At the 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) this Tuesday November 25, 2025, members of Nigeria’s biggest copyright collective management organization, Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), gathered in their hundreds at the COSON House in Ikeja, colourfully dressed and in a celebration mood.
At the meeting, at which the COSON Chairman Chief Tony Okoroji read a 15 page detailed report of the activities of the society in the last one year, members expressed happiness about the transparency and accountability that has made COSON different from any other organization in Nigeria’s creative industry.
One highlight of the meeting was the one minute silence in honor of the iconic reggae star Jimmy Cliff who passed on a few hours before the meeting and who once visited Nigeria and whose music inspired many around the world for many-many years.
Also honoured was one of COSON’s staunch members, late Chief Romanus Ementa Okonkwo better known by his business name ‘Rogers All Stars’, under whose label some of the most popular music in Nigerian history, such as Prince Nico Mbarge’s iconic Sweet Mother and the many great hits of Ikenga Super Stars of Africa and Bright Chimezie, were released.
Also honoured with a minute silence was the late former president of PMAN Mr Femi Lasode who died during the year.
Another highlight of the AGM was the approval by the members for the distribution of the sum of =N= 409,125,000.00 ( Four Hundred & Nine Million, One Hundred &Twenty-Five Thousand Naira) to the members and affiliates of COSON, with 20% of the sum, which is =N=81,825,000.00 (Eighty-One Million, Eight Hundred & Twenty-Five Thousand Naira) to be spilt equally among all members of the society whose names appeared on the society’s register as at 19th May 2024. This will form the 3rd Palliative Royalty Distribution by COSON, to further ameliorate the present hard economic situation in the country. The royalty alert began to be received by the members at the end of the meeting.
At the meeting, a concise report of the 2025 COSON week which thrilled the country in May was given.
The 2025 COSON AGM was a memorable event with COSON members from across the country singing, dancing and making merry.
