Nigerian films dominated the cinemas in 2025, accounting for 53% of all tickets sold nationwide, according to Nigerian box ...

THE elating news from Nollywood shows that one of its top figures, Funke Akindele, has scored in the billions for the third time in a row with a blockbuster movie. In a back-to-back sequence, her ...

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The greeting "namaste" associated with yoga and the Pidgin word for trouble, "wahala", widely used across the world thanks to ...

In Nollywood, the mainstream is the only stream: filmmakers who hope to make some sort of return, or even get critical acclaim in the eyes of restrictive critics, must cater to the mass audience In ...

ACE filmmaker Lancelot Imasuen has been around for as long as one can remember in Nollywood. He has churned out blockbuster movies like Invasion1897, Adesuwa and the monster hit, Issakaba with the ...

Nollywood depiction of legal processes continues to leave a lot to be desired. The new Netflix drama, Devil Is a Liar (2025), starring Nse Ikpe-Etim, has reignited conversations around Nollywood's ...