From grand Lagos weddings to quiet village desires, Nigerian filmmakers have given us romance in every angle possible. Some stories are tender and poetic. Others are dramatic and chaotic. In the ...

Pietra Brettkelly and The Critics chronicle a rise from iPhone DIY storytelling on the streets of Kaduna to the German art scene in this Berlin premiere.

The inaugural part of this piece was necessarily introductory. It examined the interplay between economic development ...

On January 30, 2026, the United States Department of Justice released over three million pages of documents linked to the late American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, marking ...

This story is featured in the March/April 2025 issue of ESSENCE. In 2017, sisters Tochi and Ebele ­Anueyiagu shared a single image on their new Instagram account: a still of Nigerian film and beauty ...

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 ...

The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) says it approved and classified a total of 1,185 films between January and December 2025. This is contained in a statement by Ogbonna Onwumere, ...

Nollywood’s distribution landscape is evolving rapidly, and 2025 has made it clear that cinemas, Netflix, and Amazon are no longer the only avenues for revenue or audience reach. YouTube has emerged ...

Nollywood movie, Oversabi Aunty, produced by Actress Toyin Abraham has been announced as the fourth highest-grossing Nollywood film of all time in WestInstagram Africa. This feat was reported achieved ...

‘Where Love Lives’, Nollywood’s latest romantic comedy, was released on YouTube on 24 December, just in time for the holidays. Produced by and starring Bimbo Ademoye, the film is now streaming on her ...

In 2025, YouTube remained one of the biggest platforms for Nollywood movies. While not all the films released this year are still trending, many of them enjoyed massive attention, strong viewership, ...

Movies Anywhere was one of the unintended casualties faced during Google and Disney’s brief feud throughout October and November, but as promised, both Google Play and YouTube have returned to the ...