By BENJAMIN NJOKU

All is now set for the third edition of Nollywood Movies Award (NMA), which is billed to hold   on the 18th of October, at Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The award, which inaugural edition was held in 2012, was established to celebrate the best in the country’s movie industry.

Last year, a star prize of a Nissan saloon car was won in a live ballot on the award night by fast rising actor, O.C. Ukeje.

Addressing movie journalists last week ahead of the award night, the duo of Nollywood Movies TV executive directors, Dipo Winsala and Alfred Soroh, in collaboration with a London-based SKY 329TV station, supplier of content to other television stations in the United Kingdom, disclosed that this year’s edition will commemorate Nigeria’s 100 years of nationhood with simultaneous live broadcast on AIT, Vox Africa ON DStv and GOTV with the theme, “100percent Nollywood.”

With the award categories expanded to 30 this year, the NMA centenary edition among other objectives, seeks to showcase Nigeria’s culture and bring the awareness of Nollywood into the Diaspora and beyond. It also aims at showing Nigerians in diaspora how diverse and rich the country’s cultural heritage is.