayuk Akoh-Arrey

President SOBA:UK Tel: +447956311637 soba@sobaintheuk.org

Cameroon Concord News understands that the AGM is the forum where Sobans with any grievances or suggestions can attend and put their issues so that continuous structural improvements can be achieved within SOBA:UK. The president was quoted as saying that members who have genuine grievances are encouraged to attend the official AGM in 11 November, and put those to the General Assembly for deliberation. SOBA:UK we understand is financially very strong providing a good base to support its membership, which is at the heart of the Association.

The popular Nigerian pop star Davido has been summoned by the Nigerian police in Lagos after the suspicious death of three of his acolytes. The Afrobeat  star with his real name David Adeleke was summoned by the Nigerian police in Lagos to be heard about the fuzzy circumstances around the death of three of his relatives in the space of a week.

The latest death is that of Tagbo Umeike, 35, whose body was abandoned at the General Hospital in Lagos on the 3rd October in the early morning after a very alcoholic evening. According to local police, he had consumed 40 shots of Tequila, with friends, including singer Davido.

The girlfriend of the deceased young man, Caroline Danjuma, a Nollywood actress has accussed the singer of having fled after having abandoned her friend. For now, the singer denied any connection with the deaths.

The tragedy started when the bodies of two other Davido comrades were found on the 7^th of October in a BMW parked in a private residence in the chic Banana Island area in ​​Lagos.

By Chi Prudence Asong, CCN

The captain of the Indomitable Lions of Makossa, Petit Pays has called off the remaining date of his North American tour in Canada after saying his tour organizer was extremely lacking in entertainment finesse. Omega Rabbi Rabba pulled out of the date in Montreal and has also cancelled a planned press conference appearance in the historic Canadian city.

Cameroon Concord News gathered Turbo, the mega star cancelled the tail-end of his tour due to the fact that the sponsor failed to provide air tickets and accommodation for him and the group, Sans Visa. His manager and spokesman, Eyong Eyong Ebot said all Canadian gigs have been cancelled “due to poor arrangements”. Eyong Eyong Ebot confessed Petit Pays had promised a great spectacle despite the passing away of his younger brother, Didier Pupee but the attitude of the organiser has been shameful, disgusting and disgraceful.

Insiders said this Saturday event in Montreal was annulled due to a complete breakdown of financial communication between Petit Pays’ US based manager and the promoter in Montreal. The organiser reportedly did a money transfer to Mr. Eyong Eyong Ebot via Money gram but later cancelled the transaction and has ever since been brandishing the receipt as prove that he paid the artist. The multi-award-winning Makossa star said he hopes to come back to Montreal some other time. Watch Petit Pays reaction in video below

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai
Cameron Concord News

Cameroun has created a new corporation to manage authors’ rights. The organization has been named the Cameroon National Copyright Corporation (SONACAM). State radio and television reported that an executive bureau was also elected headed by the renowned Sam Fan Thomas.

The elections that held on Saturday the 9th of September 2017 also witnessed a major electoral victory for popular names such as Adeline Mbengkoum, Moussa Haissam, Ottou Marcelin, Calvino, Adeline Mbengkoum, Majoie Ayi, Sergeo Polo and of course the beautiful Jacky Biho. Some musicians of the new generation such as the likes of Salatiel, Duc-Z, One Love, Lab’l were also included in the executive.

Legendary artists Manu Dibango, Eko Roosevelt and Georges Seba were elected as honorary presidents. According to the statutes of SONACAM, the executive has a three year mandate renewable once. The Minister of Arts and Culture, Narcisse Moulle Kombi who chaired the first general assembly of SONACAM installed the elected bureau and urged them to work for the interest of artists. A total of 2,400 of the 3655 artists registered in the national musicians’ database signed up for the Cameroon National Copyright Corporation (SONACAM).

Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai with files from CRTV

In September 1-3, 2017 the Orokos in the United States will converged in one of  America`s historic and UNESCO protective heritage city of Boston in their annual cultural assemblage,  in a public display of the rich Sawa cultures, unique in its identity.The event which is the most celebrated, brings together all the Orokos in the United States of America to communion as a family by show-casing its cultural grandeur, traditional regalia and delicate traditional dishes.

The Orokos are an ethnic indigenous Sawa tribe in the Southwest region of Cameroon under the administrative unit of Ndian division. It stretches its cultural and linguistic similarities with the Grand Batanga of the resort city of Kribi in littoral and neighbouring Nigeria. With two newly created additional sub divisions, Ndian currently has four sub divisions namely Mundemba, Isangele, Ekondo Titi and Kombo-Edinti. The Orokos are span across two other divisions in the Southwest region namely Meme and Manyu. Some of the major clans include; Batangas, Bimas, Bakundus, Ngolos, Ekombe, Balondo-Banagas, Balue, Mbonge and Bakokos. Ndian is also considered the largest division in the region in terms of its geographical size.

The growing numerical strength of the Oroko population and the emerging new demographics of future American-Oroko kids became a social call and responsibility to bring all the Orokos under a mother association.In effect, the Oroko Cultural Association-OCA-USA was a dream come-true ostensibly out of the euphoria to unify the Orokos in the United States. And in September 1997, OCA was born in Atlanta Georgia. After the inception and the birth of OCA, it has produced five democratic elected impact presidents in this sequential ascendancy; pioneer president Tata Rev. Sam Esala who reigned from 1997-1998, Tata Awanjo Felix 1998-1999, Tata Louis Etongwe 1999-2005, Tata Fred Bebe 2005-2009, Iya Dr. Mercy Mabian 2009-2013 and Prince Ferdinand Mediko 2013-2017.

The 2017 convention which is an election year is special. And whoever is going to occupy the highest office of the association will have the onerous task of providing constructive and responsible leadership to all Orokos in the diaspora and at home, of every social background, gender, education and belief and above all, he/she must answer the call for socio-economic regeneration and take the destiny of Ndian division in his/her hands.

Despite the fact that Ndian division is one of the richest constituencies in Cameroon, it has benefited little or nothing from its God-given resources. Perhaps it is deliberate perhaps it is accidental, but this political and economic backwardness of Ndian division is a classic example of why all the Orokos must reinvent themselves, by creating new visions and mobilising themselves to develop their own resources. A natural resource is a source of blessings. But those found in Ndian division leaves behind a record devastating poverty stricken population with no signs for things to get better even in the near future.

The local economy paralysed due to in accessibility of road linking two major divisions [Ndian & Meme]. Educational infrastructures and healthcare facilities are deplorable. The inconvenient truth is that there is still the existence of breathtaking rise of personal vilification within the Orokos and the absence of receptiveness. And no matter what, this convention in Boston is special in the sense that it will produce a new presidential team to pilot the association for another deserved mandate. More to that, it is in Boston where American revolutionary ideas were conceived. It is in Boston where the revolution started. And therefore it should be in Boston where the Orokos will set the agenda for future accomplishments. Welcome to the city of Boston.

Prince Etukeni Agbaw-Ebai

Secretary General, Boston