Dancehall artiste Shatta Wale has been barred from contesting in this year’s edition of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.

Charter House had dragged Shatta Wale to court for posting four videos considered defamatory on social media.

At a news conference on Tuesday, officials of Charter House, organisers of the event announced that since Shatta Wale was yet to apologise to them for insults he hurled at them last year, he was ineligible to contest in the awards scheme.

Shatta Wale posted a message on Facebook on Tuesday, February 23, 2016, after the 2016 VGMA board disclosed that he would not be part of this year's nominees.

Read his post below: