Nigeria: Censors Board Confiscates Pornographic Movies

THE National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) has concluded plan to burn N10M (Ten Million Naira) worth of pornographic and unwholesome movies seized within FCT and environs during targeted operations between January to June 2014.

In the operations, which covered Gwagwalada, Karu, Kubwa, Wuse market and Airport Road, over 2 million films were seized, of which 60 percent were pornographic while 40 percent were uncensored, unwholesome and pirated. The board is currently working with the Federal Ministry of Environment to secure a dumpsite to burn the seized films.

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