In 2025, the Nigerian Official Selection Committee (NOSC) took the unprecedented step of announcing that Nigeria would submit ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - "Oya!" shouts the director in Nigerian Pidgin English. Actors take their marks. Lighting blinks on. The film crew snaps into action after the order to hurry up. It's another day in ...

Desmond Ovbiagele opens up on how impactful the Oscars race has been for the Nigerian film industry. The investment banker turned filmmaker revealed that though the movie did not make the shortlist, ...

From Kenneth Udeh, AbujaStakeholders across Nigeria’s film, academic, and cultural sectors have raised alarm over the rapidly deteriorating state of the nation’s audiovisual heritage, warning that ...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the Federal Government has taken series of actions to boost Nigerian film industry. According to him, “the trajectory of the Nigerian ...

From the experimental theatre of the 1960s and 1970s to the VHS-driven home-video boom of the 1990s and the streaming-era global expansion, women have been at the centre of Nollywood's ...

The meeting focused on strengthening collaboration between the film and tourism sectors as part of efforts to reduce ...

First there was Hollywood. In the 1940s came Bollywood, the prolific Bombay film industry. But what about their lesser-known cousins Nollywood and Lollywood? “Nollywood” refers to the Nigerian film ...

Filmmaker and popular curator, Femi Odugbemi has opined that Nigerian films are already culture superpowers across the globe. Odugbemi recently made this known at an industry panel session while ...