This is a compilation of the top 2025 stories published by the leading entertainment platform, eelive.ng. The objective of this article is to shed more light on several articles that encapsulate the events that happened in the Nigerian entertainment industry in 2025.
The Nigerian entertainment sector has been able to publish some outstanding content throughout the year. Some contents are controversial, others are worthwhile, and most videos have been swept under the rug due to the barrage of content that has emerged in the last twelve months.
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In this month of December, entertainers are focusing more on enjoying the Christmas holiday with members of their family and acquaintances after producing interesting content for their audience. Musicians such as Wizkid and Asake are still in the kitchen looking to release one last music project before the year comes to a conclusion. According to the Afrobeats heavyweights, they want to release an enjoyable project for those who want to cruise through the Detty December holiday, after all, it’s only a matter of few weeks.
Amid the Detty December fever, social media users have continued to lament the prices of commodities in the country, including food, clothing, fashion products and even housing. Earlier, eelive.ng reported that social media content creator, Cynthia Okeke who is better known as Cici couldn’t hide her disgust in business owners and how they are extorting fellow Nigerian citizens and those who are in the country for the holidays.
Read what she has to say here.
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Indeed, Nigerians are extremely hardworking people, so, they want to have fun and relax, unfortunately due to the economic crisis in the country, most people can only settle in their apartment and read from the leading entertainment platform, eelive.ng while sipping their glass of wine and eating barbecue.
To make it easier for our readers, eelive.ng has compartmentalized the various top 2025 stories. You can see the various major stories below:
Music
The Nigerian music industry had a lukewarm 2025, with the exception being Asake. He is the standout performer of the year, although he had a difficult commencement earlier, but, the 30-year-old musician is gradually finding his feet as an independent artiste, establishing his own label, Giran Republic.
In 2025, we are witnessing the emergence of Champz, the son of legendary Afrobeats musician; Tems is a Grammy award winner and Burna Boy got into trouble for sending a sleeping lady out of his show. The year had been relatively fair, however, in terms of new releases, none has peaked on major music charts.
See some of the top stories from the Nigerian music industry below:
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Nollywood
The Nigerian movie industry, Nollywood has continued to improve, becoming the biggest movie industry in Africa and the third globally, only behind Hollywood (America) and Bollywood (India movie industry).
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Other Notable Stories
Entertainment in modern times have diversified immensely, courtesy of the emergence of social media and video streaming platforms. Nowadays, the regular Joe can become an influencer, promoting cultural values and driving discussions through the use of their cellphones. Therefore, being a celebrity isn’t only accustomed to those who are in the movie or music industry, skit makers are celebrities as well as fashion designers on Instagram and streamers such as Carter Efe, Peller, Jarvis and Shank.
See more notable stories reported by eelive.ng below:
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