Stephanie Okereke Linus Works For Queen Elizabeth II On New Project

Nollywood actress, Stephanie Okereke Linus has been commissioned to work on a youth empowerment initiative program with the Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth II.

The program, the ‘Queens Young Leaders Awards’ seeks to discover, celebrate and support exceptional young people in commonwealth nations who are making impact in their societies through various unique endeavors.

The Imo State born actress was recently chosen together with South African Archbishop, Desmond Tutu as the official spokespersons for the initiative according to nigeriafilms.com.

The industrious actress and entrepreneur said in a recent interview that she was excited to be a part of such an important exercise.

“I think it’s a great honour to be named spokesperson and to serve on the same platform as Archbishop Desmond Tutu.”

The screen authority is expected to create awareness for the initiative in Nigeria.

Source: starrfmonline.com

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Obrafour Set To Release New Single Tomorrow After Missing Out For 5 Years

When talking about hiplife in Ghana, one rap artist you can never rule out is Obrafour who was affectionately called Ghana Rap Sofo by his fans.

He is one of the artists who came and changed the whole phase of the hiplife game with his cutting edge lyrics which saw him soar to greater heights in the game.

Obrafour who released his first album ‘Pae Mu Ka’ in late 1999, and later set on to release more albums which won him many awards in the country, has been off the scene for a while but featuring on other artists singles and albums throughout the years. He was quite recently featured on M.anifest’s ‘No Shortcut To Heaven’ and that of other artists such as, Guru, Sarkodie, Samini and many more some few years ago and has not been active for a while now. He’s one artist who can go off the scene for many years and still bounce back with a BANG!

Apart from being a good lyricist, he’s good at singing too and knows how to construct very nice and up to the point choruses too. Simply put, he knows how to put the chips together to come out with a very nice chorus on a song.

Many up and coming artists and even those already in the game looked up to him for inspiration and his songs impacted positively in the lives of many. He’s one artist whose songs are loved by both young and old due to his well cut out lyrics.

He’s a bit media shy and has been able to keep a low profile for a while now, but by the time the sun sets tomorrow, 8th October 2014, he’s set to release his first single after 5 years titled “Odasani” featuring M.anifest and recorded by Oteng.

There’s been much talk about of the single even before it’s release. M.anifest on his facebook wall described how he was privileged to be a part of the single, Hammer who was the godfather behind the success of Obrafour also had a few words to say about the single.
This is what M.anifest had to say:

Great NEWS! The king is back! Obrafour drops his new single, “Odasani,” tomorrow! Premiers today on Bola Ray’s show. Produced by Oteng.
Such a huge honor for me to be featured on this single. Chale when “Pae Mu Ka” dropped EVERYTHING changed. He shook up and defined lyricism in Ghana. Years later he’s still untouchable. Tell everyone that the Rap Sofo is back!

As we all know what this gentleman is capable of, keep your fingers crossed and wait. We at omgghana.com will not disappoint you, we will surely let you have a piece of the cake, so don’t miss out. If you listen to the song, you will in no doubt know that, Obrafour the rap sofuo is BACK!!
Don’t forget, it will definitely be on www.bigx.com.gh too.

By Kwaku Darko  (@IamNtiin)

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John Dumelo is a Goddam Liar & We All Know It | So He Should End His Presidential Ambition…

Several Ghanaians in position take Ghana and the other citizens for GRANTED—and it seems Ghanaian actor-John Dumelo is no better than the many corrupt politicians we currently have.

It is therefore not shocking that John Dumelo has told close friends that he is nursing a presidential ambition—and has even stated in various publications that he will soon venture into politics.

A surface assessment of John Dumelo’s sense of honesty in relation to the recent Brazil 2014 ambassadorial happenings indicates that John is a goodam liar and this is why we say so.

Before the ambassadors travelled to Brazil, John Dumelo told Ghanaians this;

“I can’t give you the actual figure because I don’t readily have all the documents in my hands but I can tell you that we have solicited well over $ 2million dollars”

John went further to reveal that their celebrity ambassadorial work is purely voluntary – they will receive no pay. “On the letter of appointment, it was indicated that it’s a voluntary work. There was no pay in it” he said.

When Becca was placed in front of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry tasked to look into the whole Ghana’s 2014 World Cup fiasco, she stated she was paid about 3700 dollars as an ambassador—for barely doing anything.

And GhanaCelebrities.Com has been told by a reliable source that, John Dumelo was even paid more than the 3700 dollars that Becca received—perhaps the double of that amount. Yet, John Dumelo who knew from onset that he was going to paid alongside the other ambassadors told Ghanaians, his role comes with no pay.

We surely do not want such a person occupying any high public office in Ghana—we already have many of John’s kind in politics, the reason why Ghana is stagnant on its last legs, yet swimming fast in a pool of corruption….

Interestingly, our source also said, Becca’s manager-Kiki Banson was also out there in Brazil and the important question the Commission missed which we should be asking is this; who paid for his trip considering the fact that he was not officially appointed as an ambassador?

Source: ghanacelebrities.com

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Samini (@samini_dagaati) Laughs at Shatta Wale | Asks Fans to Help Convert 10 Million Cedis in Dollars

Samini must be laughing out loud—while his fans are busy setting up Forex Bureau units to convert 10 million cedis into dollars…

Surely, the dancehall artiste who has an unending beef  with Shatta Wale must be thinking Shatta is a hell of a PUNK to have gotten himself sued for such a HUGE amount-10 million cedis, therefore he took to twitter after learning that Charter House has sued Shatta Wale to laugh at his arch rival…

I won’t be SHOCKED if Shatta Wale drops a song saying; Samini Enter the Class room.

Samini tweeted the below…



Source: ghanacelebrities.com

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I Slept On The Streets Of Ghana Before Stardom – Nigerian Musician Patoranking

Today, Nneameka Okorie, popularly called Patoranking, is one of the most celebrated reggae-dancehall artists in Nigeria and by extension, Africa.

But the story, like that of most people, has not always been good for the ‘Alubarika’ star.
Patoranking he revealed in an interview on Starr FM that his music career actually started off in Ghana.
According to him, “I started music from my mum’s belly, but dancehall has always been something that I grew up listening to and it was perfected in Ghana.”

Patoranking’s first trip to Ghana, according to him, was in 2007 after he was admitted to Cape Coast University. After a year at the university, he dropped out due to financial constraints.
“I had to move from Cape Coast to Accra. I was sleeping on the streets of Osu just to make it. We must make am now…survival at all cost,” he said.

He added that: “The only option I had at that point was making it in life because I just had to change the course of my family, the face of my family you know…being the first child…I just say thank you Lord and to everybody that never doubted me. I pray for them still and we’re still together.”
It is on record that while hustling in Ghana, Patoranking met a young Ghanaian entrepreneur named Lanky on the streets of Osu who partnered with him to achieve his dreams.
Lanky started a production company called Black Rhythms Entertainment and made a few tracks with him, the songs enjoyed some airplay but it was difficult to break through in Ghana so he returned to Nigeria and the rest, as they say, is history.

Source: thenet.ng 

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Stonebwoy (@stonebwoyb,@STONEBWOY_b) To Release ‘Baafira’ Ft Sarkodie On October 17

Produced by BeatzDakay, ‘Baafira’, is an Hausa word which simply means ‘no noise or don’t talk and Dancehall ace, Stonebwoy in collaboration with Ghana’s fastest rapper, Sarkodie will be releasing a song to the term in 8 days time.

Like ‘Adonai’ by Sarkodie featuring Castro, ‘Baafira’ is an inspirational song yet a party worthy danceable tune recorded on a 105 beat per minute (bpm) will be released on Friday, October 17.

According to the #BhimNation leader, “Baafira’ is a song which advises our fans likewise all music lovers to do less talking and rather do more practically with their competences hence, must not allow challenges or people who doubt them hinder them from what they have set their minds to do.”

“Because they only can scare you with their words but cannot in any way block or prevent you from excelling besides, there nothing is ever new under the scorching sun, so ‘Baafira’ is an inspirational song to keep our fans dancing and at the same time not giving up on what people may say than acting,” the ‘Pull Up’ singer said.

Meanwhile, Stonebwoy has been nominated in the 2014 Bass Awards in categories including Dancehall Artiste(S) of the year and Dancehall Song of the year with ‘Give it to them’; Artiste of the year (Kwame Nkrumah Award); Best Collaboration of the year (Dancehall) with ‘Go harder’ (Edem featuring Stonebwoy) and ‘Wind Up’ (Method Ranking featuring); Best Performer Of The Year.

Vote via http://bassawards.bassafrica.com in the ‘Dancehall song of the year’ and ‘Best Collaboration of the year’ (Edem/ Stonebwoy with ‘Go harder’) and (Method Ranking/ Stonebwoy with ‘Wind Up’)

Sarkodie, on the other hand, has been nominated in the Best Male Artiste in West Africa with 'Adonai’ for 2014 AFRIMA and ‘Best African Artiste’ for 2014 Headies Awards.

Source: Ama Larbie

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Charter House Sues Shatta Wale For GHS10M Over Defamatory Videos

The nation’s number one event production company Charterhouse have brought a lawsuit for defamation against Ghanaian dancehall artiste and reigning Artiste of the Year at the same company’s annually organised Ghana Music Awards Charles, Nii Armah Mensah Jnr aka Shatta Wale.

The Plaintiffs are seeking the court, inter alia, to award damages of ten million Ghana cedis against the Defendant for what they consider as defamatory statements made against them in some videos he recorded and uploaded to Facebook.

Documents sighted by this website show that the suit numbered APB/2015 and dated 2nd October 2014, which also has as plaintiff the CEO of the company Mr. Iyiola Ayoade, was filed at the Fast Track Division of the High Court in Accra in relation to four separate videos the musician uploaded on social media which they consider as defamatory.

The two plaintiffs, that is Charterhouse and Mr. Ayoade, pray the court to declare that the Dancehall King singer had defamed them with the four separate videos he recorded and uploaded to his Facebook page. According to the writ, two each of the said videos were respectively uploaded on 23rd and 24th September 2014 respectively.

Another relief the Plaintiffs are asking from the court is to order the Defendant to render “an unqualified apology and retraction of each of the four separate videos with the approval by the Plaintiffs prior to the recording and uploading” to his Facebook page and to remain on his page for one month within a week of the judgment.

The third relief sought by the Plaintiffs is for Shatta Wale to send the four videos in which he renders apologies to the Plaintiffs to “all media houses and online publications that have aired the defamatory videos complained of and ensure that same and/or published at his own expense” within a week of the judgment.

The Plaintiffs again seek the court for an “order of perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant, his agents, hirelings, manager(s), privies and assigns or any person through him and howsoever described from making and/or repeating the defamatory statements or similar statements in the nature of the ones complained in the video recordings.”

Pending the hearing of the case, as requested by lawyer for the Plaintiffs Egbert Faibille Jnr, on 20th October 2014, the Plaintiffs are praying the court to order an interlocutory injunction on the Defendants from uploading on Facebook or any other social media platform the four videos aforementioned and/or any other similar videos.

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Source: francisdoku.com

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