Africa Magic Viewers Choice Nominees Out Monday

By Funsho Arogundade

With the first ever AfricaMagic Viewers’ Choice Awards about one month away, excitement is building as names of the nominees will be revealed on Monday 28 January during a special edition of glam lifestyle series, 53 Extra.

PMNEWS Entertainment Café learnt that 53 Extra leading ladies, Eku Edewor and Dolapo Oni will be hosting the event at which the nominees will be made public. Joining them will be Jara hosts, Uti Nwachukwu and Helen Paul, on whose Nollywood Update show AMVCA was first launched in October 2012.

Entries for the prestigious awards, to be held in Lagos, Nigeria on March 8 and 9, have closed. Over 350 entries were received, a figure Biola Alabi, M-Net Africa Managing Director finds positive.

“We had a clear idea of how many entries we could expect for such an awards initiative in Africa, based on other events of this nature. This is a specialist event that calls for entries from a very specific professional industry. As such we anticipated about 250 entries in total. So we’re pleased that we were able to exceed our expectations in year one,” she said.

The judging panel for the AMVCAs will also be announced on www.africamagic.tv on 28 January. Led by head judge Femi Odugbemi, the panel convened in Johannesburg early in January to put finishing touches to the list of nominees.

The AMVCA, held in association with MultiChoice and sponsored by Amstel Malta, has been endorsed by Nico Meyer, MultiChoice Africa CEO, as the best thing that has happened to African TV entertainment and film.