DaVinChiSam: It will. But first before it attracts outsiders the insiders also have to play their parts. Mayhaps if we all join in to support, promote, advertise it to the outside world then hopefully we can achieve this feat. [b]What am I talking about? Buy original films, watch nigerian films at the cinema etc. [/b]Thanks

@ Bolded is a very good point for starters. Let's be honest... there are a ton of threads and comments that show we think piracy-freebies na our birthright - that is just so wrong. If we want a better Nigeria we need to stop waiting for the ever-elusive and possibly fictional 'them' and be the ones to start change - you, me, we.

Sadly we aren't ready yet

Onyegecha:
I agree, but Nollywood must first stop defrauding those who patronize them. [b]The virus of fraud will not allow them to go far unless they get rid of it. The idea of packaging a one-hour story into six or eight parts is soooo very annoying. What about the endless adverts that often take up half of the film? [/b]Nollywood needs urgent rebranding. Anyhow, i am proud of their accomplishments so far.

Is that still going on? That is very, very bad practice.

Irrespective of what you may have on the ground, tourism cannot grow in Nigeria until we have organised cities. How do you Expect a visitor to survive in a place like Lagos for example? Irrespective of what the present government has done, Lagos is still not a city for a tourist

Almost all our cities are disorganised, you have to be a Nigerian before you can know how to move around.

Nat Anymore. That was then!

AkoEja: Irrespective of what you may have on the ground, tourism cannot grow in Nigeria until we have organised cities. How do you Expect a visitor to survive in a place like Lagos for example? Irrespective of what the present government has done, Lagos is still not a city for a tourist

Almost all our cities are disorganised, you have to be a Nigerian before you can know how to move around.

True that. The amount of work to be done before this can ever become a reality is astonishing... might also never happen.

LMAyedun: Honestly, Nollywood can't achieve that height just yet...

1.Isn’t funny that a Ghost picks up a call in Nollywood, how is this possible?

2. Why would a Ghost have to look “left and right” before crossing the road?

3.Isn’t it funny for two Ghost to fall in love, na wa!

4. Why is it that Nollywood characters die or run mad immediately after their confessions?

5. How come a legendary Village Movie, set in the 70′s, still find Brazilian hair on Mercy Johnson?

6. Must all hired assassins be found in uncompleted or abandoned buildings?

7. Will a Yoruba movie ever be complete without a visit to the ‘Baba’?

8. Observe, nine out of ten times, Olu Jacobs dies of heart attack in Nollywood movies, why?

9. “15 years ago” , Ini Edo calls her boyfriend with a Blackberry Bold 5. How possible?

10. When poor people come to Lagos to struggle, they always make it. How true is this?

11. Isn’t it funny for Segun Arinze to act as Ramsey Noah’s dad?

12. Isn’t it interesting for a blind woman to say “I’m happy to see you, my son”?

Well no.11 is not suppose to be strange,even Ramsey Noah can also act as Segun Arinze' s father,its all about costuming and make-ups,even a man can turn to a woman.

Onyegecha:


I agree, but Nollywood must first stop defrauding those who patronize them. The virus of fraud will not allow them to go far unless they get rid of it. The idea of packaging a one-hour story into six or eight parts is soooo very annoying. What about the endless adverts that often take up half of the film? Nollywood needs urgent rebranding. Anyhow, i am proud of their accomplishments so far.

Tru talk.they need re-branding mostly in the area of film-title.the kind of title they give to films are so unimaginative an lack creativity.imagine sometin like " the missing girls ,village LoveDumebi goes to school

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Rubbish. Nollywood is Hollywood wannabe. Suffering from copycat syndrome. As far as I'm concern nollywood should stop the over ambiguous ambition. If they really want to achieve a greater success, they should start by changing the industry name. From nollywood to Nigerian cenima. The name nollywood, made the industry look so mediocre, cabaret and bland. That is why the industry is not being taking seriously in highly developed countries. That name "nollywood" should be changed.

Op Nigeria isn't country yet....it still one of the best zoo in the continent...-,-

^How did the spambot miss that post?

Onyegecha:


I agree, but Nollywood must first stop defrauding those who patronize them. The virus of fraud will not allow them to go far unless they get rid of it. The idea of packaging a one-hour story into six or eight parts is soooo very annoying. What about the endless adverts that often take up half of the film? Nollywood needs urgent rebranding. Anyhow, i am proud of their accomplishments so far.

. No I disagree ma. You call it fraud, I call trying to get back the money you invested. Do not forget Filmmaking is also a business, People actually Invest Money, lemme reiterate, people Use personal monies to fund/finance these productions, so you expect after investing millions then they sale it a hundred naira per CD for you which ends up being pirated and sold for less? No ma, the reason they stretch it, albeit unreasonably sometimes is to recoup money invested in it so as to hopefully make another one. There are some films that sold one off, tell me pray Madam/sire how many you bought?

jennylove7575: Rubbish. Nollywood is Hollywood wannabe. Suffering from copycat syndrome. As far as I'm concern nollywood should stop the over ambiguous ambition. If they really want to achieve a greater success, they should start by changing the industry name. From nollywood to Nigerian cenima. The name nollywood, made the industry look so mediocre, cabaret and bland. That is why the industry is not being taking seriously in highly developed countries. That name "nollywood" should be changed.

. You have Made Perfect Nonsense. India the biggest movie industry in the world should also change from being called BollyWood too or what's your point? And about the industry not taken seriously mayhaps you should use google. The problems nollywood is having is people like you not doing sheet but condemning, condemning and condemning

The topic says Nollywood Can do it and not Nollywood Has done it.
Anyone who says Nollywood cannot do it is not following global economic reports on emerging markets.
Nigeria has a booming hospitality industry with new five star hotels springing up every year in Lagos and the Eko Atlantic City is in progress.

Nollywood made a young man who had less than US$1 in his total bank accounts in 2010 to become the richest man in Nollywood with over US$30 million in his bank accounts in 2014 and still making more millions of dollars every year.

The IMAX Corporation signed a 10 years agreement with a major stakeholder in Nollywood for the establishment of IMAX cinemas in Nigeria starting with the proposed IMAX Festac Plaza to be built in Festac Town, Lagos.

Nollywood boosted the rebased Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Nigeria to make the country Africa’s largest economy under “Motion pictures, sound recording and music production,” with a huge increase of N9 trillion in size. Analysts stated Nollywood made about N1.72 trillion in 2013.

Robert Orya, Managing Director, Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), said last year, Nollywood ranked third globally in revenue. According to him, the revenue the film industry has generated in the last three years was between $300 million and $800 million. “The global film and entertainment industry generated about $90.6 billion revenue in 2010,” Orya explained, saying “the revenue increased to $102.7 billion in 2012. Most of these revenue streams are from theatrical distribution. North America contributed the largest market share of about 40 percent. Europe, Middle East and Africa accounted for 24 percent, Latin America 20 percent, and Asia Pacific made only 3 percent contribution.” ~ http://businessdayonline.com/2014/04/nollywood-springs-surprise-in-gdp-rebasing-leaps-to-n9trn/#.U9DJtkBx-wc

See the big picture!

No !!!!!

I detest that name Nollywood myself...its a sign of mediocrity what stop the industry to think of a name that reflects our heritage or name it after a place in Nigeria

and were are they going to get first of all? electricity!

DaVinChiSam: . You have Made Perfect Nonsense. India the biggest movie industry in the world should also change from being called BollyWood too or what's your point? And about the industry not taken seriously mayhaps you should use google. The problems nollywood is having is people like you not doing sheet but condemning, condemning and condemning

mr perfect sense...why body dey pepper you? How could u ever think of comparing India movie to naija home video? Why am I even arguing with u...Abeg no quote me again if you don't have matured argument.. Mtcheww

Let us make informed comments based on the booming hospitality industry that is the vehicle of tourism and which is good for us to upgrade the Nigerian film industry for film tourism.
Some people are commenting from wrong perspectives.

I mentioned the film adaptation of Soyinka's "Aké: The Years of Childhood" which can come with a theme park on the location of the film in Abeokuta and that will certainly attract local and international tourists to visit the scenic backgrounds of the childhood of the first black Nobel laureate in Literature.

jennylove7575: mr perfect sense...why body dey pepper you? How could u ever think of comparing India movie to naija home video? Why am I even arguing with u...Abeg no quote me again if you don't have matured argument.. Mtcheww

. I don't have any matured argument now so I decided to quote you to see what you might do. E-slap me or what? BizzyBody

DaVinChiSam: . No I disagree ma. You call it fraud, I call trying to get back the money you invested. Do not forget Filmmaking is also a business, People actually Invest Money, lemme reiterate, people Use personal monies to fund/finance these productions, so you expect after investing millions then they sale it a hundred naira per CD for you which ends up being pirated and sold for less? No ma, the reason they stretch it, albeit unreasonably sometimes is to recoup money invested in it so as to hopefully make another one. There are some films that sold one off, tell me pray Madam/sire how many you bought?

My dear, you are right. They invested money and have to recoup, but they don't have to punish their customers to do so. Many people resort to renting the films, dubbing them or doing any other thing to avoid being exploited in this manner. As a matter of fact, it is extreme patriotism that has made many people to keep patronizing Nigerian movies when we can buy a Philippine film with less than half the amount for part one and two of a Nigerian movie(45-50 minutes) and keep yourself busy and entertained for days. Too much of everything is bad. They should appreciate and not exploit their fans.

Onyegecha:



My dear, you are right. They invested money and have to recoup, but they don't have to punish their customers to do so. Many people resort to renting the films, dubbing them or doing any other thing to avoid being exploited in this manner. As a matter of fact, it is extreme patriotism that has made many people to keep patronizing Nigerian movies when we can buy a Philippine film with less than half the of the amount for part one and two of a Nigerian movie and keep yourself busy and entertained for days. Too much of everything is bad.

. Now you are talking. Thanks

DaVinChiSam: . I don't have any matured argument now so I decided to quote you to see what you might do. E-slap me or what? BizzyBody

hmmm..dem say make small pikin no play with fire he say whether e dey burn..I am warning u for the last time..am on my own when you started insulting me..I repeat am warning your for the last time stay away from my comment..I won't e slap u but u go wish u never looked for my trouble. Enough is enough.

@Post

It can be done but we need to fix our power sector first. Once that is done, everything else will follow.

I HAVE A SCRIPT ON A GREAT NIGERIAN AND THE ADAPTATION WILL COST NOTHING LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED MILLION. CAN THOSE IDUMOTA BUSINESSMEN FUND IT?

Orikinla: Let us make informed comments based on the booming hospitality industry that is the vehicle of tourism and which is good for us to upgrade the Nigerian film industry for film tourism.
Some people are commenting from wrong perspectives.

I mentioned the film adaptation of Soyinka's "Aké: The Years of Childhood" which can come with a theme park on the location of the film in Abeokuta and that will certainly attract local and international tourists to visit the scenic backgrounds of the childhood of the first black Nobel laureate in Literature.

That is all well and good.

This is the first thing Wiki says about tourism in Nigeria - "Tourism in Nigeria centers largely on events, due to the country's ample amount of ethnic groups, but also includes rain forests, savannah, waterfalls, and other natural attractions.[1] The industry, unfortunately, suffers from the country's poor electricity, roads, and water quality".

Simple fact; despite our 'patriotism' Nigeria is in no shape for the sort of large scale tourism that this thread is about. There will not be a mass influx of tourists to Nigeria until most places in the world look at Nigeria as a pretty safe place.

No idea how to do the 'quote' thing but this is a pretty truthful article from the Guardian - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/29/nigeria-tourism-safe-to-travel

Come to Nigeria, if you like a bit of edge with your natural beauty
Tourism is a growth industry in Africa, and Nigeria wants to cash in, but is the country a safe place to travel to?

Travelling around west Africa is an unpredictable business, but if one thing is certain, it is this – whenever fellow travellers sit down and talk, the conversation often turns to an exchange of horror stories.

There are the old former-Soviet planes that used to fly passengers – and crates of chickens – from Ghana to Sierra Leone, stopping off at almost every country along the way whilst the liquor-soaked pilot disembarked to exchange God knows what with some bloke on the border.

One experience I sometimes recall is of the Lagos-Abuja flight that waited on the runway for two hours, then mysteriously escorted the VIPs off the plane but refused to tell other passengers why, before taking off, flying shakily in a large loop over Lagos and then landing there again. It turned out the plane didn't have enough fuel to make the trip, but the airline wanted to avoid charges for cancelling the flight.

The point is, getting from A to B can be a serious logistical challenge in west Africa. It pays off, of course: the rise in business-plane travel is just one of many indicators that intra-African trade, rather than the well-entrenched extraction of all African resources to other continents, is the future.

But are these experiences you would really choose if you were on holiday? The UN World Tourism Organisation (WTO) thinks so, and has this week held its Africa meeting in Nigeria for this first time, in Calabar – an old city in south-eastern Nigeria's Cross River State.

The Madrid-based WTO is pushing eco-tourism, fashion, art and culture, and Nigeria's abundant natural beauty – waterfalls, caves and national parks. For diaspora tourists, also a growing phenomenon in west Africa, Calabar's slave trading past is also a major attraction, and offers a chance to see increasingly endangered centuries-old relics from part of African history that still shapes people's lives.

But is it even responsible to encourage tourism to Nigeria? The country's infrastructure – particularly its aviation safety and security – is worse than ever. Nigerians themselves are avoiding travelling to Boko-Haram affected northern cities, and the national youth service scheme – which since the 1970s has placed university graduates in different parts of the country to foster national unity – has now stopped posting people to Kano and Kaduna due to the terrorist threat.

In this context, there is an air of unreality about glossy publications like Come To Nigeria , which encourages tourists to visit Kano – centre of the 18th-century Hausa empire – to see its old walled city, famous Kurmi craft market, Emir's Palace and dye pits, but doesn't mention the frequent bomb attacks by those un-tourism minded Islamic extremists.

The WTO insists it would be an injustice to discourage tourism to Nigeria as a whole because of these pockets of instability.

"It is absolutely realistic to encourage tourism to Nigeria," said Taleb Rifai, secretary general of the WTO. "If you can create tourism in even more volatile areas, like the Palestinian territory, Pakistan and Iraq – which we are helping with – then why not Nigeria? We don't believe there is any place under the sun not open for travel and tourism."

And it's true that, despite the challenges, tourists have been voting with their feet. Africa as a whole was the only region in the world whose tourism grew continuously at a double rate of growth over the last 10 years. The continent's 50 million tourists are predicted to almost triple to 140 million by 2030. No sub-Saharan African country – where growth has been the most intense – wants to be left out of this influx of foreign cash.

Nigeria can't compete with the package holidays of comparatively tiny and more manageable countries like the Gambia or Cape Verde, or the (relatively) more reliable infrastructure of Ghana or Senegal. Nigeria's strategy seems to be to embrace its flaws and sell itself as a rough and ready product nonetheless. Advocates such as Nike Oshinowowo, a former Miss Nigeria who organised the WTO Calabar event, capture this in a typically Nigerian brand of optimist-realism.

"Nigeria doesn't come in a tidy box with a nice ribbon around it," said Oshinowowo. "But once you get over that hard edge that my country has, once you have passed through the airport, you are welcomed by wonderful, warm people, the food is phenomenal, the climate is constantly nice."

"Yes there is poverty, but there are also beggars on the Champs Elysées, and that doesn't deter tourists to Paris," Oshinowowo continued. "If you come and sit and eat with us you will see that we are not thieves and our girls are not all prostitutes."

It's not exactly a conventional sales pitch, but then Nigeria is not going to be a conventional tourism destination any time soon.

The bolded sentence says a lot - We 'presently' have no package to sell to anyone. And the last sentence hits the nail on the head - It's just not a 'conventional' tourist destination and won't be anytime soon.

This is not a "It will happen today thing". I personally still stick by it being decades away.

jennylove7575: hmmm..dem say make small pikin no play with fire he say whether e dey burn..I am warning u for the last time..am on my own when you started insulting me..I repeat am warning your for the last time stay away from my comment..I won't e slap u but u go wish u never looked for my trouble. Enough is enough.

. Now this is even getting more interesting.