The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) has announced a Master Class Series for film practitioners, scheduled to hold on Monday, 13th July, 2026, at the Agip Hall, Muson Centre, Lagos State. The event is billed to begin at 9:00am prompt and was announced directly on the personal Facebook page of the Board’s Executive Director and Director General, Dr. Shaibu Husseini, the sixth Executive Director and Director General of the NFVCB.
Attendance is by registration and is open exclusively to accredited and card-carrying members of registered guilds and associations under the NFVCB. It is not a general open-door event, so practitioners are advised to confirm their guild membership status ahead of the date.
The initiative is a clear extension of the development agenda Dr. Husseini has been building since taking over the Board. Under his leadership, the NFVCB has moved away from its image as a body that only exists to classify or reject films. The Board has been overhauling its operations through digitisation, legal reforms, and stakeholder engagement, with a target of reducing film classification time to below 24 hours, a shift that signals a fundamentally different approach to how film regulation works in Nigeria. Plans have also been outlined to deepen industry development through stakeholder workshops, monetisation training, and legal compliance sessions.
Dr. Husseini has consistently repositioned the NFVCB as a partner in progress by engaging stakeholders, improving classification processes, and promoting a balance between creative freedom and social responsibility. That philosophy is visible in how the Board has engaged the industry in recent months, from on ground activations with film students to showing up at film festivals across the country. He has also reiterated his vision to establish a film and video library dedicated to preserving Nigeria’s film and video heritage for future generations, a project that many in the industry consider long overdue.
On the international stage, the Board’s work has been gaining recognition. The NFVCB recently received the World Health Organization’s Director General’s Special Award for the African Region, in recognition of its work on tobacco control and responsible media content, making it the only Nigerian institution among five African recipients honoured for the year.
For a regulatory body that has historically had a complicated relationship with filmmakers, the Master Class Series represents something worth paying attention to. Capacity building backed by the very institution that sets the standards for the industry carries a different kind of weight, and for practitioners who have long called for more structured professional development within Nollywood, this is a step in a direction that makes sense.
Interested persons and guild members can reach the Board for enquiries at info@nfvcb.gov.ng or DGoffice@nfvcb.gov.ng.
