{"id":46392,"date":"2014-09-10T13:56:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T13:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=46392"},"modified":"2014-09-10T13:58:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T13:58:02","slug":"sarkodie-up-for-mtv-emas-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/09\/sarkodie-up-for-mtv-emas-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarkodie up for MTV EMAs nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ghana&#8217;s Sarkodie is up for nomination in this year&#8217;s upcoming MTV EMA awards. Sarkodie has been nominated along with\u00a0Anselmo Ralph (Angola),\u00a0Gangs of Ballet (South Africa),\u00a0Mafikizolo (South Africa), Sauti Sol (Kenya), \u00a0and Tiwa Savage (Nigeria) as wildcard nominees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The wild card nominee with the highest votes will join four other acts in the Best African Act category. Nigeria&#8217;s Davido, Goldfish from South Africa, Tanzania&#8217;s Diamond and Togolese Toofan has already secured their places and awaiting the fifth in the category who will be selected by fans via a Twitter vote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;nrVxPL0jiC5XZ37z3esgssK3F3EFa2RF&#8221;]This is the first time the MTV EMAs is giving fans the exclusive rights to nominate an act for a category.\u00a0The Twitter vote is open until 14 September 2014 \u00a0after which the\u00a0<b>2014 MTV EMA<\/b>\u00a0nominees will be announced for voting to commence on 16 September 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sarkodie will get a further career boost if he gets nominated, following the two nods he&#8217;s secured for the upcoming Channel O Music Video Awards. He will join the likes of 2Face Idibia, Freshlyground. D&#8217;Banj and LCNVL as the only Africans who have won the coveted MTV EMA award if he eventually wins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">By: Kojo Akoto Boateng\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s Sarkodie is up for nomination in this year&#8217;s upcoming MTV EMA awards. Sarkodie has been nominated along with\u00a0Anselmo Ralph (Angola),\u00a0Gangs of Ballet (South Africa),\u00a0Mafikizolo (South Africa), Sauti Sol (Kenya), \u00a0and Tiwa Savage (Nigeria) as wildcard nominees. 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