Wizkid wins 2012 BET Award

Sarkordie, Iceprince, Lira ,Wizkid, Sway in the BET radio room

Nigerian music prodigy, Wizkid on Sunday July 1, 2012 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles won the Black Entertainment Television (BET) Award in the category of Best International Act – Africa, scooping the award alongside Ghana’s Sarkodie. The duo defeated Iceprince, Lira, Mokobe, and Camp Mulla to cart home the statuette. Last year, Nigeria’s music Icon, 2face Idibia also tied fellow Nigerian D’banj as winners in the category.

Below is the full list of winners:

2face and wife, Annie Macaulay attend Halima Abubakar’s birthday

2face’s African Queen, Annie Macaulay is very close to her Nollywood colleague, Halima Abubakar and I’m sure she was the one that dragged the legendary music act to Halima’s birthday penultimate Saturday.

Find more pictures after the cut.

Africa Day: Tribute to D’banj, Drogba, Wizkid et al

We join African’s worldwide to celebrate the 2012 Africa Day Africa Day. The Africa Day is the annual commemoration on May 25 of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). On this day, leaders of 30 of the 32 independent African states signed a founding charter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

2face Idibia, Tiwa Savage, Waje, D’banj, Wizkid, others headline Star Trek 2012

Gideon Okeke - MC

Nigerian Breweries PLC recenly revealed that top entertainers including 2face Idibia, Tiwa Savage, Waje, D’banj, Wizkid, Obesere, Flavour, 9ice and other top entertainers are headlined for this year’s edition of Star Trek.

Titled ‘Nigeria Rocks‘, this year’s edition of the nation-wide concert will run from May 25 to June 23. Organisers say cities to be covered include Ibadan, Makurdi, Ilesha, Lagos, and Sapele. Others are Awka, Abakaliki, Uyo and Calabar.

 Below are more pix from the gig where the entertainers balled and signed the contract....

2face to storm Akwa Ibom July for Annie Macaulay

If information at the disposal of Connoisseur.com is anything to go by, then multiple-award winning music star, 2face Idibia is set to storm Akwa Ibom, the hometown of his wife-to-be, Annie Macaulay for the traditional marriage rites.

It is learnt that Mr. Innocent Ujah Idibia (2face’s real name) is under pressure to go and see Annie’s family and is considering wrapping up everything on the marriage rites soon.

2face drops ‘Raindrops’ video

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The video of 2face Idibia’s hit song ‘Raindrops’ is finally out. The video was produced by Isaac Offei Awuah of hEKB Studios and shot in Ghana.