{"id":2976,"date":"2016-08-11T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T17:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2016-08-11T17:27:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T17:27:38","slug":"best-african-music-icon-in-diaspora-the-winner-is-tuface-idibia-nigerias-music-super-star-defeats-chris-mbah-ghanas-kwaw-kese-reggie-rockstone-sarkodie-others-in-africa-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/best-african-music-icon-in-diaspora-the-winner-is-tuface-idibia-nigerias-music-super-star-defeats-chris-mbah-ghanas-kwaw-kese-reggie-rockstone-sarkodie-others-in-africa-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Best African Music Icon in Diaspora …The WINNER is TuFace Idibia, Nigeria’s Music Super star *Defeats Chris Mbah, Ghana\u2019s Kwaw Kese, Reggie Rockstone, Sarkodie, Others in Africa *Nigeria\u2019s AY Wins African Comedian of the Year Award Dusts I Go Die, Basketmouth, South Africa\u2019s Trevor Noah, Loyiso Gola, Tumi Morake, Riaad Moosa *Customized Award Plaques Imported from Melbourne, Australia * \u201cAs at today, TuFace Idibia and AY are Best Music and Comedy Truest Brands in Africa\u201d-Sandra Reilly, Chairman, Award Committee *QUOTE: \u201cThe will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your potential\u2026these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence\u201d-Confucius"},"content":{"rendered":"

Best African Music Icon in Diaspora <\/b><\/span>…The WINNER is TuFace Idibia, Nigeria’s Music Super star<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

*Defeats<\/b> Chris Mbah, Ghana\u2019s Kwaw Kese, Reggie Rockstone, Sarkodie, Others in Africa<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

*Nigeria\u2019s <\/span>AY<\/i><\/span> Wins <\/span>African Comedian of the Year Award Dusts <\/span>I Go Die<\/i><\/span>, <\/span>Basketmouth<\/i><\/span>, South Africa\u2019s <\/span>Trevor Noah<\/i><\/span>, <\/span>Loyiso Gola<\/i><\/span>, <\/span>Tumi Morake<\/i><\/span>, <\/span>Riaad Moosa<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

*Customized Award Plaques Imported from Melbourne, Australia<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

* \u201cAs at today, TuFace Idibia and AY are Best Music and Comedy Truest Brands in Africa\u201d-Sandra Reilly, Chairman, Award Committee <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

*QUOTE: \u201cThe will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your potential\u2026these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence\u201d-Confucius<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Tuface<\/a>BY TINA OBAREWA\/<\/b><\/span>STAFF WRITER<\/b><\/i><\/span> ON DIASPORA MATTERS<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

IN celebrating the 4<\/b>th<\/b><\/sup> Year Media Anniversary of <\/b>NAIJA STANDARD NEWSPAPER<\/b><\/i> from the busy Africa’s populous nation-Nigeria to the beautiful city of Johannesburg in South Africa through the tourist center of Dubai in United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the Lone Star state of Cowboys in Texas, United States; posterity has showed us as Nigeria’s most decorated sensation, Innocent Idibia, whose monicker is ‘TuFace Idibia’ trounced famous musicians in Africa to win the coveted award of ‘Best African Music Icon in Diaspora 2016’<\/b>.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

According to a press statement issued by Sandra Reilly, Chairman, Board of Award Committee, North America, she explained that this year award ceremony is very remarkable, significant and represents the making of African victory, \u201cThis year\u2019s ceremony is very timely in African history. We want to reward excellence. We chose to reward hardwork. We resolved to honour perfection. After carefully viewing all entries we received over 90 days ago, in a a fiercely contested votes for Africa\u2019s Best Music Icon, Nigeria\u2019s born 2Face Idibia defeats Chris Mbah, Ghana\u2019s Kwaw Kese, Reggie Rockstone and Sarkodie who were all finalists to emerge \u2018Best African Music Icon in Diaspora. 2Face Idibia won this award by the consistency of his music, lyrical contents, African medley, creativity in message delivery and overall acceptance by Africans in Diaspora who cast their votes overwhelmingly in support of Idibia. Shortly by August 18, 2016, Idibia will be unveiled to the world.\u201d <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sandra explained that entries were collated from over 20 countries in Africa, where the finalists’ musicians shone like stars in the firmament and Idibia emerges the winner.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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African Comedian of the Year Award<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In another tightly contested entry for African Comedian of the Year in Diaspora, Nigeria’s AY <\/span>rubbishes I Go Die<\/i>, Basketmouth<\/i>, South Africa\u2019s Trevor Noah<\/i>, Loyiso Gola<\/i>, Tumi Morake<\/i>, Riaad Moosa<\/i> who were finalists and won \u2018African Comedian of the Year in Diaspora’ award. The Committee dispassionately looked closely at each of the finalists\u2019 best comedy repertoire, ensured a categorically statement on the winner. Watch out for this winners’ official unveiling on Thursday August 18, 2016 worldwide.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In Sandra’s statement: \u201cDue to the great importance of this ceremony, we had specially ordered for a series of customized awards from Melbourne, Australia for all the winners which will be arriving United States by 2<\/b><\/span>nd<\/b><\/sup><\/span> <\/b>week of August 2016. Together, we all will be making history in this epoch-making ceremony happening in Diaspora.\u201d<\/b><\/span>
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Best African Music Icon in Diaspora …The WINNER is TuFace Idibia, Nigeria’s Music Super star *Defeats Chris Mbah, Ghana\u2019s Kwaw Kese, Reggie Rockstone, Sarkodie, Others in Africa *Nigeria\u2019s AY Wins African Comedian of the Year Award Dusts I Go Die, Basketmouth, South Africa\u2019s Trevor Noah, Loyiso Gola, Tumi Morake, Riaad Moosa *Customized Award Plaques Imported […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}