Nigeria Entertainment Awards Shows Bias To Its Ghanaian Nominees, Majid Michel, John Dumelo, Ama K. Abebrese & Yvonne Okoro
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| Majid Michel and John Dumelo |
The
NEA, which is in its seventh year, honours African entertainers. It is
scheduled to take place via a grand red carpet ceremony in New York from August
31 to September 2.
Ghana’s
fastest rapper Sarkodie was
nominated for Pan African Artiste Or
Group Of The Year category, while Ghana’s male actors Van Vicker, Majid
Michel, John Dumelo and Chris Attoh were nominated for Pan African Actor. Beautiful
actresses Ama K. Aberese (‘Ties That Bind’), Yvonne Okoro (‘Single Six’) and
Juliet
Ibrahim (‘Crazy Scandal’) are in the Pan African Actress category.
NEWS-ONE is yet to authenticate reports that some
Ghanaian nominees have touched down in New York for the awards ceremony which
takes place tonight.
Some of the nominees are still in Ghana as they do
not know they have been nominated.
Close sources told NEWS-ONE that Majid Michel, Africa’s Best Actor at the last African
Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), Ama K. Abebrese, an AMAA Best Actress, and John
Dumelo didn’t know they were nominated. They are yet to be informed.
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| Majid Michel |
The
awards are entirely based on fan votes via online and SMS, hence whoever gets
more votes will win. Not informing the stars to campaign by encouraging their
fan base to vote for them, automatically kicks them out of the race.
On the part of Yvonne Okoro, she was officially
informed after she complained about the award’s credibility and how things
should be done professionally on social network, twitter.
Interestingly, she was also not invited for the main
award ceremony in New York this weekend.
The interesting development is raising questions in
a section of Ghana’s entertainment industry about the credibility of the
awards.
credit: NEWS-ONE
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| Ama K. Abebrese at the last AMAA Awards |
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| John Dumelo and singer Becca |
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| John Dumelo |
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