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In a chat with LaryzoneBlog, Mazi Ezenwafor Odera P.I gives out an exclusive introduction of his self inspired movie industry, which is tended to reinstate the Igbo culture. Read below: Greetings....... Igbo Project and the Actualization of Igbo indigenous film industry termed ‘IGBOWOOD’, is possible. Before I go deep, I wish to first of all give some brief history about the film industry. Let me start with the American film industry which is the world film home, known today as Hollywood. Hollywood is a district in the central region of Los Angeles, California, in the United States. It is notable for its place as the home of the entertainment industry. Its name has come to represent the motion picture industry of the United States. The word "Hollywood" came into existence when Mr H. J. Whitley who is also known as the "Father of Hollywood" coined this name in reference to a native plant with bright red winter berries that resemble Holly and the name "F...

Zimbabwe police on Wednesday arrested former finance minister and opposition politician Tendai Biti as he tried to cross the border and seek asylum in neighbouring Zambia, his lawyer said. Biti, whose party formed an election alliance with President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s main rival Nelson Chamisa, is the first senior opposition politician to be arrested in the aftermath of last week’s disputed presidential election won by Mnangagwa. Lawyer Nqobizitha Mlilo said Biti was arrested after presenting himself to Zambian immigration officials at Chirundu border post, north of the capital Harare and police had not yet informed him of the charges.

The Nigeria Police Force said on Friday that it could not investigate the allegations of certificate forgery and mismanaged funds levelled against the Chairman of Special Presidential Investigative Panel for the Recovery of Property , Okoi Obono-Obla , except there was an official complaint. The Force Public Relations Officer , Jimoh Moshood, said the police had yet to receive any official complaint to work on , and as such , they were not investigating Obono-Obla . He said, “We investigate based on complaints. As of now , nobody has made any complaints anywhere . The police do not take up cases based on what people say. “If any agency of government , whether legislative , executive or judiciary, reports any matter to us , we will investigate it. But as it is , nobody has reported the matter to us . ”

As the competition for the presidential ticket of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party gets stiffer in the run -up to the 2019 general elections , the party has said that it will rely on Nigerians to help the party choose its candidate for the presidential election . The National Publicity Secretary of the party , Mr . Kola Ologbondiyan said the party had heard that many people , including a former Vice -President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar ; Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki ; Sokoto State Governor , Aminu Tambuwal ; his colleague in Gombe State, Ibrahim Dankwambo; and a former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso , were interested in picking its presidential ticket. He , however , said the decision to rely on Nigerians was premised on the party ’ s determination to avoid past mistakes , impunity and imposition of candidates . According to Ologbondiyan , the party is not backing any of those in line to get its presidential ticket. Others interested in getting the party ’ s ...

The Anambra State branch of the Association of Professional Bodies in Nigeria (APBN), said yesterday that it was unhappy with the slow pace of work at the site of the International Cargo Airport project in Umuleri in Anambra East local government area being executed by the state government. Chairman of the body, Dr. Akaolisa Ezeagu, who spoke in Awka, regretted that the speed at which the project started had dropped significantly, urging the government not to play politics with the project. According to him, Anambra professionals would not want to believe that the project was used to score political points, in view of its enormous economic significances to the state, adding that the concept of the cargo airport and the way the state government went about it initially indicated professionalism. He said: “If the state would have the airport, being one of the states with the highest commercial activities, it will definitely boost trade in the state. “The concept of the project is...

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, on Friday, said it was perturbed over the increased spate of killings in Zamfara State, even as it tasked the Federal Government to wake-up to its responsibility of protecting lives and properties of its citizen. The NBA, which is the umbrella body of legal practitioners in the country, said it has constituted a high-powered delegation to embark on a fact-finding mission in the state with a view to ascertaining the remote and root causes of the incessant blood-letting. It vowed to invoke the full wrath of the law on any group or individuals that are found culpable in the heightened insecurity that has led to the death of hundreds and displacement of thousands of people in Zamfara. Addressing a Press conference in Abuja, the National President of the NBA, Mr Abubakar Mahmood, SAN, said the body was not unmindful of the fact that FG recently deployed about 1000 soldiers and aircraft to wade into the crisis. He said the association decided to se...

The APC governorship aspirant for Delta State, Professor, Partrick Okedinachi Utomi has called on Nigeria elites ‘living in false security of non participation’ to step out of their comfort zones to contribute to nation building. Addressing his audience and committee of friends on Friday at an event organised by Joseph Edgar of Katunga Media in Lagos on the role of elites on nation building, which he titled, ‘The duty of elite and the false security non-participation”, Utomi said that he has contributed much to his country, Nigeria and therefore enjoined other Nigerian elites who are afraid to participate in this struggle to come out as this is the only way to make a positive change in the country. Utomi said, “weak institutions contributed to the system failure and therefore need to be revived even while the regulators have done more damage to the Nigerian system than good”. According to him, we’re living in a collapse of culture where values are relegated to the background, an...

Detectives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, are closing in on top officials of the Joint Admission Matriculations Board, JAMB, allegedly fingered in the alleged diversion of more than N8 billion between 2010 and 2015. We learned last night that key officials had already been indicted by a body raised by the Federal Government to look into the finances of JAMB in the last six years following the returns made to the government by the current JAMB board led by Prof Ishaq Oloyede. It was said to have failed to remit the money to the government within the period under review. The amount includes unremitted Value Added Tax and Withholding Tax. Following the remittance of N7.8 billion to the Federal Government by the Oloyede- led management of the examination body, the government ordered a forensic audit of the accounts of JAMB from 2010 to 2015. Sources said the report of the forensic audit committee was sent to the EFCC some months ago by the Minister of Fi...