Tiwa Savage, Nigeria’s songstress and music writer has beaten Davido to clinch Best Afrcian Act at the MTV European Music Awards. She emerged the winner of the award during the show last night. She was nominated alongside Fally Ipupa, Davido, Distruction Boyz and Shekinah and Nyashinski.
The songstress got major backing from Wizkid during the voting period, as he was seen putting up flyers of Tiwa on his Instagram page, asking fans to vote for her. Tiwa Savage is now the first African female artiste to win the prestigious award.
Speaking with The Nation on the red carpet, prior to the award show, Tiwa was full of accolades for Davido whom she proudly called by his alias; O.B.O.
She said it was humbling being nominated in the same category of the award with Davido. She also gave a shout out to fellow contestant from DRC, Fally Ipupa.
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It may be the second time that Tiwa was rocking the MTV red carpet, having won the Best Female Act at the African version of the reward scheme called MTV Africa Music Award (MAMA) in 2014.
The MTV EMA is an event which seeks to honour pop artistes.
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A few celebs have sent congratulatory messages to her through their Social Media pages, describing her as a hardworking artiste and one who deserves all accolade she is getting now.
Congrats, Tiwa Savage!
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