Nollywood filmmaker, Ugezu Ugezu has come out to blast the absence of a digitalized data management system in Nigeria.

He recently had his say via his social media page, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, this habit has actually led to lots of challenges in the country, and it is the reason why several politicians change their date of birth however they like.

Ugezu added that people from other nations freely walk in through the porous borders and become Nigerians with alarming ease because of the absence of a data management system.

His words, “Because politicians in Nigeria have consistently refused to evolve a proper computerized, pure digitalized data management system in Nigeria, people from other nations freely walk in through the porous borders and become Nigerians with alarming ease. People in public offices can wake up anytime they feel like and change their dates of birth.”

“In Nigeria as managed by heartless politicians wallowing in greed, EVERYTHING GOES.”

“We are watching.”

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.