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  • ‘Three Wise Men’ explores VoD market

    ‘Three Wise Men’ explores VoD market

    Opa William’s latest comedy film, ‘Three Wise Men’, is exploring the next opportunity, after scoring a feat as the only Nigerian film that won the international category in this year’s edition Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) – the Tony Elumelu Award for Best Comedy Film Africa.

    Directed by Patience Oghre-Imobhio, the faith-based movie features some of the best actors in Nollywood, including Richard Mofe-Damijo, Zack Orji, Victor Olaotan, Ebele Okaro, Tina Mba, Thelma Nwosu, and Emeka Nwachukwu.

    Recall that the movie, which enjoyed a glamorous premiere at the Nigerian Air Force Event Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Sunday, December 4, 2016, exuded tears- induced laughter from the the VIP guests.

    The movie tells the story of three aged men – Richard Mofe-Damijo (Irikefe), Zack Orji (Timi) and Victor Olaotan (Tobore) – who settled in a suburb to enjoy their retirement benefits. How they decide to spend this retirement money remains highly humorous and delightful to viewers.

    The pack is led by Irikefe, 64, a divorcee with three failed marriages after five children and refuses to remarry. Irikefe decides to live alone as his covetous children are now grown and also live on their own but patiently waiting for him to die so they can swoop on whatever is left of him.

    Irikefe is aware of his children’s intentions and wants to make sure he exhausts every savings of his before death. Upon his retirement he refurbishes his flat, buys a laptop, a nice spot car supposedly meant for a young-man, and goes for shopping, for jeans, T-shirt, Papa’s Cap, sneakers and everything a young-man could dream of.

    The three men become an item, as Irikefe introduces them to his world of fun, from tracking girls on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, joy riding and picking the finest of young girls home for a nice time, to clubbing.

    Irikefe is the yippee-happy-go-old guy man, who sags and wears tattoos. He loves snapping selfies and posting them on his social media pages.

  • Council explores means of boosting IGR

    The Executive Secretary of Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State, Deaconess Modupe Ajibola-Ojodu has urged local governments to concentrate more on enhancing their internally-generated revenue (IGR).

    She spoke during this year’s local government budget appraisal retreat preparatory to planning the council’s budget for next year. The retreat held at the Jata Events and Resorts Lagos.

    Deaconess Ajibola-Ojodu noted “we are gathered here to critically reflect on our past performances, X-ray our present position, and realistically project our future.”

    She hinted that this year’s budget performance is not too encouraging, even as she urged the revenue collectors of the local government to look inwards and improve on the dwindling IGR.

    “Everybody needs to pay their taxes and rates. It is mandatory. We will use all legal means to collect our revenues from defaulters. We will also use massive public enlightenment on revenue generation”, she said.

    The Director of Planning, Ministry of Local Government and Community Affairs, Mr. Hakeem Balogun advised the local government to adopt pro-active strategy to push up the IGR of the local government, so that the people will feel the dividends of democracy.

    Meanwhile, the Head of Administration of the local government, Alhaji Shakiru Omotayo noted that government cannot perform its constitutional role, and the desired dividends of democracy cannot be achieved, if we negate the payment of rates and levies as enshrined in our constitution.

    He, therefore, appealed to defaulters to assist the government in realising its set goals and objectives for the citizens.

     

  • FIIRO explores products from agric waste

    FIIRO explores products from agric waste

    THE Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi (FIIRO), Lagos said it has stepped up research on getting products that could be made from agric waste.

    Its Director-General, Dr Gloria Elemo said the institute was exploring the potential to create an economy from waste from agriculture, using new technologies.

    Mrs Elemo, who spoke in Lagos, said the bio-renewable is a major research focus of the institute, encompassing areas, such as plant oils and high value chemicals for a range of industrial applications, along with projects aimed at biomass development for use as bio-fuels.

    She said FIIRO would focus on food and non-food crop production systems in an holistic approach that will address the key issues of food security and environmental sustainability in a way it will ultimately benefit the rural economy.

    According to her, the agri-food supply chain faces unprecedented challenges in the coming years from the increasing complexity of food supply chains. One way these challenges could be overcome or mitigated is to build greater resilient crops and make the production systems more robust, adding that the institute is researching on solutions to reduce waste and turn waste to wealth.

    According to her, the institute is making strides in biological engineering and food technology including cassava product development.

    Technologies and systems developed as part of the effort, Mrs Elemo maintained, would benefit small-holder households, support small and medium scale enterprises to increase profitability, create new jobs and develop links to large-scale industries. In the long term, she noted that the projects would help to improve the livelihoods of people on low incomes and enhance the role that these crops play in food and income security.

    For the cassava industry, Mrs Elemo said opportunities identified include improved and more convenient versions of traditional processed products, such as of cassava flour (low quality cassava flour) as import substitutes for plywood and paperboard adhesives.

    According to her, there are also potential markets for cassava products in the production of sweeteners, among others.

    As innovation develops, Mrs Elemo said opportunities for creating more value-adding products through research has the potential to benefit smallholder communities and, in the long term, improve food security.

    As part of efforts aimed at ensuring rapid industrialisation and food security, Gratitude Project Partners, from Thailand and Vietnam, has started collaboration with FIIRO, on the use of cassava wastes to produce edible mushroom.

    The project, sponsored by the European Union on Reducing Losses from Roots and Tuber Crops, is partnering universities and research institutions in Nigeria, Ghana and other countries to add value to waste.

    Elemo, who said the institute was commissioned by European Union (EU) to do research and development on edible mushroom cultivation technology and domestication, said it has been working on the use of cassava peel, yam peel and cassava stalk as substrate to produce edible mushroom.

    Elemo noted that to reduce investment on mushroom production, a thatched roof mushroom house has been developed to grow mushrooms and train entrepreneurs. She claimed that the step implies that its cultivation can easily be set up in the rural areas at low cost and technology made simpler.

  • FIIRO explores products from agric waste

    The Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi (FIIRO) has stepped up research on products that could be made from agric waste.

    Its Director-General, Dr Gloria Elemo said the institute was exploring the potential to create an economy from waste from agriculture, using new technologies.

    Mrs Elemo who spoke in Lagos said bio-renewables is a major research focus of the institute, encompassing areas such as plant oils and high value chemicals for a range of industrial applications, along with projects aimed at biomass development for use as biofuels.

    She said FIIRO would focus on food and non-food crop production systems in an holistic approach that will address the key issues of food security and environmental sustainability in a way it will ultimately benefit the rural economy.

    According to her, the agri-food supply chain faces unprecedented challenges in the coming years from the increasing complexity of food supply chains. One way these challenges could be overcome or mitigated is to build greater resilient crops and make the production systems more robust, adding that the institute is researching on solutions to reduce waste and turn waste to wealth.

    According to her ,the institute is making strides in the field of biological engineering and food technology including cassava product development.

    Technologies and systems developed as part of the effort, Mrs Elemo maintained particularly benefit small-holder households, support small and medium scale enterprises to increase profitability, create new jobs and develop links to large-scale industries. In the long term, she noted that the project s will help to improve the livelihoods of people on low incomes and enhance the role that these crops play in food and income security.

    For the cassava industry, Mrs Elemo said opportunities identified include improved and more convenient versions of traditional processed products, such as of cassava flour (low quality cassava flour) as import substitutes for plywood and paperboard adhesives.

    According to her, there are also potential markets for cassava products in the production of sweeteners, among others.

    As innovation develops, Mrs Elemo said opportunities for creating more value-adding products through research has the potential to benefit smallholder communities and, in the long term, improve food security.

    As part of efforts aimed at ensuring rapid industrialisation and food security, Gratitude Project Partners, from Thailand and Vietnam, have started collaboration with FIIRO, on the usage of cassava wastes to produce edible mushroom.

    The project, sponsored by the European Union on Reducing Losses from Roots and Tuber Crops, is partnering universities and research institutions in Nigeria, Ghana and other countries across the world to add value to waste. Elemo, who said the institute was commissioned by EU to do research and development on edible mushroom cultivation technology and domestication, said it has been working on the use of cassava peel, yam peel and cassava stalk as substrate to produce edible mushroom.

    Elemo noted that in order to reduce investment on mushroom production, a thatched roof mushroom house has been developed to grow mushrooms and train entrepreneurs. She claimed that the step implies that its cultivation can easily be set up in the rural areas at low cost and technology made simpler.