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[b]Tough losing love and romance in your life this time of the year.

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Dis girl wants a ring and to settle down. She's a good poker player!


Usain Bolt Got Dumped By His U.K. Boo After He Flew Her To Jamaica To Meet His Family

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Usain Bolt's girl does a runner: Jamaican sprinter dumped by British office worker
22 Dec 2012 22:00

Megan Edwards split from the world’s fastest man after he flew her to Jamaica to meet his family
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THE British office girl who ­captured the heart of Olympic champion Usain Bolt during the Games has ended their romance… because he lives too far away.

Megan Edwards, 22, split from the world’s fastest man after he flew her to Jamaica to meet his family.

The down-to-earth accounts worker ­decided that the 4,600 miles between her and the smitten sprinter was too much to handle, and she wouldn’t be able to handle his globe-trotting lifestyle either.

Devastated Usain, 26, begged her to change her mind, but Megan revealed: “In the end I had to let my head rule my heart.

“It was amazing out there, but that’s where I decided it couldn’t go on. He was talking about having to fly here and there and I was going back to my office job.

“So when I got home I rang him and told him it wasn’t going to work. I said the distance thing and not seeing him often enough was a problem for me.

“He was very upset and said ‘Don’t do it, what can I do?’. I told him, ‘There is nothing you can do... you are who you are’.

“I am just a normal girl and I know people say, ‘You would have been fine with it’, but I wouldn’t. If I was a celebrity then our relationship probably would have lasted longer.”

Junior athlete Megan caught the eye of the 100m world record holder when she was chosen to model Jamaica’s team kit for the Games and appeared on a catwalk with him.

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He begged her for her number then ­bombarded her with texts before they went on a string of romantic dates.

Megan told a friend: “I thought he was quiet, very handsome and unassuming. I wasn’t star-struck and maybe he liked that. I didn’t see him as a mega global superstar like everyone else does.

“He was really sweet to talk to, nothing like the shouty show-off you see when he wins a race. Then I thought, ‘Wow, Usain Bolt has asked for my number’. I was shocked.”

The couple were first publicly linked in September after they were spotted at London’s Movida club. By then he had stunned the world with his triple Gold success.

Megan told her friend: “We’d been seeing each other before the story broke but kept it quiet as he was focused on the Olympics. He asked me to see him at his place because it was hard for him to go out in public.

“I would turn up, buzz the door and one of his assistants would come and let me in.

“We’d chill out and watch television or I’d watch him play computer games. He really liked Call of Duty, which is not really my scene but I have younger brothers who play it. The first time I went around there I was pretty nervous. I thought ‘This is Usain Bolt, for God’s sake, the guy probably has girls throwing themselves at him left, right and centre, and he’s with me’.

“I wanted to go on a proper date but he was worried he’d get swamped by fans. He can’t even sit in a restaurant without being asked for his autograph.”

During their secret liaisons the pair began to grow even closer.

“The more I got to know him the more I liked him... it was the same as any successful courtship,” said Megan. “It was exciting. He is a very funny character and made me laugh a lot.”

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The couple carried on their long distance relationship when Usain left Britain and Megan dared to dream she might have a future with him.

She told her friend: “I did occasionally think about being Mrs Bolt and living in Jamaica with lots of little Bolts. My feelings were pretty strong for him, strong enough that I wanted to go to Jamaica.

“I am quite a reserved person normally and don’t fall in love straight away. I try to protect myself and kept thinking I was possibly competing with 50 other girls. He’s Usain Bolt... he can have anyone.”

She was overjoyed when the track star, who has an estimated personal fortune of more than £30million, invited her to Jamaica.

Megan said: “He asked me to come see him at his home because it was so difficult to get any private time together. He organised everything. I flew first- class which was amazing. I’ve never done that before. I know he is a millionaire and it isn’t much money to him but it was still nice.

“I met lots of his friends and family and his brother. He lives in a big house in Jamaica with a big garden and swimming pool and a massive bath upstairs, which I guess he needs because he is so tall.

“We went out to restaurants – well, more like shacks – but it’s what they have in Jamaica. We would go out at 1 or 2am to nightclubs and we danced to reggae until 6am, drinking lemonade and cranberry juice to keep cool.”

Although it was only a short trip, Megan, who runs for Dartford Harriers Club in Kent, tried to keep herself in shape.

“He took me to the University of West Indies where he trains,” she said.

“He would drive me in the morning and sit and wait while I finished my session and then we would go back to the house for lunch. He had a chef who prepares his food for him, but I think most wealthy people in Jamaica do and we were only eating rice and peas really.

“He has a much more relaxed life there. It’s a tiny island and people are used to seeing him. He doesn’t get bothered.”

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But while she was there, level-headed Megan began to think about what their future together would be like.

“We live at opposite ends of the globe,” she told a friend. “He talked about flying all over the place and there’s me having to go back to Dartford.

“I really liked him, but I only have a set amount of holiday that I can use each year and I’mnot going to use it all up going to see Usain Bolt in Jamaica.

“A few things crystallised in my head while I was away and when I got back. So after a couple of days I telephoned him to call it off. It was very hard and I was upset too.

“In the end he asked if we could still be friends and I said, ‘Of course... you haven’t done anything wrong to me’. I don’t think he was expecting it.

“It wasn’t as though it fizzled out. It was just at this present moment in time we are, neither of us, in the right place.

“And I told him that it wasn’t right for us to be together right now and that it just wasn’t going to work out between us.”

Now Megan is concentrating on her own Olympic dream, taking inspiration from the boyfriend she had to let go.

“I hope to go to Rio in 2016 and do the 800or 1500 meters,” she said. “Perhaps Usain will be there too...”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/usain-bolt-dumped-by-british-office-1502719


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Romance Karma for dumping his former girlfriend?

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Remii: What would have happen another land? Please tell us. Are you saying the governor of Illinois that is in jail now would loose all his entitlements during or after his jail term? Pension amount may be too muh or wrong but law is law.

It varies from state to state in yankee.

Former Governor Ibori would/could lose his pension for chopping state funds.

State Pension Forfeiture Laws

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/other/state-pension-forfeiture-laws.html

Illinois ILCS 40 5/2-156

Pensions of public employees and officials can be revoked for conviction of any felony related to official duties. Trustees of individual pension fund make final decision after conviction.

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news from last year


80-year-old pensioner dies on verification queue

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http://bluedeal..com/2011/10/80-year-old-pensioner-dies-on.html

Although no official of the screening committee offered to speak with our correspondent, the Secretary of the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Mr. Adejare Adesida, blamed the slow procedure adopted by the committee for the incident.

Some of the pensioners, who declined to give their names, told our correspondent that it was regrettable that after over 5,000 of them paid N500 each to buy the forms, the committee could still not provide necessary logistics to take care of the elderly people.

Findings by PUNCH METRO showed that the committee was making use of one single computer set to screen the over 5,000 pensioners.

In a similar exercise carried out last year, two pensioners slumped before they took their turns. One of them died instantly, while the second was revived at a nearby hospital.

Source:punchng.com

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By Tony Ogaga Erhariefe



Emeka Ike emerged as one of the most popular faces to rule the tubes back in the day when Nollywood was hot and practitioners took home six-figure cheque per flick.

From Deadly Affair, the movie in which he made his acting debut in the late 1980s to Right Man for Me, Passion And pain, Passions, and Queen Sheba among others, he has secured a place for himself and today admits that he has lost count of movies he has featured in.

Having made a name for himself as an actor, Emeka decided to get married at a time when most of his peers were still ‘sampling’ ladies that came with fame and fortune. Today, the union is blessed with four kids. However, still hungry for success, Emeka veered into movie production and founded a school, St. Nicholas College located in Magodo, Lagos.

The actor cum businessman has over the years earned the title of a rebel and is viewed as controversial due to what he describes as his opinionated stand on issues bordering on the movie industry and in the process has made more than a dozen enemies.

Recently, TS Weekend caught up with the actor during the end of year party of his school, and he opened up on Nollywood, marriage, and other sundry issues. Excerpts:

Why are we gathered here today?

It’s end of year party for St. Nicholas College, which is my school. We are celebrating our students and saying a big and resounding thank you to our parents and wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. There would be award presentations today. It’s been a long and fruitful journey. We are taking stock and thanking God for taking us this far so we have every reason to want to sit together and celebrate.

How old is St Nicolas?

This is our fifth year. We started in 2007. I work with very resourceful people who are outstanding in their chosen fields of endeavor and are result oriented. These are the people driving the St. Nicholas vision, which is delivering quality education to youngsters.

At a time when most of your peers are looking elsewhere, what made you invest in education?

It is my belief that we need to encourage our youths and reach out to them a lot more as far as education is concerned. Every child deserves the best of education. A lot of our youths see education as non-beneficial and this is a tragic development. Today, for our youths it’s all about Hennessy, Moet, and more alcohol then more Hennessy and Moet; that’s all our youths are bombarded with today as far as music is concerned. And at the rate at which our country is going, if we don’t contribute our little quota, posterity will not forgive us. The Nigerian youth is in dire need of reorientation and I feel education; quality education is an avenue through which we can reach out to them. My dream is that years later when I look back, I would be able to say that ‘yes, I contributed positively to uplifting and changing their mindsets’.

Five years after, would you say St. Nicholas has been a success?

(Laughs) The question is how do you measure success? Is it by the depth or size of one’s bank account or fleet of cars? If it’s on this basis, then I can tell you that my success is zero. But I can tell you that three years after inception, my school emerged third best in Lagos State Junior WAEC in two subjects and that gives me so much joy; joy which all the money in the world cannot buy. When a mother tearfully tells me that at last, her child is doing better, that’s the happiest moment for me; my greatest reward. The fact that years of pain and disappointment have been corrected and these youngsters are looking to be their best inspires me. That’s the kind of environment we give our kids at St. Nicholas.

My kids can stand on any platform and take on anybody; that is the success that matters to me. Parents come here to thank me and I see tears in their eyes; tears that bring unquantifiable joy to my heart, and this tells me that I have achieved success.

As a movie star, you have a towering personality. How are your students warming up to you?

The status is big and it is impacting on them. They see me as a role model. And that’s why I advice a lot of my colleagues not to see themselves as finished products. You cannot be a finished product until you impact the life of the kid on the streets. These kids look up to me and relate with me and want to know the secret of my success and I tell them it’s education and that encourages them to want to strive to be their best by getting education. I tell them that if they want to be like me, the first thing they should get right is their education

Emeka Ike the actor, the educationist and businessman. How do you manage your time?

It’s getting crazier. As an actor, I thought I was a busy man. But now that I have got into business, it’s becoming even crazier but my mind is versatile and functional. What you feed your mind with is what you replicate. In between all these, I am able to free myself by employing seasoned professionals who know their onions and that takes the work load off my shoulders. All I do is pay and supervise. Luckily, my wife is also an academic; she’s been my pillar. She has an MBA, a postgraduate degree in education and has just finished her Masters. She is in charge of St. Nicholas. I also have capable hands running my other businesses. What I basically do is supervise. That way I realised that I can achieve so much.

What’s your staff strength at St. Nicholas?

At the moment, the staff strength is 22 and still counting while we have 50 students. We have eight students on scholarship right now.

What informed the name, St. Nicholas?

It’s my dad; his name was Elder Nicholas Ike. He was a church founder who dedicated his entire life to humanitarian and charitable works. He was not too wealthy and not too educated and that affected him so much so that he had to make me to see the pain he was going through as a consequence of his low level of education, with a view to compelling me to pursue my education.

While he was working at the Ministry of Health in those days, I was studying at Yaba College of Technology. He would send a message to me instructing me to come and see him in the office and when I got there, he would be in tears explaining to me in bitterness what he was going through because he did not have much of a formal education. He always ended up by telling me that I must complete my studies.

One day, I asked him, ‘dad, why education?’ And he said ‘my son, I don’t want you to go through what I am going through.’ He had this younger boss who was always ordering him around and he did not want that to happen to me. He made me to see the benefits of academics. I was a footballer then; I loved football so much I played all the time and I could do anything for the game and music and that was beginning to cause a quarrel at home. He was able to stop me by passionate persuasion.

Back then football and music were my dreams. But when I saw dad crying I was moved. I felt I had to go out there and get educated and get back at all those who undermined him because of his lack of education. So, it became like a revenge mission for me. As a young boy, I was not very serious because anything I wanted I got. I did not know the pain my parents were going through to get those things for me. After dad explained all this to me I saw his pain and I saw the benefits of education and I told myself, ‘Emeka, if there’s anything you need to do, education must be numero uno’. So when the time came, I named my institution after him.

What did you study in school?

I studied Mechanical Engineering.

How has it impacted on your career?

It has helped me to become a better person, a more thorough and painstaking person. It has helped me to be precise and be focused. It has enhanced my maintenance and creative abilities. Being educated has uplifted my brand no doubt. You don’t see me everywhere. I am not cheap; I have a prize. You can’t get me for nothing. I have a reason for everything that I do. I am a goal setter and goal getter.

You have been married for 12 years now. Tell us about the joy of marriage and fatherhood?

Wow! It’s been a great experience. My wife is the greatest gift God ever given to me. She is my pillar and a very understanding woman. I wonder what I will do without her. We have four kids and fatherhood has been a blessing. Living your life for my family means the world to me.

We’ve not being seeing you in movies. What have you been doing lately?

I had to slow down a little bit so that I will not be counted among the chaffs of the industry. What we see lately is not movie making; this is not the kind of industry we used to have; we must tell ourselves the truth. When we were making movies back in the day, people went all out to get our movies. So much was spent on publicity and only me, Emeka Ike would collect over N1 million as payment for just a flick.

But right now, they are making movies with less than N3 million and sometimes you could have as much as 50 artistes on the set and I wonder how they squeeze themselves into all that. What they are doing is rehashing all those old movies we did. And you ask yourselves, what new thing are they bringing to the table? And you realise that they are not even improving on what we did. They are just showcasing models; fine boys and fine girls, beautiful accent but sorry to disappoint you, that’s not what I call movie making. That’s not how we started out.

Could you tell us what they are not doing right today?

We came in to correct the ills in our society. Movie was supposed to expose the evil in our society. We exposed things like Otokoto and made nonsense of ritual sacrifice. How about domestic issues, mothers-in-law fighting their daughters-in-law? We exposed and rubbished all this. You don’t see any one being proud of being a ritualist these days but now, movies have turned to romance and it’s all about showing your thighs, your tattoos and your swag and if that’s what movies have become all about then, I think I can achieve all that without being on TV. So, I have withdrawn from Nollywood. I will only show myself to my fans when the time is due. I am really angry. Nigerians should watch out for the kind of films we are going to be coming out with pretty soon. I want to stop moviemakers from going to premieres with wishy-washy and half-baked movies.

We were known for telling great stories. We made sure that the scripts we acted had depth and a message for society. We projected our country positively. I don’t belong to the group of Nigerians who want to do everything for money; that’s what’s going on right now and that’s why I stepped aside but I have not stepped out.

So, when are you stepping back into he ring?

In January I will be back.

What should your fans be expecting?

Hit movies, lots of blockbusters. Right now, I am working with the Niger Delta Ministry. I train some of the ex-militants for the Federal Government. It involves training them in movie making, cinematography, acting, directing, photography, 3D animation etc. Now when they are done, government is supposed to empower them with cameras and studios and then the new movie industry kicks-off. Now, the industry is confused, they don’t know what they are doing. Movie making is not about speaking English. You can do a movie in Ijaw language and e go sell well, well because people are going for the story.

I am training 50 students and they are graduating this December. We are making our first movie in January and we are bringing in a Hollywood star but I don’t want to mention names now. We need to start making movies that will compete at the Oscars; we need to compete internationally.

In the industry you’re viewed as a rebel. Why is it so?

(Laughs) It’s like saying Gani Fawehimi and Fela just because they stood for the truth are rebels; they were just activists. The only way they that oppress the masses describe those that stand in the gap for the masses is to describe them as rebels and make the masses believe that they’ve gone insane. They will go to any length to ostracize you. I have never carried a gun in my life. I have never shot any one so why are they calling me a rebel? I have never slapped or punched or sent thugs to beat up anybody but when I say black is black and white is white they say I am a rebel.

I said ‘Africa Magic, stop showing our movies without paying us royalties,’ and they called me a rebel. Is it fair to label me a rebel because I am saying ‘pay me my money?’ Imagine me, Geneivie, Omotola and the rest of us who grew this industry, none of us can beat our chests and say that we are being paid! This is a cause for shame. Why is it happening? Nobody is asking questions as a handful of Nigerians are robbing the entire industry blind. They have made no arrangement to protect us because they know that there is the hunger factor in Nigeria so, if one producer says ‘no’, they know the next will say ‘yes’. That’s how they have crippled our industry. Meanwhile, Africa Magic will go to Ghana and pay Jackie Appiah, Yvonne Nelson and Majid Michaels. Ironically, these are boys and girls that used to look up to us as heroes. Is that not a shame? We should be asking, ‘what is wrong with us? Everybody is quiet and Emeka Ike is the one asking questions. Now, I ask the question, ‘why should they pay Jackie Appiah and not pay me?’ They said they had paid some people. Who are these people? A few members of the board of trustees of AGN registered AGN as their personal company. It is sad most of my colleagues don’t know what’s going on and these are the people that stand in the gap for us and speak for us and then rob us when they take our money, and yet they are very broke and hungry. You see them go to governors to collect money. What do they do with the money?

You must have heard that I went to see Kogi State governor. Go and find out what I did when I went there. I did not request for N2 million. I requested for N250 million and hectares of land and that’s exactly what I got. Now that’s a project to take youths off the streets; it’s strictly a humanitarian cause.




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And eventually you became minister of petroleum under Obasanjo?

Yes.

That was the only ministry you held under Obasanjo?

Yes.

During your time as petroleum minister, what were you doing differently that they are not doing now that has made the sector totally rotten?

Well, I was lucky again. When I was made a minister, I met an experienced man, a person of great personal integrity, the late Sunday Awoniyi. He was the permanent secretary then before the Supreme Military Council approved the merger of the Nigerian National Oil Corporation (NNOC) and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and made Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Sunday Awoniyi was then the permanent secretary of the ministry. That was when I was sworn in eventually, I think in 1977, it became NNPC when the ministry and the NNOC were merged. He retired from the civil service. Another competent technocrat, Morinho, he became the Director of Petroleum Resources and he had a very competent team of Nigerian engineers, petroleum engineers and chemical engineers. And as minister of petroleum, I signed the contract for Warri Refinery, for Kaduna Refinery, for more than 20 depots all over the country, for laying of pipelines, more than 3200 kilometers and I couldn’t recall Nigeria borrowing a kobo for those projects. And then, by the time I became head of state, because I went to War College in the United States before the military handed over to the Second Republic and came back in 1980 and then, there was coup at the end of 1983. And that time, you can verify from Professor Tam David-West who was Minister of Petroleum Resources. We were exporting 100,000 barrels per day of refined products.

Exporting from the country?

Yes, refined one.

Refined one, not the raw one they are taking to import to…?

No.

100, 000 barrels?

Yes. Because we had four refineries then.

They have all collapsed…

Well, that is the efficiency of the subsequent governments!

You achieved so much success and all that. But there was an issue that became quite contentious: N2.8billion. They said N2.8billion oil money was missing.

It couldn’t have been missing. The governor of the Central Bank then, the late Clement Isong, said it was ridiculous, that N2.8billion couldn’t be missing because he said even the king of Saudi Arabia, couldn’t issue a cheque of N2.8billion. When you have paid your money for petroleum, they are normally put in the country’s external account and no bank will release that amount of money at a go because it was deposited. And then, at that time, Nigeria was exporting about 1.82 million barrels a day. And the cost of barrel a day was about $18. You work out N2.8billion. How could N2.8billion be missing and we still have money to run the country? So, it was just a political…

Very Impressive!

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[b]Four white South Africans charged with ANC bomb plot


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BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa | Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:35am GMT

(Reuters) - Four white South Africans were charged with treason on Tuesday over a suspected plot to bomb a conference of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and execute President Jacob Zuma and other top government officials.

The four, named as Mark Trollip, John Martin Keevy, Johan Hendrick Prinsloo and Hein Boonzaaier, were brought into court in the central city of Bloemfontein surrounded by security guards armed with assault rifles.

State prosecutor Shaun Abrahams said the men wanted to establish an independent Boer nation and that they were planning an assault on the ANC mass meeting now under way in the city.

The plan included a mortar bomb attack on marquees housing ANC delegates, before an assault targeting Zuma and cabinet minister as they had dinner, Abrahams told the court. Zuma and others were to be shot "in execution style", he added.

The intention of the group, which had been trying to buy AK-47 assault rifles, was "directly aimed at eliminating the leadership of this country," said Abrahams.

The vast majority of South Africa's whites accepted the ANC's victory in the 1994 election that brought Nelson Mandela to power and ended decades of white-minority rule. However, a tiny handful continues to oppose the historic settlement in Africa's biggest economy.

(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Writing by Ed Cropley; Editing by Mark Heinrich)[/b]

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Published on Oct 8, 2012

With more than a billion people spread across 54 countries speaking more than 3,000 languages, Africa cannot -- and should not -- be limited to a single narrative. Africa Straight Up is a more complete story about Africa and its diaspora.

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Bendir Man,
Nawel Ben Kraiem,
Si Lemhaf
Armada Bizerta
George Ayittey
Tony Elumelu, MFR
Prime Minister Tony Blair
President Barack Obama
Herman Chinery-Hesse
Fred Swaniker
Acha Leke
Hakeem Belo-Osagie
Addis Alemayehou
Tonye Cole
Eric Kacou
Arthur Mutambara


ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Jackie C. Lin / JAJ Productions

PRODUCTION COORDINATORS

Laura Joseph
Mel Okudo
Justina Hierta
Jayanthi Daniel
Daniel Sodkiewicz


CAMERA

Richard Muller

Mark Chipps
Gordon "Flash" Yu


GRAPHICS

Raghul Sridharan
Jaime Puerta
Elena Salas


SUPERVISING SOUND EDITING

Pablo Diez Casajuana


SOUND EDITOR

Lorenzo Spagli


VOICE OVER RECORDING

George Rivera



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TED, USA
Sony Music, South Africa
MTV Base, South Africa
Chocolate City Group, Nigeria
Twentieth Century Fox, USA
Bani Productions, Nigeria
Safaricom, Kenya
Ushahidi, Kenya
Voice of America, USA
Internet World Statistics, USA
Al Jazeera, Qatar
McNulty Prize, Aspen Institute, USA
Children of Kibera Foundation, Kenya
Student Sponsorship Programme, South Africa
Mo Ibrahim Foundation, London
Tony Elumelu Foundation, Nigeria
BET, USA
Poverty Cure, Acton Institute, USA
African Leadership Network, South Africa
Sahara Reporters, USA
The White House, USA

MUSIC

"Feel Good"
performed by
Lira
under license from Columbia
licensed courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment (Pty) Ltd


"Phakade"
performed by Lira
under license from Columbia
licensed courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment (Pty) Ltd


"Rise Again"
performed by Lira
under license from Columbia
licensed courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment (Pty) Ltd


"Undisputed"
performed by M.I
licensed courtesy of Chocolate City Group

"Action Film"
performed by M.I
licensed courtesy of Chocolate City Group


"Enti Essout"
("You are the Voice"
performed by
Yasser Jradi, Badiaa Bouhrizi, Bendir Man, Nawel Ben Kraiem,
and Si Lemhaf and Armada Bizerta
[under creative commons license]

"I was wrong"
performed by Mikael Karlsson
licensed courtesy of Mikael Karlsson


LOCATION STAGING

South African Tourism
Sthu Zungu
Justin Barnette

LEGAL COUNSEL

White & Case
Adam Chernichaw
Stefan Mentzer


PUBLIC RELATIONS

Afua Osei

My co-worker is from P.H. and is doing well. He has been in the states for 20 years and has a few real estate investments to supplement his income. My neighbor is from Delta and has his own construction business and is also doing quite well.

I recently briefly made the acquaintance of this distinguished gentleman here in Miami, Fl and couldn't believe his achievements after researching his many scholarly accomplishments in the states and Europe.

Long story short, not everyone is struggling in the states and many have made a positive go of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankole_Johnson


The decor of his condominium building is designed by the Lenny Kravitz, world famous singer, actor, and interior designer.

Check out the phat crib the good doctor is living in.

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[b]Iceland’s Hörður Torfason – How to Beat the Banksters

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/12/11/icelands-hordur-torfason-how-to-beat-the-banksters/


Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer
Waking Times

The tiny Nordic European island country of iceland is presently experiencing one of the greatest economic comebacks of all time. After the privatization of the banking sector completed in 200o, the economy was thrown into a tailspin when over a five year period, private bankers borrowed 120 billion dollars (10 times the size of Iceland’s economy). A huge economic bubble was created, causing house prices to double, and making a small percentage of Iceland’s population rich enough to buy up overseas investments, mansions, yachts, and private jets, while leaving an absolutely un-payable debt for all Icelanders. Iceland was facing national bankruptcy.

In response to the failed banking system, in October 2008, Iceland’s revolution against this financial tyranny began, rather casually in the street, in front of the Icelandic general assembly.

In the duration of five months, the main bank of Iceland was nationalized, government officials were forced to resign, the old government was liquidated, and a new government was put in its place. By March 2010, Iceland’s people voted to deny payment of the 3,500 million Euro debt created by the bankers, and about 200 high-level executives and bankers responsible for the economic crisis in the country were either arrested or were facing criminal charges.

In February 2011, a new constitutional assembly settled in to rewrite the tiny nation’s constitution, which aimed to avoid entrapment by debt-based currency foreign loans. In 2012, Iceland’s economy is expected to outgrow the Euro and the average for the developed world, as estimated by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.[/b]

[b] Queen Elizabeth II

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Queen Elizabeth II inspects gold reserves in a vault at the Bank of England in London on December 13, 2012. The Queen blamed slipping standards within the financial system and weak regulation for causing the 2008 crash during a visit to the Bank of England on Thursday



Queen gives the Bank a lesson in economics
Four years ago, the Queen asked academics why no one had foreseen the “awful” financial crisis which has blighted the country ever since.


By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter

9:40PM GMT 13 Dec 2012

On Thursday, during a tour of the Bank of England, she effectively answered her own question as she talked about “lax” City workers and a regulator that “didn’t have the teeth” to intervene.

The Duke of Edinburgh, meanwhile, had a typically blunt piece of advice for the Bank’s executives: “Don’t do it again!”

The Queen and the Duke grilled Bank of England staff during a tour of a vault stacked with £27 billion worth of bullion.

Sujit Kapadia, one of the Bank’s financial policy experts, said he wanted to answer a question the Queen had asked academics at the London School of Economics in 2008 about why no one saw the financial crisis coming.

“Oh!” said the Queen, looking slightly taken aback.



Mr Kapadia said the City had got “complacent” because it thought risk was being managed better than it was, and the financial system had become too interconnected.

The Queen agreed: “People got a bit lax ...perhaps it was difficult to foresee.”

She asked if the financial system was less interconnected now and suggested that part of the problem had been the lack of powers given to the Financial Services Authority. “They didn’t have the teeth,” she said.

The Duke, meanwhile, was typically direct. “There’s not another one coming, is there?” he asked. Then, as he left Mr Kapadia and his group, he said: “Don’t do it again!”

Mr Kapadia said afterwards: “It was an honour to be asked, and a pleasure to be able to offer some explanation. I think she recognised that these things are very difficult and it’s not a straightforward exercise.”

Both the Queen and the Duke were invited to sign an unissued £1 million note instead of signing a visitors’ book. As the Duke waited to sign his note, he joked: “Is this just lying about? You won’t miss it, will you?”

In the vault, one of nine in which the Bank stores a total of around £200 billion worth of gold, the couple saw 63,000 gold bars stacked in eight rows. Each four-ton stack is four shelves high, with each shelf holding 80 bars. A gold bar weighs 13kg, worth £423,783 at today’s price.

The Queen and Duke were also shown two gold bars recovered from ships sunk in the Second World War — the SS Fort Stikine, sunk off Bombay in 1944, and HMS Edinburgh, sunk in the Barents Sea in 1942.

The Queen first visited the Bank as an 11-year-old with Queen Mary. Then, in keeping with tradition, she signed a thousand pound note. Inflation dictates that VIP visitors now sign a £1 million note.

As the Queen signed, next to the note bearing her signature from 1937, she said: “It hasn’t improved, really.”

Then, as she passed a woman with tinsel draped round her computer screen, she said: “We like your Christmas decorations.”

Sir Mervyn King, the outgoing Governor of the Bank, thanked the Queen for her visit and described the Bank’s staff as “unsung heroes” who had kept the economy going “in the most difficult circumstances”.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih2BmYrCm1w

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/9744153/Queen-gives-the-Bank-a-lesson-in-economics.html[/b]

[b]White Britons no longer a majority in London

By Norma Cohen, Demography Correspondent

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White Britons no longer make up the majority of people in London for the first time, according to the latest census data which pointed to a cosmopolitan capital increasingly divergent from the national economy around it.

The 2011 data also revealed a population of England and Wales that is generally better educated but less religious than it was a decade ago – and less likely to live in a home that they own.


The total population rose by 3.7m to 56.1m, an increase of 7 per cent from the previous census in 2001. Migration was responsible for 60 per cent of that growth – 2.1m people.

Of the 13 per cent of the population who were born outside the UK – 7.5m residents – just more than half arrived within the past 10 years. This compares with the 2001 census, when 9 per cent of the population was born outside the UK.

The surge of immigration has been especially striking in London, where more than one in three people – 37 per cent – were born outside the UK.

Only 45 per cent of London’s population were white people of English, Scottish or Welsh heritage, according to the latest data, down from almost 60 per cent in 2001.

This makes London the first UK region where white ethnic Britons have become a minority.

The top source of new migrants to England and Wales overall for the decade was India – supplanting Ireland in the decade to 2001 – while the second-biggest source was Poland. In the 2001 census, Poland did not make the top 10.

In another major deomographic shift, home ownership has fallen over the past 10 years, according to this latest data, marking the first decade-on-decade decline since detailed records began 60 years ago.

The figures show how growing numbers of Britons are being locked out of the property market by high prices and a shortage of credit. The proportion of residents who either owned their home outright or owned with a mortgage fell to 64 per cent in 2011, from 68 per cent in 2001, said the Office for National Statistics.



However, a bigger proportion, 31 per cent, owned their homes outright than they did a decade ago, highlighting a growing divergence between homeowners and those unable to get on the housing ladder.

“These figures confirm that home ownership is slipping further and further out of reach, no matter how hard people work or save,” said Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, the housing charity. “Young people are living at home well into their 30s ... but unable to afford a place of their own.”

The percentage of the population renting from private landlords rose 6 percentage points from a decade earlier to 15 per cent.

Overall, the population of England and Wales has become better educated than it was a decade ago. A higher percentage have university degrees than have no qualifications, a reversal of the situation in 2001.

Levels of educational attainment in London are far higher than the national averages, with 27.2 per cent of the national population having attained a university degree or better, compared with 44.7 per cent of those living in inner London.

Indeed, in five of 14 inner London boroughs, more than half the population have university or equal level qualifications.

And Britain is apparently becoming less religious. The question on religious affiliation is voluntary, so not all applicants may have answered it. However, the percentage identifying themselves as Christian fell to 59 per cent, from 72 per cent in 2001. Christianity was the only religious group to have experienced a fall in numbers, despite the growth in the population generally.

The second-largest religious identity was none at all. In 2011, a quarter of the population said it had no religious affiliation, up from 15 per cent in 2001, according to the figures released by the Office for National Statistics on Tuesday.[/b]

http://www.ft.com/home/uk

floriana: Is there no front-page thread on Tonto Dikeh today? I have been searching since morning. Pls give us a Tonto thread.

Iyanya no be busy smacking her a@# and looking at dat satanic tattoo this weekend?


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claim by HOME BOX OFFICE, INC..

Smh @ HBO

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Africa's largest solar power plant to be built in Ghana

155MW plant being developed by a British company is expected to create hundreds of jobs, increase electricity capacity and cut emissions
Adam Vaughan

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Blue Energy constructed a solar park near Swindon that is now the centre of a bid to become the UK's first community-owned solar farm. Photograph: adrian arbib / Alamy/Alamy

The largest solar power plant in Africa will be built in Ghana, the British company behind the plan said on Tuesday.

Source of much of the world's cocoa and an increasingly significant oil producer, Ghana's new drive to exploit the sun's energy is predicted to create hundreds of jobs and increase the country's electricity capacity by 6%, as well as cutting emissions.

Blue Energy, the renewable energy developer behind the $400m project, which has built a solar farm 31 times smaller outside Swindon, said the 155MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant will be fully operational by October 2015. Construction on the Nzema project is due to begin near the village of Aiwiaso in western Ghana by the end of 2013, with the installation of some 630,000 PV modules.

The power plant, which at the time of planning would be the fourth biggest of its kind in the world, will be the first major scheme to claim payments from Ghana's feed-in tariff incentive scheme, created by the government in 2011. Ghana has a target of increasing renewable energy capacity from its current 1% of the country's energy mix to 10% by 2020.

Chris Dean, chief executive of Blue Energy, said: "Ghana's forward-thinking strategy puts it in a strong position to lead the renewable energy revolution in sub-Saharan Africa. Nzema is a case study in how governments can unlock the huge potential for solar energy in Africa. We are delighted that it will make a strong contribution to the national economy, provide much needed generating capacity and help develop the skills of the future."

Douglas Coleman, the project's director at Blue Energy, told the Guardian that the company was using solar PV instead of the distinctive 'troughs' used in concentrated solar power technology seen in north Africa and the Middle East in part because PV only requires light, not direct sunlight. The choice of PV means the farm will still generate electricity during the more than 100 cloudy days Ghana experiences each year, he said.

The company said it expects to create 200 permanent jobs and 500 during the construction phase, which already has the go-ahead from planning authorities.

The plan for the Ghanian plant follows recent denials of a crisis at the separate Desertec initiative – which envisions solar plants in north Africa providing green energy for Europe – following the withdrawal of Siemens and Bosch from the initiative.

Ghana recorded the fastest growth in Sub-Saharan Africa last year, with GDP growing at 14.3%, driven by oil production. In March, London-based Tullow Oil said an oil field it had found off the coast in 2011 was a major find.

The average carbon footprint of a Ghanian is 0.4 tonnes of CO2, compared to 8.5 tonnes of CO2 per head in the UK.
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Solar power in Germany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Germany


Germany is one of the world's top photovoltaics (PV) installers, with a solar PV capacity as of 2011 of almost 25 gigawatts (GW). As of 31st on October 2012, there were 31.62 GW of photovoltaics connected to the electrical power network.[2] [3] The German solar PV industry installed about 7.5 GW in 2011,[4] and solar PV provided 18 TWh (billion kilowatt-hours) of electricity in 2011, about 3% of total electricity.[5] Some market analysts expect this could reach 25 percent by 2050.[6]

DSB: hehehe...he got knocked the f out

I woke up just in time to see the fight.... the earlier bouts put me to sleep.


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Pacquiao Stunned in Sixth Round


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By GREG BISHOP


LAS VEGAS — Manny Pacquiao never saw it coming. He never saw the punch that snapped his head back Saturday and dropped him to the canvas and left him sprawled there momentarily, face down, while his wife sobbed uncontrollably and the packed crowd at MGM’s Grand Garden Arena rose to its feet in shock.
With that, a rivalry known for its lack of a definitive triumph suddenly had the most definitive ending of them all.
Juan Manuel Marquez threw both arms skyward, as blood dripped from his nose. Bedlam ensued all around him, but Marquez said little. His face said it all.
His face summarized four fights between two men, two scored in favor of Pacquiao, another one a draw. His face summarized the release of nearly a decade of frustration. For the moment that Marquez waited for and obsessed over, for the moment he set the record straight.
“I threw the perfect punch,” he said.
It happened in the sixth round, after Pacquiao mounted the most furious of comebacks, after he overcame an early knockdown with a reciprocal knockdown, after he stung Marquez with a series of left hands. As Round 6 neared its conclusion, Marquez (55-6-1, 40 knockouts) crept in close to Pacquiao, and he came over the top from a short distance with that right.
The shot crumpled Pacquiao (54-5-2) to the canvas, right in front of Bob Arum, his promoter, who held his hands out as if he wanted to catch his prized fighter in his arms. Pacquiao’s wife, Jinkee, held her face in both hands and cried. It took her husband several minutes to rise, and when he did, his face was bruised under both eyes, which were vacant. He looked lost.
“We knew it would be a tough fight,” Marquez said. “But not an impossible fight.”
Pacquiao was sent to the hospital for a CAT scan.
Before the fight, Pacquiao strode deep inside Grand Garden Arena, through a maze of tunnels. He entered Dressing Room 2 at 5:40 p.m. This was about an hour earlier than for his previous foray against Marquez. Pacquiao was so early that he caught the drug testers off guard. One ran off to fetch a test kit. Pacquiao just smiled, his face filled with confidence, so sure.
The boxer embraced his trainer, Freddie Roach.
“How are you?” Roach asked him. “You good?”
Pacquiao simply nodded.
He wore a blue T-shirt imprinted with his likeness; T-shirt Manny held a microphone, wore boxing shoes and spun a basketball on an index finger. Real-life Manny sat in a chair below where highlights of his previous Marquez fights played on a flat-screen television.
As if to underscore his mood, Pacquiao did not wait for the HBO boxing analyst Larry Merchant to interview him. He grabbed the microphone and interviewed Merchant instead. Merchant ably played along. To one query, he said he wanted to confirm HE won the previous three fights against Marquez.
Pacquiao looked up, incredulous. “Wait,” he said, “that’s my line.”
Then it got surreal. In came Mitt Romney. Yes, that Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and the presidential runner-up, every hair on his head in place. Romney, in fact, came in twice. His introduction was at once awkward and hilarious.
“Hi, Manny,” he said. “I’m Mitt Romney. I ran for president. I lost.”
All that really happened, truth stranger than fiction. Or just another Pacquiao fight.
The fighter himself stood coiled in his corner before the opening bell ring, his fists already raised. Then he charged at Marquez like a bull at a matador. Pacquiao fought the smarter fight early, as he tagged Marquez with lefts and avoided the right hand.
That all changed in the third round, all changed with one punch. It came from Marquez, who sent his right arm wide, over Pacquiao’s left glove, flush into Pacquiao’s face. The punch sent Pacquiao flying backward, on his backside. He climbed to his feet quickly, his face twisted into a sneer.
It marked the first time in 39 rounds between the fighters that Marquez had knocked Pacquiao down. If anything, it seemed to galvanize Pacquiao. Well, at least until the sixth.
Through three previous fights, through 36 razor-thin rounds, Pacquiao and Marquez had already staged a trilogy that lacked but one significant element: a clear outcome. In those bouts, Pacquiao did not lose. But he did not exactly win, either. His Marquez tally consisted of two victories and one draw and enough doubt to make a rare fourth fight compelling enough to stage.
Boxing history is much like blockbuster movies in that regard. They are plenty of trilogies, three meetings between two fighters that defined careers. A fourth fight is more uncommon. It happened with Sugar Ray Robinson and Gene Fullmer, with Jersey Joe Walcott and Ezzard Charles, with Bobby Chacon and Rafael Limon and in a handful of other instances.
Pacquiao did not want a fourth bout, not initially. Nor did Roach. Marquez, among the best counterpunches of his era, often befuddled Pacquiao with stylistic kryptonite. He waited until Pacquiao came to him. And when Pacquiao, against Roach’s instructions, shifted left and led with jabs, Marquez countered over the top with stinging straight right hands.
Marquez arrived here like some boxing Popeye, his body bigger, his muscles carved from long hours in the gym. The questionable past of his trainer, Angel Guillermo Heredia, an admitted steroids dealer who testified for the government in the Balco scandal, only added to rampant speculation, which Marquez and his camp vehemently denied.
Still, Roach maintained that speed, not bulk, won fights. “I don’t think muscle men have a better chin,” he said.
The last time these boxers met, Pacquiao entered the ring with his personal life in shambles. He arrived late to the arena, and in an argument with his wife. Throughout that camp, his confidants described Pacquiao as a changed man who replaced his numerous vices with religion. Now, they say that Pacquiao, obsessive in all endeavors, had binged too much on Bible study.
Only in boxing could someone cite too much Bible study as a distraction for a fight.
For this bout, Pacquiao cut out plyometrics from his training, exercises that he said led to cramping in his calves. His promoter, Arum of Top Rank Boxing, said the last time he saw Team Pacquiao this peaceful was before Pacquiao fought Oscar De La Hoya, before he became famous and his life personal life imploded, before he won a Congressional election in the Philippines.
Whether such tranquillity could translate into the aggression Roach desired remained to be seen. They had a game plan for the third fight, after all, until Pacquiao discarded it.
This time, Pacquiao appeared to follow the plan. He remained aggressive, even as he lunged forward, at times off balance, susceptible to the right. Asked afterward if he would entertain a fifth fight, Pacquiao said, “Why not?”
Perhaps he will want to watch the punch on replay. It happens to most every fighter, one of boxing’s starkest and saddest truths. They all get hit, all get knocked down. Some champions, even Pacquiao, get knocked out.
“I got hit by a punch I didn’t see,” he said.



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Juan Manuel Marquez knocked out Manny Pacquiao


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Requesting the info for a relative and I want to view it again. thanks!

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UNBIASED AFRICA REPORT

By InformAfrica Editorial staffs
InformAfrica – Nigeria is seeking to build new refineries and hopefully put an end to the flood of imported refined oil and fuel into the country, but in roughly 2 years, the Goodluck Jonathan administration has signed two refinery deals with no progress.

http://www.informafrica.com/africa-report/building-new-refineries-in-nigeria-deals-signed-but-no-progress/

nice4life: @op if you and your fiancee lodge in the same room then both should have separate keys to the said room.How come you dont have yours? that the practice in most hotel I have lodge in.I have not been in dubai though, but I think its the same.

Another NL Nollywood script writing exercise.

Good reading catch!

Looked for another copy or file for 10 minutes but could not locate. Glad I watched it twice yesterday. I am so pissed at youtube/google right about now for taking down the documentary.

About the producer ....

Jide Olanrewaju – Partner

Jide Olanrewaju was formerly a Vice President at Morgan Stanley where he made investments on behalf of its $4 billion Infrastructure Fund. Prior to joining that Fund, Jide Olanrewaju worked for five years within Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Division in various roles. Before joining Morgan Stanley, he also worked briefly at Goldman Sachs and Shell International in Investment Banking and Gas & Power respectively. Jide Olanrewaju holds an MEng in Mechanical Engineering with a specialisation in Nuclear Reactor Technology from Imperial College, London.
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Naij: A Documentary on the History of Nigeria
November 2, 2008

http://afrogeekchic./2008/11/02/naij-a-documentary-on-the-history-of-nigeria/

I’ve been on a black film buzz recently, I shall qualify that by saying that I have been to see two film screenings in the last month (I know, some buzz huh!), but I’ve also found out about other films and film festivals (London African Film Festival) which I hope to attend.

I started by watching Diaspora Diaries which is a series of interviews with Africans from different parts of the continent talking about their experience in the diaspora. As you can imagine, it was really interesting to watch, especially as a lot of what was being said naturally resonated with my own experience. In the panel discussion that followed, the film maker said he was making a point of promoting positive educated Africans (first, second and third generation) who relate to, are aware of and believe in their African heritage rather than the possibly more widespread myth that you can be black but not ‘African’. Trust me, I’ve heard this from people’s mouths so go figure!

The second film which I saw more recently was called Naij: A Documentary on the History of Nigeria. It was made by a guy called Jide Olanrewaju who interestingly enough is a city investment banker with no formal training in film making. He made the film in 2 years, in his own time and with his own money (according to him, it helps to work in the city!).

I have to say that it is a damn shame that he has not got this film on DVD and no distribution arrangement because it is a MUST see for any Nigerian and anyone looking for why practically all ex-colonial states have failed to have stable governments.

The film is essentially a collection of archive footage since 1947 showing BBC news broadcasts and special interest programmes and American news stories all talking about and interviewing real Nigerians saying things which are not surprising if you know the current state of affairs but hearing them makes it sink in and hurt all the more.

You get to hear the voices of Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Balewa, Funmi Ransome-Kuti, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, Murtala Muhammed, Ibrahim Babangida, MKO Abiola, Sani Abacha and a lot of others whose names I didn’t know. All of the above are saying things which were serious eye openers to me and explain why things went and continue to go the way they do.

The soundtrack is pretty spot on as well, using Jay-Z’s I’m a Hustler for Sani Abacha and Fela Kuti’s International Thief Thief (ITT) for people like Babangida. An excerpt of an interview with Fela was particularly horrible when you see the scars he got from a severe police beating which even he says he was surprised to have recovered from.

The clear opinion that I got from this film is that Nigeria was doomed from the start by the British and their hand chosen leadership and governance structure for Nigeria, but this generation of young successful Nigerians might be able to save something that had a seriously bad start.

Agree or disagre with Jide’s opinion, the film tells the story in terms of real footage, real voices and real opinion meaning you get to hear things right from the horse’s mouth. It’s hard to watch in some places when you hear leaders betraying each other in the name of wealth and the particularly disheartening footage of white mercenaries who are leading Biafran troops casually discussing the war and saying when they leave that one, they’ll just move on to the next African dispute.

I couldn’t even start to mention all the things I saw in this film, primarily it showed me that I know more about British and American politics than Nigerian. This is only fair seeing as I was educated in England, but now it’s probably a good time to start finding out more. The film did have flaws, like mentioning but glazing over the whole Delta dispute that led to the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa and there were naturally gaps in the history telling, so it is by no means a defacto source, but for me and from the opinions of the packed audience at the British Library, it was an eye opener and that’s good enough to send me on an information seeking frenzy!

It’s a shame I can’t say when this film will be shown again or when/where it can be purchased, but here is the trailer from YouTube which hopefully gives you a sense of why the 2 hours 30 minutes of it are well worth watching!