3, June 2016

Schwarzenegger chased by an elephant ⁰

Arnold Schwarzenegger got chased by an elephant while on a trip to South Africa. The actor shared the experience on social media, imploring people to stop killing the animals for ivory and “take a photo, not a shot”.

BBC News

3, June 2016

Cameroon announces the creation of mobile clinic ⁰

The Ministry of Public Health and a Canadian-based health technology company have signed a Memorandum of understanding towards the creation of a mobile clinic. According to the MoU signed this 27th April 2016, Cameroonians will receive technologically advanced and innovative healthcare services irrespective of their geographical location through the mobile clinic.

Public Health Minister, Andre Mama Fouda signed on behalf of Cameroon meanwhile the Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian company signed on behalf of his enterprise. This mobile clinic will come to improve on health systems in the country and provide emergency medical assistance to patients.

3, June 2016

Yaounde: Regional Miss Cameroon elected ⁰

Cameroon now has 3 new beauty pageants emerging from the Centre, South and East Regions. They were selected on May 29th 2016 during the last edition of the Regional Miss Cameroon Beauty Contest for 2016, organized at the Yaounde Hilton Hotel.

The three who were selected out of 15 contesters will join their counterparts on 30th July 2016 for the finals and the 12th edition of Miss Cameroon Beauty contest to be held at the Yaounde conference Centre.

They are: 22 year old Catherine Etoungoung Amougou as Miss Centre Region, Aquine Mpanjel, 22 – the Miss East Region and Rosy Kate Ebe – 26, Miss South Region, all students of the University of Yaounde one and two. Apart from physical beauty, they were also graded on eloquence, mastery of the two official languages, their culture tradition, academics and others.

The contest was graced with some thrilling artists under the supervision of the President and founder of the Miss Cameroon beauty contest Ingrid Solange Amougou with a host of dignitaries. Outgoing Miss Cameroon 2015, Jessica Ngoua Nseme extended her wishes to the incoming across the nation vying to be the next Miss Cameroon. The contest has been organized under the theme: “National Unity at the Service of Peace and Security.”

2, June 2016

Cameroon: Higher Education harmonizing courses ⁰

Heads of Departments of the Faculties of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences, Law and Political Sciences and Economic and Management Sciences met yesterday, May 30, 2016 to discuss ways of putting in place a standard base on which the system of studies and educational programmes in these faculties in all State Universities will be built. This is to enable student mobility and credit transferability from one university to another as well as show proof of the implementation of the Bachelor, Master and Doctorate (BMD) system in the institutions of higher learning in the country.

Opening the workshop, the Minister of Higher Education, Professor Jacques Fame Ndongo said it is not about standardisation or uniformity of universities for each university needs to keep its specificity while harmonising educational programmes which are operational in classical faculties (not professional schools) in State universities for an effective credibility of the higher education system in the country.

The Minister reiterated the importance of the professionalization of the higher education system. He told participants to establish if the professionalization of studies should be gradual from one level to another or it should be professionalised at a certain level that is either Master or the last year of a First Degree level or at the beginning of any programme.

The experts debated on the various fields of studies and how to manage academic mobility taking into consideration the number of course units per semester, number of credits per course units and credit value all in a bid to ensure a hitch-free transfer if a student has to move from one university to another

A Research Officer in the Directorate of Higher Education Development of the Ministry of Higher Education, Professor Roselyn Mutia, said committee members also examined how programmes are named in various universities. A vivid example is the Department of English. In some universities it is called English Literature and in others it is called Literature in English. The committee had to harmonise the naming of programmes in a bid to come out with the same nomenclature of BMD programmes.

Participants also brainstormed on what could be fundamental courses in each discipline and what courses could be considered elective. Codes given to course units were predetermined and harmonised as it was agreed upon how many letters and numerals will be used to identify a course. At the end of the meeting, participants came out with reference documents through which others will use in drawing up teaching programmes.

2, June 2016

African fashion models taking over the runway ⁰

While numbers are still low, the percentage of non-white models has actually increased from 2015.In 2015, 84.7% of of all the models featured in spring 2016’s fashion adverts were white compared to 78.2% this year.

Of these models we are starting to notice an increasing number of high fashion models from Africa – many from Angola and South Sudan in particular.

Multimedia

2, June 2016

Models wanted in Nigeria ⁰

Africa Fashion Week Nigeria (AFWN) is calling on models for its upcoming fashion week in July. Model casting will take place on 21st May 2016 between 12pm-4pm. Early arrival is advised as models who arrive late WILL not be seen.

Model Casting will be held as follows; Saturday 21st of May at Aramis, Plot 1b block 49 Admiralty way Lekki Phase 1. Lagos. Nigeria

360nobs.com

2, June 2016

First penis transplant in the USA ⁰

A hospital in Boston has become the first in the US to perform a successful penis transplant, doctors said, calling the operation “a surgical milestone”. Thomas Manning, 64, received the donated organ three years after his penis was amputated due to penile cancer.

He is the third man worldwide to have had the experimental surgery performed. The patient is expected to regain normal urination and sexual function in the next few months. The 15-hour operation took place earlier this month at Massachusetts General Hospital and involved more than 50 doctors from many departments including urology, psychiatry, plastic surgery, and several others.

BBC

2, June 2016

Cameroon host 17th edition of Mother and Child Nutrition week ⁰

The 17th edition of Mother and Child Nutrition and health action week was held on the 15th April 2016 in Cameroon. The three day event was marked by an intense vaccination campaign where vaccination agents moved from door to door to administer Polio vaccine to children from zero to five years; the vitamin A vaccine to children from six months to five years; while pregnant women received some preventive treatment against Malaria.

In the Centre Region, the Regional Delegate of Public Health attested that all the supplements were available and used in all the districts. The program was aimed at attaining a hundred percent coverage of the immunization campaign in the Centre Region. In the Centre Region, vaccination agents visited schools and market places to meet parents and children.

Parents were also told to react positively to the vaccination campaign which covered the 30 health districts of the Centre Region. The Mother and Child Nutrition and Health action week also coincided with the African immunization week.

CRTV

2, June 2016

Mushroom treatment for people with depression ⁰

A hallucinogenic chemical in magic mushrooms shows promise for people with untreatable depression, a short study on just 12 people hints. Eight patients were no longer depressed after the “mystical and spiritual” experience induced by the drug. The findings in the Lancet Psychiatry showed five of the patients were still depression-free after three months. Experts cautiously welcomed the findings as “promising, but not completely compelling”.

There have now been calls for the drug to be tested in larger trials. At the start of the trial, nine of the patients had at least severe depression and three were moderately depressed. In one patient, symptoms had lasted for 30 years. All of them had tried at least two different treatments for depression, without success.

BBC

2, June 2016