A number worth stopping on. It is roughly eleven times the national minimum wage, for one person, every month, for medicine alone.

An offhand remark about dating that six outlets picked up. Underneath it is a fairly specific observation about Nigerian men, money and who feels entitled to approach whom.

Neche's exit adds a twist and eight housemates face eviction. Meanwhile the loudest Big Brother story of the week involves two people who left the house four years ago.

A private conversation made public, years after the comedian's death. Nollywood keeps returning to Babatunde Omidina, and the reason is that his last years were a warning nobody acted on.

Days after more than 500 Nigerians offered spiritual treatment for Taiwo Hassan, his family says some of the interest is not what it looks like.

You have no house, and you owe Bella over N30m. That is a specific claim, made publicly, in a dispute that until now had been entirely about who said what.

Theo Ukpaa's Tiger Republic Films has signed a multi-million naira production partnership with ZeeWorld. The interesting part is not the deal. It is which direction the content is travelling.

An Instagram story about an INEC official at his uncle's certificate ceremony. Then a direct message to Adegboyega Oyetola two days later. Nigeria's biggest pop export is campaigning, and nobody is calling it that.

Jide Kosoko says more than 500 Nigerians have come forward offering spiritual treatment for Taiwo Hassan. The actor is in hospital with stage four cancer. The offers are sincere and they are also the problem.

Seven months of public speculation, a breakup nobody announced, and a denial of cheating that arrives with a detail about jewellery. Bella has called him a liar. Neither of them owed anyone this conversation.

Seyi Vibez posted on 14 August. Olaniwun Ajayi LP wrote on 15 August citing defamation and the Cybercrimes Act, with a three-day deadline. The posts are gone. That sequence is the whole story.

The censors board named her Nollywood's box office champion. Her next film, The Four, arrives in cinemas worldwide on 11 December.

King Kosoko: The Battle for Lagos premieres on 28 August. It sits in a month of releases that suggests the industry has found a genre it can build on.

EbonyLife Place London lands on Wandsworth Road in October: a 180-seat cinema, a restaurant, a gallery and a retail floor, built as the UK's first venue dedicated to African and Black film.

Patience Ozokwor has addressed the question that follows her everywhere: why the wicked mother-in-law, why the witch, why always her. The answer says as much about Nollywood's economics as about her.

Big Brother Naija's twenty-four-hour feed has produced an entire secondary industry of commentary channels, clip accounts and reaction creators. For a large part of the audience, that layer is the main event.

Miss Lagos Damilola Bolarinde won the Face of Hope 2026 pageant and with it the right to represent Nigeria at Miss International 2026 in Tokyo in November.

'Call of My Life' leads 2026, but the films behind it span period drama, romance and character study. A varied top ten is a better sign for the industry than a single blockbuster.

A mid-year ranking of Nigeria's highest-grossing screen actors offers a rare look at where box office power really sits, and it is more concentrated than the industry likes to admit.

Season 11 launched with 24 housemates introduced across two nights, the largest opening cast the format has fielded. The size is a format decision with consequences.