The Nigerian entertainment are here

Image: Kola Oshalusi/Insignia/One Africa Music Fest The Nigerian Entertainment Awards are here again! As it is status quo with award shows, they’re set to recognise the impact of Nigerian entertainers who are contributing to the growth of the entertainment industry in their own respective ways The nominee’s list is a long one with a few categories: Music, Film/TV Categories as well as others and we’re trying to predict who we think would win the award if we were the judges. The 2016 NEAs will be held on September 3rd, 2017 in New York City, during the labour day weekend. Best African Female Artist What We Think: Vanessa Mdee easily. Her collaborations with Reekado Banks and Orezi are major hits! Best African Male Artist What We Think: First, DJ Maphorisa is supposed to be here. We’ll go with Sarkodie any day. He’s like the Ghanaian king of Nigerian music. Best Afropop Male Artist What We Think: Really tough category. Points to Davido and Tekno for consistency. So we’ll say one of the two. Best Afropop Female Artist What We Think: Nini dey oh oh eh! Best Single What We Think: Mad Over You or Pana. Best Album What We Think: Between Adekunle Gold’s ‘Gold’ and Kiss Daniel’s ‘New Era’ for us. Why is MC Galaxy’s album even there? Best Diaspora What We Think: Jidenna or Wurld for us. Best New Act What We Think: Everybody here kinda has the potential to win. Zoro has dropped major hits and so has Tjan so we’re going with one of the two. Best Rap Act What We Think: Man, there’s Skales on a rap nominees list so we don’t even know. Olamide maybe? Best Indigenous What We Think: Give Flavour that award. Best Music Video What We Think: We think the good videos aren’t even here but we’ll stick with Tjan or Wizkid. Best Collaboration What We Think: Temper by Skales and Burna Boy came with so much co-ordination and harmony so yeah. Best Dancehall What We Think: Timaya or Burna Boymaybe? Best Music Producer What We Think: Everybody here did great this year. Masterkraft or Kris Beatz maybe? Best Promising What We Think: Nonso Amadi or Odunsi? Do you agree with our predictions? Do you think not? Want more stories like this? No long talk. Simply enter your email address, (or phone number) below and we'll hook you up. Sharp.