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, ...

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

It has taken nearly 80 years, but a Nigerian movie will finally be screened in a hallowed official slot at the Cannes film ...

At least 23 farmers and fishermen were killed and others abducted by suspected Islamist militants in northeastern Nigeria's ...

The former president of Gabon who was ousted in a 2023 coup has been allowed to leave the country and has flown to Angola with his family.