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31 Jan 2012 05:26 Africa/Lagos US Deputy Secretary Burns Completes Week-long Trip to Africa WASHINGTON, January 31, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC January 30, 2012 Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns wrapped up his week-long visit to Africa today in Ethiopia. As head of the U.S. delegation to the African Union Summit , he met yesterday and today with a number of leaders in Addis Ababa, including UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, South Sudanese President Kiir, Sudanese Foreign Minister Karti, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles, Libyan Prime Minister al-Keeb, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang, and Kenyan Foreign Minister Wetangula. Over the weekend, the Deputy Secretary was in Uganda, where he met with Ugandan President Museveni and visited a public-private partnership at Wagagai, one of more than a hundred clinics that the United States supports in Uganda to provide preventive care and comprehensive maternal and child health ser...

Tunde Kelani Top 20 Nigerian Filmmakers In no particular order, the following are the top 20 Nigerian filmmakers based on the local and international ratings of their active engagements, current movies at the cinemas, critical press reviews by film critics and screenings at film festivals. 1. Tunde Kelani Tunde Kelani has been the most resourceful and outstanding Nigerian filmmaker from the old school who has remained very active since the 1970s to date when his contemporaries are no longer very active. He is accomplished in both celluloid and video And his notable films include Anikura, Ireke Onibudo, Pap Ajasco, Kannakanna, Ogun Ajaye, Iya Ni Wura, Taxi Driver, Iwa, Fopomoyo and feature videos Ti Oluwa Nile , Ayo Ni Mofe , Kosegbe, O Le Ku, Saworoide And Thunderbolt and Maami. 2. Amaka Igwe Amaka Igwe may be called the “Mama of Nollywood” for being the leading lady of Nigeria’s home video industry for her notable contributions to the sustainable development from the 1990s to date. A...

Major Hamza Al-Mustapha going to jail. Monday January 30 was an ill-fated day for Major Hamza Al-Mustapha as he was sentenced to death by Judge Mojisola Dada at the high court in Igbosere on the Lagos Island in Nigeria. The former Chief Security Officer to late General Sani Abacha, the despotic tyrant and ruler of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998, was found guilty of masterminding the assassination of Kudirat Abiola on June 4th 1996. Kudirat was one of the wives of the late Chief M.K.O Abiola, the president-elect of the annulled 1993 presidential election. Al-mustapha was sentenced along with Alhaji Lateef Shofolahan, a protocol officer in the MKO Abiola campaign organization, also found guilty for his complicity in the murder of Kudirat. Al-mustapha has been in detention since he was arrested on Thursday, 22nd day of October 1998. Kudirat Abiola Chief M.K.O Abiola and Gen. Sani Abacha On December 21, 2010, Hamza Al-mustapha was discharged and acquitted for the attempted murder of Mr. Alex ...

The Indian film industry popularly known as Bollywood currently ranks number one in the world for attendance and film production with over 1,000 films produced a year and approximately 90% of revenues derived from non-English language movies. Recent reports project the country's film industry to grow from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $5 billion by 2014. Bollywood films cost millions of dollars and the most expensive so far is Ra.One , a science fiction film with a budget of about USD 27 million. Copyright © 2012 Nigerians Report, International Digital Post Network Limited. All rights reserved. Tweet

Emily Mathews A new political party has been announced in America. The party called Revive America National Committee, Inc, has only one goal: to find intelligent and sustainable solutions to rebuild the America we all know is possible, according to the founder and Chief Executive Officer, Emily Mathews. More details are in the following press release. 30 Jan 2012 13:35 Africa/Lagos New Political Party Promises to Change the Course of the 2012 Election WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, a new national political party was announced in Washington, DC. The Revive America National Committee, Inc. ("ReviveAmerica") held its first national press conference to introduce the new party to the nation and to outline its mission, motivation, and future plans. "The most debilitating misconception in our quest for solutions is that there are two very distinctive, but extremely divergent, paths. The notion that there are not intelligent and clear solutions to m...

Many thanks to all those who remembered my birthday, January 30th without being reminded. I really appreciate your well wishes and I have prophesied the blessings and favcurs of God to reward you always. Amen. To celebrate my birthday, may I share the following article on how to separate fact from fiction in the midst of the existential challenges of life. Monday, January 30, 2012 Inch by Inch ... "If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done. Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow—perhaps it all will."1 I recently read about a woman who planted some 50,000 daffodil bulbs in her back yard—one at a time—over a period of nearly fifty years! "Year after year, she kept planting bulbs until she had created five acres of ineffable magnificence, beauty and inspiration. After seeing the spectacular garden one woman remarked, 'It makes me sad in a way. What might I have accomplished if I had thought of a wonderful goal 35 or 40 y...

The African première of CYBORNETICS , a new science fiction film directed by Dwayne Buckle will be in Nigeria before summer. What do you get when you get when you mix a barbarian, a bright eyed kid from the 1920s, and a director with a burning desire for Science Fiction? You get the latest film on our radar, “Cybornetics“. On it’s surface, this film featuring Raw Leiba (“Conan The Barbarian”, 2011) and Justiin A. Davis (“Boardwalk Empire”), is the story of group of scientists, working for the United States government, who transform Charles Benjamin, a small time hustler, into a cyborg. Credited cast: Raw Leiba ... Ice Morales Hillary Hawkins ... Tasha ...