Afrinity Production draw cognizance to Marie Jeng, a 22 year old Gambian Activist born and raised in London corner and recently completed her Bachelor’s degree in law at the University of the Gambia. She is an activist, very fierce and passionate for the cause and has held a lot of leadership positions.

She has been advocating for the rights and welfare of women and children in the Gambia for years now.

Growing up in London corner where she sees youth involving in drugs, theft and rebellious activities gives her the passion to support through activism. It is also a community where young girls go through FGM , where their potentials are limited and with people believing girls are meant to be in the kitchen. This is one of the reasons that compelled her to do something.

“I cannot Just sit down by doing nothing, because I believe in the potentials and capabilities of young girls and women. And I know we can be anything we want to be once we put our minds to it, “, she said.

Marie has been Volunteering for organisations since 2011 that was when she first became a member of the Young People In The Media.

Jeng said being an activist in the Gambia for girls can be hard sometimes due to the fights you have to undergo. Some even go the extra miles just to see you fail, is all based on how you react to the bullies and this kind of situations. “And I tend to handle them very well, so I won’t say it is tough, I will just say it can be very challenging,” she said.

The Young Gambian Activist have worked with Young People In The Media, Safe Hands For Girls, The Pan African Female Youth Leaders The Gambia Chapter and currently working with Woman Boss. She is also into entrepreneurship, as the proprietress of Tee’s hosting Services, along side volunteering for two other organizations and mentoring young people in various communities.

Marie Jeng is inspired by; Jaha Dukureh a victim of Child Marriage and FGM who despite the odds, stays stronger to fight for the rights of other women and girls. Jaha is today one of well known Gambian Activist internationally. For Marie Jeng, she is a true definition of strength and she digs into that really well.

Jeng dislikes the fighting that tends to escalate among activist themselves. She like it when all activist are in unison, helping each other and speaking with one voice. “I don’t like it when we are fighting, I don’t like it when we are in competition with each other, that is not what the fighting should be about. We are fighting for a common goal and we should work together or otherwise collaborate in achieving that goal,” she elaborated.

She looks up to her mother for her strength and Maria Saine who inspired her due to her leadership and humanitarian skills and also for being an exceptional young woman. ” I also admire and look up to Michelle Obama, for her strength and willingness to fight for the right of women globally,” lamented.

Professionally, Marie Jeng’s goal is to one day start her line of businesses that will build something greater for the youth in The Gambia. “This businesses will generate a lot of money and I will dedicate a portion of the profit that I make towards the development of young people,” she said.

Marie have her own foundation call “The London girls club” which aims at providing girls with important trainings and learning materials to help them in becoming greater assets to the community.

“I am not defined by what people think of me, I am mostly defined by my strength and ablitity to conquer,” she concluded

By Amie T. Camara

Afrinity Production draw attention to Ebrima Correa, a 31 year old Gambian film director who is considered to be one of the founding pioneers of bettering the Gambian movie industry and one of the most popular directors in the Gambia film history.

He has been in the industry since 2010 with known people from Brikama. He at some point quit to further his education and reinstate himself back in 2015.

Ebrima was discovered by actors as a confident, fresh-faced comic who was proficient at Directing characters and sending up remarkable actors to follow their dreams.

The Young and vibrant Gambian Director majored English and Maths at the prestigious Gambia College. He taught as a qualify teacher from 2014 to 2019 and currently pursuing a Bsc in English language at the University of The Gambia.

Ebrima is the Coordinator of GMB Brains Theatre group in Brikama and also Recruiting poets ,actors, writers, and musicians simultaneously.

Correa Directed the following movies;Ku buka lambang , Pain of sorrow, Bleeding blade, Monica, Who to blame and Life to live.

He was also the Director of the SDG’s documentary drama “17 Goals for Better Future” and have also directed songs like, Ask about me by Pascal, Ama do it by Pascal and
Wonderful feeling by Tyroon and Aunty Barry.

Courage discloses how challenging it is to be a Director in the Gambia as your work pay you less or nothing. “I do what i do because i got an inner belief that gives me hope and courage to do what i do, I can call it passion at some point. I work compassionately like my work gives me reason to live, it brings back the joy in me despite it being frustrating and challenging,”he said.

Correa had bitter and sweet stories of life that inspired him into directing since he believed in many told stories and stories that he lived and survived or are stories a friend lived and survived so these are things that inspired him the most. “I am directing because i am artistically oriented especially in making of movie,”said Correa.

He love everything in the movie world since he believe everything in the movie world is done for a reason. Only that when it comes to Gambia, the country lack the needed support to compete with other worlds.

“I compare myself with no other director.. I am unique in the way i work. I can tell you my personality in the directing horizon. I balance situation and that is why i got love my many. So I am Director Ebrima Correa like no other director,” he lamented.

Correa’s professional goal is to be that professional director, like studying to the core of directing, and get recommended internationally. He has been screen Directing for 4 years now.

By Amie T. Camara

By Amie T. Camara

Afrinity Production has been reliable informed that the Federal Government of Nigeria has ordered unity schools in the country, earlier closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to reopen on October 12th, 2020.

Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, announced the reopening of the learning centres on Friday in Abuja, explaining that the COVID-19 curve has been flattened.

According to the Minister, schools across the country, are, however at liberty to fix resumption dates and ensure that there are adequate safety measures while doing so.

Mr Adamu equally warned that schools who fail to adhere to outlined COVID-19 safety protocols, risk closure if there is any outbreak from such learning facilities

Source___Channels TV

By Amie T. Camara

Afrinity Production draw attention to Covid-19 vaccine availability. Though coronavirus still poses a significant threat, there are still no vaccines proven to protect the body against the disease it causes – Covid-19.

However there are around 40 different coronavirus vaccines in clinical trials – including one being developed by the University of Oxford that is already in an advanced stage of testing.

Why is a coronavirus vaccine important?
The virus spreads easily, and the majority of the world’s population is still vulnerable to it. A vaccine would provide some protection by training people’s immune systems to fight the virus so they should not become sick.

This would allow lockdowns to be lifted more safely, and social distancing to be relaxed.

What sort of progress is being made?
Research is happening at breakneck speed. About 240 vaccines are in early development, with 40 in clinical trials and nine already in the final stage of testing on thousands of people.

Source___Reteurs

By Amie T. Camara

Afrinity Production disclose to you the US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for coronavirus and are now self-isolating.

Mr Trump, aged 74 and therefore in a high-risk group, wrote on Twitter: “We will get through this together.”

It comes after Hope Hicks, one of his closest aides, tested positive.

Mr Trump’s announcement comes just over a month before the presidential elections on 3 November where he faces Democratic challenger Joe Biden.

Ms Hicks, 31, travelled with Mr Trump on Air Force One to the first presidential TV debate with Mr Biden in Ohio on Tuesday. Some of Mr Trump’s family members who attended the debate were seen not wearing masks.

Source___BBC

By Amie T. Camara

Afrinity Production disclose the release of not less than 12 convicted prisoners who were unable to pay their court fines on Tuesday after the Gambia Supreme Islamic Council (GSIC) chipped in and deposited their respective fines amounting to more than D50, 000.

According to Points, they were convicted of various crimes ranging from stealing, threatening violence, conspiracy to obtain money by false pretence among others. The 12 prisoners comprise 10 Gambians and two Senegalese.

The GSIC also gave the released prisoners transport refunds to return to their various homes, within and outside the country with a view to reuniting with their families and loved ones again. Some of these prisoners were convicted between one month to two years in prison.

Source___The Point

By Amie T. Camara

Afrinity Production unveil death of Chrissy Teigen and husband John Legend’s baby, they are in “deep pain” after the lost during pregnancy.

“We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before,” she wrote in a moving Instagram statement.

Her post was accompanied by several black and white photos, including one of her crying in her hospital bed.

Model Teigen and singer Legend have two children, and in mid-August revealed they were expecting a third.

In her latest post, Teigen revealed the Los Angeles-based couple had been planning to call the baby Jack.

“We never decide on our babies’ names until the last possible moment after they’re born, just before we leave the hospital,” she wrote.

“But we, for some reason, had started to call this little guy in my belly Jack. Jack worked so hard to be a part of our little family, and he will be, forever.

“I’m so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn’t give you the home you needed to survive. We will always love you.”

Source____BBC

By Amie T. Camara

If you did not watch what could only be described as a “debate” between the two US presidential candidates , Afrinity Production can assure you that you made a wise decision.

The chaos that was built across television screens last night was truth to the sad spectacle that is America today.

Trump proved, once more, that he is a pitiful excuse for a president. Calmness, thoughtfulness, maturity and rationality are anathema to Trump. Every disgraceful measure of this disgraceful president was on parade for a hellish evening.

Trump shouted obscenities. He lied. He thundered. He deflected. He smirked. He, incredibly, played, again and again, the victim of a fictitious media cabal and an equally fictitious attempted coup d’état.

By comparison, Biden gamely tried to share his ideas and prescriptions for what he would do as president. Agree or disagree with those ideas and prescriptions, Biden spoke to American voters with a discernible degree of gravitas and earnestness.

Biden actually make known of what a great leader he will make and is doubt the right person for America.

Source___Aljazeera

By Amie T. Camara

Afrinity Production draw attention to the shooting of a young man on Wednesday in central Guinean city shaken by clashes since the prime minister visited the city a day before the campaigning for President Alpha Conde’s re-election.

Security forces on Wednesday shot and killed Habib Petel Diallo, 20, during a protest in the city of Dalaba against the premier’s visit, the man’s brother Lamine Diallo said to Channels.

A police officer who asked not to be named said the young man had died with a shot to the head.

Guinean authorities have not officially confirmed the death.

The latest incident in Dalaba follows dozens of deaths in previously anti-government protests, during demonstrations against a third presidential term for Alpha Conde since October last year.

The 82-year-old president has pushed through a new constitution in March that allowed him to reset the two-term presidential limit to zero, and run again in the October 18 election.

Source___Channels TV

ANNIVERSARY, THURSDAY

1ST OCTOBER 2020

Fellow Nigerians

I speak to you today as your President and fellow citizen on this epoch occasion of our country’s 60th independence Anniversary. As President, I wish to renew my appreciation to Nigerians for entrusting me with your hopes and aspirations for a better and greater Nigeria.

Today, it is my unique privilege to re-commit myself to the service of this great country of great people with profound diversities and opportunities. We are bound by destiny to be the largest and greatest black nation on earth.

At this stage in our nationhood it is important that we reflect how we got here to enable us work TOGETHER to get to where we aspire to be as a strong indivisible nation, united in hope and equal in opportunity.

On October 1st 1960 when Prime Minister Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa received the constitutional instruments symbolizing Nigeria’s independence, he expressed his wish that having acquired our rightful status as an independent sovereign nation, history would record that the building of our nation proceeded at the wisest pace.

This optimism was anchored on the peaceful planning, full and open consultation and harmonious cooperation with the different groups which culminated in Nigeria emerging as a country without bitterness and bloodshed.

Our founding fathers understood the imperative of structuring a National identity using the power of the state and worked towards unification of Nigerians in a politically stable and viable entity.

That philosophy guided the foundation that was laid for our young nation of 45 million people with an urban population of approximately 7million occupying an area of 910,768 square kilometers. These demographics led to development challenges for which major efforts were made to overcome.

Today, we grapple with multiple challenges with a population exceeding 200million occupying the same land mass but 52% residing in urban areas.

I chose the path of self-reflection because this is what I do on a daily basis and I must confess that at most times, I always felt the need for a collective reflection as I know that the foundation for a solid future which this administration is laying can only be sustainable if there is a collective commitment by Nigerians.

Nigeria is not a country for Mr. President, any ruling or opposition party but a country for all of us and we must play our part, irrespective of challenges we face, to make this country what we desire.

Source__Channels TV