100th Anniversary Issue of Current History

2 Jan 2014 16:18 Africa/Lagos After A Hundred Years, Current History Looks To Its Past And Future

The nation's oldest continuously published international affairs journal was founded a century ago during the First World War.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- With the publication of its centennial issue, dated January 2014, Current History marks a milestone: America's oldest world affairs journal has been published continuously since 1914. Its history is truly the history of the twentieth century.


Founded in 1914 by The New York Times to supplement daily newspaper coverage, the fledgling publication sought to explain a new kind of international conflict to Americans. Current History from its inception has been a key source of information on international affairs for an engaged readership.
Contributions to Current History have come from poets and playwrights, journalists and diplomats, statesmen and scholars. George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Leon Trotsky, H.L. Mencken, Winston Churchill, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Bernard Baruch, John Dewey, Lewis Mumford, Thomas Wolfe, Reinhold Niebuhr, Henry Steele Commager, Walter Lippmann, Hans Morgenthau, and many other public intellectuals have written in its pages. Thinkers such as Joseph Stiglitz, Condoleezza Rice, Barry Eichengreen, Nancy Birdsall, Steven Pinker, Robin Wright, and Francis Fukuyama continue their tradition today.

January's 100^th anniversary issue includes essays on major global trends by Michael Mandelbaum, Larry Diamond, Sheila Jasanoff, G. John Ikenberry, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Scott D. Sagan, Uri Dadush, Bruce Russett, Amrita Narlikar, Omar Encarnacion, Martha Crenshaw, and Nicholas Eberstadt.

The New York Times sold the magazine in 1936; it has been privately held since. Daniel Mark Redmond is now the publisher. Previously, his grandfather, Daniel G. Redmond (1943-1955), and father, Daniel G. Redmond Jr. (1955-1988), held that position. Redmond notes that the magazine has had just four editors in the past 70 years: Daniel G. Redmond, Carol L. Thompson (1955-1991), William W. Finan Jr. (1991-2006), and Alan Sorensen (2006-2013). In January 2014, Joshua Lustig, formerly managing editor, takes over the editorship.


As an independent source of international relations scholarship and journalism, with no institutional affiliation, Current History remains unique among American journals of world affairs after a hundred years of publication. Old-fashioned in its look and feel, in its ownership, and most importantly, in its dedication to thoughtful, clear analysis of global events and trends, Current History is so old that it's new again.
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It is Not Easy To Govern Lagos, Because of Influx of People From other States

Most of those who are ignorant of the facts and figures of Lagos don't even know that Lagos state with an estimated population of 21 million people has more people than all the eastern states combined and it is official that Lagos is:

the largest city on the continent as a whole, Lagos is the economic hub of Nigeria, contributing the majority of the country’s gross domestic product. It is home to one of the busiest ports in the region, particularly important for its massive oil-exporting industry, but the city has so much more than that. An enormous music scene is credited for the birth of everything from Nigerian hip hop to Afrobeat, and its film industry (nicknamed “Nollywood”) is incredibly influential and popular. - See more at: http://afkinsider.com/35192/most-populous-cities-in-sub-saharan-africa/2/#sthash.fW7ZB0qo.dpuf

Many of the other states with even smaller populations cannot even develop them and that is why more people continue to leave these underdeveloped states for Lagos.


 The failures of other state governments have made their youths to migrate to the mega city of Lagos; attracted by the endless opportunities in the fast developing mega city of Lagos. But most them are unskilled and can only be regular supply of cheap labour. But they are also those who breed kids they cannot feed and have increased the population of socioeconomic liabilities and worsen the problems and troubles of jobless people who often turn to crime and anti-social behaviour. They are the ones who cause the problems of over-stretched infrastructure and social amenities most critics blame the Lagos state government for. Lagos state government did not build the illegal structures of slum dwellers who later turn around to accuse the government of neglect.

Children play in the Makoko slum, in Lagos, Nigeria where houses accessible only by canoe sit on stilts above polluted waters of the Lagos lagoon, January 21, 2011.
  
It is like the illegal residents of Monkey Village on Bonny Island accusing the River state government of neglect and asking for the same goodies of the ultra modern Nigeria LNG Residential Areas. A slum is always seen showing up near a new modern estate and before you say "Èkó ò ní bàjé oooooo!", the slum dwellers are messing up the master plan of the state government and if the government demolishes their slum, they turn against the state.


The other states, and especially the oil producing states should go and see what the smart Arabs are doing with their own oil money and see that even their state capitals can become the United Arab Emirates of Nigeria. And then they can stop their jobless youths from rushing to Lagos to overstretch the social amenities and alter the master plans of the Lagos state government.  


~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Publisher/Editor,Nigerians Report Online A member of the Digital Media Law Project, Nollywood Mirror Series; CEO, International Digital Post Network Limited, CEO, Screen Outdoor Open Air Cinema (SOOAC), http://screennaija.wordpress.com/ and Executive Director, Screen Naija One Village, One Village Project. Author of Children of Heaven, Scarlet Tears of London, Bye, Bye Mugabe, In the House of Dogs, The Prophet Lied, Diary of the Memory Keeper, co-author of Naked Beauty and editor of The Language of True Love.

 

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The Most Expected Nigerian Films in 2014

The most expected Nigerian films in 2014 are Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen’s most ambitious film production to date, the historical epic "Invasion 1897", Kunle Afolayan's historical fiction "October 1" and Izu Ojukwu’s thriller "'76", the historical epic on the catastrophic botched military coup that led to the assassination of Head of State Gen. Murtala Muhammed in 1976 in Lagos. All the residents of Obalende (including my family and I) and Ikoyi near Dodan Barracks witnessed that bloody coup that fateful day on February 13, 1976.

 “’76” is star-studded with some of the best actors and actresses in Nollywood, including Ramsey Nouah, Rita Dominic, Ibinabo Fiberisima, Chidi Mokeme, Memry Savanhu, Adonijah Owiriwa, Daniel K. Daniel, Nelly Ekwereogu and Shuaibu Ebenehi Adams.

Kunle Afolayan’s “October 1” recently won the Best Fiction film trailer of the 2013 International Movie Trailer's Festival, the first online movie trailer contest showcasing 1-4 minute trailers from around the world. “October 1” has an international cast of accomplished actors and actresses led by Sadiq Daba as "Inspector Waziri"; Aderupoko as "Sergeant Afonja"; Fabian Lojede as "Corporal Omolodun"; Demola Adedoyin as "Prince Aderopo"; Kehinde Bankole as "Miss Tawa", Nick Rhys as "Winterbottom"; Lawrence Stubbings as "Tomkins" and Colin David Reese as "Rev Dowling".  

Synopsis:
It’s September 1960, and with Nigeria on the verge of independence from British colonial rule, a northern Nigerian Police Detective, DAN WAZIRI, is urgently despatched by the Colonial Government to the trading post town of Akote in the Western Region of Nigeria to solve a series of female murders that have struck horror in the hearts and minds of the local community. On getting to Akote, more murders are committed, and with local tension high and volatile, Waziri has a race on his hands to solve the case before even more local women are killed. Set against the backdrop of the national celebratory mood of the impending independence, Waziri is pulled into a game of cat and mouse as he and the killer try to outwit each other… leading to the climatic end in which the life of a popular local female teacher and village belle, TAWA, is held in the balance. Waziri has to race against the clock to capture the killer, save Tawa and solve the crime before the British flag is lowered and the Nigerian flag raised on Independence Day… October 1.

"Invasion 1897" is the most anticipated film to celebrate the Nigeria Centenary in 2014 (modern day Nigeria came into being on January 1, 1914), and to mark the centenary of the death of the great King of Benin, Omo n’Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi in exile in Calabar on January 14, 1914, Lancelot Imasuen will host special guests from corporate Nigeria and leading journalists at his Lagos studios on January 14, 2014. "Invasion 1897" (Nogbaisi Ovonramwen) is perhaps the most daring film project in the history of the Nigerian film industry, because no previous movie can be compared to it, both in scope and perspective of the historical context. The epic is based on the invasion of the Benin Kingdom by the British Empire in 1897 and looting the priceless ancient artifacts of the Benin kingdom, including the famous commemorative head and pendant of ivory mask representing Queen Idia (from court of Benin, 16th century) who was the mother of Esigie, the Oba of Benin who ruled from 1504 to 1550. The commemorative head is at the British Museum, while the pendant is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA. The film has an international cast of proven actors such as famous Caribbean born British Actor Rudolph Walker, OBE, Charles "Chucky" Venn, Annika á Lofti,Hannah Raehse-Felstead, Nollywood stars Segun Arinze Paul Obazele, Mike Omoregbe who played the lead role as Oba Ovoramwen, Charles Inojie and the late Justus Esiri.


 ~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Publisher/Editor of NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® SERIES.

 
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Happy New Year 2014! HALLELUJAH!

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Corruption of the Ruling Class and Witchcraft of the Masses

 It is common habit and fashionable for the so called masses to point accusing fingers at the elites and rich ruling class in both proven and unfounded accusations and allegations of corruption and live in denial of their own complicity in the widespread corruption plaguing Nigeria.
The masses prefer to think they are not equally corrupt, because to them, they are not embezzling or misappropriating public or private funds since they have not had the opportunity to do so and not that they are holier than the so called corrupt public servants and private contractors in every state in the most populous country in Africa. But they forget that they are also corrupt, because their own forms of corruption are even worse than the political corruption of the ruling class.

Let us define what is corruption.

In philosophical, theological, or moral discussions, corruption is spiritual or moral impurity or deviation from an ideal. Corruption may include many activities including bribery and embezzlement. Government, or 'political', corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts in an official capacity for personal gain.

~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption

The so called masses are complicit in the general corruption, because corruption starts from the bottom to the top rungs of the ladder of the social class.
Whether you embezzled or misappropriated N1, you are as guilty of corruption as the "Oga at the Top" who embezzled N1 billion.
A thief is a thief, no matter the price or size of what the thief has stolen.

To me, whatever harms the good character or nature of humans is corruption.

Political corruption may have underdeveloped Nigeria, but there are worse forms of the corruption of the human character I see everyday among majority of Nigerians. And these forms of corruption are the most common problems plaguing the lives of majority of people among the masses and they have done even horrible and terrible things to the populace and they are the evils of witchcraft.
Yes, witchcraft is common among the masses and they cannot deny it as the evils of witchcraft are daily complaints among the millions of churchgoers who report their activities in their churches.
Just go and listen to the daily prayers of the congregants of the popular Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries and other pentecostal fellowships in Nigeria and you will witness awesome testimonies of the dangers of witchcraft among the masses.

Yes, believe it or not witchcraft is not only when you have the demonic powers for nocturnal flights and attacks on people in the night, it is also witchcraft to indulge in the following.

1. Envy
2. Jealousy
3. Covetuousness
4. Greediness
5. Dishonesty
6. Hatred
7. Adultery
8. Unforgiven and Unrepentant hatred.

These evils have done uncountable damages to human lives in Nigeria.

It is witchcraft to be jealous or envious of the progress and success of others.
Instead of them to be glad and grateful to God and rejoice with you, you see the enemies of progress frowning and sneering at your good news and testimonies of success.
They start to devise different schemes and scams against you.

Jealousy and covetousness make many among the masses to engage in sharp practices and crimes to get rich quick.
In jealousy, envy and covetousness, they have to lie, steal and even kill.
That is why adultery, kidnapping, robbery and ritual sacrifices are common among the masses.
Imagine what they used all the babies produced in the "baby factories" for in the eastern states?
The masses are committing horrible and terrible things.

Majority of the poor masses are very greedy people.
Their insecurity makes them to cheat and exploit others from their homes to their shops and offices.
They are reluctant to pay for services rendered and often pay in piecemeal and spend the rest of the money on their covetousness in selfish gratification.
There is also the witchcraft of the masters and mistresses who don't want their apprentices to gain freedom, because they don't want them to succeed like them. So, they use witchcraft to frustrate their apprentices or wards and keep them perpetually poor and under their control and oppression.
This form of witchcraft is common among the Igbos, Yorubas and Edo people.

The witchcraft of envy is worst than political corruption and in fact very common in Nollywood, that a leading filmmaker said there is wickedness among the producers, directors, actors, actresses, marketers and other stakeholders in the camouflage of competition.
Many of them are indeed "Living in Bondage".
No wonder mysterious things have been happening among them like what they show in their Nollywood movies.
So, in a twisted way, they are practicing the same diabolical things seen in their home videos.

Why not be glad and grateful to God and rejoice with those who are making progress and celebrate their success with them instead of grumbling and sending damaging emails and text messages against them?
What are you competing for?
And tomorrow you are the first to rush to church to pay lip service and eye service to God.
But you are just deceiving and fooling yourselves, because you cannot fool God.

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.
~1 John 4:20.

The seven deadly sins are also rebellion against the commandments of God and rebellion is witchcraft.
In the Book of Proverbs 6:16-19, among the verses traditionally associated with King Solomon, it states that the Lord specifically regards "six things the Lord hateth, and seven that are an abomination unto Him", namely:

1. A proud look
2. A lying tongue
3. Hands that shed innocent blood
4. A heart that devises wicked plots
5. Feet that are swift to run into mischief
6. A deceitful witness that uttereth lies
7. Him that soweth discord among brethren.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
~ 1 Samuel 15:23, King James Version (KJV)

If you see how majority of the masses live in their tenements and slums and they are still poverty stricken for years.
It is not caused by the corruption of the government, but their own witchcraft.

There is a certain form of witchcraft common among landlords and landladies among the Yorubas which they perpetrate against their tenants to keep them in abject poverty.
When you see a landlord or landlady throwing human waste into the waste basket or open drainage used by the tenants, it is not only unhygienic, but common witchcraft as confessed by public health officials in Lagos state who know their fellow Yorubas very well.

Selling fake drugs and stale food is also common among the masses and this is witchcraft and it has harmed and killed thousands of ignorant and innocent people among the masses in Nigeria.

These and other evils of witchcraft are even worse than the corruption of the ruling class.

As we welcome the New Year 2014, I hope we will stop living in denial of the truth and stop pointing accusing fingers of corruption at our so called leaders and look in the mirror to see our own corruption and repent before it is too late.

God cannot be on the side of the poor masses if they are guilty of their own evil and wicked ways.

This is my own New Year Message to Nigerians.

There is no peace,' says the Lord, 'for the wicked.
~ Isaiah 48:22


~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, prize winning writer and author of "In the House of Dogs" and other books.
 

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Nigeria Centenary: January 1, 1914 - January 1, 2014

Who Are the 100 Icons of Nigeria from 1914-2014?

To celebrate the Nigeria Centenary next year 2014, Nigerians Report Online, the flagship of citizen journalism in Nigeria will recognize the illustrious patriots who have been the nation builders of modern Nigeria from 1914-2014.


They include icons of democracy and governance, icons of education, icons of medicine, icons of engineering and science, icons of business and industry, icons of public service, icons of sports, icons of arts and culture (including icons of music, icons of movies, icons of literature, icons of beauty and haute couture), icons of Information Technology, icons of journalism and other icons who have also achieved great things in the making of modern Nigeria.


Nigeria has heroes and we should celebrate our heroes, because majority of our children and youths are ignorant of our heroes who should be role models worthy of emulation for their inspiration and motivation to excel and succeed in life and join in the nation building of a New Nigeria in the leadership of Africa among the comity of nations in the world.


We should celebrate the nation builders and not title chasers.
These nation builders are champions who have sacrificed a lot and paid the price, and some in fact paid the supreme price for freedom, peace and unity.
That is why I published the The Mandate of MKO Abiola, written by Adeleke O. Adeyemi, aka Mai Nasara, the winner of the $100, 000 Nigeria; Prize for Literature in 2011 for his book The Missing Clock. “The Mandate of MKO Abiola” is one of the most distributed books on the martyr of June 12.


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Kingdom of Nnewi in Nigeria Celebrates Golden Jubilee

28 Dec 2013 10:00 Africa/Lagos

Kingdom of Nnewi in Nigeria Celebrates Golden Jubilee

NNEWI, Nigeria, December 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

One of the longest serving Monarchs in Nigeria

The ancient Kingdom of Nnewi in the Anambra State of Nigeria today announces the Golden Jubilee of His Royal Highness Igwe Dr. Kenneth Onyemaeke Nnaji Orizu III. CON. JP. The celebrations will be marked by two days of celebrations to include a youth carnival and youth night on 27 December.

(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131228/662456 )

The celebrations which mark His Royal Highnesses' 50th year of accession to the throne are expected to be attended by thousands of local people from the ancient Kingdom alongside a number of special guests, to include the President and Vice President of Ghana and Governors from some of Nigeria's 36 states. The celebrations will conclude with a church service on 12 January 2014.

At the age of 88, His Royal Highness Igwe Dr. Kenneth Onyemaeke Nnaji Orizu III. CON. JP. The Igwe of Nnewi, who ascended to the throne on 25 May 1963, is one of the longest serving Monarchs in Nigeria. He is the 17th ruler in the Nnewi Royal family lineage which ruled the province long before Britain colonised the West African country in 1900, and amalgamated different Kingdoms into what later became the country of Nigeria. Nnewi has retained its status as an ancient Kingdom and is fully recognised by the country's federal government.

His Royal Highness has been credited with much over his 50 year reign, including:

the abolition of the Osu caste system in the 1970's. Before then, the local Osu people were treated as outcasts and subjected to servitude of various forms;
Being the first, in a long line of Nnewi Monarchs, to embrace Christianity;
modernising the legal system of Nnewi by establishing a Palace panel of Arbitrators for inter personal misunderstandings. To ensure the highest degree of equity, justice and fair play, he also set up an Appeal Panel to review appeals from the Arbitration Committee; and
The new Nnewi market which has given the province prominence as one of the largest commercial cities in Nigeria. It was set up at the instigation of the Monarch, whose vision for uplifting living standards in his domain has been highly commended by his peers


The spokesman for the Royal family, Prince Obi Orizu, said the celebrations were not only aimed at marking the Monarch's 50 years on the throne, but were also a demonstration of the love and respect the people of Nnewi feel towards their King.

Prince Obi added: "By the Grace of God, His Royal Highness Igwe Dr. Kenneth Onyemaeke Nnaji Orizu III. CON. JP. The Igwe of Nnewi, is still fit and strong at the age of 88. By organising the celebration for their King, the people of Nnewi want to wish him many more years so that he can continue his tireless campaign to improve the lives of all his people. Nnewi wants to demonstrate its gratitude for its Monarch and everyone will be welcome to share in our happiness."

NOTES FOR EDITORS:

The celebrations will continue on 29 December with a Cultural festival, followed by mascurades and traditional dances on 30 December. Post anniversary church services will be held at St Peters Catholic Church, Nnewichi, Nnewi
8 on 5 January and on 12 January 2014 at St Mary's Anglican Church, Uruagu, Nnewi.

Below is a list of some of the King's achievements:

CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION:

The King is the first of Nigerian Monarchs to abolish the Osu cast system, thus making everyone in the province of Nnewi free born.

SOCIAL ADVOCACY:

The King dealt with a political crisis in Nnewi by allowing the town in a general assembly to choose a title for him to restore peace in the town. Thereafter, the community named him the GENERAL OF PEACE. His other title is, Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON). The King is a one Star Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International.

EDUCATION

The King was instrumental in the establishment of a Teachers Training College in Nnewi; now Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi. He also advovated the siting of the College of Health Sciences of the University by encouraging Nnewi people to make significant financial contributions. He personally donated most of the land for the establishment of the school.

BUSINESS

The King facilitated the establishment of New Nnewi market and this market gave Nnewi prominence as one of the largest commercial cities in Nigeria.

For further information contact:

Joe Nwankwo - Director of Information and Research, Unit, Igwe Nnewi Palace, Nnewi
Tel: 08033138291 or 08037019672

Victoria Geoghegan / David Bass - Bell Pottinger
Tel: +44-207-861-3925 or +44-7917-551155

For images, please email: vgeoghegan@bell-pottinger.com

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Lancelot Imasuen to Host the Centenary of the Death of Omo n’Oba Ovonramwen

Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, with the cast and crew of his historic epic Invasion 1897 and the news media are all looking forward to January 14, 2014, the Centenary of the death of Omo N’oba Ovonramwen in exile in Calabar, which is also the same month of the epoch of modern Nigeria by the amalgamation of the Lagos Colony, Southern and Northern protectorates on Jan 1, 1914.
 

Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen at the historic residence where the great Omo n’Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi lived and died in Calabar on January 14. 1914.

 Lancelot with famous British actor Rudolph Walker in London.

 

 Lancelot with Charles "Chucky" Venn in London.

 Rudolph Walker and Charles "Chucky" Venn with two female members of the UK cast and crew in London.

 Lancelot with two female members of his UK cast and crew in London.

Lancelot has been on the locations of his historic epic Invasion 1897 in Benin, Calabar and London and will be back in Lagos to host a special celebration in his Lagos studios on January 14, 2014 in remembrance of Omo n’Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, the hero of Invasion 1897 and the great Benin Kingdom led by Oba of Benin,Omo N'Oba,N'Edo Uku Akpolokplolo EREDIAUWA, C.F.R,  the 39th Oba of the dynasty of Benin Kingdom. will be marking the historic day at the palace. The event will be the prelude to the World premiere of Invasion 1897 in Benin, Edo State of Nigeria..

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