The Dictator: Banned & Unrated. Own it TODAY

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The creators and star of Borat bring you the jaw-dropping comedy about what happens when the worldʼs worst dictator comes to America. Stuck in New York and stripped of his power, Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) is finally forced to live his ultimate nightmare…the American dream. Get ready to laugh ʻtil it hurts with the uncensored cut, featuring never-before-seen footage, thatʼs “outrageous and shamefully funny!”*

* Rafer Guzman, NEWSDAY

The Dictator is a 2012 comedy film co-written by and starring Sacha Baron Cohen as his fourth feature film in a leading role. The film is directed by Larry Charles, who previously directed Baron Cohen's mockumentaries Borat and Brüno. Cohen, in the role of Admiral General Aladeen, the dictator of the fictional Republic of Wadiya visiting the United States, stars alongside Anna Faris and Ben Kingsley.

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Nigeria, Ghana and others Compete in Airtel African Youth Soccer Championships

The draw for the Airtel rising stars Africa soccer championship is out with Kenya entering four teams. The tourney which will start on Monday at St Mary's high aims at providing opportunity and a platform for potential stars to showcase their talent among the best in the continent. The competition will have some of the soccer powerhouses such as Ghana who are the under 17 champions, Nigeria, Zambia and Malawi.

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Airtel Kicks Off Largest Youth Soccer Initiative in Africa

Arsenal’s Marketing Director Angus Kinnear hands over a replica shirt to Kenya’s Prime Minister, Right Hon. Raila Odinga (left) During the launch of Airtel Rising Stars Africa Championships in Nairobi. The tournament which brings together Africa’s best talent in the boys and girls under 17 categories will take place from the 21st to the 25th of August.

21 Aug 2012 04:51 Africa/Lagos

Airtel Pan-African Youth Tourney Kicks off

The largest youth Soccer initiative in Africa

NAIROBI, August 21, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ --


• Program touted as largest youth Soccer initiative in Africa

Manchester United’s Marketing Director Jonathan Rigby (Right) hands over a replica shirt to Kenya’s Prime Minister, Right Hon. Raila Odinga (left) During the launch of Airtel Rising Stars Africa Championships in Nairobi. He was accompanied by Manoj Kohli CEO (International) & Joint MD, Bharti Airtel and Airtel Africa, Chief Marketing Officer, Andre Beyers (extreme right).


• Championship is a culmination of regional & national preliminaries in 15 African Nations, involving 18,000 schools & 324,000 girls & boys


• Winners to receive wild card invitation to Manchester United & Arsenal clinics in Nairobi & Accra


The Airtel Africa Championships (http://www.airtel.com) officially kicked off today in Nairobi, Kenya. The tournament which brings together Africa's best talent in the boys and girls under 17 categories will take place from the 21st to the 25th of August.


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The championship is the culmination of regional and national tournaments in 15 countries in the African continent. The Championship is part of the Airtel Rising Stars program, a soccer talent initiative that is focused on identifying and nurturing soccer talent from the grassroots onto a national stage. Touted as the biggest tournament in the continent the championships attracted approximately 18,000 youth teams and 324,000 youth players in the 15 countries. In addition to galvanising the biggest turnout during the qualification stage, the program has also broken new ground by introducing girls to a pan African tournament.


The Airtel Africa Championship was officially opened by Kenya's Prime Minister, The Rt.Hon. Raila Odinga accompanied by the tourney sponsors – Airtel Africa – led by Manoj Kohli the CEO (International) & Joint MD, Bharti Airtel.


The Soccer Championships will herald the unveiling of two specialised Airtel Rising Soccer Clinics run by soccer coaches from the Manchester United and Arsenal Soccer Schools. Present at the Championships launch were officials from both clubs namely; Mr. Jonathan Rigby, Marketing Director, Manchester United and Angus Kinnear, Marketing Director, Arsenal Football Club. The two clinics will be attended by two of the club's legends Peter Schmeichel and Ray Parlour.

In the opening fixtures, the hosts Kenyan whitewashed Malawi in the Girls tournament opener 11-0 with Vivian Adhiambo scoring 5 goals in the rout. In the Boy's opener, Malawi beat Kenya 5-1 to lead Group B. The other teams in the group are Madagascar and Ghana.


Distributed by the African Press Organization on behalf of Bharti Airtel Limited.



Notes to the editor


• The Countries that have rolled out the Airtel Rising Stars include Burkina Faso, Chad, Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Nigeria, Niger, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia

• Airtel has two territorial partnership agreements with Arsenal and Manchester United Football Clubs. The two agreements bestow several rights to Airtel as the telecommunication partner in the selected markets. Key amongst the rights is the technical expertise provided by the two clubs at the Airtel Rising Stars soccer clinics. The clinics are run by respective club's soccer schools program.


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About Bharti Airtel

Bharti Airtel Limited (http://www.airtel.com) is a leading integrated telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 5 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers. In India, the company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G services, fixed line, high speed broadband through DSL, IPTV, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G mobile services. Bharti Airtel had over 257 million customers across its operations at the end of June 2012. To know more please visit, http://www.airtel.com


For more information please contact:

Michael Okwiri

Vice President, Corporate Communications

Airtel Africa

Michael.Okwiri@africa.airtel.com

Source: Bharti Airtel Limited

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Sundays Are No Longer Safe in Lagos

Bode Thomas Street in Surulere, Lagos.


Sundays Are No Longer Safe in Lagos

Sundays as work free days are always peaceful for most people and in particular the Christians who throng their churches for fellowship and worship in their Sunday best and also visiting themselves and others to exchange greetings and gifts of mutual kindness. Sundays are free of the usual hustle and bustle of business days with traffic wardens and law enforcement agents having little or nothing much to do. But not anymore in Lagos as chilling reports of the victims of daring armed robbers and hired killers have left residents of the commercial hub of Nigeria in fear and trembling. Only last Sunday morning unknown gunmen attacked and shot a young couple Mr. Duke and Mrs. Tina Adigwe in their jeep in Surulere, and left them with gunshot wounds with their two little children wailing helplessly before the police arrived. Mrs. Tina Adigwe died of gunshot wounds before she even got to the nearest hospital whilst her husband Duke was bleeding from his own gunshot wound as doctors and nurses at the Randle General Hospital responded quickly to save his life in the emergency ward. It was also on a Sunday that a young man was attacked and killed in front of his church by armed robbers using the popular “Okada” motorbike taxi which is now what highway robbers and other criminals use for their operations in Nigerian towns and cities, including the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists on rampage in the northern states. The grief-stricken bereaved families, relations, friends, associates and others in Lagos are now sacred of going out on Sundays. If it is no longer safe to go to church or visit on Sundays, then things have really fallen apart in Nigeria as Nigerians are no longer at ease if I may use the titles of the popular novels of the famous writer Chinua Achebe who is also the author of The Trouble With Nigeria. And indeed Nigerians are facing many troubles in every region and the future looks bleak in the present terrifying circumstances of flagrant acts of corruption and lawlessness threatening the existence of the most populous country in Africa.

Police patrol checking "Okada" motorbike taxi riders in Lagos.

The police must no longer be caught napping on Sundays and other days since the evil armed robbers, hired killers, kidnappers and terrorists can attack their targets anytime anywhere. And law abiding people should help the police to keep all nooks and crannies of our streets under constant surveillance and report suspicious looking characters and suspicious movements to neighbourhood vigilante groups first to alert others and then report to only trusted security intelligence agencies and the armed forces within the vicinity. But vigilantes should not fall into the wrong hands who have abused and misused some vigilantes to witch-hunt and destroy rivals and innocent people by mobbing and lynching them after false accusations without handing the suspects over to the police.

Moreover, the Lagos State government and other state governments must stop paying lip service to the provision of modern medical facilities, because if the emergency rooms or wards of the public clinics and general hospitals are well equipped with modern life saving medical facilities as provided in other civilized modern states, many unfortunate deaths would have been prevented as the victims would not have died from their wounds or trauma.

A modern ER should have the following:

Defibrillator
Laparascopy System
12 channel ECG
Surigal Liposuction Unit
Humidifier
Portable Ventilator
Incubator
Neonatal and Infant Ventilator
Transport Incubator
Film Viewing Light Box
Halogen Lamp
Electrocautery Machine
Mobile Examination Lamp
Surgical Table
Phototherapy Lamp
IV Pump
Surgical Light
Autoclave
Laryngoscope

Electric Surgical Table
IMAGING
Examination Micrscope
Mammogram X-Ray
Multiparameter Monitor
X-Ray
Blood Pressure Monitor
CR Reader
Neonatal Monitor
Whole body bone densitometer
Prism Exophthalmometer
Ankle Densitometer
Ophthalmoscope
3-D Ultrasound
Indirect Ophthalmoscope
Real Time Color Dopler Ultrasound
Electronic Scale
Arch in C

Portable X-Ray
Electronic Thermometer
Ultrasound
Anesthesia System
Wolf X-Ray equipment

The life of every law abiding citizen is a priceless asset to the survival and welfare of everyone else in every community and everyone must be committed to the survival and welfare of the next person in our common ecosystem for our mutual existence.

Nobody has the right to attack or take the life of another person when you can never give or restore the precious life the maker and owner God has given each of us and made the greatest sacrifices from Adam to Jesus Christ and continues to make more sacrifices through others till date to preserve and save you and I.

Everybody deserves a good life, whether rich or poor and no matter your race, class or creed.

We must get rid of anyone who does not want another person to live in peace and unity, because such an evil person is an enemy of our collective survival and welfare on earth.

Saving the life of every law abiding citizen is not only the duty of the police and other law enforcement agencies, but also the responsibility of everyone in every community 24/7.


~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Tuesday August 21, 2012, Lagos, Nigeria.

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Who is Dishonoring Whom in Nigeria?

President Goodluck Jonathan

Who is Dishonoring Whom?

The Punch newspaper of Nigeria reported Tuesday that President Goodluck Jonathan may withdraw the national honours of eminent Nigerians who have been convicted or arraigned for various crimes.

The Punch reported the names of some awardees listed to lose their national honours; including the disgraced former Managing Director of Oceanic Bank Plc, Mrs. Cecilia Ibru, ex-MD of Intercontinental Bank, Mr. Erastus Akingbola, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George; and a former Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Tarfa Balogun.

But TALK OF THE TOWN finds this really funny, because those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Those in the cabinet of the president cannot escape from being found guilty directly or indirectly. Lest we forget, the former boss of President Jonathan, Chief Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha ("DSP"), a former governor of Bayelsa State jumped bail in December 2005 from the United Kingdom by allegedly disguising himself as a woman and later pleaded guilty before a Nigerian court to six charges and was sentenced to two years in prison on each charge on July 26, 2007. And if the president has balls and probes all the retired generals in his ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), many of them would be found guilty of corrupt practices. In fact, how many of these ex-civil servants can tell the public how they made the billions of dollars they have spent on building their private secondary schools and universities and investing in banks and telecom companies in Nigeria and other investments abroad and how were they able to acquire their million dollar properties in the US, UK, Dubai, South Africa and other countries?

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Shylock Landlords and Greedy Realtors Are Fueling Corruption in Nigeria

Corruption in Nigeria. Photo Credit: Leadership Newspapers.

Shylock Landlords and Greedy Realtors Are Fueling Corruption in Nigeria

Corruption has become embedded in the culture of Nigerian life and most of the accusing fingers point at the kleptomaniac politicians in public office, civil servants and their accomplices in the corridors of power. But what pushes majority of Nigerians into corrupt practices?

Why is corruption endemic in the Nigerian society?

Majority of Nigerians are desperate to compete for the most idolized status symbols of the elites and acquire them by all means and at all costs regardless of the defamation of their character in the society, because the rich elites use these status symbols to impress their peers and oppress the lower classes of Nigerians. Almost every Nigerian is suffering from the Morality Deficiency Syndrome (MDS) in their dog eat dog rat race. But many of them still live in denial of their complicity in the crimes and evils of corruption. Among these accomplices of the kleptomaniacs are the greedy shylock landlords and realtors who inflate the house rents and prices of real estate so preposterously that you are sure they must be insane. Because they ask for rents that can only be afforded by only high income earners or robbers. So, the low income earners who make up the largest population are frustrated and frustration leads to their desperation to get rich quick to catch up with the Joneses who control the reins of power in the society. This high cost of living in the Nigerian society caused by the greedy shylock landlords and realtors, producers and suppliers of goods who are also members of the ruling class or their partners in crime is what pushes Nigerians into corruption.


~ Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima 

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Nigerian Pastor Bans Women Wearing Pants and Trousers To Church

Lisa of Shoestrings said she wore Old Navy skinny jeans in black to her church last February. But She cannot do so in Pastor Olukoya's MFM Church.

The most popular Nigerian online discussion forum Nairaland reported that Dr. Daniel K. Olukoya, the Pastor and General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire Miracles Ministries is not happy with the increase of ladies wearing trousers to church and warns that his church will no longer allow any lady wearing trousers to join the congregation and also ladies who refuse to cover their heads. He said they have the choice of obeying the order or moving to other churches where they can do so.

A woman in trousers in church. Photo Credit: International Church of Christ.

TALK OF THE TOWN agrees with the order to stop younger and older women who go to church for fashion parade of their body hugging trousers and other pants. Nigerian girls and women are now wearing more jeans pants than even those in America and other countries.

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Miss China Wenxia Yu Wins Miss World 2012 !

Ordos (China): Miss China Wenxia Yu has won the highly coveted Miss World 2012 title. She was chosen from competitors from 116 countries in the 26th Miss World Finals held in Erdos city of north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region on August 18, 2012.


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President Goodluck Jonathan's Advert Against His Haters

Worst Advert of the Week: President Jonathan’s Advert Against His Haters

TALK OF THE TOWN Worst Advert of the Week is this poster of President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria sitting and signing a book that looks more like a condolence register while an obviously sad looking child seems distracted by the bleak future of living in one of the most corrupt and insecure countries in the world. The advert would have been better showing President Jonathan and the child in a happy mood to signify that he is poised to give a bright future to Nigeria. Whoever thought of this petty advert to attack critics of the President must be one of his bad advisers who are in fact his worst enemies for making him look so paranoid. But I doubt if President Jonathan approved this advert showing up on websites on the internet.

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