Mr. Peter Igho was a household name in his days when the Nigerian Broadcast Authority dominated television broadcasting in Nigeria, especially for his reputation in making such unforgettable drama series like Cock Crow at Dawn and empowering local producersMr.
You were part of the NTA boom years, and in the last 20 years or so, the station has been a shadow of itself. Does that look enviable to you as a former helmsman? In the old days, NTA was known for so many notable programmes – documentaries like Food Basket, Giant in the Sun; dramas like Cock Crow at Dawn, Behind The Clouds, Mirror in the Sun, and children’s programmes like Tales by Moonlight. Now, it’s like NTA is no longer churning out that volume, quantity and level of content. So, compare NTA to itself.
In your working years, what production challenged you the most, and which gave you sleepless nights and which one did you enjoy doing the most? What exactly prepared you for the job? You said you left university straight into the job. What did you study? Sometimes, people ask me, ‘how are they doing?’ They’re doing better than we did. Sometimes, they want us to denigrate what they’re doing. No. We did great. But technology has changed, and they’re doing a lot better than we did; they’re doing amazing things. Now, at one point, we used to say Nollywood dwells too much on fetish and negative things, but it has gone beyond that.