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– He points out the quality of Nigerian films – He says Nigerian films do not target big awards – How Nigerian films subtitling works against it Former President Jonathan with Nigerian actors and actresses. A member of the Nigerian Oscar selection committee is defending the organisers of Oscar awards over non-inclusion of Nigerian movies. Highlighting the reasons why Nigerian movies are missing out in the international awards Shaibu Husseini who is a member of the Nigerian Oscar selection committee blames it on the poor quality of production and bad subtitles. Husseini spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) during which he said the Oscar award foreign category was meant for films produced in foreign languages but despite that Nigerian films are yet to make it to get nominated at the well celebrated the awards. “Nigeria has not been lucky to have entries there because we don’t produce targeting those kinds of awards. “We just produce to send DVD into the...