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Some Ghanaians Say the 22 Year-Old-Francisca Oteng Mensah is too Young to Become A Parliamentarian| A Look At How This Has Happened In Other Parts of the World

Francisca Oteng-Mensah
Francisca Oteng-Mensah

Yesterday, Francisca Oteng-Mensah, a 22-year old young woman made headlines for beaten the incumbent MP of the Kwabre East Constituency in the Ashanti Region in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primary to become the eventual winner…

She is set to contest the next general elections to become a parliamentarian in the above mentioned constituency—and this has opened a worm hole of discussions on social media, with many people arguing that she is ‘inexperienced’ and too young to become a legislator.

Before, I jump to look at Francisca Oteng-Mensah’s case as nothing peculiar in the world of politics, let me mention that I prefer a 22 year-old inexperience young woman with enough reasoning power to be in a Ghanaian parliament—compared to that old empty legislator who recently said women who commit adultery should be stoned in contemporary Ghana.

The United States has several under 23 legislators—with Saira Blair, 18 years, being one of them. In 2014, Blair made headlines when the young Republican fresher at the West Virginia University won a seat in the West Virginia House of Delegates.

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PHOTOS OF THE DAY: Jackie Appiah, Yvonne Okoro and Becca

If you didn’t know Ghanaian musician-Becca has fine legs, the below photo which puts her legs on display will blow your mind. Jackie Appiah rocks her ripped jeans, sneakers and Cambodian hair—looking sweet as usual. Actress Yvonne Okoro has joined the bathroom selfie camp—mostly called, the toilet photo class. And even in the bathroom, she … Read more

Kim Kardashian Slams ‘Stupid’ South West Name Rumours

Kim Kardashian has responded to rumours that she will name her new baby “South West”. Multiple sites have reported that Kim will name her second child South West, just like she and Kanye did with their first child North. However in an interview with NPR that was aired this weekend, the 34-year-old wife of reality … Read more

Black Stars Comfortably Dispatch Mauritius In Opening AFCON Qualifier

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The Black Stars opened their 2017 African Cup qualification campaign with the best possible start, easily seeing off Mauritius by 7-1.

Braces from Asamoah Gyan and Jordan Ayew, complemented by a goal for Christian Atsu, and maiden international goals for Jeffrey Schlupp and David Accam completed the romp in Accra.

Ghana was heavy favourites, and never looked in danger at no point during the game. After Atsu headed the team in front, there was no looking back for the Stars against what was a vastly inferior opposing side.

Asamoah Gyan added two quick goals after Jordan had scored Ghana’s second.. Mauritius scored their consolation when Ghana was four ahead, a cross into the box completely misjudged by goalkeeper Fatau Dauda to hand Sophie the easiest of tap-ins.

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MUST SEE PHOTO: Afia Schwarzenegger in 2008 | A Decorated Afia Schwarzenegger is Still Afia Schwarzenegger

I don’t really know how the saying goes; something like a decorated …………… Anyway, let’s leave that and come back to how wonderful God is—and can I hear you shout Hallelujah? Indeed, you should never throw away a human being because with the help of Deloris Frimpong Manso (Delay), that person can step up a … Read more

Shocking! Toke Makinwa’s Husband Impregnates Ex Girlfriend

This is really sad. Some men are just awful! Popular Nigerian vlogger and media personality Toke Makinwa is reportedly heartbroken after her husband Maje Ayida impregnated his ex Anita Solomon. Anita Solomon is currently in the UK to give birth. As at the of writing this post, Toke has deleted all photos of her husband … Read more

PATHETIC: Ace Hood Has Not Even Tweeted Or Retweeted About Sarkodie’s ‘New Guy’ | And He Was Paid $25000?

New Guy-Sarkodie Feat. Ace Hood
New Guy-Sarkodie Feat. Ace Hood

So Tigo Deezer and Sarkodie paid Ace Hood $25,000 to record ‘New Guy’ so that it will stay just in Ghana…right? Because, since the song came out which has been followed today by a music video, Ace Hood has not even tweeted or retweeted anything about the song. Not even a single tweet.

This is extremely pathetic and heart-breaking—it defeats the so called America market break through. How will you break through into a market of an artiste on a song who has refused for a week since the song came out to even tell his fans about it?

GhanaCelebrities.Com has taken time to go through Ace Hood’s tweets since the day the song came out and shockingly, the American rapper has not said a word about the song—meanwhile, Sarkodie and his fans continue to make noise about the song, mentioning Ace Hood’s name in all messages.

Frankly, it looks like Sarkodie paid Ace Hood $25000 and on top, signed a contract to make him popular in Ghana while in Ace Hood’s market, Sarkodie gets nothing—not even a mention.

Where are those who said Sarkodie was going to use this song to launch a career or a musical assault in the American market? How is he going to do that when the American artiste involved does not even want his fans to know about this feature? Perhaps, Ace Hood is disappointed with the output and doesn’t want his fans to know he did that song with some unknown ‘African bwai’ (in my fake Jamaican accent).

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Game Of Thrones Season 5: Enthralling Yet Plagued Season Drawing To A Climatic Close

Game of Throne Season 5 | Khaleesi
Game of Throne Season 5 | Khaleesi

This is the season everyone became unsullied; this is the season no one could sit back and smugly say ‘I know what is going to happen’: but this was also the season that has drawn the most ire and vitriol from a fan base upset with a huge chunk of the direction the show’s plot is heading towards.

Game of Thrones Season 5 is mere hours away from completion, but not everyone is happy. This season has been a typical Thrones season, a slow start, a thrilling mid section, a game changing 9th episode, then the (upcoming) denouement in episode 10. And whilst this season has hit all those stops, there are tangible changes in plot and character that is making fans very concerned.

Thrones is no stranger to gratuitous violence, nudity, other hard to watch and difficult to process scenes.. The infamous ‘Red Wedding’, Ned’s beheading, Oberyn’s head squeezing, Joffrey’s death (not really), pushing a 9 year old out of a window tower to cover incest, and the numerous scenes of s*xual violence against women.

Yet somehow this season has managed to top all these shocking and sometimes controversial scenes, and not exactly in a good way. You remember when Jaime was bad, then he became good, then he went on to rape his sister over their son’s corpse and suddenly he was bad again; well they pulled that same bait and switch again this season.

Stannis Baratheon has been called by some as the one true queen of Westeros. He is the legitimate heir under the current regime (his brother’s kids are bastards born of incest and do not belong on the throne), he is the only king who listened when the wall called for help, and he is the king currently en route to fight the evil Boltons. He is also a people burning religious fanatic with a witch beside him who just burned his only daughter.

The Bloody Mountain--Game of Thrones Season 5
The Bloody Mountain–Game of Thrones Season 5

That scene, the hardest I ever watched on Thrones- and remember the atrocities I listed above, including a wedding that saw a king and his entire army and his wife and her unborn foetus butchered- is one of the biggest controversies of the season. Some feel the Red God arc has been played to death, or that Stannis betrayed everything a king is supposed to stand for. What can’t be denied is that he just sold his soul to the devil and lost any interest to most people as a morally ambiguous character.

Which leaves Dany as the only monarch with any moral claim to rule people, but she’s dithering around on a different continent, in a place which obviously does not want her and whose entire society she’s uprooted without any proper solutions to their problems. She’s had to compromise so much now she might as well as not made reforms in Meereen in the first place, and it was at one of the things she’s had to compromise on that led to her almost demise in the last episode.

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New Music Video: ‘New Guy’ By Sarkodie Feat. Ace Hood

BET African Act Award winner, Sarkodie has released the stunning visuals to his new hiphop single “Nice Guy” featuring American hiphop artiste Ace Hood. The video was filmed on location at the Florida Film House, Miami, Florida. South African video director, Justin Campos, directed the project with additional production work from Candice Lee Campos. Check out the video … Read more

D’banj Celebrates 35th Birthday With Banky W, Terry G, Toolz, Praiz and More

D’banj turned 35 last Tuesday [June 9] but celebrated his birthday the big way Saturday night [June 13] at Quilox nightclub. The birthday party was a star-studded one — graced by several celebrities including Toolz, Banky W, Terry G, Praiz, Olu Maintain and Oritsefemi. Photos from D’banj’s 35th birthday bash below.. PHOTO CREDIT: Foto & Thingz’ … Read more

WTF is Wrong With Ama K. Abebrese & the Several Others? | This Waist Trainer/Training Nonsense Must Stop

From Ama K. Abeberese's instagram page
From Ama K. Abeberese’s instagram page

Actress/TV personality-Ama Konadu Abebrese is a ‘good’ friend and a smart person—and that is why I am shocked. That is also why I have decided to go after her on this one and by stretch take on all the other bimbos bombarding social media platforms like facebook and instagram with this new waist trainer nonsense, despite all the health risks and the fact that it does not work as they claim.

This whole generation and market of waist trainers/training was championed by the Kardashian cotton-heads…

Kim Kardashian has posted several photos on instagram claiming to be obsessed with waist training/trainers—so has Khloe and out of that quarters, Jessica Alba ridiculously attributed her sexy post baby body to wearing a similar product (corset) day and night for 3 months.

Today, this waist training/trainer nonsense has found its way into the African lifestyle and even though I’ve come across several lame African celebrities and wannabes promoting this on social media, I’ve remained resolute in not writing a piece to give them attention.

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Let’s Talk About Cholera | Ghanaians Are DIRTY Raised to the Power 1000000

Let’s keep this simple but call a spade a spade… Ghanaians are dirty and I don’t mean, just dirty—we are deeply dirty and that is why we cannot get rid of the Victorian ‘disease’-Cholera, which keeps killing us each year just as the flood which does the same to us. In 2014, over 67 people … Read more