The event which held at Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island Lagos, was hosted by IK Osakioduwa and Minenhle ‘Minnie’ Dlamini.
From "76" to "Oloibiri," Rita Dominic and Sambasa Nzeribe, check out full list of winners;
Trailblazer Award
Somkele Idhalama
Best Make Up Artiste (Movies/TV series)
Oloibiri - Hakeem Onilogbo Ajibola, Perekeme Odon
Best Costume Designer
76 - Pat Egwurube
76 - Pat Nebo
Best Sound Editor (Movies/TV series)
Vaya
Best Picture Editor (Movie/TV series)
Oloibiri - Nnodim Chigozie, Paula Peterson
Best Lighthing Designer (Movies/TV series)
93 Days - Elliot Sewape
Best Cinematographer
Happiness is a Four Letter Word - Lance Gewer
Best Documentary
Alison
Best Short Film or Online Video
Cat Face
Deborah Anugwa - Hustle
Best Actor in an M-Net comedy series
Samuel Ajibola - "The Johnsons"
Best Actress in an M-Net original drama series
Meg Otanwa - "Hush"
Best Actor in an M-Net original drama series
David Jones David - "Hotel Majestic"
Best M-Net original comedy series
The Johnsons
Best M-Net original drama series
Tinsel
Best Indigenous Language TV series/movies (Swahili)
Zilizala
Best Indigenous Language TV series/movies (Hausa)
Yaki Da Zuciya
Best Indigenous Language TV series/movies (Yoruba)
Somwhere in The Dark - Abiodun Jimoh, Jumoke Odetola
Best Indigenous Language TV series/movies (Igbo)
Amoye-Bu-Onye
Best Soundtrack/ Original Score
The Encounter - Michael 'The Truth' Ogunlade
Best TV series
Jenifa's Diary
Best Writer
Vaya
Best Supporting Actress
Ebele Okaro - Four One Love
Best Supporting Actor In A Drama (Movie/TV series)
Rotimi Salami - Just Not Married
Best Actor in a Comedy
Imeh Umoh Bishop - The Boss is Mine
Best Movie East Africa
Kati Kati
Best Movie West Africa
Oloibiri
Best Movie South Africa
All About Love
Best Actress in a Drama (Movies/TV Series)
Rita Dominic - 76
Best Actor in a Drama
Sambasa Nzeribe - Slow Country
Best Overall Movie
76
Naomba Niseme
Best Director
76 - Izu Ojukwu
Life Achievement Award
Chika Okpala
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Sunday, 5 March 2017
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Friday, 3 March 2017
Shocker: Fayose exposes Buhari's secret, proves that all pictures shown online are old pictures. See Video
See the video where Gov. Fayose proved that the pictures posted around that Buhari is in London are old pictures.
https://youtu.be/SYT0OD-48_E
Nigerians lost N18bn to MMM –NDIC
NO fewer than three million Nigerians have lost about N18 billion to the Phonzi scheme, popularly referred to as Mavrodi Mundial Movement (MMM), Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has hinted.
The scheme, since it announced new guidelines for its operations in Nigeria late 2016, has not recorded new investor while the existing ones have not been able to recoup their savings from the unlicenced fund managers.
Speaking at the 38th Kaduna International Trade Fair, yesterday, Managing Director of NDIC, Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim, who made the shocking revelation, said frequent usage of virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin, Ripples, Monero, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Onecoin as currencies for medium of exchange are Internet-based transactions and are not authorised by the CBN due to the risks involved in their operations.
Represented by the deputy director of Corporate Affairs, Alhaji Hadi Suleiman, Ibrahim regretted that despite repeated warnings by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the corporation, Nigerians still get involved in shady transactions. He said anyone still involved in ponzi scheme “is on his own.”
He said with the advent of the cashless policy and the subsequent licensing of mobile money operators (MMOs) by the CBN, NDIC has extended deposit insurance cover to the subscribers of MMOs to the maximum limit of N500, 000 per subscriber per bank through it’s Pass-Through Deposit Insurance Framework.
“Phonzi scheme is the phenomenon of illegal fund managers, popularly called “Wonder Banks” which have continued to defraud unsuspecting members of the public of their hard earned money. This phenomenon has been a concern because despite our repeated warnings over the years, some members of the public have continued to fall victims of their fraudulent practices.
“We would like to reiterate that these fund managers are illegal as they are neither licensed by the CBN to take deposits from members of the public nor are those who patronise them covered by the NDIC deposit insurance scheme.
“I want to also draw the attention of some cooperative society which often go beyond their primary mandate by accepting contributions from members that cooperative societies are only recognised to mobilise savings from their members,” he said.
While advising the general public on the dangers of keeping large sums of money at home or in market shops, he encouraged them to make use of banks around them. He said there are 978 licensed micro finance banks nationwide, out of which seven are spread across Kaduna state which they can comfortably patronise.
SOURCE: THE SUN
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Again Reno replies Amaechi: “Rotimi Amaechi: Leave Trash For LAWMA”
The inferno of verbal altercation between the Transport Minister, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi through his aide, Mr. David Iyofor and the Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s aide Pastor Reno Omokri rages on as Omokri, in an article titled, “Rotimi Amaechi: Leave Trash For LAWMA,” replied Amaechi’s second letter which read, “Again Amaechi’s Aide Replies Reno: “You’re A Zookeeper; Answer My Questions, Don’t Write About Lions, Monkeys.” saying Amaechi must “Leave Trash For LAWMA.”
In the response, Omokri maintained that the Transport Minister did not answer the points he raised in his earlier article titled, “Reno To Amaechi: “You’re A Decorated Monkey Only Loyal To Your Stomach” wherein he(Reno) disproved with facts the allegations by Amaechi that the Goodluck Jonathan administration misappropriated funds meant for the country’s development.
Reno also said that instead of answering the questions he raised, where he proved the Minister wrong, Amaechi, however resorted to spewing trash, a proof that he(Amaechi) “is as irrelevant as the P in Psychology by spending his time making false allegations instead of fulfilling the mandate giving him to improve Nigeria’s transport infrastructure.”
Omokri who said that Amaechi’s duty post is the Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, also said that he does not “react to trash which Amaechi is but instead, he leaves trash for LAWMA.”
Reno Omokri continued by saying that the Former Rivers state Governor and current Minister of Transport has no job and life outside the government, “which is why during the 2015 campaigns he was reduced to a driver to President Muhammadu Buhari and Malam Nasir Elrufai. How the people of Rivers state suffered to the extent that their Governor became a chauffeur.”
Read the full article:
“Again, Nigeria’s Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has left the issues raised by my response to his fallacious interview to impugn my character in a vicious ad hominem attack on me. My response is as follows:
Why should I respond to the trash that Rotimi Amaechi has thrown at me? Out of the fullness of the heart a man speaks. He has trash within him so he always vomits trash.
I do not react to trash. I leave trash to LAWMA. Rotimi Amaechi, with his pot belly and ill fitting designer clothes, is trash. My dear minister, here is the address of Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA: No. 3 Iddo – Yard, Ijora Olopa, Lagos State. You can report for duty there since it is your natural habitat!
Rather than trash, I will prefer to respond to issues. The issues are very clear. Rotimi Amaechi falsely accused ex-President Goodluck Jonathan of pilfering $49.8 billion in his interview.
I proved that he lied. I proved that the maker of that allegation, the then Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi later withdrew it after he was faced with evidence of its falsity.
I proved that in February of 2014, the then CBN Governor wrote another letter to the Senate admitting that he did not know how much or if anything was unaccounted for saying (and I quote from Sanusi’s letter) it could be “$10.8 billion or $12 billion or $19 billion or $21 billion — we do not know at this point”.
I also proved that Rotimi Amaechi was being hypocritical when he accused the former President of not saving because he was the one who, as then Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, insisted on September 21, 2012 that the saved funds in the Excess Crude Account be shared.
I proved that when former President Jonathan REFUSED to share the funds, Rotimi Amaechi led the NGF to sue the then Federal Government at the Supreme Court and got a judgment compelling the Jonathan administration to share the money saved in the Excess Crude Account.
As a result of these actions, the Jonathan administration was forced to pay the 36 states of the federation a total of N2.92 trillion from the Excess Crude Account by 2014. Using the value of the Naira at that time, that amount was just above $20 billion dollars. This was money that was to be saved.
Again Rotimi Amaechi proves that he is as irrelevant as the P in Psychology by spending his time making false allegations instead of fulfilling the mandate giving him to improve Nigeria’s transport infrastructure. Is he so jobless?
But I am not surprised. His masters already saw just how jobless he is which is why during the 2015 campaigns he was reduced to a driver to President Muhammadu Buhari and Malam Nasir Elrufai. How the people of Rivers state suffered to the extent that their Governor became a chauffeur.
You can take a donkey to the River but you cannot force it to drink and you can make Amaechi a minister but you cannot force him to act like a minister. His proper calling in life was perhaps to be a driver!
Rotimi Amaechi had no money to finish the mono rail in his state, but he had $500,000 to spend on a one day dinner for Professor Wole Soyinka by his own admission. Is that not proof that he likes food more than knowledge and development?
When he became governor of Rivers state in 2007, the state treasury was fat and his belly was lean, by the time he left in 2015, the state treasury was lean and his belly was fat. In fact, Rotimi Amaechi’s belly swapped destiny with his state’s treasury!
I have had a life before government. I worked at a bank, at Parliament, as VP of a political consulting firm and now I run my own profitable business. Does Rotimi Amaechi have a life outside government?
The only job that he has had outside government was a job as Peter Odili’s PA at Pamo Clinics and Hospitals, Port Harcourt. Thereafter, he rode on Odili’s coattails from one government post to the other. His only political skill being to betray one political godfather as soon as he finds a bigger one.
Government post is Rotimi Amaechi’s oxygen and this was what former President Olusegun Obasanjo saw when he stopped him from becoming Governor in 2007 because he knew that a man who cannot generate wealth in his private business is condemned to forever be a sycophantic political prostitute.
With the benefit of hindsight, we now see that President Obasanjo was right!
If Rotimi Amaechi wants to shut my mouth then I challenge him to go to Rumukwurushi Market in Port Harcourt without security and shout Sai Baba, Sai Amaechi. If he survives the encounter, I will forever leave him and his potbelly alone.
By Reno Omokri
Reno Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center in California, author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation with Reno Omokri.”
SOURCE: VANGUARD
We have no business with China if we can develop Made-in-Aba products - Osinbajo
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo asked Nigerians to support Made-in-Nigerian product
- Osinbajo said Nigeria would have no business patronizing China if the local industries located in Aba can be supported and developed.
on Nigerians to support Made-in-Nigeria goods and join hands to support and promote industries located in Aba.
Osinbanjo said if Aba industries can be supported and developed, Nigeria will have no business importing from China as the local industries will be able to sustain the economy.
Osinbajo said: “Aba was very strategic and important to the country in terms of manufacturing and production.”
Vanguard reports that Osinbajo made this statement while receiving a delegation of some top functionaries of Abia State Government, Aba businessmen and industrialists led by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state and the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investments, Okey Enalemah at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday, February 28.
While commending Governor Ikpeazu, Osinbajo said: “Nigeria has no business with China if all hands are on deck to develop Aba as a major industrial Base.”
Speaking after the Acting President, Governor Ikpeazu stated that “If Aba is giving the needed and adequate attention, which include infrastructural and human capacity development, it has the potential and capacity as the SME capital of Nigeria, to position Nigeria as truly the giant of Africa.
“Our government is doing all we can do ensure the infrastructural turnaround of Aba, but we can’t do it alone, that is why we are thankful to the Federal Government for showing very strong interest in partnering with us to development Aba as the SME capital of our dear country-Nigeria.”
“It is our collective resolve to promote goods and services made in Aba, and we will not relent in the campaign. We call on Federal Government and multinational companies and individuals to, not only join us in the campaigns, but to also patronize made-in-Aba goods.”
Meanwhile, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, says he is an ardent patron of products made in Aba and all he is wearing are made locally.
The minister disclosed this in Umuahia on Monday, February 27, at the Federal Government’s town hall meeting and the launch of the national reorientation campaign, “Change Begins With Me’’ , in Abia.
Again Amaechi’s aide replies Reno: “You’re a zookeeper; answer my questions, don’t write about lions, monkeys”
The end is not yet heard about the verbal altercations between the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi’s aide, Mr. David Iyofor and the Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s aide, Reno Omokri over the alleged maladministration of the past government as Amaechi’s aide has, in a second letter to Omokri, asked him to answer the questions he raised in his first epistle rather than being like “an excited new zookeeper…who childishly and unintelligibly writes about lions, monkeys, lizards and alligators in a manner sane people cannot fathom.”
In the second letter titled, “Before It Is Too Late: My Second Epistle To Bitter Wendell Smilin aka Reno Omokri,” Mr. Iyofor said he is deeply troubled by Reno’s state of mind especially at the “intensely bitter obsession with infinite sadness” he showed in his earlier reply to his first letter, saying “whoever spews that kind of garbage you wrote truly and urgently needs help, psychiatric and perhaps spiritual help.”
Recall that Omokri had in his reply article to Iyofor’s first letter said the Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi is “ a decorated monkey only loyal to his stomach.” He also said Amaechi is a “pot-bellied monkey” that perhaps will retire to Daura with President Muhammadu Buhari to become his house servant since he is not welcomed in his hometown in Rivers state.
Omokri was responding to Iyofor’s first epistle that said he(Omokri) is “like a mad man in the market square that points his fingers at sane people, calling them mad.,”
But in the second letter, Mr. Iyofor said The Transport Minister will not stoop to joining Reno Omokri in the exchange of verbal salvos and neither would he(Iyofor) will join him(Omokri) in exchanging derogatory words. He said, instead, he(Iyofor) is calling on Omokri’s family members, friends and well-wishers to urgently rescue him from “self-destructive voyage of hate, bitterness, anger and misplaced vengeance against Rotimi Amaechi, before it is too late.”
“My Dear Wendell Smilin aka Reno Omokri,
If you are astonished that I am writing you a second letter so soon, barely 24 hours after I lovingly admonished you in my first epistle to you, kindly pardon me. I do not mean to belabour you with this letter (its not like you have anything else to do with your life, anyway).
Your response early Tuesday morning to my first letter was so mortifying. It’s only pertinent I write you a second one. Again, I crave your indulgence and I would try not to take too much of your time.
Before I delve into the issues you raised, actually you didn’t raise any, all you did in that utterly disgusting piece you wrote was to attack, abuse, insult and call Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi all sorts of denigrating names. And this is the crux of my worry for you, brother Wendell Smilin.
I am deeply troubled by your state of mind. You were intensely bitter and obsessed with infinite sadness. Your words were ominously dark, your thoughts deviously vengeful, replete with so much bile, unbelievable and unbridled anger as you displayed a debilitating self- destructive hate. I am afraid you may have completely lost it.
Whoever spews that kind of garbage you wrote truly and urgently needs help, psychiatric and perhaps spiritual help. It’s far more worrisome and urgent when that person is a duplicitous character with multiple identities, who boldly puts “pastor”, like a moniker in front of one of his multiple names. That piece was a clarion urgent call for help by Wendell Smilin aka Reno Omokri.
I took you on, exposed your lies, fake news and multiple fake personalities, but you left the issues and went after Amaechi who has always completely ignored your endless hateful and vengeful attacks on him. Yours is a classical case of been beaten by Mr. A but you left Mr. A to go after Mr. B who has always ignored you. I know you crave a fight with Rotimi Amaechi, for him to trade words with you; sorry to burst your bubble-that will never happen.
You avoided the issues I raised in my first letter and refused to respond to the questions I asked, but rather took the highway of the mundane and the ridiculous.
You wrote two paragraphs, yes two paragraphs on the clothes Amaechi wears as if Amaechi’s fashion style will answer the question of whether the then CBN(Central Bank of Nigeria) governor, the same Sanusi Lamido Sanusi that you faked documents to demonize, wrote a letter to your boss and idol, that $49 billion cannot be accounted for and so was missing from NNPC account and not paid to the federation account?
Come on! If you really think that Nigerians care more about how ill- fitting or well-fitting Amaechi’s clothes are, than their missing billons of dollars, then your problems are far more profound than I had ever imagined.
Like a buffoon, overly excited new zookeeper, you childishly and unintelligibly wrote about lions, monkeys, lizards and alligators but no sane person could fathom how that answers the question of why you created a fake document and circulated fake news that sought to portray our former Central Bank Governor, now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as a sponsor of terrorism; shamelessly and callously using the name of your brother-In- law’s innocent young son, Wendell Simlin to demonize Sanusi?
Brother Wendell, was it because Sanusi had the guts and courage to write the letter of the missing $49 billion to your god and idol?
You gleefully wrote about Amaechi’s supposed potbelly and eating habits, but how does that answer the question of whether Amaechi lied when he said your god and idol did not save money in spite of the huge savings he inherited from previous administrations and was surreptitiously spending alone the money meant for Federal, States and Local Government Councils?
Was Amaechi lying when he said your principal’s administration refused to call NEC (National Economic Council) meetings for about two years, in contravention of the constitution, so that the central administration you were part of, can covertly continue to spend unilaterally, the money meant for the three tiers of government; and that was why State Governors took the Federal Government to court to share the proceeds from the Excess Crude Account(ECA)?
My dear Reno, regularly billions of our money in naira and other currencies are been recovered from operatives of your principal’s past administration; yet you want us to believe that Sanusi was wrong when he wrote that billions of Nigeria’s money was missing. You must really think we are all fools and daft.
You went on to say a whole lot of balderdash that were neither coherent nor made any sense. You blabbed continuously, throwing up and joining diverse and different items that are entirely unrelated. Severally, you presented alternative facts as facts and wrote fake news as news.
Significantly, all these were done in a very incoherent and disjointed manner, which tells a lot about the state of your mind. I do not intend to dignify baloney and contemptible behaviour by responding to them.
There is a saying in my village, when translated, literarily means one do not wait for his brother to remove clothes and run stark naked in the market before you acknowledge that he is going mad when the signs are all obvious. That incoherent tirade against Rotimi Amaechi by Wendell Smilin aka Reno Omokri is an obvious cry for help.
Family, friends and well-wishers (if you still have any) urgently need to rescue you from this self-destructive voyage of hate, bitterness, anger and misplaced vengeance against Rotimi Amaechi, before it is too late.”
Teacher donates kidney to pupil, saves her life
A teacher in the US has saved the life of her 5-year-old pupil by donating one of her kidneys to save the child's life.
A US preschool teacher, Beth Battista, when she heard that her pupil was unable to find a suitable kidney donor after a long search happily offered hers.
She told the BBC: "I knew I just had to get tested rather than watch her suffer."
The surgery was successful and Beth the teacher and Lyla her pupil are now recovering after the successful transplant operation which happened on Wednesday, February 22.
Mrs Battista who has two children said that she heard about Lyla's condition from the young girls mother's Facebook page after her mother Dena Carreyn shared a Facebook post about the girl's desperate need for a living kidney donor.
She said after reading the post, she could not not ignore the suffering of the five-year-old child
About a year ago the little girl was diagnosed with microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), a rare autoimmune disorder which requires 12 hours of dialysis a day.
The teacher, Beth contacted the the UW Health Transplant Program in Wisconsin and, after undergoing two tests in July and August, it was found that she was a match with the girl.
It was especially amazing because it was a rare match. Beth needed to be the right blood group with few antibodies picked up from previous bouts of sickness. She also needed to have matching antigens with Lyla.
The operation which took place last week required surgeons to make four small incisions in her stomach in order to pull the kidney out, before taking it to Lyla, who was in a nearby hospital ward.
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