Emirates launches up to 25% off sale to select destinations
Emirates,
a global connector of people and places, has announced the launch of a
sale campaign offering up to 25% off to select destinations in its
Economy Class cabins for the Nigerian market.
The special fares
apply to all Emirates’ destinations from Lagos including: Mumbai (BOM);
Guangzhou (CAN); Delhi (DEL); Dallas-Fort-Worth (DFW); Dubai (DXB);
Houston (IAH); New York (JFK); London (LHR); Chennai (MAA) and Chicago
(ORD); Bangalore (BLR); Mumbai (BOM); and Guangzhou (CAN).
Celebrated Nollywood diva Kate Henshaw and popular comedian Basketmouth are highlighted in a new six-part series "MY NIGERIA" by Al Jazeera that will start showing on Monday 24th August at 2230GMT. Others in the series are IT guru Gbenga Sesan, famous fashion designer Deola Sagoe, Femi Bamigboye of Remo Football Academy and Sandra Aguebor, Nigeria’s first Lady Mechanic.
MY NIGERIA
This brand new series reveals the lives and stories of six diverse Nigerians who give us a glimpse of this vast country from a very personal perspective. From a stand-up comedian to a tech entrepreneur; from a politico-actress to a rural football coach; from a lady mechanic to an elite fashion designer, each 30 minute episode of My Nigeria pulses with the energy of Africa's leading economy.
Basketmouth: Trash Talking
Monday 24th August at 2230GMT
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Stand-up comedian Basketmouth invites us to eavesdrop onto his street-smart Nigerian life. He is, arguably, Nigeria’s most successful stand-up comic. Born and bred in the notorious Lagos slum Ajegunle, he discovered his gift for comedy by chance and has never looked back. His take on Lagos, West Africa’s most vibrant city, is upbeat, irreverent and challenging.
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Kate Henshaw: Playing a Part
Monday 31st August at 2230GMT
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Kate Henshaw has always been known as one of the Nollywood stars with integrity. Having made over 70 films, Kate decides to leave the fictional world and run for a seat in Nigeria’s House of Representatives. She wants to change how people are represented in her hometown of Calabar in Southern Nigeria, but politics in Nigeria is not for the fainthearted.
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Gbenga Sesan: Connecting a Million
Monday 7th September at 2230GMT
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As a pupil, Gbenga Sesan was denied access to the computer room at his Nigerian school and told he was not clever enough to operate one. Years later, he is an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) expert, with international awards and a successful consultancy business. He’s spreading his good fortune by teaching ICT and life-skills to young adults in Nigeria’s poorest neighbourhoods.
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Deola Sagoe: Top Drawer
Monday 14th September at 2230GMT
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Nigerian fashion has gone international, gracing the catwalks of New York, Johannesburg and Monaco. Deola Sagoe was one of the designers who led this Nigerian fashion expansion. The House Of Deola Sagoe, on Lagos’ Victoria Island, caters for Nigeria’s fashionistas. Deola’s father, prominent Nigerian businessman Chief Ade Ojo,actively discouraged her from pursuing her dream. He wanted her to take over his lucrative business, but Deola had other ideas.
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Femi Bamigboye: Local Man
Monday 21st September at 2230GMT
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Femi Bamigboye's Remo Football Academy has produced a series of young players who have represented their country at group age level - two will be in Nigeria's squad at the under 17 World Cup later this year. Football coach and pastor, Femi, works and lives in a small Nigerian town of Iperu, he feels his job is not just to teach football; he wants to develop world-class young men, and inspire his loyal congregation every Sunday.
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Sandra Aguebor: Lady Mechanic
Monday 28th September at 2230GMT
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Sandra Aguebor, Nigeria’s first Lady Mechanic, grew up in Benin City. Her mother discouraged her from following her dream, sometimes beating her for tinkering with an engine rather than doing her kitchen chores. But Sandra responded to adversity by building a network of lady mechanics. She trains ex-sex workers, orphans, and victims of trafficking to be mechanics. Her Initiative has now spread to the north with its first project in Kano City, where the response from Muslim women has been unprecedented.
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President Muhammadu Buhari and former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. Let Potential Ministers in Nigeria Take Psychological Test
~ ByDr. John Egbeazien Oshodi.
President Muhammadu Buhari as you diligently work towards forming your cabinet with persons who will help the nation in the right direction, knowing what motivates such political leader is crucial.
Understanding the individual’s level of self-disciple, and having a comprehensive and deeper psychological shape of the individual’s personality is important.
His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR. President,
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria is
the Special Guest of Honour at the National Security Summit
(#NSS2015_NG) on "Community Partnership Approach to Internal Security
and Crime Management."
Displaced Nigerians expelled from Cameroon wait in line for a meal. Photo: OCHA.
UN Agency Assists Nigeria's Neighbours As Escalating Violence Sparks Waves of Refugees
NEW YORK, 14 August 2015 / PRN Africa / -- The United Nations refugee agency today expressed concern about the escalating violence in and around Nigeria and its impact on the situation of Nigerian refugees in surrounding host countries, including a shrinking humanitarian space in which they can seek asylum.
Celebrated filmmaker,
Tunde Kelani, has joined the growing band of online television owners
with rich African cultural themed contents for viewers globally.
The
new online platform, Tundekelani.tv billed for launch on Friday is web -
based and optimum on all mobile devices. The video channel is designed
to offer viewers of all ages a refreshing viewing experience of past and
current works of the award winning film director and other cultural
themed contents from different owners across Africa and the Diaspora.
The
tundekelani.tv platform also offers viewers, business owners, private
or corporate organisations the opportunity to advertise and promote
their brands.
"It is an attempt to respond to the yearnings of
our teeming fans of rich African themed contents on the go. Distributing
films or other contents physically are becoming increasingly difficult,
revenues are lost on a daily basis and content owners are at the mercy
of the menacing activities of pirates. I think it is just natural,
expedient and sensible to take contents closer to the consumers on
demand and in terms that suit all the parties involved.
Research,
Kelani said, has shown that with a simple mobile device, online TV
viewers can watch any content online without scruples.
To subscribers
of tundekelani.tv., there will be a wide range of genre, including
movies, high quality drama, interviews and documentaries that focus on
issues mainstream media fails to cover adequately. Besides Kelani's
titles such as Oleku, Agogo Ewo, Saworoide, Thunderbolt( Magun), Narrow
Path, Campus Queen and Maami, his latest experience with 'filmed play',
Yeepa, an adaptation of Prof. Femi Osofisan ' classic play, Yeepa
Solarin Nbo will be on the play list. Coming to esteemed lovers of the
new channel is Amos Tutuola's Palmwine Drinkards.
As the new online destination for African cultural themed contents, Kelani urged all other content owners to get on board.
It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children’s and grandchildren’s fates, are decided. ~ Hillary Clinton
e-Commerce: Nigerians are selling
second hand items worth 1,97 billion USD on MOBOfree.com
This impressive amount outperforms
the forecasted figure for 2015 by 30%
LAGOS, Nigeria, August 12,
2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- MOBOfree (http://www.mobofree.com), the
leading African social marketplace, today announced a 274% year-on-year
increase in the total value of goods on their platform in Nigeria. The current
value of goods is 1.97 billion USD (394 billion NGN), up from 526 million USD
(102.5 billion NGN) last year. This impressive growth outperforms the
forecasted figure for 2015 by 30%.
President Buhari, Mandate and Enforce Sexual Harassment Policy in Nigeria Universities and Schools ~ By Dr. John Egbeazien Oshodi.
For far too long, sexual violence or sexual harassment has endured with no one accountable at the policy, enforcement or jurisdictional level.
Naturally, females are mostly at the receiving end of sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence in places like universities.
Laws on sexual violence including sexual harassment exist mostly in name as they are chronically unenforced by law enforcement agencies and disregarded by the courts in Nigeria. Recently, the National Assembly passed a broader bill on sexual violence against sexual harassment, sexual tourism and other related offences.
Chigozie Obioma, is the man of the moment in the literary world of Nigerian writers as his debut novel The Fishermen made the long list for the 2015 £50,000 Man Booker Prize announced Wednesday, July 29 and he is also among the finalists for the 2015 FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards which will be presented at a gala ceremony on Oct. 5 at the New York Public Library. Each winner will receive a $40,000 award.
Ben Okri is the first and only Nigerian writer so far who has won the Man Booker Prize for his awesome novel The Famished Road in 1991 when he was 32 years old and the youngest winner till date.
