MTN Drops Don Jazzy, Davido, Tiwa Savage And More As Ambassadors

MTN has revealed their line up of ambassadors for

2016/17, confirming reports that there has been a major

reshuffle by the telecoms giant.

There were rumors that the company had dropped a

number of it’s major big names, including Davido and

Don Jazzy. This has now been confirmed by the

company in a new press release.

The press release reads in part: “In line with its

commitment to supporting Nigerian musicians by

providing alternative platforms through which they

can receive lucrative value for their intellectual

property, MTN has announced brand ambassadors for

2016-2017.

“Music ambassadors for 2016-2017 are: Praiz (Praise

Adejo); Iyanya (Iyanya Mbuk); Chidinma (Chidinma

Ekile); Falz (Folarin Falana); Tekno Miles (Augustine

Kelechi) andSkales (Raoul Njeng-Njeng)

“Four other ambassadors are – Saka , (Hafiz Oyetoro);

Nedu (Steve Onu); Osuofia (NkemOwoh) and Adamu

Zango.

MTN Executive, Amina Oyagbola spoke on the new

developments. “MTN remains proud to be associated

with the growth and development of the careers of all

our ambassadors, past and present,” she said.

“We specially thank all our former ambassadors for

their immense contributions to building our brand and

also making us the network of choice in Nigeria. We

will definitely continue to maintain the strong and

mutually beneficial relationship with them through the

monetisation of their content on all our digital

platforms – MTN Music+, CRBT and VAS.”

MTN keeping Iyanya, Chidinma and more

“Iweanoge posited that they planned to keep alive the

same original concept of music brand ambassadorship.

MTN would thus retain the services of past winners

and participants of its Project Fame music reality TV

show.  These include Iyanya, Chidinma and Praiz.

“MTN is particularly proud of these musicians because

we not only gave them the platform to express their

talent through Project FAME, we have consistently

supported them over the years by making them our

ambassadors. We are also proud to have been able to

contribute to some of Nigeria’s biggest music acts.”

Beyond the Project Fame alumni, Iweanoge also said

MTN would still nurture other artistes. MTN would still

retain the services of some of its newly-signed brand

ambassadors. These include like Falz, Skales and Tekno

who are the faces of its youth segment proposition –

MTN Pulse.