Chief Tony Okoroji, former President of PMAN and Chairman, Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), Nigeria’s biggest copyright collective management organization, will on Sunday, September 1, deliver a major broadcast as the Nigerian Music Industry marks “No Music Day”.
The broadcast which will take place at 1.00 pm and which will be streamed simultaneously on several media platforms, will focus on the 2024 “No Music Day” theme, “Unmute the Injustice”.
It is expected that during the broadcast, Chief Okoroji will judiciously explore how the rampant infringement of the intellectual property rights of songwriters, composers, performers, music publishers, record labels and other stakeholders in Nigeria’s creative industry does not stand on its own but is part of a national malaise and a penchant for reaping where we did not sow which he believes has exposed Nigerians to the free for all looting of our national resources and left Nigerians with a comatose economy with millions of her citizens hungry, desperate and suffering in the midst of plenty.
Chief Okoroji is also expected to use the broadcast to call on practitioners in the Nigerian creative family to become generals and foot soldiers in the battle to rid Nigeria of the rot of corruption and bad leadership.
Mrs Mandu Uwem-Umoh, COSON’s Senior Communications Executive, has called on Nigerians who love the country and everyone in the nation’s creative industry, to spend time this Sunday afternoon to watch the broadcast which she says will be very thought provoking.
Mrs Uwem-Umoh, a veteran of TV broadcast on STV, TVC and Ben TV, says that the broadcast has been scheduled for 1.00 pm on Sunday so that all those who may go to church will be back and watch what she says will be “an important contribution to the national discourse on repositioning the Nigerian nation for a positive future for our children and grandchildren”.
It will be recalled that 15 years ago, specifically on September 1, 2009, practitioners in the entire Nigerian creative family massed in front of the National Theatre in Lagos and for days, refused to eat or drink and demanded that the over 400 licensed broadcast stations in the country, who use music as the key raw material for their operations, should broadcast no music for a significant period of that day. So began what the creative industry has celebrated every September 1 as “No Music Day”.
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