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Preamble
1. This is for all the current opposition parties who may one day become the ruling party. A vociferous spokesperson of your party does not necessarily translate to an effective Minister of Information and Culture. Halo effect it is called.

2. Thoughtless people are careless talkers. Nigeria has a fair share of thoughtless leaders hence incessant careless talks.

“Most states today have more than one festival a year, but the packaging and lack of capacity has not enabled them to make the most out of these festivals. There’s a particular masquerade in the south east, it takes 100 people to dress him, another 100 people to UnCloth him. If this masquerade is well-packaged, it can provide employment in one week for more than 1000 young men. These are some of the untapped potentials.” – Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture

Above are the words of our backwardly but nonetheless aspirational Minister of Information and Culture. This statement was in 2016. I thought I’d heard it all until four days ago, precisely Saturday 15 July, 2017 when the minister during a visit to the headquarters of the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) outdid himself with another bombshell. He said the Federal Government plans to stop the production of Nigerian movies and music outside the country. According to him, “this government has agreed that henceforth, whatever we consume in Nigeria in terms of music and films must be made in Nigeria. We cannot continue to go to South Africa or any other country to produce our films and then send them back to be consumed in Nigeria. The Broadcasting Code and the Advertising Code are very clear on this. For you to classify a product as a Nigerian product, it must have a certain percentage of Nigerian content”

According to him, this is bad for our economy and unfair to consumers because “when they get there, they will patronise the economy of that country and then bring the products back to Nigeria for us to consume. It is like somebody going to China or Japan to make a product that looks like palm wine and bring it back home to label it Nigerian palm wine”. These words sound patriotic but has the government also been devoted to the improvement of the creative industry in Nigeria?

Our honorable minister should consider the following before making such pronouncements next time.

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Sure it's time for him to resign from that position