Portenier Bursary Competition for Independent Journalists in Danger While Exposing Human Rights Abuses

Jason O’Hara, Portenir Bursary winner, 2015 (CNW Group/Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma)

Portenier Bursary Competition Offers Safety Training for Independent Journalists in Danger while Exposing Human Rights Abuses

Eman Helal, Portenier Bursary winner, 2016 (CNW Group/Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma)

Brennan Leffler, Portenier Bursary winner, 2017 (CNW Group/Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma)

LONDON, ON, May 15, 2018 /CNW/ - Independent documentary-makers and freelance journalists working on significant projects exposing human rights abuses can apply for a bursary to help them obtain hostile environment training, more usually made available to journalists working in war zones.

The 2018 Portenier Human Rights Bursary competition, offered by the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma, opens today and closes on June 15.

The annual bursary, introduced in 2015, is sponsored by the documentary filmmaker Giselle Portenier, whose work on human rights abuses has been internationally acclaimed.

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IDACB To Launch Large Scale Asian Blockchain Roadshow

IDACB To Launch Large Scale Asian Blockchain Roadshow

$5 billion were invested in ICO during 2017, while according to CoinDesk $4,8 billion during three months of the current year. It is 85% investments of the whole last year (ICO Telegram excluded from the calculation). The number of ICOs have already reached 60% of 2017 rates. Despite the bans on ICO which are being introduced in some Asian countries, this region is still one of the most promising one.

Book on President Buhari and the Nigerian Dream Selling in America

Two copies of "The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream: My Testimony on the 2015 Presidential Election" sold yesterday for N33, 840, including shipping.

It is only N12, 240 per copy ( excluding shipping) for the paperback version.
The hardcover will be released before Democracy Day on May 29.

This is the most colourful book on the historical 2015 presidential election in Nigeria and the principal actors in the emergence of the first Nigerian presidential candidate to defeat an incumbent President in the political history of Nigeria.

Book designed by Juvelin Aripal in the Philippines and printed in full colour in the United States of America.
Price: US$34.38.

Buhari Administration Will Continue to Ensure Transparency, Accountability in Governance - VP Osinbajo

Buhari Administration Will Continue to Ensure Transparency, Accountability in Governance - VP Osinbajo

Speech Delivered by His Excellency, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Week, Held at the NAF Conference Centre, Abuja, on Monday, May 7, 2018

ABUJA, Nigeria, May 8, 2018/ -- *Says FG determined to stop grand corruption

*Implementation of OGP has improved Nigeria’s image in international community

Speech Delivered by His Excellency, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, at the  Open Government Partnership (OGP) Week, Held at the NAF Conference Centre, Abuja, on Monday, May 7, 2018:

“We have, since we assumed office three years ago, made remarkable progress in pushing the frontiers of transparency and accountability in the Federal Government. One of the first things that the President did when we took office was to establish the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), to coordinate our reform efforts in this regard.

University of Port Harcourt's Nollywood Film Workshop Begins on May 21

The University of Port Harcourt in Rivers State of Nigeria is hosting the Nollywood Film Workshop from May 21-28, 2018.
The opening ceremony for the film workshop is on Monday, 21st of May, 2018.

The university has produced many of the top actors and actresses in Nollywood, including Ibinabo Fiberesima, Hilda Dokubo, Clem Ohameze, Sam Dede, Bob Manuel Udokwu, Monalisa Chinda, Julius Agwu, Thelma Okoduwa, Charles Inojie, Rita Dominic, Charles Okafor, Basorge Tariah Jnr, Ejike Asiegbu, Francis Duru and Yul Edochie.

Contact:
Dr. Chika Christian Onu, PhD (Directing). Department of Theatre & Film Studies University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series: The only book series on the Nigerian film industry.

Why They Are Ganging Up Against President Buhari

Why They Are Ganging Up Against President Buhari

Chief Obasanjo, Atiku, Abdulsalami Faces Prosecution, as President Buhari Reopens $182 Million Halliburton Bribery Scandal.

Chief Obasanjo is desperate to stop President Buhari from Reopening Haliburton Scandal, because he was indicted by Okiro Panel. Files point to $182mn Halliburton bribery scandal in Nigeria | The Indian Express http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-others/files-point-to-182mn-halliburton-bribery-scandal-in-nigeria/ Halliburton Bribery: Chronology of a Nigerian Scandal | The NEWS http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2015/07/halliburton-bribery-chronology-of-a-nigerian-scandal/

Chief Obasanjo is still haunted by the Odi massacre.

The Odi massacre was an attack carried out on November 20, 1999, by the Nigerian military on the predominantly Ijaw town of Odi in Bayelsa State.

You Can Criticise President Buhari Without Cursing and Insulting Him

Tell those cursing and insulting President Muhammadu Buhari to show us what their fathers have achieved for Nigeria.
President Buhari started serving Nigeria from when he was only 19 as a Nigerian military officer and at 21 was a Platoon Commander and not sponging off others like a doggie and was a combatant during the uncivil war from 1967-1970; twice state governor of two different state at 33 and 34 and Federal Commissioner at 36.

Video: President Trump Hosts a Joint Press Conference with President Buhari

President Trump Hosts a Joint Press Conference with President Buhari of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Remarks by President Trump and President Buhari of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Before Bilateral Meeting FOREIGN POLICY Issued on: April 30, 2018.
Oval Office 12:09 P.M. EDT

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much. It’s an honor to be with President Buhari of Nigeria. We have many things that we do together, as you know, probably — especially on terrorism and terrorism-related. We also have a very big trade deal that we’re working on for military equipment — helicopters and the like. We have met before. We have developed a great relationship. And we look forward to our discussion today — very important — but again, especially as it relates to terrorism. And that’s terrorism here and terrorism all over the world. It’s a hotbed, and we’re going to be stopping that. Also, we’ve had very serious problems with Christians who have been murdered, killed in Nigeria. We’re going to be working on that problem, and working on that problem very, very hard, because we can’t allow that to happen. Mr. President, thank you very much for being here. Thank you.

Africa’s Biggest Farmer Collective To Help 100,000 Farmers in the Niger Delta

Biggest Farmer Collective to Help 100,000 in Niger Delta as Tata and John Deere Sign Alluvial Initiative

Tractor maker John Deere and India’s biggest conglomerate, Tata Group, have agreed a groundbreaking initiative to provide machinery to as many as 100,000 smallholder farmers in the troubled Niger Delta region.

The deal announced today is the culmination of a seven-year project by Nigerian collective farming business, Alluvial Agriculture, to address the systemic problems that leave most African smallholder farmers in poverty and threaten food security across the developing world. Alluvial’s solution focuses on aggregating smallholders to create a nucleus of minimum efficient scale and the necessary education, mechanization, inputs and market access.


Under their agreement, Tata John Deere, the joint venture with distribution rights for Nigeria, will deploy up to 300 tractors over the next two years to farms spanning 120,000 hectares, or 463 square miles, in the Niger Delta and adjoining states. With plowing times ranging from 20 minutes to half a day on each of the thousands of adjacent smallholdings, the tractors will save farmers several days to weeks of toiling by hand. Individual farmers will undertake self-financing lease agreements for the use of both the tractor and a driver as part of an overall package that includes collective agreements to reduce the cost of seeds and fertilizers and increase the sale price of their crops.

Open Letter To The Liars Against President Muhammadu Buhari

Liars Against President Buhari lie that Nigerians are suffering and yet
"The Wedding Party" made over
₦953 million and "A Trip To Jamaica" made more than N178 million within months in cinemas in Ngeria in 2016 and 2017. What #Nollywood movies never made in the six years of the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Disposable incomes of Nigerians have been increasing since 2016 to date.

Primary school enrolments increased by more than 10 million pupils, because of free feeding in primary schools that the administration of the former national ruling party, People's Democratic Party (PDP) failed to do in 16 years of corruption and maladministration.

Sales of smart phones increased from 11 million in 2014 to 20 million in 2018.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange has become one of the top five best performing stock exchanges in the world. And yet the intellectually retarded ignoramuses and "mofos" are lying that President Buhari has failed?
When he has achieved in three years what their satanic paymasters and sponsors failed to achieve in 16 years.
Lying against someone is witchcraft and the Holy Bible said "Suffer not a witch to live".
Except the witch repents.