UGANDA FILM FESTIVAL 2015 HONOURS NIGERIAN FILMMAKER FEMI ODUGBEMI
Femi Odugbemi selected as Chair of Jury of the 2015 Uganda Film Festival.
3-time
Head Judge of the Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards, respected
award-winning filmmaker Femi Odugbemi has just returned from
another international assignment serving as the Chairman of Jury of the
recently concluded 2015 Uganda Film Festival held in Kampala Uganda
25th-29th August 2015.
Apple Does It Again - Rolls Out Hot New iPad Pro and iPhone 6s Coming to Nigeria Soon! The global media is abuzz with the news of the new products launched at Apple’s event last night. Among the products announced, the bigger than ever iPad Pro and the stunning new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. The new iPhone will also come in Rose Gold. This is fantastic for all of us who are Apple fans and for those of us who have yet to make the leap into the world of Apple, these products are worth it.
iPad Pro, Apple's New 12.9-Inch Mega Tablet Thin. Light. Epic
iPhone 6s
So what about us in Nigeria?
When will we be able to get our hands on these prize possessions? Surely it won’t be that far away.
Last year was the first time Nigeria was included in the iPhone launch, we received it on the 14th November, only 8 weeks of the launch of USA. So can they do better this year?
1 378 Entries 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.
Smile Closes USD365 Million Financing to Accelerate its 4G LTE Network Expansion in Africa
Irene Charnley, Chief Executive Officer of Smile (PRNewsFoto/Smile)
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 multiple award winning 2005 novel Beasts of No Nation has become Netflix's first film for cinemas. The film adaptation and screenplay of the gripping war drama was done by Cary Fukunaga who is also the director of the thriller.
Netflix bought the worldwide distribution rights for about $12 million and will be released simultaneously in cinemas and online through its subscription video on demand service on October 16, 2015. Bleecker Street will handle the theatrical release of the film.
The title of "Beasts of No Nation" came from the 1989 album of the same name by the Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, who passed away on August 2, 1997.
The novel won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the Academy of Arts and Letters, the New York Public Library Young Lions 2006 Fiction Award, and the 2006 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2007, Iweala was selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. A graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, he lives in New York City and Lagos, Nigeria.
The leading actors include Idris Elba playing the war lord "Commandant", Abraham Attah as "Agu", Ama K. Abebrese as "Mother", Richard Pepple as "Father Friday" and Opeyemi Fagbohungbe as "Sergeant Gaz". It was screened in the main competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival and it has been selected to be shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
"Beasts of No Nation" is projected to be a box office hit to further boost the American film industry following one of the best summers ever at the domestic box office.
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.
Follow Updates On Nigerians Report on Amazon Tweet
Airline launches 10th gateway to the
US with a one-off A380 service
United Arab Emirates, Dubai – 2 September, 2015 – Emirates launched its
10th destination in the United States with the start of daily nonstop passenger
service between Dubai and Orlando International Airport on 1st September. A VIP
delegation and a contingent of international media were aboard the inaugural
flight, which carried passengers from 29 different countries to Orlando.
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.
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.
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.
Ralph Nwadike at an event in the Nigerian film industry.
Top Nollywood filmmakers Ralph Nwadike and Tunji Bamishigbin are making a
groundbreaking thriller on how Nigeria overcame the Ebola epidemic.
When
Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian diplomat visited Nigeria, it wasn't just
another visit from a West African brother to another West African
country. He brought EVD (Ebola Virus Disease) that almost changed the
medical history in Nigeria. But for the grace of God and the eternal
vigilance of Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh and her team, the about 20 deaths
from Ebola recorded in Nigeria would have been more.
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.
