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PHOTOS OF THE DAY: Yvonne Nelson, Nadia Buari, Menaye Donkor and Juliet Ibrahim

Nadia Buari
Nadia Buari

Actress-Juliet Ibrahim has decided to take a break from those long weaves—and she proudly shared a photo of herself, rocking her natural hair. She made sure people got to know she was rocking her natural hair by mentioning it, an indication that there is some sort of pride in that natural hair.

Nadia Buari is looking fab and you can see from the above photo that her many gym sessions in the last few months have had an impact—you can’t miss that well toned body.

Check below for photos from Menaye Donkor, Yvonne Nelson and Juliet Ibrahim

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PHOTOS: John Dumelo and Fred Nuamah | Please Stay at Home If You Cannot Afford New Shoes and Tuxedos-Enough of the REPEAT

 

Fred Nuamah and John Dumelo
Fred Nuamah and John Dumelo

I perfectly remember the headache the last celebrity fashion REPEAT (being Yvonne Okoro) brought me—and Sandra Ankobiah whose only client seems to be Yvonne Okoro even got on my case, throwing stones at me from all angles.

Now, I am going to take a hit at my own two buddies-Fred Nuamah and John Dumelo (simply because Fred owes me some money and this is time to teach him that, he has not pay his creditors—I am kidding on this).

Fred Nuamah rocked a fine pair of shoes and a black tuxedo for his 2014 Cannes Film Festival red carpet appearance and I remember him telling me, the pair of shoes cost £5000. He mentioned the name of the designer but I can’t remember it. I have a lot to store in my little head and this one didn’t stay because of its level of importance.

Yesterday, Ghanaian music star-Sonnie Badu got married in London and interestingly, Fred Nuamah ( Founder/CEO of Ghana Movie Awards) flew into UK with his side-kick, John Dumelo for the wedding.

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FredmNuamah at Cannes

And Fred wore the same tuxedo and the same pair of 5000 pounds shoes he rocked at the 67th Cannes Film Festival in May, 2014.

For John Dumelo, he also wore the same pair of shoes he wore few weeks ago to the premiere of Yvonne Nelson’s Single, Married and Complicated in Lagos, Nigeria.

Surely, it is not a crime for a celebrity to repeat what he or she wears but somehow, it has become a celebrity fashion offence by convention—and celebrities all around the world make headlines whenever they repeat or falls into the offence pot.

My two friends must have paid a lot to fly into London (I mean plane tickets), so why didn’t they just buy new tuxedos or a pair of shoes? At least, they could have flew economy (instead of the Business I think they flew) and use the remaining cash to get some new stuff—then, we wouldn’t be talking about them this way.

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John Dumelo at Single, Married and Complicated premiere

Now Mr. Fred Nuamah and John Dumelo, better cut down the public appearances if the clothes and shoes cannot match the number of appearances…LOL

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Dear GC Readers, He Says He Loves Me But Do Not Want to Have Anything to Do With Me at that Time of the Month

Desperate black woman

 

Dear GC Readers,

I do not even know what to call him, a boyfriend or some weirdo who claims to love me and wants to marry me but because of his personal philosophy, I cannot call him, visit him or be near him anytime I am on my menses. And I have to always text him the very day I see red each month to inform him of ‘probably my disgust’.

I know this sounds stupid and weird; this is exactly what I think about it. I have been in a relation for 8 months with this guy and after doing just as he wants inline with whatever philosophy it is, I am tired and I think he is taking the piss.

My worry is that, he says he wants to marry me. So if we marry and it is that time of the month, what will happen? I asked him this and he said when we get to that bridge, we will cross. Another stupid answer to a serious question I guess.

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What Have We Ever Gained from this ‘Fama Nyame’ Philosophy We Adore So Much as Ghanaians?

Things We Love About Ghana (2)

 

As Ghanaians we often worship doing the wrong thing. We turn up late for meetings and blame traffic, litter our streets and bemoan the rising filth level in our cities, and more often than not people would spend a fortune just for an ostentatious display at a public gathering despite several daily struggles. It’s like we were wired wrong in the God factory before he sent us down here.

Another symptom of this ‘wired wrong’ syndrome we suffer from is the penchant to often not take situations head-on, but rather feel that the God in heaven is going to have everything in hand, what I call the ‘Fama Nyame’ philosophy.

It recently hit me the levels we take this philosophy during an interaction with a family member. Now this guy has been unemployed for a while now, and had just returned from a job interview. I asked him how he did, he said he did okay.

When I asked if he thought he’d get the job, he said everything is in the hands of God.

Nah, I don’t think so; everything is in the hands of whoever is in charge of hiring at whichever company he interviewed at. If we worried a little more about making the right impression on those who actually matter and a little less about the impression we make on God we might actually get some things done down here.

How is it possible that churches hold services in the morning during the week and still manage such great turnouts? I’m yet to find the church that was populated entirely by the unemployed, yet Tuesday, Wednesday, and other weekday morning services are held regularly and people keep filling the seats.

Where is the work being done during these church services, where is the productivity? Yet God is in control at those times so everything must be all right…right?

In over 50 years of independence what have we ever gained from this little philosophy of ours? We have barely added any layer of economic or infrastructural development since 1966, yet we continue to bawl our throats out at any given opportunity to a deity that seems to have little interest in our development as a nation.

The United States of America went from a little gathering of scattered settlers to world superpower in a little over a hundred years, and you can bet your last cent it was not by feeling everything should be left in the hands of God. A passive mentality is required for the ‘Fama Nyame’ philosophy, and whilst America can be described in many ways, most of them unflattering, passive is not one of them.

On an individual level this mentality can lead to the best effort not being put in, yet somehow unrealistically expecting optimum results.

I think if we went into tasks feeling the outcome, either positive or negative, depended entirely on our efforts-we would probably triple the effort we put in because God does not have your back in this scenario.

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Sad-Cameroonian footballer- Dies After Being Hit By Object from Crowd in Algeria

Cameroonian striker Albert Ebosse
Cameroonian striker Albert Ebosse

Violence in football especially from agitated spectators is not a new thing. The beautiful game of soccer is often marred with sporadic racist and often fatal acts from the crowd who for one reason or the other can get uncontrollable.

Ghana has had it’s fair share. Albert Ebosse, a Cameroonian footballer has just died after being hit by an object that was thrown by one of the spectators during a game in Algeria. The player was rushed to a hospital in Tizi Ouzou, in Algeria but was declared dead on arrival, BBC reports.

It is rumoured that he was hit by a rock thrown by Algerian angry fans as the team made it’s way to their changing room. He was the leading scorer in the Algerian league in the 2013-14 season, with 17 goals and his death comes as a shock and immediate investigations into the incident have been ordered. More disheartening is the fact that the player had been blessed with a baby girl just a week prior to the incident. A very brilliant player with a fantastic future has met a shocking end.

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