You can nominate yourself or be nominated by someone else for a honour at the 19th Annual GAB Awards which takes place in London on Sunday December 3 2017 and in Manchester on Saturday 27 January 2018.
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The GAB Awards was established by The Trumpet Newspaper in 1999 (over 18 years ago) - to reward excellence among Africans and Friends of Africa on the Continent and in the Diaspora who are contributing to the promotion of the positive image of Africa and Africans. The excellence displayed by these, no doubt, enhances the positive image of Africa and Africans.
18th GAB Awards 2016
Criterion
The criterion for winning a GAB Award, broadly speaking, is to have contributed to the enhancement of the positive image of Africa and Africans in any part of the world.
18th GAB Awards 2016
As simple as the criterion sounds, there are numerous people who satisfy this criterion which means that the best of Africa’s Best are matched against each other to produce a high quality list of GAB Awards recipients. The GAB Awards is competitive, prestigious and highly coveted.
Award Categories
There are usually 8 – 15 awards given out at each event.
18th GAB Awards 2016
The GAB Awards categories cover most areas of human endeavour and we accept nominations from all areas of human endeavour.
As there are more than 15 possible areas of human endeavour that nominations can come from, we tend to streamline and shortlist the categories at the stage of drawing up Finalists. This means that you can feel free to nominate as many people as you wish from any area.
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Some of the common categories are:
- Accountancy, Banking & Finance
- Beauty
- Building, Construction & Property
- Business
- Charity
- Communication & Media
- Community Development
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Education
- Entertainment
- Environment
- Fashion
- Future Leader & Youth
- Governance
- Health
- Innovation
- Legal
- Life Time Achievement
- Public Sector
- Science & Technology
- Sports
This list of categories is not exhaustive.
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GAB Award recipient (2nd left) - Eucharia Obi poses with from left - Cllr Doris Jiagge, Cllr Ekechi, Cllr Anna Mbachu and Otunba Ade Adesina at GAB Awards 2015
The Nomination Process
You can nominate yourself or be nominated by someone else for a GAB Award.
Janet Wainana of UK-ENTV and Organiser of Face of Kenya paegeant presents GAB Award to Shoggy Tosh at GAB Awards 2015
Nominations must be sent via email to gabawards@the-trumpet.com. It should contain:
a) The name of the Nominee.
b) The Award Category.
c) The Award Location you are willing to attend, if shortlisted - London and/or Manchester.
d) The reason for the Nomination.
e) Contact telephone numbers and email addresses of yourself and the person being nominated.
f) Biography and Photograph of the Nominee which must be sent at the point of nomination or by the Nomination deadline.
Ibiyemi Alabi - Founder of Kaft Trendz (far right) receives her award from Mr & Mrs Joseph Oladosu of Action for Community Development at GAB Awards 2016
There is a 3-stage Selection process in the lead up to the GAB Awards.
a) Nomination for a GAB Award.
b) Initial screening of Nominees to a shortlist of Finalists.
c) Announcement of GAB Awards Recipients from the list of Finalists.
Miss Dami Okutubo and Mr Adewale Okutubo present GAB Award to Mr Isaac Adegbite of Adesons Productions at GAB Awards 2015
Nominations Calendar
Deadline for the receipt of Nominations and Biographies:
#GABAwardsLondon - Tuesday 31 October 2017.
#GABAwardsManchester - Saturday 11 November 2017.
Announcement of the list of Finalists:
#GABAwardsLondon - Monday 13 November 2017.
#GABAwardsManchester - Saturday 27 November 2017.
Final Recipients announced at the GAB Awards Ceremony:
#GABAwardsLondon - Sunday 3 December 2017.
#GABAwardsManchester - Saturday 27 January 2018.
Wambui Njau (centre) was presented her GAB Award by Mr & Mrs Paul Olubunmi of PK Sales and Lettings at GAB Awards 2015
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