Tems Wins Best Gospel/Inspirational Award at the 2024 BET Awards
Superstar singer and songwriter Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, won her fourth Black Entertainment Television (BET) award on Sunday, June 30, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, United States, during the 2024 BET Awards. Read more about Entertainment Tems’ hit song “Me & U” beat off competition from the likes […]
2022 BET Awards: Tems Becomes First Nigerian Woman To Win Best International Act
Tems has established a presence as one of the biggest Afrobeats stars in global music. She has collaborated with international acts such as Drake and Justin Bieber. Read more about News Superstar singer TemiladeOpeniyi, popularly known as Tems made history on Sunday, June 26, 2022, at the Microsoft Theatre, Los Angeles, USA after emerging the […]
Nigeria’s Music Wins: Growth or No Growth
Thanks to social media, a lot has progressed quickly on the Nigerian music scene. When Ice Prince copped the first BET International Act all by himself, he became the first Nigerian and African act to do it all by himself. But he was by no means the first to do it in a pure […]
Social Media Roundup
Wole Soyinka’s Plane Seat Incident One of the highlights of the week was a tweet by Nigeria politician Tonye Cole in which he recounted an experience he witnessed between a young man and Wole Soyinka on a plane. In the tweet, he called out the young man for asking Wole Soyinka to leave his seat […]
2019 Mid-Year Highlights
With few days left to close in on the second half of the year, Connect Nigeria does a recap of remarkable things that have happened in Nigeria in 2019 so far.
Burna Boy Wins BET Award For Best International Act
Afrobeat singer, Burna Boy, has won the BET award for Best International Act at the awards which held on Sunday, June 23, 2019, at the Microsoft Theatre, Los Angeles, USA. The “African Giant” was nominated with Aka (South Africa), Aya Nakamura (France), Dave (Uk), Dosseh (France), Giggs (Uk), and Mr. Eazi (Nigeria) in the Best […]
Teni, Burna Boy, Mr Eazi Nominated For BET Awards
BET has announced the nominees for the 2019 edition of the BET Awards, and this year three Nigerians made the list. Bruna Boy, Mr Eazi and Teni were nominated in the two Best International Act categories, alongside other artistes from the UK, France and South Africa. Teni, whose country of origin was simply captured as […]
Davido Wins BET Best International Act Award
Nigerian superstar singer, Davido, has won the BET Best International Act at the 2018 edition of the awards which was held on the 24th of June, 2018 and continued up till the early hours of Monday. The awards which held at the Microsoft Theater, Los Angeles, California, had Nigerian music stars Davido and Tiwa Savage […]
Tiwa Savage And Davido Nominated For BET Awards
Two of Nigeria’s top music acts have earned places in the Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards 2018. DMW boss, Davido – who has been in the news a lot lately – and the Mavin Records first lady Tiwa Savage, are among nine other nominees from South Africa, France, the Democratic Republic of Congo and UK in the […]
Davido, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong’O, Win Big at 2014 BET Awards
Some African entertainers including Nigeria’s pop star, Davido; British-Nigerian actor, ChiwetelEjiofor; and Kenya’s actress, LupitaNyong’O emerged winners at the just concluded BET Awards. Davido beat other African artistes including Tiwa Savage, South Africa’s Mafikizolo, Ghana’s Sarkodie, Tanzania’s Diamond Platnumz and Togo’s Toofan to win the “Best International Act- Africa”. Earlier in June, Davido also won […]
Kendrick Lamar, Drake Win Big at BET Hip Hop Awards 2013
Kendrick Lamar was the big winner of the night as he won five BET Hip Hop Awards while Drake took home four awards in the just concluded BET Hip Hop Awards 2013. Rapper Eve honoured hip hop pioneer MC Lyte with the “I Am Hip Hop” Award. The highly anticipated “ciphers” exceeded expectations, and were only matched by the stellar performances from some of hip […]
Ice Prince Wins BET Award for Best International Act
Popular Nigerian rapper Ice Prince Zamani, also known as Aboki, took home the prestigious BET award for Best International Act on Sunday evening, at the event held in Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles. Unlike the past two years, where the award was normally shared between two artistes, Ice Prince took this award home alone, beating others […]
BET Awards Fashion: Winners and Losers!
I had a very wonderful evening! Just me, a large cup of smoothie, a big bag of Sun Chips and my HD TV to better enjoy my BET date! It was a wonderful evening but for me, I was more interested in who wore what! Of course there were misses but overall, most of the people on the red carpet came close to perfection.owed off her
Wizkid wins BET Award for Best International Act! (US Tour Dates Included)
Nigerian Pop Sensation, Wizkid, has won the BET best international act for 2012 alongside Ghanaian Rapperholic, Sarkodie. Wizkid, who is following the trail of previous winners, 2face Idibia and D’banj, has done Nigerians all over the world extremely proud.