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 Nigerian film industry was thrown into unexpected controversy during the week after news surfaced that actor, filmmaker and former chairperson of the Enugu state chapter of the Actors Guild of ...

Nollywood actor and director Stanley Amandi has been taken into custody alongside several military officers accused of planning a forceful overthrow of President Bola Tinubu’s government. According to ...

Nollywood filmmaker and actor Stanley Amandi has been arrested in connection with an alleged coup plot involving some Nigerian military officers Amandi, who is also a director and former chairman of ...

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday granted Nollywood actress, Angela Okorie, bail in the sum of ₦5 million in an alleged criminal defamation and cyberstalking case. Justice Emeka Nwite ...

The Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) has reacted to reports linking one of its members, Stanley Amandi, to the alleged plot to overthrow President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration. Amandi, a Nollywood ...

Ace thespian Abubakar Yakubu has assumed office as the new National President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the new president took the oath of ...

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 ...

After a spectacular day of musical talent at Skinner Park in San Fernando, St Margaret's Anglican Primary School and Holy Faith Convent in Penal emerged as winners of the prestigious National Schools ...