December 15, 2012

• Africa: Central African Republic - Help for People Fleeing Violence in Ndélé [press release] (ICRC)
• Nigeria: Yakowa, Azazi's Death - We Are Shocked Beyond Imagination - PDP (Vanguard)
• Congo-Kinshasa: It Is Time for Civilians to Come First (Concern USA)
• Congo-Kinshasa: A Field Diary From Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (Concern USA)
• Kenya: Kenya PM Slams Article Claiming He's Unwell (Capital FM)
• Egypt: ElBaradei Urges Egyptians to Vote Against Constitution (Aswat Masriya)
• Egypt: MOH - 4 Injured in Constitutional Referendum (Aswat Masriya)
• Egypt: Voters Decide on New Constitution (Aswat Masriya)
• Egypt: Voting Hours in Egypt Constitutional Referendum Extended (Aswat Masriya)
• South Africa: Mandela Surgeons Remove Gallstones (SAPA)
• Nigeria: BRT - Breaking the Cycle of Failed Mass Intra-City Bus Schemes [analysis] (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: NLC Wants Plateau House of Assembly to Take Action Against Jang (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Twists, Turns in Onokpite's Murder As Fresh Facts Emerge (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Lagosians Deserve to Live Better, Not 'Okada-Life' - Opeifa, [interview] (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Army Impostor Arraigned for Alleged Assault On Lastma Men (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Ikhuoria Blames Administrators for Death of Boxing (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Five Children Burnt to Death in Lagos Fire (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Eko 2012 - North Blames Insecurity for Poor Performance (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: My First Movie Is Unfaithful - Princess Orji [interview] (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Uche Jombo Takes Nollywood to Abiriba (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Now She Wants Her Place in the Constitution (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: CAF Award Fall-Out - Work Harder, Ladipo Charges Nigerian Football Players (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: U.S. Based Firm to Offer Free Medicare in Uvwie, Warri (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Extra-Judicial Killings - Probe Allegations Against Security Agencies, NBA Tells AGF (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Technical Officials Leave Eko 2012 With Sighs, Hisses (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Day Lagbaja Invoked Nostalgia At Airtel Night of Influence (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: I Drank and Womanized, but Accident Brought Me Closer to God--Ize Iyamu [interview] (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Nothing About us Without us 2 [analysis] (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Kidnappers Collect Ransom, Free Minister's Mother (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Lawyer Offers Police N.7 Million Bribe - Delta CP (Vanguard)
• Kenya: Free Education Fails to Keep One Million Children in School (The Star)
• Liberia: Stuck With Thieves (New Democrat)
• Sudan: One Killed, 5 Abducted Near El-Fasher (Radio Dabanga)
• Sudan: Abu Tira Forces Allegedly Kill Student (Radio Dabanga)
• Tunisia: Tunisia Arrests Terror Suspects (Magharebia)
• Tunisia: Ben Ali Relative Captured in Seychelles (Magharebia)
• Nigeria: Okposo - Dad Wanted Me to Be an Accountant [interview] (This Day)
• Nigeria: 2015 - You Are Losing Base, Dokubo Warns Jonathan (This Day)
• Africa: Charting a New Course for Africa (This Day)
• Nigeria: Team Gombe Look to the Future (This Day)
• Nigeria: Aso Savings Partners Govts in Housing Development (This Day)
• Nigeria: AMCON Vows to Hold On to Capital Oil's Assets (This Day)
• Nigeria: Group Says PIB Twisted, Vests Enormous Power On Jonathan (This Day)
• Nigeria: Stanbic IBTC Records N5.6 Billion Mobile Money Transactions (This Day)
• Nigeria: NSE Targets U.S.$1 Trillion Market Capitalisation By 2016 (This Day)
• Nigeria: No End in Sight to Football Crisis Musical Chairs! (This Day)
• Nigeria: Home Finance in Lean Times [analysis] (This Day)
• Nigeria: Police - No Ransom Paid for Prof. Okonjo's Release (This Day)
• Nigeria: Jonathan At RCCG's Holy Ghost Service (This Day)
• Nigeria: Cancer Takes a Heavy Toll [analysis] (This Day)
• Nigeria: Court Clears Way for Babalakin's Trial (This Day)
• Nigeria: No End in Sight to Football Crisis Musical Chairs! (This Day)
• South Africa: Mandela Remains Hospitalized As Questions Grow (This Day)
• Nigeria: Some Fun This Festive Season At Protea Hotel, Kuramo Waters (This Day)
• Nigeria: Encomiums As Supreme Celebrates Eso (This Day)
• Nigeria: Amarula Fetes Dealers and Distributors With SUVs (This Day)
• Nigeria: A Winger's New Passion (This Day)
• Nigeria: Brass LNG At Point of No Return, Says Gaius-Obaseki (This Day)
• Nigeria: NIBBS Launches New Electronic Payment System (This Day)
• Nigeria: PDP Will Self Destruct Without Reforms (This Day)
• Nigeria: As Alison-Madueke Turns Fifty Two [analysis] (This Day)
• Nigeria: Movenpick Hotel Plans Unforgettable Festive Season (This Day)
• Nigeria: Adetiloye, Former Anglican Primate Dies At 83 (This Day)
• Nigeria: Uninterrupted Luxury With Emirates' New Transfer Shuttles (This Day)
• Nigeria: Jide Onalaja - Bridging the Skills Gap in Aviation [interview] (This Day)
• Nigeria: Fuel Subsidy - Why Senate Approved N162 Billion Supplementary Budget (This Day)
• Nigeria: Peppe Terra Unveils New TVC (This Day)
• Nigeria: Pa Odivwri - Waiting for Justice Four Years After [analysis] (This Day)
• Nigeria: weekly Showbiz Round up (This Day)
• Nigeria: Accolades for Mouka Foam's CSR (This Day)
• Nigeria: The Edo Land Use Charge Controversy (This Day)
• Nigeria: Supreme Court Has Not Voided Uwazurike's Election (This Day)
• Nigeria: The Letter From Cambridge [analysis] (This Day)
• Nigeria: NEITI Uncovers N4 Billion Loss From Illegal Solid Mineral Mining (This Day)
• Nigeria: Port Harcourt Celebrates Centenary in a Carnival Air [analysis] (This Day)
• Nigeria: Osa Aisien - An Eye On Fashion's Larger Picture [interview] (This Day)
• Nigeria: Don Moen - I Have Been Blown Away By Nigeria [interview] (This Day)
• Nigeria: Ford Splashes U.S.$50,000 On Environmental Campaign (This Day)
• Nigeria: Christmas in the Air [analysis] (This Day)
• Nigeria: PAN Donates Ambulance to FRSC (This Day)
• Nigeria: In the Authors' Own Words... What Discourages us [analysis] (This Day)
• Nigeria: Olufunke Quadri - Upping the Ante in Spa Business [interview] (This Day)
• Nigeria: It's Time for Security in the North, Says Kwankwaso (This Day)
• Nigeria: Thumbs up for Censors Board's Roadshow in Calabar [analysis] (This Day)
• Nigeria: Speed Limiting Device as Road Safety Tool (This Day)
• Nigeria: Facing Realities [analysis] (This Day)
• Rwanda: Christmas Is Fun At Kigali, Rwanda (This Day)
• Nigeria: Sheraton Abuja Hotel Recently Completed Its 15th Annual Starwood Safety Security and Environmental Health Week. (This Day)
• Nigeria: Jibe's Poetry of Innocence (This Day)
• Nigeria: Hope Harriman's Funeral Starts Next Wednesday (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: The Baba Suwe Story and NDLEA N25 Million Compensation Saga [interview] (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: BRT Lane, Riddle With Potholes (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Make Good Your Promise, Adejuigbe Charges NSC (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Husseini Faults NSC On Absence Coaches in Sports Zones (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Court Admits Fresh Evidence Linking Ndume to Boko Haram (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: 'Andrew 'Checks Out [column] (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Living in Nigeria Makes Life Comical - Helen Paul [interview] (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: FRSC Begins Massive Safe Motoring Enforcement in Lagos (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: 11-Year Old Girl Gets Pregnant for Five Boys (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Freedom of Misinformation -cooking the Books At the Vatican [opinion] (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Association of the Blind Seeks Support, Accommodation (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: 12/12/12 - Why It Is Just Like Any Other Day [analysis] (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: 'From Abuja, How Not to Go to Jos Through Nasarawa (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Power Ministry to Be Restructured Next Year - FG (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: SURE-P Has Failed Nigerians - Sen Enang (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Motorists, Commuters Stranded As Jonathan Worships at RCCG (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Controversy Trails Death of 11-Year-Old Boarding Pupil (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: The Silent North - Problems in Studies of Northern Nigerian Literature (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: As Gunmen Target Emir of Fika Again (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Diploma Holders Get N15, 000 Salaries in Yobe (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Czech 'New Wave Film Festival' Ends in Jos (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Sokoto Shut 24 'Illegal' Private Schools (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Lamido - My Son Not Laundering Money for Me (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Uncompleted Pedestrian Bridge - BUK Students Live in Fear of 'Reckless Drivers' (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Conference to End All Conferences? [analysis] (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: When Two Ulama Collide [analysis] (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Stella Damasus Marrying for the Third Time? (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Turns and Twists in Legal Proceedings As Army Lt. Col. is Accused of Rape (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Donated Grants, Foods Intact - Gov Wada (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: How to Improve Nigeria's Business Clime, By U.S. (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: 'Kerewawa' Dance a Remedy for Waist Pain - Zule Zoo [interview] (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: NAFDAC Arrests 30 Alien Drug Hawkers in Jigawa (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Six Docked for Allegedly Beating Pregnant Woman (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Terrorism - We Opted for Death Penalty Due to Nigeria's Peculiarity - Senate (Leadership)
• Nigeria: FG to Restructure Ministry of Power in 2013 (Leadership)
• Nigeria: My 'Suicidal' Road Journal [analysis] (This Day)
• Nigeria: Richbon Inaugurates Service Centre for Sinotruk (This Day)
• Egypt: Latest Developments in Constitutional Referendum (Aswat Masriya)
• Egypt: Govt to Strictly Confront Violations in Referendum - Prime Minister (Aswat Masriya)
• Nigeria: Insecurity - Another Kano Lawmaker Shot Dead As Gunmen Kill 10 in Zamfara (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Governor Aliyu Was Misled As No Lawmaker Fled Yobe - Speaker [interview] (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Rising Unemployment - Indicator of Poor Economic Performance [editorial] (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Akpabio Gets Presidency's Nod to Dualise Federal Roads (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Ndume's Trial - SSS Witness Contradicts Self (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Sambo Charges Religious Leaders On Security Challenge (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Boko Haram - Court Admits DVDs Showing Ndume's Contact With Sect (Leadership)
• Nigeria: N679 Billion Spent On Fuel Subsidy in 10 Months (Leadership)
• Nigeria: NBA Seeks Amendmentof Federal Character Commission Act (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Okonjo Was Kept in Kwale - Police (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Our Mother's Ordeal - Family Shares Moving Story of Prof Okonjo's Kidnap, Freedom (Leadership)
• Nigeria: I Won't Marry That Woman - Kwankwaso (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Telecom Subscribers Back Promo Ban, Seek Improved Services (Leadership)
• Nigeria: NDE Charges Trainees On Utilisation of Acquired Skills (Leadership)
• Nigeria: NUJ Vows to Fight Quackery (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Court Remands Four for Alleged Attempted Homicide, Possession of Firearms (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Egyptians in Nigeria Vote Ahead of Dec. 15 Referendum (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Normalcy Returns to Many Filling Stations in Lagos (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Soyinka Warns Against Establishing Schools for Profit Making (This Day)
• Nigeria: 'Cabotage Review Will Address Anomalies in Coastal Shipping Regime' [interview] (This Day)
• Nigeria: The Quality of Comedy in Me Can Be Bottled, Sold - Bishop Umoh [interview] (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Multifarious Problems of Nigeria [opinion] (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Okonjo-Iweala's Mother Arrives Ogwashi-Ukwu (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Oni Mourns Primate Abiodun Adetiloye (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: The Nigerian Paradox [opinion] (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Two Killed in Okitipupa Auto Crash (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Maina Storms Senate, Denies Misappropriating N195 Billion (This Day)
• Nigeria: Female Conductor Says She's Prepared to Receive Insults (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Argument Against Short-Term Contract for d'Tigers (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Mikel, Moses Eye World Club Cup History (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Abuja Park-and-Pay Policy - the Pains, Gains - Motorists, Operators (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Pension Fraud - Count Us Out of November Payment - PRTFT (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Yes, We Smoked Shisha At Our Wedding - Ty Shaban (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Eight Million Bags of Rice for Yuletide (Leadership)
• Nigeria: PDP Not Meeting On Suntai's Absence - Official (Leadership)
• Nigeria: We Are Ready for 19th Sports Festival - Cross River (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Fuel Subsidy - Why Senate Approved N161 Billion Extra Budget - Enang (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Country Will Pull Down Its Walls of Jericho - Jonathan (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Uncertainty Trails Take-Off of Lagos 4th Mainland Bridge (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Stella Damasus Set to Re-Marry (Leadership)
• Nigeria: We Have a Music Scene Not an Industry - Bez (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Court Throws Out Babalakin's Suit Against EFCC (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Tiwa Banks Stabbed By Landlord's Son (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Okonjo-Iweala's Mother Freed (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: ANPP Commends INEC On Decision to Hold Elections in One Day (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: Sports Minister Wants NPL Crisis Resolved (Vanguard)
• Nigeria: 21st Century Kids - Innocence Shattered By Their Mothers? (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Customs Seizes N50 Million Rice From Smugglers in Lagos (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Supreme Court Sacks Three Bayelsa Council Chairmen (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Tiwa Savage, Timi Dakolo, to Perform in Bez Mega Concert (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Amcon Records N2.3 Trillion Loss Protecting Depositors (Leadership)
• Nigeria: My Secret Life - Hadiza Yakasai, Fashion and Lifestyle Promoter, 26 (Leadership)
• Nigeria: Banking Consolidations Causes Collapse of ATM Consortium (Leadership)
• Sudan: African Union Refers Abyei Issue to Heads of State (Sudan Tribune)
• Swaziland: The 'Times' and Poor Press Standards [editorial] (Swazi Media)
• Swaziland: Activist Editor On Contempt Charge (Swazi Media)
• Nigeria: Boko Haram Threatens Peace - CAS (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Babban Gwani - Life, Legacy of Zaria's Legendary Builder (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Ndume's Trial - Prosecution Witness Contradicts Self (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Face-to-Face With Female Black Marketers in Abuja (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: The Youths in Contemporary Nigeria (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Wada Lacks Capacity to Govern Kogi - ACN (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Lack of Loan Hinders GES in Bauchi, Nasarawa (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Gloomy End of Year for Plateau Workers (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: How Citizens Can Mitigate Global Warming - Nimet Boss [interview] (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Inside Yauri's Fish Market (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Mobile Money - MTN Backs CBN - Led Model (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: 2011 - Amcon Declares N2.37 Trillion Loss (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Eland Oil to Trade On LSE (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: The Pain of 'Where Do You Come From?' (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Group Wants Smuggling Checked (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: 'Why We're Into Agric Financing' (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Our Kids and the Internet (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Invest in Health to Stop Medical Tourism, FG Tells States (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: DPR Vows to Close Down Stations Over Illegal Price Hike (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: NFF Ratifies NPL Resolutions- Baribote Stands Sacked (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Glover, Obajimi Win ATU Elections (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: NEMA Inaugurates Camp Management Group (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Ekeji Apologises for Referring to an Ex-Olympian As 'Late' (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Adetiloye - Nigeria Lost a Great Man of God (This Day)
• Nigeria: 'Star Times' Set to Partner On Pay TV (This Day)
• Nigeria: Gunmen Kill ANPP Lawmaker in Kano (This Day)
• Nigeria: Chukwuemeka - 'Why We Dissolved NPL Board' (This Day)
• Nigeria: Gunmen Kill Another Kano Lawmaker (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: It's Time to Broaden the Debate On Gender (ThinkAfricaPress)
• Africa: The Kampala Convention On IDPs Enters Into Force (ThinkAfricaPress)
• Africa: Negotiating With the DRC Rebels - First As Tragedy, Then As Farce? [analysis] (ThinkAfricaPress)
• Uganda: MP Nebanda Cerinah Arioru Passes On At Nsambya (New Vision)
• Kenya: NSSF Puts Off Plans to Retrench Workers (Capital FM)
• Kenya: Brand Kenya Launches Identity Mark (Capital FM)
• Kenya: Shivam Celebrates Great Season and Promises to Win More Titles (The Star)
• Kenya: Biggest Challenge That the IEBC Faces [analysis] (The Star)
• Kenya: Gema Tells Off Central MPs Over Uhuru Remark (The Star)
• Kenya: Anthony Faulkner Visits Children's Home in Kayole (The Star)
• Kenya: Raila - Kalonzo Alliance Most Preferred - Poll (The Star)
• Nigeria: The Rise and Rise of Kidnapping (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Excited Omeruo Joins Eagles Dec 29 (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: 2014 National Sport Festival Will Surpass Past Editions (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: We've No Connection With Missing N195 Billion Pension Fund - Task Force (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: 43rd IFFI - Nigerian, Foreign Stakeholders Exchange Ideas On Censorship, Distribution of Films (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Baribote's Fall From Power (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: 2012 NFF Annual General Assembly (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: 'Mark D Ball Basketball Tourney Is to Take Youths Off the Streets' (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: We'll Stop Jang From Foreign Trip - NLC (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Aso Savings Targets 5,000 Houses in Cross River (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Gunmen Kill Soldier in Maiduguri (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: 20 Months After, We're Still Living With Bullets - Victims of Kaduna Post - Election Riots (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Ekeji Wants to Incite Nation Against Eagles - Gara-Gombe [interview] (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Imoke Applauds NFVCB Initiatives (Daily Trust)
• Nigeria: Aggrieved Ex-Staff of FCTA Petition National Assembly (Daily Trust)
• Guinea: Govt Announces 2013 Polls (AEP)
• Nigeria: Govts Agree to Move on Cameroon Border Dispute (UN News)
• Kenya: Court Rules Against Gender Quota in 2013 Parliament (IPS)
• South Africa: Senior Minister to Step Down from Party Leadership (WhatsUpANC)
• Uganda: 'Kill the Gays' Bill Stalls in Parliament Amid Global Outcry [press release] (All Out)