Continental honour for Yours Sincerely

Youthful editor of Entertainment/Sunday Express newspapers, Azuh Amatus has been nominated in the Most Outstanding Film Journalist category of the African Film Development Awards (AFDA) set to hold on June 29, 2013, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

   

Organised by the Pan African Film Development and Advancement Foundation, PAFDAF, through its registered project, African Film Development Foundation, AFDF, the auspicious event is said to mark a reawakening of the need for African sensitive filmmaking ventures and  will also further such sentiments in Diaspora Africa filmmaking projects from concept to exhibition practices.   In a press release made available to Sunday Express, AFDA will run through Lectures/Symposium on African Cinema, June 28; African Cultural Night also on June 28 and Awards/Gala Night on the 29th. The awards after party will be on June 30 at Zanzibar Island.

According to PAFDAF's Tanzania Country Rep, Jonathan Mnyela, Gambian President,

H.E Yahya Jammeh will be the Special Guest of Honour, while Nigeria's President

Goodluck Jonathan will receive an award for his outstanding development of Nigeria's

film industry, Nollywood. Special Recognition Awards will go to Morgan Freeman and Whoopi Goldberg, among others and will also award Nigerian Governors, Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta and Godswill Obot Akpabio of Akwa Ibom States, respectively. The Senior Special Assistant, to President Jonathan, Mr. Oronto Douglas and Youssou N'Dour of Senegal are also

billed for recognition.

Barely one year after winning the Best Entertainment Editor Award at the 2011 edition of the prestigious Zulu African Film Academy Awards (ZAFAA), held in London, Azia, Ihiala, Anambra State-born Azuh, has over the years bagged several awards within and outside the entertainment industry.

Apart from winning the keenly contested Best Showbiz Writer Award at the Celebrity Media Award (CMA) twice, the amiable editor was similarly honoured by the Lagos State chapter of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) with an Excellence Award, for his immense contributions towards the development of the association.

 Azuh who was recently inducted as a Special Marshal by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), is indeed not resting on his oars as he has further pledged his continual support towards the Nigerian entertainment industry.