Tag: NFVCB

Digital Content: NFVCB vows to sanction streaming services violating laws

Aminu Imam

The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), has pledged to clamp down on Over-The-Top (OTT) streaming services violating the Nigerian digital content law. NFVCB Executive Director, Adedayo Thomas, said this at the closing of the third edition of the NFVCB’s Digital Content Regulation Conference on Thursday, in Lagos. At the 3-day conference, which was tagged: NFVCB-NETFLIX Safe Screen and Digital Entertainment Space Forum, Thomas said that the Nigerian creative industry law covered online OTT and streamers, and that the Board was working closely with security agencies to ensure that…

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Reps ban movies featuring ritual killings

Aminu Imam

The House of Representatives has declared a national emergency on ritual killings. This follows the murder of a 20-year-old woman in a suspected ritual killing case that has shocked the nation. It is alleged that those behind the killing had plans to use her body parts in some kind of money-making juju. The National Film and Video Censors Board, (NFVCB), has been directed to be the clearing agent after being ordered to drop all upcoming movies with a killing ritual plot. This decision also follows the consideration of a motion,…

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NFVCB to clamp down on illegal film producers

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) says films from unregistered, illegal producers and directors will no longer be registered from January 1, 2021 Alhaji Adedayo Thomas, Executive Director, NFVCB said this on Wednesday during a meeting with the creative industry’s stakeholders on Enabling Laws and Strengthening of Professional Guilds and Associations. Thomas said that such producers and directors who were not registered with recognised guilds or associations and the board were considered illegal and would be given a window period of one month to do so before January…

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