In the whole of Africa, only Nigerian Artistes fly Private Jets around – PMAN President

Mr Pretty Okafor, President of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN) has said that the economic recession facing the nation since 2016 did not stop its entertainment industry from thriving, adding that “In the whole of Africa, only Nigerian Artistes fly Private Jets around.” He stated this in an interview with newsmen in Abuja.

Okafor, in a retrospective look into  2016, noted that while other sectors of the nation’s economy were grappling with the realities of the recession, the music and motion pictures industry was ‘doing well’.
“The entertainment industry is the only sector that recession did not affect, and will never affect. “While other sectors were retrenching workers in the past year and finding it difficult to pay workers salaries, the entertainment industry was employing people. “Artistes and everyone in the industry were busy working, going for concerts, producing movies and music all over the place. “We were shooting movies and distributing our albums all over Africa and beyond,” he asserted.

The PMAN boss explained that the Nigerian brand and artistes, in the last year, gained both local and global acceptance and relevant than ever before. He added that besides the artistes, producers, promoters and others involved in other ancillary services within the industry reaped increased income during the year.