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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has reaffirmed
government’s decision that any programme meant for Nigerians must be
produced in Nigeria, saying he was not appointed Minister to develop the
economy of other countries at the expense of the Nigerian economy.


In a statement on Wednesday , the Minister said the Creative Industry’s
potential of creating 1 million jobs in three years cannot be realized if jobs
meant for Nigerians are being exported to other countries under the guise of
producing, in other countries, programmes to be consumed in Nigeria.

”I didn’t say that henceforth, all music videos and films will be produced in
Nigeria, or that the production of music videos or films outside Nigeria will be
banned. All I said was that if a programme is designated as a Nigerian (local)
content programme, we will amend the Code to ensure that it is produced in
Nigeria,” he said, adding: ”On that, there is no going back.”

The Minister recalled how his office was bombarded with calls from concerned
Nigerians when the last edition of the ”Big Brother Naija” was produced in
South Africa, saying he subsequently directed the National Broadcasting
Commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding the controversy.
”Following the findings, we decided to amend the relevant sections of the
Nigeria Broadcasting Code to prevent a repeat of that development.
“We are now in the process of doing that, so that anyone who intends to
produce a reality show or similar programmes for Nigerians cannot take the
production of such shows outside Nigeria.


”Nigerians are a very proud and resourceful people, and we are sure that no
Nigerian will be against a decision to prevent the jobs that can be done in
Nigeria by Nigerians from being exported to other countries,” he said.
In a related development, Alhaji Mohammed has said the Broadcasting Code is
also being amended to help develop the local football league.


”This (amendment) is not just about the Creative Industry. We are also going to
ensure that the NBC Code is amended in a manner that if any company in
Nigeria today invests a million dollars in promoting or supporting any (football)
team or league outside Nigeria, I want the Broadcasting Code to be amended to
the effect that it will not allow that programme to be aired unless that company
supports the Nigerian League with a percentage that will not be less than 30 per
cent of what was spent.


”This is because we cannot continue to develop the economies of the other
parts of the world from the sweat of Nigerians and at the expense of the
Nigerian economy,” the Minister said.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/not-appointed-develop-economies-lai-mohammed/

Carry on, i believe you. You have helped Nigeria develop a lying technology that can technically adjust itself when faced with uncertain situation. What a country

So when you send your children school abroad, you are not helping that country to grow? Mtchew, Lie M and lie eeh

So na Psquare ,Davido, Wizkid and co
The ones going to create jobs for u?
God pls come and take this man.

But you promised to create thousands of jobs from masquerade dressing or are you denying it


Oya come here......

Why did our president offer himself for experiment in UK?





Is he not helping the expertise of UK doctors? We have locally trained doctors and babalawo that can cure him of whatever ailment.



Oga Lai, be careful

its clear this man is sick upstairs.

in music video all the technical crew from the firmer, to producer, to the management team, to the dancers and to the editor are all Nigerians. so what job is he talking about again?. shooting firm in Nigeria will not create any single job.
if he is talking about nollywood movies all the crews are Nigerians as well.

this guy has lost it permanently. maybe he is just too old.

he needs brain overhauling and tongue reshaping to help reduce some lies that will make the devil repent

and what about the nice things u said about Senegalese Jollof on CNN ??....is that not promoting senegalese products ??

kinibigdeal:
Carry on, i believe you. You have helped Nigeria develop a lying technology that can technically adjust itself when faced with uncertain situation. What a country

That man is the most hilarious person in history.
They have made Nigeria a laughing stock. Part of the reason Nigeria music even gets showed on channel O or Mtv is the meeting of international standard of quality and directing. Some of our great directors as Clarence Peters also learnt from being exposed to quality content abroad.

These silly old men have NO CLUE what it takes to produce anything worthy of consumption by other countries. In his mind, there is no difference between PSq or Yemi Alade with the local choir practice people singing in his village

There is good idea in what this man said. Though we are already blinded by his previous lies

How on earth did we get to this sorry situation, Lia Mohammed fear God