The Actors Guild of Nigeria is adjusting its inside focus because it responds to modifications in Nollywood formed by expertise, digital platforms, and shifting financial realities. For Don Pedro Aganbi, not too long ago elected Nationwide Director, Coverage and Implementation, the emphasis is on execution and coordination reasonably than mere declarations.
Aganbi, a movie and expertise curator and long-standing stakeholder within the Guild, stated the relevance of AGN within the coming years will rely on how nicely its insurance policies are carried out throughout nationwide and state buildings, noting that the trade now operates inside a fast-moving ecosystem that requires governance fashions aligned with current realities.
“Nollywood in the present day operates in a fast-moving ecosystem formed by expertise, information, world platforms, and distribution techniques,” he stated.
Moreover, he stated his focus is on constructing techniques that permit initiatives to be tracked, measured, and aligned throughout chapters, significantly because the scope of the trade continues to broaden past conventional movie manufacturing.
Central to this strategy is the proposed introduction of an implementation dashboard for the Guild, to be developed in session with the nationwide president. The dashboard is predicted to function a central reference level for tasks, welfare programmes, partnerships, and occasions, to enhance effectivity, scale back duplication, and supply clearer visibility on progress.
On coordination between the nationwide physique and state chapters, coverage path should stay centralised, whereas permitting states to adapt implementation to native circumstances inside agreed requirements. A fragmented strategy throughout chapters weakens institutional coherence and limits the Guild’s capacity to interact successfully with exterior stakeholders.
“There should be clear nationwide coordination of concepts throughout all states,” he stated. “The nationwide physique ought to present coverage path, whereas states adapt and implement inside agreed requirements that mirror their native realities.”
Past inside reforms, Aganbi stated engagement with exterior stakeholders stays crucial. A more in-depth alignment with authorities businesses, regulators, digital platforms, and worldwide our bodies would strengthen AGN’s institutional standing and enhance its capability to guard members’ pursuits domestically and internationally, pointing to established actors’ unions in the USA, the UK, South Africa, and Kenya as examples of organisations whose affect is anchored on sturdy coverage frameworks.
Aganbi expressed confidence within the incoming nationwide management led by Abubakar Yakubu, citing his earlier roles as Vice President, Nationwide Public Relations Officer, and Nationwide Secretary of the Guild as proof of institutional depth. He additionally highlighted the working relationship among the many newly elected executives, together with Vice President (South West)-elect, Dayo Amusa, with whom he labored throughout his tenure as Chairman of AGN Lagos State.
Assessing the outgoing administration led by Dr. Emeka Rollas, OON, Aganbi described unity as its most important achievement. He famous that Rollas assumed workplace at a time of deep factional division and left behind a extra secure organisation with buildings established in almost 30 states.
With a stronger institutional base now in place, the main target of the brand new management, he stated, is to consolidate these good points by means of clearer coverage path and constant implementation.
