Tag: Nollywood

President Buhari hails veteran actor Pete Edochie at 75
President Buhari hails veteran actor Pete Edochie at 75

President Muhammadu Buhari has joined creative practitioners to celebrate with veteran Nollywood actor, scriptwriter and movie producer, Pete Edochie, on his seventy fifth birthday. The President in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, congratulated the celebrated actor for playing a pioneering and motivating role in the entertainment industry. President noted that…

Tony Abraham weighs in on sexual harassment in Nollywood
Tony Abraham weighs in on sexual harassment in Nollywood

Nollywood actress and filmmaker, Toyin Abraham has weighed in on rising cases of sexual harassment in the Nigerian film industry. Abraham who spoke with Lasgidi FM’s Azuka Onwuzor said she has never been sexually harassed at any point in her career, saying that only desperate actresses are faced with such challenge. She advised actresses to look for…

Veteran Nollywood actor, Bruno Iwuoha, dies at 68
Veteran Nollywood actor, Bruno Iwuoha, dies at 68

Veteran Nollywood actor, Bruno Iwuoha, has died at the age of sixty-eight, after a prolonged battle with diabetes. The Director of Communications, Actors Guild of Nigeria, Monalisa Chinda announced Iwuoha’s death in a statement. The late actor who has starred in several Nollywood movies, won the Best Supporting Actor at the 2007 Africa Movie Academy Awards for…

Barbara Odoh returns to Nollywood in new Yoruba film
Barbara Odoh returns to Nollywood in new Yoruba film

Nigerian actress, Barbara Odoh, known for her role in 1994 Kenneth Nnebue’s Nollywood classic, ‘Glamour Girls’, is set to return to the screen after seven years’ absence in a Yoruba movie, ‘Omije Oloore’. Barbara told the News Agency of Nigeria that she is excited to feature in the movie which will be her first time acting a…

Enyinna Nwigwe’s portrait picked for exhibition in American museum
Enyinna Nwigwe’s portrait picked for exhibition in American museum

A portrait of Nigerian actor and producer, Enyinna Nwigwe,has been selected for a permanent exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art in the United States. The portrait created by a Nigerian-American photographer, Iké Udé was chosen to join thousands of traditional and contemporary African art from both Sub-Saharan and North Africa on permanent exhibition…

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