At the Nnewi Creative Industry hangout yesterday, a Reverend Father who was invited by a veteran Lagos based movie producer from Nnewi revealed that he's been running a movie academy in Nnewi for two years now. He said a lot of people have graduated from the academy and
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that they have produced about 12 standard movies so far.
He also said that what he does is actually secular movies.
The Reverend Father is part of Nnewi Creative Industry and has promised to contribute his own quota in building the industry
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The Reverend Father talked about how he hosted an event in Nnewi for the creatives across South East a year ago at Ifeanyi Ubah stadium. He talked about how the budget for the event was in millions and how they recovered everything from just ticket sales. 3/4
Everyone was amazed
The story opened our eyes to the facts that
1.There is a lot happening in Nnewi that we don't know about
2.Nnewi people are actually willing to pay for services once it's of good standard and well packaged.
Let's come together to build a solid creative industry in Alaigbo
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Nnewi Creative Industry Holds Their First Official Meeting
As KomWorld Entertainment Centre in Nnewi is fast getting completed, the CEO, Mr Kene Mkparu finally invited the creatives in Nnewi for an official physical meeting after months of online group meetings and chats 1/4
Few pioneers from the group met at B. Robinson coffee house, Otolo Nnewi.
After some series of discussions, sharing of thoughts, robbing minds together, the NNEWI CREATIVE INDUSTRY committee is now set up.
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intellectual property Lawyers, Writers, film producers, Models, Actors, Media people, Musicians etc are all included in the committee.
Some personalities from the creative industry were also in attendance. 3/4
Policemen @PoliceNG that went looking for Indian hemp smokers in a valley at the back of Nnewi Timber market(Ọgbọ osisi) couldn't catch up with any one.
Angrily or maybe acting under influence of alcohol or had drugs, they put on their lighter which caught fire immediately with saw dust.The fire has burnt down more than 100 shops, water tankers putting the fire off and causing further destruction.Everyone is crying and weeping
Some angry people destroying one of the vehicles of the police men @PoliceNG after they escaped with the other vehicles
Nnamdi Azikiwe University teaching Hospital, Nnewi(NAUTH).
A teaching hospital sitting on a temporary site which it has grown far bigger than.
The history of NAUTH, Nnewi.
Nnamdi Azikiwe University teaching Hospital Nnewi was created in the year 1991 after
Nnewi community people handed over their self built General hospital(Mbụli) to federal government for the purpose of serving as the temporary teaching hospital for the newly created Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.
As time went on, more facilities were built both by individuals and the government. The hospital continued serving its purpose without pressure or discomfort until it got to a time the traffic started increasing and the need to relocate to the permanent site became obvious