I am in the early stages of starting a cinema house with a capacity of no less than 600 seats and I have been trying to find out about if licencing is compulsory or not. Nothing is coming up through google as regards to Nigeria and the NBC website only mentions licensing for broadcast stations. Is it a virgin ground with no legislation?

babatundeizbad:
I am in the early stages of starting a cinema house with a capacity of no less than 600 seats and I have been trying to find out about if licencing is compulsory or not. Nothing is coming up through google as regards to Nigeria and the NBC website only mentions licensing for broadcast stations. Is it a virgin ground with no legislation?

sure you need a licence to run a cinema else police will storm there every day

bedfordng:
sure you need a licence to run a cinema else police will storm there every day

Police won't be a problem, I'm thinking the local government council will be the problem not the police.

babatundeizbad:


Police won't be a problem, I'm thinking the local government council will be the problem not the police.

then you are really going to be in trouble with the police. If you don't have licence to run a cinema, the police will come for you. I have seen local cinema that has shut down due to police raiding every day.. Guess you know the rest

babatundeizbad:
I am in the early stages of starting a cinema house with a capacity of no less than 600 seats and I have been trying to find out about if licencing is compulsory or not. Nothing is coming up through google as regards to Nigeria and the NBC website only mentions licensing for broadcast stations. Is it a virgin ground with no legislation?

?..which state u wan start the cinema?

Onuohasworld:
?..which state u wan start the cinema?

Ogun State.

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