NEXT MOVIE STAR AFRICA RELOADED 2013 WINNER.........FEYISEKEMI

Feyisekemi Akinwale, an Ondo State native, has been adjudged winner of the 2013 Next Movie Star Africa Reloaded edition. The 19-year-old beat eight other finalists (including three other Nigerians) to win the eight edition of the reality television show. Akinwale walks away with a brand new SUV, cash prize and promised movie roles. ‘I wasn’t expecting this at all. I just threw myself into the show believing that God’s will shall be done. Now, God’s will has been done. I am just too excited to say much now’, This Tagged ‘Call 2 Stardom’, this year’s NMS Africa Reloaded edition featured housemates from Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, The Gambia, Kenya, Namibia and South Africa. The likes of Uti Nwachukwu, Karen Igho, Tonto Dikeh, Annie Macaulay, Kevin Chuwang Pam, Tamara Eteimo, Lydia Forson and Adams Ibrahim have all previously contested on the show. Veteran actress, Racheal Oniga, who was also one of this edition’s judges, announced the winner. She was joined by the President of the Independent Television Producers Association of Nigeria, ITPAN, Stephen Osezua; renowned actress cum director, Pat Oghre-Osezua; winner of the Next Movie Star 2012, Halimat Aitsegame and Vchannel presenter and first runner-up, Next Movie Star 2012, Bridget Chigbufue. A French student at the Ekiti State University, Feyisekemi was exclaimed when she was declared the winner, “Thank God, Thank God”. She described her victory as an act of God because “I wasn’t expecting this at all. I am just too excited to say much now.”