Nigeria: Suicide Bomber Hits Army Barracks in Kaduna
[Leadership]
Kaduna was yesterday thrown into confusion and panic when multiple bomb blasts rocked military formations and the flyover bridge at Kawo, leaving the bomber and two others dead. Scores were injured.
Mali: Anxiety Grips Nation After Soldiers and Rebels Clash
[Nation]
Anxiety has gripped Mali amid contrasting positions by the government and rebels in the north following clashes that have left scores dead.
Mali: Tuareg Rebellion Forces Thousands Into Exile
[UNHCR]
UNHCR has deployed emergency teams to countries surrounding Mali to help meet the needs of some 20,000 people who have been forced to flee fighting in northern Mali. Most of the displaced are in Niger, Burkina Faso and Mauritania.
Cameroon: Economy Suffers As Boko Haram Infiltrates
[IPS]
Yaounde -
Ahmadou Lamine has been forced to close his business selling fuel imported from Nigeria, known locally as "zoa-zoa", because of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.
Mauritania: Displaced Malians Burden Food-Insecure Hosts
[IRIN]
Bamako/Dakar -
Some 12,000 Malians have fled fighting in the towns of Ménaka and Anderamboucane in northern Mali and reached already food-insecure villages around Tillabéri in western Niger, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Niger's capital, Niamey.
Nigeria: Boko Haram Names Negotiators, As Multiple Blasts Rock Kaduna
[This Day]
Boko Haram has indicated its preparedness to enter into dialogue with the Federal Government, and has named Sheik Abubakar Gero, Dr. Shettima Ali Monguno and former governor of Yobe State, Senator Bukar Ibrahim, to hold negotiations on its behalf.
Nigeria: Boko Haram Attack Two Police Stations in Kano
[This Day]
Kano State police command has confirmed that suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamic group on Monday evening launched a bomb and gun attack on Sharada Police station.
Ghana/Zambia: Coach of Underdogs Starts War of Words Against Black Stars
[allAfrica.com]
Zambia coach Herve Renard is heaping praise, platitudes and the mantle of match favorites onto his opponents for Wednesday's Nations Cup semi-final, taking all the pressure off the southern African side and trying instead to impose it on Ghana's Black Stars.
Cote d'Ivoire/Mali: Superior Elephants Face Opponents With Guts in Semi-Final
[allAfrica.com]
Tournament favourites Cote d'Ivoire and Mali go head-to-head for a place in the final of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations at the Stade d'Angondjé in Libreville on Wednesday.
Liberia: President Sirleaf Launches Children's Law
[Unicef]
Monrovia -
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf today officially launched the Children's Law of Liberia to protect children and their right to participate meaningfully in their development.
Nigeria: Three Killed in Maiduguri Blasts
[Daily Trust]
Maiduguri -
Three people are feared killed in Maiduguri yesterday as a result of multiple blasts that rocked parts of the Gamboru Market and a nearby pharmaceutical store.
Nigeria: Eight Ex-Militants Held Over Hotel Bombing in Delta
[The Moment]
THE Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger-Delta has arrested eight ex-militants who allegedly bombed the Lawconfab Hotel, which served as their temporary home.
Nigeria: Poisoning Epidemic Affects Thousands of Children, Says Rights Group
[HRW]
Thousands of children in northern Nigeria need immediate medical treatment and dozens of villages remain contaminated two years into the worst lead poisoning epidemic in modern history, Human Rights Watch said today while releasing a video on the issue. Four hundred children have died, according to official estimates, yet environmental cleanup efforts have not even begun in numerous affected villages.
Nigeria: Ex-Militants Bomb Hotel in Delta
[Vanguard]
Warri -
EX-MILITANTS undergoing training under the Federal Government Amnesty Programme, Monday, bombed a hotel, (name withheld) , Osubi in Okpe local government area of Delta State, which served as their temporal home since last year.
Ghana/Zambia: Stevanovic Banks On Morale to Halt Chipololpolos
[CAF]
Ghana coach Goran Stevanovic is banking heavily on the morale of his team to do the trick in their semi final clash against Zambia on Wednesday in Bata.
Mali: UNHCR Addresses Needs of 20,000 Forced to Flee Violence in Mali
[UNHCR]
Geneva -
The UN refugee agency has deployed emergency teams to countries surrounding Mali to help meet the needs of some 20,000 people who have been forced to flee fighting in the north of the country. Most of the displaced are in Niger, Burkina Faso and Mauritania.
Nigeria: Explosions Hit Army Base, Airforce Barrack and Kawo Bridge in Kaduna
[Leadership]
Multiple explosions on Tuesday rocked Kaduna military formations.
Cameroon: The Cardiopad - an African Invention to Save Lives
[RNW Africa]
Yaoundé -
A young Cameroonian engineer has built the first fully touch screen medical tablet that could soon save many African lives. He first has to find the necessary funding to mass-produce the device.
Liberia: Face of the 'New' Cabinet
[New Democrat]
With the appointment of the new cabinet almost completed, there are reports of venomous dissatisfaction amongst some of the recycled ministers, with some accusing others of "undermining" them and thus causing them to be dumped in ministries they loathe. Thus the friction amongst the president's 2005 squad, resulting from the reshuffle, is bound to spillover into the government over the coming months.
Nigeria: Agip Attack - JTF Launches Manhunt for Masterminds
[Vanguard]
Yenagoa -
Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, has launched a manhunt for the alleged masterminds of weekend attack on the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, facility in the mangrove swamp of Brass in Bayelsa East senatorial district. Already, the names of the suspects, it was gathered, are with the security forces.
Nigeria: NNPC Has Fuel for 33 Days
[Vanguard]
Abuja -
Presidency, yesterday, said there was no reason for Nigerians to embark on panic-buying of petrol as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, had adequate stock to serve the country for 33 days.
Nigeria: Bayelsa's Five-Star Hotel
[Vanguard]
President Goodluck Jonathan remains a surprise. He was not different on Friday when he broke his long silence on the disputation between him and Bayelsa State Governor Chief Timipre Sylva. It was all about a hotel, an un-built hotel.
Nigeria: Legacies and the Failed North
[Leadership]
A few years ago, when things were not nearly as bad as they are now - a young man in the context of a conversation whose details have evaporated like the heat from a plate of food, said quite arrogantly that the North had a legacy.
Nigeria: Visa Racketeers Siphon N3.6 Billion From the Country
[Vanguard]
VISA processing and issuance procedures have become a major source of capital flight as Nigeria loses N3.6 billion through a web of criminal conspiracy between officials of government, embassy staff and consular officers of some embassies on one hand; desperate intending travellers and agents, their agents and proxies, making the West African country the most lucrative consular operating centre in the world.
Nigeria: Boko Haram Targets Me for Assassination - Soyinka
[Vanguard]
Lagos -
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has disclosed that he is one of the prominent Nigerians on the hit list of Boko Haram sect marked for assassination.
Nigeria: Qaqa - Boko Haram Is Under Duress, Divided
[This Day]
Arrested Boko Haram spokesman, Abu Qaqa, has told his interrogators that prior to his capture last week, the sect was already under severe duress and divided along ethnic lines.
Nigeria: Sanusi - Unemployment Rate Doubled Over Past Five Years
[This Day]
Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has disclosed that while the Nigerian economy grew at the rate of seven per cent for the past five years, unemployment has actually doubled at same period.
Nigeria: Total Gets Ultra Deepwater Drillship for Egina Field
[This Day]
French oil major, Total has engaged ultra-deepwater drillship, Pacific Scirocco on a one-year drilling contract for Egina Deepwater field, located 150kilometres offshore Nigeria, at the rate of $470,000 per day.
Nigeria: Subsidy Probe - Searching for 'Brief Case' Marketers
[This Day]
To identify genuine marketers from those who 'played games' with petrol subsidy, Ejiofor Alike writes that the House of Representatives' Ad-Hoc Committee investigating the management of the fund should adopt the recommendation of the Chief Executive Officer of Oando Plc, Mr. Wale Tinubu, that any player who claimed to have imported petrol into the country should be made to provide the bills of lading; certificates of discharge and letters of credit of the imported cargoes
Zambia/Ghana: Ghana Beatable, Says Renard
[Times of Zambia]
Bata -
COACH Herve Renard (above) says Zambia's 2012 Orange Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) semi-final opponents Ghana are beatable but the Chipolopolo will need to be mentally strong in Wednesday's match.