By Benjamin Njoku

 Peace is about to return to the troubled Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria, PMAN, as the union’s National Executive Council,NEC, has set plans in motion to hold general elections that will usher in a new breed of leaders to pilot the affairs of the association.

Rising in a one-day meeting of the union’s NEC, which held at White House Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, earlier in the week, the delegates drawn from 24 states of the federation resolved to hold the forthcoming elections on Tuesday, October 4, 2016.  The  delegates said, the decision was based on strict adherence to the consent judgment that brought  about the outgoing Pretty Okafor-led Interim National Executive Caretaker Committee of the union.

According to PMAN’s NEC, the electoral guidelines for the forthcoming National  Delegate Conference would be made public at least two  months before the delegates conference proper.

The council also, revealed that the compulsory bar-coding of all musical and film  works released in Nigeria would commence soon as  the on-going negotiations and discussions between  PMAN and The Federal Ministry of Information and Culture on one hand and the Nigeria Copyright  Commission,NCC, on the other hand are concluded.

“We shall then announce the date for the  commencement of the bar-code regime in Nigeria as  the measure is designed   (a.) to protect the works  creator,  (b.) the investors, and  (c.) to be able to determine  the contribution of the  music industry into the annual  G.D.P of the Nation since Nigerian music have been  rated one of the best in the world today.”