"I chose to travel from Lagos back to Owerri yesterday. I rejected an offer to fly and asked for the cash equivalent.
With this
money, I paid for a 7-seater Siena and agreed with the driver to carry for free
any woman who he deemed financially challenged especially if accompanied by a
child or more. That was how I spent my birthday, with praying women along the
stretches strewn with uniforms of python dancers playing ludo with drivers,
passengers and vehicles heading south east. The worst part of this journey is
that one of the women's child, Kosisochi, was ill. Her depressed mother wept
between Sagamu and Onitsha".
That on one
part because I learnt on this same birthday day of mine, our benevolent
president, in his kindness nature, approved money for air ambulance and abroad
medical expenses for an ex vice president. Reading the press release is like
listening to a father beating his chest in a podium and boasting of paying his
kid's school fees! This equally got me worried
because the president himself was recently in an over 100-day abroad treatment session. The news didn't connect till someone cited a paragraph in the constitution where it is provided ex heads of states and their deputies are ENTITLED to overseas treatments for the rests of their lives.
because the president himself was recently in an over 100-day abroad treatment session. The news didn't connect till someone cited a paragraph in the constitution where it is provided ex heads of states and their deputies are ENTITLED to overseas treatments for the rests of their lives.
By the way.
In the midst of all these miseries and madnesses your prayers, wishes, gifts,
calls, messages and texts made it possible to be cheerful, grateful and
hopeful. You all rock! Once again I
thank you all my friends and family for giving me strength in this seasons of
needless weakness. May our good Lord do same for all of You! I appreciate you
all one by one. We are getting there, folks. De eje nu o!
biography and bacground of Azubuike Erinugha
Azubuike Erinugha is a published/performing poet, a
multiple award winning film producer and director.
He is a
trained audio-visual media director, a filmed content aggregator, distributor,
exhibitor, a project manager and an actor.
Erinugha has
also completed various community-based measures including the recently designed
“Dangers of Irregular Migration Amongst the West African Youths”.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
(1988 –
1992) English Language and Literary Studies, Bachelors, Abia State University,
Nigeria.
(1993 –
1995) NYSC – Department of Nigeria Languages, Hausa/Igbo Unit, Federal College
of Education, Batagarawa Katsina State,
Nigeria.
(1998 –
2000) Digital Communication and Media Roosevelt Chicago, Schaumburg Campus,
Schaumburg Illinois USA
(2004 –
2005) Broadcast/Transmission Management, Certified, Harris Communication
Centre, West Island, Montreal Canada.
(2003 –
2005) Advertising and Project Management, Trainings, Concordia University,
Montreal Canada.
(2003 –
2005) Sales and Marketing Management, Certificate, Continued Education
Department, Concordia University, Montreal Canada.
(2012 –
Present) Writer, Producer and Director
at Nollywood Europe, a European Union Project, Brussels Belgium.
2015 –
Woodpecker International Film Festival Campus Workshop and Certification.
(Bollywood) New Delhi, India.
2015 –
Brussels International Film Festival screening of “Brothers”, Brussels Belgium.
2015 – Date
– Director and Producer at Towncrier Studios, Nigeria.
LANGUAGE ABILITIES
Written,
spoken and reading skills are excellent in English and Igbo languages. I have a
passable knowledge and street conversation skills of the Hausa language. Basic written and conversational German
language.
SPEAKER – 8TH MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN
INTEGRATION FORUM (2012)
PAPER PRESENTATION ON NIGERIAN
Films on how
immigrants can also contribute to the economic growth of Europe using the
Practical process of Nigeria’s home grown cinema, the new pop culture for films
that has taken over most Africans homes in Africa and in the Diaspora.
ANTI-IRREGULAR MIGRATION CAMPAIGN
PROJECT (2012-2013)
In a rural
screening campaign, the film "The Champion Sportsman" was screened at
four different locations between December 2012 and January 2013 in Imo State
Nigeria, including at the Dikenafai Headquarters of the Ideato South LGA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpOuhNEtSEo
MIGRATION AND DIASPORA FORUM, ROVIGO
ITALY PROJECT (December, 2013)
Speaker in a
one-week seminar in the city of Rovigo on social cohesion and tolerance of the
refugees and asylum seekers.
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT STRASBOURG
On October
6, 2015 “Brothers” film was screened at the Winston Churchill Building – Room
WIC200 of the European Parliament Strasbourg, France. This was following an
introduction and keynote address of Azubuike Erinugha to the African Diaspora
Network of Associations and members of parliament present.
WORKS by Azubuike Erinugha
THE ASYLUM
(108 Mins HDV, 2007), Town crier International, Montreal – An unemployed man
leaves home in search of a job only to find himself near naked in the streets.
Government thugs force him into a facility where mentally unstable citizens are
treated for various aspects of undiagnosed madness. A political comedy
ridiculing the elite ruling classes in given African states.
CONTACT:
Twitter :@zubistocracy
Facebook : Azubuike Erinugha
Instagram : azubuikeerinugha
Twitter :@zubistocracy
Facebook : Azubuike Erinugha
Instagram : azubuikeerinugha
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