The year 2025 begins, and Current Challenges in opening, draws up the table of taxes which are falling, according to the Finance law in force since 1is January. According to the newspaper, the 2025 Finance Law introduces a series of tax reliefs relating to the reduction of tax on the profits of SMEs, the reduction in rental registration fees, the abolition of VAT on local flours or even lower inheritance taxes. Also reduced are the felling tax, the tax on industrial gas and excise duties on electric vehicles. This can be read on page 2 and 3 of the newspaper.
The Witness in its issue this Monday, focuses on academic debt and reassures that Professor Fame Ndongo “is in control of the situation”. While BEN SYNES announces a cessation of activities of higher education teachers as of Monday, January 6 in all universities, reliable information indicates that payment for the third quarter has already been fully made. As for the payment for the fourth quarter, it is currently being processed at the Ministry of Finance. “A situation which reflects the control and sense of priorities of Professor Jacques Fame Ndongo, Minister of State, Minister of Higher Education, in the management of this crisis”comments our colleague, who adds: “Faced with this attempt at union pressure, the measures taken demonstrate the desire of the competent authorities to guarantee academic continuity while respecting financial commitments to the teaching staff. This approach also illustrates the government’s commitment to preserving serenity in public universities, a pillar of training and national development..
The recent outing of the bishops against the regime in Yaoundé, and the prospect of presidential elections in Cameroon is making headlines this morning. “Amid the shrill sirens of a handful of Catholic bishops rejecting the candidacy of President Paul Biya in this year’s presidential election, the surrealist gospel (?) of the Bishop of Yagoua, calling for a devil to head of Cameroon, borders on subversion against the Yaoundé regime”, writes Without Detour. Just like the controversial Mgr Albert Dongmo of the diocese of Nkongsamba did, in the 1970s, against the Ahidjo regime. A political activism which cost him his honor in his pastoral teaching. “Beware of the Boomerang effect!” “, alerts the newspaper.
The Independent informs for its part that the various outings of the bishops of Douala, Yaoundé, Yagoua and N’Gaoundéré, continue to fuel the controversy over the possibility of Paul Biya’s candidacy for the 2025 presidential election.
More than a possibility, written Mutations, the candidacy of the Head of State for the next election, outlined in his message to the nation on December 31, 2024, is arousing fiery reactions on social networks and particularly among the Catholic clergy.
Time is running out as far as registrations on the electoral lists are concerned, reports the publicly owned daily. According to him, Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) officially launches this Monday in Mbankomo, the annual operations to revise the electoral register. And due to the political calendar of the year, potential voters had better hurry, because registrations will stop automatically as soon as the electoral body is convened. Details to read on page 3 of Cameroon Tribune.
The assassination of Bishop Bala resurfaced in the press this morning. In its edition of Monday January 6, 2025, The New Expression speaks of “the last great frustration of the Catholic Church”. Indeed, in the interview that Mgr Kléda gave to Rfi and whose relays go like wildfire, the metropolitan archbishop of Douala returned, with sadness, to the death of the bishop of Bafia whose body had was found “in the water” of the Sanaga on May 30, 2017. “One more mysterious death among the Catholic clergy in Cameroon, which has contributed to profoundly deteriorating relations between Rome and Yaoundé,” indicates the newsstand newspaper.
AIGLES, a revolutionary digital platform dedicated to the management of State personnel and salaries will be inaugurated in 2025. This system, which replaces the old SIGIPES and ANTILOPE tools, writes The Flagmarks a major step towards the centralization, transparency and efficiency of public services…
The Prime Minister, Joseph Dion Nguté, proceeded on December 30, 2024 in the seaside city of Southern Cameroon, to lay the first stone of the construction work of the Kribi Steel Complex, in the name of the Head of State. Valued at nearly 1,000 billion CFA francs, this steelworks project carried out by Cameroon Steel Sarl, will reduce the price of concrete iron by at least 30%, thus making access to housing more affordable and promoting the creation of more 2,000 direct jobs. The newspaper Confidential talks about it in his publication this morning.
