{"id":26636,"date":"2020-06-12T21:01:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T20:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=26636"},"modified":"2020-06-12T21:01:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T20:01:59","slug":"fg-congratulates-mo-abudu-over-netflix-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=26636","title":{"rendered":"FG Congratulates Mo Abudu Over Netflix Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Federal Government has congratulated media entrepreneur and filmmaker Mo Abudu over her partnership with leading global streaming service Netflix to create two original series as well as multiple Netflix-branded films.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the partnership, for on-screen adaptation of Wole Soyinka&#8217;s &#8216;Death and The King&#8217;s Horseman&#8217; and Lola Shoneyin&#8217;s &#8216;The Secret Lives of Baba Segi&#8217;s Wives&#8217;, adds another feather to Mo Abudu&#8217;s already well-adorned creative cap.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Minister also described the deal as a big boost for the country&#8217;s Creative Industry, at a time the industry is reeling from the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n&#8221;Coming after Netflix&#8217;s first Nigeria original film, Lionheart, this is a great recognition of the immense creative talents that abound in Nigeria and the provision of a global platform for Nigeria storytelling,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\nAlhaji Mohammed expressed the hope that this partnership will signal the beginning of a bigger, mutually-beneficial working relationship between the streaming service and Nigeria&#8217;s Creatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has congratulated media entrepreneur and filmmaker Mo Abudu over her partnership with leading global streaming service Netflix to create two original series as well as multiple Netflix-branded films. In a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the partnership, for on-screen adaptation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5775,7],"tags":[1702,676,1703],"class_list":["post-26636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-abudu","tag-fg","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}