Organizers of the prestigious African Movie Academy Awards,AMAA, have announced that the 2015 nominations gala event ahead of the award ceremony will hold today, at the glamorous LA Live complex in Downtown Los Angeles where the nominees in the 26 categories will be announced.

Nigeria’s all time showbiz star, Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa, popularly known as Charlie Boy, on Friday, said smoking and drinking were not part of his lifestyle.

Top Nigerian singer, Seyi Shay has bagged two nominations at the forthcoming MAMAs 2015 which is billed to take place in South Africa next month. The “Jangolover” crooner has been nominated in two major categories as the “Best Female” and the “Video of the Year” for her single with Wizkid “Crazy”.

Based on what I’ve seen and what we all know, Nigerians have a short attention span, generally speaking. In terms of paying attention to lyrical contents which should be the case, we don’t often have that. What we often have is people saying “Play that song, I want to hear the beats”. Nigerians generally want to hear nice beats that they can dance to. But we are trying to change the face of things. I pay a lot of attention to lyrics and I think more artistes should do that.

K-Peace emerged winner after beating eleven other finalists to clinch the star prize. The event which was characterised by glitz and glam, titillating dances and performances saw K-Peace smiling home with a brand new SUV car, cash prize of N7.5 million and a recording deal with Universal Music Company at the grand finale held at Dream Studios, Omole Phase 1, Lagos.