Oseyiza Oogbodo Blog

To mark the 2016 International Women’s Day, EbonyLife Films on the 8th of March 2016 hosted about 200 women to a special private champagne screening of the record smashing blockbuster Fifty at the Genesis Deluxe Cinemas in The Palms shopping mall Lekki, Lagos. “It is international women’s day and I thought it would be nice to extend a gesture to women everywhere of all ages and background and treat them to a private screening of our movie, Fifty. This is also a girl’s night out that will have champagne, popcorn and special cupcakes served all in a bid to celebrate women as we all have a story worth celebrating. It promises to be so much fun,” Mo Abudu, founder of EbonyLife Films and executive producer of Fifty, said. The movie has been described as Abudu’s quest to showcase African women coming of age, loaded with increasingly similar aspirations and dilemmas faced by their contemporaries everywhere, while yet navigating unresolved traditions and obligations. The star-studded special s...

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has decried the controversy surrounding the promised monthly stipend to unemployed Nigerians, asking the President Muhammadu Buhari administration convene a high-level committee on National Basic Income Scheme. One of the cardinal campaign promises of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the last general elections was a monthly stipend to unemployed Nigerians when the party is elected to power at the center. President Buhari, had, while in Saudi Arabia in an interactive session with Nigerians last week reportedly said that the payment of the monthly handout of N5,000 as promised by the APC which is the platform on which he emerged as president, was not his priority. In a statement issued in Enugu, ERA/FoEN said the president’s remarks and double speak of the present administration on the issue was unfortunate and smacks of taking Nigerians, particularly the unemployed serious. ERA/FoEN Executive Director, Go...