Music Of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards

The MOBO Awards are awards in "Music of Black Origin", established in 1996 by Kanya King and Andy Ruffell. It is held annually in the United Kingdom to recognise artists of any ethnicity or nationality performing black music.
In 2009, the awards ceremony was held in Glasgow for the first time. Until then, it had been held in London. In 2011, the ceremony returned to Scotland for a second time.
Kanya King launched the MOBO awards in 1996 aiming to establish a platform for music that, according to King, encompasses urban, hip hop, R&B and reggae. After failing to raise support for her plan, she raised funds by re-mortgaging her house.
1998
The award were held at The Royal Albert Hall and hosted by Mel B and Bill Bellamy. Performers and presenters included footballer Sol Campbell, girl band All Saints, DJ Trevor Nelson, boxers Lennox Lewis and Chris Eubank, Puff Daddy, Chaka Khan, Goldie, Another Level, and Martine McCutcheon. Contribution to Black Music went to Carl McIntosh and B.B.King won the Lifetime Achievement Award.
1999

The Nigeria Entertainment Awards In Retrospect

2007 NEA Awards Winners
Best album of the year - Grass 2 Grace(TufaceIdibia)
Hottest single of the year - Why Me (Dbanj)
Best new act of the year - Tosin Martin
Indigenous musician of the year - Lagbaja
Best collabo of the year - P Square & Weird Mc (Bizzy Body Remix)
Best afro pop act of the year - Dbanj
Gospel artist of the year - Sammy Okposo
Neo afrobeat artist of the year - Femi Kuti
Best international album of the year - Eldee (Return Of The King)
Best international single of the year - Capable (Banky)
Best international producer of the year - Mic Tunes
Best international gospel choir rccg - Jesus House, DC
Music producer of the year - Don Jazzy

The Channel O Music Video Awards 2013

Channel O Africa Music Video Awards, once known as Spirit of Africa Music Video Awards are Pan-African music awards organised by South Africa -based Channel O television channel. The awards were first held in 2003 under the name Reel Music Video Awards. Since 2005 the awards
have been held annually. The winners are voted by Channel O's viewers across the continent.
(VENUE: - Walter Sisulu Square in Soweto, South Africa
HOSTS: - AKA (South Africa) and Naeto C (Nigeria)
SPECIAL RECOGNITION: - P-Square (Nigeria)
WINNERS: -
Most Gifted Kwaito Video: Professor feat Oskido and Character - "Fingerprints" (RSA)
Most Gifted Ragga/Dancehall Video: P-Unit feat Collo - "You Guy (Dat Dendai)" (Kenya)
Most Gifted RnB Video: Banky W - "Yes/No" (Nigeria) Most Gifted Hip-Hop Video: AKA - "Jealousy" (RSA)
Most Gifted Dance Video: Mafikizolo feat Uhuru -
"Khona" (RSA)
Most Gifted Afro-Pop Video: The Soil feat Zakwe -
"Inkomo" (RSA)
Most Gifted African East Video: P-Unit feat Collo - "You Guy (Dat Dendai)" (Kenya)
Most Gifted African West Video: P-Square -
"Alingo" (Nigeria)
Most Gifted African South Video: Oskido feat Candy - "Tsa-Mandebele" (RSA)
Most Gifted Newcomer Video: Khaya Mthethwa -
"Move" (RSA)
Most Gifted Duo/Group?Featuring Video: ZoneFam - "Contolola" (Zambia)
Most Gifted Female Video: Zonke - "Feelings" (RSA)
Most Gifted Male Video: Zeus feat AKA and Tumi - "#DatsWasup" (Botswana and RSA)
Most Gifted Video Of The Year: Wizkid -
"Azonto" (Nigeria)
Incase You wondering how they got their here is the full nominees list:
All the nominees:
This year's list of nominees features many longstanding members of the African music scene, among them South Africa's Oskido (Tsa Mandebele, nominated for Most Gifted African – Southern), Zimbabwe's Buffalo
Souljah (Basawine, nominated for Most Gifted Ragga Dancehall Video), and Mozambique's Lizha James (Vais Rochar with Anselmo Ralph, nominated for Most Gifted Female).
The list of nominees is also bursting with new faces, including the five contenders in the Most Gifted Newcomer category – South Africans Moneoa (Is'Bhanxa) and Idols Season 8 winnerKhaya Mthethwa (Move), Nigeria's Lola Rae (Watch My Ting Go) and Burna Boy (Tonight) and Kenya's Victoria Kimani (Mtoto). The multiplicity of genres in this category – from Dance Pop to contemporary Afrobeat and Afro-fusion – provide a brilliant glimpse into the diversity of sounds that currently define Africa's music scene.
To celebrate a decade of recognising the best African contemporary music talent, the 10th Annual Channel O Africa Music Awards has expanded the prestigious Most Gifted Video of the Year category to 12 nominees, increasing the pressure on nominees in the most fiercely fought category at
the awards.
The category reveals the mix of newcomers and established artists – a signal of the growing maturity of Africa's music
scene.
South African duo Mafikizolo's Khona is up for Most Gifted Video of the Year as well as Most Gifted Dance Video, and Nigeria's P Square proves their ongoing popularity with the nomination of Alingo for the Most Gifted Video of the Year as well as Most Gifted African – West.
The Most Gifted Video of the Year category also includes hotshot newcomers, among them Kenya's Xtatic whose track with Priddy Ugly and AKA, Hit 'Em Up, is making a strong bid for the title. AKA himself is making his presence felt at this year's awards: alongside his featuring spots with Xtatic and Zeus, his video Jealously is in the running for Most Gifted Video of the Year and Most Gifted Hip Hop Video.
Another nominee in the Most Gifted Video of the Year category is Kenya's STL whose Stella Stella Stella has also put her in contention for Most Gifted Female where she's up against Lizha James (Vais Rochar), South Africa's Zonke (Feelings), Toya DeLazy (Heart) and Nigeria'sTiwa Savage (Without My Heart featuring Don
Jazzy).
Most Gifted Male nominees include Botswana's Zeus featuring AKA and Tumi, (#Datswasup, also in the running for Most Gifted Video of the Year) along with
Nigeria's Iyanya (Flavour) and Wizkid (Azonto), South Africa's Donald (Over The Moon) and
Tanzania's Ay featuring Marco Chali (Party Zone).
The 10th Annual Channel O Africa Music Video Awards will have all the makings of a thrilling affair when the live event takes place on Saturday, 30 November at Walter Sisulu Square, in Kliptown Soweto.
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Messi, Ribery and CR7 In a tug of War for the Ballon D'or

It is no longer news that the most prestigious award in football history will be dolled out on the 13th of January 2014 which is precisely 6 days from now!!
We will love to know your views as to who deserves to win this award amongst the 3 finalists and who you Think should have made the last 3 but was left out!!! Thanks, don't forget to share with you friends and family!

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FIFA BALLON D'OR NOMINEES

If you are football lover and you pitch your camp with a particular team in whatever league of your choice around the world you'll know for sure that the rivalry between Messi and Ronaldo spans beyond the usual La Liga El Cashico rivalry but extends onto the world scene as well.
If you didn't forget Fifa.com Football's world governing body has announced the 3 finalist for the most prestigious Individual award In the History of the Game The Golde Ball (Ballon D'or).
The full list of nominees and categories are:
The contenders for this year's FIFA Ballon d'Or award for the best player of 2013 and for the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year 2013 award were announced on FIFA.com, francefootball.fr and YouTube.
In alphabetical order, the FIFA Ballon d'Or nominees are:
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Lionel Messi (Argentina) and
Franck Ribéry (France), while Nadine Angerer (Germany),
Marta (Brazil) and Abby Wambach (USA) will contest the women's award.
The candidates for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men's Football and FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women's Football awards were also announced. In alphabetical order, the contenders are:
Sir Alex Ferguson (Scotland/Manchester United FC former coach), Jupp Heynckes (Germany/FC Bayern München former coach) and Jürgen Klopp (Germany/Borussia Dortmund)
for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men's Football award, and
Ralf Kellermann (Germany/VfL Wolfsburg), Silvia Neid (Germany/German national team) and Pia Sundhage (Sweden/ Swedish national team) for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women's Football award.
All the nominees were confirmed after a voting process which was open to the captains and head coaches of the men's and women's national teams of the 209 member associations as well as to international media representatives selected by FIFA and France Football voted for candidates.
The percentages of the collected votes are as follows (number of votes/number of associations):
Voting for men's awards:
Member associations (captains & coaches): 88%
Media representatives: 94% Voting for women's awards:
Member associations (captains & coaches): 83%
Media representatives: 70%
The voting procedure for each of the awards is supervised and monitored by the independent observer PricewaterhouseCoopers
(PwC) Switzerland.
The shortlist of 15 forwards for the FIFA FIFPro World XI was also announced, completing the final shortlist of 55 players also featuring five goalkeepers, 20 defenders and 15 midfielders.
The forward shortlist is (home country, club):
Sergio Agüero (Argentina, Manchester City FC); Mario Balotelli (Italy, Manchester City FC/AC Milan); Edinson Cavani (Uruguay, SSC Napoli/Paris Saint-Germain FC); Diego Costa
(Spain, Club Atlético de Madrid); Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal, Real Madrid CF); Didier Drogba (Côte d'Ivoire, Shanghai
Shenhua FC/Galatasaray SK); Radamel Falcao (Colombia, Club Atlético de Madrid/AS Monaco FC); Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden, Paris Saint-Germain FC); Robert Lewandowski
(Poland, Borussia Dortmund); Mario Mandžukić (Croatia, FC Bayern München); Lionel Messi (Argentina, FC Barcelona); Neymar (Brazil, Santos FC/FC Barcelona); Wayne Rooney
(England, Manchester United FC); Luis Suárez (Uruguay, Liverpool FC); Robin van Persie (Netherlands, Manchester United FC).
See the full list on FIFA.com:
http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/world11/index.html
In addition, the three nominees for the FIFA Puskás Award for
the "most beautiful goal of the year" were announced. They are (in alphabetical order of the goalscorers' names): Zlatan
Ibrahimović (13 November 2012, Sweden v. England, international friendly), Nemanja Matić (13 January 2013, SL Benfica v. FC Porto, Liga ZON Sagres (Portugal)) and Neymar (15 June 2013, Brazil v. Japan, FIFA Confederations Cup).
All the awards will be presented at the FIFA Ballon d'Or award ceremony at the Kongresshaus in Zurich on 13 January 2014 during a televised show to be streamed live on FIFA.com and
FIFA on YouTube.
In addition to the above awards, the recipient of the FIFA Presidential Award and the winner of the FIFA Fair Play award
will also be revealed during the award ceremony.
Do not forget that Franck Ribery is the current European Player of the Year! The Award Invented by Uefa.com to replace the Ballon Dor after it was merged with Fifa.com's Male World footballer of the Year in 2010.
Lionel Messi has won the first 3 FIFA Ballon D'or at the expense of Iniesta (1ce) and C. Ronaldo (2ce) this is the 4th edition of the Award since inception in the 2010.
We all know that Messi his currently and out of play while his absense has been well filled by Neymar and Sanchez both grabbing hattricks in his absense, however, Ronaldo has being having a good day even before Messi got Injured, scoring 29 goals in 21 appearances so far!!! And Franck Ribery also recently won the FIFA World Club Cup MVP in the just concluded tourney after helping Bayern Munich Win their 4th Trophy for the Year 2013!
The issue of who will win the most prestigious Award in Football for the year 2013 still remain a hard nut to crack, however, the suspense comes to halt as all road leads to the Kongresshaus, Zurich come jan 13 2014! Don't Miss It, that is actually 4 days after the Glo-Caf Awards Night! Have A sporting year Ahead!!!
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THE BBC AFRICAN FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR 2013

The BBC African Footballer of the Year is an annual
award given to the best African footballer of the year as
voted by the BBC radio listeners. Voting is done via SMS
and online.
To view the list of past winners click here
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_African_Footballer_of_the_Year
The nominees for this year's award were:
The five-man list:
John Mikel Obi Nigeria
Pierre-Emerick Gabon
Victor Moses Nigeria
Jonathan Pitroipa Burkina Faso
Yaya Toure Ivory Coast.
And the WINNER is Yaya TOURE of IVORY COAST!!!!
In case you don't know; Toure is widely recognised as one of the finest midfielders of his generation. He is a general on the pitch who commands
respect from every quarter. He joined his current club Manchester City in 2010 and helped them win the English Premier League in 2012 - their first league title for 44 years as well as the FA Cup and the Community Shield.
And Now many will say how did he get to win the award? Let's look at his performance in the year 2013!
2013/14 English Premier League
GAMES GOALS ASSISTS SHOTS
19. 10. 3. 34
Get more details here www.whoscored.com/Players/14053
Compared to his counterparts in the same league division name
Mikel Obi
2013/14 English Premier League
GAMES GOALS ASSISTS SHOTS
14. 1. 1. 3
Victor moses who was mikel's teammate for the 2012/2013 season
2013/14 English Premier League
GAMES GOALS ASSISTS SHOTS
13. 1. 0. 10
Stats courtesy of www.espnfc.com
The stats already clarifies any iota of doubt that may exist in the minds of the doubting thomases who seem to believe otherwise.
Even though it is believed that CAF of recent have favoured the Francophone African nations/players and BBC because it is British have always nominated and thus awarded English speaking players.
However, the winner of this year's award hails from a francophone African Nation is coincidentally the 5th pure Francophone player to follow the likes of el-hadji Diouf, Didier Drogba, Christopher Katongo, Patrick Mboma etc.
Aside from Nigeria who has won the BBC African Footballer of the Year Award 5 times and Ghana 4 times, the loads of other players who have won this award do not hail from Anglophone African Countries.
It is however clear and glaring that Yaya Toure was and is a worthy winner of this prestigious Award!!
We are all set and ready for the GLO-CAF Awards Night which holds on the 9th of January To see if Yaya will add another laurel to himself and follow the path of players who have won both Awards the same Year! Will Yaya Toure make it a double?? Watch out for the "Etihad Machinery" called "Yaya Toure"

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GLO-CAF AWARDS 2013 Nominees

The Confederation of African
Football (CAF) has released
the nominees for the 2013
African Player of the Year and
the African Player of the Year
(Based in Africa).
Twenty-five (25) players
made the cut for the flagship
African Player of the Year
category, and twenty-one (21)
for the African Player of the
Year (Based in Africa).
The winners will be announced at the Glo-CAF Awards Gala
scheduled for Thursday, January 9, 2014 in Lagos, Nigeria.
Ivorian Yaya Toure is the reigning African Player of the Year
and Mohamed Aboutrika of Egypt for the African Player of
the Year (Based in Africa).
The nominees are (in alphabetical order);
African Player of the Year
Name Country Club
Ahmed Musa Nigeria CSKA Moscow
Asamoah Gyan Ghana Al Ain
Dame N'Doye Senegal Locomotiv Moscow
Didier Drogba Cote d'Ivoire Galatasaray
Emmanuel Emenike Nigeria Fenerbahce
Islam Slimani Algeria Sporting Lisbon
John Mikel Obi Nigeria Chelsea
Jonathan Pitroipa Burkina Faso Stade Rennais
Kévin Constant Guinea AC Milan
Kwadwo Asamoah Ghana Juventus
Luís Carlos Almada Soares –
(Platini)
Cape Verde AC Omonia
Mehdi Benattia Morocco AS Roma
Mohamed Aboutrika Egypt Al Ahly
Mohamed Salah Egypt Basel FC
Nicolas Nkoulou Cameroon Marseille
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Gabon Borussia Dortmund,
Ryan Isaac Mendes da Graça Cape Verde Lille
Saladin Said Ethiopia Wadi Degla FC
Seydou Keita Mali Dalian Aerbin F.C
Sofiane Feghouli Algeria Valencia
Sunday Mba Nigeria Warri Wolves
Victor
Wanyama Kenya Southampton FC
Vincent Enyeama Nigeria Lille
Yao Kouassi Gervais
'Gervinho'
Cote d'Ivoire AS Roma
Yaya Toure Cote d'Ivoire Manchester City
African Player of the Year – Based in Africa
Name Country Club
Adane Girma Ethiopia St George
Ahmed Fathi Egypt Al Ahly
Alexis Yougouda Kada Cameroon Coton Sport
Ali Machani Tunisia CAB
Bapidi Fils Jean Jules Cameroon Coton Sport
Daine Marcelle-Klate South Africa Orlando Pirates
Fakhreddine Ben Youssef Tunisia CSS
Getaneh Kebede Ethiopia Bidvest Wits
Idrissa Kouyate Cote d'Ivoire CS Sfaxien
Iheb Msakni Tunisia Esperance
Luyanda Lennox Bacela South Africa Orlando Pirates
Mbwana Samatta Tanzania TP Mazembe
Moez Ben Cherifia Tunisia EST
Mohamed Aboutrika Egypt Ahly
Rainford Kalaba Zambia TP Mazembe
Senzo Meyiwa South Africa Orlando Pirates
Soumbeila Diakite Mali Stade Malien
Sunday Mba Nigeria Warri Wolves
Tresor Mputu DR Congo TP Mazembe
Waleed Soliman Egypt Al Ahly
Yannick N'djeng Cameroon EST
We'll surely bring the you the winners as the awards go by!!!!
You can view the full list of nominees
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