Category: Art, Media & Entertainment

Nigeria has won a total of 11 awards in the 2017 edition of the Golden Movie Awards Africa (GMAA) held at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel, Accra, Ghana.

Hosted by popular Nigerian comedian, Ayo Makun, and actress Osas Ighodaro Ajibade, the Golden Movie Awards Africa (GMAA) is an annual event that seeks to award excellence in movie making on the African continent and the African diaspora.

Winners at the awards:

• Golden Actor (Comedy) – Lirotha McDonald (Samba)
• Golden Actress (Comedy) – Ade Kelly (Samba)
• Golden Supporting Actor (Comedy) – Dan Davies (A Trip To Jamaica)
• Golden Supporting Actress (Comedy) – Roselyn Ngissah (Amakye & Dede)
• Golden Actor (Drama) – O.C. Ukeje (Catch. ER)
• Golden Actress (Drama) – Kalsoume Sinare (Sala)
• Golden Supporting Actor (Drama) – Wale Ojo (Ayama)
• Golden Supporting Actress (Drama) – Emman Sinare (Sala)
• Golden Actor (Series) – Lirotha McDonald (Samba)
• Golden Actress (Series) – Ade Kelly (Samba)
• Golden Most Promising Actor/Actress – Hauwa Alhahbura (3 Is A Crowd)
• Golden Discovery Actor/Actress – Emman Sinare (Sala)
• Golden Movie (Comedy) – A Trip To Jamaica
• Golden Movie – Lotanna
• Golden TV Series – Samba
• Golden Short Film – Bitter Sweet Wine
• Golden Indigenous – Daggers of Life
• Golden Story (Drama) – Sala
• Golden Sound – Lotanna
• Golden Writer (Comedy) – Ayo Makun (A Trip To Jamaica)
• Golden Writer (Drama) – Kobi Rana (Sala)
• Golden Art Director – Toca MacBaror (Lotanna)
• Golden Director – Toca MacBaror (Lotanna)
• Golden Editor – Laurenne Abdullah & Peter Sedufia (Keteke)
• Golden Cinematography – Toca MacBaror (Lotanna)
• Golden Costumier – Lotanna
• Golden Make-up Artist – Sandra & Hakim (Slow Country)
• Golden Honourary Award – Madam Grace Omaboe (Maame Dokono)

Nigeria has won nine (9) awards at the 13th African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) held at the EKO Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

1. Best animation: Got Flowers (Nigeria)
2. Achievement in production design: ’76‬ (Nigeria)
3. Achievement in makeup: Oloibiri (Nigeria)
4. Best production: ’76 (Nigeria)
5. Lagos state award for best Nigerian film: ’76 (Nigeria)
6. Tony Elumelu award for best comedy: 3 Wise Men (Nigeria)
7. Best actress in a supporting role: Angelique Kidjo (CEO: Nigeria)
8. AMAA lifetime achievement award: Nkem Owoh (Nigeria)
9. Best director: Akin Omotosho (Vaya: South Africa)

The MARKETING EDGE Brands and Advertising Excellence Award provides a unique platform for robust intellectual engagement as well as honours practitioners for their commitment to excellence in the field of branding and marketing.

Outstanding Young PR agency of the Year – Modion Communications

Financial Brand of the Decade – United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA)

Marketing Personality of the Decade – Bunmi Oke, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, 141Wordwide and Tunji Olugbodi, Executive Vice Chairman of Verdant Zeal Group

Lifetime Marketing Achievement – Ekwunife Okoli

Telecoms Brand Leadership Award- MTN

Outstanding Customer-Centric Telecoms Brand of the Year – Airtel

Innovative Telecom Brand of the Year- Etisalat

Outstanding Dairy Brand of the Year – Peak Milk

Outstanding Brand Re-Launch of the Year – Union Bank

Outstanding Cola Brand of the Decade – Coca-Cola

Media Advertising Personality of the Year – Emeka Okeke

Nigerian actress, movie producer and script writer, Funke Akindele-Bello aka Jenifa is being celebrated in the CNN African Voices, sponsored by Nigeria’s foremost telecommunications operator, Globacom.

The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has won the maiden edition of the Young Creative Awards (YouCrea) with a 1 million Naira prize organised by O2 Academy School of Advertising in Lagos.

The competition featured outstanding final year students of UNILAG, Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) and the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ).

The competitors, who were into three teams – Star Wars (UNILAG), Avatar (Yabatech) and Matrix (NIJ) – were earlier hosted to an all-expense paid one-week boot camp by O2 Academy for “hands-on” training by advertising practitioners.

They produced advertising briefs against smoking in partial commemoration of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO’s) World “No Tobacco Day” marked every May 31.

UNILAG’s 15-minute campaign, with the theme: Go Ahead, Smoke Yourself to Death, was adjudged the best by a panel of judges comprising the managing directors Creative Zone, Extreme Ideas, 141 Worldwide and Black Sea Communications, among other advert agencies.

Founder of O2 Academy, Ozoemene Mbanefo, who presented the award, said the next edition of YouCrea will include competitors from the University of Nigeria at Nsukka (UNN), University of Ibadan (UI) and the University of Benin (UNIBEN).

Mr. Ozoemene Mbanefo added;

“We felt a need to take advertising to higher institutions. The only way we can do so is to bring in some form of competition because competition is very healthy and it inspires people to do more.

So, Young Creative Awards is simply to inspire schools to inspire interest among more young, talented people in advertising, making advertising more ‘cool’ and interesting again.

I think more schools should engage YouCrea because that way we have a platform that connects the town and gown.”

UNILAG’s team of five students comprised Mass Communications students Abidemi Adesokan, Aboaba Tunde, Omomoh Tamara, Misturah Owolabi and Onike Qudus.

Akwaeke Emezi has emerged the African region winner for the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize with her work – Who is Like God.

Commonwealth Writers has partnered with Granta magazine to give regional winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize the opportunity to be published by Granta online. Akwaeke Emezi’s Who is Like God as well as the work of other regional winners will be published on www.granta.com every Tuesday from 30 May until 27 June (‘Who is Like God’, Akwaeke Emezi – 13 June), in order from East to West across the Commonwealth.

Another Nigerian who also was part of the shortlist is Kelechi Njoku with the story – By Way of a Lifeplot.

Ingrid Persaud from Trinidad and Tobago won the 2017 Commonwealth Writers’ Short Story Prize for “Sweet Sop” – a story exploring harrowing themes of fractured families, death and terminal illness, through the medium of chocolate.