After over 40 years of present with out its personal property, the Performing Musicians Employers Affiliation of Nigeria (PMAN) has lastly damaged the jinx.
Certainly, the PMAN executives led by the president, Mr. Fairly Okafor, at the moment are prepared for enterprise having acquired a multi-million-naira company edifice in Lekki, Lagos. This, they are saying, is a part of the union’s technique for the continuing biometric card registration drive being carried out together with Zenith Financial institution.
Talking on the event, the PMAN president mentioned the choice to accumulate a property in intellectual Lekki is borne out of fine enterprise sense. In line with him, it’s to reposition and rebrand the union in addition to bridge the hole between PMAN and the brand new technology artistes.
“We take into account it essential to have a enterprise workplace that’s accessible to the artistes group and company sector in Nigeria. We need to make sure that musicians are receiving correct remunerations for his or her artistic works each dwelling and overseas. By means of the acquisition of this property, we’re sending an vital message to Nigerian musicians and the company sector that PMAN, the Nigerian music trade powerhouse, is again in enterprise,” he acknowledged.
Okafor defined additional that the Nationwide Working Committee (NWC) of PMAN intentionally selected Lekki for the brand new company workplace as a result of it’s the brand new epicenter of the Nigerian leisure trade.
“You recognize, our former rented workplace was positioned in Ikeja however we determined to accumulate our personal property in Lekki. It’s a deliberate choice as a result of Lekki is the brand new hub for the Nigerian music trade. It’s the hotbed for the brand new wave Afrobeats tradition. Lekki is the place the Gen Zers of Nigerian leisure reside,” he famous.
Describing the newly acquired company workplace as a totally indifferent 5-bedroom duplex, the PMAN boss revealed that it’s outfitted with completely different ultra-modern services together with digital music library, radio station, convention rooms, and VIP lounge amongst others.
“The brand new PMAN headquarters can have completely different ultra-modern elements together with the president’s workplace, digital music library, convention rooms, VIP lounge, membership registration sales space supplied by Zenith Financial institution, and different needed workplaces,” Okafor disclosed.
In the meantime, PMAN has vowed to boost its presence in all of the six geo-political areas of Nigeria, because the affiliation would quickly embark on knowledge capturing of its over six million potential members throughout the nation. A date for the formal opening of the brand new PMAN headquarters shall be introduced through the affiliation’s official web site.
