Nollywood stars Ini Edo, Rita Dominic and Desmond are leading other artistes to Port Harcourt as the Best of Nollywood Awards 2014 gets momentous today, Thursday, October 16th at the Garden City, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
BON which will be hosted today by His excellency, Gov. Rotimi Amaechi, has generated excitement and anticipation among Nollywood stars and stakeholders. It is the sixth edition of the indigenous awards ceremony which has been putting a golden seal of excellence on the works of those who are toiling and sweating to produce and star in feel-good and educative movies.
The executive producer of BON, Seun Oloketuyi, says that movie stars like Desmond Elliot, Ini Edo, Joseph Benjamin, Rita Dominic, Iyabo Ojo and Femi Adebayo are amongst confirmed attendees. Apart from these movie stars, a number of entertainment industry stakeholders like Ovation magazine publisher, Dele Momodu and the duo of Kennis Music honchos, Kenny Ogungbe and Dayo Adeneye, would also be at BON.
Special award recipients like Reverend Mrs. Liz Ameye (the actress formerly known as Liz Benson), Adebayo Salami (otherwise known as Oga Bello), Nobert Young and Kasimu Yero have all promised to be physically present.
Nigeria’s premier private radio station, Raypower 100.5FM, will run a live broadcast of the show while negotiations are ongoing to seal a live television broadcast with one of Nigeria’s most popular TV stations.