YOU CANNOT SILENCE THE TRUTH !!!

THIS REALLY SHOWS THE STUPIDITY, THE SENSELESSNESS, THE GREEDINESS,
THE HEARTLESSNESS, THE FOOLISHNESS, THE UNCARING, THE CORRUPTNESS,
AND THE HELL-SOUNDNESS OF NIGERIAN GOVERNMENTS AND ALL IN THE KEY
POSITIONS OF NIGERIA POLITICS'

INSTEAD OF ADDRESSING THE ISSUES, YET THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT
BANNED THE TRUTH.

SET OF FOOLISH IDIOTIC PEOPLE WHO WILL ROT IN HELL
MILLIONS ARE SUFFERING WHILE THEY AND THEIR SEEDS ARE
LIVING AS IF TOMORROW WILL NEVER COME

Posted: at 16-04-2013 04:59 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming

PREMIUM TIMES

Nigeria: FG Bans Film On Nigerian Poverty, Orders Security Watch Over Producer
BY OGECHI EKEANYANWU, 13 APRIL 2013

The Nigerian government has banned the airing and distribution of the documentary, Fueling Poverty, a 30-minute film which documents the massive poverty in Nigeria and advocates against corruption and greed in the country.

The documentary, released late in 2012, was produced by young filmmaker, Ishaya Bako, in partnership with the Open Society for West Africa [OSIWA].

After the project was completed last year, Mr. Bako sent it in to the National Film and Video Censors Board, NFVCB, a national agency which vets, classifies, and approves films and videos meant for distribution and exhibition in Nigeria.

But in an April 8 letter to Mr. Bako, exclusively obtained by PREMIUM TIMES Friday, the agency prohibited the distribution and exhibition of the documentary in Nigeria, saying its contents "are highly provocative and likely to incite or encourage public disorder and undermine national security."

The letter, signed by the NFVCB's Head of Legal Services, Effiong Inwang, warned the filmmaker against violating the order, saying "all relevant national security agencies are on the alert. A copy of this letter has been sent to the Director General, Department of State Services and the Inspector General of Police for their information."

The banning of the documentary, seen by critics as further evidence of Nigeria's creeping descent into dictatorship, came on the same day that four journalists of Abuja-based Leadership newspaper were detained by the police for refusing to name their source for a story which alleged the presidency was plotting to sabotage the merger of the leading opposition parties in the country.

A review of Fueling Poverty

Fueling Poverty, which addresses the serious issue of corruption in governance, compresses the reality of Nigerians into a 30- minutes film that immediately evokes a lot of passion-mostly anger.

The documentary goes into life, sucks from it and forms art out of it. In this sense, there is a connection between art and community in a way that art operates, socially responsible to the society it belongs.

The producers of Fueling Poverty say the essential aim of the documentary is to re-enact the "process of change driven by Nigerians.

Posted: at 16-04-2013 05:29 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming

First of all I have to congratulate the Poster for this post… It is a fantastic documentary and very educative.

What is important about this documentary?  It illustrates our current predicament; it is a wake-up call kind of thing. It is telling us to do something about our serious problems and to arrest the current unjust situation. It not about a particular tribe or religion it is about all Nigerians. I strongly believe we can do something and start now instead of sitting on the defense using our keyboards.

Personally and honestly I don’t need to watch this clip to understand what is going on in Nigeria and so do many Nigerians but I did ….and it confirmed my thoughts.

I am more concerned about what we can do now. One day national strike alone can bring about a little change let alone one week or one month or months. We need to act my brothers and sisters. Regardless if we live outside the country we can globally demonstrate periodically in a coordinating fashion to call the attention of the whole world. I am not against any religion or religious people but we call the name of god all the time to help when we are not ready to do something to help ourselves. “Heaven helps those who help themselves. We are very timid, we are too tribalistic, we are too materialistic and not realistic.

Posted: at 17-04-2013 05:00 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac