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2020 AMAA: Stella Damasus, Seven Others Compete For Best Actress Award
Nollywood star actress, Stella, Damasus Ademinokan, has returned to Nollywood to contest for the Best Actress in a leading role at the 2020 African Movie Academy Award (AMAA). Her performance in the Daniel Ademinokan-directed movie, “Between”, has earned her a nomination alongside seven other actresses from Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa for the category.
Other actresses slugging it out with Damasus include, Joselyn Dumas, Mary TwalaMhalongo, Meg Otanwa, Zenobia Kloppers, ElvinaIbru, Girley Jazama and Kelly Khamalo.
Dumas was nominated for her role in “Cold Feet”, Khamalo for her role in “ Zulu Wedding”, Ibru for her role in the “Bling Lagosian”, Jazama for her role in the” White Line”, Kloppers for her role in “Fiela’s Child”, Otanwa for her role in “ For Maria”, Ebunpakaki and Mhlongo for her role in “This is not burial, it’s a resurrection”.
For the 2020 AMAA nominations, Jahmail XT Quebeka’s Knuckle city came along with 12 nominations, including the Best Film, Best Actor and Best Director categories Nigeria’s the “Milkmaid” follows with 8 nominations and Akin Omotoso’s the Ghost and the House of Truth with seven.
In the same vein Ramsey Nouah’s Living in Bondage, Breaking Free picked six nominations, Living in Bondage:Breaking Free was nominated in the Best actor in a supporting role, Best feature film by a director and National Film and Video Censors Board(NFVCB) award for Nigerian film.
Swanky JKA was also nominated Best Young Promising Actor. As the film got listed in the 2020 award for achievement in visual effect and 2020 award for achievement in the sound track respectively.
Organisers of the AMAA released the much expected nominees lists for the 2020 edition of the awards on Monday evening, November 30,2020.
For the 16th edition, actors and film makers from Namibia, South Africa, Uganda, Nigeria, DRC, Senegal, Egypt, Kenya, United States, Mozambique, Germany, Cote D’voire, Ghana, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Togo, Ethiopia and Canada will slug it out at the prestigious African Oscars.
The 2020 edition of the award ceremony will be broadcast live from Lagos via zoom and cable TV.
R&B star, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has recounted the early-career challenges she faced, revealing that she was once booed out of the stage while performing at a school event.
Speaking in an interview with Newsmen, the Crazy Tings crooner shared that she wasn’t only booed but was also harassed with plastic bottles.
“I remember one time I was going to perform at my school as an up-and-coming singer and I thought I was going to receiving a standing ovation.
“But I got booed. They even threw plastic bottles at me,” she recalled.
Tems explained that despite the embarrassing incident and other such rejections, she remained determined to pursue a career in music.
The Tide Entertainment reports that Tems admitted that some of the initial rejections she faced could be due to her conviction to stick to her originality instead of doing covers or familiar sounds like most of her peers.
The Grammy-winning singer said looking back now, she is glad that she didn’t compromise her style despite the initial pressures.
A close associate of late singer Mohbad, Primeboy, has appealed for the artiste’s burial nearly three years after his death.
According to him, Mohbad’s body remains in the mortuary since September 12, 2023, pending burial arrangements.
The Tide Entertainment reports that in a statement Primeboy urged the family, public, and government to permit the burial, stating, “It’s been almost three years since Mohbad left us. His body is still in the mortuary. I’m begging the family, I’m begging the public, I’m begging the government, please let’s bury our brother. He deserves a befitting burial.”
It would be recalled that Mohbad’s death sparked public outrage, protests, and investigations. Ongoing autopsy examinations, police inquiries, and legal proceedings have delayed burial arrangements amid family disagreements and public scrutiny.
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