Film Village: Sekyere Chief Donates 300 Acres of Land To FIPAG

The chief of Sekyere in the Sekyere East District of the Ashanti Region, Nana Osei Kwabena Onin Pobi II and Queen Nana Yaa Antwiwaa II and the Sekyereman, have donated a 300 acre land to the Film industry and the Government to use for the construction of the proposed Film Village.

Nana Pobi II addressing the press when the Film Producers Association of Ghana (FIPAG) paid a courtesy call on him said he saw a television news item which some movie producers petitioned parliament on the film villagepr brouhaha

"I saw a news item on TV when a petition was presented to the parliament of Ghana on the siting of the project, and I was moved by the plight of the filmmakers".

"I immediately consulted the queen  who did not object but agreed with me", he added.

After further consultations with other elders, the Sekyere Benkumhemaa made contacts with Mr Christopher Dadzie (Big J), an Executive Member of the FIPAG.

Mr Dadzie immediately called on Nana Pobi II at his palace and on his return informed the FIPAG President, Mr James Aboagye, of the good news.

Mr. Aboagye with his team formally called on Nana Pobi II at his palace to meet the leadership of town.

On behalf of the filmmakers and industry, the president who could not hide his joy for Nana's gesture thanked Nana and his elders.

"On behalf of the Film Producers Association of Ghana (FIPAG), Stakeholders and the Media, I'll like to say the film the film industry will forever be grateful to Nana Osei Kwabena Onin Pobi II, Nana Yaa Antwiwaa II, the elders, committee members and the Sekyereman for your kind gesture".

Nana Pobi II also presented a copy of a proposal to donate the land for the project to be submitted to government through the Creative Arts Ministry to Mr James Aboagye.

A part of the land falls within the popular Atwea Mountain enclave.

There are several caves and other interesting  land forms found in the Sedimentary rock that forms the mountain.

The land in addition to the film village could potentially become a tourist attraction if harnessed and developed.

Photos: Juliet Ibrahim, Nana Ama Mcbrown, Selassie Ibrahim and others at Mahama’s inauguration

 The stars turned out in their numbers at the inaugural ceremony for President John Mahama on Monday. Several known faces including Radio Presenters, Movie Stars, Broadcasters, among others were present. Most of the familiar faces from the entertainment industry present were those who openly endorsed President Mahama during the campaign period including; Okay FM’s Abeiku Santana, Sports Presenter Yaw Ampofo Ankrah, actresses Kalsoume Sinare, Vivian Achor, Selassie Ibrahim, Vicky Zugah and Pascaline Edwards. Other celebrities present were Nana Ama McBrown, Juliet Ibrahim, Dzifa Gomashie, Akofa Edjeani Asiedu, Irene Opare, Kofi Okyere Darko (KOD), and Actor Eddie Nartey among others.

ayisoba, nacy, fUSE odg and agya koo nimo miss out on kora

All four Ghana representatives at the 12 edition of the KORA Music Awards, held over the weekend in Cote D Ivoire, failed to win in their respective categories.

Nacy and his Skulfuo group failed to win the award for best Male Gospel Artiste while Fuse ODG, who was nominated in the Best Male West Africa category, couldn’t beat his competitors to it. Best Male Traditional category nominees Agya Koo Nimo and out-of-form Kologo singer King Ayisoba also failed to win.

The Kora Awards finally took place Sunday night in Abidjan, after string of hitches, which the organizers say was due to a heavy downpour, delays in the delivery of musical equipment and the late arrival of star artiste, Chris Brown.

Highlife legend Dr. K. Gyasi dead!

The death is reported of Highlife musician Dr. K. Gyasi, of Noble Kings fame. Family sources say he died on December 21 at around 7:30 am. He was 90. The veteran musician has been battling with Prostate Cancer for some time now, and it is believed that caused his death.

A week’s celebration will be held on Friday December 28 in his honour, during which plans for a fitting funeral and burial ceremony, will be made public.

A talented musician in his time, K Gyasi was one of the early pioneers of highlife music, contributing

mr. music man congratulates mahama

President John Mahama and Kojo Antwi

Music legend, Kojo Antwi, on Thursday congratulated President John Dramani Mahama on his December 7 election victory.

Speaking during a courtesy call on the President at the Castle, Mr. Music Man said he and other players in the creative arts industry are looking forward to greater collaboration with the Mahama’s administration to develop the sector and contribute to national development.

He was accompanied to The Castle by Malian singer, Salif Keita, with whom he will be performing on Monday December 24. The concerts have been a marked event on the Ghanaian Christmas calendar and draws large crowd every year.

election 2012: npp challenge presidential results

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has vehemently expressed concerns over the conduct of this year’s election saying, the presidential poll was fraught with several irregularities.

Consequently, the party in a press statement has requested that the Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, to factor what it described as “the widespread and systemic abuse of the electoral process”.

“I ask that you consider the widespread and systemic abuse of the electoral process, witnessed across the country and aided by H.E. the President, John Dramani Mahama‘s statement for people to vote even if not verified by the machines, which is clearly unlawful”, the statement said.

Press Statement by The NPP After Declaration of Presidential Results

The Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr Afari Djan, this evening made a declaration on the December 7 presidential election.

As the New Patriotic Party leadership made it clear to him earlier this evening, in a meeting requested by us and called by the National Peace Council, with the other political parties in attendance, we have serious reservations about the validity of what the Chairman of the Electoral Commission has done in declaring results that, by the evidence, do not reflect the mandate of the needed majority of the Ghanaian electorate.

Confirmed: Mahama wins 2012 presidential election

Chairman for the Electoral Commission, Dr kwadwo Afari Gyan on Sunday evening declared Ghana’s sitting president John Dramani Mahama as the winner of the 2012 presidential elections.

President John Mahama who ran on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) polled 5,574,761 representing 50.70% to win the polls held on Friday and Saturday.

The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Akufo-Addo had 5,248,898 of the valid votes cast, representing 47.74%.

security voting: exit polls put mahama @70%

John Dramani Mahama

History certainly has a very fine way of repeating itself and history is, indeed, repeating itself.

Yesterday, Tuesday, 4 December 2012, is another day that landed on the bad side of Nana Akufo-Addo rather unimpressive political record.

Most certainly yesterday will go down in history as another day that saw the security services voting massively for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and President John Dramani Mahama.

Just as it happened in 2008, when the Security Services voted massively for Professor John Evans Atta Mills, the men and women in uniform, have, once again reposed massive confidence in the NDC administration.

BREAKING NEWS: SIDALCO Boss[David Lamptey] Is Dead

David Lamptey

Sad news reaching us indicates that the Chief Executive Officer of Sidalco Limited, David Lamptey, has passed on to eternal glory.

The late David Lamptey, who died some few hours ago - inc

identally the last day of campaigning for all political parties contesting this year's elections - was also the CEO of Radio XYZ.

A dye-in-the-wool NDC activist, David Lamptey once served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Korle Klottey Constituency in the Greater Accra Region.

herty borngreat wins contemporary gospel artiste of the year award

herty borngreat

Following her outstanding performance in the Ghanaian gospel music industry, Herty Borngreat, a renowned gospel music star, last Sunday won the Contemporary Gospel Artiste of the Year award at the maiden edition of Zoom Alliance Gospel Music Awards held at the Accra International Conference Centre.

Sensational gospel artiste Herty Borngreat, who is not new in the Ghanaian gospel music scene, featured Sakordie on her hit single, ‘Bebree’, which received massive air play on radio and some selected TV stations.

Herty won the Discovery Artiste of the Year at the 2011 Ghana Music Awards (GMAs).

"i ran for my life", Sarkodie

sarkodie

Ghana’s music industry seems to have adopted the East Coast–West Coast hip hop bloody rivalry that  emerged in the 1990’s between East Coast-based rapper the Notorious B.I.G. (and his label, Bad Boy Records), and West Coast-based rapper Tupac Shakur (and his label, Death Row Records)

Mad Time Entertainment, which manages Tema-based award winning hip-hop artiste Kwaw Kesse aka Abodam, has released a very strong worded and threatening press statement directed at the Accra-based music group, VIP.

The statement, signed by Fennec Okyere on behalf of Mad Time, warned VIP that if the group felt safe in Nima, a densely populated Accra suburb,  Kwaw Kesse also had a strong support base in Tema and other parts of the country and his fans might physically attack VIP  if the group went to those areas.

ghana movie awards postponed to december 25

van vicker, juliet ibrahim, john dumelo and prince tsigah @ the launching of gma 2012

Ghollywood Production (GP) Limited, organizers of the prestigious Ghana movie awards wishes to announce to the general public that this year’s award ceremony will come off at the Accra International Conference Centre on Christmas Day, December 25.

GP Limited had earlier announced to organize the award ceremony on December 2, ahead of the upcoming General Elections on December 7.

This was after it considered the unforeseen challenges that might affect the ceremony in a likely case of a run-off during the elections.

mac jordan amartey loses leg

Reports reaching ‘Razz’ has it that legendary actor, Mac Jordan Amartey is seriously ill and has had one of his legs amputated.
The ace actor is said to be suffering from a chronic form of diabetes which affected his leg, prompting doctors to cut it off.
Mac Jordan is well noted for the use of ‘big’ English words in his movies and known also for his tiff with another actress Grace Nortey in almost all the movies the two starred in.

oxford clears nana addo

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo

A correspondence from the University of Oxford, one of the world’s leading higher institutions, has affirmed that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was not expelled from the university.

A statement issued as far back as February 27, 2012 by Professor Ewan McKendrick, Registrar of the University, said, “Mr. Akufo-Addo was at the University during the 1962/63 academic year.

“We have searched our archives and found no record to indicate that Mr Akufo-Addo was expelled by the University.”

kwaw kesse disses sarkodie

The "Abodam" rapper, Kwaw Kesse, has dropped a heavy diss on Sarkodie in his new song.

Known for his "nonsensical" lyrics, this new song by Kwaw Kesse comes in as a big surprise for the Ghanaian music fraternity with lots of controversial lines put together by Kwaw.

He spoke over a wide range of issues in the song hitting ladies with flat butts among others.

bishop daniel obinim claims hit track "lapaz toyota"

Bishop Daniel Obinim

Controversial self-styled Christian leader Bishop Daniel Obinim, best remembered for invading a radio station with a carpenter’s crowbar to assault some persons, is in the news again for another reason that has nothing to do with Christianity.

Bishop Obinim, leader of God’s Way Church, is claiming that he made circular music ‘Lapaz Toyota’, by hiplife artiste Guru, a mega-hit.

This revelation from a Christian leader comes as a shock, especially when ‘Lapaz Toyota’ was largely considered to have profane lyrics.

sarkodie wins best african act in the headies

Ghanaian rapper, Sarkodie stays winning as he bagged the Headies Award for Best African Act at the well attended ceremony which took place at the expo hall of the Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos, Nigeria on Saturday, October 20.

The big winners on the night included Wizkid, Vector and P-Square with two nods apiece.

Rapper Vector might received his first ever ‘Headie’ in the ‘Best Rap Single’ category for his hit ‘Angeli’ featuring 9ice, as well as the ‘Lyricist on the Roll’ award.

The night also saw Psquare returnig to the Headies’ honours list after a two-year hiatus. Their ‘Invasion’ album won ‘Album of the Year’ and ‘Best R&B-Pop Album’.

2 of asantehene's jewels retrieved

Norwegian police have published the photos and names of two people suspected of involvement in the theft of crown jewels owned by a Ghanian leader at an Oslo hotel, and say at least two stolen items have been retrieved.

The crown jewels belonged to Ashanti King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and were stolen last week when he was attending a conference in the Norwegian capital.

The two suspects, a man and woman, were believed to be from Central America or South America, Gunnar Thorsen of the organised crime unit of the Oslo police said.

eno Ghana's best female rapper +[video pull me out]

eno

In the ever challenging Ghanaian music market, it has always been difficult for an artiste to break through let alone make profit.

From the development of concept, composing, recording, promoting and marketing the bottlenecks at each stage are just more than enough to make one give up. For the ladies in the industry, it's even a non-starter as a result of the male dominance in almost all spheres.

Of late however, the ladies have been making steady in rows in the various genres of Ghanaian Music. However, the rap game has been the most slippery turf for the ladies and this is where the latest female to join the band wagon comes in.