Japan Takes 41 Places Among World's Top 800 Universities
Times Higher Education Publishes Expanded World University Rankings 2015-16
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Japan Takes 41 Places Among World's Top 800 Universities
Japan Takes 41 Places Among World's Top 800 Universities
Times Higher Education Publishes Expanded World University Rankings 2015-16
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Photo of the Day:President Buhari Releases Pigeon for 55th Independence Anniversary of Nigeria
Buy Yourself A Brain, If You Are Insulting Femi Fani-Kayode for Saying the Truth
Femi Fani-Kayode.Buy yourself a brain, if you are one of the silly Nigerians attacking and insulting former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, for saying the bitter truth on the atrocities of the barbaric Hausa Fulani herdsmen trespassing the lands of others with impunity and have murdered more than 10, 000 innocent Nigerians, including babies; destroying farmlands and raping women and female children.
Answer these questions:
Have you seen the arrest and prosecution of any of these Hausa Fulani herdsmen for their hellish crimes?
Has President Muhammadu Buhari condemned these Hausa Fulani herdsmen?
They have disarmed the vigilante groups in Benue and Plateau states, but did they disarm these rampaging and trespassing Hausa Fulani herdsmen on killing sprees in the middle belt and other parts of Nigeria?
Is it legal and lawful for Hausa Fulani herdsmen to acquire and use military weapons?
Fulani Herdsmen Are Still Killing Plateau Farmers [GRAPHIC PHOTOS]
http://peacebenwilliams.com/fulani-herdsmen-are-still-killing-plateau-farmers-graphic-photos/
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Christians and Muslims To Work Together in Nigeria
Christians and Muslims To Work Together in Nigeria
GENEVA, 29 September 2015 / PRN Africa / -- Key stakeholders in a new inter-religious centre in Nigeria have met to plan for the centre and its work, set to launch in March 2016.
The meeting was held at the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland, 27 to 28 September.
Institutions represented were the Jordanian Royal Aal Al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought (RABIIT), the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Christian Council of Nigeria (CCN) and Jama'atu Nasril Islam (JNI).
The project has developed as a result of a high-level international inter-religious visit to Nigeria by representatives of the WCC and RABIIT in 2012.
Speaking about the significance of the project, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the WCC, said, “Muslims and Christians can, through this initiative, hear each other's stories, share each other's pain, and begin to heal. This centre is a significant common project for Muslims and Christian leaders in Nigeria and a pioneering work in inter-religious encounter.”
Attendees shared their vision for the work of the centre, which is intended to act as an impetus for healing and reconciliation in Nigeria, given the recent incidents of conflict in the country. The governance, management and programme of the centre are intended to model Nigerian Christians and Muslims working together on issues of concern to all Nigerians.
The evocative phrase “In the sandals of the other” was proposed as a descriptive title for the centre. In the first year of its operation, the centre will work on supporting victims of violence who are suffering from trauma, with a particular focus on women and young people. It will also share examples of people working together to support each other across religious boundaries, as well as beginning substantial data collection.
Participants of the meeting included Dr Khalid A Abubakar, Ms Lamya Al-Khraisha, Dr Clare Amos, Dr Usman Muhammad Bugaje, Mr Sulayman Hart, Dr Gina Lende, Rt Rev. Prof Emele Mba Uka, Rev. Dr Yusuf Ibrahim Wushishi, Dr Yakubu Joseph and Ms Marietta Ruhland.
SOURCE World Council of Churches (WCC)
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Terrorism Most Immediate Problem for New Nigerian Government - President Buhari
Terrorism Most Immediate Problem for New Nigerian Government, President Buhari Tells UN
YORK, 28 September 2015 / PRN Africa / -- The new Nigerian Government has many issues to contend with but none as important as defeating the terrorist threat posed by Boko Haram and bringing back the Chibok girls unharmed, the country's President declared at the United Nations General Assembly today.
“Boko Haram's war against the people of Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon may not attract as much worldwide attention as the wars in the Middle East but the suffering is just as great and the human cost is equally high,” Muhammadu Buhari said in his address to the Assembly's high-level debate.
Stating that Nigerians are on the front lines of the war on terror, he said the battle is between progress and chaos; between democracy and the rule of law.
“Boko Haram celebrates violence against the weak and the innocent and deplorably, they hide behind their perverted interpretation of Islam. Boko Haram is as far away from Islam as anyone can think of.”
Mr. Buhari, who was elected President in March, informed fellow world leaders that the new Government is attacking the problems it inherited head-on.
“We intend to tackle inequalities arising from massive unemployment and previous government policies favouring a few people to the detriment of the many. We intend to emphasize quality technological education for development and lay foundation for comprehensive care of the aged, the disadvantaged and the infirm.
“But for now, terrorism is the immediate problem,” he stressed.
The President outlined a number of steps being taken, adding that Nigeria and her neighbours Cameroon, Chad and Niger plus Benin are working together to face this common threat within the regional framework of the Lake Chad Basin Commission.
“We have established a multinational joint task force to confront, degrade and defeat Boko Haram. We have driven them away from many of their strongholds, killed or captured many of their operatives or commanders and freed several hundreds of hostages.
“One of our major aims is to rescue the Chibok girls alive and unharmed. We are working round the clock to ensure their safety and eventual reunion with their families. Chibok girls are constantly on our minds and in our plans,” he stated.
Some 276 girls were abducted by Boko Haram from their school in Chibok, located in Nigeria's restive north-eastern Borno state, in April 2014, as the militant group ramped up brutal attacks targeting the country's children. Some 200 of the girls were released from captivity in April of this year.
SOURCE UN News Centre
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Dr. Mike Murdock Live In Port Harcourt On October 1
He will be ministering with Pastor David Ibiyeomie, the General Overseer of Salvation Ministries.
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
Nigerian Consumers Opinion Forum Will Launch Before Christmas
AMAA 2015: The Official Winners List
The prestigious event was held last night at the Boardwalk International Convention Centre, Nelson Mandela Bay, Port Elizabeth in South Africa. It is the first AMAA outside Nigeria and has attracted more attention than the previous editions hosted by Bayelsa State in the state capital of Yenagoa since the inaugural edition in May 2005, except for the 2008 edition of AMAA held in Abuja, federal capital of Nigeria and the 2012 edition held in Lagos.
EFERE OZAKO AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM
Twaaga – Burkina Faso
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST ANIMATION
The Legacies of Rubies – Nigeria
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY
Egypt’s Modern Pharaohs – Egypt
OUSMANE SEMBENE AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST FILM IN AN AFRICAN LANGUAGE
Timbuktu – Mauritania
MICHAEL ANYIAM OSIGWE AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST FILM BY AN AFRICAN LIVING ABROAD:
Fevers – Morocco
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST DIASPORA SHORT
Sound of Tears - Canada
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST DIASPORA DOCUMENTARY
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution – USA
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST DIASPORA FEATURE
Supremacy - USA
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN
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AMAA 2015 ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
October 1 – Nigeria
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP
Njinga: Queen of Angola – Angola
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUNDTRACK
Triangle Going to America – Ethiopia
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECT
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AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND
Lobraz Kaan – Mauritius
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Lobraz Kaan – Mauritius
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING
Timbuktu
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SCREEN PLAY
Le President
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST COMEDY FILM
30 Days In Atlanta
AMAA 2015- BAYELSA STATE GOVERNMENT ENDOWED AWARD FOR BEST NIGERIAN FILMOctober 1
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST CHILD ACTOR
Layla Walet Mohammed and Mehdi A.G Mohammed – Timbuktu
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG/ PROMISING ACTOR
IT’S A JOINT AWARD AND THE AWARD GOES TO Kemi Lala Akindoju (DAZZLING MIRAGE) and Hassan Spike Insingoma – (BODA BODA THIEVES)
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Samson Tadesse - Triangle Going to America
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Hilda Dokubo - Stigma
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Sadiq Daba – October 1
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Lesliana Pereira - NJINGA: Queen of Angola
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST FIRST FEATURE FILM BY A DIRECTOR
Destiny Ekaragha - Gone Too Far
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR
Abderrahmane Sissako - Timbuktu
AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST FILM
Timbuktu – Mauritania
SPECIAL JURY
There are some occasions where the jury feels the need to acknowledge certain films for their forward vision. On this occasion, the jury would like to give special jury prizes to two films:
Le President by Jean-Pierre Bekolo of Cameroun; and to Triangle: Going to America by Theodros Teshome Kebede of Ethiopia.
AMAA 2015 JURY STATEMENT DELIVERED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE JURY FOR 2015 MR. KEITH SHIRI: Saturday September 26, 2015. Port Elizabeth South AfricaSOURCE: Africa Movie Academy Awards, AMAA.
On behalf of the jury members I welcome you to the AMAA 2015 Awards. Over the last 11 years, the AMAA Awards has set itself the challenging but rewarding task of celebrating the best of our continent and its Diaspora’s filmmaking.
To this end, our aim has always been to reward and encourage African originality in film production; to seek out and bring attention to the continent’s unique and distinctive talents; to champion her distinctive voices and to encourage and nurture that rare combination of ambition and originality that is the best of our movie making.
Every year, hundreds of films from across the continent and its Diaspora arrive at the AMAA offices. This year we received close to 800 movie entries from over 60 countries, mostly within Africa and also from around the world. This unprecedented number of entries, in all categories and from many African diaspora countries and communities. can lead only to this conclusion: AMAA is indeed, a truly Pan-African event and a global brand.
It is significant that this year for the first time in AMAA’s history, the nominations event was held in the African Diaspora, in Los Angeles: and that the Awards themselves are held outside of Nigeria, here in South Africa.
And after our several weeks and months of consultations, we commend to you tonight, our roll call of the best for 2015.
Thank you and have a wonderful evening.
Keith Shiri, London based programme advisor BFI London Film Festival, Artistic Director of the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF), President of the AMAA 2015 Jury.
Ambassador Filippe Savadogo, Former Secretary General FESPACO Burkina Faso
John Akomfrah, OBE, London based Ghanaian filmmaker
Prof. Hyginus Ekwuazi, Professor of Broadcasting and Film, University of Ibadan
Former Managing director of the Nigerian Film Corporation, and until recently Head of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan, Founding Director National Film Institute and former Director General Nigerian Film Corporation Jos, Nigeria.
Steve Ayorinde, Journalist and former MD of “National Mirror” newspaper, Nigeria
Dorothee Wenner, filmmaker and curator at the Berlin International Film Festival
Asantewa Olatunji, Programming Director of PAFF, Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles and Atlanta,
June Givanni, International film curator based in UK, Artistic Director of the Colours of the Nile Film Festival, Addis Abeba; and director of the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive
Shaibu Husseini, film journalist and critic at Lagos based The Guardian newspapers, Nigeria
Berni Goldblat, filmmaker and producer based in Burkina Faso
Ayuko Babu, Executive Director of PAFF, Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles and Atlanta
Charles Burnett, filmmaker Los Angeles USA
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WHO Removes Nigeria from Polio-Endemic List
GENEVA, 25 September 2015 / PRN Africa / -- The World Health Organization announced today that polio is no longer endemic in Nigeria. This is the first time that Nigeria has interrupted transmission of wild poliovirus, bringing the country and the African region closer than ever to being certified polio-free.
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