NEA Awards 2018: Davido, Wizkid, Olamide Lead Nomination

Davido, Wizkid and Olamide take the nomination lead in the Nigerian Entertainment Awards (NEA) 2018.

The NEA 2018 nominees’ list for the 13th edition of the has been released by the organisers and it's been flooded by Nigerian music heavyweights Davido, Wizkid, Simi, Olamide, and Tiwa Savage.

The venue of the NEA Awards 2018 is Washington DC, US and it will hold on November 10, 2018.

The award ceremony covers various spheres of Nigeria’s thriving entertainment industry, including, music, movies, disc jockeying, record executives, comedy and a category for Nigerian artistes in the diaspora.

In the category for ‘Female Artist of the year’, Tiwa Savage, Yemi Alade, Simi, Seyi Shay and Niniola will be battling for glory while the ‘Afropop Male Artist of the year’ category has Davido, Wizkid, Kizz Daniel, Olamide and 2baba will slug it out the covetous award.

A total of 22 award categories will up for grabs which includes ‘Best Lead Role in Film’ (Male and Female), ‘Album of the year’, ‘Most Promising Act to Watch’, ‘Best New Act’ and more.

See the full list of nominees for the music categories at NEA 2018

AFROPOP MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Wizkid
Olamide
Davido
2baba
Kiss Daniel

AFROPOP FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR Yemi Alade Tiwa Savage Seyi Shay Niniola SimiHOTTEST SINGLE OF THE YEAR ‘Legbegbe’ – Mr. Real ‘Science Student’ – Olamide ‘Baba’ – Dj Spinnal x Kizz Daniel ‘Assurance’ – Davido ‘Soco’ – WizkidALBUM OF THE YEAR Similola – Simi Outside – Burna Boy About 30 – Adekunle Gold Outside – Burna Boy First Daze of Winter – Maleek BerryALTERNATIVE ARTIST OF THE YEAR Flavour Patoranking Johnny Drille Adekunle Gold ZoroTRAILBLAZER OF THE YEAR Maleek Berry Duncan Mighty Mayorkun Mzkiss CDQBEST NEW ACT Slimcase Small Doctor Mr Real Dice Ailes Lady DonliMOST PROMISING ACT TO WATCH Teniola Idowest Bella Alubo Wilfresh Dapo tu BurnaMUSIC PRODUCER OF THE YEAR Killertunes Spellz JayPizzle Krizbeat Philkeyz FreshBEST DJ SINGLES OF THE YEAR ‘Ada’ – Dj Ecool ft Davido ‘Baba’ – Dj Neptune ft Kizz Daniel ‘Shempe’ – Dj Exclusive ft Slimcase, Mzkiss ‘Diet’ – Dj Enimoney ft Slimcase, Tiwa Savage ‘Do like this’ – Dj Consequence ft Tiwa Savage, MystroDIASPORA/INTERNATIONAL ACT OF THE YEAR Rotimi (U.S) MNEK (U.K) Skepta (U.K) Kah-lo (U.K) JHus (U.K)