Maturion Cinemas: The new hub of entertainment in Igando and environs

When you think entertainment, more often than not, music is always the first to come to mind but is that all there is to it? Entertainment in the real sense is anything that gives you pleasure or relaxes your nerves. It could be as little as fiddling with your phone, teasing a friend, visiting a usual hangout like a bar, swimming, partying, listening to some music in your comfort zone, going to the beach or the cinema to see a movie on the big screen. For residents of Igando and environs, the hassles of going far away to the Island, Ikeja or Surulere to see a movie every other time might have denied many the fun they sough doing that. Many others might have been deterred and forced to seek succor in nearby restaurants and bars. But something had to be done. Someone had to rewrite history. However, there was no Messiah, not a single one in sight for a long time. After the wait, like Providence granted the unspoken wishes of many cinema lovers in that part of the city, Maturion Cinemas came into existence on a beautiful Wednesday (6th precisely) in December, 2017 with an outlook of serving the underserved, ever busy, massively populated areas in Lagos, first with Igando and environs by bringing the cinema experience to this set of people that had felt so left out.

Owned by Maturion Group Limited and located at Brainfield Event Centre, Km3, Lasu-Isheri, Oko Filling bus stop, the outfit is dedicated to creating, distributing and exhibiting entertainment content across all consumer bases particularly in Lagos and Nigeria by extension by offering the best of Hollywood and Nollywood in very serene and comfortable  environment in addition to great concession services. Also inclusive are school excursions, movie premieres and special screenings. As it appears, it hasn't really been a smooth ride. Although the acceptance of this multi-million naira investment in the locality has been awesome with the increasing patronage on daily basis but the challenges have been quite huge too: from erratic power supply to security. Of course, every entrepreneur you will say, is in business to make profit; this doesn't come cheap. It takes much more, according to Thomas Edison, to see opportunities like this dressed in overalls and look like hard work. Consistency, patience and hard work are all its proponents. This challenges, no doubt, have brought with them some good in their pouch by putting the management on their toes and keeping them just right on top of their game with new ideas to build and rebuild the  cinema culture in many more people within the metropolis with the continual screening of latest movies and those on high demand, to maintain the top-notch services rendered and to satisfy the yearnings of all their customers regardless of whst sells: comedy, horro, etc. Another is the introduction of not just pocket friendly ticket prices for all movies including the best local and international blockbusters.

Maturion Cinemas, Igando is equipped with a state-of-the-art DCI and non-DCI screens mounted in each of the two air-conditioned halls that have the capacity of entertaining a total of 144 viewers at a sitting. It opens everyday of the week: Monday to Sunday with showtime beginning with as early as 8am to 12 midnight. Among these days is a special one, the one officially called WOW Wednesday but unofficially labelled YAKATA Wednesday. Unlike other days, tickets for all ages and all movies are sold for a flat rate of just #500 pere. Can you beat that?

Today, Maturion has stepped against all odds and in alignment with the management's drive to meet the needs of millions of consumers in Lagos and Nigeria by opening a new outlet in Lekki Colliseum, Plot 14, Providence street off Admirality Way, Lekki Phase 1 affirming its unwavering goal to rapidly expqnd over the next few years to five outlets in Lagos and each one in other major centres in the country in order to meet the needs of film consumers across Nigeria. So in few years, just in few years, Maturion Cinemas will become one of the big players and the most recognised brands in the industry such that when you talk cinema, you talk Maturion.