The Acting Director of Operations, National Film and Video Censors Board, NFVCB, Mrs. Bola Athar, has disclosed that the board seized pornographic and other unclassified films worth two point-five billion naira in two years.
Mrs. Athar made the disclosure during a dinner in Abuja to commemorate the second year of Mr. Adedayo Thomas as Chief Executive Officer of the board.
According to her, the seized items include production equipment, DVDs, CD copies of twenty in one video films, unclassified foreign and local films as well as pornographic materials.
She listed others to include pornographic films, unclassified local and international movies as well as machines for mass duplication of films noting that they were seized during their enforcement operations across the country, including Kaduna, Benin, Warri, Kano, Onitsha and Lagos, to serve as deterrent and prevent such illegal products from selling in the market.
Mrs. Athar explained further that suspects arrested during the period had been charged to court in accordance with the enabling laws of the board.
She also said that the board had strengthened relationship with relevant stakeholders, including the police, whose enforcement operations yielded the desired results.
Meanwhile, the new film by Ghanaian-Nigerian director, Pascal Amanfo, titled “Boko Haram” has been banned by censors in Ghana and shunned by cinema owners in Nigeria.
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