Nigerian Blog Awards

Delays in listing blogs on our site

Good Naija Girl — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:59:25 +0000

Please note that there is currently a backlog to add blogs to our site, and we hope to clear it up by the end of April at the latest.

We thank you for your submission and appreciate your patience.

The 2012 Nigerian Blog Awards winners!!

Good Naija Girl — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:15:47 +0000

If you didn’t tune in for last night’s Twitter Awards show, or if you did but didn’t take note of all the names of the winning blogs, here they are for you. Congratulations to all the winners and we hope to see plenty of new blogs contending in 2013!

Best Beauty Blog
Blog about makeup or other beauty products.
- Judges’ Choice: Stella’s Addiction
- Popular Vote: Beauty in Lagos

Best Book, Poetry, or Writing Blog
Blog that focuses on books, poetry, or writing, in particular the blogger’s original works.
- Judges’ Choice: AfroSays
- Popular Vote: Musings of a Caramel Latte Addict

Best Business, Career, or Job Blog
Blog that focuses on any aspect of business or career, or on finding jobs.
- Judges’ Choice: Jobberman Blog
- Popular Vote: Jobberman Blog

Best Cause Blog

Blog about raising awareness for a particular cause, such as a medical condition or a political movement. This category was removed but is listed here as a placeholder.

Best Collaborative or Group Blog
Blog on any topic, written by two or more people.
- Judges’ Choice: The Naked Convos
- Popular Vote: The Naked Convos

Best-Designed Blog
Blog that is visually appealing. Although the design can be based on a template, it must be modified from the original template.
- Judges’ Choice: Gistdotcom
- Popular Vote: Date 360

Best Entertainment Blog
Blog about the entertainment industry, including celebrities and gossip.
- Judges’ Choice: Linda Ikeji
- Popular Vote: Linda Ikeji

Best Faith-based Blog
Blog with a focus on religious beliefs or themes.
- Judges’ Choice: The Prodigal Daughter
- Popular Vote: Purpose Driven Blog

Best Fashion or Style Blog
Blog about fashion, fashion design, or personal style.
- Judges’ Choice: One Nigerian Boy
- Popular Vote: One Nigerian Boy

Best Fitness or Health Blog
Blog that focuses on healthy living, exercise, or wellness.
- Judges’ Choice: Eights and Weights
- Popular Vote: E-Health Diary

Best Food Blog
Blog with a focus on food, cooking, catering, or similar.
- Judges’ Choice: 9Ja Foodie
- Popular Vote: 9Ja Foodie

Best Humour Blog
Blog that is amusing or lighthearted in nature.
- Judges’ Choice: The Sarcastic Center
- Popular Vote: The Sarcastic Center

Best Music Blog
Blog that focuses on music or the music industry.
- Judges’ Choice: Not Just Ok
- Popular Vote: TooXclusive

Best New Blog
Blog established in August 2011 or more recently.
- Judges’ Choice: Miss Petite Nigeria
- Popular Vote: Entertainment World

Best News Blog
Blog with a focus on Nigerian news or current events.
- Judges’ Choice: 365 Naija News
- Popular Vote: 365 Naija News

Best Parenting or Family Blog
Blog with a strong focus on parenting, family life, or the journey to become a parent.
- Judges’ Choice: Gbemisoke
- Popular Vote: 21st Century Career Mom

Best Personal Blog
Blog that focuses on the author’s experiences.
- Judges’ Choice: The GeeBee Chronicles
- Popular Vote: Gistdotcom

Best Photography Blog
Blog that focuses on photography and includes the blogger’s original photographs.
- Judges’ Choice: Jide Alakija Photography
- Popular Vote: Jide Odukoya

Best Political Blog
Blog with a strong focus on Nigerian politics.
- Judges’ Choice: Politics section of Ekekeee
- Popular Vote: News Bytes

Best Relationship Blog
Blog with a focus on romantic relationships.
- Judges’ Choice: From the Heart of Soul Sistas
- Popular Vote: The Naked Convos

Best Science or Technology Blog
Blog about science or technology, including information technology.
- Judges’ Choice: TechLoy
- Popular Vote: Dayo Ibitoye

Best Sports Blog
Blog that focuses on Nigerians in sports, or on sports in general.
- Judges’ Choice: Gooner Daily
- Popular Vote: Soccer Fan Base

Best Student Blog
Blog by an individual currently enrolled in school.
- Judges’ Choice: Nigerian Scorpio
- Popular Vote: Kemmiiii’s Blog

Best Topical Blog
Blog with a clear niche that is not represented in any of the other categories.
- Judges’ Choice: Nollywood Reinvented
- Popular Vote: Emekatalks

Best Tutorial Blog
Blog that focuses on teaching its readers through the use of step-by-step instructions.
- Judges’ Choice: Ogbonge Blog
- Popular Vote: The Aje-Butter’s Guide to NYSC

Best Travel or Tourism Blog
Blog about travelling within Nigeria, Africa, or elsewhere in the world.
- Judges’ Choice: Naijatreks
- Popular Vote: Naijatreks

Best Wedding Blog
Blog that cover personal preparations for a wedding, weddings in general, or industries related to weddings, such as event planning or coordinating.
- Judges’ Choice: Sugar! Weddings
- Popular Vote: Wedding Trendy

Nigerian Blog of the Year
Best overall blog by a Nigerian or best blog with a strong focus on any aspect of Nigeria.
- Judges’ Choice: Linda Ikeji
- Popular Vote: Linda Ikeji

Voting is over for 2012 – Winners announced on November 18 at 4:00pm EST/10:00pm Nigerian time

Good Naija Girl — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:26:03 +0000

There’s just one step left for the 2012 Nigerian Blog Awards, and that is to announce the winners! This will be done via twitter on November 18, 2012 at 4:00pm EST (10:00pm Nigerian time). We’re trying to accomodate the Nigeria-based people better than we did last year, when the winners were announced at 1:00am Nigerian time!

In case you aren’t aware, all the fun will be happening from our twitter account: @naijablogawards. Do follow us if you aren’t already, and we’ll be sure to return the favour!

The winners will be posted on the blog by November 19 at the latest. Who is else is looking forward to learning who the winners are!?

S-i-x more voting days

Good Naija Girl — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 07:11:52 +0000

That’s right folks, voting ends on November 11, 2012 at 11:59pm EST (5:59am on November 12, Nigerian time).

Just as a reminder, if you entered your email address during the nomination phase, when you go to vote your vote is counted immediately because your account has been validated. Only newcomers to the site will need to check their email inbox for a confirmation email.

If you need a reminder of what comes next, please visit the 2012 schedule.

Have a great week!

Early voters: please vote again!

Good Naija Girl — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:06:35 +0000

On Tuesday, we discovered that votes submitted by people whose email address was already in our system were not being captured properly. This was resolved on Wednesday. As a result, if you voted on Monday (October 22), Tuesday (October 23), or Wednesday October 24 (before 2pm EST), we ask you to please submit your vote again by visiting our VOTING PAGE. If your vote was counted the first time, you will get a message saying “You have already voted. Thank you for your participation in the 2012 Nigerian Blog Awards!” If you were affected by the glitch, then you will get this message “Your vote has been sent. Thank you for your participation in the 2012 Nigerian Blog Awards!” and your vote will now be counted.

Note: if this was your first visit to our voting site, your vote was received without issue.

Please tell all your fans who voted on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to resubmit their votes, just to double check. If we receive enough comments asking that we extend the voting period by 3 days to accommodate this, we will be happy to do that.

We apologize for this inconvenience and we sincerely thank our observant voter (you know who you are!).

Voting begins today

Good Naija Girl — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 04:35:35 +0000

If you’re ready to vote for your favourite nominees please head over to the >>VOTE<< page and do your duty!

Remember: you can only vote once with your email address so please make sure you’re happy with your selections before you submit the form. (If, despite this, you do make an error, send an email to nigerianblogawards@gmail.com and we’ll try to help).

Happy voting!!

Welcome your 2012 Nigerian Blog Award nominees!

Good Naija Girl — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:10:11 +0000

Thank you all for your patience in waiting for us to announce the 2012 Nigerian Blog Award nominees! Please note that starting on MONDAY OCTOBER 22 until SUNDAY NOVEMBER 11, you will be able to vote for your favourite blog in each of the categories. You can only vote once with your email address so please make sure you make all your selections before submitting your entry. If you did not participate in the nomination phase of the Awards you will be asked to register prior to voting.

The nominees for the 2012 Nigerian Blog Awards are:

Best Beauty Blog
Blog about makeup or other beauty products.
- Beauty in Lagos
- Beauty section of Mrs. Hustle
- Beauty section of The Fashion Engineer
- Doranne Beauty
- Stella’s Addiction

Best Book, Poetry, or Writing Blog
Blog that focuses on books, poetry, or writing, in particular the blogger’s original works.
- AfroSays
- M’ade
- Musings of a Caramel Latte Addict
- Phantom Pages
- Tommyslav’s Island

Best Business, Career, or Job Blog
Blog that focuses on any aspect of business or career, or on finding jobs.
- Dayo Ibitoye
- Job List Nigeria
- Jobberman Blog
- Spread Media Blog
- Strictly Online Biz

Best Cause Blog

Blog about raising awareness for a particular cause, such as a medical condition or a political movement.
This category was removed because the nominated blogs were either too young a blog or did not even vaguely fit the description of the category. One blog partially worked because although it is not devoted to a cause, it raised awareness about someone’s illness. Most submitting nominations mistook a cause for a theme or subject.

Best Collaborative or Group Blog
Blog on any topic, written by two or more people.
- Alariwo
- From the Heart of Soul Sistas
- Mobility
- The Naked Convos
- The Sarcastic Center

Best-Designed Blog
Blog that is visually appealing. Although the design can be based on a template, it must be modified from the original template.
- Date 360
- Gistdotcom
- Gossip Girliee
- Mrs. Hustle
- Unilag Olodo

Best Entertainment Blog
Blog about the entertainment industry, including celebrities and gossip.
- BeeGists
- Date 360
- Dayniike’s Blog
- Linda Ikeji
- Miss Petite Nigeria

Best Faith-based Blog
Blog with a focus on religious beliefs or themes.
- I am Jedidiah
- Ike Amadi
- Purpose Driven Blog
- The Prodigal Daughter
- Yinkus Pinkus

Best Fashion or Style Blog
Blog about fashion, fashion design, or personal style.
- Belle Kay
- Miss Petite Nigeria Fashion
- Mrs. Hustle
- Omoge MuRa
- One Nigerian Boy

Best Fitness or Health Blog
Blog that focuses on healthy living, exercise, or wellness.
- Adura
- E-Health Diary
- Eden Lifestyle
- Eights and Weights
- Naija Fit Girl

Best Food Blog
Blog with a focus on food, cooking, catering, or similar.
- 9Ja Foodie
- Afrolems
- Design Cook Love
- Dobbys Signature
- My Cooking Zone with Brenda

Best Humour Blog
Blog that is amusing or lighthearted in nature.
- FotoIdols
- Kemmiiii’s Blog
- Sir Kenayo’s Blog
- The Sarcastic Center
- Wana’s Playbook

Best Music Blog
Blog that focuses on music or the music industry.
- Naija MP3s
- Not Just Ok
- Pizzletainment
- That Airplay
- TooXclusive

Best New Blog
Blog established in August 2011 or more recently.
- Entertainment World
- Laila Ikeji
- Mackson Okotie’s Blog
- Miss Petite Nigeria
- TLSPLACE

Best News Blog
Blog with a focus on Nigerian news or current events.
- 365 Naija News
- News Before Bed
- News Bytes
- Nigerian Eye
This category only has four eligible nominated blogs.

Best Parenting or Family Blog
Blog with a strong focus on parenting, family life, or the journey to become a parent.
- 21st Century Career Mom
- Gbemisoke
- Lagos Mums
- Naijamum in London
This category only has four eligible nominated blogs.

Best Personal Blog
Blog that focuses on the author’s experiences.
- Gistdotcom
- Hmmm
- M’ade
- The Enigmatic
- The GeeBee Chronicles

Best Photography Blog
Blog that focuses on photography and includes the blogger’s original photographs.
- Alakija
- Fotos by Fola
- Jide Odukoya
- Riri Belle Photography
- SpicyInc Studio

Best Political Blog
Blog with a strong focus on Nigerian politics.
- My Little Blog
- Ndukwe
- News Bytes
- Politics section of Ekekeee
- Politics section of Omojuwa

Best Relationship Blog
Blog with a focus on romantic relationships.
- From the Heart of Soul Sistas
- Miseducation of Mimi
- Pardon Our Randomness
- The Naked Convos
- Worship and Swag

Best Science or Technology Blog
Blog about science or technology, including information technology.
- Dayo Ibitoye
- Ogbonge Blog
- OTEKBITS
- TechLoy
- Technesstivity

Best Sports Blog
Blog that focuses on Nigerians in sports, or on sports in general.
- Football Fest
- Gooner Daily
- Lako (A Football Aficionado)’s Blog
- Soccer Fan Base
- Wazobia Gooners

Best Student Blog
Blog by an individual currently enrolled in school.
- Kemmiiii’s Blog
- Nigerian Scorpio
- Ramblings of a Crazy Youth
- Riri Belle Photography
- Through my broken glass

Best Topical Blog
Blog with a clear niche that is not represented in any of the other categories.
- African Naturalistas (Niche: natural African hair)
- Emekatalks (Niche: personal development, self improvement)
- Movie Reviews (Niche: movies)
- Natural Nigerian (Niche: natural lifestyle, avoiding processed things)
- Nollywood Reinvented (Niche: Nollywood, movie reviews)

Best Tutorial Blog
Blog that focuses on teaching its readers through the use of step-by-step instructions.
- Make Money Online Nigeria
- Ogbonge Blog
- Orjiakor’s Blog
- Patchwork of Tips
- The Aje-Butter’s Guide to NYSC

Best Travel or Tourism Blog
Blog about travelling within Nigeria, Africa, or elsewhere in the world.
- Geotraveler’s Niche
- KTravula
- Labyrinths of Lahrah
- Lape Soetan
- Naijatreks

Best Wedding Blog
Blog that cover personal preparations for a wedding, weddings in general, or industries related to weddings, such as event planning or coordinating.
- Akara Ogheneworo
- Na My Wedding
- SpicyInc Studio
- Sugar! Weddings
- Wedding Trendy

Nigerian Blog of the Year
Best overall blog by a Nigerian or best blog with a strong focus on any aspect of Nigeria.
- Gistdotcom
- Linda Ikeji
- Miss Petite Naija
- Mrs. Hustle
- Musings of a Caramel Latte Addict
- Naija Mp3s
- Naijatreks
- Ogbonge Blog
- The Naked Convos
- Unilag Olodo

Nominees announced October 19

Good Naija Girl — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:16:11 +0000

Great news: we have sorted out our glitches and will be revealing the nominees tomorrow, Friday, October 19! A big thanks goes to our judges who were charged with narrowing down the list of nominees.

And of course we thank you for your patience!

Announcing of the nominated blogs DELAYED

Good Naija Girl — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:30:30 +0000

We hate to do this but the revelation of the nominees will have to be delayed due to unanticipated circumstances related to the new nominee selection process that was put into place. Voting is still expected to commence on October 22, 2012, as indicated in the schedule.

Thank you for your understanding.

Update – one week before the nominees are revealed!

Good Naija Girl — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:30:38 +0000

Things have been quiet on this front but I assure a lot has been going on behind the scenes:

All (and there were a ton!) the nominated blogs were reviewed for eligibility.
The top blogs in each category were forwarded to judges who were asked to select their top 5 (and top 10 in the case of Nigerian Blog of the Year) blogs.
The nominated blogs will be presented to you next Monday, October 15.
Voting on these blogs will commence on October 22.

(More information about the 2012 Awards is available in the Schedule.)

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