Mr. Yusuf Ibrahim, the Point out Coordinator, NCC Yola Place of work, who disclosed this, informed that the Commission’s operatives embarked on various copyright sensitisation outreaches to appropriate stakeholders in the State in commemoration of the Entire world E-book and Copyright Working day on 23rd April and Entire world IP Day on 26th April 2022.
According to him, the visits were also aimed at exploring avenues for even further collaboration and assist for the Commission’s antipiracy enforcement routines, general public enlightenment generate and to encourage registration of copyright performs.
Mr. Ibrahim said some of the stakeholders visited on Planet E-book and Copyright Working day were NAS FM and Fombina FM (FRCN), Yola, including that the NCC Condition Office utilized the option to existing to the broadcast stations copies of DG’s Push Statement on the Working day, and other copyright enlightenment elements.
The Condition Coordinator, who fielded inquiries bordering on copyright all through interview periods with newsmen, employed the chance to enlighten the community on the penalties of illegal reproduction and distribution of copyright operates and the need to assist the Commission’s antipiracy generate in the state and its environs.
Also on World E-book and Copyright Day, operatives of NCC Yola Workplace, according to Mr. Ibrahim, frequented the subsequent media stakeholders: Adamawa Broadcasting Corporation Abti Printing Push and Govt Printing Press all in Yola.
He knowledgeable that the Director, Programmes, Adamawa Broadcasting Corporation, Mr. Michael Bello, acquired the NCC Point out Coordinator and his workforce who in flip presented him with the NCC Director- General’s Push Statement for the Working day and presents from the Commission, including fliers and other enlightenment materials. The Condition Coordinator later on fielded issues from journalists on the essence of the Day and copyright consciousness messages to the Yola public.
The Condition Coordinator and his workforce also employed the event fork out inspection visits to selected bookshops in the Point out money.
NCC Enlightens Printing Stores, Resolves Stakeholder Dispute in Yola
The Nigerian Copyright Fee (NCC) carried out copyright awareness outreaches to two Printing Presses in Yola in commemoration of the Environment IP Working day on 26th April 2022.
The NCC Point out Coordinator, Mr. Yusuf Ibrahim, who discovered this, said that the sites the copyright sensitisation was carried out have been Abti Printing Push Ltd and Govt Printing Press, Yola.
According to him, the Normal Manager of Abti Printing Push Ltd, Mrs. Priscilla Abdul and the staff fulfilled with the NCC crew where the State Coordinator briefed her on the goal of the stop by and presented a duplicate of the DG’s Push Statement and other copyright recognition products to the GM.
Mr. Ibrahin added that at the Government Printing Push, Yola, the Controlling Director, Mr. Jerry Maka obtained the NCC crew and took them on a tour of services of the Printing Press. The Commission introduced him with presents and some copyright consciousness product
In yet another enhancement, the NCC Yola Office environment, in line with the Commission’s mandate of resolving disputes in between its stakeholders, fulfilled with the two factions of the Movie Picture Protection Experts Affiliation of Nigeria (FIPPAN), Adamawa State Department to handle some contentious qualified issues concerning them.
The NCC Yola Business office Coordinator, Mr. Yusuf Ibrahim, who disclosed this in a report, educated that the reconciliatory meeting which held in the Commission’s Yola Workplace on 15th of June 2022, finished on a constructive notice.
He indicated that the hitherto contentious issues relating to appointments, places of jurisdiction and enforcement had been amicably resolved.