Chisom bags Best Actress of the Year award

Nigeria’s U.S-based actress, Chisom Oz-Lee has emerged the Best Actress of the Year at the recently concluded NPA Entertainment Awards in the United States.

The NPA Entertainment Awards is an event to recognize, celebrate and to further promote African entertainers based in the United States of America and in Diaspora.

Chisom’s win is coming on the heels of the premiere of the movie, TOBI in Nigeria where she and other prominent actors and actresses graced the red carpet. The movie is presently showing across Nigerian cinemas.

It should be recalled that in the movie, Chisom played a very prominent role as she has continued to stand out with the quality of her acting.

This year’s edition of the awards was planned to be bigger and better than previous editions and was staged in Houston Texas, U.S.A from May 25th through 27th, 2012.

Interestingly, the event coincided with the 'Memorial weekend.'

As a build up to the awards, there was a gathering of entertainment professionals and as expected, entertainment administrators who are members and non-members of NPA such as: promoters, music producers, event planners, record label companies, artiste managers, Deejays, media personalities, film producers, fashion designers, arts and sports executives came together to deliberate on ways to better improve the standards of Pan African Entertainment industry particularly in the North America by the year 2020.

 

About NPA and its 'Networking Vision'

The NPA event is designed to create a networking platform where attendees will meet and share ideas among other things.

One of the aims of the event is also to preserve the African cultural heritage. The event is also a template to exhibit and promote various works of both locals and Africans in the United States of America, thus broadening networking beyond boarders and defining new markets for creative arts and entertainment business.

By Samod Biobaku

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