Lai Mohammed Inaugurates MOPICON Review C’ttee

The Minister of
Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 inaugurated the Ministerial Committee on the review of the Motion Pictures Council of Nigeria (MOPICON) at the conference hall, National Theatre, Lagos.
The Minister said, “one of the ways government can tackle frontally the many challenges militating against professional and career fulfillment in the movie industry is to have a central body we can always refer to in decisions aimed at improving and modernizing the motion picture industry”.
He stressed that government’s interest in the setting up of MOPICON is driven by the fact that we at the Supervising Ministry need to work with a formidable representative group that is empanelled to lobby for the growth, development and welfare of the industry and its practitioners as well as make for a better organised and more visible and vibrant Nollywood industry.
“We have no hidden agenda and we will not be part of anything that will stifle the growth of the burgeoning industry. MOPICON is and will remain an industry-run Lobby and pressure body that will foster the achievement and maintenance of the highest professional and commercial standards in the motion picture industry as well as ensure the protection of the rights and privileges of motion picture practitioners in the lawful exercise of their profession”, he said.