Covid-19: FG To Provide Support To Media Industries……Lai Muhammed

The Federal Government on Thursday said it was exploring ways, including financial models, to help the media industry fulfil its functions during and after the coronavirus pandemic in the country.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja.

He said the media and creative industry is one of the sectors of the economy most affected by the pandemic, noting that government was not oblivious of those facts hence the plans to revive the fourth estate the realm post COVID-19.

Mohammed said: “We are not oblivious of the fact that the creative industry, which comprises the media, is the most badly affected in the COVID-19 pandemic and that we are already working towards alleviating the challenges.

“I have been in contact with leadership of newspapers to get a solution to the ailing economy of the newspapers and the entire media industry.

“Yesterday (Wednesday), a stakeholder committee held in Lagos on the creative industry and we are almost about getting ready the list of special stakeholders committee that will address the issue of the post-COVID-19 creative industry.

“As soon as we get the terms of reference, we would announce the membership and the terms of reference.”