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Sunday, August 12, 2012

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Saturday, August 11, 2012

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NGO Intelligence Led to Ivory Bust in China

10 Aug 2012 14:22 Africa/Lagos

NGO Intelligence Led to Ivory Bust in China

YARMOUTH PORT, Mass., Aug. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Based on information provided by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org), China's Forestry Police conducted a surprise inspection on at Chengtian Antique Mall on where they confiscated 107 pieces of illegal ivory and other wildlife products. Three suspects were detained in connection with the August 6 th seizure.

Located near Beijing, the wholesale mall is highlighted in the recent IFAW report, "Making a Killing—A 2011 Survey of Ivory Markets in China," as one of the worst locations for illegal ivory trade. Out of 22 shops that are involved in ivory trade, only one has the necessary license.

"It is very gratifying to see that the intelligence provided by IFAW resulted in the confiscation of ivory and the arrest of criminal suspects," said Grace Gabriel, IFAW's Asia Regional Director. "Successful law enforcement operations like this serve as reminders to wildlife traffickers and traders that their crimes against nature will not be tolerated."

Under China's regulatory system that was introduced in 2004, only government-approved ivory processing and retail outlets are allowed to trade in elephant ivory.

Of the 158 retail shops and carving factories investigated by IFAW in 2011, 101 of them did not have ivory trade licenses and were operating illegally.

The IFAW report charts how the 2008 Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) sanctioned sale of stockpiled ivory has fueled the market demand for ivory, and how the legal ivory market in China has provided cover for illegal trade of ivory from poached elephants.

Prior to publicly releasing the report, IFAW sent details of the investigation to China's wildlife enforcement authorities, including intelligence on the location of the illegal ivory operations and contact details for illegal traders.

"Intelligence-led enforcement, combined with severe penalties, is absolutely necessary to deter illegal ivory trade," added Gabriel. "This sinful trade is at the core of the elephant poaching crisis in Africa right now. Poachers gun down entire families of elephants just for their ivory tusks to supply the cruel and illegal market."

Just a week ago, more than 40 elephants were slaughtered in Chad. The poachers responsible were local Chadians, but Chinese nationals working in Chad were implicated in the smuggling of the ivory.

Worldwide seizures of elephant ivory amounted to 23 tons in 2011, representing the lives of thousands of elephants.

About IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare)
Founded in 1969, IFAW saves animals in crisis around the world. With projects in more than 40 countries, IFAW rescues individual animals, works to prevent cruelty to animals, and advocates for the protection of wildlife and habitats. For more information, visit www.ifaw.org. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

SOURCE International Fund for Animal Welfare

CONTACT: Cynthia Carson, IFAW, +1-202-536-1921, ccarson@ifaw.org; or Grace Gabriel, IFAW +1-508-744-2195, ggabriel@ifaw.org

Web Site: http://www.ifaw.org

Genevieve Nnaji And Joseph Benjamin Set For UK Première Of Tango With Me

The Queen of Nollywood, Nigeria's sweetheart Genevieve Nnaji and Nollywood hunk Joseph Benjamin are going to grace the most awaited UK première of Mahmood Ali-Balogun's award winning thriller Tango With Me on Thursday August 16, 2012, at the newly refurbished multimillion pound Odeon IMAX Cinema, Greenwich, Bugsbys Way, London SE10 0QJ.

Red Carpet starts at 6.30pm , screening at 8pm. This august event is strictly by invitation.

The première of Tango With Me marks the opening of the film at cinemas in the the UK by Talking Drum Entertainment and Brickwall Communications.

In the beginning...

Lola and Uzo are the perfect couple, their newly married life in front of them. All is well until the happiest day of their lives became the worst.

This event leads the couple on a journey of self discovery.

"Tango With Me" is a contemporary story about forgiveness about some of our core values as a people and our faith.

A story that proves that above all, Love does indeed, conquer all.

Nigerians Report is going to be represented at the première.

The Hollywood Cost of Being Batman

Nollywood Reloaded and Gone Digital

My article Nollywood Reloaded was first published over two years ago by Modern Ghana, Nairaland and other websites and I am bringing it up again as a wake up call to some Nollywood directors who have abandoned their studios to run restaurants, to return to their locations and complete their abandoned movies. The world has gone digital and Nollywood is the first African digital film industry.

This is for the benefit of our local Nollywood producers and marketers who need distributors in the US and other developed nations.

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Nollywood Reloaded

Nollywood actually crashed, but Nollywood is now reloaded with the resurgence of the trailer-blazers and the emergence of new kids on the block such as Chineze Anyaene whose film IJE, the Journey has redefined Nollywood and if she had submitted it for the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), Kunle Afolayan would have been second best with his movie The Figurine.

Chineze Anyaene’s IJE has taken Nollywood to places Nollywood has never been before with official selection in 18 international film festivals and winning five major awards, including a coveted award for Best Picture and another one for Excellence in film making.

Mahmood Ali-Balogun's 35mm film Tango with Me is an ambitious psychoanalytical film with the major crew from Los Angeles, Hollywood; and over N80 million budget without sponsors.

Chico Ejiro, the Mr. prolific in Nollywood is about to shoot the most challenging movie in his career, Sunset in Darfur.
Zik Zulu Okafor is doing new movies of outstanding quality.

Then some Nigerian young Turks of the film industry Faruk Lasaki, Didi Chika, Chike Ibekwe and others have been selected for the Babylon International film workshop and they were at the International Film Festival Berlin (February 16th-20th) and now preparing to show the clips of their film projects at the Zuma film festival in Abuja from tomorrow Sunday May 2, 2010, in Abuja.

The two filmmakers I have interviewed are Faruk Lasaki who is making a film on the Niger Delta, with the working title of Port Harcourt and Chike Ibekwe, whose film Letter to the Professor is featuring the lionized first African Nobel Laureate in Literature, Prof. Wole Soyinka. The budget for one of the films is over two million euros.

A Young Nigerian director has done thrilling film where the lovers were engaged in real live intimate intercourse. But it is not indecency?

The real films are coming to take the Nigerian film industry to the next level in competition with the best in the world.
Not in quantity, but in professional quality.

This is it, Nollywood Reloaded.
CUT!

~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, aka Orikinla Osinachi.

Friday, August 10, 2012

Jackie Chan Breaks Stone With Bare Hand On German Show

See the famous action film star Jackie Chan breaking bricks with his bare hand and it is not film trick or movie stunt. He is known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts. Jackie Chan has been acting since the 1960s and has appeared in over 150 films.

Did a White House Official Violate Iran Sanctions?

Photo from American-Iranian.Org.

9 Aug 2012 20:49 Africa/Lagos

A Most Dangerous Hypocrisy

Did a White House Official Violate Iran Sanctions?

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A report published by the Washington Post on August 5, 2012, by Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten, reveals that David Plouffe, a senior White House advisor who was President Obama's 2008 campaign manager, received $100,000 speaking fee from an affiliate of a company doing business with Iran's government, which has provided technology that has helped the regime to track down and suppress dissidents in Iran. The report goes on to say that "a subsidiary of MTN Group, a South African-based telecommunications company, paid Plouffe for two speeches he made in Nigeria in December 2010, a month before he joined the White House staff."

The Post's report is more than an embarrassment for the Obama administration. If that wasn't enough, White House officials shrugged off the scandal by saying "it is not unusual for Washington figures to receive similar fees for speeches." This lays bare hypocrisy at the heart of U.S. policy towards Tehran, not to mention a double standard in U.S. media coverage of the efforts of other prominent Americans who have sought to undermine, rather than benefit from the regime in Iran.

In recent months, a stellar group of high-profile U.S. national security and political figures have been criticized in the mainstream media for occasionally receiving compensation from Iranian-Americans who are U.S. citizens, to speak in favor of establishing democracy in Iran, and in defense of the human rights of thousands of Iranian dissidents in Iraq, who are members of the main Iranian opposition group, known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK). The MEK is a secular, democratic group dedicated to a non-nuclear Iran, which has provided the U.S. with critical intelligence concerning Iran's atomic weapons program and interference in Iraq. Yet the group languishes on the U.S. list of "Foreign Terrorist Organizations" despite meeting none of the statutory criteria. It is unarmed and renounced violence in 2001, both of which seven different U.S. agencies confirmed after a 16-month investigation and screening of its members in Iraq, where the group is woefully encamped.

To placate Tehran, the Obama Administration has defied U.S. Court rulings to delist the group so far and instead has chosen to investigate a group of unimpeachable Americans for expressing outrage over the blatant breach of the human rights of 3,200 MEK members in Camp Ashraf and now in Camp Liberty. These defenseless men, women and children were massacred twice in 2009 and 2011 by the Iraqi forces, acting at the behest of Iran. No less than 49 residents, including eight women, were killed and hundreds wounded. Ironically, the media, including the Washington Post and the New York Times, has mercilessly condemned these former officials.

Now it is revealed that a senior advisor to President Obama was paid to speak to a company linked to the regime in Tehran, which successive U.S. administrations have classified as the world's leading state-sponsor of terrorism. This regime has been directly responsible for the murder of thousands of Americans in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan and is now financially and militarily supporting the murderous Assad regime.

Where is the outrage? Why has the administration looked the other way while its top campaign strategist receives blood money from a company under scrutiny for its role in monitoring and suppressing the Iranian people? How can the media abet a Treasury Department fishing expedition against a former Director of the FBI, a former U.S. Attorney General, a former Homeland Security Secretary, a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and others who have only urged the administration to live up to its commitments to protect these dissidents based on a written agreement with each and every one of them and consistent with its international obligations?

SOURCE Association of Iranian-Americans in New York & New Jersey

CONTACT: Moe Alafchi, 1-888-718-7557, malafchi@aol.com

Hillary Clinton Is Really Looking Great Visiting Nigeria

President Goodluck Jonathan welcomes United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the Presidential Villa, on Thursday. Photo: STATE HOUSE.

Is Secretary Hillary Clinton getting younger or older?
Is she not going to be 65 on October 26? But she is looking twenty years younger when she arrived Nigeria Thursday August 9, 2012.

She really enjoyed her African tour as the ABC even commended her "Informal Diplomacy" and showed her dancing happily in South Africa. Secretary Clinton is so full of life!

I thank God she is looking great in spite of the awesome challenges of her job as the 67th United States Secretary of State, and she is really doing a great job and I rate her as the best U.S Secretary of State since Madeleine Albright. Secretary Clinton has achieved some remarkable successes in the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe since she assumed office on January 21, 2009.

Remarks Following Expanded Meeting with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan And the National Security Council Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Presidential Villa Abuja, Nigeria August 9, 2012 Well, thank you very much, Mr. President, and those were extremely kind and generous words. But I appreciate that you know how committed the United States and the Obama Administration is to our partnership with your country. We consider it absolutely vital, and through our bi-national commission, which, as you mentioned, has helped us to expand and deepen our cooperation on a full range of issues, we are working on economic matters, the improvement and the productivity of agriculture, education and health, security, the diversification of your economy, and so much more. We intend to remain very supportive on your reform efforts. Thank you for mentioning the work we did together on the elections. We’re also very supportive of the anticorruption reform efforts, more transparency, and the work that you and your team is also championing, because we really believe that the future for Nigeria is limitless. But the most important task that you face, as you have said, is making sure that there are better opportunities for all Nigerians – north, south, east, west – every young boy and girl to have a chance to fulfill his or her God-given potential. And we want to work with you and we will be by your side as you make the reforms and take the tough decisions that are necessary. So thank you, Mr. President, for this meeting. (Applause.) PRN: 2012/ T69-24

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