Famous New York Writer Releases Thriller on a Deaf Adoptee from Nigeria

 

LOS ANGELES, July 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Brett Garcia Rose announced today that his latest novel Noise is now available for sale in eBook and paperback.

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"Noise is a rather dark and violet novel. It will appeal to readers who like a fast-paced action-packed mystery," says Rose.

In Noise, the main character Leon is a deaf adoptee from Nigeria who came to the American South when he was 9 years old from a violent childhood. He is a classic loner, very quiet, sad, and unusually even-tempered.
The world is an ugly place, and I can tell you now, I fit in just fine.

Lily is the only person Leon ever loved. When she left a suicide note and disappeared into a murky lake ten years ago, she left him alone, drifting through a silent landscape.
Or did she?

A postcard in her handwriting pulls Leon to the winter-cold concrete heart of New York City. What he discovers unleashes a deadly rage that has no sound.
A grisly trail of clues leads to The Bear, the sadistic Russian crime lord who traffics in human flesh. The police—some corrupt, some merely compromised—are of little help. They don't like Leon's methods, or the mess he leaves in his wake.

Leon is deaf, but no sane person would ever call him disabled. He survived as a child on the merciless streets of Nigeria. He misses nothing. He feels no remorse. The only direction he's ever known is forward.
He will not stop until he knows.

Where is Lily?
"A staggering, compelling work of fiction… mind-blowingly perfect. It has everything. Exquisite details, world-weary voice, and people worth knowing. It is truly amazing!" – MaryAnne Kolton, Author and Editor of This Literary Magazine.

"Strong, compelling, raw and human in the best sense. Beautifully written." – Susan Tepper, Author of Deer and Other Stories

Noise is available for sale on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
To learn more, go to http://www.brettgarciarose.com/. For further information, to request a review copy of Noise, or to interview Brett Garcia Rose, please contact Kelsey McBride at Book Publicity Services at Email or 805.807.9027.

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The Richest Man In Nollywood: From N100 To N1 Billion Within 4 Years

Jason Chukwuma Njoku, Founder of iROKO TV and iROKO Partners.

God has countless ways to answer our prayers and He can use anyone as the instrument of His awesome works, miracles and signs and wonders. And this is what He is going to do with iPost Nigeria's mobile video app to answer the unanswered prayers of thousands of movie producers and musicians in Nigeria who have been denied and deprived of eating the fruits of their labour by greedy capitalists posing and posturing as film distributors and exhibitors online and offline; who take the greater percentage of the revenues from movies and music videos.

In fact, Nigerian musicians even pay TV stations to play their music videos after spending hundreds of thousands and millions of naira to make them. But hello, power will change hands with the launch of iPost Nigeria which as you all know is the only Nigerian innovation shortlisted among the 10 finalists for the 2014 FIRE Awards, AFRINIC's flagship grants and awards programme, http://www.fireafrica.org/projects/projects/view/299

It is the first Nigerian mobile video app that can be used for live streaming of news and information on the internet and both the users and visitors can rate and vote for videos. The app also allows Pay Per View of all videos for the financial benefit of the producers, providers and owners of the videos. This the bumper harvest for Nollywood.

Movie and music video producers will start earning money from views of their videos on iPost Nigeria immediately and don't have to wait until they have millions of views like on YouTube. Ordinary 1000 views on iPost will give the producer and owner of the video from N1, 000, 000 (one million naira). You can do the maths from other PPV channels on the internet.

Popular Nollywood actors and actresses like Desmond Elliot and Genevieve Nnaji who have millions of fans on Facebook and hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter and with millions of views on YouTube should be making millions of naira from their videos on the popular websites. But they are not being paid for them. The most popular online Nollywood channels for showing movies and music videos don't pay for the number of views.

They simply do cash and carry bargains with the producers and pay them off. Then they make millions of dollars from the millions of views of Nollywood movies on their websites and smile to the banks while the Nollywood producers are still struggling for the US$200 million Entertainment Intervention Fund of the Nigerian Creative and Entertainment Industry Stimulation Loan Scheme (NCEILS) from the Bank of Industry and NEXIM Bank and competing for the N3 billion grant of Project Nollywood when they should have been the ones smiling to the banks.

On iPost Nigeria, they are going to become multimillionaires, because they are going to make and keep 80% of the revenues from the millions of views of their videos. And iPost Nigeria will be their platform for regular source of multiple streams of income.
Did I say multiple streams? How?
Wait until you See the Big Picture on iPost Nigeria!

If yours truly Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima can have over 11, 200, 000 views on Google+ at the rate of over 450,000 views monthly, then imagine how many millions of views a fantastic video showing Nollywood diva Genevieve Nnaji on the red carpet will have as people pay to see what she is wearing. I bet you that there are over 10 million people with smart phones and tablets who will be willing to pay as little as N100 with their recharge cards to view one of the beauty queens of Nollywood and there are over 34 beauty queens as shown in the second edition of the NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® SERIES. Personally, I am ready to pay as much as N500 to even see the latest video on Kannywood beauty queen Nafisa Abdullahi. She is what the celebrated Nigerian hip life singer Flavour calls "Baby Oku" and she rocks Kannywood 24/7.

This is not the first time I have shared this million dollar opportunity with many of you who will receive this email, but many of the recipients thought I was jiving or it was rocket science until the good news of iPost Nigeria being shortlisted for the awesome innovation of the mobile video app cleared the doubts of every "Doubting Thomas. But not everybody is happy with the good news as we all know that you cannot please everybody and there are enemies of progress everywhere.

Those who are benefiting from the billion naira piracy of Nigerian movies and music videos and their paid agents in the local news media and their errand boys and girls on the street and on the internet are the enemies of our progress in the entertainment industry in Nigeria and they are the clogs in the wheels of the socioeconomic development of Nigeria.

The Richest Man in Nollywood
The richest man in Nollywood is not a member of the Association of Movie Producers (AMP); he is not a member of the Directors Guild of Nigeria (DGN); he is not a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) and he does not even own a single cinema here in Nigeria. And he does not even live in Nigeria. But he lives on the internet. He is Igbo and happily married. And Forbes knows the man I am talking about.
Jason Njoku had less than N100 in his account four years ago in 2010 and today he is making millions of dollars every year from iROKO TV!

“My wife persuaded me to do a little spring cleaning this weekend. As I was going through my things, I came across this old account statement for an iROKO Partners Ltd bank account in London. If you look at the date its 13 July 2010. The statement is for June 2010. That’s right. £60.25 paid in. £60.00 (my feeding money) paid out. And an ending balance of £0.25. That’s right folks. I literally had £0.25 in my account that’s $0.42 or N63," said Jason Njoku.. And four years later the account is estimated to be $30 million!
"I am Jason Chukwuma Njoku, Founder of iROKO. ... focused on the future, because that's the only way I can get to $100M in net worth by 2020."

But who will be the next richest man in Nollywood? And who will be the richest woman in Nollywood?

iPost Nigeria, Nollywood Digital, NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® SERIES and my Q1 brand of Android Tablet PC are going to make more money than even all the cinema chains in Nigeria in the coming years, including my IMAX and Screen Naija projects.

Being shortlisted for the FIRE Awards is the divine favour of God to give iPost Nigeria free international publicity and winning the award will increase the popularity in the global village and attract more millions of people to visit the website and view the videos 24/7.

Are you ready for the Nollywood Digital revolution of iPost Nigeria?
See more information on iPost Nigeria on http://www.fireafrica.org/projects/projects/view/299

 

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Nigerian Leader Promises Malala Missing Girls Will Be Home 'Soon'

Nigerian Leader Promises Malala Missing Girls Will Be Home 'Soon'

Teenage Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai said after meeting him that Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan promised on Monday that more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants would "soon" return home. Malala, who ...

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Malala Yousafzai in Nigeria To Help Free Kidnapped Chibok School Girls

Malala Yousafzai meets President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja on Monday July 14, 2014.

Girl child education heroine Malala Yousafzai, the brave Pakistani girl who survived after she was shot in the head by the Taliban Islamic terrorists in 2009 for championing the right of girls to education met with President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria in Abuja on Monday to support efforts to free the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls who are still hostages of Islamist Boko Haram terrorists in northeastern Nigeria since April 14, 2014.

“I am here in Nigeria on my 17th birthday for a price which is to see that every child goes to school,” Malala told news reporters and others at the meeting..

Malala celebrated her 17th birthday same day with some of the Chibok school girls who claimed to have escaped from the Boko Haram. She blew out the candles of her birthday cake as the girls stood with her.

"I can see those girls as my sisters… and I'm going to speak up for them until they are released," Malala reiterated during a Sunday meeting with some of the parents of the abducted children in Abuja.

 

"I'm going to participate actively in the Bring Back Our Girls campaign to make sure that they return safely." “This year, my objective is to speak up for my Nigerian sisters. About 200 of them who are under the abduction of Boko Haram and I met President Goodluck Jonathan for this purpose.
“I convey the voice of my sisters who are out of school or who are still under the abduction of Boko Haram. And for those girls who escaped from the abduction but still do not have education.
“And in the meeting, I highlighted the same issues which the girls and their parents told me in the past two days.
“The parents said they really want to meet with the President to share their stories with him. And I asked the President if he wants to meet with the parents of the girls. He assured me that he would meet with them.”

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The Origins of Ife, Odùduwà and Sungbo's Eredo

There are several schools of thought on the origins of Ife, the ancient Yoruba Kingdom in Osun state, southwestern Nigeria and on Odùduwà, the assumed first Oni of Ife. But the studies of German archaeologist Leo Frobenius (29 June 1873 – 9 August 1938) in 1910 and later from the excavations at the Wunmonije compound (1938–39) and at nearby Ita Yemoo (1957) showed that there was a flourishing ancient Yoruba civilization in Ife centuries before the arrival of Odùduwà.

From archeology, anthropology and ethnology of the Art and Culture of Ife, the origins have been traced to Around 350 BC and that date is centuries before Odùduwà, the son of the last Ogiso (one of the Sky Kings dynasty of Benin) ran away from Benin kingdom for the fear of his life as the only son of his father the king. His Edo name was Izoduwa meaning "I have chosen the path of prosperity", corrupted by the Yoruba's as Odùduwà). He later sent Oranyan (also known as Oranmiyan), one of his sons by the Yoruba princess Okanbi to Benin Kingdom around 1170 AD.
Oranmiyan later became the first Alafin of Oyo.

From the above chronological analysis, you can see that Odùduwà is not the father of the Yorubas, because the cradle of Yoruba civilization is Ife and not Benin. And Ife Art history is centuries older than when Odùduwà arrived from Benin Kingdom in the 10th century.

"The art of Ife and Benin is so important because one gives birth to the other. The Ife art was the most ancient in the forest region of Nigeria, simply because the Ife civilisation goes as far back as 300 - 500 BC. Therefore, it had developed a lot of artefacts, which marks the history of Ife.

Ife later gave birth not only to Benin, but also to the art of Igbo, the Onitsha art, even going as far as to the hinterland of the Igbo, Igbo Ukwu."
~ Dr. Omotoso Eluyemi, director of National Museums and Monuments.

Odùduwà did not descend from any Sky on a ladder of chain. What Odùduwà said was he was a descendant of the Ogisos, the Sky Kings dynasty of Benin. But oral mythology now turned it into descending from the sky (heaven).

Even if Odùduwà was a fugitive from Mecca, then he must have come after Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim (Arabic: ابو القاسم محمد ابن عبد الله ابن عبد المطلب ابن هاشم‎; c. 570 – c. 8 June 632), popularly called Prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam.
From ethnology, there is nothing Arabian or Arabic about Odùduwà, so he did not come from Mecca, but Benin.

The Sungbo's Eredo Walls discovered in the south-west of the Yoruba town of Ijebu-Ode in Ogun state is more than 160 kilometres (99 mi).
The height difference between the bottom of the ditch and the upper rim of the bank on the inner side can reach 20 metres (66 ft). And as a construction project, it required more earth to be moved than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. The Eredo was built in 800–1000 AD.

Eredo sounds more like Benin to me than Yoruba, and similar to the awesome "Iya", the Great Walls of Benin, the largest man-made structure lengthwise on earth and also the largest earthwork in the world, made up of moats and ramparts, larger than Sungbo's Eredo and longer than the famous Great Wall of China.

Before Odùduwà, there was Ifa.



~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, aka Orikinla Osinachi, prize winning Nigerian writer since age 13, author of Children of Heaven, Sleepless Night, Scarlet Tears of London, Bye, Bye Mugabe (now being revised with the new title of Bye, Bye Zimbabwe), In the House of Dogs, Diary of the Memory Keeper, The Prophet Lied, NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® SERIES and other books.

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President Goodluck Jonathan to Speak at National Press Club, July 31

WASHINGTON, July 11, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Goodluck Jonathan, the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, will speak at a National Press Club luncheon on July 31. Jonathan, who became the country's leader in 2010, will talk about the challenges of fighting against the Islamist militant group Boko Haram and global terrorism.

In April, Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls, threatening to sell them as slaves. The terrorist group has killed thousands of Nigerians during its five-year fight against the government of Africa's largest oil producer while forcing about 3.3 million people to leave their homes.  More than a year ago, Jonathan imposed emergency rule in three northern states where Boko Haram is most active, while the U.S. in November named the group a Foreign Terrorism Organization.

In a June 26 op-ed in Washington Post, Jonathan said his government has spared no resources in its search for the kidnapped girls. He said the nation's efforts will not stop until the girls are returned home and those who took them are brought to justice.

He said he plans to urge the United Nations General Assembly in September to establish
a U.N.-coordinated system for sharing intelligence and special forces to confront terrorism wherever it occurs.

The Press Club luncheon will begin promptly at 12:30 p.m.  Remarks will begin at 1:00 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session, ending at 2 p.m. Tickets may be purchased by clicking here. The cost of luncheon admission is $22 for National Press Club members and $36 non-members. Tickets must be purchased at time of reservation.

National Press Club Luncheons are webcast live on press.org. Follow the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #NPCLunch, or on Facebook at (facebook.com/PressClubDC) and Twitter (@PressClubDC). Submit questions for speakers in advance and during the live event by sending them to @QNPCLunch on Twitter. Or email a question in advance, type Goodluck Jonathan in the subject line and send to president@press.org before 10 a.m. on the day of event.
The Press Club is on the 13th floor at 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. Credentialed press may cover this event with ID.


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80 Candlelights for Prof. Oluwo̩lé S̩óyinká on Sunday

Our paths have crossed thrice in Lagos.
The first time was at the book launch of a young female poet at the Nimbus Art Centre on Maitama Sule Street Off Awolowo Road, Ikoyi.
The second time was at the prize giving ceremony for the Nigerian journalist, poet and dramatist Adeleke Adeyemi when he won the $100,000 LNG Nigeria Prize For Literature for his children's book "The Missing Clock".
The third time was when Luxury champagne brand, Moet & Chandon gathered distinguished personalities on Thursday 18th July, 2013 at the Gallery at Freedom Park, Lagos to toast the late literary maverick, humanitarian, national treasure and global voice - Chinua Achebe. And in his sonorous voice Kongi nodded as he said "Orikinla" as I greeted him. He was sipping his champagne and acknowledging the importance of the event in honour of his fellow great writer of our time, the late Achebe.

Prof. Akinwande Oluwo̩lé S̩óyinká will be 80 on Sunday ( born on July 13, 1934) and even before he won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to do so, I have always adored his genius and his influences have been manifested in some of my plays and poems over the years.

A birthday cake with 80 candle lights will be a great delight for Kongi to celebrate his awesome life of kaleidoscopic spectacles in drama, poetry and prose that has made him one of the icons of modern literature of both the 20th and 21st century.

I wish him many happier returns of the day.

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Urgent Emergency News: Boko Haram Plans To Bomb Lagos And Port Harcourt

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Privileged information reveals the mass arrival of BOKO HARAM Fighters to Southern Nigeria, especially to LAGOS and RIVERS States. We have been advised to take urgent and adequate security measures in Churches, especially on Sundays and in places with large gathering such as markets, shopping malls, cinemas, parks. etc. Please pass on to your other friends and family members, especially those residing in PH and lagos. News got to us that our enemy is planning something bigger than Nyanya bomb blast btw Tuesday n Wednesday in Abuja. Mind your movement and be careful, the place is still unknown. Pls pass it round to save your loved ones. May God help us and save our country. Pls the message is from a reliable source in the UN office, dont disregard, pls pass to others. Received from a friend
Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN 

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Dangote Overtakes Bill Gates in Daily Earnings in First Quarter of 2014

Alhaji Aliko Dangote, MFR, GCON.

Dangote Overtakes Bill Gates in Daily Earnings in First Quarter of 2014

Billionaire Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man and the world’s 23rd richest according to Forbes is currently making N 2 billion every 24 hours and has surpassed Bill Gates, the richest man in the world.

Bloomberg reported that Dangote has earned $791.7 million (N126.6 billion) in the first quarter of 2014, higher than Bill Gates who has only made $364 million (N58 billion) so far this year.

Dangote is the world’s third highest and fastest earning billionaire in the world, according to Bloomberg, only surpassed by Jack Taylor (#45), owner of Enterprise Holdings, the world’s largest car-rental service. He has made $1.7 billion so far in 2014. Ernesto Bertarelli (#53), the Swiss billionaire has made $1 billion this year.

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FIFA Emergency Committee suspends Nigeria Football Federation

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FIFA Emergency Committee suspends Nigeria Football Federation

FIFA Statutes oblige member associations to manage their affairs independently and with no influence from third parties

ZURICH, Switzerland, July 9, 2014/ -- The FIFA Emergency Committee has decided today, 9 July 2014, to suspend the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) with immediate effect, on account of government interference. Article 13, par. 1 and article 17, par. 1 of the FIFA Statutes (http://fifa.to/19g4pXn) oblige member associations to manage their affairs independently and with no influence from third parties.

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The decision follows a letter sent by FIFA to the NFF on 4 July 2014, in which it expressed its great concern after the NFF was served with court proceedings and consequently an order preventing the president of the NFF, the NFF Executive Committee members and the NFF Congress from running the affairs of Nigerian football was granted by a High Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The said court order compelled the Nigerian Minister of Sports to appoint a senior member of the civil service to manage the NFF until the matter was heard in court, without giving any date for such a hearing. The authorities then appointed a person who decided to convene an extraordinary general assembly on 5 July 2014. This extraordinary general assembly was convened in violation of the NFF statutes.

Originally, an elective congress had been planned by the NFF to take place on 26 August 2014.

The suspension will be lifted once the court actions have been withdrawn and the properly elected NFF Executive Committee, the NFF general assembly and the NFF administration are able to work without any interference in their affairs.

As a result of this decision, no team from Nigeria of any sort (including clubs) can have any international sporting contact (art. 14 par. 3 of the FIFA Statutes). During the period of suspension, the NFF may not be represented in any regional, continental or international competitions, including at club level, or in friendly matches. The most immediate effect is that Nigeria will not be entitled to participate in the upcoming FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup (5-24 August 2014) should the suspension not be lifted by 15 July 2014.

In addition, neither the NFF nor any of its members or officials may benefit from any FIFA or CAF development programmes, courses or training during the suspension period.

SOURCE 

Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)

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