*BVP MEDIA STATION NEWS HEADLINES* Thursday, 3rd October, 2019. Southwest Govs proactive about security challenges - Gov. Akeredolu FG have concluded to return of toll gates ' Fashola DSS confirms Maina's arrest, says 20-year-old son resisted his arrest with a gun Minimum wage: We can't guarantee industrial peace beyond 16 October ' NLC, TUC General Akinrinade at 80 Solicitor General asks magistrates to monitor detention centres Akume appeals tribunals judgment on senatorial poll Women lawyers want stricter law against rape N27bn Senate president, Speaker, others houses remain uncompleted SDP Chairman, Faforiji, quits Senate bill imposes tax on GSM, cable TV subscribers Adamawa ex-civil servants protest unpaid salary Gunmen raid Rivers community, kidnap two Nigeria @ 59: The mockery of true freedom Troops defuse bombs, rescue 51 Boko Haram captives Have regular checkups, UBTH CMD tells elderly people Tribunals uphold Lalong, Gandu
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King Ibrahim Mbouombouo Njoya (1867-1933) of Bamum, Western Cameroon, had 600 wives and 177 children. Out of fear that important historical facts of the Bamum could be erased or corrupted, he developed the Bamum alphabet of 70 symbols and a writing system to preserve his kingdom's oral history which the French later destroyed. Njoya, as part of ways to ensure the written language was widely adopted, established schools and directed that the Bamum language is used as a form of instruction along with the German language. Njoya was a very brilliant king who also invented a hand-powered corn grinder. After World War I, France took over German territories and subsequently took control of Cameroon. The French who felt threatened by the achievements of King Njoya banned the use of his writing system and destroyed his printing press, libraries and several books he had written. He was later sent into exile to Yaoundé in 1931, where he died in 1933. He was 66. Whenever King N