CULTURE, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT *Promoting the three Bottom lines*
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| Pictures from AFI Trainings (Introductory classes and Special Practical Sessions) |
Practices, processes and procedures designed and adopted to ensure safe and healthy work environment are referred to as Occupational Safety and Hazard Management Tools.
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| What kind of Occupational disaster can arise from this |
What is occupational Safety and Hazards, with regard to the film industry?
First and foremost, let us understand the three concepts below, and in the context of the film industry:
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| Fire on set - disaster may occur |
The Film Industry, like any other industry in Nigeria, and indeed, all over the world, is faced with challenges.
In Nigeria, the film industry is facing challenges of different kinds and magnitude.
Challenges associated with occupational safety and hazards are among the challenges the Film Industry in Nigeria in grappling with.
More pictures from the Special Practical Sessions of the Practical Phase of the skills Acquisition training and empowerment programme conducted by the African Film Institute in Jos, Plateau state.
The Special Practical Phase of the training was designed to give the trainees direct access to a professional film set by way of active participation and involvement in the activities of a real film production.
The African Film Institute (AFI) is proving to be intentional, deliberate and committed in its efforts to lay a solid foundation in Film Making and Creative Media Production for the over 300 hundred trainee participants.
The trainees are taking part in a 6 months, skill acquisition and empowerment training that the institute is organising for them in the City of Jos, the capital of Plateau state, North Central Nigeria.
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| Special Practical Phase |
As the heading of this write-up is staring you in the face, it does clearly, more than explaining to you, dear esteemed reader and friend that this publication is a work started in the past, and therefore, a continuation of an earlier publication.
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| From the Special Practical Phase of the training |
A popular saying has it that "Beliefs are harder to shake than knowledge".
In this piece, my focus is to discuss this age long popular axiom, with regard to what is expected in reality from the participants of the ongoing skills acquisition training programme in Film Making and Creative Media Production that the African Film Institute is conducting in the serene and captivating City of Jos, the Plateau state capital, North Central Nigeria.
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| A lighting equipment used for the training |
Recently, Scoreline reported that the introductory training classes conducted for the commencement of lessons for more than 300 participants of the 6 months skills acquisition programme hosted in Jos, the Plateau state capital, has come to an end.
The introductory training classes that just ended, is part of the ongoing 6 months skills acquisition training in Film Making and Creative Media Production, designed by the African Film Institute (AFI).
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| A typical introductory class session of the programme |
The over one month introductory classes of the on-going, hands on, skill acquisition training, in Film Making and Creative Media Production, holding in Jos, the Plateau state capital, North Central Nigeria, has come to an end, and a new phase begins.
The entire skill acquisition training, in Film Making and Creative Media Production programme, which is designed to run for 6 months, between the last quarter of 2025 (October to December) and first quarter of 2026 (January to March), has entered the practical phase. Though, classes for this phase is yet to commence, the participants are busy conducting the activities required of them to ensure the phase runs smoothly, Scoreline reports.
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| Investigation cum Interrogation scene. One of the classroom sessions of the programme |
"Competence and its companion, functional skill, are fundamental tools for the success minded. They are critical tools, necessary for the attainment of worthwhile results. They stand in a strategic position, and to a large extent determine the success of individuals and Nations on one hand, and on the other hand their failure.
"Competence and functional skill, are essential to sustainable growth and development. They are to success what blood is to the body"... Nnabugwu Chizoba
The statement above, though brief, captures my understanding of how important the tools of "Competence and Functional Skill" are to humans.
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| Barr Nungji Salama Bulus |
Barr Nungji Salama Bulus, a legal Practitioner, based in Jos, Plateau State, North Central Nigeria, has applauded the African Film Institute and the federal ministry of education, Nigeria, for what he described as their intervention in building the human capacity and resource base of Plateau state.
He spoke to Scoreline in Jos during the flag off ceremony of a 6 months hand on skills acquisition education and training Programme in Film Making and Creative Media Production, put together by the African Film Institute (AFI), in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education, Nigeria.
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| Positive action by a woman Group |
The key to success is action. This is a common or popular maxim. But, in this piece, I beg to differ in a way with this Maxim, and on the strength of it, make a little adjustment to it.
By: Nnabugwu Chizoba,
False accusations are allegations or claims of wrong doing levelled against a person(s), group(s), institution(s), government(s), community (ies), state(s) or nation(s), which are not true.
The Chairman, Jos North Local Government Area (LGA), Hon. J.K Chris, has assured organisers of the one day and one of a kind event in Nigeria: the Peace Clubs Festival, of his support; and collaboration for peace building efforts during his tenure as the Chief Executive, Jos North LGA. He made this assurance during the Jos North Peace Festival on Saturday, November 9th, 2024.
Giving back to the community is a thing of joy, happiness and excitement to the giver and people receiving. Some people have even averred that the joy is more alluring, enduring and exciting when the giver like Egede Chukwuebuka who recently built a fertilizer blending plant in one of the suburbs, Lohdic in Rantya community, Jos, Plateau state, North Central Nigeria did by giving to the same society that contributed to making him. He grew up in Jos, did part of his schooling and started life in Jos, before traveling abroad.
Egede Clinton Chukwuebuka, a young enterprising Nigerian, hardworking and a people and community driven former international footballer, operating his business under the name Chuks Pacific Investment Enterprise Ltd has begun the transformation process of a beautiful but little known community located in the Rantya area of Jos, the Plateau state capital. He is doing this with a capital investment project, a fertilizer blending plant that has the capacity to produce fertilizer of all kinds. The plant is targeted at changing the economic and social narrative of the largely farming community and by extension the fortune of the farming populace in and outside the landscape of Plateau state.
Scoreline was on ground when the Governor of Plateau state, Barr Caleb Mutfwang unveiled the Jos Family Christmas 2024 Festival tagged “the beautiful experience”. The unveiling event held Monday, October 14, 2024 in Jos, the state capital.
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| St Piran Anglican Church building, Jos |
St Piran Anglican Church on the Plateau is reputed for harbouring men and women of class, diverse Professions and experience, men and women that are widely traveled and immensely exposed as members. The list is comprised of Africans, Europeans and Americans, indeed people of other Continents of the World. The Church which had her centenary celebration (100 years) last year 2023, has a long rich history, beautiful location and attractive environment, with very good road networks in and around her vicinity. When men and women of this calibre decide to put down their names to organize a workshop or class, you can be sure that information and knowledge that drive results and generate impact are more or less a given.
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| The rule of third |
Ardent Kingdom minded, empowerment and impact driven Photography Masters beyond the shores of Nigeria: Germany, United Kingdom and the United States of America partly, and their Nigerian counterparts, assembled by the Media Unit of St Pirans Anglican Church on the Plateau, for a three days Photography Master Class in Jos, Plateau State, North Central Nigeria to redefine the art of Photography and build the capacity of the Kingdom-minded people interested in the Profession in Plateau state and Nigeria, as a whole.
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| Mr. Akinyemi Alamu |
The title of this piece best describes the approach to work of him whose picture is shown above. He is a Man whom the Almighty Lord has shown mercy in multiple ways. He knows it, professes it, appreciates it and is at every point in time grateful for what the Father of all, the great King of Kings and the creator of Heaven and Earth has done for him and has continuously done for his entire household.