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A Sunday Affair is a Nigerian romantic comedy movie directed by Walter Taylaur starring Dakore Egbuson, Nse Ikpe-Etim and Oris Erhuero.

A Sunday Affair is a classic romantic comedy that if you are trying to seek solace in the comfort of familiarity… this might do the trick. If you are looking for something a little more novel… carry on searching.

Sentimental, not much comedy and lots of sentiment in dialogues more than in situations, which don´t have much rhythm making the thing bog down before it has even started.

About the Movie

Netflix is an international company and this is what we like about it. We have in recent times, had the chance to see plenty of movies from Nigeria and there are better and worse ones and this one, unfortunately, is not one of the good ones.

This romantic comedy which was created to please, slips a little...

“A Sunday Affair,” a feature film from Nigeria’s EbonyLife Media, will bow on Netflix on Feb. 14.

Set against the backdrop of Lagos, two best friends, Uche and Toyin, fall in love with Sunday, a charming, yet flawed eligible bachelor. A love triangle ensues with the women unaware that they are dating the same man.

Acclaimed Nigerian actor Nse Ikpe-Etim (“Fifty”) plays Uche, Dakore Egbuson-Akande (“Fifty”) Toyin and award winning Oris Erhuero (“Road to Yesterday”) Sunday. The cast also includes Alexx Ekubo (“Weekend Getaway”), Uzor Osimpkpa (“Fifty”), Chris Iheuwa (“Rattlesnake”) and Hilda Dokubo (“Accidental Affair”).

“A Sunday Affair” is written by Darrel Bristow-Bovey (“Inside Story”) and directed by Walter Taylaur (“Jolly Roger”).

Netflix has an ongoing multi-title deal with EbonyLife, whose “Blood Sisters” was a smash hit for the streamer with 11 million hours viewed since it debuted in May, 2022.

Mo Abudu, CEO of EbonyLife Media and executive producer, said: “ ‘A...

"Fifty" follows four African female lead characters into a riveting exploration of life’s paradoxes; love and lust, faith and logic, power and vulnerability, wisdom and youth, all culminated against the tropically insatiable backdrop of Africa’s fastest growing city, Lagos, Nigeria. After being shortlisted in the ‘Love Category’ of the prestigious BFI London film festival, themed rather befittingly as "The Year of the Strong Woman," those expecting a traditional love story will be challenged by Biyi Bandele’s comparison of love as a playful frivolity in a society where divorce is traditionally crowned as the pit of a woman’s achievements. Tola (Dakore Egbuson) is the...

An explicit sex scene in a new film only highlights the problems Nigeria's film industry has with Lgbt representation

It's not exactly Brokeback Mountain. They look like they're having more fun, for starters – one guy bent over a deluxe sofa getting rogered by his mate: "Yeah! You know I'm a bad boy!"

It's no tearjerking "I wish I knew how to quit you", but it is a tiny piece of history: one of Nollywood's handful of gay sex scenes. It kicks off the film Pregnant Hawkers in typically unapologetic Nollywood style; surprisingly explicit for a country where homosexual sex is still illegal and punishable by death in some states.

Reactions have been, shall we say, mixed. "I'm speechless – are we supposed to accept this trend?" said one blogger. A forum commenter: "This is not good for Nollywood – salt in the wound." Another: "It's time for sympathetically and affirmatively drawn gay characters in Nollywood.