Projects Fame West Africa 2008 winner

Cross Rivers state born Inyanya Mbuk of Nigeria has finally emerged the winner of the MTN Project Fame West Africa. The winner was decided strictly with viewers votes which has in the last one week till 8pm on Saturday been collated, verified and presented by Alexander Forbes Consulting, a leading human resources and employee benefit firm in Nigeria .

Inyanya was declared winner of the ten weeks long musical contest on Sunday 7th of December 2008, at the Ultima studio in Ogba, Lagos, venue of the Finals of the show, after defeating the other three finalists to the Ultimate prize of the Africa most popular musical television show that has attracted a whole lot of viewer ship across Africa.

He was presented with 2.5 million Naira, an international recording deal and a 2008 Toyota Rav 4, fully loaded car.

Ghanaian born Nii Anka was the runner up, and was presented with the sum of N 2 Million and a 2008 model Toyota Corolla Fully loaded car.

Praise Adejo of Nigeria was third and went home with N1.5 Million and a 2008 model Toyota Yaris, Fully loaded car and Annette cookie of Nigeria, came fourth and went home with 1 million Naira only.

The contest started on 28th of September, with 15 talented contestants chosen among the final 18 that were short listed from the thousands of entries across West Africa were exposed to the several weeks of training in different areas of musical performances, dance and choreography.

Inyanya said, “ I am very thankful to MTN and other organizers of the show for giving me the wonderful opportunity, I can bet you guys that the Inyanya I am today is not the Inyanya you used to know in terms of music, I am really grateful to God who has allowed what happened today to be. This is just the beginning of greater things in my life. At first I was scared because at a point I saw somebody who has never been on probation before being evicted from the academy, but I kept believing in God, I kept believing in myself and I kept believing in the wonderful people around the world that are showing faith in me. Everybody was a strong opponent because everybody in the academy has a unique quality but all I had to do was to work harder, listen to the faculty of the academy and do what they ask me to do, and that was what got me to this end”.

Great things abound for this young man. Congratulations once again Inyanya.