The Executive Director of the National Film and Video Censors Board , Alhaji Adedayo Thomas has commended the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, for setting up the COVID 19 Creative Industry Committee.
Recall that immediately the minister announced the membership of the committee, some sections of the creative industry voiced their concern over poor representation of sectors that make up the creative industry. “Having read the press release by a consortium of guilds and associations in the Nigeria film industry, veiling a direct response to the efforts of the Honourable Minister of Information and Culture, Alha¬ji Lai Mohammed, at drawing sustainability for the creative industry in Nigeria, through the intervention of a committee set up to that effect, may I seek your indulgence to join the conversation and redress some concerns on the divergent views being expressed across different quarters,...
Adedayo stated that the Board was bracing up to doing business in the post-COVID 19 era, noting that, it is in the realization of this that the Board has commenced the virtual censorship of films for stakeholders. He said that virtual censorship of films was introduced by the Board to assist filmmakers to censor their films, during the period of the pandemic. According to him, the filmmaker will just upload the film to the office and the film will be censored and approved in less than one week.
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