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The New York of Africa, Lagos City will be bubbling as filmmakers and movie buffs will converge next spring for the inaugural Screen Naija Open Air Cinema Festival . If 10.000 people trooped to watch ‘Fighting the Silence’ in Mulo village in Congo on the 21st of August 2011 in open air, then imagine how many more thousands of people will be gathering for the open air screenings of movies at Screen Naija 2012 with live rock muisc, hip hop rap performances and so much fanfare. For Reservations of Seats and Accommodation for the Screen Naija Open Air Cinema Fiesta, contact us today . Tweet

A scene from Viva Riva. Viva Riva shines at 2011 AMAA in Nigeria The thrilling Congolese gangster epic movie "Viva Riva" out shined competitors to win 6 awards from 12 nominations at the 7th Annual African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) Sunday night at the Gloryland Cultural Centre, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes an Angolan crime lord relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of gasoline. Director Djo Tunda Wa Munga’s Kinshasa is a seductively vibrant, lawless, fuel-starved sprawl of shantytowns, gated villas, bordellos and nightclubs and Riva is its perfect embodiment. ~ From South by South West The film by Congolese director Djo Tunda Wa Munga wo...

The most brutish and foolish creatures on earth must be Africans, from Nigeria to Rwanda and from the Sudan to the Congo. Africans have committed more atrocities in Africa since the independence of African countries than the atrocities of the imperialists in two centuries. The rest of the world said they were shocked by the Rwanda holocaust , but more people are being killed in the Congo and yet we have not done anything to stop it. The emergency in the Congo is worse than the Darfur crisis , but how many times have we seen the horrors making headlines online and offline? I have decided to be distant from the hordes of hypocrites who claim to be citizen journalists and human rights activists in the blogosphere and claiming to be global voices or whatever tag they use for their hypocritical impressionism, but have not addressed the emergencies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Others among them are busy looking for American and Western European endorsements for their gay rights and o...

24 Apr 2008 12:45 Africa/Lagos The New York Times Wins an Unprecedented Six of 21 Top Honors at the 69th Overseas Press Club Awards; Getty Images Dominates the Photography Category; James Nachtwey Receives the OPC President's Award NEW YORK, April 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York Times captured six of the 21 awards given by the Overseas Press Club in its 69th annual competition honoring the finest international journalism. This total is the most any single organization has won in the annual awards from the OPC. Getty Images dominated the photography category, earning three of the four awards given. The OPC awards will be presented by NBC News Anchor/Correspondent Ann Curry at an April 24 dinner at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York. Photojournalist, James Nachtwey will be on hand to accept the President's Award. Nachtwey has won five Robert Capa Gold Medal Awards from the OPC over the years for his photographic reporting requiring exceptional courage and enterprise....

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963) Dear Caroline Kennedy, I have just read your white lies on "A President Like My Father" published by The New York Times on Sunday, January 27, 2008. Senator Barack Obama What a day to choose to tell lies to the ignorant and gullible majority of Americans and the rest of the world who do not know the history of America and the rest of the world during the tragic administration of your beloved father, the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, whose administration ended abruptly with his assassination. JFK with little Caroline . Search the archives of The New York Times for the facts of history and the role your father played in the assassinations of the leaders of Iraq in 1963. To let the whole world know the truth, I will simply copy and paste the facts for the public knowledge. The Atrocities of JFK: Iraq In 1963, the Kennedy administration backed a coup against the government of Iraq headed by General Abdel Karim Kas...

At Least 40 Killed in Christmas Day Blast at Nigerian Pipeline Explosion occurred as villagers were trying to scoop fuel from ruptured pipeline that caught fire Two Foreign Aid Workers Seized in Northern Somalia Women working for Doctors Without Borders international aid group seized in port town of Bossasso, Wednesday by gang armed with machine guns Christmas Lull in Fighting Spurs Aid Workers in Eastern DRC International Rescue Committee hopes to reach Rutshuru District, where many rape victims reported Egypt Reports 16th Human Death From Bird Flu Authorities say 25-year old woman died on the day she was diagnosed with bird flu Campaign Ends Ahead of Kenya’s Election Voters head to polls Thursday, to elect new president Uganda Opposition Leader Denies Rumors of His Own Demise