To cater for the wellbeing of actors in the country, an online crowd-funding platform, Quickraiz, has partnered with the Actors Guild of Nigeria to raise N50million. Speaking on the partnership, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Ativo Nigeria Limited, owners of Quickraiz, Bayo Adeokun, maintained that the ultimate objective was to assist AGN members who couldn’t afford medical bills. Adeokun said, “In recent times, many elderly actors have had health issues and they were unable to finance their medical bills. He said, “The fund would cater for our members who are currently on sickbeds in different hospitals across the country. So, the executive has to clear the backlog of veteran actors who are ill while the healthy ones among us take advantage of HMOs.

Source: Punch August 07, 2020 22:52 UTC