This is a list of notable Nigerian film screenwriters.
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Ossa Earliece
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Funsho Adeolu
Funsho Adeolu (born 9 May 1968) is a Nigerian actor, film director and film producer.
Early life
Adeolu was born on 9 May 1968 in Ondo State, southwestern Nigeria.
Funsho went to Baptist Academy. He has consistently been credited for Countdow ...
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Kemi Adesoye
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Eric Aghimien
Eric Enomamien Aghimien is a Nigerian director, producer, screenwriter and editor. His debut feature film, '' A Mile from Home'' won awards at both the 2014 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards and the 10th Africa Movie Academy Awards.
Early li ...
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Jeffrey Musa
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Niji Akanni
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Abdulkareem Baba Aminu Abdulkareem Baba Aminu (born Kaduna, 7 July 1977) is a Nigerian journalist, cartoonist, comicbook artist and retailer, painter, writer, poet and culture critic.
Baba Aminu is a commentator on culture. He was one of four judges for KORA Music Awards ...
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Chika AnaduGift Collins-Amadi*
Chet Anekwe
Chet Anekwe is an actor and filmmaker who was born in Nigeria and raised in New York City. His work spans Hollywood, Nollywood and the New York Theater.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
Other awards
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Pascal Atuma
Pascal Atuma is a Canadian-Nigerian actor, screenwriter, film producer, director, and CEO/Chairman of TABIC Record Label (a label dedicated to the less privileged but talented in Africa).
Pascal was born in Ikwuano Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria. H ...
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Ishaya Bako
Ishaya Bako (born 30 December 1986) is a Nigerian film director and screenwriter.
Early life
He was born in Kaduna, where he lived all his life and later moved to London, where he studied at the London Film School.
Career
After attending the L ...
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Toluwani Obayan
Toluwani Obayan Osibe is a Nigerian screenwriter, best known for writing films like '' Ponzi,'' ''This Lady Called Life'', and ''Something Like Gold''. She is also the director of the short film ''Heart & Might'' and author of the book titled Bec ...
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Ola Balogun
Ola Balogun (born 1 August 1945) is a Nigerian filmmaker and scriptwriter. He also ventured into the Nigerian music industry in 2001. Balogun, who has been making films for more than three decades, is part of the first generation of Nigerian filmm ...
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Biyi Bandele
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Nicole Asinugo
Nicole Asinugo is a Nigerian screenwriter, producer and storyteller. She was the Joint Winner of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards for Best writer in a Movie or TV series in 2020 for her first screenplay, '' Living in Bondage: Breaking Fr ...
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Philip Begho
Philip Begho (born 11 January 1956) is a Nigerian writer (dramatist, children's writer, novelist, short story writer, and poet), the author of more than forty books. Born in Warri, Delta State, of an Itsekiri father and a mother of mixed race, ...
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Genevieve Nnaji
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JJ Bunny
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Jude Idada
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Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen
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Emem Isong
Emem Isong is a Nigerian screenwriter, film producer, and film director. She has become known primarily for films in the English language, and is a dominant figure in the Nollywood industry. Her second directed feature, ''Code of Silence'', ...
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Akin Lewis
Akin Lewis (born 1957) is a Nigerian film actor, director, and producer.
Early life and career
Lewis was born on 1957 in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, and grew up in Zaria Kaduna State
He began his acting career in 1973, the same year he joined ...
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Nkiru Njoku
Nkiru Njoku (born 1980) is a Nigerian screenwriter, writer and video producer. She is the head writer of M-net's ''Tinsel'', a Nigerian soap that started airing in 2008. In 2016 Njoku was the head content producer of ''Project Fame West Africa ...
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Charles Novia
Charles Osa Igbinovia (born 20 November 1971), commonly known as Charles Novia, is a Nigerian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, social commentator and essayist. Born and raised in Benin City, the capital of Edo State, Novia is known ...
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Femi Odugbemi
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Kingsley Ogoro
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Stephanie Okereke Linus
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Kehinde Olorunyomi
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Tade Ogidan
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