Nollywood star and Goodwill Ambassador of UNFPA for West and Central Africa, Stephanie Linus signing the condolence register at the UNFPA Office in Lagos to mourn Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.
(6 February 1949 – 4 June 2017).
Today, I remember a great man, a renowned global public health leader and a beloved father who passed on recently. Dr Babatunde Osotimehin, who until his death a few days ago was the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is someone whose contributions to reducing maternal mortality and promoting universal access to reproductive health always served as an inspiration to me. It’s sad that he is gone and I commiserate with his family and loved ones. He will always be remembered for his passionate and diligent service.
Federal Republic of Nigeria to Issue Diaspora Bond
ABUJA, Nigeria, June 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Republic of Nigeria ("Nigeria") announced today the commencement of a global offering of its first Diaspora Bond. Nigeria has filed a registration statement for the Bonds with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Application will be made for the Bonds to be admitted to the official list of the UK Listing Authority and to the London Stock Exchange plc (the "London Stock Exchange") for the bonds to be admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange's regulated market.
The bonds will be direct, general obligations of Nigeria, denominated in U.S. Dollars. The international Joint Lead Managers are Bank of America Merrill Lynch and The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and the Nigerian Joint Lead Managers are First Bank of Nigeria Limited and United Bank for Africa Plc. There will be a series of investor meetings in the United Kingdom, the United States and Switzerland commencing on June 13, 2017. Pricing is expected to occur following the investor meetings, subject to market conditions. Contact information:
Debt Management Office
The Presidency
Plot 447/448, Constitution Avenue
Central Business District
P.M.B. 532 Garki, Abuja – Nigeria
Tel: 234(0)8110000881-3
Email: enquiries@dmo.gov.ng
Stephanie Linus's Statement in Response To Allegations of Copyright Infringement on "Dry"
PRESS RELEASE
Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may indeed win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.
Alan Barth (1906 1979)
On the 19TH of May, 2017, I received a letter from one Rafiu Bello acting on behalf of one Daniella Madudu accusing me of appropriation of an original literary work that was allegedly stolen from her by Ms. Joy Ndidi (an allegation that has been roundly refuted), copyright infringement and all manner of impropriety as relates my movie DRY and demanding that I credit this Daniella Madudu with ownership of my work, pay the sum of N60,000,000 (SIXTY MILLION NAIRA) and royalties; or face a campaign of calumny(which by the way is already afoot) both home and abroad.
Naturally, my initial reaction was to ignore it as something so ludicrous as to be able to find firm footing in the mind of any normal or rightly thinking individual and only routinely passed it onto my lawyers at a later date and thought nothing more of it. They (my lawyers), as a matter of course responded to it.
That these persons have since gone ahead with their premeditated plan to defame me upon allegations they know to be baseless, spurious and glaringly untrue is no longer news as the media is presently awash with the fruit of their labour and ordinarily I would not have dignified it with a response but for the sake of posterity and lest my silence be termed an admission of any wrongdoing whatsoever, I will simply proceed to state the facts here, viz:
That since my undergraduate days at the University of Calabar, I have been very passionate and deeply concerned about Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF), the plight of the girl-child and sexual violence against the female gender.
That in 2006 whilst still on crutches as a result of my ghastly automobile accident from the year before, I volunteered with the Mercy Ships Aberdeen West Africa Fistula Centre (as it then was) in Sierra Leone all out of my own personal savings as this was and will always be a cause very dear to my heart.
That in 2007/08 I visited the Mariam Abacha Women and Childrens Hospital, Sokoto where I personally made donations to the victims of VVF.
That in 2008 I was invited by The United Nations and the Government of Liberia to participate in the anti-rape campaign, Stop Rape and the Liberia Fistula Project.
That through my non-governmental organisation, The Extended Hands Foundation and our numerous partners, over 150 women and young ladies across the country have successfully undergone reconstructive surgery and have gone on to live wholesome fulfilling lives free of the stigmatization and the sheer pain and discomfort that comes with VVF.
That I registered the script for my movie DRY with The United States Copyright Office on November 28TH, 2011.
That I registered the script for my movie DRY with The Nigerian Copyright Commission on July 27TH, 2012.
That my movie DRY was shot in the months of August and September, 2012 in Nigeria.
That the unofficial trailer for DRY was released to lend my voice in support of the Child Not Bride campaign.
That Ms. Joy Ndidis first ever contact with me was in 2013 (DRY was already a finished project at this time) and it was not until June 2013 that she was officially engaged to provide content and ad-placement for my personal blog, The Stephanie Daily for all of six (6) months and this she did from the comfort of her home.
That the so called original literary work of the Daniella Madudu, I was supposed to have appropriated in my movie has never been registered at The Nigerian Copyright Commission even as we speak.
These are easily verifiable facts that any half-hearted attempt at investigative and responsible journalism would have turned up if indeed uncovering the truth for the benefit of the public was the primary motive behind the malicious publication.
It is truly a sorry pass we have come to as society when all it takes to ruin a persons reputation overnight is the spewing forth of mere accusations just because he or she happens to be in the public eye.
I choose to speak out and address this vice that has suddenly become the norm in our society and the acceptable standard of modern day journalism. We used to be better than this as a people; my prayer is that we still are.
DRY is more than just a movie; it is a righteous cause for voiceless women and young girls who have suffered the most debilitating kind of emotional and physical abuse, and anyone who seeks to denigrate this painful sacrifice with a smear campaign, with the intent to make gain or attract cheap publicity, simply lacks wisdom.
I want to take this opportunity to thank all those that have shown tremendous support and spoken up these past few days to end these words the same way it began:
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. "
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Photo Credit: Sensus.
Real-time IoT Data in Smart Cities, Buildings, and Homes 2017 - 2022
Real-time IoT Data in Smart Cities, Buildings, and Homes 2017 - 2022
May 2017 53 pages Mind Commerce Publishing
Report ID: 4927546.
Overview:
Smart Cities represent a combination of technologies deployed in an urban environment to transform the administration and support of living and working environments. One very important aspect of smart city deployments is use of various Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for purposes of monitoring systems, automating processes, and gathering data.
As a subset of Smart Cities, Smart Buildings utilize IoT and other technologies to provide enhanced facility management as well as improved safety, comfort, security, and productivity for workers. Another important part of Smart Cities is Smart Homes, which represents Internet connected residences that provide an enhanced lifestyle for its occupants by way of home automation as well as enhanced information, entertainment, and safety services.
In the case of all Smart City elements, there is underlying support from IoT Platforms and IoT Data Management and analytics to provide control, automation, and enable better decision making. This research assesses the global market for IoT generated from Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, and Smart Homes. All purchases of Mind Commerce reports includes time with an expert analyst who will help you link key findings in the report to the business issues you're addressing. This needs to be used within three months of purchasing the report.
In the history of Nigerian cinema from when I started going to the movie theatres in 1970 (following my great father Sunday Eke, who loved movies) to date, I have not seen up to 20 Nigerian films that I can call great movies.
Francis Oladele produced "Kongi's Harvest" in 1970, directed by the African American filmmaker, Ossie Davis with the screenplay by Prof. Wole Soyinka adapted from his 1965 play of the same title. Oladele also produced "Bullfrog in the Sun" of 1972, the film adaptation of the great Chinua Achebe's two classic novels, "Things Fall Apart" and "No Longer at Ease" directed by Hansjürgen Pohland of Germany whom I contacted in 2012, before he passed away on May 17, 2014 in Mandelieu-la-Napoule (Alpes-Maritimes, France).
He was a member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1965. Oladele passed away on Monday, June 22, 2015.
The following are Pohland's emails.
Dear Michael Chima,
yes, My name is Hansjuergen , but also called JASON POHLAND.
I directeted this movie.
But I myself are looking for a print of the movie.
Where is Francis OLADELE now?
If you find one, please inform me, so we can secure the material.
Also if you find posters etc.
Good to have contact with you.
Best JASON
www.POHLAND-JASON.com.
Dear Michael Chima,
please give my best regards and wishes for his birthday to Francis:
If you get hold of a print try to make a file and send it to me.
The BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL has strong interest to show the film during
its festival.
Thank you for all the informations you wrote, very interesting.
Hope to see you in the future.
Warmest regards,
JASON
Scenes from "Bullfrog in the Sun".
"Shaihu Umar" in Hausa by Adamu Halilu, Epic Drama, Nigeria, 1976, 142', Hausa with English Subtitles" https://www.africanfilm.com/products/shaihu-umar
Dr. Ola Balogun, Nigeria's greatest filmmaker since 1970 to date, directed the first Igbo language film, "Amadi" in 1975 and the Yoruba language film, "Ajani Ogun" in 1976.
Dr. Ola Balogun as a young filmmaker directing one of his films.
Ossie Davis directed "Countdown at Kusini" in 1976, produced by Ladi Ladebo.
"Bisi Daughter of the River" in 1977 directed by Joseph Abiodun Babajide, aka "Jab Adu" and produced by Ladi Ladebo is one of the best films in the Nigerian film industry.
"The Rise and Fall of Dr. Oyenusi" - A Film by Eddie Ugbomah
Eddie Ugbomah (19 December 1940 – 11 May 2019) was a Nigerian film director and producer. He directed and produced films such as the Rise and Fall of Oyenusi in 1979, The Boy is Good and Apalara, a film about the life and murder of Alfa Apalara in Oko Awo, Lagos. The plots of some of his films are loosely based on real life events, The Rise and Fall of Oyenusi is based on the career of a notorious robber, Ishola Oyenusi.
Sociopolitical Representations in African Cinema: Paulin S. Vieyra, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Eddie Ugbomah and Ola Balogun in the Footsteps of Ousmane Sembène | Africa Development
Ola Balogun directed "Ija Ominira" in 1978 for Adeyemi Afolayan, popularly known as "Ade Love".
Chief Hubert Ogunde, the greatest dramatist in the history of Nigerian drama produced a great film, "Aiye" in 1980 directed by Ola Balogun who directed his own war film, " Cry Freedom" in 1981.
EFUNSETAN ANIWURA
The film adaptation of, a historical biography of Efunsetan Aniwura by Prof. Akinwunmi Ishola was shot on celluloid by the popular Yoruba dramatist Ishola Ogunshola in 1981 after the stage plays by Ishola Ogunshola's I Sho Pepper travelling theatre group in Oyo state, Lagos state and other places in the south west of Nigeria.
EFUNSETAN ANIWURA 1981, directed by Bankole Bello.was the only Nigerian film in the Official Selection for International Competition at the 1982 Festival of 3 Continents in France and later selected in 1986 special focus on Nigerian cinema at the same film festival." http://totnaija.blogspot.com/2018/01/retro-efunsetan-aniwura-classics-of.html
Adeyemi Afolayan's "Kadara" of 1980 and "Taxi Driver" of 1983 are classics.
National Geographic's Chasing Genius Announces First Series Of Challenges Enabling Anyone To Unleash Their Inner Genius And Win $25,000 To Turn Their Ideas Into A Catalyst For Change In The World.
CHASING GENIUS, Part of an Integrated Partnership with GSK Consumer Healthcare, is a Groundbreaking Initiative Designed to Accelerate Transformative Ideas
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Based on the premise that transformative ideas can come from anywhere, and from anyone, National Geographic, along with partner GSK Consumer Healthcare, is introducing CHASING GENIUS, a global community that can help change the world. The Chasing Genius Challenge, a competition to find innovative ideas that address some of the world's most critical issues, offers an incredible opportunity to provide real solutions by everyday people. Winners of the Chasing Genius Challenge will receive $25,000 to expand upon their ideas, helping to further creative solutions toward positive global change.
Anyone with an idea that can help make the world a better place can learn more and apply today at www.natgeochasinggenius.com.
CHASING GENIUS is part of a broader, groundbreaking integrated partnership between National Geographic and GSK Consumer Healthcare, the makers of some of the world's best loved health care brands including Sensodyne®, Flonase® Sensimist™ and Excedrin®, that spans premium programming, custom storytelling and consumer engagement designed to inspire consumers to tap into their inner genius.
Click here to read the full report.
The execution of the men in the town of Kumshe, and other scenes showing Boko Haram members callously going about the daily business of their self-proclaimed caliphate are the subject of a VOA four-part video series, “Boko Haram: Terror Unmasked.”
The unedited recordings made little or no effort to hide the group’s most brutal acts. By all indications – time stamps on the videos, references by fighters, events described in news broadcasts heard in the background – the recordings were made in late 2014 and 2015, a period of expansion by Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria.
Attacks On the Press : Journalism on the World's Front Lines
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - 2013 - Business & Economics
... of one million barrels of oil a day for the Nigerian government and private companies, according to Nigerian writer Orikinla Osinachi.
Read more in Attacks On the Press : Journalism on the World's Front Lines
Author: Committee to Protect Journalists.
Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley ; Chichester : John Wiley [distributor], 2013.
Series: Bloomberg.
Summary
The world's most comprehensive guide to international press freedom
From Aleppo to Zacatecas, Beijing to Brasilia, the past decade has seen a sharp rise in the number of journalist imprisonments, assassinations, and disappearances worldwide. Caught between warlords and religious extremists, corrupt police and drug cartels, and hemmed in by increasingly oppressive censorship laws, journalists have never been at such peril, nor asked to pay such a high price for the ethical practice of their profession.
Begun as a simple typewritten list in 1986, Attacks on the Press has grown to become the definitive annual assessment of press freedoms globally. Compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists, it provides up-to-the-minute analyses of media conditions, press freedom violations, and emerging threats to journalists in every corner of the world.
In this 2013 edition, you will find front-line reports and analytical essays by CPJ experts covering an array of topics of critical importance to journalists, including: Journalist casualties at the front lines of conflicts in Syria, Nigeria, Somalia, Afghanistan, and other global hot spots. The curtailment of Internet freedoms across Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the draconian measures now in place in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand. The status of investigations into the disappearances of 35 journalists worldwide, and why more than half of those disappeared went missing in Mexico and Russia. The rise in journalist imprisonments globally, the spate of new anti-terrorism laws that made it possible, and the example set by the U.S. government in the wake of 9/11.
TheVictory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream: My Testimony on the 2015 Presidential Election
Instagram Impersonator of Pastor Folu A. Adeboye Exposed
Nigerian author and Publisher/Editor of Nigerians Report Online, Mr. Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima has exposed a Nigerian fraudster on Instagram who impersonated Pastor (Mrs) Foluke Adenike Adeboye, the wife of the famous Nigerian Pentecostal evangelist, Pastor E. A. Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), the largest Pentecostal church in the world.
Then the impersonator sent a private message to Mr. Michael Chima to pray for him. And afterwards, sent the following messages yesterday, June 1, 2017.
"The lord ministered a word to me about you, he said you have a great destiny even more than you think,he said there is an opportunity coming your way this year (2017) that will totally change your life, he said you should sow just any thing he ministered to your heart, into the life of this baby born with tumor on her face and her head by Today before 12:00pm that if this is done as soon as possible, your blessings will overfill the earth..
You are blessed, Kindly pledge your seed directly to the baby's parent bank details stated below Today before 12:00pm
BANK DETAILS
ACCOUNT NO.: 0223249140
ACCOUNT NAME:OLARENWAJU YEMI AMINAT
GTBank PLC
Give as the Lord as prosper you and get back to me for further instruction.Obedience maybe costly, but the end result is priceless.
Mr. Michael Chima was suspicious of the messages, because both Pastor Adeboye and his wife have never made such requests before. He sent N1, 000 (one thousand naira) to the bank account and the Guaranty Trust Bank PLC confirmed the deposit.
Amt: NGN1,000.00 DR
Desc: TRANSFER BETWEEN CUSTOMERS-from : EKENYERENGOZI MICHAEL CHIMA to OLARENWAJU YEMI AMINAT
Then he reported to the RCCG to confirm if the Instagram account belonged to Pastor Adeboye's wife and the church sent him the genuine Instagram account for @PastorFAAdeboye https://www.instagram.com/pastorfoluadeboye/.
There are notorious Nigerian fraudsters engaged in different internet scams by using different impersonations to defraud many people through emails and social network sites. The most infamous are the legendary "419" Yahoo-Yahoo Advance Fee Scam artists and Phishing fraudsters who have used fax and later Yahoo emails to defraud many foreigners in America and Europe from the 1980s to date.
Majority of online scams originate primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom and Nigeria, with Ivory Coast, Togo, South Africa, Benin, the Netherlands, and Spain also having high incidences of such fraud. The scam messages often claim to originate in Nigeria, but usually this is not true.
POPULATION: 21,300,000 Nickname(s): Eko akete, Lasgidi Motto: Èkó ò ní bàjé o!
Lagos’ Resilience Challenge
This bustling megacity must cope with rising sea levels and coastal erosion that threaten to undermine its growth.
Lagos has over 21 million inhabitants and is the cultural and economic heart of Nigeria. With financial, commercial, and tourist centers located on islands in the Gulf of Guinea, Lagos is especially susceptible to damage from rising sea levels and coastal erosion, which have already led to a decline in water quality, the destruction of drainage infrastructure, and an increase in incidences of water and vector borne disease. Coastal erosion has also hurt indigenous communities that depend on coastal resources for survival.
Coastal flooding from storm surges has forced the relocation of resorts, businesses, and artisans from the popular tourist destination of Victoria Island. Recent initiatives involving private sector partners have already led to the reclamation of some coastline on the island, providing a model for future efforts to protect Lagos’ vulnerable shores.
SHOCKS AND STRESSES
CHRONIC ENERGY SHORTAGES
COASTAL FLOODING
DISEASE OUTBREAK
INFRASTRUCTURE FAILURE
OVER POPULATION
OVER TAXED
UNDER DEVELOPED
UNRELIABLE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
POOR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
RAINFALL FLOODING
RISING SEA LEVEL AND COASTAL EROSION
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