A leading educational firm in Nigeria, Learn Africa Plc, has raised concerns about the growing menace of piracy in the country’s publishing industry, calling on the Federal Government to take quick action to combat the issue crippling legitimate publishers and eroding the quality of education in the country.
The Managing Director, Hassan Bala, who disclosed this to reporters on the sidelines of the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), lamented that piracy is depriving publishers of revenue and stifling creativity in the industry.
“The government really needs to help us to stamp out piracy because the capacity is there; if we are to sell our actual capacity, we will be talking about N100 billion or more, if not for piracy,” he said.
The company boss also called on the government to strengthen law enforcement agencies, particularly the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), to ensure that copyright infringement does not go unpunished.
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