Nigeria
Ikorodu Bois Nominated For Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards 2021
Nigerian internet sensation and teenage comedian group, Ikorodu Bois have been nominated for an award by the popular American pay television channel, Nickelodeon.
The young boys known for recreating and mimicking multi-million-dollar music videos, Hollywood film trailers and epic pictures has been nominated under the ‘favorite African social media star’ category in the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice award 2021.
Recall, the group of teen comedians were gifted pieces of equipment by streaming giant Netflix after recreating an American movie trailer that went viral.
Taking to social media to share the announcement, the youngsters wrote;
“Good news! we have just been nominated for a Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award. plssss guys vote for us.”
Good news! 🕺🏼 we have just been nominated for a Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award. plssss guys vote for us🙏🏽
Here’s how you can vote:
 On Twitter, using the hashtags #VoteIkoroduBois & #KCA
 Or visit https://t.co/gCYjFz0fn3 to vote#KCA | @NickAfricaLove you all❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/HmzasiV7pN
— ikorodu bois (@IkoroduB) February 6, 2021
The Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards is an annual American children’s awards ceremony show that is produced by Nickelodeon. The show honours the year’s biggest television, movie, and music acts as voted by viewers worldwide of Nickelodeon networks.
The nomination list for the Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards was released on its official website with two Nigerian-kid superstars clinching a spot in the award category.
The young boys were nominated alongside Emmanuella Samuel, a.k.a Emmanuella, a 10-year old comedian from Markangel comedy – Nigeria, Bonang – South Africa, Ghetto kids – Uganda , Elsa Majimbo – Kenya, Wain Van Den berg – south Africa.
The Ikorodu Bois made up of Babatunde Sanni, Muiz Sanni, Malik Sanni and Fawas Aina, have recreated videos featuring celebrities such as Roddy Rich, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Zlatan, Funke Akindele, Wizkid and Davido.
In April, 2020, they earned praise from “The Professor” after replicating the trailer of the Netflix Spanish drama series, Money Heist. They earned an invite to the world premiere of Netflix action thriller, Extraction 2 after making a remake of the first trailer.
They also received praises from Hollywood star, Chris Hemsworth and the producers of Extraction, the Russo brothers.
Ikorodu Bois were recently featured on Steve Harvey’s TV show.
