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  • Why content creator who destroyed her husband’s passport may be jailed – NFVCB boss

    Why content creator who destroyed her husband’s passport may be jailed – NFVCB boss

    The executive director of the National Film And Video Censors Board, Shaibu Husseini has revealed that content creator Favour Igiebor, who tore her husband’s passport at Lagos airport, could face jail term over her skit.

    Husseini made this known while speaking at Lagos International Film and Cinema Convention (LIFACC) on Thursday where he stressed that the agency would have advised against using a Nigerian passport if the skit had been submitted to the NFVCB for classification.

    “We would have told them, ‘Why use a Nigerian passport for that kind of skit?’ Instead, you could use a prop and include a warning stating it’s a prop,” he explained.

    He continued saying, “See a content creator now; if she is convicted, she would go to jail,” Husseini stated, although the woman’s husband has said she did not destroy his passport.

    He emphasized the importance of passing all video and film content through the censors board for classification before publication.

    He added that the  incident involving the content creator should serve as a cautionary tale for those in the creative industry.

    “You don’t create a skit that blatantly disregards the laws of the country,” he said.

    He mentioned that he received a call asking if the skit had gone through the censors board to which he answered “No”.

    “To produce content legally, the law states that any film or video work used in this country must be passed through the censors board for classification before it’s released,” he added.

  • NFVCB speaks on plan to arrest skit makers releasing unapproved content

    NFVCB speaks on plan to arrest skit makers releasing unapproved content

    The National Film Video and Censors Board (NFVCB) has dismissed reports that it will arrest skit makers releasing content online without approval.

    An official statement released on Saturday by the board’s executive director, Shaibu Husseini, unequivocally refuted the reports as false.

    The NFVCB said its last public statement was a warning to filmmakers promoting same-sex relationships and pornographic content.

    The statement, “Our attention has been drawn to this and other misleading headlines, making the rounds

    “We want to categorically state that at no time and no where did we issue such a statement.

    “Our last public statement was targeted at filmmakers and content creators who were producing, promoting, and distributing unlawful content, including same-sex themed contents prohibited by law.

    “We wish to further assure that the NFVCB will continue to engage with all stakeholders as we transmute from censorship to CLASSIFICATION (Rating). Kindly disregard the misleading headlines.”

  • NFVCB issues strong warning against same-sex, pornographic films

    NFVCB issues strong warning against same-sex, pornographic films

    The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) have warned movie producers to desist from promoting and producing films that support same-sex relationships and pornography that contravene the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act and the NFVCB Act.

    NFVCB’s warning comes on the heels of reported activities by some filmmakers and content creators who have been defying the law by the production, promotion, distribution and streaming of prohibited and unapproved content, especially same-sex content on social media and other online platforms.

    The spokesperson of the board, Ogbonna Onwumere in a statement recently issued, said it regretted that despite its recent sustained engagements with filmmakers and the leadership of guilds and associations in the motion picture industry for a safer and healthy screen, there are still filmmakers who indulge in producing obscene and unlawful content.

    The board, whose executive director is Shaibu Husseini, said it is working with relevant security agencies to track the filmmakers and production companies involved. Onwumere also added that he would stop at nothing to ensure that those already identified face the full wrath of the law.

    “Although the board assures that it will continue to engage filmmakers and content creators on the need for a safer and healthier screen, it reminds stakeholders, including conventional and digital platform owners that it is illegal to distribute any film or video content, including skits and musical videos, on any platform without classification from the National Film and Video Censors Board,” the statement said.

  • Nollywood: Husseini clarifies ban on smoking scenes in movies

    Nollywood: Husseini clarifies ban on smoking scenes in movies

    Executive Director of National Films and Videos Censors Board (NFVCA), Shaibu Husseini has made clarifications on the recent ban on smoking scenes in Nigerian movies.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Husseini made the clarifications on Friday in a live TV program on TVC known as Your view.

    Addressing the claims that the board banned smoking, Executive Director of NFVCB, said that there was no time he made a statement banning smoking in movies.

    “There was no time I mentioned anything about banning smoking scenes, I never pronounced anything about banning of smoking scenes.

    “But of course. you know that we are in a era where everyone is a journo and you just pick up a story, you have not even read the story and then you fly a headline.

    “I even asked a lot of people, after reading the headline, did you read the story and found any where I was quoted to have banned smoking scenes  and ritual scenes in our movies?

    “The implication of that headline is that, in Nigeria, there will be no longer movie that has smoking scenes. How is that even possible?” Husseini queried.

    According to him, the content regulators only ensured that there is no promotion and glamorisation of tobacco, nicotines and money ritual in Nollywood films.

    He continued, saying: “You see, Nigeria has passed a tobacco act, National Tobacco Control Act 2019. So, from 2019 there have been so many effort by different institutions to implement provisions of the act.

    “Agencies like Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA)  implemented the policy on aviation, where you don’t smoke in the plane. Formerly, people smoke inside the plane, but now it is an offense to smoke inside a plane. It is part of the implementation.

    “Our responsibility as content regulators is to ensure that there is no promotion and glamorisation of tobacco, nicotines and money ritual in our films.

    “We did not say that if there are necessary smoking scenes, required for historical or educational purposes or to correct negative lifestyle, it should not be there. By all means please have it in the film.

    “But what the new regulation says, is that, you must give a warning from the beginning of the film, that “the actors and film maker do not intend to glamorise smoking in the film, and please note that smoking is injurious to health.”

    Husseini stressed that film makers must find creative way to put out the warning, this including a bold liner underneath a smoking scene, which must outline that ‘smokers are liable to die young’.

    “They need to let people know that there is a warning attached to it, that is what the regulation talks about,” he added.

    He further reiterated that he did not ban smoking scenes in Nollywood, adding that it is not possible to do such thing.

    As for banning of money ritual scene, Husseini said, “they have had cases where young people came to us and said, it is from what they saw from movies that we emulated”.

    He added that film makers who make such a movie must indicate in the end of the film that ”no head nor body was cut or multilated during the making of the film’.

  • Shaibu Husseini denies ban on smoking and ritual scenes in movies 

    Shaibu Husseini denies ban on smoking and ritual scenes in movies 

    Executive director of the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) Shaibu Husseini has denied reports that the Federal Government has placed a ban on money rituals and smoking in Nigerian films and skits.

    Clarifying the report, Husseini while speaking at a national stakeholders engagement on smoke-free Nollywood in Enugu on Wednesday, debunked the viral report.

    The event was organised by the NFVCB and Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA).

    Movie producers, directors and actors drawn from different parts of the country, as well as leaders of various guilds and associations in the Nigerian film industry were present at the event.

    However, in a statement on Thursday released on social media, Husseini said in part:

    “I did NOT announce a ban on ‘smoking, or smoking, and ritual scenes in movies’ at the (southeast zone) stakeholders’ engagement on a healthy screen and the campaign to have a smoke free Nollywood which held in Enugu in collaboration with @CAPPAfrica. No, I did NOT.

    “What I mentioned in a speech that I have shared here is the existence of a regulation (NFVCB Regulations 2024) that in line with global best practices prohibits the PROMOTION and GLAMOURISATION of Money Ritual, Ritual Killing, Tobacco, Tobacco product, Nicotine products in movies, musical videos and skits. The regulation aims at discouraging the ‘unnecessary’ depiction, promotion, advertisement, or glamourisation of tobacco or nicotine products in movies, musical videos, and skits.”

    Husseini assured that the NFVCB would not implement any policy that will muzzle creativity. He added:

    “Any movie, skit, or musical video that displays or depicts tobacco or nicotine products, brands, or use that is necessary to the realization of a narrative shall be given the appropriate classification (rating) and shall not be shown to persons below the age of 18.”

    My attention has been drawn to a couple of trending headlines that suggested that the FG, through the @NFVCB, has “banned smoking and ritual scenes in Movies.” Interestingly, there is no part of the report following the headline where I was quoted to have announced the ban.

     

  • Meet Shaibu Husseini, the new Sheriff at NFVCB

    Meet Shaibu Husseini, the new Sheriff at NFVCB

    President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday, January 12, approved the appointment of Dr. Shaibu Husseini as the new Director General of the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), succeeding Adedayo Thomas.

    Dr Shaibu, is a celebrated journalist, performing artist, cultural administrator, public relations and media expert, and film curator. He is an alumnus of Lagos State University (LASU) where he studied Mass Communication at the institution’s School of Communication and earned a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc First Class) in Mass Communication, rhe University of Lagos (UNILAG), where he earned Master of Science (M.Sc) wiith Distinction, and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mass Communication respectively. His PhD was on film studies as his thesis examined the ‘Structure of Film Production Companies in Nollywood’.

    A trained and seasoned theatre, film, broadcast, Public Relations and Culture expert, he is reputed as one of the most consistent documentarists of Nigeria’s vibrant film and movie industry Nollywood and he is an astute commentator on arts, theatre and film development in Nigeria and the continent of Africa.

    In 2014, he was honoured for his contributions to the development of Nigerian film industry by Nollywood Film Festival in Germany. He has been the chairman of the College of Screeners and a member of Jury Board of Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) for many years.

    An alumnus of the United States International Visitors Leadership Programme and the AIG-Public Leaders Programme of the Blavtanik School of Governance of the University of Oxford; Dr Shaibu was one time Secretary of the Governing Board of the National Theatre/National Troupe of Nigeria (from 2011 to 2015). He was appointed Director of Dance and Music and Head of the Strategic Communication Unit of the National Troupe of Nigeria.

    Dr Shaibu has been The Chair, for 16 years running, of the Selection Committee of Africa’s premier film award – the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) and a member of the prestigious AMAA jury.

    He has attended several conferences, workshops and festivals and has sat and currently sits on a number of local and international Committee on film, theatre and allied matters including serving on the Board and on the jury of a number of Festivals, Awards and Committees including the Board of the Mainframe Film Institute run by the legendary Tunde Kelani, the board of In-short International Film Festival and on the Board of the Bank of Industry (BOI) Nollywood Fund amongst others.

    Author of ‘Moviedom: The Nollywood Narratives’, Dr Shaibu is a Senior Teaching and Research Fellow at the Mass Communication Department of the University of Lagos and he was a former member of the Nigeria Official Selection Committee charged with the responsibility of deciding Nigeria’s entry for the Best International Film category of the Oscars.

    He is currently a voting member of International Golden Globes Award and a consultant to the Berlin International Film Festival. He has served and still serves as a resource person, trainer in the field of theatre, culture and mass communication.

    The new NFVCB DG was a pioneer artiste of the National Troupe of Nigeria; he has considerable theoretical, practical and field experience in the area of theatre, cultural administration as well as in public relations, advertising, journalism, broadcasting and film.

    He consider himself an enthusiastic, dedicated, detailed and capable theory cum practically oriented professional who is able to improve the ability of an organisation to deliver outcomes that matter

  • Confusion in death of Papa Ajasco put to rest

    Confusion in death of Papa Ajasco put to rest

    Veteran Nollywood actor, Femi Ogunrombi, who was a stand-in character for Papa Ajasco in the popular 1996 Sitcom has passed on.

    Dr Shaibu Husseini, a theatre practitioner, journalist and lecturer announced the death of the veteran, on his Twitter page on Sunday.

    “I have just been reliably informed that the ethnomusicologist, former Music Instructor with @NATIONALTROUPE and one time stand in for the ‘Papa Ajasco’ character on the popular @waleadenugaprod Comic Series ‘Papa Ajasco’ Mr. Femi Ogunrombi is DEAD,” he tweeted.

    Mr Mayowa Adenekan, a Digital Journalist and Talent Manager while also sharing the news on the social media said that the late actor was a the stand-in actor when the first Papa Ajasco character pulled out.

    “Veteran actor Femi Ogunrombi AKA Papa Ajasco is dead. I see a lot of people using images of the first papa Ajasco Mr Abiodun Ayoyinka, but the one that died is Mr Femi Ogunrombi, the one that took over the character when Mr Abiodun Ayoyinka pulled out of the show. May his soul RIP,” he said.

    Ogunrombi, a multi instrumentalist, Music Teacher, Composer, Actor, Producer and Director of Music/Film studied music and drama at Obafemi Awolowo University in the early

    He founded and conducted a choral group called The Ayoro Voices. This group was the cultural image of OAU between 1980 and 1983 respectively.

    In 1994, Ogunrombi joined the National Troupe of Nigeria as Music Instructor. By 1998, he rose to the position of Director of Music. He inaugurated and conducted the National Choir and In 1998, he left the government to pursue his own music business.

    In 2006, Ogunrombi joined the popular TV comedy programme as Papa Ajasco. Papa Ajasco and Company was created by Wale Adenuga Productions. Ogunrombi at the same time became the Coordinator of Studies for Adenuga’s PEFTI film Institute.