The average litigant in Nigeria believes you can buy justice.  So, with that frame of mind, it is a very difficult challenge. That attitude of  believing that you can buy justice must stop

In a bid to make this year’s World AIDS Day highly impactful, the Nigeria Red Ribbon Coalition, a strategic public-private sector alliance, organised a novelty football match yesterday in Lagos to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and also provide free HIV Testing and Counselling services.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has commended the organisers of the newly premiered movie “The Wedding Party” for raising Nollywood artistic bar to international level.

Federal Government has distanced itself from the controversy trailing the Motion Pictures Council of Nigeria, saying that it has no hidden agenda to stifle the industry.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the confession on Monday, when he received the report of the Review Committee of the Motion Picture Council of Nigeria (MOPICON), in Abuja.

Nollywood actor, Ani Iyoho, who was reported to have sustained serious fire injuries in a fire stunt said to have gone bad, on the set of a movie shoot, Behind the Wheels,has been confirmed healthy and unscathed.

A Nollywood actress, Ms Kate Henshaw, on Sunday appealed to the Federal Government to assist in redefining the focus of the movie- industry so as to move it to international standards.

Nollywood has been justly described as a haven of damsels; damsels of different cuts, shapes, styles and attitudes. All come brandishing what they call their ‘selling points’. This phrase may seem out of place to some, but in Nollywood, it aptly describes what mother nature has blessed you with to rub in the faces of the opposite sex, to get their hormones in quandary.

Unlike the previous years where the industry was plunged into controversies, the year 2015 was a different story.

HVP speaks with some top Nollywood practitioners on how the industry fared in 2015 and their expectations in this new year. This is what they have to say…

Some people have described marriage as an entrapment and for many showbiz stars it hasn’t particularly been something they would write a prose about. We have seen many divas walked in through the door in a morning and get thrown out of the window by the night. It is that bad, because, marriage and showbiz is like Cain and Abel.

The sleepy city of Akure, the Ondo State capital reverberated last Sunday night, when Nollywood stars and other stakeholders took turns to walk the red carpet and pose for shots as this year’s edition of the Best of Nollywood Awards, BON, held amid glitz and glamour in the state.

After a rigorous audition process held across several states of Nigeria and a ten-day intensive training, the organizers of the Next Movie Star Reality programme has unveiled the 16 housemates that would be competing for fame and fortune in this year’s show at a colourful ceremony held in Lagos.

For Omoni Oboli, 2015 is turning out to be the year of outstanding and mind blowing achievements especially after she was announced as Nollywood/entertainment personality of the year 2015 by The Sun newspaper, taking over from popular music producer, Don Jazzy who won for the year 2014 and she signed ambassadorial deal with popular family dairy, Nunu milk, a few days ago.

Mr Tony Goodman, a movie producer and director on Wednesday called for quality and quantity control for Nollywood films in order to check quackery in the industry.

HOW did corruption become a way of life in Nigeria? This question should be of the utmost importance to the Presidency and of course to the future minister of information whose role, if not for the “job for the boys syndrome” should have remained combined with that of the minister of culture (and by extension tourism). Nigeria’s national orientation, our inability to unanimously condemn wrongdoing, is perhaps our country’s greatest problem.