On Monday, September 1, 2025, Chief Tony Okoroji, Chairman, Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), Nigeria’s biggest copyright collective management organization, will make the traditional “No Music Day” broadcast to the nation.
The broadcast by the former President of PMAN and one of Africa’s foremost intellectual property rights activists, will review the state of the progress made in Nigeria with respect to the defence of the intellectual property rights of creative people in our country.
September 1 has been celebrated in Nigeria every year as “No Music Day” in remembrance of that historic day in 2009 when a group of Nigerian artistes began huge rallies in front of the National Theatre, Lagos, and went on a week-long hunger strike to protest the cruel abuse of the rights of creative people in Nigeria.
It will be recalled that on September 1, 2009, for the first time in human history, the music industry in a country called for the halt of the broadcast of music by broadcast stations all over the nation, for a whole day. This action captured the imagination of the world and Nigeria’s “No Music Day” was born.
September 1 in Nigeria, has become a day the music industry has dedicated to bringing the attention of the nation to the widespread infringement of the rights of song writers, composers, performers, music publishers, record labels and other stakeholders in the music industry in Africa’s most populous nation.
This year’s “No Music Day” broadcast, with the theme, “the Sound of Silence” will be streamed live from the magnificent COSON House in Ikeja at 9.00 am on several social media platforms. Musicians, music users, proprietors of event venues, culture administrators, broadcasters, intellectual property activists, etc., are invited to follow the broadcast and join in the subsequent discussions.
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