tkb417:

The scenerio ure painting played itself out before the current boom in 9ja music scene. i can remember when i was leaving secondary school, we never heard or danced to local hip hop artists in parties, clubs and social gatherings and i cannot remember the regulators banning the sale of foreign music in order for our local musicians to thrive

what we have today is the reversal as our local musicians now enjoy more airplay compared to foreign music. Our clubs blast more local music cos the quality of what they churn out has gone up. Nobody banned nobody to encourage local artists

The Ghanaians should concentrate on developing their work and naturally, nollywood would fizzle out in their country

CGKing:

I think there is a slight difference in what iv said and what u are reffering to. I believe u r comparing products with a phenomenom. Nollywood is not a product, and even though its may be number 3 in the world, its still growing. Bringing in foreign actors will cripple her growth and also not benefit our economy so it wont be wrong for any authourity to recommend levies or even banning foregin participants.

This was the same sttuation inthe ghana must go thing. Remember? This was y we kicked ghana out. But now, they arent even banning our actors, they are trying to encourage their own ppl, to give them a chance to try. Ghana knows they follow us in the movie industry but i believe what they are saying is, we want to grow also. And some funny nigerian quickly retaliated, do me i do u. Its sickening.

I think we are the ones to go and develop our own country and fizzle out of ghanna, arent we embarrased going to ghana becos of power. Its like a rich home going to their less priviledge next door neighour to borrow candle.

THE AMAKA:

LOL! facts please!!! provide the facts. or maybe you are just going off of what you heard?
and even if Nigeria did it to "get back at the Ghanaians" we have EVERY RIGHT to impose our own fee as they have every right to impose theirs.
so your point? 

where are the names of others that were living in Ghana? 

zebra543:

someone else with sense! i was begining to think im the last nigerian standing!

sillyboy:

Seriously, Ghana and her people has a huge attitude problem. Simply because people are carry false rumor that they have uninterrupted power supply; they suddenly believe they are the best thing in Africa. Guy, FYI. . . . . . .you are dreaming. Did anybody see the Ghana guy on BBA all star? Why all the Ghana apparel. . . . .and they were so ugly. Seriously, I detest Ghana and "its" people.

dayokanu:

Kola easyy

sillyboy:

Seriously, Ghana and her people has a huge attitude problem. Simply because people are carry false rumor that they have uninterrupted power supply; they suddenly believe they are the best thing in Africa. Guy, FYI. . . . . . .you are dreaming. Did anybody see the Ghana guy on BBA all star? Why all the Ghana apparel. . . . .and they were so ugly. Seriously, I detest Ghana and "its" people.

THE AMAKA:

[size=20pt]if they really wanted to  "protect" their industry and help it grow, they would be encouraging their actors to go back home. Also, they would be paying them better instead of their actors running to Nigeria every other week to do a NOLLYWOOD MOVIE.
they aren't trying to protect anything!
Their actors are in Nigeria 50% of the time. how is slamming $1,000 fee on Nigerians encouraging your actors to go back home to better their own industry?
those FOOLS aren't fooling anyone.

bottom line is if they wanna throw hurdles in front of Nigerian actors trying to prevent them from acting in their industry, we have every right to throw hurdles in front of their actors.[/size]

HOW IS IMPOSTING A TAX ON NIGERIANS ENCOURAGING GROWTH TO THEIR OWN INDUSTRY?
IF ANYTHING THEY SHOULD BE THREATENING THEIR ACTORS (THAT KEEP RUNNING TO NIGERIA FOR FAME AND EXPOSURE) WITH A BAN FOR NOT STAYING PUT IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY TO ACT AND "DEVELOP" THEIR INDUSTRY!
THEY HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THEIR ACTORS RUNNING TO NOLLYWOOD FOR EXPOSURE, MONEY, FAME, BUT FOR NIGERIANS TO GO TO GHANA, ITS A PROBLEM? ABI?
HISSSS

sillyboy:


Yeepah! . . . . . .
My identity has been compromised.

cold:

Una still dey for dis mata?afta i don close d tread,lol.

THE AMAKA:

HOW IS IMPOSTING A TAX ON NIGERIANS ENCOURAGING GROWTH TO THEIR OWN INDUSTRY?

zebra543:

if you dont understand that, then theres nothing i can do for you, i cannot dumb it down anymore!

there is a difference between stopping Nigerians from acting in their industry and encouraging their Industry  (actors to LEAVE NIGERIA AND GO BACK TO THEIR COUTNRY TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN INDUSTRY.)
they aren't trying to encourage anything, thats just a lousy excuse.
if they really wanted to "encourage" they would be encouraging the likes of Van, Majid, Jackie, Juliet, John, etc to stop doing Nigerian movies and go home.
thats what I'm getting at.
they're in Nigeria getting exposure, fame, money, etc.
I've also come to the conclusion that there were no actors/actresses living in Ghana. you claim you "don't have time" to do a quick google search yet you've come back to this thread times without number 

Iveanyi:

This just goes to show how myopic and petty some of us Nigerians can be. So what if Ghana taxes Nigerians? Their industry is still growing and they are not doing themselves any good. Our movie industry, compared to most others in West Africa has grown to such an extent that our pride should be that we have international talent coming to Nigeria to earn money and pay tax to the Nigerian Government Coffers. Let's keep our focus on the big picture. It'll bring the spotlight on us.

Why do you think the Indian industry is way way way behind the Americans' in terms of international relevance despite the magnitude of output? It's because everything is just so Indian. Is that the road we wanna go down? I don't think so.

flint7:

CGking my dear do u really want to sound smart here, ok let me brake it down for u,nollywood was a product that turned into a phenomenon, a product has to sell itself in orther to be recognised thereby making it a phenomenon, our music industry did not just become a phenomenon that is now raking across africa, it was a product of individual effort from different artists in nigeria with the help of the media and most importantly of all the patronization of the nigerians that turned it into a phenomenon, the same goes to the nigerian movie industry nollywood. So ghana has to stop all these kity kat acts and face the competition, what they are doing shows that the are not strong enough to face the competition,nollywood did it, our music industry did it, so why can't they do it aswell without creating loop holes.

THE AMAKA:

@zebra, such a clown
HOW IS IMPOSTING A TAX ON NIGERIANS ENCOURAGING GROWTH TO THEIR OWN INDUSTRY?
IF ANYTHING THEY SHOULD BE THREATENING THEIR ACTORS (THAT KEEP RUNNING TO NIGERIA FOR FAME AND EXPOSURE) WITH A BAN FOR NOT STAYING PUT IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY TO ACT AND "DEVELOP" THEIR INDUSTRY!
THEY HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THEIR ACTORS RUNNING TO NOLLYWOOD FOR EXPOSURE, MONEY, FAME, BUT FOR NIGERIANS TO GO TO GHANA, ITS A PROBLEM? ABI?
HISSSS

londoner:

I think people are forgetting the facts. If Ghana is trying help their own, how come it had no problem when Nigerian filmakers were at the forefront of encouraging their actors and talent? It is Nigerian film makers who gave their leading actors and actresses of today the leg up. Nollywood has done that, more than Ghanaian movie industry has.

They are not trying to help their own, they are simply trying to cash in on Nollywood. I dont blame them for that, but lets call a spade a spade.

When they get to encourage their talents (which they should have been doing anyway), are they not going to want Nigeria the nation of 140 million to support them by watching and buying their films?

They are not looking at the long term at all. Why alienate yourself from the biggest market for your products? Now that does not make business sense.

dayokanu:

Leave story, You wey I sabi wella for NJ

Ruq:

@Zebra573 Hey stop sayin poo here,lol Nigeria must go what? You might want a rethink. So you think they will one day chase Nigerians out of thier country again Then you want them to be absolutely poor to grains! If they chase Nigerians they have destroyed about 70% of their income,you wont want to bite the hand that feeds you would you!