One of Nigeria’s foremost family entertainment TV channels, WapTV, has concluded a major acquisition deal for the broadcast rights to hundreds of top-quality English, Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba films ...

Hollywood and Bollywood may be the two biggest "-woods," but in northern Nigeria there is a scrappy, thriving filmmaking industry, nicknamed Kannywood. The name comes from Kano, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Left-right: Actor Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù stars in "My Father's Shadow," directed by Akinola Davies Jr. and co-produced by Fatherland ...

The country's film festival circuit has become an essential calendar for filmmakers, industry professionals, and cinema lovers across the continent and beyond. The final quarter of 2025 promises a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this case it is Davies Jr.’s short film Lizard that won the Grand Prize for shorts at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was ...

Akinola Davies Jr.'s semi-autobiographical remembrance of a tumultuous day with his dad is a moving recollection of family and fatherhood.

Is Nollywood having its Cannes coming-out party? Ranking among the world’s most prolific film industries for years, Nigeria’s scrappy, homegrown biz is breaking out at this year’s festival, with the ...

MBO Capital Management Limited (MCM), an indigenous investment advisory firm, has disclosed an investment of over N9bn in the ...

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Hollywood Reporter) - They call it "last-minute dot com." That's how Chioma Ude describes the unique -- which is a nice way of saying maddening -- way in which Nigerians go ...

The Nigeria Film Crew Community (NFCC) has taken a powerful stand against bullying and abuse within Nollywood’s production ecosystem, issuing a bold statement that has sparked conversations about ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Not a day goes by ...