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Update on Best of Nollywood Awards 2014

Nominations for the 2014 Best of Nollywood Awards are set to be announced Friday, August 1st at a glamorous nominees’ unveil holding in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The executive producer of BON Awards, Seun Oloketuyi, revealed this Wednesday afternoon while disclosing that the event would be broadcast live on select terrestrial television stations.
He said, “We are happy to announce that after several months of screening, our screeners’ committee have finished a critical part of their work. So, come next Friday, we shall unveil to the world which movies and moviemakers, stars and stakeholders have outdone their contemporaries in the year under review.”
The nominees’ unveil, a wholly media event, Oloketuyi said would have as special guest of honour, the First Lady of Rivers State, Lady Judith Amaechi, and she would be joined by Niran Adedokun, Chairman of the Jury of the BON Awards, to announce the nominees.
As Nollywood holds its breath for this announcement, Oloketuyi said the nominees’ unveil would be hosted by actress, Bayray Mcnwizu. According to Mcnwizu, winner of the Amstel Malta Box Office 2007, “I am excited about my choice as host of the nominees’ unveil because the BON Awards has grown to become one of Nigeria’s biggest awards ceremonies for practitioners in the movie industry and it is a great honour to be singled out as anchor for one of the most important days in the annual calendar of Nollywood.”
He however prevaricated on the hosts of the awards proper saying however that the organising committee of the awards headed by marketing communications expert and entertainment enthusiast, Kingsley James, has narrowed its choice of the 2014 BON awards hosts to a popular On-Air-Personality with crucial youth demography following and appeal and one of Nollywood’s finest leading males.
“I cannot reveal the name of our hosts for now but what I can conveniently tell you is that we have an exciting and multitalented pair that transcends different audiences and expectations. Importantly, we have chosen a pair that would give us a great awards night,” Oloketuyi declared.
This year’s BON Awards holds October 4th in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
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BON Winners Children's day WReading: Omoni Oboli, OC Ukeje, Rita Dominic, others to motivate 5,000 children in Rivers State.

Past winners of the Best of Nollywood awards (BON); Rita Dominic, Omoni Oboli, OC Ukeje, others will on May 27th meet, motivate and read to about 5, 000 children chosen from different primary and secondary schools across Rivers state. This according to the organizers is part of activities lined up to herald the 2014 edition of the Best of Nollywood.
The BON Children’s Day event which would be chaired by the First Lady of Rivers State, Mrs Judith Amaechi, promises to be a memorable day for the kids as it would afford them opportunity to meet, take photos and have lunch with their favourite movie stars; to participate in question and answer session and so on.
According to Seun Oloketuyi, Executive Director of the awards “May 27th is recognized across Nigeria as a day set aside to honour children. Therefore, since we have kid actors who win our awards, we thought it fit to incorporate a children-centred event in our pre-awards activities. More so, being an actor is one thing, winning awards and honours for acting is another thing entirely.
The actors we are taking to Port Harcourt are role models who enjoy huge following among children of various ages and races. Essentially, BON Winners Children’s Day Reading will see some of our past winners who inspire adulation among kids to meet with some of these kids, read to them and inspire and motivate them to reach for their dreams.”
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Governor Rotimi Amaechi to honour 4 Nollywood veterans at BON Awards

Four Nollywood veterans; Liz Benson-Ameye, Adebayo Salami, Nobert Young and Kasimu Yero will be given special recognition awards for their immense achievement in the Nigerian Movie Industry christened Nollywood. The awards will be conferred on them by the Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi at the 6th edition of the Best of Nollywood Awards which comes up on October 4th 2014 at Rivers State.

Speaking on the choice of the four seasoned thespians, BON awards Executive Producer, Seun Oloketuyi stated that revealed that “after much deliberation and research, these four came as the best choices for this award category because of their outstanding impacts in Nollywood and for being a source of inspiration to youths in Nigeria and Africa generally.”

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ELIZABETH BENSON

Elizabeth Benson, popularly known as Liz Benson, began acting when she was five years old. She is loved by most movie watchers in Nigeria and is seen as one of the first ladies of Nollywood. Her journey to stardom began when she appeared on the set of the popular television soap opera, Fortunes in 1993. Liz Benson played the part of Mrs. Agnes Johnson in the soap, which ran for about two years on the Nigerian Television Authority network. In 1994, her role in Glamour Girls, a very successful home video film that focused on the theme of prostitution, literally changed her fortune after Fortunes.


The movie shot her into prominence and gradually she warmed her way into the minds of millions of Nigerian movie fans. Sometime ago, she quit acting, became a born-again Christian and started preaching the gospel. Some of her roles include her role as Titubi in Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun and as Mrs. Agnes Johnson in Fortunes, a soap opera that ran for about two years on Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Channel 10. She acted in a number of Nollywood video-films such as Evil Men 1 and 2, Shame, Conspiracy, Izaga, Burden, Stolen Child, Faces, Dead End, Tycoon, Glamour Girls, Body of Vengeance and a horde of other movies.
 
 

 


KASIMU YERO

Veteran actor Kasimu Yero is fondly remembered for his role as ‘Uncle Gaga’ in the now rested ’80s situational comedy, Cock Crow At Dawn, and as one of the lead characters in Abubakar Imam’s Magana Jari Ce. Today, he is older, more rested and taking things easy, but back in the days, he was one of the actors who dominated the region and entertained the populace with his ability to interpret humorous scripts.
Yero was born in Zaria some 64 or 65 years ago. But when he became of school-age, he was taken from Zaria City to his grandfather in Kaduna. At that time, his grandfather Mallam Mohammed Sambo, was the Magajin Gari of Kaduna. It was while the young Yero was with him that he had the opportunity of going to primary school. Ironically, his school was located somewhere around where the present-day Fire Brigade headquarters is in Kaduna Nobert Young

 


NOBERT YOUNG
 
Crossover actor par excellence, and star of countless DStv-sponsored productions including, Edge of Paradise; Norbert Young, trained in both the University of Ibadan and University of Benin. He is regarded as one of the best-trained movie role interpreters in Nollywood. Long before the advent of home video, the Warri, Delta State-born thespian, has always been a delight to watch on screen.

Many television viewers, especially those who followed rested soap opera, Checkmate, would readily recall his face as the randy lecturer, Professor Okon. Norbert Young was part of the detective drama series, Third Eye, which ran in the 1980s and today regarded as one of the versatile veteran actors who has contributed immensely to the growth of Nollywood.
 
ADEBAYO SALAMI

 

Adebayo Salami, a.k.a Oga Bello, has been on stage for 49 years. Not once has he given retirement a thought, he started acting with Young Stars Concert Party in 1964 when he was 12 years old. The group metamorphosed to Ojo Ladipo Theatre. So far,he has produced about 17 films. The first movie he produced was Ogun Ajaiye under the stables of Awada Kerikeri in 1985. In 1987, I produced Omo Orukan and in 1989, Eri Okan and all of these were on celluloid.
 

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Rivers State to host Best of Nollywood 2014

The sixth edition of the Best of Nollywood awards (BON) will be held at the city of Port Harcourt, Rivers State; organizers have announced. Slated for Saturday October 4th 2014, the event which will gather thespians from different sections of the Nigerian movie industry has risen to become the most prestigious and transparent Award ceremony for nollywood practitioners.
” It is a great honour to have this prestigious award platform in Port-harcourt a year after hosting the nominees dinner.” Governor Amaechi noted
 
Speaking on the choice of the South-South state, Seun Oloketuyi, Executive Director disclosed that the state has produced some of the best brains in Nollywood, ” Asides Port Harcourt being one of the most beautiful cities in Africa, the Governor, Rotimi Amaechi has also provided an enabling environment for tourism and Nollywood.” He added.
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PHOTOS FROM BON AWARDS' TALENT MEETS CLASS

Best of Nollywood Awards’ (BON)Talent Meets Class; an interactive session involving Nollywood stakeholders and some prominent figures in the country was held at the Oriental Hotel, Lekki on friday November 1st, 2013. Organized by Seun Oloketuyi, the first lecture was delivered by Zik Zulu.

Business mogul, Professor Pat Utomi’s speech titled Nollywood: The Role of the Corporate Sector, centred on avenues where the Nollywood brand can get money to fund their films. Guests some of which were actors asked questions from and also made several suggestions.

Faces at the event include Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt Hon. Ikuforiji, Tee Mac, Mercy Aigbe, Desmond Elliot, Foluke Daramola, Ricardo Agbor, Iyabo Ojo, Ayo Shonaiya,

Fidelis Duker, Doris Simeon, Okey Bakassi, Owen Gee, Kabirat Kafidipe, Funsho Adeolu, Steve Ayorinde, Adeshina Oyetayo, Sola Fajobi, Kemi Otegbade, Koffi, Gbenga Adeyinka 1st GCON to mention a few.

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HARVEST OF HONOUR AT THE 2011 BEST OF NOLLYWOOD (BON) AWARDS SHOW

The moment of excitement and fun, participants of the Seun Oloketuyi-led Best of Nollywood (BON) awards night had been waiting for finally came through last night.
Held at the posh Lagoon Restaurant, Ozumba Mbadiwe, VI, Lagos on friday 11th November 2011, the event started with an awesome red-carpet session which witnessed the attendance of key Nollywood stakeholders, the media and other well-wishers.
Comedian of the federal Republic, Gbenga Adeyinka and Julius Agwu spiced the show with their hilarious jokes.
Performers at the event include Jafextra, Capital F.E.M.I Adol, Eddy king, JJC to mention a few. While Goldie, Toni Payne, Annie Macauley 2011 Next Movie Star housemates, Faithia Balogun, Halima Abubakar, Uche Jombo, Sunkanmi Omobolanle, Dayo Adeneye and Kenny Ogungbe, Kenny St.Brown, Ayo Adesanya, Yemi Solade, Kunle Afolayan, Gabriel Afolayan, Blessing Effiong Damola Olatunji, Queen Nwokoye and many more graced the occassion.AWARD CATEGORIES AND RECIPIENTS
Best Actor (English) – Joe Benjamin
Best Actor (Yoruba) – Muyiwa Ademola
Best Actress (English) – Nse Ikpe-Etim
Best Actress (Yoruba)- Faithia Balogun
Best Supporting Actor Yoruba – Gabriel Afolayan
Best Supporting Actress English – Susan Peters
Best Supporting  Actress (Yoruba) – Ronke Odunsanya
Best kiss in a Nigerian movie – Bursting out
Best use of Costume – Private Storm
Best Cinematography – Eefa
Best Comedy movie Of The Year – Jelili 
Revelation of the Year (Female) – Ketra Hewatech
Revelation of the year (Male) – Deji Akinosho
Best TV programme – Village square
Movie with message for society change – Damage
Fresh and scandal free actress (English) Category – Queen Nwokoye
Best Nigerian Movie in Diaspora – Mirror boy
The Lifetime Recognition Award – Sola Fajobi of the Next Movie Star 
Best Child Actor (Female): Nicole Ndigwu – Damage
Best editing Movie category -Mr & Mrs
Most Promising Female Act Category – Bidemi Kosoko
Most Promising Act Male Category – Seun Akindele
Best TV Presenter Category – EfeTommy.
Best Crossover Actress category : Eniola Badmus – Blackberry babes
Best Radio presenter of the year Category – Matse Uwase
Best soundtrack of the year Category – Inale
Screen play of the year category – Two brides and a baby
Best sound Category – Two Brides and a Baby

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