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President Buhari Will Achieve in 2 Years What Jonathan Failed To Achieve in 6 Years

 President Muhammadu Buhari and former President Goodluck Jonathan.

President Muhammadu Buhari will achieve within two years what former President Goodluck Jonathan failed to achieve in six years in office. The outstanding new management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) alone has already achieved within a month what the NNPC failed to achieve under Jonathan!

MainOne Wins 2015 Nigerian Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Leadership

Frost & Sullivan Recognises MainOne for Providing Advanced Data Centre Infrastructure in West Africa From connectivity services provider to one of data center services and outstanding reliable connectivity

Speech by Foreign Minister Frank‑Walter Steinmeier at the German-African Business Summit

Speech by Foreign Minister Frank‑Walter Steinmeier at the German-African Business Summit 

BERLIN, 07 September 2015 / PRN Africa / -- Ministers,

Members of Parliament,

Representatives of international and regional organizations,

Excellencies,

Guests,

Together we are today writing a little piece of history: the new Sub-Sahara Initiative with the familiar old acronym SAFRI has organised this first German-African Business Summit with the support of the Federal Government. It will be followed immediately by the 15th International Economic Forum on Africa, an event organised jointly by the OECD Development Centre and the African Union, which normally takes place in Paris. You have a busy, intensive programme ahead, and I believe this shows just how important Africa is for us in Germany. I wish we would make more of a deliberate effort to turn this realisation into action.

Uganda Film Festival Honours Nigerian Filmmaker Femi Odugbemi

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 with the Launch of New iPad Pro and iPhone 6s

 
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 Film Projects from 30 Countries for Pan-African Triggerfish Story Lab

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

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 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. 

 

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Emirates Touches Down in Orlando

Emirates Touches Down in Orlando

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.