By Sylvester Kwentua The national president of the Directors’ Guild of Nigeria (DGN), Victor Okhai, has revealed that in the Nigeria movie industry, one can find highly trained professionals, who decided to keep aside what they studied, to venture into Nollywood because of their passion for the movie industry. He made this revelation on Tuesday, […]

A new contest christened, Nollywood Screen Writing Contest (NSWC), a brainchild of Lawrence Onuzulike, a Nollywood actor, publisher and activist has birthed and N2m is up for grabs!

Leaders of the Nollywood industry under the aegis of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, have declared support for the ongoing war against drug abuse in Nigeria even as they expressed their preparedness to join the crusade against the scourge.

TOO SURE TO LOSE, a  film that highlights the current social reality where young men focus more effort in betting and virtual gambling in order to get rich quick at the detriment of their  education, is set to hit the screen

Actor, comedian and content creator Akpobome Oghenetega better known as OG Tega stars in a YouTube popular comedy web series titled, Papa Benji. OG Tega joins Nollywood comic characters such as Buchi, Nedu Wazobia, Ekwutousi Maleke, Jemima Osunde, Romeo_WJ, Broda Shaggi, Real Warri Pikin, Sound Sultan, Senator and Basketmouth himself. The comedy series follows the life […]

Kidnappers have introduced a new dimension to their illicit business. This time around, they storm victims’ schools, pretending to have been sent by their parents to pick them, only to take them to their hideouts which are usually hotels, from where they place calls to victims’ parents for ransom.

By Benjamin Njoku It’s festive time again and Nollywood stars like other people on the streets are getting ready to paint the town red. While Christmas has become merrier for the likes of sultry actress Nuella for her accomplishments during the outgoing year, pretty Shirley Igwe is hopeful of a successful year ahead even as […]

By Emmanuel Okogba Nollywood actor, Karibi Fubara has passed on according to a tweet by a family member, Ayayi Fubara Eneli on Wednesday. “My brother, Karibi Fubara, has joined the ancestral realm. I’m devastated, but not hopeless. He lived fully and with joy. Left a great body of work. Will be a powerful ancestor. I […]

Popular Nollywood actress, Moyo Lawal, took to her Instagram page to inquire if it was possible for a man to fall in love with a woman without sex.

The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) says it received and censored a total number of 375 movies produced by the Nigerian film industry, also known as Nollywood, in the third quarter of the year. The Special Assistant on Media to the Executive Director/CEO, NFVCB, Mr Joshua Olomu, made this known in a report […]

Nollywood star and a lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Port Harcourt, Dr Sam Dede, has expressed regrets that the nation’s creative industry, Nollywood, is not well structured to put food on the table of the practitioners.

Renowned Nollywood actor, Anayo Onyekwere, popularly known as Kanayo O. Kanayo, says he feels so great to be celebrated by friends, fans and well-wishers, while alive. Onyekwere, who on Oct. 16 received the 2020 Sun Newspaper Nollywood Icon award for his excellent role delivery and iconic status, said he felt honoured to be recognised by […]

You may recognise him from his role as Ohakanu on the award-winning Africa Magic series Tinsel, but Stan Nze is in a different spotlight today. The 32-year-old has been acting professionally since 2009, but had his epic moment in Nollywood with Tinsel.

A new movie, ‘Dear Sisters’, which features range of Nollywood superstars is about to hit major cinemas, and other major digital platforms in Nigeria.

The number of movies produced by Nollywood in the second quarter of 2021 jumped to 635 from 416 in the first quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says. NBS published the figure on Wednesday in its “Nollywood Movies Production Data for Quarter Two, 2021”  on its website. According to the publication, the figure indicates […]