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Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says the increased attention and support being given to the creative industry by the Buhari administration is yielding results.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to Segun Adeyemi, Mohammed\u2019s media aide, the minister said this while speaking at the premiere of the movie \u2018Wedding Party 2\u2019 in Lagos on Sunday.<\/p>\n Adeyemi said the minister listed the pioneer status granted to the industry, the stepped-up anti-piracy campaign and the decision to seek stimulus capital for the industry from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as some of the positive results.<\/p>\n He said Mohammed recalled that shortly after the Creative Industry Financing Conference in Lagos earlier in the year, he led a delegation of the film industry stakeholders to the inspector-general of police, which resulted in the formation of anti-piracy units in all the 36 states of the federation.<\/p>\n \u201cThe subsequent extensive piracy raids have now resulted in the confiscation of pirated films worth hundreds of millions of naira. In fact, criminal prosecutions of culprits have now started,\u201d the minister was quoted to have said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fredrick Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says the increased attention and support being given to the creative industry by the Buhari administration is yielding results. According to Segun Adeyemi, Mohammed\u2019s media aide, the minister said this while speaking at the premiere of the movie \u2018Wedding Party 2\u2019 in Lagos on Sunday. Adeyemi said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[67,50],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-and-art","tag-creative-industry","tag-lai-mohammed"],"yoast_head":"\n