THE WAIT IS OVER

The winner's name in each category is in CAP.

On-Air Personality of the Year (Radio)
TYENG GYANG (COOL FM ABUJA)
Gbemi Olateru-Olagbegi (Cool FM Lagos)
Chuks Roberts (Cosmo FM Enugu)

Best Use of Technology
BAMIDELE ODUFUYE
Icebox Studios
Yinka Adetoye

Best Use of Advocacy
Emmanuel James-Odiase
EMMANUEL ETIM
Tosyn Bucknor

Musician of the Year
Dbanj
9ice
Psquare
Asa

Actor of the Year
Jennifer Osamor
FUNKE AKINDELE
Mercy Johnson

Artist of the Year
Saheed Adejuwon
EMEKA OKEREKE
Adolphus Opara

Magazine of the Year
ACE
Soundcity Blast
The Applause

Style Entrepreneur of the Year
Funke Adegbola (Ella Brown Couture)
UCHE NNAJI (OUCH!)
Linda Ikeji (Blackdove Communications)

Comedian of the Year
Jedidiah
Teju Babyface
OMOBABA

Business Owner of the Year
MOSUNMOLA UMORU (HONEYSUCKLES PTL)
Toochukwu Onyemelukwe (Cotek)
Hassan Rilwan (Focal Point Publishing Ltd)

Professional of the Year
DR. ADEDAYO OSHOLOWU (SPECIAL OLYMPICS NIGERIA)
Fatima Mohammed (Chapel Hill and Denham)
Folasope Aiyesimoju (Stanbic Bank)

Model of the Year
Bryan Okwara
Warebi Martha
OLUBUNMI ADEMOKOYA

Team of the Year
Babs Educational Consult
KNIGHTHOUSE
Mo Hits Crew

Journalist of the Year
Rachel Ogbu (Newswatch)
Ruonah Agbroko (Thisday)
FUNKE ADETUTU (BUSINESSDAY)

On-Air Personality of the Year (TV)
Tana Egbo-Adelana (Channel O)
LAMIDE AKINTOBI (CHANNELS TV)
Adaure Achumba (STV)

Screen Producer of the Year
Gbenga Salu
ONYE UBANATU
Clarence Peters

Sportsperson of the Year
YAGAZIE CHUKWUMERIJE
Damola Osayomi
Mikel Obi

Music Producer of the Year
COBHAMS
Tee-Y Mix
Don Jazzy

Dancer of the Year
QUDUS ONIKEKU
Wale Akinbola Sodade
Buddy Agedah

Young Person of the Year
Asa (Bukola Elemide)
D'BANJ (DAPO OYEBANJO)
Yagazie Chukwumerije

THE WAIT IS OVER

Onyeka Nwelue's 'The Abyssinian Boy' is now available through www.booksng.com, at Terra Kulture, Tiamiyu Savage Str, VI and at 1st Flr, 95 Bode Thomas Street, Surulere, Lagos. The Abyssinian Boy will be launched on Saturday 24th January 2009 at the National Library opposite Casino Cinema, Alagomeji, Lagos from 12noon. Jumoke Verissimo will read from 'I am Memory' and Crown Troupe of Africa will perform at the event. Toyin Akinosho, Publisher Africa Oil & Gas Report and CNN awardee will be Guest Speaker / Reviewer. Don't come alone, bring a friend, and better still, bring your cheque book and claim a few copies to take away...

Onyeka Nwelue was born in Nigeria in 1988. After graduating from High School at 17, he travelled to South Asia, particularly to India, where he wrote the first draft of his novel in three months. He has been published in the Guardian, The Sun, Eclectica, Nigeria Village Square, Kafla InterContinental and Wild Goose Poetry Review. He has received a grant from the Institute for Research on African Women, Children and Culture (IRAWCC) and is currently working on his second novel.
Set in India and Nigeria (and scattered locations of the world), The Abyssinian Boy is about a family whose nine year-old child gets haunted by an albino dwarf ghost.

Blurbs for 'The Abyssinian Boy'

"Unique style... very interesting imagery"
-Clare Dudman, author of Edge of Danger and Wegener's Jigsaw

" A young writer with immense imagination and vision... an authentic narrative that will grip the reader. He has not only dared to dream, but also focused inexorably on the complexities of modern family and its history in an uncompromising, fast changing world"
- Uche Peter Umez, author of Sam and the Wallet

"Onyeka has written an ambitious novel which blurs not only geographical lines but other lines too. It reminds us (or ought to) that what unites us, our humanity, is much more than those that seek to divide us"
-Chika Unigwe, author of The Phoenix

"The Abyssinian Boy not only treats a universal theme; even the characterisation of the novel is universal. Excellent!"
-Lanre Ari'Ajia, author of Women at Crossroads

"Onyeka Nwelue is an interesting new voice. For one so young, he shows rare insights into the lives and sensibilities of people faced with racial intergration; a concern as relevant today as ever before"
- Jude Dibia, author of Walking with Shadows and Unbridled

The characters in Mr. Nwelue’s delightful world move between concepts and continents with a gentle humor, compassion and sensibility that will readily appeal to all citizens of the global village at large.
- Arun Krishnan, Author, The Loudest Firecracker