As the government continues to relax stringent measures it earlier placed on the entertainment industry at the advent of covid-19 pandemic, the Lagos State Governor, Mr Bababjide Sanwo-Olu yesterday, inaugurated a 9 member committee on Film Production Empowerment to fund youth creativity and entertainment activities.
With this intervention project, Sanwo-Olu more or less, has pushed his first feet forward to herald a new era in the entertainment and tourism sector.
Some of the committee members are: Chairman, Richard Mofe Damijo; Committee Secretary, Mrs Funke Avoseh; Tunde Kelani; Mo Abudu; Ferdinand Tinubu; Taju Olajumoke; Peace Anyim-Osigwe and Kunle Afolayan.
"This is a signpost of all pockets of intervention we have created for development of creativity and tourism sector... This is with the belief that we can further raise the status of our creative output and commercialise the returns to a level it can compete with Hollywood and Bollywood... We realised most of our film production experts and directors face a lot of funding impediments... and this is apart from the N1 billion we have set aside for hospitality industry." he said.
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