It was only a day-long event, however, by the time it was over and resolutions arrived at, it was like it had been on for weeks or months. On May 21, 2024, the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB)along with the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), a non-governmental organization gathered the movers and makers of the Nigerian movie industry. It was at the iconic Nike Lake Resort, Enugu.
Their mission: to ensure that their movies adhere to world standards in terms of being free of the indiscriminate use of tobacco and other harmful substances. The one-day event called “National Stakeholders Engagement on #Smokefree Nollywood”, was meant to have the understanding of all workers in the film industry to agree to a standard of conduct among practitioners. In his welcome address to the participants drawn among producers, actors, directors, make-up artists and so on, the Director General of the NFVCB, Dr.
Shuaib Husseini, said it was important for the country as one of the leading film producers in the world to have a code of conduct to guide the sector and also make films produced in the country to be able to play in the international market. In unfolding the agenda of his administration at the Board, he said the stakeholders’ meeting in Enugu was the first step for him to meet all those involved in the industry to dialogue with them so that they can all be on the same page in achieving the goal of a healthy film industry that would be abl.
