Mo Abudu, the Nigerian Media Mogul, founder and CEO EbonylifeTV/Ebonylifefilm is no stranger around milestone achievements. In 2018, she was elected as a director of International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the body that organises the Emmy awards. She later went to become the first African to chair the International Emmy Awards Gala. In 2019, she received the Medaille D'honneur in Cannes, the first African to receive the award. She has also been recognised by Forbes to be the first African woman to own a Pan - Africa TV channel. In May 2020, She was listed by WIJ African to be among the 25 Most Powerful Women In Journalism.

The list of her achievements goes on but one thing to note in all is "the first" that is associated with them. she is a visionary pioneer who in her tenacious audacity has opened the way for many in the Nigerian movie industry. With her movie "The Wedding Party", she opened a new wave of possibilities for Nigerian movies in the cinema.

With the advent of Netflix Nigeria in February, we could already tell the endless opportunities for Nigerian Filmmakers and Nigerian Movies. While the launch also included the announcement of the production of some Nigerian originals that will star the likes of Kate Henshaw, Ade Laoye, Ireti Doyle, Richard Mofe-Damijo, Joke Silva, Bimbo Akintola, and Kehinde Bankole. Netflix Nigeria has taken to Twitter, again, to make a special announcement, this time to announce their partnership with Mo Abudu to produce two of Nigeria's popular literary classics by Lola Shoneyin and Prof. Wole Soyinka. It will be the adaptation of "The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives" by Lola Shoneyin and "Death and The King's Horseman" by Prof. Wole Soyinka. They also went further to state that Mo Abudu with and her EbonylifeTV will produce two new Nigerian Originals plus licensed films and a Series for Netflix. The tweet reads:

As an enthusiast of the Nigerian Movie Industry, we can't possibly express how excited this news is to us and of course to many Nigerian Filmmakers and Nigerian Movie fans around the world. This is great news and there is no better timing for this as The Nigerian Movie Industry is on the verge of an evolution.

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  While the opportunity of this partnership is endless in many ways, we would like to highlight a few.
  opportunity to tell our story to a larger and diverse audience: This right here has been the core value of EbonylifeTV as driven by Mo Abudu. While we are yet to meet or interview the Media Mogul, we've always been in awe of her achievements and followed her closely since the first anniversary of EbonylifeTV.
  Netflix currently has about 182.8 million subscribers worldwide as at June 2020 with over 151 million streams and available in 190 countries. Imagine having to tell Nigerian stories to people in 190 countries and our stories available to over 180 million people. This is what we call the Mo Abudu dream which has become all our dreams, to tell our stories. Mo once said, "It is up to us to tell our story right instead of accepting the skewed narratives of foreign media."
• Production Quality: while Nollywood is famous for the quantity and not quality, the launch of Netflix Nigerian has brought the debate/discussion of production quality to the table. More and more filmmakers are talking about the industry's production quality, to make the most out of the little available for them to spend on production. Getting your film commissioned by Netflix once it's out of the cinema has become a norm in the industry and Netflix is has a standard. This will foster more films with quality production than we've seen in time past.
  
  It's also good to note that Netflix has commissioned quite a number of Nigerian movies in this short period than we believe they have in time past. Movies like, Elevator Baby, The 4th Republic, Hotel Hibiscus, The Merry Men2, Love is War and many others have been recently commissioned.
  
  
  like we said, the list is endless and we will do a whole article on it soon.
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