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Chris-Vincent Agyapong Febiri is the Founding Editor of GhanaCelebrities.Com and based in London, United Kingdom. Contact: [email protected]

Charter House Refuses Miss Malaika 2011 Stolen Verdict + Death Threat Hits 1st Runner Up-Alexandra Ayirebi-Acquah

11/9/2011 11:43 am
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Gerry and Alex-Miss Malaika 2011
Gerry and Alex-Miss Malaika 2011

Charter House, organizers of Miss Malaika have denied media reports that the Miss Malaika 2011 pageant was nothing more than a stolen verdict.

According to NewsOne report, “investigations have revealed that Gerry Partington actually won the contest on a clean slate and with clean hands as the final score sheet revealed – that three out of the five judges for the night actually voted in her favour.

Though a section of the media had reported that three of the judges voted for Alexandra Ayirebi-Acquah and that only two voted for Gerry Partington, evidence on the ground and the score sheets prove that the judges rather ruled in favour of Gerry but it was the announcer who slipped when announcing the results”.

Speaking on the issue of stolen verdict which many have regarded as going to profoundly affect the ratings of Miss Malaika, Charter House Public Relations Manager-Juno Abena Turkson told NewsOne that “These are very credible persons within the entertainment industry and they are available for anyone to ask them how they voted. Apart from that, it is unfair to blame Charter House because we do not decide who should win and who should not win. We leave that decision entirely to the judges and all we do is to provide them with the score sheets and give them the criteria.

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HOT SHOT: The Return Of Actress Luckie Lawson

11/7/2011 7:39 am
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After escaping for months to United States followed by unconfirmed stories that the Actress/Producer/Entrepreneur-Luckie Lawson was calling it a BREAK from her husband (father of son), Luckie has surfaced in Ghana with bigger plans. Luckie Lawson who used to manage Villa Garden Restaurant has turned to Wick’d Wax Shop where she sells various underwear scented … Read more

Motivational Message Of The Week: What You Cannot Achieve In Life Is…

11/7/2011 4:16 am
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Life is full of achievers and failures; certainly we have more of the latter than the former. This therefore brings to mind that, there is a limit placed on what we can accomplish as individuals.

Despite the fact that we are all success hungry human beings, not all of us are or will be able to be successful in life. Reasonably this may suggest that, there is a ceiling as to how far we can go as different individuals.

If there is a differential limiting factor as to what we can achieve, then nature has been extremely cruel to some of us. Whiles others have forged forward to become all they desire (with their ceiling being all they desire); some of us can successfully argue that, our ceiling is right above our head (extensive restrictions)-we can’t achieve anything!

Life is not fair but it is not this cruel. The disparity in our achievements cannot be underpinned to the above restrictive deduction.

To be frank, there is no grass ceiling above our heads in relation to how far we can go in life. As human beings, we can achieve anything in life. The smart ones reading this may ask, if we can achieve anything in life, what is limiting some of us from even not achieving ‘everything’ but the very few things we want?

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Venezuela’s Ivian Sarcos Wins Miss World 2011

11/6/2011 7:40 pm
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A 21-year-old from Venezuela ‘Ivian Sarcos’ was crowned Miss World 2011 few minutes ago at London’s Earls Court. Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares, a human resources graduate currently works for a broadcasting company. The 2nd place was taken by Philippines while the 3rd spot went to Puerto Rico. The countries which made it to the top … Read more

HOT SHOT: Juliet Ibrahim Rekindles Abuja Love

11/6/2011 9:30 am
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Juliet Ibrahim can easily pass as a Nollywood movie star since most of her movies which shot her to fame were made in Nigeria. She seems to have even done more Nollywood movies than Ghanaian movies. After stepping off the movie radar to have her first baby, the award winning actress is currently in Nigeria … Read more

Make A Guess: Which Celeb Is In This Photo + Last Week’s Guess Answer

11/5/2011 10:01 am
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Last week, we posted some fine legs asking you guys to make a guess as to which Ghanaian celeb owns them…Some people got it right and others got it wrong. They were for Ghanaian Actress Yvonne Nelson… This week’s photo is a STRONG back shot of a Ghanaian celeb…Which celeb is this? Make a wild guess!  No … Read more

Gays Have Rights In Ghana: Most Ghanaians Are Simply Confusing Morals With Law: Homosexuals Have Entrenched Rights Even Under Our Current Constitution…

11/4/2011 9:33 am
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blankIt will not take more than a simple understanding of the arguments being made by several Ghanaians and our own President-John Atta Mills to acknowledge that, in fact, the Professor with majority of Ghanaians are confusing morals with law. It happens a lot especially when your moral values are in direct conflict with a legal standing.

The law is complex and no matter how it is construed, its interpretation can be stretched to give rights when the actual lawmakers may not have intended to do so.

I have laughed heavily several times for hearing people claiming homosexuals have NO legal rights in Ghana because the constitution of Ghana does not expressly give them any. What most of us have to realize is that, the law does not only give rights expressly, certain times, they are implied.

I am not an expert on Ghanaian laws but still have enough knowledge to make this simple deduction.

The legal argument that homosexuals have no rights in Ghana and their actions constitute a criminality has mostly been founded on Chapter 6, article 104 of the Ghanaian Criminal Code which prohibits “unnatural carnal knowledge”. This is defined to include consensual sexual intercourse between men.

Notably, the true effect of this clause is that, it encourages discrimination and persecution against homosexuals on the basis of their identity and consensual sexual behaviour.

The above law which subjects homosexuals to discrimination is a criminal code, meaning the constitution of Ghana is supreme to it in terms of legal hierarchy.

Article 17 of the constitution of Ghana however guarantees the right to freedom from discrimination. What this means is that, under the constitution you cannot discriminate against anyone for being homosexual (identity and sexual behaviour) whiles the criminal code says the direct opposite- ‘homosexuality’ by a stretch of the law is illegal.

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Weekly Discussion: Marriage, A Social Contract Or That Which Depicts Love & Guarantees A Lasting Partnership….?

11/3/2011 6:05 pm
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Recent developments in the world of celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Kris Humpheries and our own very own  Christiana Love have made it necessary for me to revisit this topic.

After 72 days of marriage, Kim K called it a quit, a deep slap on the sacred nature of the institution of marriage… Contemporary developments to a greater extent seem to affirm my belief that, marriage  does not guarantee a lasting partnership/relationship but it is just another social contract we usher ourselves into.

Marriage, in spite of its elusive interpretation and the divorce ridden hallmark that has come to typify its overview, has still managed to endure the test of time.   Its root and importance can be traced to the genesis of mankind: where God created living things in pairs and surely it will not be unreasonable to think that these creatures were of different sex.

It is therefore prudent to acknowledge marriage as a concept of God’s imagination and creation to continuously pair us as was done at creation.

The value and substance of marriage to mankind and to our contemporary society varies in our minds as individuals. Many are those who consider marriage as that needed to ensure a lasting relationship and better still, as a fountainhead of love or that which depicts love.

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Ama Nettey Brings New Hope To Lepers

11/3/2011 1:22 pm
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Miss Malaika 2010, Ama Nettey will formally unveil her pioneering project on the 5th of November, 2011 at the grand finale of Miss Malaika 2011 in Accra.

The project tagged ‘Ama Nettey Help the Lepers Project’ (ANHLP) is Miss Nettey’s audacious initiative to address the challenges plaguing people affected by leprosy. ANHLP seeks to end discrimination and other human rights violations people affected by leprosy go through in Ghana and other parts of Africa. This project will be officially announced at the grand finale of Miss Malaika 2011 but the actual formal launch will held in June 2012 at a grand event in New York, USA.

This was contained in a statement signed by Miss Ama Nettey in Accra on Wednesday. The statement said the announcement on November 5th will outline a plan to set up a centre called ‘Ama Nettey Hope Centre for Lepers’ and also feature a video documentary on the project.

Miss Nettey envisioned the campaign for leprosy during the Miss Malaika 2010 Reality series when contestants visited the Weija Leprosarium in Accra.  On the final night of the pageant on 16th October 2010, during the speech session, she declared a campaign to end discrimination and other human right violations faced by people affected with leprosy in Ghana and around the world.

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4 Days More For Ghana UK Based Achievement Awards (GUBA)

11/2/2011 11:47 am
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GUBA Awards

This Sunday, London will again play host to the esteemed GUBA Awards. The red carpet will be rolled out and the Park Plaza Embankment will house some of the UK and Ghana’s shining stars. A plethora of guests have already confirmed their attendance to the event founded by Dentaa last year.

Ellen Thomas will be hosing  alongside Ras Kwame. The Eastenders’ actress and former BBC Radio presenter  will take guests through a extravagant award ceremony.

In attendance will be Arsenal quartet Emmanuel Frimpong,  Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Daniel Boateng and Chuks Aneke. All four players have enjoyed much success this year with Frimpong and Oxlade-Chamberlain both making  first team appearances in the league while Boateng and Aneke made League Cup appearances. 

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Hurrah: The ‘Whites Only Restaurant’ In Accra Has Been Shut Down-Thanks To You All!

11/1/2011 1:56 pm
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As I mentioned yesterday, it is sad to be discriminated against on a foreign land but it is utterly disheartening when you are treated less favourable in your own country by virtue of the colour of your skin or any protected characteristic such as Religious Belief, Sex, Age, Disability or Origin. In her own homeland-Ghana, … Read more