Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan Without Makeup

Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan Without Makeup

Former President Goodluck Jonathan likes living in denial of his failures from when he was deputy Governor to Governor of Bayelsa and achieved nothing to when he was stage managed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to be Vice President to the late Umaru Yar' Adua, whom Jonathan succeeded and became President of Nigeria from 2010 to May 29, 2015. And left Nigeria in chaos of his maladministration caused by his corrupt and incompetent cabinet.
He spent millions of dollars on making up himself to deceive the ignorant followers who were beneficiaries of the multimillion dollars government contracts he shared among them whilst he was the Head of State.

Frida Umuhoza, Rwandan Genocide Survivor Opens Up About Her Anger and Forgiveness

FEATURE: After two decades, genocide survivor opens up about her anger and forgiveness 

NEW YORK, 01 July 2016 / PRN Africa / -- “Being a hero is being able to give a smile to the person who sold you death,” said Frida Umuhoza, who was barely a teenager when her entire family – including her grandparents, parents and five siblings – were killed in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

4th July Expenses To Reach $6.8 Billion in 2016 - Statista

This year, an estimated 214 million Americans are going to celebrate Independence Day, according to figures compiled by the National Retail Federation (NRF). The vast majority of them, 65 percent, are going to make a barbecue, cookout or picnic the focus of their Fourth of July celebrations. The amount of money Americans splurge on food every year is evidence of how seriously they take their traditional Independence Day cook out. The NRF report that each American adult will spend approximately $71.34 on food items this year. Overall expenditure on food across the nation is going to reach around $6.8 billion.

42.6 percent of people are also going to attend a fireworks display or community celebration. Independence Day fireworks displays are always spectacular and so are the numbers behind them. According to the American Pyrotechnics Association, just over 285 million pounds of fireworks are used during the holiday with revenue amounting to about $1.09 billion.

SOURCE: https://www.statista.com/chart/5160/some-of-the-numbers-behind-independence-day/

Happy 4Th of July To All Americans! You Rock the World 24/7!

Lagos is Not Catching Up With Us. Rather, We May Be Catching Up With Lagos

Lagos Wide & Close

Synopsis 

Because filming has long been restricted in Nigeria, few images of Lagos exist. Based on research by The Harvard Project on the City under the direction of Rem Koolhaas, this DVD represents a unique engagement with a hardly documented city, capturing multiple perspectives of a volatile moment in its evolution. In 2002, Bregtje van der Haak, in cooperation with architect Rem Koolhaas and The Harvard Project on the City made Lagos/Koolhaas, a documentary on self-organization and urbanization in Nigeria. As a sequel to the documentary, Bregtje van der Haak together with designer Silke Wawro, developed the DVD: Lagos Wide & Close, an Interactive Journey into an Exploding City. The DVD contains an interactive video documentary (60′), edited from 55 hours of unused material that brings the viewer closer to the explosively growing megalopolis Lagos. With bus driver Olawole Busayo, the viewer moves through the city and has a choice of a distant (‘wide’) or an involved (‘close’) perspective, at any random moment in the documentary.
Details  
Director: Bregtje van der Haak  
Designer: Silke Wawro  
Camera: Alexander Oey  
Sound: Rik Meier

See the complete documentary film on http://lagos.submarinechannel.com.

Thus, for Koolhaas and his team, Lagos is a case study of a city at the forefront of a globalizing modernity: "Lagos is not catching up with us. Rather, we may be catching up with Lagos . . ."
"Highly Recommended! Excellent production values... easy to view and understand. Rem Koolhaas has done it again." —Educational Media Reviews Online

“The juxtaposition of empirical descriptions of the city life with theoretical insights is ideally suited for classroom screenings in urban studies, qualitative research methods, geography, anthropology, global studies, Africa studies and virtually any other branch of the social sciences that is devoted to in-depth qualitative empirical research. It is one of the best documentaries I know that can demonstrate in a compelling and sophisticated yet accessible way how to embark on research projects. Highly recommended!” —Anthropology Review Database (January, 2010)

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The Legend of Tarzan Teams Up with Nonprofit Stop Ivory to End Poaching

In this new PSA launched by Stop Ivory, in partnership with Warner Bros., Alexander Skarsgard and Margot Robbie, are raising awareness about the harsh truths of ivory poaching, revealing that, without immediate action, the remaining forest ...  

The Legend of Tarzan Teams Up with Nonprofit Stop Ivory to End Poaching
New PSA featuring Alexander Skarsgard and Margot Robbie Elevates the Plight of Endangered Elephants; Introduces the Pristine Landscape of Gabon, Africa 

 NEW YORK, July 1, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Since the Victorian era in which The Legend of Tarzan unfolds, the overall population of elephant species in Africa dropped from 19 million to just 500,000, stresses a new PSA by nonprofit group Stop Ivory featuring the film's stars, Alexander Skarsgard and Margot Robbie. The organization is raising the volume on the plight of endangered African elephants, a magnificent species hunted for their ivory.

Inside Nigeria Today in Pictures

Four children showing the different characters of the four regions of Nigeria.
Credit: Nairaland.

Electricity To Be Next Major Prepaid Market After Mobile Phones and Cards

Electricity To Be Next Major Prepaid Market After Mobile Phones and Cards
Global utilities to invest $11.4 billion in prepaid electricity metering   

Three Quarters of People Now 'Talk' to Businesses with a Mobile Message

Three Quarters of People Now 'Talk' to Businesses with a Mobile Message 

 
LONDON, June 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

• 65 per cent of consumers communicate with businesses on chat apps; increasing to 76 per cent globally via SMS
• 1 in 3 users have interacted with a financial services company via mobile
• Authentication is a key driver - 30 per cent of consumers worldwide have confirmed passwords via text
• Facebook (56 per cent), WhatsApp (50 per cent) and SMS (42 per cent) the top three messaging channels for person to person (P2P) messaging

Businesses are embracing mobile as a communications channel, regularly engaging with their customers via text and chat apps.

Arik Air Sponsors Conjoined Twins to Travel from Nigeria to America for Surgery

 The Ayenis at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport before take-off.

 NEW YORK, June 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Arik Air, West and Central Africa's largest airline, has sponsored round-trip tickets from Lagos, Nigeria to New York, USA for conjoined twins. Miracle and Testimony Ayeni arrived yesterday to have immediate access to urgent medical surgery and care. 
In partnership with Linking Hands Foundation, a Nigerian-based non-governmental organization (NGO), Arik Air is offering additional support alongside Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Tennessee, which is providing secured free medical treatment for the Ayeni twins.