Dredging of Escravos basin will be of economic importance to S/ South, S/East – Okowa
Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to dredge the Escravos Basin to facilitate the berthing of bigger vessels at the Warri Port.
Esprit de Corps
This week, we begin the serialisation of “Esprit de Corps,” the second story from Ogaga Ifowodo’s work-in-progress entitled The Hostage. We began the series with “The Treasonable Parrot,” his fiction debut featured in the AGNI Portfolio of African Fiction, edited by E. C. Osondu and William Pierce, published in volume 72 of the magazine in 2010. Ifowodo, a lawyer, is an award-winning poet, columnist and activist. At the heart of the work-in-progress is the title story, a novella. The stories are set in Nigeria’s recent history of dictatorship as experienced by characters privately and in unsavoury social encounters caused by the relentless logic of the radical curtailment of freedom. Keep a date with Saturday Vanguard!
Lancelot threatens to place curse on pirates
The big-budget epic film, Invasion 1897 which has successfully premiered across the world in the past one-year is due to be released on DVD soon,the producer, Lancelot Imasuen has revealed. Lancelot, who is currently in the United States, where the film is on the last leg of its world tour, made the revelation while in a chat with HVP.
Emem Isong makes case for rape victims in ‘Code of Silence’
The premiere of another Nollywood blockbuster, Code of Silence, took place on Friday, August 8, at Silverbird Galleria, Victoria Island, Lagos amidst much fanfare. The movie which focuses on the subject of rape was well- attended by stars from the showbiz industry. The movie is Emem Isong’s second directorial effort and it features a newcomer, Makida Moka who played the lead character Adanma, Patience Ozokwor, Ini Edo, Omoni Oboli, Amechi Muonagor, Kofi Adjorlolo, Desmond Elliot and Shawn Faqua.
Segun Arinze becomes BON artistic director
“With a profound sense of duty, I accept the gesture of the organizers of BON awards in appointing me as the artistic director for the 2015 edition of the event. The BON awards is dear to me because it is a homegrown reward platform for Nigerian actors and that was one of the reasons I accepted to join the train that was in Akure, Ondo State recently for the unveiling of the host state,” Arinze said.
Jumbo pay: Dogara raises committee
FOLLOWING the outcry over the alleged jumbo salaries of members of the National Assembly and the need to reduce the cost of governance, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, yesterday, inaugurated a 20-man committee to carry out an assessment on what is required to run the National Assembly.
