Nigerian artists slammed for shunning local awards, submitting entries for foreign ones

The founder of The Headies Awards, Ayo Animashaun, has slammed Nigerian artists for submitting entries to foreign award bodies while snubbing local awards.

He lamented that some Nigerian artists submit entries to foreign award bodies that doesn’t care about them and post proudly about it but won’t submit their entries to local award bodies.

He said some of the artists even complain about being nominated for local awards like The Headies despite refusing to submit their entries.

Animashaun wrote via Instagram story, “Tom, Dick and Harry will submit entries to foreign award bodies that don’t even care about them and proudly post about it. But these same people won’t submit their entries to the Headies, yet they’ll complain about not being nominated. Funny..”