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PINA - Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost - International Trailer from neueroadmovies on Vimeo . A sizeable crowd watched the African premiere of the awesome German documentary film Pina Saturday afternoon at the Silverbird Cinemas in the Silverbird Galleria on Victoria Island in Lagos. It was the special feature of the monthly documentary film screening series of iRep International Documentary Film Festival and the Goethe Institut in Nigeria. The audience of both Nigerians and the international community of mainly Germans and other Europeans was captivated by the hyperbolic renditions and illustrations of the life work of Philippina "Pina" Bausch (27 July 1940 – 30 June 2009), whose untimely death whilst Wim Wenders was still planning the experimental documentary in 3D compelled him to cancel the film production until the other dancers of the famous Tanztheater Wuppertal prevailed on him to complete the film as a memorial tribute to Pina and what a great tribute it has...

5 Sep 2011 18:31 Africa/Lagos THE THREE MUSKETEERS is No. 1 in Germany MUNICH, Germany, September 5, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- - EUR 2,4 million Box office on first weekend - Also Number 1 on the Austrian movie charts This weekend THE THREE MUSKETEERS claimed the top spot at the German box office. The new adventure movie in 3D produced by Constantin Film was released in Germany and Austria last Thursday. On the first weekend THE THREE MUSKETEERS grossed approximately EUR2,4 million taking the lead on the German box office charts. In Austria the movie grossed approximately EUR350.000 and was the clear winner not only at the box office but also in audience numbers. This big-screen action adventure remake of THE THREE MUSKETEERS - based on Alexandre Dumas' classic novel - was conceived and shot in state-of-the-art 3D. Athos, Porthos and Aramis - three elite warriors who serve the King of France as his best Musketeers - discover an evil conspiracy to ove...

25 Jun 2011 10:06 Africa/Lagos Women's football teams ‘Give AIDS the Red Card' to keep children free from HIV GENEVA, June 24, 2011/location>)/ -- Captains of national football teams competing in the upcoming FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 soccer championship in Germany are signing up to the Give AIDS the Red Card appeal in support of a global plan to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015. The Give AIDS the Red Card appeal, which was launched by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) one year ago at the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa, uses the power and outreach of football to unite the world around stopping new HIV infections in children. UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé said, “As the most important international competition in women's football, this tournament provides a platform to raise global awareness about the campaign to keep babies from becoming infected with HIV, and their mothers from dying from AIDS.” Every day mor...

Frank Adekunle Macaulay at the venue of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival Frank Adekunle Macaulay the Director of Photographer and CEO of Frank Adekunle Macaulay Production and Christian Nwankpa, one of the Executive Producers of Dangeous Men and an executive of the production company Gu International Pictures (G.I.P) went to the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale to promote their movies and meet with prospective partners for international co-productions and distributions. Christian Nwankpa at the venue of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival Christian Nwankpa at the venue of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival DANGEROUS MEN is a thriller by GuGu E. Michaels an accomplished filmmaker who has worked as a director and producer on a number of commercial and independent projects including the feature films "Thugz", "Repentance" and "Dangerous County". He has also helmed a number of campaigns for retailers like Cadilla...

22 Apr 2008 01:18 Africa/Lagos Correction of a Mis-Quote by The Daily Mail LONDON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- In the Daily Mail on Friday 18 April 2008, Louise Blouin MacBain, Chairman of Louise Blouin Media and the Louise T. Blouin Foundation, was erroneously misquoted as stating that: "His Holiness is trying to win cultural independence for an area that is the size of the UK, Germany and Portugal lumped together and in that aim he is deluded." This statement as published by the Daily Mail, reprinted in the National Post is categorically incorrect. In her two-part piece on the Tibet Issue and the recent crisis surrounding the riots in Lhasa and the Beijing Olympics published by Forbes.com -- 11/14 April-- Ms Blouin MacBain stated that His Holiness the Dalai Lama is seeking "political" independence beyond the Tibetan Autonomous Region to include two adjoining provinces, Amdo (Qinghai) and eastern Kham (western Sichuan) -- a geography that represents approxi...

Nigeria: Siemens - My Hands Are Clean - Adebayo Leadership (Abuja) 20 November 2007 Posted to the web 20 November 2007 By Golu Timothy Former Minister of Communications, Chief Cornelius Adebayo has denied any involvement in the alleged bribe scandal involving a German telecom giant, SIEMENS, saying those who seek to draw him into the controversy are not fair to him. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP last night and personally signed by the former minister, he said, he never at any point in time entangled himself throughout his four decades in public service, and therefore, it should not be at this age and time, that he will mess up his hard earned integrity. "My attention has been drawn to media reports as it affects Siemens in Nigeria, wherein my name has been mentioned with the allegation of collecting bribe at some 'unknown time after 2002'. While the fact remains that I was minister of Communications between July 2003 and August 2006, I wish to state very clea...

Nigeria: Siemens - My Hands Are Clean - Adebayo Leadership (Abuja) 20 November 2007 Posted to the web 20 November 2007 By Golu Timothy Former Minister of Communications, Chief Cornelius Adebayo has denied any involvement in the alleged bribe scandal involving a German telecom giant, SIEMENS, saying those who seek to draw him into the controversy are not fair to him. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP last night and personally signed by the former minister, he said, he never at any point in time entangled himself throughout his four decades in public service, and therefore, it should not be at this age and time, that he will mess up his hard earned integrity. "My attention has been drawn to media reports as it affects Siemens in Nigeria, wherein my name has been mentioned with the allegation of collecting bribe at some 'unknown time after 2002'. While the fact remains that I was minister of Communications between July 2003 and August 2006, I wish to state very clea...

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