24, August 2024
Eyumojock Subdivision: Member of Parliament and elites brainstorm on school resumption 0
Elites of Eyumojock Sub-division are currently in Limbe to brainstorm on how schools can resume in the sub-division.
The event, chaired by the determined CPDM Member of Parliament, Honorable Teku Tanyu, has brought together some prominent chiefs of the sub-division and politicians who hold that depriving children of the opportunity to go to school is a destruction of the children’s future.
Since the socio-political problems in the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon started in 2016, many kids in the sub-division have not been going to school.
For a sub-division of 66 villages, only two villages having functioning schools – Ekok and Eyumojock.
For the past six years, kids in Kembong, Ewelle, Ossing, Ndekwai, Eyanchang and other villages have not been to school and this is bad news to the sub-division whose leaders hold that the road to a bright future passes through sound education.
Speaking during the brainstorming session, the Eyumojock Sub-division Member of Parliament, Teku Tanyi, himself a disciple of formal education, urged elites of the division to help children to return to school.
He underscored the importance of education to the sub-division’s development, adding that without education, most children from the sub-division will not have the right tools to face the future.
The Member of Parliament who hails from Ossing and who has been working relentlessly for the resumption of schools in the sub-division lamented that many children have been robbed of their future.
This is a developing story and more will be yours when available.
By Dr Joachim Arrey
27, August 2024
Mariah Carey’s mother and sister die on the same day 0
Mariah Carey’s mother, Patricia, and sister, Alison, died over the weekend, the American singer has said in a statement.
“My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend,” Carey said on Monday. “Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day.”
The singer said she feels blessed to have spent time with her mother in the week before her death, and has asked for privacy.
No further details were released about the causes of death.
Patricia, 87, was a former opera singer and vocal coach of Irish-America descent.
In Carey’s 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, the five-time Grammy Award-winning singer detailed her complicated relationship with her mother, saying that it “caused me so much pain and confusion”.
Carey said competition came between the two and that professional jealousy “comes with the territory of success, but when the person is your mother and the jealousy is revealed at such a tender age, it’s particularly painful”.
But she also spoke the deep love she had for her mother, writing in the dedication: “To Pat, my mother, who, through it all, I do believe actually did the best she could. I will love you the best I can, always.”
In an interview with Gayle King in 2022, Carey said that the criticism she was subject to by her mother growing up “definitely had an effect on me”.
She added that she has always credited her mother with exposing her to music.
Carey’s relationship with her older sister Alison, 63, was also complex.
In her memoir, she wrote of being estranged from her and her brother Morgan, saying that it was “emotionally and physically safer for me to not have any contact”.
Alison sued Carey for $1.2m (£909,780) following the release of the memoir for “immense emotional distress”, calling it “vindictive”.
The singer’s father, Alfred, died in 2002 of cancer at the age of 72.
Carey is regarded as one of the most successful singers globally.
Her holiday single “All I want for Christmas is You” is the best selling Christmas song by a female artist of all time.
She holds the record for the most Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles by a solo artist at 19 songs, has sold over 220 million records worldwide, and served as a judge on the competition show American Idol.
Source: BBC