{"id":2190,"date":"2017-11-13T00:08:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T00:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2017-11-13T00:08:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T00:08:32","slug":"2017-mtv-ema-davido-wins-best-african-act-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/2017-mtv-ema-davido-wins-best-african-act-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 MTV EMA: Davido wins \u201cBest African Act\u201d award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2191\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1C36A9F5-4065-471C-B77E-0100579D3F7A-300x293.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1C36A9F5-4065-471C-B77E-0100579D3F7A-300x293.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1C36A9F5-4065-471C-B77E-0100579D3F7A-100x98.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1C36A9F5-4065-471C-B77E-0100579D3F7A.jpeg 462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nNovember 12, 2017<br \/>\nNigerian music singer Davido wins Europe Music Awards (EMA) African Awards of the Year (2017).<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian music sensation and DMW boss, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has bagged an award as the \u201cBest African Act\u201d at the 2017 MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA).<\/p>\n<p>Davido edged out his biggest contender in Nigeria, Wizkid, and his South African counterpart, Nasty C, to take home the highly coveted award.<\/p>\n<p>Other African acts who were in the same category include Babes Wodumo from South Africa, C4 Pedro from Angola and Nyashinki from Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Davido was quick to hit his twitter page to make the grand announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m on Fiaaaaaaa!!? Thank you everybody. This is for you mom! \u2764\ufe0f \u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f #30BG\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 12, 2017 Nigerian music singer Davido wins Europe Music Awards (EMA) African Awards of the Year (2017). Nigerian music sensation and DMW boss, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has bagged an award as the \u201cBest African Act\u201d at the 2017 MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA). Davido edged out his biggest contender in Nigeria, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2017 MTV EMA: Davido wins \u201cBest African Act\u201d award<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/2017-mtv-ema-davido-wins-best-african-act-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2017 MTV EMA: Davido wins \u201cBest African Act\u201d award\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"November 12, 2017 Nigerian music singer Davido wins Europe Music Awards (EMA) African Awards of the Year (2017). 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