Nigeria’s film industry could provide 2 million jobs By Rebecca Moudio As an entrepreneur, 32-year-old chemistry graduate Jason Njoku achieved success in a most unlikely way: he is Africa’s largest distributor of Nigerian movies, and has raked in over $8 million since 2010, when he founded the company Iroko Partners. In December 2012 at a [...]
Nollywood Week Paris showcases the best of Nollywood from May 30rd to June 2nd. Nollywood Week Paris creates a stimulating platform for networking and dialogue between the Nigerian film professionals and their French counterparts. Here is the agenda : • Thursday, May 30 – Opening night movie premiere followed by a VIP cocktail • Friday, [...]
The name, Rita Dominic is a house hold name in the Nigerian movie industry, with countless movies, both within and abroad, to her credit. She was recently in Ibadan at the newly opened cinema house, Filmhouse, to promote the film ‘The Meeting’ with lead actor, Femi Jacobs, where she opened up to Rotimi Ige about [...]
In the spirit of celebrating the 14th anniversary of Democracy in Nigeria, the Minister of finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala has revealed that Nollywood, under the administration of president Goodluck Jonathan has created over 200,000 direct jobs. The former Managing Director of the World Bank and coordinating Minister of the Economy stated this at the [...]
“The whole point of what we are doing is trying to get Nollywood movies to attract audiences in the United States,” said Perry Umoh, president and chief executive of Brandcast Media. “This is the first attempt to get more money for producers before pirates get a hold of these movies.” Nollywood is the second-largest movie [...]
Render to Caesar is a crime thriller featuring some of Nollywood’s finest. Beautiful Nollywood actress, Omoni Oboli, teamed up with Hollywood Nigerian born actor, Gbenga Akinnade, to star in crime thriller, Render to Caesar. Render to Caesar, which also casts some of the best in Nollywood such as Wale Ojo (phone swap), Kalu Ikeagwu, Bimbo [...]
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A drop-dead beautiful Ghanaian actress is yelling at the director. Her voice — with that slightly British Ghanaian accent — echoes across the polished marble floors and bounces off the baby grand inside a Montgomery County mansion that has been turned into a movie set. Cameras have stopped rolling. Actors lean against the bay windows [...]
With the help of the Knight Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami hopes to elevate Nigerian film into the larger consciousness of the art world. You can count the long-standing museum as one of the 66 finalists vying for a Knight Arts Challenge grant. Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater notes that [...]
These are sad times for Nollywood diminutive actor, Chinedu Ikedieze, otherwise known as Aki who lost his father yesterday to the cold hands of death. The funny actor made the grieving announcement through a broadcast message on the blackberry instant messaging platform. “Hello everyone, I just lost my dad” was his statement through a broadcast [...]
Nollywood actor-cum-director, Desmod Elliot has said taking care of veteran of Nollywood actors who fall sick is beyond the industry as the government ought to cater for movie stars. The Glo ambassador expressed dissatisfaction with the rate Nollywood veterans die because of poor medical attention and the inability to foot their hospital bills. He said [...]
The issue of N3 billion Government Intervention Fund which is meant to improve the Nollywood industry has brought about uproar amongst practitioners. ANAEMENA Priscilla Chinenye writes. When on Saturday, March 2, 2013, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan honoured Nigerian film makers with a dinner at the State House, Marina, Lagos, his subsequent pronouncements brought smiles to [...]
ART practitioners, culture producers, advocates and activists in the country alike are agreed that President Goodluck Jonathan’s interest in the country’s art sector deserves commendation, especially when he has consistently backed up such interest with actual provision of funds. Indeed, for many years, the sector had cried itself hoarse for government’s intervention as noticeable in [...]
On Saturday, 2nd March at the State House in Marina, Lagos, President Goodluck Jonathan hosted some Nollywood stars at a dinner to celebrate Nollywood at 20. The first Nigerian movie to be released on home-video; ‘Living in Bondage’, was released in September 1992 thus ushering in Nollywood. At the dinner, President Goodluck Jonathan pledged a [...]
Nollywood top actress Patience Ozokwor was over the weekend in Accra to pick her statuette for winning Best Actress in an African Collaboration at the 2012 Ghana Movie Awards. ‘Thank you,’ she said after receiving her gold plated statuette on Friday evening at the rLG office at Osu, Accra where the Ghana Movie Awards statuettes [...]
Festival trailer. Click here to view on mobile Even though Nigeria didn’t get much love at this year’s African film festival, Fespaco, some Parisians believe the francophone world is ready for Naija cinema. Nollywood, the world’s second largest film industry, produces more than 2,000 films annually, and now seven of its best will be screened [...]
Paris, France - The French are laying out the red carpet for Nigerian filmmakers in effort to build a lasting bridge between Francophone audiences and the Nigerian film industry powerhouse. For the first annual NollywoodWeek Paris Film Festival, set to take place in the heart of Paris at the l’Arlequin Theatre from May 30 to June [...]
Now we have come to the first top fifteen sexiest men and women in Nollywood following some six weeks of excited voting. These fifteen men and women have been nominated by voters who voted their nominees. Last week we saw the first ten emerged. This week another five men and women for the Sexiest Man [...]
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UK Prime Minister to Lobby President GoodLuck for Gay People in Nigeria
The Britain Prime Minister, Mr David Cameroon whilst reacting to questions from a Nigerian, Name, Bisi, living in Britain, who asked for his reaction to a bill approved by Nigerian lawmakers last month banning same-sex marriage – setting jail terms of up to 14 years for offenders – and making it illegal to form gay [...]
Death Of Nans Senate President And Four Others In Auto Crash Erc Condoles With Nans And Students
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Condoms, narcotic drugs flood Boko Haram camps
More of the dirty sides of the insurgents’ lifestyle are being revealed as troops continue to stumble on strange and bizarre objects such as several used and unused condoms as well as charms and amulets of various shapes in the captured terrorists camps. Defence spokesman, Brigadier-General Chris Olukolade, who made the revelation, said that [...]
Clarifying Nigeria’s Debt Position
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Governor Yari: An Excellent Performer in search of “Result-Oriented SSG”
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Africa’s mobile youths drive change Cell phones reshape youth cultures
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