Airopay, Access Bank, ARISE TV, Yesufu Nominated for GAGE Awards

The GAGE Awards 2021 has finally opened its portal for voting for digital practitioners, including ARISE TV Online, that emerged from the 20 categories, and after two months of intense nominations, the final lists of nominees in the various categories have been released.

Announcing the commencement of voting, the Convener of the GAGE Awards, Mr. Johnson Anorh, disclosed that it was not an easy task pruning down over 15,000 nominations as Nigerians made their choice on who best served them in 2020, using the digital platforms.

“The numbers have been overwhelming as in less than 24 hours, as we have had over 1.4 million website visits,” he said.

He disclosed that the nominees for the Banking App of the Year are Vbank, GTBank, Zenith Bank, Access Bank and Alat by Wema Bank, while the nominees for Data Service Provider of the Year are MTN, Airtel, Globacom, Swift Networks and 9Mobile. The Breakout App of the Year category nominees are Airopay, WhotAfrica, Zoom, TiKTok, and Clubhouse.

Also, Online Comedian of the Year nominees are Mr. Macaroni, Lasisi Elenu, Sydney Talker, MC Lively, and 2019 winner, Taaooma, while Influencer of the year category nominees are Aisha Yesufu, Tomike Adeoye, Erica Nlewedim, Nengi Hampson and Pamilerin.

Anorh further disclosed that the nominees for Entrepreneur of the Year are Charles Oyakhilome (CEO,Airopay); Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi(Founder, Paystack); Tope Awotona(CEO, Calendly); Babs Ogundeyi (CEO, Kuda Bank), and Chijioke Dozie, (CEO, OneFi and Carbon).