ALERT: OUR CULTURE AND OUR VILLAGE ARE NOT FOR SALE.....NIGERIAN ARTISTES ECHOS...

The creation of the Artists' village has not only turned out to be Visionary but also one of the most significant in the history of Arts administration and Management in the Nigerian Public Sector in the Last 30years.The Artists' Village represents the first and only community of Creative entrepreneurs anywhere in the West African Coast.

The Artists' Village comprises: Practitioners,Guilds/Associations and Arts Organizations in all Arts forms and across all Media. There is no gain saying the fact that no major cultural or Artistic event both home and abroad in the last Ten years has taken place without the involvement and input of one or more professional organizations from the Artists' Village. So why SCRAP the Artists' Village?The print,Electronic and the social media had been agog with reports of the sale/concessionaire of the fallow grounds around the National Theater. Although,our position is that the concessionaire is not good for the Arts and Culture,We think the Government should at least build on the efforts of the Practitioners in the last last 20years by upgrading and developing infrastructures that will help to fulfill the Originally stated Objectives of the federal Government of developing the Arts and Culture sector in Nigeria.

Nipponcy Richard speaking to some artist and creative personalities earlier today,
 this is what they have to tell the public:

ABRAHAM OSAJIE(CEO Street Storm Concept):

" That's our country for you

bro,many of the so called stars today

 one way or the other passed through the

Artists' village yet they will keep quiet

 when clueless people like(Chief Edem Duke

and Mallam Kabiru) who don't know that the

 Arts and Culture is bigger and more rooted

than Entertainment,comment or say all sort of

 lies about the Artist village.I sorry for you who

 decides to burn bridges that you went through to

get to stardom or limelight,you forget you might need to come back

someday.Abi make we begin mention names?"

MC RICHARD(Comedian):
" The truth be told what
ever goes on in the National Theater
 is prepared from the Artist Village and
 why does the government want to take youths
 that are there back into
 (street life,joblessness,crime etc)
 we truly need a CHANGE"
 
JUSTIN EZIRIM(CEO Justdance Venture):

 "Some people will read this and feel less
concern....yet they run to National Council for Arts and Culture

 (NCAC)  artists village to save them from one event to another.

God is watching ooooo"

SOURCE:Nipponcy Richard