CAPE TOWN – The Triggerfish Story Lab received a whopping 1 378 entries from storytellers and filmmakers from 30 countries across Africa and its diaspora, all eager to write the continent’s next animated blockbuster or hit TV series.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
1 378 Film Projects from 30 Countries for Pan-African Triggerfish Story Lab
CAPE TOWN – The Triggerfish Story Lab received a whopping 1 378 entries from storytellers and filmmakers from 30 countries across Africa and its diaspora, all eager to write the continent’s next animated blockbuster or hit TV series.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Smile Closes USD365 Million Financing to Accelerate its 4G LTE Network Expansion in Africa
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, September 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Smile Telecoms Holdings Ltd ("Smile"), which owns and operates mobile wireless 4G LTE broadband networks in the 800MHz band in Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda, announced that it raised USD365 million of debt and equity financing ("the funding"). The funding will be used to expand Smile's existing 4G LTE mobile broadband networks and services, such that by the end of 2015, Smile will offer clear voice services and have national coverage comparable to the largest 3G network in each of its current countries of operation. Smile will also launch its broadband network in Democratic Republic of Congo ("DRC") early in 2016.
Nigerian Author Uzodinma Iweala's Novel Becomes Netflix's First Film for Cinemas
Nigerian Author Uzodinma Iweala's Novel Becomes Netflix's First Film for Cinemas
Ticket sales at North American cinemas rose an estimated 10.4 percent, to $4.48 billion, for the period between the first weekend in May and Labor Day, from the same period a year earlier, the analytics firm Rentrak said on Sunday. Hollywood’s summer, which was one week longer this year because of a calendar quirk, has historically accounted for up to 40 percent of annual domestic ticket sales.~ The New York Times.
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Monday, September 7, 2015
Emirates Touches Down in Orlando
Emirates Touches Down in
Orlando
Airline launches 10th gateway to the
US with a one-off A380 service
Sunday, September 6, 2015
President Muhammadu Buhari is Sitting On A Keg of Gunpowder
President Muhammadu Buhari is sitting on a keg of gunpowder.
There will be crisis worse than the Boko Haram if he fails to arrest his fellow Hausa Fulami herdsmen rampaging, trespassing and slaughtering innocent Christian men, women and children in the middle belt and northern states of Nigeria. And they have even gone beyond the River Niger to attack, rape and murder women on farmlands in the south western states and also killed people in the south east and south-south of Nigeria.
They are behaving like hyneas in the jungle.
Friday, September 4, 2015
Newspaper Columnist Kidnapped from Her Home in Nigeria
Newspaper columnist kidnapped from her home in Nigeria
NEW YORK, 02 September 2015 / PRN Africa / -- A Nigerian newspaper columnist was abducted from her home early Sunday, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nigerian authorities to do their utmost to find Donu Kogbara, establish a motive for the abduction, and apprehend and prosecute the perpetrators.
NEW YORK, 02 September 2015 / PRN Africa / -- A Nigerian newspaper columnist was abducted from her home early Sunday, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nigerian authorities to do their utmost to find Donu Kogbara, establish a motive for the abduction, and apprehend and prosecute the perpetrators.
Red Star Express Plc. Posts N6.7Billion Turnover, Declares Dividend
Red Star Express Plc. Posts N6.7Billion Turnover, Declares Dividend
Lagos, Nigeria, 3 September 2015. Red Star Express Plc, leading logistics Company, today posted N6.7Billion turnover for the financial year ended March 31, 2015 and a profit after tax of N611million representing one percent increase in profit over 603.9 million profit for last year.
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Top Nigerian Filmmakers Nwadike and Bamishigbin Making Groundbreaking Film on Ebola
Top Nollywood filmmakers Ralph Nwadike and Tunji Bamishigbin are making a groundbreaking thriller on how Nigeria overcame the Ebola epidemic.
The movie chronicles that great episode, which also sadly took the precious lives of Dr. Adadevoh and some of the best medical staff practicing at the First Consultant Hospital.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Akpabio Versus Buhari on Traffic Laws
Akpabio vs Buhari on Traffic Laws
~ By Dr. John
Egbeazien Oshodi
Amazingly, of all people and things, Godswill Akpabio, a former Governor to the State of Akwa Ibom, who is now the Senate Minority Leader while in a convoy, his jeep reportedly ran the traffic light, hitting the vehicle of some US embassy officials of President Barack Obama; who according to President Muhammadu Buhari, played a significant part in ushering in a new change in Nigeria in terms of law and order.
Reports from the media showed that the accident happened in the early morning of the day as Akpabio was heading to the international airport for London with his convoy’s lights in full display and sirens blowing; as if he was in an authorized emergency vehicle as it relates to life and death matters.
Senator Godswill Akpabio, is the immediate past Governor of Akwa Ibom State.
This incident revealed that Akpabio has yet to liberate himself from the disease of traffic lawlessness which was so pervasive during the days of the Jonathan presidency, when the madness of blaring sirens indiscriminately by political and privileged leaders was all too common to the detriment of public peace and smooth flow of traffic.
Amazingly, of all people and things, Godswill Akpabio, a former Governor to the State of Akwa Ibom, who is now the Senate Minority Leader while in a convoy, his jeep reportedly ran the traffic light, hitting the vehicle of some US embassy officials of President Barack Obama; who according to President Muhammadu Buhari, played a significant part in ushering in a new change in Nigeria in terms of law and order.
Reports from the media showed that the accident happened in the early morning of the day as Akpabio was heading to the international airport for London with his convoy’s lights in full display and sirens blowing; as if he was in an authorized emergency vehicle as it relates to life and death matters.
This incident revealed that Akpabio has yet to liberate himself from the disease of traffic lawlessness which was so pervasive during the days of the Jonathan presidency, when the madness of blaring sirens indiscriminately by political and privileged leaders was all too common to the detriment of public peace and smooth flow of traffic.
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Ejiofor and Oyelowo To Be Honoured in Hollywood for Outstanding Philanthropy
Acclaimed Actors Will be Honored for Their Philanthropic Support of Health and Education Initiatives in Their Shared Homeland of Nigeria
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