August 13, 2014 – GhanaCelebrities.Com

Which Company is the Worst Telecom Service Provider in Ghana? The Verdict!

08/13/2014 8:30 pm

If you asked me this last month, I would straight away without thinking it through say MTN! But after the events of the past few days, I believe most of the Telecommunication companies in Ghana are actually competing against each other not to provide us with good service, but to frustrate and rip us off over the most easy to solve problems. Why do they do this? There are certain situations that make you the customer feel straight out disrespected and you wonder: ‘’is it because this is Africa?’’ Because you cannot do this in Germany! Haha!

Now why was I so quick to lambast MTN? After several years of hearing people complain about MTN sneaking their credit and data away, I never expected it to happen to me in such an insanely large scale manner. I had just topped up some credit and because I did not want to finish it up on calls, I decided to buy data.

My new credit was 50 Cedis and I had 883 mb left from my old bundle. It had not expired yet but usually when I buy a new bundle on an old bundle, they just merge the two and I have what I paid for. But what was different this time? I am yet to figure out. I bought a new bundle of 2.5gb and within two minutes, almighty MTN had cleaned out my 883 mb and left me with only the new bundle I had just purchased. I was livid! Going crazy. So I called their office. Luckily for me, after two days of investigations from their end, they decided to refund my credit but their second mistake? They refunded only 5 Cedis. I marched to their office again and screamed my head off.

How do you even take away almost 1 gb of my data and expect me to keep silent? Why didn’t they take something as little as 5mb or less? I would have let that go instead of going through the stress of complaining over and over. But let us give MTN a round of applause because after my second crazy show in their office, they actually compensated me by refunding me double of what was taken. Whoop, whoop!

Now in the middle of all this, my sister said MTN was actually better because Vodafone will never add your old bundle to a new bundle when you buy a new one while you still have unexpired old data. Ei Vodafone? Really? Where does the old bundle go then? Into your pockets? So unfair! For this one I will say, VODAFONE, YOU CANNOT DO THIS IN BRITAIN! Hahahaha!

All the Dirty Allegations About MISS SUPRANATIONAL Are True – Ghana’s Tourism Ministry Has Confirmed for Itself

08/13/2014 6:05 pm

by GC Staff GS

The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts has started reacting to controversies surrounding beauty pageants in the industry, by striking on one pageant named, Miss Supranational which is fraught with a number of scandalous issues.

Miss Supranational Ghana is a beauty pageant with a mission of raising role models with a module of “Beauty with Talent and not Beauty with Sex.” It showcases talents, cultural heritage and rich tourism potentials to the world and attracts tourists from all over the world. It sends representatives to the Miss Supranational pageant.

Though the pageant is a good initiative, it is fraught with a number of scandalous issues. Investigation by GhanaCelebrities.Com revealed the following about the pageant: first, the organizers collected phones belonging to the contestants but all the phones got lost. Though the contestants have continuously demanded for their phones, the organizers have paid deaf ears.

Secondly, they used the name – Ministry of Tourism as one of their supporters of the pageant without the ministry’s notice or approval. Thirdly, the organizers do not permit the contestants who are being housed to attend church service on Sundays which is a big worry to the latter.

Fourthly, the security of the contestants who are housed in a hotel in Weija is not fully assured because the hotel has no security guard at post.

Fifthly, the contestants are very pessimistic of receiving their price package because the organizers keep complaining of money constraints every short while to them.

NAKED TRUTH: SilverBird Seems to Be in Ghana to Promote Hollywood Movies And Not Ghanaian Movies – Hence Their PHONY STANDARDS

08/13/2014 5:53 pm

by GC Staff GS

When Accra Mail’s Silver Bird was coming to Ghana, they promised Ghanaian filmmakers and the media that they have indeed come in as a blessing to Ghana’s movie industry – as far as screening and premiering of movies are concerned.

I recall vividly, Kwasi Aboagye of Peace FM’s Entertainment Review interview the then marketing manager of Silver Bird who assured the public that they have come in very handy for Ghana’s movie industry, but over the years, all their actions have proven loud and clear that their initial promise was a decoy to achieve their real-hidden mission in Ghana.

Silver Bird Cinema is operating in Ghana but has a corporate standard that is simply not permissible for most Ghanaian films to be premiered in their cinemas. They have declined premiering Kumawood movies and even some English movies – declined premiering Slim Buster’s ‘Helmet’ movie, for poor production.

Current Marketing Manager of Silver Bird is reported to have said some weeks back that “it is not as if we don’t want to show any movies produced locally at the cinema. We have movies from other producers being premiered at our cinemas but most of the Akan movies have lower quality and are substandard, that is our issue with those movies.

“If they can upgrade their movies, I am sure we will be glad to show Akan movies in our cinemas because we also want to contribute our quota to the movie industry.” I therefore acquaint myself with these standards that Silver Bird keeps chanting – only to learn of PHONY STANDARDS set by them that will actually prevent a lot of Ghanaian movies from being premiered in their cinemas.

First, I learnt from the PRO of FIPAG that Silver Bird premier’s movies in Blue Ray and DVD versions and have now even upgraded their standard to DCP. Currently, 99% of Ghanaian movies shot are not DCP compatible – but most Hollywood movies shot now are DCP compatible.

In other words, this new standard is coming from Silver Bird’s MASTERS – Hollywood market. Since Silver Bird is not a filmmaking studio, they couldn’t have woken up one day to create such a standard! Their Hollywood MASTERS prevailed upon them to do so.

‘Prophet’of God Rapes Young Woman seeking Spiritual Help

08/13/2014 2:46 pm

by GC Staff GS

The Bible tells us that during the end times, fake prophets would spring up everywhere, thus going by that yardstick we must be at the very end of time, because it seems everywhere you turn these days you said nothing but false prophets.

You see them on television, you hear them deep into the night disturbing your sleep; the entire planet is saturated with them. One of these fine specimens has landed himself in deep trouble in Nigeria, as his heinous actions has seen him arraigned before a Yaba Magistrates Court.

The Daily Post of Nigeria reports 23 year old Adewale Adeleke was arraigned before court on four charges of stealing, obtaining by false pretext, impersonation, and rape.

Adewale is a self professed prophet of the Celestial Church of Nigeria and according to the prosecutor, used his position and influence to extort N13, 000 from the victim and forcibly have sex with her.

Narrating the facts of the case, Prosecutor Chris Takim said the accused met the victim on the premises of Original Inn Hotel at Ebute Meta on July 26 and approached her, informing her about a supposed spiritual problem she had.

Adeleke told her they should meet for a prayer session, and asked her to pay the N13, 000 as mobilisation fees.

Report: Ciara and Future Split!

08/13/2014 2:33 pm

by GC Staff GS

From BeyondGossip.Com Ciara has reportedly called it a quit with singer Future. The ‘I’m Out’ songstress called off her engagement to partner Future just three months after having a baby. According to several sources, Future cheated on Ciara with a stripper during the time she was pregnant. Ciara was disturbingly hurt when she realized the … Read more

Kumawood’s Ebola Movie Producer- Samuel Ofori Says Ghana’s Movie Industry Lacks Creativity

08/13/2014 9:34 am

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

Creativity has never been part of the Ghanaian blood, therefore, I agree with Samuel Ofori when he says the Ghanaian movie industry lacks creativity. But to suggest that, he is somewhat the creative one among the lost sheep makes me wonder the sort of creativity he is talking about.

According to ZionFelix, the Kumasi based movie producer who is putting things in place to start shooting his latest film-titled, Ebola (as seen above) spoke on Ash Fm, saying;

“How can I destroy an industry that I earn my income from? How can I do that?” he asked.

“In fact it’s very sad for people to pass such comments against me because that is my style and even when you go to the developed countries topical issues, words or phrases that become talk of the nation are used by many of their film producers so what is wrong for me to do same here?’’

GC Cartoon of the Week: T.B Joshua’s 4000 Bottles of Ebola Anointing Water Edition

08/13/2014 9:08 am

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

It is another week and we bring you GC’s Cartoon of the Week—this time, we are looking at Prophet T.B Joshua’s 4000 bottles of anointing water package for the various Ebola Suffering communities of Sierra Leone which will cost $50,000 in transportation via a chartered flight as announced by the church. It is commendable to … Read more

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