KORA All-Africa Awards Unveil 2016 Nominees with SoundcityTV as Official Broadcast Partner and Namibia as Host

KORA All-Africa Music Awards, the African continent's first
and premier award ceremony in the musical arts has
announced the nominees in the 26 categories for her 2016
edition. The award ceremony taking place at the Windhoek
Country Club in Namibia has partnered with SoundcityTV
Africa as official Broadcast Media.

The Award Ceremony which is set to take place on the 20th
of March 2016, and will form part of the host country -
Namibia's annual National Day celebrations would be
televised live on SoundcityTV - Channel 327 on DSTV, GOtv
Channel 75 and her digital platforms across 55 countries.
SoundcityTV delivers the very best of Culture, Music,

Entertainment and Lifestyle to a worldwide audience, a
fitting for the KORA All-Africa Awards.
“We are excited about the partnership to take the 2016 KORA
All-Africa Award to 55 countries and to our over 40 million
audience via the live broadcast and digital platforms," said
Mr. Tajuddeen Adepetu, who is Chief Executive at
Consolidated Media Associates and Executive Producer at
SoundcityTV Africa. "We are inspired by the incredible work
of KORA team over the last 12 years and then by 2016 crop
of nominees for the award. Next year's ceremony would be
nothing short of spectacular even to audience who would be
tuned in from their homes via SoundcityTV."
The Namibian government who would be playing host for
the March 20th ceremony has thrown her weight fully
behind the 2016 edition of the Award. In a communication
recently issued by the Namibian Ministry of Environment and
Tourism in conjunction with the Ministries of Education, Arts
& Culture; and Information and Communication Technology,

the Namibian government expressed the
belief that the
creative industries play a key role in contributing to the
economy and in doing so, furthering the poverty alleviation
agenda through tourism, the cultural arts and the creative
industries which largely informed the partnership with the
Organizers of KORA.
The statement from the Namibian government in part read:
'These programmes are designed to ensure Namibian's
participation in this landmark event, and assure that the
country's tourism, ICT and art industries benefit directly
from the events being hosted in Namibia. As such, we are
pleased to endorse the KORA AII-Africa Music Awards and
anticipate the positive impact it will have on Namibia's
creative economy.

It is our further belief that the KORA All-Africa Music Awards
also represents a unique opportunity for public-private
partnership to jointly collaborate in the delivery of a
landmark event, and as such, encourage role-players in the
private sector to explore partnership opportunities with the
event.' The full Media Release by the Namibian Government
is available on Soundcity.tv website.
The 2016 KORA All-Africa Awards' nomination list released
via @SoundcityTV twitter account and on
the koraawards.com website on the 3rd of November, 2015
saw over a 100 of the most promising and gifted artistes
nominated across the four regions of the continent.

Nigerian artistes and categories they are nominated are:
Reekado Banks for Most Promising Male Artist of Africa;
Yemi Alade for Most Promising Female Artist of Africa; P-
Square for Legendary Award; Tiwa Savage, Flavour N'abania
and Korede Bello for Best Video; Lara George for Best
Female - Spiritual Music; Flavour scores a second
nomination for 'Best Male - West Africa' alongside Davido;
Tiwa Savage is also nominated for 'Best Female - West
Africa' while Bracket are up for Best Group of Africa; The trio
of BNG are nominated for Best Group - Spiritual; Mavins'
'Adaobi' is nominated for Best Collaboration.
It is also noteworthy that winners from every category would
not only be going home with the coveted KORA plaques but
cash prizes ranging from twenty thousand dollars ($20,000)
to a million dollars ($1,000,000).
The countdown begins!

Donald Trump's Anti-Muslim plan disqualifies him from Presidency - White House

The Republican front-runner on Monday released a
statement calling for the U.S. to refuse entry of foreign
Muslims. His proposal was met with widespread criticism,
including from several candidates in his own party, and now
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest says such a
statement disqualifies him from serving as the President of
the United States Of America.

"The fact is what Donald Trump said yesterday
disqualifies him from serving as president," Josh
Earnest said in Tuesday's press briefing. "For
Republican candidates for president to stand by their
pledge to support Mr. Trump, that in and of itself is
disqualifying," Earnest said.

"The question now is about the rest of the
Republican Party and whether or not they're going to
be dragged into the dustbin of history with him. And
right now the current trajectory is not very good. The
Trump campaign for months now has had a dustbin
of history-like quality to it," Earnest said.
Secretary of State John Kerry also rebuked Trump's
comments.

"I would simply say that nondiscrimination and equal
treatment are a pillar of not just American values but
of our immigration and our admission policies in this
country and the State Department remains totally
committed to treating all religions with respect and
without discrimination," Kerry said during a press
briefing in Paris. He added, "As I travel around the
world, it is clear to me and how both our friends and
our adversaries watch and listen to the discourse in
the U.S., and I believe that comments such as those
that we just heard are not constructive - and I would
say that is putting it diplomatically."

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 Linda Ikeji at 4:55 PM 37 civilians killed by Taliban terrorists in attack near Afghanistan airport

Afghanistan Defense officials say 37 civilians were killed in
an attack by Taliban forces on Tuesday night at a market
bazaar and a school near Kandahar airport and another 35
people were wounded in Afghanistan as fighting continued
from afternoon till evening
Nine "armed terrorists" were also killed, Afghan's Ministry of
Defense said. The Taliban took responsibility for the attack,

saying the gunmen carried machine guns and were
targeting foreign forces, a Taliban spokesman said in a
statement to CNN.

Guess what Tanzanians did on their Independence Day today?

Instead of celebrating, they swept the whole country. Today
if the country's 54th Independence day and the new
president Dr John Pombe Magufuli told his people to use the
day to clean up the environment and Tanzanians responded
in their thousands.

And the new president even joined hundreds of residents in
the main city Dar es Salaam to take part in the public clean-
up operation. He did his clean up duties at the famous Ferry
fish market near the State House; the country's Vice
President Samia Suluhu Hassan tackled the famous Oyster-
bay beach, and the Prime Minister Majaliwa tackled
Kariakoo!

Photo: Woman jumps to her death off 6th floor of a hotel in SA

A 64-year-old woman jumped off the sixth floor of a hotel in
Umhlanga, north of Durban, South Africa, on Wednesday
morning, December 9. (Photo of her body being recovered
by the South African Police above). Police spokesperson said
the woman plunged to her death at around 09:00.

"Police are investigating the circumstances
surrounding the incident. An inquest docket has
been opened for investigation at Duban North SAPS,"
said Zwane.
It is not yet confirmed if the woman was a guest at the
tourist hotel

FG approves N407 Billion for Fuel Subsidy

It appears the lingering fuel scarcity will soon come to an
end as the Federal government has approved the release of
N407.07 billion as subsidy payment to oil marketers. A
statement from the Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun
released today, states that the money will be used to pay up
subsidy arrears as well as pay up subsidy for the year 2015.

Decomposing Bodies Of 6 Women Found Inside Canal In Lagos

The Lagos state police command says it has
discovered the decomposing bodies of six
women inside a canal in Ikorodu Lagos State.

Spokesperson of the command, DSP Joseph
Offor said the decomposing bodies of the
yet to be identified women were found in a
canal at Anibaba area, off Akele Street,
Ikorodu, at about 3.30 p.m. on Sunday
December 6th.

He added that Lagos State environmental
agency officials have since removed the
corpses to a public mortuary for autopsy.
No arrest had been made in connection
with the deaths.