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The narrative that financing remains a primary obstacle for Nigeria’s creative sector faced direct challenge at NECLive 2025, as investment executives revealed they’ve deployed over $6 million across 35 films…

Creatives seeking funding from traditional financial institutions must move beyond passion and focus on hard metrics, according to Yinka Ijabiyi, a veteran executive from First Bank. During the “Money Moves”…

Nollywood mogul and ROK Studios founder, Mary Remmy Njoku, used the NECLive 2025 platform to announce a new, deeply personal mission: to actively combat the negative narrative dominating the Nigerian…

The path from creative passion to sustainable business was the central theme at the NECLive 2025 fireside chat, “MONEY MOVES – INVESTMENT & MONETIZATION OF THE CREATIVE ECONOMY,” presented in…

A consensus emerged at NECLive 2025 that African creators must prioritise building robust local infrastructure and monetisation systems before aggressively pursuing global markets, with panellists revealing that over 80% of…

MTN’s Chief Digital Officer has identified content quality improvement and business model transformation as the two critical factors that will determine African creative products’ global competitiveness over the next five…

MTN‘s representative has outlined an ambitious vision positioning the telecommunications giant as an infrastructure builder for Africa’s creative economy, leveraging access to 200 million subscribers across the continent. Speaking at…