Even banned videos in Nigeria were nominated. Tu Face’s Enter the place featuring Sound Sultan and Kelly Hansome’s Maga Don Pay were nominated in the Best Afro Pop and Best R N B video categories.

The 10 chosen ones are: Vivien Okafor, Adaeze Nwogu, Chisom Eluma, Melvin Oduah, Olawale Akanbi, Elvis Abogun, Uche Nwaezeagbu, Chuks Okorji, Deborah Omokhigen and Ejimiagbon Okoh. These brave ones will be searching for the horn of valour hidden somewhere in the forest.

As the singer aims to shoot mid next month the video to ‘Lagos party’; another single already on radio from his coming album, the release of his much awaited sophomore album may be nearer than we envisage.

China, as he more fondly called by friends and fans, in a phone call, told this writer that although he was prepared for the news, he was actually surprised that, “My wife, who had gone for a mere ante-natal check up, was confined to bed by the doctor who insisted her time was due.”

When I arrived from Kaduna in a military uniform and immediately I started singing, people were happy and decided that I wouldn’t go back to the army.