Watching Nigerian movies on the internet

Posted by Felix Okoli on Saturday March 29, 2014 at 13:47:25:

The Nigerian movie industry is the third largest in the world after Hollywood and Bollywood. Before the advent of technological gadgets and the internet, Nigerian movies were only available on Compact Disk CD plates; this meant that anybody who wanted to watch any Nigerian movie would have to purchase the CD plates to watch it. This posed a great challenge to many People, especially Nigerians in the Diaspora who find it difficult to locate and watch Nigerian movies outside the country, and even when they succeed in locating a video clubs that sells Nigerian movies outside the country, they are sold at very expensive prices

With the boom of internet, it is now possible to watch Nigerian movies over the internet. One site that allows people watch Nigerian movies over the internet is irokotv.

Irokotv owned by Jason Njoku, is a site created to showcase only Nollywood movies. Irokotv.com has a collection of thousands of Nigerian movies both old and recently released, and these movies can be viewed over the internet irrespective of your location. Irokotv allows People to visit their website and watch home movies for a monthly fee of $5. With that amount, you can watch as many Nigerian movies as you can afford to watch in a month and these videos are streamlined and easy to connect.

Youtube is another place where Nigerian videos can be viewed on the internet, though the site is not dedicated to just Nollywood movies as irokotv, but they have a fair collection of Nigerian movies for People interested in watching Nigerian movies over the internet.