Two Nominees Bearing the Same Surname Will Be Going Home With Oscars Tonight

As the entertainment world celebrates the 89th Academy Awards tonight, two nominees bearing the same surname will be going home with Oscars tonight.

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Morocco Has the Fourth Biggest Film Industry in Africa

Morocco's film industry ranks second to the film industry of Egypt in north Africa and also attracts many foreign filmmakers for the exotic tourist attractions which have become some of the best locations for Hollywood films. The most popular films made in Morocco include "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), "The Living Daylights" (1987), "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988), "The Mummy" (1999), "Gladiator" (2000), "Kingdom of Heaven"  (2005), "Kundun" (1997), "Legionnaire" (1998), "Hanna" (2011), "Hills Have Eyes" (2006), "Babel" (2006), "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" (2011) and parts of the TV series "Game of Thrones" and "Prison Break" have been shot in Morocco.

Queen Njinga: Overlooked African Female Ruler Gets Her Due

Queen Njinga: Overlooked African Female Ruler Gets Her Due
Dr. Linda M. Heywood presents Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen to the community

WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Feb. 24, 2017  /PRNewswire/ -- Queen Njinga of Angola is one of the most powerful and brave figures in African history. Her story is often overlooked in history books, but she was one of the most multifaceted rulers in history. At a book signing yesterday at Jamestown Settlement, Dr. Linda M. Heywood, professor of African History at Brown University, discussed her book Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen and how Queen Njinga skillfully navigated―and ultimately transcended―the ruthless, male-dominated power struggles of her time.

Speaker Paul Ryan Speaks on President Trump's Travel Ban Order

I addressed the critical issues of the Travel Ban with Speaker Paul Ryan and he sent me the following reply yesterday.

February 23, 2017

Dear Michael Chima,

Thank you for contacting me regarding immigration. We are a compassionate nation, and we are also a nation of laws. It is important we insist that everyone come here legally and maintain legal status. 

I recently visited the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to get a firsthand look at the many challenges facing our law enforcement professionals along the border. It gave me even greater respect for the work that they do day-in and day-out. But more tools and more support are needed for them to do their jobs effectively. 
That is why Congress is working closely with the Trump administration to secure our borders and enforce our immigration laws.

Visit Speaker.gov for future updates on this issue, and thank you again for getting in touch.  

 Sincerely,

Paul D. Ryan
Speaker of the House
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He is not opposed to the executive order President Donald Trump signed on Jan. 27, temporarily banning travelers from seven predominately Muslim countries and halting entrance of all Syrian refugees.

ed out immigrants, refugees, and travellers from seven countries – Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Sudan, and Somalia – originally identified by the Obama administration in a 2015 revision to the visa waiver programme. The programme allowed refugees from 38 countries to enter the US without visas for up to 90 days. President Obama excluded the seven countries from that list, but did not outright ban migration from those areas.

Obama Ranked Second To Lincoln in the Best President of United States

Obama Ranked Second To Lincoln in the Best President of United States 

When it comes to picking the best president in the history of the United States, no one president receives 20% or more of the vote. President Lincoln (19%) tops the list, followed by presidents Obama (15%, including 30% of Democrats), Washington (14%), Reagan (13%), Kennedy (8%) and Franklin Roosevelt (7%).

Those polled were also asked to pick their second choice. When those who chose a president as their first or second choice are added together, the rank order is more or less the same, with Lincoln (31%) topping the list, followed by Obama (26%), Reagan (24%), Kennedy (19%), Washington (18%), Clinton (14%) and Franklin Roosevelt (12%).

Click here for the full report of the Harris' Presidents’ Day Poll.

The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream:

My Testimony on the 2015 Presidential Election is an important chronicle of the 2015 presidential election in Nigeria and the principal actors in the emergence of the first Nigerian presidential candidate to defeat an incumbent President in the political history of Nigeria.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the Most Followed World Leader on Facebook; U.S. President Donald Trump Comes Second

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi the Most Followed World Leader on Facebook; U.S. President Donald Trump Comes into Power with Massive Following

Burson-Marsteller Study Finds 87 Heads of State, 70 Heads of Government and 55 Foreign Ministers Have Personal Pages on the World's Largest Social Media Platform

NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the most followed world leader on Facebook with 40 million followers on his personal page, and U.S. President Donald J. Trump is in second place with 20 million followers on his personal page, according to the newly released 2017 "World Leaders on Facebook" study by leading strategic communications and global public relations firm Burson-Marsteller.

As of February 1, 2017, the institutional page of the Indian Premier, PMO India, is in third place with 13 million followers, ahead of Queen Rania  of Jordan, in fourth place with 10 million. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rounds out the top five with 8 million followers.

The Production, Distribution and Exhibition of Falsehood on Nollywood By CNN and Others

The Production, Distribution and Exhibition of Falsehood on Nollywood By CNN and Others

There is a misrepresentation of facts on Nollywood by certain desperados among the actors, distributors and exhibitors to promote their selfish interests and they are paying both local and international news reporters to publish their misinformation. An example is The Evolution of Nollywood in Pictures http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/15/africa/gallery/nollywood-portraits/, which is not what the title claims.
They paid the CNN to broadcast an erroneous photo documentary on a selection of their favourite actors and actresses and called it an evolution of Nollywood in pictures. But it failed to show the evolution of Nollywood.

Nigerians in Europe Can Send Money To Nigeria Through Mobile Phones

TerraPay Joins Forces With MoneyTrans and Paga to Make Cross Border Remittance Easy Between Europe and Nigeria
 
AMSTERDAM, February 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

TerraPay, a mobile-first international payment network, today announced that it has partnered with MoneyTrans, a leading Money Transfer company established in Europe and Africa as well as Paga, Nigeria's pioneering payments and financial services company to launch cross-border remittances from Spain to mobile wallets in Nigeria.

A Great Nation Cannot Be Built On the Foundation of Corruption

A Great Nation Cannot Be Built On the Foundation of Corruption

It is a terrible thing to be intellectually retarded and not to know that you're intellectually retarded.
A generation almost drowning in the flood of the information age of the internet with access to facts on their fingertips, but still lacking in intellectual comprehension and ratiocination.
It is tragic to act without logic.
To be ignorant is tragic.
Youths who don't read cannot lead.
They want to reap without sowing a seed
Their daily creed is based on their greed.
They live a life of fallacy and hypocrisy.
But a great nation cannot be built on the foundation of corruption.
We cannot celebrate our nationhood on the threshold of falsehood.
This is the calamity of the majority of Nigerian youths.
Only few are truly intelligent. But who can hear the words of wisdom of the wise in the tumult of fools making the loudest noise?
 "Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cellphones, iPods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books."
~ Harper Lee, famous author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" on May 7, 2006, in a letter to Oprah Winfrey (published in O, The Oprah Magazine in July 2006).


~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, author of "In the House of Dogs", *The Prophet Lied" and other books. https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima.

The Academic and Professional Importance of the NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series

There are more foreigners reading the NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series than Nigerians and 90% of these foreigners are white people from academic institutions and practitioners in the film industry.

There are dozens of books and other publications on the Nigerian film industry which I have listed in my "Nollywood Associations Without Libraries: What A Shame" published on Modern Ghana and other news channels.