{"id":163104,"date":"2025-05-19T12:24:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T11:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations"},"modified":"2025-05-19T13:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T12:32:33","slug":"kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations","title":{"rendered":"Kano censorship board suspends screening of 22 films over alleged violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Kano State Censorship Board has suspended a total of twenty-two Hausa films over alleged violation of it\u2019s regulatory requirements.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by the Information Officer, Abdullahi Sani Sulaiman, the board stated that the measure was adopted to ensure strict adherence to regulations and uphold professionalism within the Hausa film industry \u2013 Kannywood.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the directive was given late Sunday by the Executive Secretary of the board, Abba El-Mustapha, after a management meeting and due consultations.<\/p>\n<p>Sulaiman disclosed that the affected films include Labarin, Dadin Kowa, Manyan Mata, Garwashi, Jamilun Jidda and Gidan Sarauta, Dakin Amarya, Mashahuri, Wasiyya, Tawakkaltu, Mijina, and Wani Zamani.<\/p>\n<p>Other are Mallaka, Kudin Ruwa, Boka Ko Malam, Wayasan Gobe, Rana Dubu, Manyan, Mata, Fatake, Gwarwashi, Jamilun Jiddan, Shahadar Nabila, Dadin Kowa, Tabarma, Kishiyata and Rigar Aro.<\/p>\n<p>According to the board, \u201cAll producers or owners of the suspended films are hereby instructed to cease streaming or airing their content on television or the internet and to submit their productions to the board for censorship approval within one week, starting from Monday, 19th May 2025 to 25th May, 2025, to avoid legal consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement further maintained that the law empowered the board to censor all films intended for production, marketing, streaming or broadcasting before they are released, and to regulate all related stakeholders both within and outside Kano State.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Kano State Censorship Board has suspended a total of twenty-two Hausa films over alleged violation of it\u2019s regulatory requirements. In a statement issued by the Information Officer, Abdullahi Sani Sulaiman, the board stated that the measure was adopted to ensure strict adherence to regulations and uphold professionalism within the Hausa film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":163103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[372,254],"class_list":["post-163104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-kano","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kano censorship board suspends screening of 22 films over alleged violations - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Kano State Censorship Board has suspended a total of twenty-two Hausa films over alleged violation of it\u2019s regulator ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kano censorship board suspends screening of 22 films over alleged violations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Kano State Censorship Board has suspended a total of twenty-two Hausa films over alleged violation of it\u2019s regulator ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-19T11:24:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-19T12:32:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1747645385.48909.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1381\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1296\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kano censorship board suspends screening of 22 films over alleged violations\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-19T11:24:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-19T12:32:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations\"},\"wordCount\":246,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1747645385.48909.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Kano\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations\",\"name\":\"Kano censorship board suspends screening of 22 films over alleged violations - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1747645385.48909.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-19T11:24:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-19T12:32:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The Kano State Censorship Board has suspended a total of twenty-two Hausa films over alleged violation of it\u2019s regulator ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1747645385.48909.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1747645385.48909.jpg\",\"width\":1381,\"height\":1296,\"caption\":\"Kano censorship board suspends screening of 22 films over alleged violations\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Kano censorship board suspends screening of 22 films over alleged violations\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Kano censorship board suspends screening of 22 films over alleged violations - Nigeria","description":"The Kano State Censorship Board has suspended a total of twenty-two Hausa films over alleged violation of it\u2019s regulator ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Kano censorship board suspends screening of 22 films over alleged violations","og_description":"The Kano State Censorship Board has suspended a total of twenty-two Hausa films over alleged violation of it\u2019s regulator ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2025-05-19T11:24:53+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-05-19T12:32:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1381,"height":1296,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1747645385.48909.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Kano censorship board suspends screening of 22 films over alleged violations","datePublished":"2025-05-19T11:24:53+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-19T12:32:33+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations"},"wordCount":246,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1747645385.48909.jpg","keywords":["Kano","Nigeria"],"articleSection":["all news","Community"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations","name":"Kano censorship board suspends screening of 22 films over alleged violations - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1747645385.48909.jpg","datePublished":"2025-05-19T11:24:53+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-19T12:32:33+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The Kano State Censorship Board has suspended a total of twenty-two Hausa films over alleged violation of it\u2019s regulator ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1747645385.48909.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1747645385.48909.jpg","width":1381,"height":1296,"caption":"Kano censorship board suspends screening of 22 films over alleged violations"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kano-censorship-board-suspends-screening-of-22-films-over-alleged-violations#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Kano censorship board suspends screening of 22 films over alleged violations"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}