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The National Film and Video Censors Board, The NFVCB has tasked Nollywood industry participants with making sure that films and music videos, among other things, do not portray or glorify dangerous activities such as drug use, criminal activity, ritual killings, or money rituals.
This was stated at the National Stakeholders' Engagement on Smoke-Free Nollywood held in Enugu by Dr. Shaibu Husseini, the Executive Director of the NFVCB.
He applauded Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) for organizing the event in Nigeria's creative industry as a manifestation of its corporate social responsibility.
He said that in the entertainment and creative industries, the film business plays a key role, adding that “it is imperative that we continue to place the highest premium on the progress of the film industry.”
He enjoined the stakeholders in the public and private sectors “to see the gathering as an important platform to forge strategic partnership in order to mobilize scarce funding and create innovative models to assist in educating/sensitizing mothers, youth and the general public to combat the hydra-headed menace in the form of unapproved and unclassified content.”
Earlier in a remark, the executive Director of CAPPA, Akinbode Oluwafemi had stressed the need for stakeholders to work towards a Smoke-Free Nollywood.
Oluwefemi stated that “we are at a point where we must stop the globalisation of smoking and instead promote a healthy lifestyle.
