“Normalize Praying In 2026” – Lateef Adedimeji Urges Nigerians

Lateef Adedimeji and Mo Bimpe

Nollywood actor and movie producer Lateef Adedimeji has urged Nigerians to normalize praying in 2026. He recently had his say via his New Year’s message, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, the reality is that people aren’t jealous of material things anymore, and the enemy is more invested in one’s aura, personality and natural leadership abilities nowadays.

Lateef added that prayers will protect the public from the evil eye because they are now after things money cannot buy.

His words, “Normalise praying. People aren’t jealous of material things anymore. They’re jealous of your Aura, your personality, and the way people love and support you.
Your natural leadership abilities.
Things money can’t buy.”

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.