Eighty-six new cases of #COVID19 have been reported; 70 in Lagos 7 in FCT 3 in Katsina 3 in Akwa Ibom 1 in Jigawa 1 in Bauchi 1 in Borno As at 11:50 pm 19th April there are 627 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Discharged: 170 Deaths: 21
Representatives of the Export-Import Bank of India(EXIM Bank) and Nigerian Export-Import Bank(NEXIM Bank), last week, seemed to tow the same line when they met with key players in the movie industry in Lagos. The move followed World Bank’s plan to spend $US30 million on the film and music industry in Nigeria. At the forum which held at the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu, and attended by major stakeholders in the industry, the 5-man delegation from India’s EXIM bank, led by its General Manager, J. Samuel Joseph, made a passionate appeal to Nollywood practitioners to adopt the “Bollywood experience”. If the industry must truly attain a global reckoning in future, we must chart a new direction for the industry” he said. In the very detailed presentation, Mr. Joseph admitted that before now, Bollywood used to experience similar constraints that have become the bane of Nollywood until the intervention of the state-run-...