Okoroji To Deliver Major Broadcast Sunday On “No Music Day’

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Chief Tony Okoroji, COSON Board chairman.

A major broadcast will on Sunday, September 1, be delivered by Chief Tony Okoroji, former President of the Performing Musicians Employers Association of Nigeria (PMAN), and Chairman, Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), as the Nigerian Music Industry marks “No Music Day”.

The broadcast which will take place at 1.00 pm as well as streamed simultaneously on several media platforms, will focus on the 2024 “No Music Day” theme, “Unmute The Injustice”.

During the broadcast, it is expected that 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, Chairman of Nigeria’s biggest copyright Collective Management Organisation, 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, also 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 said would be very thought-provoking.

Uwem-Umoh, a veteran of TV broadcast on STV, TVC and Ben TV, said that the broadcast had been scheduled for 1.00 pm on Sunday so that all those who might go to church would be back to watch what she said wiloukd be “an important contribution to the national discourse on repositioning the Nigerian nation for a positive future for our children and grand-children”.

Fiftheen (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, which 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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