₦airaland Forum

the statistics shock me sef , 118 for where ?

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 say south west nigeria

People use to flood cinema. Especially in festive periods, and in holidays.
When you hear people going out for dating or family hangout, where do you think they are going!

Cinemas are gaining in the angle of outside/public activities.

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.

Wealthiest country does not resonate with the majority citizens being well-to-do.

Talking about adequate community development, ivory coast is ahead nigeria.

Gerrard59:
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.

So Ghana doesn't have cinema with all this shakara they are making?

It is well.

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

Rephrase it to Lagos pls. Hpw many Cinemas are in Ekiti, Osun and Ogun?

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

Eti Osa local government can buy Ghana.. lol.. funny comments like this proof those Namibians really do know what they are talking about.. Ghana has a functioning Government that is numbe 1, a constant power supply, a functioning medical centres and health care system, they have law abiding citizens, adequate security with culpable security personnels they can be proud of. Sound education system, Even their Graduates gets employed on time, SMEs thrives, daily living is not an headache, a well coordinated transport system and a bubbling relaxing and peaceful entertainment lifestyle where agebros will not let you rest because you just want to chill sometimes. It's childish saying so and so can buy so and so, where an average citizen of said nation are getting milked like cows than ever, decaying infrastructure and nonchalant attitude towards any national goal by it's leaders, a substandard education system and an all time moral indecency than Sodom and Gomorrah.. it's is even more sickening given the amount of human resources present in said country. Forget Apc this or that, Nigerians and it's people are not capable of ruling Nigeria or even fixing it. They lack the vision to do so.

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

That would be true at face value.
But on closer inspection, most of it are concentrated in lagos.

Unless you want to deceive yourself, Lagos is not the average SW state.

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

Kaiiii 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wetin Ghana do you this early morning 😂

Silverbird VI was the first in the modern era, and the cinemas halls were much bigger than the smaller ones attached to ShopRite. I'm telling you of an on-the-stop assessment, the prestigious Silverbird with all its razzmatazz seemed to have shut its doors as a result of debts.

I agree with another commentator that people go during festive periods to the smaller centres, but they don't show box-office movies because they are priced out.

Netflix is mostly Ai movies, and you're at risk of hackers. As I said movies are wasting on dstv, epileptic power supply is one of the culprits

President Trump is trying so hard so rejuvenate the movies sector....I repeat the sector is down.

adebayo201:
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.

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

This your early morning banter, stop it

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 bad economy,high costs of living, high inflation rate , high costs of the cinema ticket..made many people not to go to the cinemas .. everyone is focusing on food, how to pay their house rent, pay children school fees and how to survive the hard economy

And how many of those 118 cinemas are functioning effectively and very well now?

How many countries are English speaking in West Africa?

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

Yes it's an achievement 👍

Let's celebrate it

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

Nigeria’s number actually declined if you know how ubiquitous cinemas were before in Yorubaland.

At some point in Lagos , Ibadan, Abeokuta, Oshogbo, Ilesha, Akure etc, you will nearly find a cinema in each street/area with their big bold boards and pictures of films etc.

I see this number increasing rapidly in the nearest future.

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

What about security

Hope Agege pen cinema is not among them.

This is what Google AI gave me when I searched for cinemas in Ghana and these are the top ones o. I'm sure there are other smaller cinemas in Ghana, make una dey try to verify your stats before publishing

ARISHEM:
Hope Agege pen cinema is not among them.

Why shouldn't it be among? Before silverbird, there were cinemas like pen cinema where people go and watch movies and stage plays as far back as the 1960s. I hardly pass that area but as at the early/mid 2000s, the building was still there and hosted stage plays and presentations. That should count as a cinema too

FreeStuffsNG:
Nigeria’s number actually declined if you know how ubiquitous cinemas were before in Yorubaland.

At some point in Lagos , Ibadan, Abeokuta, Oshogbo, Ilesha etc, you will nearly find a cinema in each street/area with their big bold boards and pictures of films etc.

I see this number increasing rapidly in the nearest future.

Those home videos killed the Cinema culture in the 1990's. With the brilliant works of Femi Adebayo, Funke Akindele, Odunlade and others Cinemas are rising again. Most ShopRite stores in the SW and other shopping malls have cinemas inside. The future is bright for cinema business in the SW because the content of these latest films are really impressive. I think the Actors are working very hard and investing more. If Adebayo released Jagun Jagun 2 today he's sure to make billions.

Africa is poor mehnnnn

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

tell us where we can stream "behind the scenes"

dominique:
This is what Google AI gave me when I searched for cinemas in Ghana and these are the top ones o. I'm sure there are other smaller cinemas in Ghana, make una dey try to verify your stats before publishing

Silverbird had problems with Union Bank and most of its assets/businesses have been taken over. This may just be one of those ones no longer active.

FreeStuffsNG:
Silverbird had problems with Union Bank and most of its assets/businesses have been taken over. This may just be one of those ones no longer active.

Ok

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.

Cinemas are not open, according to you, yet film makers are recently raking in billions of Naira in new films just released. For example:

Funke Akindele: N2 Billions
Toyin Abraham: N1 Billion

Are ghosts the ones watching the films in the film houses then?

FreeStuffsNG:
Nigeria’s number actually declined if you know how ubiquitous cinemas were before in Yorubaland.

At some point in Lagos , Ibadan, Abeokuta, Oshogbo, Ilesha etc, you will nearly find a cinema in each street/area with their big bold boards and pictures of films etc.

I see this number increasing rapidly in the nearest future.

And at Akure too. I remember a very popular one called Nero Cinema that I regularly patronised as a secondary school student then.

Believe the popular press at your own peril.

Both of them are good actresses though: Funke Akindele is a graduate of unilag as I am, and I saw her personal touch few years ago. I like Toyin Abraham too, as I told some people few years ago, I thought she was Shola Ama.

dequir:
Cinemas are not open, according to you, yet film makers are recently raking in billions of Naira in new films just released. For example:

Funke Akindele: N2 Billions
Toyin Abraham: N1 Billion

Are ghosts the ones watching the films in the film houses then?

dealslip:
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.

Stop being ignorant and naive ...u think Nigeria is America...keep living in delusion

cr7lomo:
Stop being ignorant and naive ...u think Nigeria is America...keep living in delusion

Learn!! You are young!! Learn!!

What are you saying

Gerrard59:
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.

AbujaLagos:
What are you saying

That Nigeria, with all its issues, is far better than every other country in West Africa.

We fail woefully on safety though.