He was chosen by the association of communicators of Cameroon dubbed ASCOM. The 39-year-old analyst, all-round reporter and animator received his prize Friday, June 14, 2019 at Hotel SAWA in Douala in the presence of hundreds of important personalities.

"Albert Njie Mbonde got the award based on his sterling journalism talent, professionalism, and his works in 2018. His performance, flair, diction, articulation, eloquence and high sense of creativity and the respect of ethics and deontology," says the chairman of the organizing committee of the "ASCOM prize" Duvalier Kamdoum Soh.

Albert Njie Mbonde hails from Bokwoango, a village in Buea, the city of excellence. He's known variedly as an ace sportscaster, a celebrated team press officer, anchor man of Cameroon This Morning, a distinguished anchor of the news magazine programme Cameroon Calling on Cameroon's National Radio as well as long time presenter of "Hello", a wake up show on state TV.

Veteran journalist Peter Ngu Tayong congratulates CRTV's political desk editor Albert Njie Mbonde. "When you arrive at this height in professional career, start thinking of making some hard choices in your career. Remember our last conversation. Congratulations again."

CRTV's Ano-Ebie Snowsel Snr. describes Njie Mbonde as one of the finest in contemporary times.

Ano-Ebie writes: "Congratulations Mola Njie Mbonde! Your Brilliant Award brings to mind what I wrote in 2017 about Mola Muema Meombo 25 years after he introduced me to Radio Journalism. I said: "Muema Meombo had this 'Midas touch' or rare quality of excelling in any area of Journalism he set his mind at, and three contemporary Journalists with this rare 'all-round' quality are Linda Bonglack Nyanganji, Albert Njie Mbonde, and Moki Edwin Kindzeka.

"On a separate score, I have noted severally that "efficient Journalism Practice requires a very high Intelligence Quotient, the kind of IQ you find in 'super achievers' like Albert Njie Mbonde and Jean-Pascal Somb Lingom.

"Once again, congratulations Albert on this latest award, which shows that the critical Ano-Ebie Snowsel Snr. has not been wrong!"

Tabe Enonchong in congratulating Njie Mbonde comicly said she is readying the red carpet, flowers and dance groups to welcome the award-winning journalist when he jets into Yaounde from Douala.

In its ninth edition this year, the "ASCOM PRIZE" is a ceremony that rewards and encourages not only communication professionals who have distinguished themselves by the quality of their work, but also the companies in the Cameroonian market who, for one year, have posed communication and/or marketing actions in accordance with the criteria of originality, relevance, and the responsibility of the advertising campaigns proposed.