The Cannes screening of “My Father’s Shadow” by director Akinola Davies Jr marks a milestone for Nigeria’s frantically prolific film industry, nicknamed Nollywood, which is counting on the French ...

My Father’s Shadow is also coming-of-age story – an unusual one for focusing as much on its struggling but well-intentioned ...

At least 20,000 people have fled Marte town following increasing attacks by Islamist militants in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, its governor has said, four years after residents returned to the ...

In May, 2016, a young man got abducted by three men. They drugged him and gouged out his two eyes and testicles. According to ...

Witnesses say a suspected militant attack on two villages in Nigeria has left at least 57 people dead and at least 70 missing in one of the deadliest incidents in the country’s conflict-ridden northea ...

US director Wes Anderson brought his latest A-list cast led by Benicio del Toro to the Cannes film festival on Sunday, ...

Last week, like that proverbial narrative of a spread of witchcraft cells, Nigeria moved from one social and political horror ...

The feature debut of British Nigerian director Akinola Davies Jr. is the first Nigerian film to make the Cannes Film Festival ...

A retired Army col, Tony Nyiam, has warned that Nigeria is dangerously close to the tragedy that befell Sudan under former President Omar al-Bashir, where state-backed militias were deployed to ...