The NET Honours People’s Choice Awards, one of the world’s most prestigious audience data-based awards, is back for a fifth edition. This year, the category of Most Searched Media Personality is hotly contested. Famous names Joro Olumofin, Toke Makinwa, Tunde Ednut and Nancy Isime face off to take on the title.
Adejoro Olumofin, who has 892,000 followers on Instagram, is one of Nigeria’s most popular relationship bloggers. The letters he shares from his mails and his hot takes on relationships always serve up premium content on social media.
Toke Makinwa, who won the award last year, is one of Africa’s leading OAPs. Between 2010 and 2019, she hosted the Morning Drive show on Rhythm 93.7 FM. In August 2020, she appeared with Falz and Bovi on the comedy web series Therapy, which garnered 1.3 million YouTube views on its pilot episode. Alongside Nancy Isime, she is a co-host on Season 3 of The Voice.
Tunde Ednut, real name Tunde Olaoluwa Adekunle, is a former comedian, and musician famous on Instagram for promoting artistes and his regular cash giveaways. In December 2020, his Instagram account, which had over 2.5 million followers, was suspended for violating the platform’s terms and conditions. In January 2021, his new account gained 1 million followers in just three days. He now has 1.5 million followers on the platform.
Nancy Isime, who won the Miss Valentine International beauty pageant in 2009, has been the host of the HipTV talk show “Trending” since 2016. She has starred in several films, including Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons, Merry Men 2, Living In Bondage: Breaking Free and Hire A Woman, among others. In 2020 she starred in the movie Kambili, which grossed N20 million at the box office. This year, she’s simultaneously hosting The Nancy Isime Show that airs across three channels and Season 3 of the music talent show, The Voice.
Data for NET Honours is sourced from a comprehensive database of over eight million users who engaged with Netng, Neusroom, Orin and 234Star platforms via the websites, social media accounts, and related platforms within a 12-month calendar period.
Will Toke Makinwa come out on top once again, or would a new winner emerge in this category? To find out, tune in to the announcement of NET Honours winners on Netng’s social media platforms on Sunday, June 20, 2021, from 5 pm.
See the complete list of nominees here.
