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APOLOGY FIRST: I will Go Into Farming If Shatta Wale Attends The VGMAs Artist manager and owner of Bull Haus entertainment, Bulldog. say organisers of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) must apologise to Dancehall artiste Shatta Wale before he attends any of their events. According to the manager of Shatta Wale, the scheme for so long has disrespected his ...

Sarkodie has made an assertion that men who are mostly in the kitchen helping out their women and trying to be caring and romantic are poor. According to King Sark, you wouldn’t be in the kitchen if you were rich thus only poor and broke men does that all in the name of love. Sarkodie in his verse on Sista ...

Ghanaian comic actor Funny Face has disclosed that he is expecting another set of twins. The ‘Kasoa Trotro’ actor, who already has twin girls and another baby with his girlfriend, Vanessa, said his next children will be from a different woman. According to Funny Face, born Benson Nana Yaw, while battling depression, he ended up in a relationship with a ...

Deputy Minister-designate for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mark Okraku-Mantey, has disagreed with the assertion that highlife music is lost in Ghana’s industry after the rise of other music genres. Speaking at his vetting by Parliament’s Appointment Committee on Tuesday, he said that the many music genres young artistes are experimenting with currently, has the highlife genre as the default rhythm. ...

Ghanaian rapper Kwesi Arthur has indicated that music sampling is not thievery. The art of tapping into the creativity of old songs to recreate another masterpiece has become very popular among Ghanaian musicians recently. Highlife musician, Kuami Eugene, has been mostly caught up in such controversies. But in Sarkodie’s latest song, ‘Coachella’ on his upcoming ‘No Pressure’ album, Kwesi Arthur ...

Emerging Ghanaian afrobeat singer and songwriter, Ernest Gyesi, popularly known in showbiz as King Ogyii, is set to release his maiden EP titled ‘UnHoly’. The new album, which is yet to hit both local and international music markets, has been equipped with six danceable tracks to entertain his numerous fans. The songs, which were produced by some top sound engineers ...

First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu, has registered his displeasure with the continuous proliferation of foreign content, particularly telenovelas on Ghanaian TV screens, and nothing is still being done about it. According to him, it is not only offensive to local content production but also Ghanaian culture in general. He disclosed he has stopped watching TV as a result, ...

Stakeholders in Kumawood sector of the Ghana movie industry are still in shock over the sudden demise of their friend and fellow actor Samuel Manu, popularly known as Agya Manu. Agya Manu, 54, died on Tuesday June 15, 2021 due to a yet to be confirmed ailment. Earlier reports alleged that he was battling diabetes before he met his unfortunate death. But it’s yet to be confirmed ...

The much-awaited maiden edition of the Ghana Merit Awards 2021 is scheduled to take place on Friday, 18th June 2021. The ceremony is to be held at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly City Hall. The Awards scheme will celebrate and award excelling personalities from the untold perspectives based on their crafts and efforts in all aspects. The event is expected to ...

The Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Dr. Ibrahim Awal, has announced that the government is determined to develop two iconic tourism attractions in each of the five regions of the north to stimulate growth in the area. Dr. Ibrahim Awal announced this in a speech read on his behalf at a two-day conference in Tamale organised by the Northern ...