Is the Stanley Enow/Jovi feud finally over?

Stanley Enow and Jovi, the two Kamer hip-hop front runners who are known for their sour attitude towards one another as much as for their music, seem to have posed together probably for the first time ever.
 In past months the pair have thrown jabs at each other on Twitter and have made allusion to that in their songs.
Does this mean  that the Bayangi Boy and the self proclaimed Mboko god have finally decided to bury the war hatchet and look forward to a more positive relationship?

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Buea tech guys Making Cameroon Proud

Some tech start-ups in Buea are putting the town on the map of  relevant places to watch for future innovation. Infact the BBC recently did a short documentary on the companies making great strides in technology and that have the potential to become the next big thing. You can watch the Video here:

“Chasing Tails” – A Movie To Be On The Lookout For [Trailer]

Sire Nation and Blue Rain entertainment will be unveiling its new masterpiece “Chasing Tails” come June 4 at the Buea shopping mall, in partnership with W Cinema.


This movie has as cast prominent Kamer actors like Frank Sire, Desmond Wyte, Syndy Emade and Ade Kelly, who enact the little games both men and women play in the arena of love.


Produced by Frank Sire and edited by Awemo Pizaro, this movie strikes it all, from the wardrobe, location, image quality and great actors.

Children and Smartpones: The dilemma

Children are using smartphones at an increasingly youger age. This has gotten many people (especially parents) worried about the negative health and psychological issues that may ensue. Many argue that smartphones are convenient, of course, but they also alter the parent-child relationship, creating a constant connectivity that can often be mistaken for a genuine connection. It can weaken your authority and ability to bond, and in the hands of children whose judgment isn’t yet fully developed, smartphones can lead to the fast-track to bad choices and even worse consequences.

Smartphones hinder parent-child relationships

 According to school behaviour expert Tom Bennett Children should not be allowed smartphones until they are 16 and teachers should not allow them unless absolutely necessary.
But others still will say that kids need smartphones because they help keep track of the child and help them in their intellectual growth:
So who is right?

UB Takes Centre Stage in Renewable Energy Development

In the near future, every home in Buea may be equipped with a solar panel and the exorbitant electricity bills which Cameroonians pay may soon be a thing of the past. This is as a result of a convention that was recently signed between the university of Buea, college of Technology and Addax petroleum with Mayors of the South West Region.

According to the convention, South West mayors will provide funds to the college of Technology, UB, while the school will in turn provide the various councils with renewable energy sources. Addax petroleum on its part provided equipment worth Millions of francs CFA to the College to help train technicians and mining experts who could one day work in the company.

  As a result of the partnership agreement, on entering the university of Buea campus, one can see that there are new solar lamp posts alongside the regular ones. Around U-block, there are wind turbines and a solar panel. The technicians at the Faculty of Engineering Technology say that these are just baby steps that will lead to achieving the not too distant plans of making the University of Buea completely autonomous in terms of energy supply. The engineering and technology students use these facilities to study and practice how to harness the power of the wind and the sun and convert them into electricity for use in homes, companies and industries.

It is hoped that this generation of students will use the knowledge acquired to contribute towards taking Cameroon to emergence by 2035.

RAMADAN CELEBRATIONS IN BUEA

 Celebration of the feast of Ramadan in Buea has been marked by a call to the Muslim community from the Imam of the Buea central mosque, Imam Aboubakar Mohammed, to be tolerant towards all members of the society at a time when the Islamic faith is facing serious challenges from violent radicals who claim to be acting in the name of Allah. More on this report with our correspondent in Buea

Speaking to a large gathering of faithful who converged at the Buea Central Mosque prayer ground to pray and thank Allah for the peaceful nation of Cameroon, the Imam told Muslim faithful’s that violence has never been the solution to any problem and that the terrorist sect Boko Haram would never succeed to turn the people of Cameroon against one another because they are a peace-loving people

Ramadan Day Prayer

Imam Aboubakar Mohammed went ahead to remind parents to be vigilant and keep a watchful eye on their children so they won’t be targets of individuals with evil intentions such as terrorists.

The women were also an important part of the sermon as the Imam reminded faithfuls of their crucial role in the well being of the family while reminding the men to take good care of their wives and provide for them.

Prayers were then said for the people of the far North Region who are going through difficult times and for those who have lost their lives in terrorist attacks. The key message of the day being love.

        

The ceremony ended with the immolation of the ram and much feasting in the various homes of the faithful

WILL AFRICA BE DIGITALLY RELEVANT IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS?

 2025, Africa jobs which were common place in 2015 will no longer exist. Students graduating in 2016, will have obsolete qualifications for which there will no longer be a profession by 2025.

1. Front-line military personnel will be replaced with robots
2. Private bankers and wealth managers will be replaced with algorithms
3. Telemarketers, Data Entry Capturers, Tax Preparers, Lawyers, Accountants, Actuaries, Statisticians and Consulting Engineers will be replaced with Artificial Intelligence (AI).

New business models, like those of Uber and Alibaba, are already industry-shaping disruptors, and each day, new digital innovators are emerging to cause disintermediation and disruption across every industry imaginable.

Traditional enterprises, whilst presently successful by today’s standards, are scrambling to make sense of Business Digitisation in order to stay relevant in the Digital future.

Many are attempting to create new Digital business models which will eventually cannibalize their traditional business, rather than capitulating to new disruptive Digital start-ups. Companies are also digitizing their products and services, along with operational processes and customer channels.

Over 70% of top fortune 500 companies have plans to offer their products as a Digital service by 2020.  Presently, the 10 most valuable start-ups globally are estimated to have a value of $172.7 billion – all embracing Digital platform based business models. Around 90% of the business models in 2020 will be driven by the cloud.

Globally, the number of connected devices will nearly quadruple by 2025, significantly altering the skills employers hold most valuable. Increasing connectivity will change how employees choose to work (for example: remotely, part-time, independently, or dispersed), and provide employers with a spectrum of hiring options.

Millennials, most of whom are Digital Natives, will comprise an estimated 48.3% of the global labour force in 2025, while those aged 60 and older will comprise 9.9% (compared with 7.9% in 2015).

The line between what has traditionally been business and IT is becoming more and more blurred. Largely due to the early adoption and impact of Digital marketing, The Chief Marketing Officer, now controls a bigger “IT” budget and influence than the CIO. This is only set to increase and expand across the organization, as Digital Natives become future business leaders.