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Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the Federal government is planning to stop entertainers from shooting movies and music videos outside Nigeria.

According to the Minister, conducting shoots outside Nigeria does not help grow our economy but rather, it helps grow that of the country where such shoots are being done.

Lai disclosed this when he paid a visit to the headquarters of the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) today July 15th.

“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 Lai, Nigerian entertainers patronise the economy of other countries whenever they go outside Nigeria to shoot their videos“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.

As long as we are not able to implement our own code to ensure local production of Nigerian music and movies, our young talents will not get jobs.

It is Nigerians that pay for the consumption of these products and therefore they must be allowed and encouraged to participate in their production.

I am going to meet with the relevant stakeholders over this, to see that whatever amendment that is needed to be made to our Broadcasting Code in this regard, is done urgently,” he said how hilarious is this though? When you don't provide a conducive environment for people to conduct their business and you're talking about stopping them from going to places where they can get better services?

IGERIA’S FINANCE MINISTER KEMI ADEOSUN made this known in Lagos at a lecture at PWC’s Business School, with the theme:‘Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) Interactive Session for Executives and Business Owners.

The government has also engaged the services of asset tracing-companies to investigate the tax payment status of 150 firms/individuals.

The minister also disclosed that tax defaulters will be investigated.“We are working alongside projects we have locally, like the Bank Verification Number (BVN), records of property ownership, records of property allocation, records of company ownership from the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), amongothers.

It is from these projects that we look at how much tax such companies or individuals should be paying”.”The investigators’ findings will enable us compare the income and how much tax the company/person is really paying, and that gives us lots of information. But we encourage people to come up and pay their taxes willingly.” “You can register a high-end car.

It tells me something about your income.

So we look at your tax returns.

If you registered Mercedes E-Class and you are payingN100,000 tax, then something is wrong.
Those are red flags.
We now have the capacity to assess people accurately.

”Mrs Adeosun added that Nigerian would be left out in the campaign to enlarge the tax net, noting that some beggars were earning millions.

She said the government will look at their lifestyles and tax them, adding that ;“even proceeds from begging are taxable.

You are supposed to pay taxes even if your means of income is begging”.

An Instagram user, Mr Chris Online took to reveal that Davido escaped being beaten by himself and his boys, but his crew were left with black eyes. He also threatened the singer and warned him to watch his back.






Davido has not yet reacted to this, and the the man didn’t state what thesinger did to him.