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According to a PUNCH report, ordinarily, such movies would not find their way into Nigerian homes, thanks to the Nigerian Films and Video Censors Board. But it seems their producers usually submit the edited versions to the NFVCB and go on YouTube to post the raw movies.

In the absence of clear-cut regulation of the internet, it seems the NFVCB can do little or nothing to stop these movies from being posted on the internet.

There are some websites calling for subscription to such raunchy movies.

The Deputy Director (Corporate Affairs), NFVCB, Yunusa Tanko Abdulahi, told Saturday Beats that the agency was not aware of the existence of such movies on the internet.

He also said none of them was submitted to the board for censorship and classification.

He said, “We are not aware of such because they have not come to us. As far as they have not come to us, we do not know about it. After production, a movie has to come to us for censoring and classification before it gets to the market, be it a foreign or local film. Any movie that doesn’t come to us before going to the market is illegal.”

The NFVCB official stated that some producers try to play smart by sending edited copies of movies to the agency instead of the master version.

“They ought to send the master copy but some send an edited copy to us while sending what they want to the market. When we see the edited copy, we tell them to make corrections, but it doesn’t matter as they have done what they want to.

“Normally we get tip-offs or raid some markets and when we find these people out, we get them arrested and prosecuted,” he said.

He, however, stressed that the agency only censors video CDs and content on television and satellite but does not have power over what is posted on the web.

The simple conclusion one can readily make out of these collections is the fact that Nollywood has gone haywire and the question then is: how did these clips and shots escape the vetting eyes of our audio and movie  censor body?  More worrying is the fact that children below 18 yrs have unfettered access to this movies and the damaging impact of these movies to their psyche is terribly unimaginale.  But why the sudden escalation in the scale of pornographic and nudist video promos by recent Nollywood movies? Just check out  this poster of the movie titled Calabar Girl in which a girl exposes her breast and covered her nipples, with other girls in the background wearing bras and underwear. Questions raised are: 

1.What is the motive of such films and the moral lesson(s) to be learn’t from them. 

2.What message(s) are these film makers passing on to the young ones out there?

3. Where is our African culture? .

4.Please share your thoughts and views about this and more importantly suggest ways of checkmating this progress in error that Nollywood is experiencing. Share the message if you care for our societal norms.

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