The blogger would like to thank readers who nominated KTravula.com for the Best Travel Blog category in the on-going Nigerian Blog Awards 2011. You’re wonderful. To vote for this blog, go to this link, and choose KTravula in the Best Travel Blog category.
I was going to wait until the events were over, but I might as well do it now. The results were announced on Monday.
Best Beauty Blog Bella Naija
- Best Daily Read Verastically Livin’
- Best Designed Blog: Ego Du Jour
Best Entertainment Blog: Linda Ikeji
Best Fashion or Style Blog: One Nigerian Boy
Best Food Blog: My Kitchen (Ms. O)
Best Group or Collaborative Blog: Myne Whitman Writes
Best Health, Fitness or Sports Blog: 9ja Gunners
Best Music Blog: Not Just Ok
Best New Blog: Ego Du Jour
Best News or Magazine Blog: Linda Ikeji
Best Parenting Blog: It Was So Much Easier When I Only Had One (Solomon Sydelle)
Best Personal Blog: Sting
Best Personal Development Blog: Light Her Lamp (Jaycee)
Best Photography Blog: Tunji Sarumi
Best Poetry Blog: The Talkaholic (Harry)
Best Political Blog: Black Looks (Sokari Ekine)
Best Religion Blog: Light Her Lamp (Jaycee)
Best Science or Technology Blog: Loy Okezie
Best Student Blog: Leggy
Best Travel Blog: Jide Salu Diary
Best Use of Media, including Social Media: Myne Whitman Writes
Best Use of Theme: Black Looks (Sokari Ekine)
Best Writing or Book blog: Myne Whitman Writes
Most Controversial Blog: Truth Don Die
Most Humourous Blog: Nice Anon
Most Inspiring Blog: Le Dynamique Professeur
Most Intellectual Blog: Rethots
Most Unique Voice: Rethots
Nigerian Blog of the Year: Myne Whitman Writes
Congratulations to all the winners. All those interested in Nigerian thoughts should check out some of those blogs, and experience some of Nigerian best. I particularly liked Black Looks which I was discovering for the very first time. I hope to check out the other blogs too. If I find something interesting, I’d definitely let you know.
The Nigerian Blog Awards 2010 have been giving me sleepless nights. Seriously! 😮
I try to think of what else to blog about, and I can’t get it out of my head that I’ve been nominated for the most number of categories in this year’s awards. This is too emotional for me. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not averse to awards or honours. I welcome all that they represent and all the responsibility they bestow on the nominee/winners to behave in a particular way worthy of the trust. Still, I was awed, humbled, sometimes swollen-headed, and then humbled again by the what it must mean to be considered worthy of those nominations. Give me the tissue, someone!
So I’ve thanked all the (invisible) people who nominated my blog, but it doesn’t seem enough. I want to go out on a tall building and shout out my appreciation, just go get the point across. Let me do so again here. I appreciate the love. Very much. Thank you. This blog – my own social network, my sounding board, my blackboard, my confession box, and all that it has been over the last ten months – won’t be what it is without the committed readers, commenters, guest-bloggers, fans and friends. It is you for that the drums roll.
KTravula.com was nominated for these categories:
– Best Daily Read
– Best New Blog
– Best Personal Blog
– Best Photography Blog
– Best Poetry Blog
– Best Student Blog
– Best Travel Blog
– Best Use of Media, Including Social Media
– Best Use of Theme
– Most Intellectual Blog
– Nigerian Blog of the Year
Now I can’t wait for the voting season to come and go (voting starts on 31st and ends on the 6th), so that I can get on with my life and resume the pattern of a sound sleep. This suspense is killing.
In the next couple of days, I hope to try to show you a few of my old posts that I often find myself reading all over again, for different reasons. For visitors coming to this blog for the first time because of the mention in the Award Nominations, the posts might give you an insight into why the blog might actually have possibly deserved those nominations. For old readers, they might refresh your memories. But tell me, what are some of your favourite posts, and why?
PS: Today I took a long overdue tour of my old Hall of Residence in the University of Ibadan. The structures are old but there are traces of renovations. There is also a new basketball court behind the Warden’s office. I took pictures. I will share them shortly.
This blog was yesterday nominated for eleven categories in the Nigerian Blog Awards 2010. This is overwhelming for a blog less than a year old. And for that, I say a big KTravula thank you to all of you who did the nomination on behalf of our fans, friends, readers, commenters and guest-posters. Big hugs to you.
Voting for the categories start on May 31 and ends on June 6. A full list of the categories and nominees can be found here.
Winner for the Nigerian Blog of the Year gets to be the president of Nigeria for one day, and gets a chance to make any government policy s/he wants. Oh, I wish ;).
Information about the 2010 Nigerian Blog Awards is here. It’s like the internet Oscars for the Nigerian bloggers.
Check it out, and nominate your favourite blogs for any of the 30 categories listed this year. It definitely sounds exciting.