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NIGERIA HOLDS 118 OF 122 CINEMAS IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING WEST AFRICA (2025)

Number of Cinemas:
1 🇳🇬Nigeria — 118
2 🇱🇷Liberia — 1
3 🇬🇭Ghana — 3

Total — 122

If you removed Nigeria from the map, the entire region’s cinema infrastructure would effectively vanish, dropping from 122 locations to just 4.

(FilmOne, 2025)

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And Ghana will want to talk even when only Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos can buy Ghana

And majority of the cinemas in Nigeria are located in the southwest.

This establishes our dominance in this sector in West Africa. And a compelling position in Africa

How many percentage of Nigerians under tinubu can afford those cinemas. It's for the rich and they make up less than 10% of our population. The remaining populace are busy looking for what to eat. 😔

Incredible record it is I guess

Achievement 🤣


Oya let's clap for ourselves

So the electricity ghana boasts of is only used to pound foofoo and to refrigerate kenkey...?


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Only about 82.4 people have been to a cinema in the whole Ghana

RichDad1:
And majority of the cinemas in Nigeria are located in the southwest.

Majority of anything & everything entertainment bro..

Are people still going to the cinemas? Silverbird VI and Abuja are essentially moribund! the Genesis Cinema in Akure is often empty. DSTV has been so flooded with movie channels such that the movies are wasting, I wonder if people still watch movies like in the past. I think the sector is in recession.

Estello:
NIGERIA HOLDS 118 OF 122 CINEMAS IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING WEST AFRICA (2025)

Number of Cinemas:
1 🇳🇬Nigeria — 118
2 🇱🇷Liberia — 1
3 🇬🇭Ghana — 3

Total — 122

If you removed Nigeria from the map, the entire region’s cinema infrastructure would effectively vanish, dropping from 122 locations to just 4.

(FilmOne, 2025)

source

Gbadugbakun:
How many percentage of Nigerians under tinubu can afford those cinemas. It's for the rich and they make up less than 10% of our population. The remaining populace are busy looking for what to eat. 😔

Poor man. Your own no dey pass food.

Nigeria is the wealthiest country in West Africa. Ghana and maybe Ivory Coast come next. I'm just surprised that the Abidjan-Paris route is more profitable than Lagos-London or Abuja-London.

So when ignorant people, especially on TwitterNG, say Benin Republic or Burkina Faso are better off than Nigeria, disregard their noise.

And to remember that Anglophone African countries are the wealthiest across the continent. One imagines the multidimensional poverty across Francophone nations.

Tunaji:
Are people still going to the cinemas? Silverbird VI and Abuja are essentially moribund! the Genesis Cinema in Akure is often empty. DSTV has been so flooded with movie channels such that the movies are wasting, I wonder if people still watch movies like in the past. I think the sector is in recession.

I read someone remarked how he and others watched a movie in Maryland Mall, Ikeja, under heat and everyone was sweating.

At the bold, people have gotten poorer since 2015. Buhari was a terrible disaster!

Gbadugbakun:
How many percentage of Nigerians under tinubu can afford those cinemas. It's for the rich and they make up less than 10% of our population. The remaining populace are busy looking for what to eat. 😔

Nigerians av been complaining on what to eat since 1980's. No b today e start. Even when Tinubu leave government, people will still complain and blame those in power then.

Gerrard59:
I read someone remarked how he and others watched a movie in Maryland Mall, Ikeja, under heat and everyone was sweating.

At the bold, people have gotten poorer since 2015. Buhari was a terrible disaster!

And Funke claimed she made over 2 billion from a movie she showed in the cinemas.....

Funkes strategy is to claim she made so much so that people will get intrigued by the sales and believe that the movie must hv been too good to hv made much....thereby making them go pay to watch...only to see that nothing de the movie ... Toyin Abraham uses same strategy

Cinema wey dem dey use Generator watch!!!!

No be lie. Nigerian is big. We have the largest market for a lot of things including entertainment.

cr7lomo:
And Funke claimed she made over 2 billion from a movie she showed in the cinemas.....

Funkes strategy is to claim she made so much so that people will get intrigued by the sales and believe that the movie must hv been too good to hv made much....thereby making them go pay to watch...only to see that nothing de the movie ... Toyin Abraham uses same strategy

Some of you are illiterates. It's the distribution companies that release sales figures not the actors. Actors will only have access to their backend data to see all the cinema admissions.

RichDad1:
And majority of the cinemas in Nigeria are located in the southwest. Lagos

20 more characters needed

Gbadugbakun:
How many percentage of Nigerians under tinubu can afford those cinemas. It's for the rich and they make up less than 10% of our population. The remaining populace are busy looking for what to eat. 😔

no wonder we didn't hear anything about films grossing huge amount of money in the past. The Lord will deliver you.

Tunaji:
Are people still going to the cinemas? Silverbird VI and Abuja are essentially moribund! the Genesis Cinema in Akure is often empty. DSTV has been so flooded with movie channels such that the movies are wasting, I wonder if people still watch movies like in the past. I think the sector is in recession.

People flood cinemas during holidays. You can visit one during such periods and see. Nigerians love fun!

Shimbo96:
no wonder we didn't hear anything about films grossing huge amount of money in the past. The Lord will deliver you.

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Funke Adele movies are from online streaming from viewers across the world and not from cinemas in Nigeria.

Tunaji:
Are people still going to the cinemas? Silverbird VI and Abuja are essentially moribund! the Genesis Cinema in Akure is often empty. DSTV has been so flooded with movie channels such that the movies are wasting, I wonder if people still watch movies like in the past. I think the sector is in recession.

Just because you're not going doesn't mean others are not.

Let's appreciate this little win at least not on the bad side all the time.

Thank you.

Gbadugbakun:
How many percentage of Nigerians under tinubu can afford those cinemas. It's for the rich and they make up less than 10% of our population. The remaining populace are busy looking for what to eat. 😔

Films at cinemas are not as expensive as it may be made too look. Movies are cheap during off holiday periods.

You can visit any one around you to confirm.

RichDad1:
And majority of the cinemas in Nigeria are located in the southwest.

but dominated by the Igbos

RichBoy247:
And Ghana will want to talk even when only Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos can buy Ghana

But na dem still get power supply wey stable

Tunaji:
Are people still going to the cinemas? Silverbird VI and Abuja are essentially moribund! the Genesis Cinema in Akure is often empty. DSTV has been so flooded with movie channels such that the movies are wasting, I wonder if people still watch movies like in the past. I think the sector is in recession.

The culture of cinema will thrive properly when the people have residual income. Thats why we only hear about few top producers taking movies to the cinema

This is tinupoo achievement.


Druggie is working for real

RichBoy247:
And Ghana will want to talk even when only Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos can buy Ghana

haa ha ko ma da

Na only jollof them they drag

Enjoyment capital of West Africa

Entertainment capital of West Africa