Streaming platforms in Nigeria

AIT (Africa Independent Television) is a Nigerian news and general entertainment broadcaster, run since 1996 by DAAR Communications plc from its base in Abuja. It is free to watch and funded by advertising. On ait.live, the AIT apps and YouTube you get a round-the-clock live channel plus catch-up programmes such as Kakaaki, Focus Nigeria, Moneyline and News Hour. Everything airs in English and is available to viewers anywhere in the world.

AREWA24 On Demand is an ad-free subscription service streaming entirely in Hausa, the language of Northern Nigeria and the worldwide Hausa diaspora. You get Hausa dramas and series, Kannywood films, music, lifestyle shows and kids’ content, plus originals like Kwana Casa’in, Dadin Kowa, 90 Days and Gidan Badamasi. Watch on the web at tv.arewa24.com, on iOS, Android, Roku, Fire TV and Apple TV, wherever Hausa storytelling feels like home.

AVO TV is a free, ad-supported streaming service built for Africa and beyond. Launched in Nigeria in 2021, it has since grown to more than five million active users across Africa. You get 100 or more live FAST channels, from Nigerian stations such as AIT, Silverbird and TVC to international names like Bloomberg and Al Jazeera, plus over 2,000 Nollywood movies on demand. Everything is completely free with no payment card, just a quick email sign-up. Watch on the web, iOS, Android, Android TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV, or tune in by satellite. It is the easy way to enjoy African entertainment anywhere.

Arise Play is a Nigerian subscription streaming service from Arise Media Group, the company built by Nduka Obaigbena that also owns the THISDAY newspaper and Arise News. It launched worldwide in 2021. The catalogue mixes Hollywood and Nollywood films with documentaries, kids content and its own ArisePlay Originals, alongside licensed titles from partners such as Sony Pictures, FilmOne and BBC Studios, including Luther, Small Axe and Famalam. You watch on the web and on Android. Note that the streaming service is a separate product from the group’s Arise News channel, even though they share a brand and an owner.

Channels Television is Nigeria’s flagship 24-hour news broadcaster, founded by John Momoh in Lagos and on air since July 1995. It streams free, live and around the clock on the web and YouTube, with international bureaus in Johannesburg, Dubai, London and Washington DC. There is no subscription and no on-demand film catalogue, just continuous Nigerian and African news and current affairs.

Circuits is a Nigerian premium service that bills itself as a virtual cinema. Launched in December 2024 by TV Anywhere Limited, it skips the monthly subscription in favour of paying per title. You rent films one at a time, though FlexiWatch passes of 7 or 21 days and a free tier round out the options. Each month brings a tight slate of five to ten curated premieres, each staying around for roughly twelve weeks. The focus is premium Nigerian and African cinema, with exclusives and originals such as Atiko, Seven Doors and Asiri Ade. Built for Nigeria and the diaspora, it runs with no geo-blocking on the web and on Apple and Android devices. There is no live TV, sport or kids section.

CongaTV is a small streaming service for Nigerian and Ghanaian film, covering both Nollywood and Ghallywood, run by The CONGA Company Ltd. It started life as a YouTube channel in 2014, and across 2025 and 2026 it reshaped itself around Nollywood Love Stories, a catalogue of romantic films and series aimed largely at the diaspora. The model mixes a free YouTube funnel with a paid month-to-month subscription for the full library. You watch through the Android app or the website; the iOS app has been withdrawn. It is a niche, romance-led platform rather than a broad general-purpose service.

EbonyLife ON Plus is the premium streaming service of EbonyLife Media, the Lagos company founded and led by Mo Abudu. Released in 2025, it is a relaunch of the earlier EbonyLife ON. The focus is pan-African storytelling: films, series, talk shows and originals, including titles such as The Wedding Party, Baby Farm and Ajosepo. You watch on the web, on iOS and Android, and you can cast to a television. The subscription is paid but pitched as affordable, with playback on up to two devices. It is a curated, brand-led catalogue rather than a sprawling general library, reflecting EbonyLife’s own production slate.

EnfiTV is a young streaming service built around Nollywood and African cinema. Run by the UK company ENFI Entertainment Technologies, it reaches the African diaspora worldwide across {availableCount} countries. Alongside a monthly subscription, it offers per title rentals of new releases and a marketplace where filmmakers upload their own work and earn per view. The catalogue is still growing and streams in HD.

Galaxy TV (Galaxy Television) is Nigeria’s first privately owned independent free-to-air broadcaster, founded in 1994 by Steve Ojo. Its first broadcast went out from Ibadan, and the operation now runs mainly from Lagos. Through galaxytvonline.com and its iOS, Android and Chromecast apps you can watch the live channel for free, plus news and entertainment on demand. The line-up is news-led, with Galaxy Primetime News, talk shows like Be My Guest and Celebrity Zone, Sports Edge and telenovelas. Everything is free and funded by advertising.

ITV Benin, full name Independent Television and Radio, is a free regional Nigerian broadcaster based in Benin City, Edo State. It was Nigeria’s first private television station, licensed in 1993 and on air since 1997. You can stream its live signal plus catch-up news, current affairs and entertainment on itvradiong.com and on YouTube. Expect strong Edo and Benin coverage alongside national and international news, mostly in English. Note that this is not the UK’s ITV or ITVX.

IbakaTV is a Nigerian platform built around Nollywood cinema, launched in 2011 in Lagos by Blessed Idornigie under the iBAKA Entertainment banner. It runs on two tracks: a sprawling free YouTube network with more than 15,000 hours of films and over a million subscribers, plus a standalone subscription app and website. The catalogue spans thousands of Nigerian and Ghanaian (Ghallywood) titles alongside Yoruba-language movies. It is a licensed, aggregated library with no in-house originals, no live TV and no sport. Apps cover iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV and the web, downloads are supported, and streams reach 1080p. It speaks to Nollywood fans and the Nigerian diaspora.

KDN+ is a young, niche streaming service built for the African diaspora, founded in 2024 by King-David Ndubisi and run by the US-incorporated KDN GROUP LLC. It leans into Nollywood films, both classics and newer releases, alongside African drama series and folklore tales, with a handful of titles billed as originals. You can watch on kdnplus.com or through its iOS and Android apps. It runs on a paid subscription and remains an early-stage, small catalogue worth approaching with measured expectations.

Kava is a premium subscription service devoted entirely to Nollywood cinema. Launched in August 2025, it is a joint venture between two giants of Nigerian film, Inkblot Studios and the Filmhouse Group with FilmOne. There are no ads and no free tier, and the platform is squarely aimed at the global Nigerian diaspora as well as audiences back home in Nigeria. The library opens with more than thirty handpicked films and grows by roughly three or four a month, often arriving soon after their cinema run. Look out for titles such as Alakada: Bad and Boujee, Owambe Thieves and House Job. You can watch on the web, iOS and Android, save films for offline viewing, and stream in up to 1080p.

NTA is Nigeria’s national public broadcaster, set up by the federal government in 1977 and now the widest TV network on the African continent. At nta.ng and through its iOS and Android apps you stream five live channels free of charge: news, parliamentary sessions, current affairs, documentaries and entertainment. The service runs on advertising, so there is no fee, and a catch-up archive lets you replay shows you missed. Its home market is Nigeria.

News Central is an independent pan-African news and current-affairs channel that has broadcast around the clock since 2018. Run by News Central Media and founded by Anthony Dara, it is based in Lagos and added a modern Abuja studio in December 2025. At newscentraltv.com you watch a free self-hosted live feed plus clips, with shows like Breakfast Central, Politics HQ, Business Edge and MarketPulse. It also airs on DStv 422, StarTimes 274 and GOtv 23, fully ad-supported.

Nolly Africa HD is a free, ad-supported FAST channel from African Movie Channel, streaming English-language Nollywood films and series around the clock. Programmed from London with studios in Lagos, it pairs curated movies with AMC Originals on a single linear feed. You watch the live schedule rather than browsing an on-demand catalogue, and it reaches viewers across many countries.

StarTimes ON is an African streaming app from the StarTimes Group, blending live TV channels with a deep on demand library. It runs on a free tier plus paid subscriptions and reaches across Sub Saharan Africa with over 17 million users. The pull is football: all 104 matches of the 2026 World Cup, plus Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1, alongside 20,000 plus titles spanning Nollywood, telenovelas and Turkish drama. It streams in 1080p on phones, Android TV and Chromecast, and stays geo locked to Africa.

TVC Entertainment is the free, ad-supported streaming home of Nigeria’s TVC Entertainment channel, operated by TVC Communications in Lagos (formerly Continental Broadcasting Service). You watch in English on iOS, Apple TV, Android and Android TV, or through the web livestream. The line-up leans on locally made shows: the morning programme Wake Up Nigeria, the talk format YourView, music slot Esplash, panel show The Black Table, current-affairs programme The Big Issue and the game show Quickkash, plus movies, music and lifestyle content. It is the entertainment arm of the group and is separate from the sister 24-hour news channel, TVC News.

WAP TV is a free Nigerian family channel from Wale Adenuga Productions, broadcasting the heart of Nollywood from Lagos since 2012. It is the home of beloved shows like Super Story, Papa Ajasco and Company, This Life, Akpan and Oduma, Binta My Daughter and Nnenna and Friends. You can watch everything for free on the web and on a hugely popular YouTube channel with more than 800,000 subscribers. Everything is in English and Pidgin, ad-supported, and made for the whole family.

DAZN is a sports-first streaming service built to compete with traditional pay-TV sports channels. The schedule shifts dramatically from country to country: in Germany it carries the Bundesliga and Champions League matches, in Italy it owns the majority of Serie A, in Japan it runs baseball and boxing. The global side of DAZN remains its combat sports division, where it has become one of the biggest buyers of marquee boxing pay-per-view events.

Netflix didn’t invent streaming but it set the rules everyone else now plays by. With 325 million paying subscribers across 190 countries and a stable of shows like Squid Game, Stranger Things and Wednesday, it still defines what mainstream streaming looks like. Recent pushes into live sports and ad-supported plans show the company is willing to bend its own playbook when the market demands it.

Apple TV+ takes the opposite approach to almost everyone else: no licensed back catalogue, only original productions. The result is a comparatively small library where misses are rare and hits like Ted Lasso, Severance, Slow Horses and For All Mankind have picked up Emmys. A single tier covers 4K HDR with Dolby Atmos, and the service is bundled into Apple One for households already invested in the Apple ecosystem.

Prime Video lives inside the wider Prime bundle, so streaming is only part of what you’re paying for. The content mix is unusual: splashy originals (The Boys, The Rings of Power, Reacher) sit next to a huge catalogue of movies available to rent or buy and a growing set of optional add-on Channels. Prime has also turned into a heavyweight in live sports, from Thursday Night Football to Champions League in select markets.