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Desmond Ovbiagele’s ‘The Milkmaid’ Emerges as Nigeria’s Official Oscar Submission for 2021

Nigeria’s Official Selection Committee (For the Academy Awards® IFF Submissions) has confirmed Desmond Ovbiagele’s ‘The Milkmaid’ as Nigeria’s official 2021 submission.
The selection committee confirmed this on Tuesday, December 1, 2020 while revealing that it beat three other films in the final voting stage.
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Contending films include ‘Ibi’ (The Birth), ‘Voiceless’, ‘Eyimofe’, ‘Sanitation Day’ and the Mo Abudu produced ‘Oloture’.
‘The Milkmaid’ explores the harsh reality of insurgency in Northern Nigeria using the story of two Fulani sisters, Aisha and Zainab who get kidnapped by insurgents. It stars Anthonieta Kalunta, Maryam Booth, and Gambo Usman Kona.
Already a trendsetter, ‘The Milkmaid’ has eight nominations at this year’s Africa Movie Academy Awards including the Best film category.
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Veteran Highlife Musician Orlando Julius Dies Aged 79

Author: Peace Salifu
Highlife musician Orlando Julius has died aged 79.
Julius’ death was announced in the early hours of Friday by his wife, Latoya Ekemode. She said that Julius passed out in his sleep on Thursday night.
Julius, was a renowed saxophonist, singer, bandleader, and songwriter closely associated with Afrobeat music.
he began music with his first single Igbehin Adara recorded with the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation in 1960.
Some of his musical albums are Disco Hi-Life, Ololufe, Love, Peace and Happiness; Dance Afrobeat and more.
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Amazon Completes Hollywood Studio, MGM Acquisition

Author: Gift Wada, Abuja
Amazon has closed its acquisition of MGM, officially bringing the film and TV studio into its fold.
Amazon announced that it has acquired Hollywood movie and television studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer, MGM for $8.5 million. The purchase happened after Amazon certified to the Federal Trade Commission that it had provided all the information requested by the “antitrust investigators” reviewing the deal.
MGM is the studio responsible for hit movies such as Rocky and James Bond but hasn’t won a Grammy for best picture since 1991.
According to Reuters, Amazon made a statement saying that it would welcome all MGM employees to the company and work with the studio’s leadership, indicating there would not be layoffs.
Forbes Magazine reports that MGM shareholders have lobbied Amazon to treat MGM like a stand-alone label under the Amazon umbrella as MGM film division since last year has been making moves to improve their moribund movie studio by buying the rights of movies from high profile movie makers.
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On its plans for MGM, Amazon has said very little, only stating that they purchased the company because of its library, and also in order to be able to remake its old titles as TV shows and movies.
This purchase by Amazon means that Amazon would be investing more into the movie production industry and into Hollywood and regardless of what strategies the company employs, this is a decision that would greatly affect the valuation of Amazon.
It already owns Amazon studios, which is arguably the biggest movie streaming site after Netflix and a studio purchase means that we would see more of Amazon in Hollywood productions.
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Instagram Suspends Kanye West Over Racial Slur Targeted at Trevor Noah

American Rapper, Kanye West has been suspended from Instagram for 24 hours after launching an attack on Comedian Trevor Noah on the social media platform for speaking about his divorce.
Kanye West on Wednesday hurled a racial slur in a post saying “All in together now… K–n baya my lord k–n baya K–n baya my lord K–n baya Oooo’ lord K–n baya,” West captioned a screenshot from a Google search result describing Noah as a “South African comedian.”
West mocked Noah by using the offensive “k–n” slur to replace the original lyrics in “Kumbaya.”
Kanye west’s comments came hours after the South African comedian discussed Kim and Pete’s relationship in his show. He also took a swipe at comedians DL Hughley and David Sirus for speaking on the issue.
The rapper is unable to post, comment or send Direct messages for 24 hours as more stringent measures taken against him if he continues to violate the guidelines of the social media app.
Kanye has also recently used the social media platform to attack his soon to be Ex-wife, Kim Kardashian and her boyfriend Pete Davidson.
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