The Federal Government says it has taken steps to amend the Nigeria Broadcasting Code to discourage the production of Nigerian music videos and movies outside the shore of the country.
The
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this known in
Lagos when he paid a visit to the headquarters of the Copyright Society of
Nigeria COSON.
He
decried the situation whereby films, reality TV shows and music, were made
outside Nigeria, for consumption by Nigerians. Lai
Mohammed said the situation had hampered empowerment of practitioners in the
industry, the development of the sector and the nation’s economy in general.
The Minister of Culture and Tourism stressed
that as long as we are not able to implement our own code to ensure local
production of Nigerian music and movies, our young talents will not get jobs,
adding that as part of efforts to encourage local production of films and
music, the Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission had put forward a proposal
to classify the Creative Industry and grant it a pioneer status.
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