Dear Hon. Lai Mohammed, Where is the Remaining N1.9 Billion of the Project Act Nollywood Fund?

Dear Hon. Lai Mohammed, Where is the Remaining N1.9 Billion of the Project Act Nollywood Fund?

Read the special investigative report on http://totnaija.blogspot.com/2020/11/where-is-remaining-n19-billion-of.html

The Sanitation and Hygiene Fund To Be Launched On 17 November

Ms Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations.

GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sanitation and Hygiene Fund will be launched during an online event next Tuesday. It is seeking US$2 billion over the coming five years to provide a 21st-century solution to the decades-old crisis on sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health.

Currently, more than 4 billion people globally do not have access to safely managed sanitation services. 3 billion lack access to basic handwashing facilities, and nearly 10 percent of the world's population still practice open defecation.

International broadcaster, Ms Zeinab Badawi, moderates the online event, which will begin at 4 p.m. CET.

Many of the world's most serious diseases and leading causes of child mortality are related directly to poor sanitation and hygiene. Yet there has been considerable under-investment in this sector for many years, and this has hampered progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Today, the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened existing inequalities as masks are too expensive or hard to find, and social distancing is impossible in many of the vulnerable communities. The lack of proper sanitation and hygiene adds to the risks to life and livelihood for the world's most disadvantaged, threatening the foundations of economies and health security.

Arguing the case for global investment in sanitation and hygiene will be Ms Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations.

International broadcaster, Ms Zeinab Badawi, moderates the online event, which will begin at 4 p.m. CET.

Other speakers include Vice President Yemi Osinbajo of Nigeria; Ms Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director; Ms Grete Faremo, Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services; Mr Gilbert Houngbo, Chair of UN-Water and President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development; Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab, Deputy Director-General of the World Health Organization; and Dominic O'Neill, Executive Director of the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund.

International broadcaster, Ms Zeinab Badawi, moderates the online event, which will begin at 4 p.m. Central Europe Time or 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on 17 November. The show will be streamed on the SHF website and its YouTube channel.

By raising and investing the necessary funding, the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund will bring about change and drive this transformation. It will finance programmes that produce large-scale and measurable results and deliver a fundamental social and human right to millions who have been robbed of their dignity.

What:
Launch of the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund
When:
4 p.m. CET (10 a.m. EST)
Tuesday, 17 November 2020
Where:
www.SHFund.org
No registration is required

- Pictures are available at AP Images (http://www.apimages.com) -

For more information and to request an interview, visit www.SHFund.org or contact:

Hiroyuki Saito, Head of Corporate Communications and Advocacy
Tel: +41 22 552 5212; Mobile: +41 79 684 3598
Email: hiroyuki.saito@wsscc.org

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Monkeys Will Always Be Monkeys

Monkeys Will Always Be Monkeys

"It is better to have commonsense without PhD 

Than to have PhD without commonsense."

- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,

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How can you claim to be educated, but you lack the intellectual comprehension of the unforeseen circumstances of the existential realities of life on earth.  Say the truth and damn the wrath of whose ox is gored by the truth.

The stupidities of some Nigerians who have PhD make them look like monkeys dressed up in academic regalia. 

Like the one who lied that the demons in uniform who shot the peaceful #EndSARS  protesters at the #Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020 were hoodlums in military uniform. And lest we forget, the hoodlums who went on rampage to disrupt the peaceful protests against police brutality and extra judicial killings in Nigeria did not just appear from the blues. They were hired and organised by the same paymasters who hired them as political thugs for political elections.

Lest we forget, Boko Haram terrorists have families who use banks in Nigeria and go to markets in Nigeria, but the CBN has not frozen their bank accounts. Only monkeys do monkey business.

Monkeys will always be monkeys; from the jungle to the circus or to the zoo.

The Abandoned Children of Adamawa in Northern Nigeria

 

No child asked to be born poor. 

I don't even know how to react. To cry or to be angry. How can the Adamawa state government fail so woefully?

To abandon these innocent children in such a hostile environment without access to any school and without any welfare. And what is the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development (FMHDSD) doing in response to such a humanitarian emergency?

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Our Unicorns Are Coming

Our Unicorns Are Coming

In January, I said this is the Year of the Unicorns and in spite of the unforeseen circumstances and unfortunate tragedies of the COVID-19 pandemic, my prediction has come to pass with the emergence of new Unicorns from Silicon Valley to Crypto Valley. And the acquisitions of fintech startups extended to Nigeria where Paystack was acquired by Stripe for US$200 million which is the biggest fintech acquisition in Nigeria after Visa invested US$200 million in  Interswitch last year, 2019.

To me PayStack is already a Unicorn, because it is worth over US$1billion. 

Paystack is backed by Visa and Tencent which owns Chinese superapp, WeChat. Equally, 

I also found out that Visa and Mastercard have invested in Flutterwave. Flutterwave has also secured an important partnership with Alipay. That makes it a potential Unicorn.

What I am more focused on is to see a Nigerian Unicorn in the social network and video streaming sector within four years. And that has seen me investing my incomes in the development of such tech startups and left me flat broke. 

But I am very optimistic that the first one will be rolling out soon. And the prospects are bright.

- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,

The CEO,

International Digital Post Network Limited

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Nigeria: #Nollywood, #Kannywood and the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Nigeria: #Nollywood, #Kannywood and the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

It would be good to finally see a great Nigerian film qualify for the nominations of the highly esteemed prestigious Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (formerly called Best Foreign Language Film before 2020) of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It would be a historical milestone in the history of Nollywood, Kannywood and filmmaking in Nigeria. But it is good to make sure that Nigerian filmmakers have produced films that can qualify in content and context of the criteria for the qualification for the Best International Feature category.  

It is best to use the qualifications for the major international film festivals for the evaluations of the standards for the submission of the best Nigerian film. To me, only a Nigerian film that qualified for the Official Selections of the following film festivals should be submitted as Nigeria's entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature:

1. Cannes Film Festival @festivaldecannes 

2. Venice International Film Festival @labiennale 

3. Toronto International Film Festival @tiff_net 

4. Berlin International Film Festival @berlinale 

5. International Film Festival Rotterdam @iffr 

6. Sundance Film Festival @sundanceorg and

7. Durban International Film Festival @durbaninternationalfilmfest .

Any Nigerian film that has failed to qualify for any of the above highly rated international film festivals should not be submitted to The Academy Awards for consideration for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film competition. Because if a Nigerian film cannot qualify for the Official Selection of Cannes, Venice or Toronto, how can it qualify for the #Oscars?

We must have a benchmark for the selection of any Nigerian film in Pidgin English, Igbo or any other native Nigerian language for the Academy Award for Best International Feature.

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The Highest Paid Nollywood Actors in Asaba

Asaba, the capital city of Delta State in the South-South region of Nigeria is the new hub of Nollywood, the first and largest indie film industry in Africa known for the productions of thousands of home videos. 

In Nollywood Rising: Welcome To Asaba, I said that the city has overtaken Lagos in the production of movies. And the highest paid actors (both male and female) in Asaba are among the highest paid and richest actors in Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry.  

The highest paid actors in Asaba, include Jerry Amilo, Yul Edochie, Zubby Michael, Mercy Johnson Okojie, Ebele Okaro, Ngozi Ezeonu, Patience Ozokwor, Chika Ike, Tonto Dikeh, Destiny Etiko, Mike Ezuruonye, Ken Erics Ugo, Stephen Emeka Odimgbe, Chacha Eke and Regina Daniels.

These actors are being paid between N1 million and N5 million per movie. And they are earning more money than several of the A-List actors in Lagos city.

- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,

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#Nollywood Rising: Welcome To Asaba!

#Nollywood Rising: Welcome To Asaba!

Asaba is the capital of Delta State in Nigeria.

I call Asaba, the heartbeat of South-South of Nigeria.

Best Western Hotel.

Asaba has overtaken Lagos in the production of Nollywood movies. And the following articles have confirmed this significant development in the Nigerian film industry:

How Nollywood came to Asaba — RMD

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/03/nollywood-came-asaba-rmd/

Peace Anyiam-Osigwe urged cinema filmmakers to understudy the business model of Asaba filmmakers to be able to grow cinema audience.

https://www.pulse.ng/entertainment/movies/ignore-asaba-stars-at-your-peril-says-amaa-founder-peace-anyiam-osigwe-to-cinema/q5t59dk

Majority of Nigerians consider these movies we term ‘Asaba movies’ as the real ‘Nollywood.’ And most opinions people have of the industry are formed based on these mass movies.

The top people in the global film industry said: Every region has unique stories to tell. And I should encourage them to tell their stories first and not be hindered by the technical requirements for professional film production. That the first thing is to supply on demand, because it was the overwhelming quantity of Nollywood in the 1990s that attracted the rest of the world before the improvement in the quality. 

Asaba is reviving the acting careers of several veterans of Nollywood who have been sidelined in Lagos.

Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, the executive Governor of Delta State is currently building the Asaba Film Village, the first film village in the South-South region of Nigeria.

It is important to report this outstanding development in the Nigerian film industry. I am doing it for the benefit of local and international interests in the Nigerian film industry and to make Asaba an international destination for film tourism.

- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,

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