Nollywood is Not Among the Top 10 Biggest Film Industries

How can a state government official and other stakeholders in the Nigerian film industry say Nollywood is among the top five biggest film industries in revenues in the world?
We have to stop telling ourselves embarrassing lies.
Nollywood is not even among the top ten biggest film industries on planet earth.
Click here to see the Top 10 Highest Grossing Film Industries in the World.

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Orkin Releases Top 50 Mosquito Cities in the United States of America

Orkin's Top 50 Mosquito Cities list ranks metro areas by the number of mosquito customers served from April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017. The list includes both residential and commercial treatments.

Atlanta                                                        
Washington, D.C. (+1)                              
Chicago (-1)                                  
New York (+1)                                              
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.  (+8)                    
Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas                
Houston (+5)                                
Detroit (-4)                          
Charlotte, N.C. (-1)                          
Nashville, Tenn. (-3)
Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla. (+11)
Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, Fla.  (+11)
Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, Va.  (+1)
Memphis, Tenn. (-3)
Mobile-Pensacola, Fla. (+11)
West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce, Fla. (+15)
Raleigh-Durham, N.C. (-8)
Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek, Mich. (-3)
Boston (-9)
Phoenix, Ariz.
Philadelphia (+9)
Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., Asheville, N.C (-6)
Richmond-Petersburg, Va. (-2)
Kansas City, Mo. (+25)
Cleveland-Akron-Canton, Ohio (-7)
St. Louis, Mo.
New Orleans, La. (+16)
Baltimore, Md. (+9)
Los Angeles
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. (-11)
Hartford-New Haven, Conn. (-8)
Lafayette, La. (+12)
Knoxville, Tenn. (+1)
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, N.Y. (-17)
Indianapolis, Ind. (-8)
Birmingham, Ala. (+11)
Austin, Texas (+11)
Cincinnati, Ohio (+7)
San Antonio, Texas
Baton Rouge, La.
Charleston, S.C. (-16)
Shreveport, La.
Columbia, S.C.
Columbus, Ohio (-12)
Bangor, Maine (-16)
Flint-Saginaw-Bay City, Mich. (-18)
Greensboro-High Pt.-Winston-Salem, N.C. (-9)
Myrtle Beach-Florence, S.C. (-2)
Tulsa, Okla. (-13)
Little Rock-Pine Bluff, Ark.

Source http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/orkin-releases-top-50-mosquito-cities-list-300448410.html.

The Three Founding Fathers of Modern Lagos

Lagos is Africa's largest megacity with the highest GDP.

May 27 is the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Lagos State by the Federal Government of Nigeria on May 27, 1967 by the Creation and Transitional Provisions Decree No. 14 of 1967.

CEO of Del-York International and Nigerian Governors at 2017 Nigeria-China Governors' Investment Forum

The CEO of Del-York International, Mr. Linus Idahosa.

Nigerian State Governors and Chinese Industry Leaders Gather for the first Nigeria-China Governors Investment Forum In China.

When top world industry presidents and national leaders who share similar passions gather for a time of presentations, discussions and exchange of ideas, magic always happens. In meetings such as this, with the right people connecting within a sphere of good intentions and available resources, the stage is often set for groundbreaking deals that positively impacts participating nations.

Yisrayl Hawkins Writes Open Letter to World Leaders with Plan for Global Peace

Yisrayl Hawkins Writes Open Letter to World Leaders with Plan for Global Peace
Texas Pastor says war does not bring peace and offers peace plan he says is guaranteed to work without use of force
   
ABILENE, Texas, April 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Yisrayl Hawkins, Pastor and Overseer at The House of Yahweh in Abilene, Texas, wrote an open letter this week reaching out to world leaders in hopes of squashing a global crisis with solution to peace plan. Yisrayl says war has never brought peace and he knows the only solution that is guaranteed to work because the plan is given by the Creator Himself.

Biafran Child

BIAFRAN CHILD

I am one of fortunate Igbo children who survived the Biafran war of 1967-1970. But my mother of blessed memory who was a grass widow during the bloodiest civil war in Africa lost three of her six children. But I don't know if they died of the epidemic of Kwashiorkor that killed hundreds of thousands of Biafran children.
My mother said I did what no other child could dare to do. For a 5 year old boy to leave the IDPs camp and return to our village of Umuekwuele Aforugiri in the Uhuhu, Umuahia North Local Government (now in Abia state) when it was already captured by the Nigerian Armed Forces after one of the bloodiest battles with some of the. goriest scenes of human slaughter. I saw the charred remains of many corpses, and the most unforgettable was the burning corpse of one of my loving uncles. Then I saw a tall Nigerian soldier urinating in our garden.
My nightmares of the Biafran war will never stop. I have chronicled the memories in the revised edition of my original stories, "Bye, Bye Zimbabwe" which my Nigerian Editor, Ify Anyawu finished editing last year. I want to change the title of the book to "BIAFRAN CHILD" and dedicate it to the evergreen memory of my beloved mother, Mrs. Gladys Eke.

The only thing I did not like about Biafra was the fact that my mother said the corrupt senior military officers and government officials misappropriated revenues and relief supplies and starved the poor masses. Even if the Republic of Biafra survived, there would have been a coup d'etat or civil war in Biafra to topple Major General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, whom I prefer to call the "Lion of Biafra".
I don't like the leopards in the coat of arms of Biafra and the meaning is not heroic enough for me.
http://www.thebiafraherald.co/2016/10/biafra-significance-of-features-of.html?m=1.
The leopard cannot even fight the tiger or lion, the king of the jungle.
Moreover, it was stupid to call the Biafran currency " Biafran Pound " with the sane sign of the British Pound £. Why should you use the name and sign of the British Pound after you have declared that you are an independent republic? And honouring the British Empire that was supporting your enemy, Nigeria. Honouring your former colonial master on your currency was stupid and showed that the government of Biafra was confused.

Yes. I did what no other child ever did in the history of wars in the world. No child would dare to crawl and walk out of a refugee camp and return to his or her ravaged village with fear.

~ By Michael Chima Ekenyerengozi https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima.

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Are We Living In The Matrix?

Are We Living In The Matrix?
Documentary, "What Is Reality," Reveals a Surprising Scientific Answer from one of the World's Largest Scientific Groups Working On a Theory of Everything

   
LOS ANGELES, April 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles based Quantum Gravity Research (www.QuantumGravityResearch.org) is one of the largest physics research groups in the world working on unification physics - or the search for the "theory of everything." As part of their public education program, Mad Machine Films (www.MadMachineFilms.com) and director David Jakubovic have produced What Is Reality, a high production value and surprisingly entertaining explanation of their advanced theoretical physics ideas. But there's a catch…

It turns out that the growingly popular view of physicists that reality is made of information may require the existence of some strange form of universal consciousness to actualize this information into physically "real" existence. As fantastical as this seems, the idea is based on rigorous logic, as the film explains.

The film has been open-sourced to the public for free viewing athttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ztlIAYTCU&t

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Kannywood Came Before Nollywood

Did you know that the name Kannywood was coined in 1999 by Sunusi Shehu of Tauraruwa Magazine before Norimitsu Onishi of The New York Times coined name of "Nollywood" in 2002?

The first Kannywood hit movie,  "Turmin Danya " ("The Draw"),  was made in1990, while the first Nollywood hit movie, "Living in Bondage" was made in 1992.

Kannywood is not a sub-industry of Nollywood, because the Kano  based Hausa language film industry was already flourishing as an independent film industry before the emergence of the Lagos based Nollywood. Kannywood produces more movies than Nollywood with more screens and more movie-goers from the Hausa tribe, the largest ethnic group in Nigeria with the largest population in sub Saharan Africa.

 ~ By Michael Chima Ekenyerengozi | IndieWire http://www.indiewire.com/author/michael-chima-ekenyerengozi.

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The Cultural Characteristics and New Methods of Music and Movie Piracy in Nigeria

The Cultural Characteristics and New Methods of Music and Movie Piracy in Nigeria

Piracy of creative works is as old as the history of plagiarism before the invention of printing and broadcasting. And it has been evolving into the different developments in mass communication from the printer to Napster. The most common method of piracy of music and movies is by downloading which is the most common form of digital piracy in the entertainment industry.
The 2013 documentary film "Downloaded" by Alex Winter showed how widespread addiction to downloading songs, movies and other forms of IP is doing collateral damage to the entertainment industry.

In 2011 it was reported that movie piracy cost the Australian economy more than $1.3 billion in revenue in just 12 months..

"The Motion Picture Association of America looked into this belief and discovered that piracy costs around $20.5 billion annually in the United States alone (Plumer, 2). In fact, a study back in 2005 estimated that a 10% decrease in worldwide piracy, including both film and music, over the course of four years would add 1.5 million jobs, $64 billion in taxes and $400 billion in economic growth (Kai-Lung)"
https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/moviepilot.com/posts/2889420/amp.

Studies on  movie piracy in Nollywood have shown the complicity of the first marketers of Nollywood movies.

Many of the movie marketers originally got into the business by pirating Hollywood movies, a practice that continues to flourish. “Piracy is not a problem with the system,” said Jade Miller, an academic at Tulane University who has researched Nollywood’s economics. “It is the system, essentially.” Miller’s academic interest is in media policy and the development of creative industries.
https://steppesinsync.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/copyright-wars-ii-what-pirates-of-hollywood-read-american-film-making-pioneers-share-with-nollywood-marketers/.

The most piratical countries are places like China, Nigeria and Russia, where virtually all media that is not downloaded illegally is sold in the form of knock-off CDs and DVDs.
https://steppesinsync.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/copyright-wars-i-consequences-of-illegal-downloading-for-local-media-industries-international-media-investment-and-global-cultural-trade.

 Many pirated music videos and movies are still openly hawked on the streets in Nigeria.