The London Hilton Hotel Canary Wharf was the venue of the 18th Gathering of Africa’s Best Awards Ceremony 2016 and the GAB Awards as its popularly known was not short on glitz and glamour as it is to be expected.

But also on display was a parade of high achieving top African organisations, individuals and businesses that were recognised and honoured for outstanding excellence by this  years GAB.

The GAB AWARDS are one of the longest running and most credible Recognition Organisations within the African Diasporan and the UK BME communities.

Founded in 1998 by Femi Okutubo the publisher of Trumpet Newspapers the idea of the  AWARDS came by out of a desire to show the mainstream UK and the world that contrary to popular belief propagated and encouraged by the British media, the African race boasts of much more than lazy unemployed scamming connmen, fraudsters, benefits cheats and drugs…