For popular film director and producer, Lancelot Imasuen, there is  the urgent need for the government to provide  infrastructures to  enable  the film industry grow bigger and stronger. “We have cinema houses in almost all the states of the federation. The issue of  piracy should be given more  attention. The right laws and implementation should be key,”Lancelot posited.  Speaking further, he said  there is the need for the government to set up a major task force that will clamp down on pirates at Alaba International  market. He also wants every state government to deliberately activate the entertainment sector in their respective  states if they are  serious about job creation and fighting crimes in the country. 

According to Mr. Alex Eyengho, Vice President of International Federation of Film Producers Associations,FIAPF, Nollywood in 2017 did fairly better than 2016.

Also, speaking in the same vein, Mr Emeka Rollas, National President of Actors Guild of Nigeria, said it’s high time the government put proper  structure in place for Nollywood to thrive in addition to backing it up with financial support. “We cannot leave it for only foreign investors or individuals. You can imagine over 20 years of Nollywood yet practitioners keep disturbing individuas houses for films locations instead of having  befitting film sets for productions. Government should take us more seriously as an industry that is contributing to the national GDP. They should stop commending Nollywood on the pages of newspapers and massaging our ego and as objects of image laundry and invest more in the industry as it’s doing  in other sectors of the economy,” AGN president stated. 

Nollywood’s latest movie on same-sex marriage, ‘Busted’ which was screened to selected guests at  Oriental Hotel, Lagos,last May, is due to hit the cinemas across the country on the 19th of January, 2018. 

Nigerian musician and Kokomaster, Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo aka D’banj, has been conferred with a chieftaincy title in Imo State.