Genevieve Nnaji Breaks New Ground for Nollywood with Her Directorial Debut "Lionheart" at TIFF 2018 in Canada

Nollywood diva, Genevieve Nnaji has become the first Nollywood filmmaker whose directorial debut feature has made the Official Selection in the Discovery Section of 43rd edition of the highly esteemed annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) of Canada scheduled to take place from September 6-16, 2018.

"Lionheart" is already acquired for international distribution by Marie-Pierre Macia"s MPM Film – MPM Film production, development, international sales.
Macia is the former Director of the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight) of the Cannes Film Festival, where she discovered and presented the debut films of such now-famous filmmakers as Mexican director Carlos Reygadas with Japon, Sofia Coppola with Virgin Suicides and the Romanian Directors Cristi Puiu and Cristian Mungiu with respectively Marfa Si Banii and Occident. Most recently, she worked as personal adviser to Cristian Mungiu on his last film, 4 months 3 weeks 2 days, which won the Palme d’Or in Cannes 2007.

“Lionheart’ is the beginning of a journey to explore and express my creative interpretation of story-telling, particularly African stories. Africa is a possessor of the most compelling stories as yet untold, and we are determined to tell our stories, our way, through our voices, to the world.” ~ Genevieve Nnaji.

Genevieve Nnaji's outstanding achievement shows the future of Nollywood belongs to those who can see the Big Picture and that with one movie you can make history.

 Read more by Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Publisher/Editor of the NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series on TALK OF THE TOWN By Orikinla.

Share Her Journey

Last year, only 11% of the top 250 films were directed by women. Only 18% of all directors, writers, producers, editors, and cinematographers were women.

It’s time for a wake-up call.
TIFF stands with women in front of and behind the camera. Add your voice to support women in film:

Share Her Journey - Support Women in Film on
https://shareherjourney.org/.

The Lunatic Fringe of Internet Trolls of the PDP

A troll is a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive things.

The opposition party, PDP in Nigeria has paid a group of trolls to curse and swear at President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) on #Nairaland, #Facebook, #Twitter and other social network sites in a vicious campaign of calumny against President Buhari and his supporters.

Nigeria: A Critical Humanitarian Situation is Unfolding in Bama, Borno State, with Severe Consequences for Young Children

Nigeria: A Critical Humanitarian Situation is Unfolding in Bama, Borno State, with Severe Consequences for Young Children


LONDON, 17 August 2018 / PRN Africa / -- Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has started emergency nutritional and paediatric activities in Bama, Borno State Nigeria, in response to a critical humanitarian situation among newly arrived internally displaced people (IDPs). Lack of assistance, including access to shelter and healthcare, is having severe consequences for young children arriving in the town. MSF calls on authorities to urgently provide adequate assistance for the population, before the situation further deteriorates.

African Development Bank Mourns the Passing of Kofi A. Annan

African Development Bank Mourns Passing of former Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kofi A. Annan

He was a staunch advocate of the Bank’s ‘New Deal on Energy for Africa’, a partnership-driven effort which aims to achieve universal access to energy in Africa 
by 2025

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, August 18, 2018/ -- The African Development Bank (www.AFDB.org) has learned with deep sadness the news of the death of Kofi A. Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations and Noble Peace Prize Laureate, at the age of 80 in Bern, Switzerland.

Tokenization and Film Financing

Tokenization and Film Financing

J.D. Seraphine, Vision Tree: : We’ve had some success in the past with crowd funding so we were looking to use a similar approach to get the audience invested and engaged in the project. We created a security token which means the people who buy the tokens to own a stake in the movie itself. Simultaneously, we created a utility token which has a specific application within the ecosystem of the platform. Users can earn utility tokens through engagement on social media and can use them to vote on things such as choosing which will be the official trailer.

Video of Illegal Possession of AK47 Guns By Gunmen in Northern Nigeria

Video of Illegal Possession of AK47 Guns By Gunmen in Northern Nigeria

Who are the suppliers of these guns?
Are the arms dealers invisible?

A house to house search of all the communities located in the troubled areas of conflicts is long overdue.

Illegal possession of arms is rampant from the Niger Delta to Lake Chad.

Meet the Nigerian Girls Who Won Top Honours at the 2018 Technovation World Pitch Summit in America

Junior Gold Scholarship Winners
Save A Soul
FD-Detector
Nigeria


FD-Detector (Fake Drug Detector) helps identify fake pharmaceutical drugs in Nigeria. The app leverages a drug's barcode to verify its authenticity and expiration date. Save A Soul will also partner with NAFDAC (National Agency for Food & Drug Administration and Control), an agency responsible for regulating drugs in Nigeria.

AfDB Invests Over $400M To Promote Jobs for Youths in Nigeria

AfDB Invests Over $400M To Promote Jobs for Youths in Nigeria

Nigeria: African Development Bank inaugurates task force on Youth Employment and Skills Development

ABIDJAN, Côte d'Ivoire, 06 August 2018 / PRN Africa / -- The African Development Bank in partnership with the Federal Government of Nigeria has inaugurated a Task Force to drive its first Public-Private Round Table on Youth Employment and Skills Development.

The Round Table scheduled to take place later this year, will seek to accelerate investment in youth employment and skills enhancement.

Barack Obama and the American Dream

Barack Obama and the American Dream

In 2008, I actively participated in the political arguments and debates on the U.S  presidential campaigns of Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama of the Democratic Party until the presidential nomination and election of Barack Obama as the first African American President of the United States of America.
I compiled and documented selections of my arguments, comments and commentaries I posted in responses to the reports and opinions of others, including posts from my blog on the Des Moines Register of Iowa.  I decided to publish the book of over 400 pages for the benefit of public knowledge and studies in the political history of America on how the son of an African immigrant became the 44th President of the United States of America on January 20, 2009. A book that parents can read and share with their children and millions of people in America, Africa and the rest of the world can read and keep in both private and public libraries.
I got one of the best book editors in America, Pamela Guerrieri to edit it and I paid more than US$1 per page she edited. Then I submitted the book for publication to an American publishing company that replied that it was not the kind of book it publishes . But it recommended another publisher who told me that members of her editorial board would have disagreements over it and referred me to
Hillcrest Media Group.
Then she also said:

"First, I believe that the person’s merit is based on what they do and how they act, not on the color of their skin. Second, I do not support anyone who seeks to take away the freedom that our for fathers and mothers fought long and hard to gain.  I believe that Obama and his agenda are inherently socialist, and a socialist agenda is anathema to the freedoms I hold as sacred, such as the freedom to choose how I care for my body, my mind, and my children (all freedoms that are taken away in the “Healthcare reform” bill.)"

I have decided to consider more intellectually informed publishers that will appreciate and publish this very important book of American democracy in the 21st century.


~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima.

How Dangote Refinery Will Create More than 1 Million New Jobs

By 2020, Dangote Refinery will start operations and the impact will be seen in the socioeconomic ecosystem of Lagos state.
The project is located in Lekki Free Trade Zone on a vast land mass of 2,200 hectares, an area eight times bigger than the entire Victoria Island in Lagos.

R-L:  Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode (2nd right), with President of Togo, Mr. Faure Gnassingbe; Minister of Trade, Investment & Industry, Mr. Okechukwu Enelamah and President, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote during the visit of the Togolese President to the Dangote Refinery at the Lekki Free Trade Zone, Lekki, Lagos in 2017.

With Dangote Refinery, the biggest refinery in Africa's largest megacity, Lagos may become the second biggest economy in the continent.

The refinery will create more than one million new jobs from industries producing petroleum naphtha, gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, jet fuel and fuel oils and petrochemicals feed stock like ethylene and propylene.