Peter OgbemudiaPeople who still prefer old-fashioned tales with power, pride, romance, royal politics and family tension are welcome to the Nollywood royal drama Throne of Games which arrived at the perfect time. It was made under Precious Kadiri Films banner with Ruth Kadiri as executive producer. Iyke Odife directed it and it was released through the RuthKadiri247 platform in May 2026.
Although the film’s title quickly makes people think of Game of Thrones, the story is very much Nollywood at heart. It’s based on a kingdom, a great king, a woman who will not bend and the emotional battle that ensues after love, ego and authority collide in one palace. While the focus on King Odili, Queen Lotana and Akam is clear, the film also benefits from an extensive supporting cast comprising palace attendants, family members and villagers that help to establish its royal context.
Cast of Thrones of Games
This is the basic breakdown of the cast of Throne of Games and their respective roles.
Qwasi Blay as King Odili
Qwasi Blay is the star of Throne of Games, as the leading man character named King Odili. King, feared by the inhabitants of Umora, is a character who has never been questioned about his actions and requirements. Odili is not portrayed as soft and easy. He is full of pride and control and aware of the power of the throne.
Qwasi Blay’s acting is one of the best aspects of the film as one of the main characters, the King is by no means a standard antagonist. He displays the hubris of a man who thinks he is entitled to the kingdom, and lets viewers see the confusion and pain that lie beneath that pride. Things start to go sour for King Odili as the narrative continues, particularly when he meets Lotana instead of respecting him, he only finds that she doesn’t fear him.
His character weighs heavily on the film. The film presents the message of love as a trip into the realm of humility, and tells the story of power, male egos, repentance and the question of whether a proud man can change.
Osas Ighodaro as Queen Lotana
Osas Ighodaro stars as Lotana / The woman who becomes Queen Lotana. She is the heart of Throne of Games. Lotana is no palace bride who meekly accepts what is thrust upon her. She is doreen, speaks rough, and has her dignity at heart, even in front of a king.
Her role is crucial because the whole story revolves around the fact that she will NOT submit. When Lotana offers the king a challenge that is not expected, it begins the beginning of an arduous path. When forced to come to the palace, she is haunted by another man’s pregnancy, leading to an emotional battle between the two royal marriages.
Osas adds to the character’s elegance and strength. She is aware of how to carry pain without making Lotana weak. Her nerve and her softness make her performance effective. The viewer can see how the king falls in love with her but can also see why she lasts to flee from him for so long.
Toosweet Annan as Akam
Toosweet Annan is the man that had his name attached to lotana’s heart, even before she entered the palace and at the time of her painful voyage. He adds a unique sort of vitality to this narrative. While King Odili represents power, Akam represents the love Lotana chooses for herself.
Teo Sweet Annan is particularly noted for his romantic and emotional roles and that’s what Throne of Games has him do. He gives Akam a calm, steady presence. He might not be the loudest character in the story, but he is important because he is the one that keeps Lotana’s heart divided even after she’s crowned as a queen.
Akam’s presence in the movie is one of the most interesting points in the story. Lotana marries a king, but is attached to another man’s heart. That battle threatens Akam’s existence and leads to questioning the life-giving power of love in the face of power, fear, and survival.
Oby Titus
Oby Titus stars in Throne of Games, and contributes to the palace and family aesthetic of the movie. In a royal drama like this, supporting actors are not just background faces. In order to make the world around the king and queen come to life, they help create it.
Oby Titus is familiar to many Nollywood viewers through motherly, family and community roles. Her presence fits the emotional tone of a story where parents, elders and palace voices all have something to say about love, marriage and duty. Setting aside the main characters and characters of honor, the supporting cast in Throne of Games highlights how quickly personal choices turn public matters when royalty is involved.
Faithia Williams Balogun
Faithia Williams Balogun is one of the most notable names to feature in the overarching cast of Throne of Games. A well-acclaimed Nollywood actress, she has worked in various films in Yoruba and English language for a considerable number of years. When you specify her name, audiences do not get it wrong for strong performances, because they know her from her performances.
In a palace story, an actress such as Faithia comes easily into the mold of people who need to be assertive, of tradition and the emotional control in their art. Her presence of spirit, whether in the role of a personage from the story world, as an elder or strong woman, adds depth to a film. Throne of Games wouldn’t have the same impact without its series of veteran actors who have a clear comprehension of the cadences of Nollywood royal racket.
Gloria Tega
The cast also includes Gloria Tega. She’s one of those actors that helps complete the world of the actors in the village and palace for the movie. These roles are important in stories such as Throne of Games as they bring reactions, gossip, warnings, and emotional support for the main characters.
Her presence allows the story to break out of the confinement of the king and queen to include other characters. A royal drama requires people citing a tension, and saying a word or two in conversation with it, and it requires people who are afraid of the throne, reject the decision, or accompany the leading characters. Gloria Tega adds to that complete world.
Lola Nweze
Lola Nweze joins the cast list of Throne of Games. The role of women characters in nollywood palace films usually shows the influence of tradition, keeping family and the society expectation. Actors in these parts help to make it easier for a character like Lotana to have a lot of resistance for standing up for herself.
Lola Nweze’s performance enhances the film’s community aspect. Her job is one of a larger web of human actions that are involved in the royal war – everything the king or queen does has a ripple effect on others in the kingdom.
Chinwe Idemili
Another cast member, who is also credited in the movie is Chinwe Idemili. She is among the familiar faces of RuthKadiri247 that have been spotted on their projects. She can handle emotional family drama, and yet she does fit into this sort of story, which combines the romance of the couple with the pressure exerted on them by any parents or elders.
Chinwe and other supporting characters bring the story down to Earth in Throne of Games. It’s a film about a throne, but it’s also a film about people who are ordinary, who become involved in the decisions of powerful people. That is one of the reasons it is a film with Nollywood aesthetics.
Ngozi Echems
Ngozi Echems is in the cast listing and plays a role in the film’s ensemble. Royal dramas require a host of characters such as those at the court, in the family, in the kingdom, and others. In that broader narrative space, Ngozi takes her place.
The participation of various people in the set makes the audience feel that Umora is not a set, but a community in which the king reigned. These aren’t the only things that make up the poster but they help make the drama more believable.
Simon John
In addition Simon John is also credited in Throne of Games. In palace dramas, men whose roles are not the leading ones, and some female actors, are usually portrayed as guardians, messengers, friends, counsellors or men of the kings. These sorts of characters are crucial because they bear witness to the role of the king’s authority and what happened in the king’s court.
The addition of Simon John is a good addition to the circle of men around the throne. These figures around King Odili are the ones that demonstrate the pressure of being a king and acting like one, in a story where his authority is always being challenged.
Anita Nwokora
The cast includes Anita Nwokora. Female characters in the supporting cast of a movie that is about a woman forced into a royal marriage are highly significant. They tend to be an early warning, a comfort, a judgement and silent understanding.
Her presence brings to the central action an emotional context. There’s more to it than who sits on the throne for Throne of Games. It’s also about how women exist within systems that would make decisions about their lives for them.
Justice Moneke
Justice Moneke is listed among the actors in the movie. His presence is there in the big palace and big kingdom that gives an epic feel to the movie. In the case of royal Nollywood movies, each and every guard, elder, attendant/ Kingdom man contributes to the impression that the throne is larger than one.
Justice Moneke’s role within the cast acts as a continuation of the power and order that pervades all elements of King Odili.
Vera Ene Idakwo
Throne of Games star Vera Ene Idakwo is not one to be taken lightly. Her inclusion is as part of a larger array of characters giving the film the appropriate amount of faces and voices to feel like a living kingdom.
A royal drama requires women in various roles; members of the family, palace staff, and villagers among them. Vera’s role is intended to add flesh to the other story and to add texture to Vera’s world.
Darlington Opara
Other actor names mentioned include that of Darlington Opara. His name is part of a group of supporting characters that help fill out the movie’s royal cast. This is the kind of movie where everything isn’t always in the main character’s hands, and in this case, it can be helpful to have some smaller roles as they make the palace seem busier, more formal and well controlled.
Darlington adds to the setting up around the king, the queen, and the story’s key conflict.
Iyke Odife
Iyke Odife is best known here as director of the Throne of Games, but is also credited with the production under his name. It can be felt throughout the film, as it overwhelmingly embraces the Nollywood studio-house palette and psychopathologies. The film adopts long extended tearful scenes, an encounter between the king to the royal grandeur and the costumes and some power-packed dialogues to recreate the ambiance of the bygone era of epics as seen in Nollywood films.
Iyke Odife leads the show as director, ensuring the performances of the lead cast and making sure that the themes of love, pride, power and change keep the line of the story in check.
Ruth Kadiri
Ruth Kadiri is both the face of the movie’s creators, RuthKadiri247 and the executive producer. Though not always the main character in the narration, her unique touch is evident. Through the steady production of easily accessible films with popular actors and emotion-driven plot, Ruth Kadiri has garnered a large audience in YouTube Nollywood.
Throne of Games opens up in royal epic territory and offers viewers a double bill of a two-part story that feels larger than the typical modern love story. Her involvement in the production is among the factors that caused the movie to be given quick hype on the internet.
Precious Kadiri
Throne of Games was made by Precious Kadiri under the production banner “Ruth Kadiri Films”. This kind of movie needs complete coordination, casting, costumes, location, palace design and a vast support team. As a producer, Precious Kadiri rallied the whole thing.
It’s obvious that the film was not just intended for a simple love story to YouTube Nollywood fans by its scale of actors and its royal backdrop.
Final Thoughts on the Cast of Throne of Games
Throne of Games’ most significant depth lies in its principal cast of Qwasi Blay as King Odili, Osas Ighodaro as Queen Lotana and Toosweet Annan as Akam. The movie has a lot of heat, pain and emotional tug because of their love triangle. The other characters augment it and add to the royal pageantry around it.
It’s a movie about power, pride, forced love, emotional punishment and slow change that can occur when a man accustomed to control encounters a woman who seems like she can’t be controlled.
