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In the House of Dogs

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  In the House of Dogs The most pathetic state of the intellectually insecure is that they don't have the intellect to know that they are intellectually insecure. Imagine Aristotle finding himself in the midst of clones of cave men and women who cannot even read and he knows since they have not read his "Poetics", he has to bend backwards to communicate with them. How can you discuss the essence of the romance of human existence with someone who is clueless about Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Soyinka? Irrationality is the evidence of stupidity. There is illiteracy and there is intellectual illiteracy or intellectual ignorance. The most dangerous of homo sapiens are the humans without conscience and without shame. And they are the most common among Africans in Africa who even claim they went to school, but are not different from those who didn't go to school. And they are the most corrupt in Nigeria and the rest of Africa with their accomplices who are their benef...

Where is the Remaining N1.9 Billion of the Project Act Nollywood Fund?

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Where is the Remaining N1.9 Billion of the Project Act Nollywood Fund? The laudable Project Act Nollywood was initiated and launched by the administration of former  President Goodluck Jonathan. The Project ACT Nollywood was a N3 billion-grant programme set up by the Federal Government for the sustainable development of the Nigerian film industry. Over 200 practitioners benefited from the training in TV and film productions in local and foreign film schools with the majority traveling overseas in controversial circumstances, because there was really no need for them to travel overseas for special short term courses on filmmaking which they could have studied in the accredited film schools in Nigeria. But they just wanted to go on ego trips with free money from the federal government. The Innovative Film Distribution Programme of the fund was for the establishment of an effective film distribution system and the prevention of piracy. The federal governent received 383 completed ap...