Christians and Muslims To Work Together in Nigeria

Christian and Muslim leaders hold talks in Nigeria. Photo Credit: JIHAD WATCH.
Christians and Muslims To Work Together in Nigeria

GENEVA, 29 September 2015 / PRN Africa / -- Key stakeholders in a new inter-religious centre in Nigeria have met to plan for the centre and its work, set to launch in March 2016.

The meeting was held at the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland, 27 to 28 September.

Institutions represented were the Jordanian Royal Aal Al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought (RABIIT), the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Christian Council of Nigeria (CCN) and Jama'atu Nasril Islam (JNI).

The project has developed as a result of a high-level international inter-religious visit to Nigeria by representatives of the WCC and RABIIT in 2012.

Speaking about the significance of the project, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the WCC, said, “Muslims and Christians can, through this initiative, hear each other's stories, share each other's pain, and begin to heal. This centre is a significant common project for Muslims and Christian leaders in Nigeria and a pioneering work in inter-religious encounter.”

Attendees shared their vision for the work of the centre, which is intended to act as an impetus for healing and reconciliation in Nigeria, given the recent incidents of conflict in the country. The governance, management and programme of the centre are intended to model Nigerian Christians and Muslims working together on issues of concern to all Nigerians.

The evocative phrase “In the sandals of the other” was proposed as a descriptive title for the centre. In the first year of its operation, the centre will work on supporting victims of violence who are suffering from trauma, with a particular focus on women and young people. It will also share examples of people working together to support each other across religious boundaries, as well as beginning substantial data collection.

Participants of the meeting included Dr Khalid A Abubakar, Ms Lamya Al-Khraisha, Dr Clare Amos, Dr Usman Muhammad Bugaje, Mr Sulayman Hart, Dr Gina Lende, Rt Rev. Prof Emele Mba Uka, Rev. Dr Yusuf Ibrahim Wushishi, Dr Yakubu Joseph and Ms Marietta Ruhland.

SOURCE World Council of Churches (WCC)  

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Terrorism Most Immediate Problem for New Nigerian Government - President Buhari

Terrorism Most Immediate Problem for New Nigerian Government, President Buhari Tells UN

Muhammadu Buhari, President of Nigeria, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventieth session. UN Photo/Amanda Voisard.
 
YORK, 28 September 2015 / PRN Africa / -- The new Nigerian Government has many issues to contend with but none as important as defeating the terrorist threat posed by Boko Haram and bringing back the Chibok girls unharmed, the country's President declared at the United Nations General Assembly today.

“Boko Haram's war against the people of Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon may not attract as much worldwide attention as the wars in the Middle East but the suffering is just as great and the human cost is equally high,” Muhammadu Buhari said in his address to the Assembly's high-level debate.

Stating that Nigerians are on the front lines of the war on terror, he said the battle is between progress and chaos; between democracy and the rule of law.

“Boko Haram celebrates violence against the weak and the innocent and deplorably, they hide behind their perverted interpretation of Islam. Boko Haram is as far away from Islam as anyone can think of.”

Mr. Buhari, who was elected President in March, informed fellow world leaders that the new Government is attacking the problems it inherited head-on.

“We intend to tackle inequalities arising from massive unemployment and previous government policies favouring a few people to the detriment of the many. We intend to emphasize quality technological education for development and lay foundation for comprehensive care of the aged, the disadvantaged and the infirm.

“But for now, terrorism is the immediate problem,” he stressed.

The President outlined a number of steps being taken, adding that Nigeria and her neighbours Cameroon, Chad and Niger plus Benin are working together to face this common threat within the regional framework of the Lake Chad Basin Commission.

“We have established a multinational joint task force to confront, degrade and defeat Boko Haram. We have driven them away from many of their strongholds, killed or captured many of their operatives or commanders and freed several hundreds of hostages.

“One of our major aims is to rescue the Chibok girls alive and unharmed. We are working round the clock to ensure their safety and eventual reunion with their families. Chibok girls are constantly on our minds and in our plans,” he stated.

Some 276 girls were abducted by Boko Haram from their school in Chibok, located in Nigeria's restive north-eastern Borno state, in April 2014, as the militant group ramped up brutal attacks targeting the country's children. Some 200 of the girls were released from captivity in April of this year.

SOURCE UN News Centre  

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Dr. Mike Murdock Live In Port Harcourt On October 1

World famous American televangelist and Pastor of the Wisdom Center ministry based in Haltom City, Texas, Dr. Michael Dean Murdock will be in Port Harcourt on October 1, to join millions of Nigerians as we celebrate the 55th Independence Anniversary of Nigeria.
He will be ministering with Pastor David Ibiyeomie, the General Overseer of Salvation Ministries.  

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Nigerian Consumers Opinion Forum Will Launch Before Christmas

Nigerian Consumers Opinion Forum Will Launch Before Christmas 

The Nigerian Consumers Opinion Forum is an open public information discussion forum on the internet to rate companies, brands, products and services in Nigeria, the biggest and largest market for consumers in Africa and among the major markets in the world.

AMAA 2015: The Official Winners List

@TonyOElumelu was appointed Honorary Counsel for the Africa Movie Academy Awards, AMAA.
 The prestigious event was held last night at the Boardwalk International Convention Centre, Nelson Mandela Bay, Port Elizabeth in South Africa. It is the first AMAA outside Nigeria and has attracted more attention than the previous editions hosted by Bayelsa State in the state capital of Yenagoa since the inaugural edition in May 2005, except for the 2008 edition of AMAA held in Abuja, federal capital of Nigeria and the 2012 edition held in Lagos.  

 Kunle Afolayan, Director of "October 1".

Samson Tadesse and director Ethiopian filmmaker Theodros Teshome Kebede of "Triangle - Going to America", a film based on issues of immigration.

 Ebele Okoye, Director of "The Legacy of Rubies". AMAA 2015   #AMAA2015 (@AMAAWARDS) | Twitter

EFERE OZAKO AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM
Twaaga – Burkina Faso

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST ANIMATION
The Legacies of Rubies – Nigeria

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY
Egypt’s Modern Pharaohs  – Egypt

OUSMANE SEMBENE AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST FILM IN AN AFRICAN LANGUAGE
Timbuktu – Mauritania

MICHAEL ANYIAM OSIGWE AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST FILM BY AN AFRICAN LIVING ABROAD:
Fevers – Morocco

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST DIASPORA SHORT
Sound of Tears - Canada

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST DIASPORA DOCUMENTARY
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution – USA

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST DIASPORA FEATURE
Supremacy - USA

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN
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AMAA 2015 ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
October 1 – Nigeria

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP
Njinga: Queen of Angola – Angola

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUNDTRACK
Triangle Going to America – Ethiopia

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECT
I Number Number

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND
Lobraz Kaan – Mauritius

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Lobraz Kaan – Mauritius

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING
Timbuktu

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SCREEN PLAY
Le President

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST COMEDY FILM
30 Days In Atlanta

AMAA 2015- BAYELSA STATE GOVERNMENT ENDOWED AWARD FOR BEST NIGERIAN FILMOctober 1

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST CHILD ACTOR
Layla Walet Mohammed and Mehdi A.G Mohammed – Timbuktu

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG/ PROMISING ACTOR 
IT’S A JOINT AWARD AND THE AWARD GOES TO Kemi Lala Akindoju (DAZZLING MIRAGE) and Hassan Spike Insingoma – (BODA BODA THIEVES)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
 Samson Tadesse - Triangle Going to America

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Hilda Dokubo - Stigma

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Sadiq Daba – October 1

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Lesliana Pereira - NJINGA: Queen of Angola

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST FIRST FEATURE FILM BY A DIRECTOR
Destiny Ekaragha - Gone Too Far

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR
Abderrahmane Sissako - Timbuktu

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST FILM
 Timbuktu – Mauritania  

SPECIAL JURY
There are some occasions where the jury feels the need to acknowledge certain films for their forward vision. On this occasion, the jury would like to give special jury prizes to two films:
 Le President by Jean-Pierre Bekolo of Cameroun; and to Triangle: Going to America by Theodros Teshome Kebede of Ethiopia.

AMAA 2015 JURY STATEMENT DELIVERED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE JURY FOR 2015 MR. KEITH SHIRI: Saturday September 26, 2015. Port Elizabeth    South Africa

On behalf of the jury members I welcome you to the AMAA 2015 Awards. Over the last 11 years, the AMAA Awards has set itself the challenging but rewarding task of celebrating the best of our continent and its Diaspora’s filmmaking.

To this end, our aim has always been to reward and encourage African originality in film production; to seek out and bring attention to the continent’s unique and distinctive talents; to champion her distinctive voices and to encourage and nurture that rare combination of ambition and originality that is the best of our movie making.

Every year, hundreds of films from across the continent and its Diaspora arrive at the AMAA offices.  This year we received close to 800 movie entries from over 60 countries, mostly within Africa and also from around the world. This unprecedented number of entries, in all categories and from many African diaspora countries and communities. can lead only to this conclusion: AMAA is indeed, a truly Pan-African event and a global brand.

It is significant that this year for the first time in AMAA’s history, the nominations event was held in the African Diaspora, in Los Angeles:  and that the Awards themselves are held outside of Nigeria, here in South Africa.

And after our several weeks and months of consultations, we commend to you tonight, our roll call of the best for 2015.
Thank you and have a wonderful evening.

Keith Shiri, London based programme advisor BFI London Film Festival, Artistic Director of the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF), President of the AMAA 2015 Jury.
Ambassador Filippe Savadogo, Former Secretary General FESPACO   Burkina Faso
John Akomfrah, OBE, London based Ghanaian filmmaker
Prof. Hyginus Ekwuazi, Professor of Broadcasting and Film, University of Ibadan
Former Managing director of the Nigerian Film Corporation, and until recently Head of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan,  Founding Director National Film Institute and former Director General Nigerian Film Corporation Jos, Nigeria.
Steve Ayorinde, Journalist and former MD of “National Mirror” newspaper, Nigeria
Dorothee Wenner, filmmaker and curator at the Berlin International Film Festival
Asantewa Olatunji, Programming Director of PAFF, Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles and Atlanta,
June Givanni,  International film curator based in UK,  Artistic Director of the Colours of the Nile Film Festival, Addis Abeba; and director of the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive  
Shaibu Husseini, film journalist and critic at Lagos based The Guardian newspapers, Nigeria
Berni Goldblat, filmmaker and producer based in Burkina Faso
Ayuko Babu, Executive Director of PAFF, Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles and Atlanta
Charles Burnett, filmmaker Los Angeles USA

SOURCE: Africa Movie Academy Awards, AMAA. 
 
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WHO Removes Nigeria from Polio-Endemic List

WHO Removes Nigeria from Polio-Endemic List

GENEVA, 25 September 2015 / PRN Africa / -- The World Health Organization announced today that polio is no longer endemic in Nigeria. This is the first time that Nigeria has interrupted transmission of wild poliovirus, bringing the country and the African region closer than ever to being certified polio-free.

Félix et Meira is Canada's Selection for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2016

 

Telefilm Canada announces that Félix et Meira is Canada's selection for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2016 

MONTREAL, Sept. 25, 2015 /CNW Telbec/ - Telefilm Canada, which chairs the pan-Canadian Oscar selection committee, is pleased to announce that the feature film Félix et Meira, directed by Maxime Giroux, has been selected to represent Canada for consideration as a possible nominee in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 88th Academy Awards, to be held in Hollywood on February 28, 2016.

A President Addressing the UN Is Not An Achievement

H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT THE 70TH UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY UNITED NATIONS HEADQUATERS, NEW YORK ON 25TH, SEPTEMBER 2015.  

A President addressing the UN is not an achievement.
Even the worst presidents have done so.
What will be an achievement is when President Muhammadu Buhari fulfills his oath of office as the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces to guaranty our national security, that is the security and welfare of every citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. But if he fails to do so, the National Assembly should IMPEACH HIM. 
Former President of Nigeria, Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, PhD, addressing the UN before he lost the 2015 presidential election.

Nigerians should no longer be patient with any incompetent President as they were with the last one who failed to guaranty the security of lives and properties and lived in denial of his corrupt and incompetent government for more than six years until he lost his desperate bid for a second term. And one political idiot is comparing him to our LORD and MESSIAH Jesus Christ and other idiots are commending him even though they know that he only won his gubernatorial election by bribery and corruption and in a civilized country, he would have been jailed.  

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New iPhone 6 Coming Soon To Nigeria

New iPhone 6 coming soon to Nigeria......

Why you should Buy the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus From an authorized re-seller.
If you are itching to get your hands on the latest iPhone from Apple, the good news is you will be able to do so sooner than you think.

It’s tempting to get it before it’s in Nigeria, but the early bird might not be getting the best worm. Asking family or friends to buy it abroad might not work in your favour. Last year iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus landed on our shores within 8 weeks of the launch in the US. Those who bought the new iPhone when it was officially launched most likely got it sooner than those waiting for family and friends to bring it from abroad.

What’s more, if you buy from iStore Ikeja you will not only have an official iPhone, but reap the benefits of these offerings. Here are five good reasons why you should wait for the official release and buy from iStore:

1) You won't need to pay a premium for what is already a premium product.

2) You'll get the peace of mind of a full manufacturer's warranty – a full 1 year.

3) Buying your iPhone from iStore, Ikeja entitles you to expert technical support and advice, along with free training workshops.

4) One of iPhone’s most stunning features is FaceTime, which allows you to make video calls over WiFi or cellular networks. Did you know that iPhones that come from Dubai don’t have FaceTime?

5) You'll have the confidence of knowing that your brand-new iPhone is the real, genuine deal, direct from Apple.

If that’s not enough, there is one more reason. As promised by iStore Ikeja last year, you will be able to trade-in your current iPhone for the new iPhone when it launches at iStore Ikeja. You can get up to 50% of the current value.

Go to www.myistore.com.ng to sign-up to be the first to know, and you could soon be holding the iPhone of your dreams in your hands. It will be here sooner than you think.  

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Nollywood Needs An Insurance Policy

Nollywood Needs An Insurance Policy

The Nigerian film industry popularly called Nollywood may be the largest in Africa and third largest in the world for the production of home videos, but it is not the biggest film industry in Africa. South Africa has the biggest film industry in Africa.
http://nfvf.co.za/home/22/files/Baseline%20study.pdf
http://www.gov.za/sites/www.gov.za/files/mso1a2_0.pdf
The Nigerian film industry is not as organized as the South African film industry that has functional professional bodies with insurance policies.
From Kannywood to Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry does not have any insurance policy.