Popular Kannywood actor, Yakubu Mato, popularly known as Malam Nata’ala, is dead.PUNCH Online gathered that the veteran actor passed away on Sunday night after a prolonged illness.Mato gained ...

The Hausa-film industry has been struck by fresh sorrow with the passing of renowned actor Malam Nata’ala (also known as Mata ...

Africa’s film industry is underfunded and underutilized — but recent investment from streamers is boosting production opportunities and access to funding for many creators on the continent.

Sharia-enforcing police in Nigeria's northern city of Kano have cancelled a wedding of two TikTok celebrities that was ...

A court in Kano, the largest city in northern Nigeria’s socially conservative north, has ordered two TikTok celebrities to ...

A Nigerian story, My Father’s Shadow, has been selected by the United Kingdom as its official entry for the Best International Feature category at the 98th Academy Awards, becoming the first Nigerian ...

A Hausa socio-political activist, Aliyu Shuaibu has sparked a debate after sharing a video on his Facebook page, where he declared that Hausa people living in Plateau State are also indigenes of the ...

The Nigerian Official Selection Committee has declared that no Nigerian film will be submitted for consideration in the International Feature Film category at the 2026 Academy Awards. In a statement ...

Akinola Davies, the director of "My Father's Shadow", Nigeria's first film to win an award at the Cannes film festival, is savouring his return to Lagos, the country's cultural capital, where the ...

Nile Entertainment, the Nigerian distribution company launched last year by veteran film executive Moses Babatope, has signed a first-look deal with Action Xtreme, the genre label of the U.K.’s ...

The Kano State Censorship Board has stopped the airing and online streaming of 22 Hausa film series that were released without following the required censorship rules. The decision was made after a ...