FROM CENSORSHIP TO CLASSIFICATION: HUSSEINI POSITIVELY TURNING THINGS AROUND IN NFVCB, JUST TWO YEARS ON THE SADDLE

By Charles Okogene On January 12, 2024, a journalist/lecturer, Dr. Shaibu Husseini, was appointed the director general cum executive director of Nigeria’s world famous National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration. A time tested journalist of the movie critic sector, Husseini who was one of the forces behind African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) before his appointment, was brought in not only to strengthen the board’s enforcement of regulations but to give its operations human face, which befits a board that operates in a civil…

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