August 5, 2014 – GhanaCelebrities.Com

Are the Countless Beauty Pageants We Have Here Not Exploiting & Disempowering Innocent Ladies?

08/5/2014 7:46 pm

In recent years, beauty pageants have increased drastically in numbers. If nothing at all, I can possibly (out of my head) name about 50 beauty pageantry shows in Ghana; starting from Miss Abokobi to all those having ‘Miss’ as their prefix.

Such beauty shows keep popping up every single day, and I know it will continue as long as we live. However, I have tried to analyse the importance of such beauty pageants but have not been positively convinced so much.

Beauty pageants basically refer to contests that primarily lay emphasis on physical beauty of the participating contestants, although intelligence and talent are sometimes incorporated.

In every industry or institution, the various audiences are blind to what goes into the running of the industry or institution. That’s how come some people will perceive some companies as very reputable that pay their workers good amount of money. They will do whatever they can within their powers to get employed in such companies. Such people become shocked when they are employed and find out that what they have been thinking was not so.

Such is the case with beauty pageants. Many young ladies are more than happy to be part of the train when auditions are opened. Some go to the extent of borrowing money from friends to buy audition forms.

However, the dreams of most of these ladies are smashed when they are faced with the unexpected. I am more than sure someone like Giuseppina Baafi (don’t even know which title to assign her – whether Miss Ghana 2013 or former Miss Ghana 2013) never expected what happened between Exclusive Events Ghana and herself.

Video: Kim Kardashian Talks Wedding On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’

08/5/2014 4:51 pm

by Edith Osei Bonsu

From BeyondGossip.Com

Kim Kardashian stopped by ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ to open up about her lavish wedding. The reality star addressed rumours circulating around her wedding with rapper Kanye West.

Mrs. West also revealed that her sister Khloe drunk ‘a little too much’ so she had to wake her up. She was also embarrassed by a number of no-shows for the wedding.

Watch the interview below…

**NEW COLUMN: I Hate Mondays! So Much It Affects My Sundays

08/5/2014 2:29 pm

by Thelma Louis

First, why do people think if I couldn’t perform a task or finish a problem by Friday 5pm, I will have a different answer by Monday 8am?

This particular Monday morning I had decided to take matters into my own hands and change my fate. At 7.30am I started calling everybody I expected will call me at 8.00 to give them a dose of their own medicine.

Everybody was shocked including my boyfriend who promised to come by the night before but didn’t show, didn’t call… I wanted to be sure he didn’t die on his way to see me. Better tell him I was quitting my job before he beat me to it and told me he had a bad stomach ache… His third excuse in the past two weeks. I had made a mental note to check my red book to see if it was pre-break up sign.

I crawled out of the bed I spent my entire Sunday in.

My knee gave a funny sound… Hmm I am thirty-seven, people say I look young for my age. Tell that to my knee who could barely support my skill last time I was trying to perform a sit across dance for my boyfriend during our lovemaking. Oh why are men getting so lazy in bed? The dude just wanted to lie there… A sheepish smile on his face suggesting he was enjoying my wriggles whiles I kept thinking I need me a younger man who will be more than happy to please me in bed.

Mondays… The sun is out too early, everybody is in a hurry to nowhere and Accra has a stench from all the rubbish people pushed out of their homes over the weekend. I made a mental note to vote anybody but this government in the next election. I grew up loving Rawlings. Why the hell not. The man was damn charismatic, he may not have been the most intelligent as the opposition kept telling us but he put his money where his mouth was. He took decisions, the good, the bad, the ugly. These days I forget who is in charge, AMA or the young man knocking relentlessly on my window asking me to buy ‘yooyi’ for breakfast.

New Music Video: ‘Book of Hiplife’ By VVIP

08/5/2014 1:46 pm

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

Reggie Rockstone is putting the HipLife story out there and together with his VVIP group members, they’ve released a new music video which summaries the Hiplife journey for us—-called ‘Book of Hiplife’.

The HipLife story cannot be told without certain key champions who helped defined and shaped the genre—and as such, the video features appearances from Tic Tac, Okyeame Kwame, Abrewa Nana, Ex-Doe, Chicago, Joe Frazer and the others…

As usual, Reggie nailed the rap…You don’t need to be told he started it all!

Check out the video below

Is Trial Marriage the Answer to Obtaining An Endless Happy Marriage?

08/5/2014 1:19 pm

by Edith Osei Bonsu

Of course, there is nothing new in the idea of two people living together without first marrying. What is new is the number of people candidly doing so.

After all, I know of a certain man in Koforidua who has 3 grown up children with 3 different women to which he did not marry any of them. Aside those 3 trial marriages, he had a 4th trial marriage, and now he is in the 5th trial marriage.

Besides the obvious conflict for religious conscience and societal values, the question is: Do couples who engage in trial marriages enjoy such marriages? Does this cohabitation lead them into a permanent relationship?

The truth is that, though some unwed couples may live together for a lifetime, some also may be short-lived. The fruitage of short-lived trial marriages may be as bitter and often as emotionally disastrous as divorce.

One definition of trial is experiment. Can anyone afford an experimental marriage? After all, we are not discussing sharing a piece of clothing. If the cloth is torn, one simply goes out and buys another garment. But the emotional scar tissue of a broken intimate relationship is far-reaching; it has brought some to the point of suicide. Even those couples who genuinely care for each other face an emotion-jarring problem: insecurity.

In trial marriages, the people involved live together and do everything together as married couples without much commitment. The goal of such marriages is for the parties involved to assess themselves and see if they can really live together as married couples.

The first time I ever heard of this trial issue was when I once asked a lady (who liked me a lot & I liked her too) if we could start a relationship. I was quite shocked by her answer when she told me she wants us to be in a trial relationship before we proceed on to a real one.

In the trial relationship, we did everything that those in normal relationships do. So I said to myself, if this is all the trial thing is about, then I don’t want to proceed to the normal relationship.

We Have a BIG Problem in Africa | And It’s Called Literary Illiteracy

08/5/2014 1:09 pm

by Edith Osei Bonsu

After the death of literary genius Chinua Achebe a little over a year ago, I got to thinking about another of the little problems that worry us as a continent. That is, our propensity to stay away from the written word, to wit, books.

I mentioned that problem in a little homage I paid to Achebe which can be found here. A year on and I still find it a relevant issue that most of us do not even realise is a problem.

When I mention books here I’m not referring to only novels, but any kind of published material that holds some sort of relevant knowledge on any subject. There is a book published on any subject under the sun, and for the African taking the time to pore through it is a task too far.

And why should you read? We live in a time of substantial development in technology, particularly one pertaining to entertainment or leisure. We have social media, television and radio churning out more innovative programming all the time to arrest the attention of the populace. In this environment finding the time to take a book to read, whether a novel or any other kind, is becoming next to impossible.

And that is all before you factor in our natural disinclination to reading. The average African would rather do anything else than read, and would not do it unless it was absolutely necessary. This has led to a little problem I like to call literary illiteracy.

This is a phenomenon where you have people who are highly functional in any other endeavour, but absolutely illiterate when it comes to reading. Now not reading is not going to kill these people or anything, but what it does is prevent them from enjoying the several little benefits that a healthy interest in reading brings.

The most talked about benefit of reading is the expansion in vocabulary and frankly it is not an overstatement. Spending so much time around words makes you overtly familiar with them, thus making your use of them in your speech so much easier. There are several in-built phrases in Ghanaian English that a healthy reading habit would knock right out of you.

Understanding Women is an Attempt to Understand the MIND of GOD

08/5/2014 12:28 pm

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

I do not have to repeat that on a good day, I am an atheist and on a bad day, I am agnostic—and therefore, my use of GOD in this article runs alongside Einstein or Machio Kaku’s understanding of GOD.

My usage of GOD is not in reference to the God that takes side in wars or answers prayers. I am talking about a complex mind that runs parallel to logic and reason.

Women are largely seen as vulnerable, emotional and caring beings whose ways cannot be calculated, predicted and mostly their actions violate well defined laws…

Over the years, I’ve come to realize that most women are not vulnerable and are far from the well defined characters attributed to them. The truth about women is; they are complex and every complex entity cannot be easily understood, domesticated and bring to live under rules—except, of course if it is their own rules. Even that, they may get up one day and decide to vary the rules.

Holding unto any sort of relationship with such a complex being will definitely be characterised by shocks, surprises and mood swings—and as I said, these things can never be predicted or understood.

Most women do not want anything, yet they claim to want something. Most women believe in savings and yet want to buy expensive clothes.

The complexity of a woman’s mind is beyond measure and dealing with them on simple terms does not work. Even if you decide to jump to their complex level, it wouldn’t work—as the complexities will get jammed—-another reason why they don’t get on well with each other, I think…

Men are mostly fooled into believing it is the simple things that matter to women—of course these things do, but they are just the foundation stones to wanting the bigger things. Don’t ever get stuck with the simple things…

You can never win an argument with a woman and most men who have tried stealing a win eventually find themselves dead before achieving that. It is not that their arguments are exceptionally great, it is just that their arguments cover it all—no room for yours, except to agree!

Did Reggie Rockstone Buy VVIP? Because It is All About Him + Reggie’s Response…

08/5/2014 11:13 am

by Edith Osei Bonsu

For some time now I have been thinking about the VIP group that became VVIP after the exit of key member Emmanuel Ababio AKA Promzy, leaving Joseph Nana Ofori (Prodigal), and Abdul Hamid Ibrahim (Lazzy now Zeal). Promzy exited the group somewhere in 2013. I wasn’t surprised to hear Rockstone was joining the group because … Read more

SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD: Mexican Blows out His Brains Trying to Pose for a Selfie with a Gun

08/5/2014 10:26 am

by Edith Osei Bonsu

The social media revolution is in full force around the world and one of its side effects is the selfie craze. Instagram, Facebook, and other social media platforms these days are always bombarded with selfies of its users.

And for a self taken photo you wouldn’t believe the amount of work put into taking one. And the crazy poses, well, it was an attempt to get into one of those crazy poses that led to the unfortunate death of this young Mexican.

The Telegraph reports that Oscar Aguilar, a resident of Medero died after he attempted to pose for a selfie with a gun.

Unknown to Aguilar, the gun was loaded and accidentally went off as he was trying to take the picture.

Aguilar was home with two friends, Omar Campos Vives, and another one known only as ‘El Paco’, who fled the scene when police arrived.

Campos was arrested on the scene, and told police that “Aguilar was playing around with the gun and decided to take a selfie with it without realising it was loaded”

Black Star Player Abdul Majeed Waris’ Wife to Be is the Lady in the Leaked Tamale S*x Tape? – And That He Was Going to Marry Her Soon?

08/5/2014 10:12 am

by Edith Osei Bonsu

Unconfirmed reports reaching GhanaCelebrities.Com has it that, the lady involved in the recently leaked seks video in Tamale – in the Northern region of Ghana, is the wife to be of Black Star player, Abdul Majeed Waris.

It was reported by GHANAsoccernet.com that: “an unnamed Black Stars player has abandoned plans to marry a woman in Tamale after p*rn*graphic video and photos involving his future wife were leaked to the Ghanaian public on Wednesday.”

It continued that: “the family of the Black Stars player whose name GHANAsoccernet.com is withholding have reacted angrily to the seks video and photos and have shelved plans to go ahead with the marriage proposal.

Plans were far advance for the marriage ceremony to take place this month after the soccer star presented the bride price to the woman’s family. But the leaked video and photos involving the said lady and others have scattered the marriage plans.

Following up on the story, Ghanacelebrities.Com contacted a media rep at Tamale to find out who this Black Star player could be – only for our source to disclose that Black Star player-Abdul Majeed Waris is the only footballer whose name is making rounds in the Tamale Municipality.

“So far, Abdul Majeed Waris is the only Black Star football whose name is on the lips of most people. He is a Northner – hails from Tamale. The allegations goes on to claim that he was about to marry the said lady in the seks tape either this or next month but has changed his mind because of the situation.

GhanaCelebrities.Com tried our possible best to establish contact with Abdul Majeed Waris to ascertain the truth or otherwise of this allegation but our calls were not returned.

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