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World Health Organisation Declares Liberia Ebola Free

The biggest disease epidemic to hit mankind in a while is dying down, as one of the main epicentres gets declared free of the virus. Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea were the hardest hit nations, and whilst the latter two continue to battle, WHO just declared the former free of the virus. This announcement has … Read more

‘On the Run’ Says Yvonne Nelson & Co Cannot Use their Premise for #DumsorMustStop Vigil After University of Ghana Also Said No…Sabotage from Above or What?

Dumsor
Dumsor

This is indeed Ghana—where Yvonne Nelson and the others are looking to stage a protest against the ruling government over the current power crisis dubbed #DumsorMustStop vigil and despite everyone in the capital suffering under the hardship, they cannot even find a venue.

Earlier today, Yvonne Nelson and her other celebrity friends who are leading the campaign were forced to change the venue from University of Ghana, Legon  to the nearby ‘On the Run’ because the authorities of the University said they wouldn’t allow them to use their premises for the vigil. The authorities stated that, they were not contacted and did not agree for their premises to be used before Yvonne Nelson and others put it out there as the venue.

Less than 12 hours after the above compelled the organisers of the #DumsorMustStop vigil to move the meeting ground to ‘On the Run’, the owners of the place-Total Ghana have also come to say, they have not agreed for their premise to be used—and as such, they wouldn’t allow the vigil to take place there.

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WTF: Ivory Coast Boy Smuggled to Spain inside Suitcase | Is Africa that BAD?

Ivory Coast boy smuggled to Spain
Ivory Coast boy smuggled to Spain

The risk people go through just to escape Africa is really shocking—a clear indication that people would rather die trying than live on the continent which is somewhat become a land of failure.

According to Spanish police, an eight-year-old boy has been smuggled into Spain from Morocco inside a suitcase. The boy, Abou, was found inside the case being carried by a 19-year-old woman into Ceuta, a Spanish enclave next to Morocco, on Thursday.

When police opened the case, they found the boy in a “terrible state”, a spokesman for the Guardia Civil told AFP.

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Tigo Ghana Meets Naija: Star Performers, Sarkodie And Reekado Banks Profile Unveiled

Sarkodie
Sarkodie

The biggest concert for the year 2015, Tigo Ghana Meets Naija comes off on Saturday, May 23 at the Accra International Conference Center where three of Ghana’s biggest acts, Sarkodie, Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy will face Nigeria’s Mavin Crew.

After 4 successful shows in the previous years, this year’s event dubbed “Unleashing Unlimited Music” promises to be the biggest as the event celebrates its 5th year.

Before the stars from both countries storm stage to battle, we bring to you an in-depth profile of two of the acts Ghanaians will see on stage – Sarkodie and Reekado Banks from the Mavins Crew.

Sarkodie

Known in real life as Michael Owusu Addo, Sarkodie is arguably one of Ghana’s finest talents on the bloc. He is a recording artist, entertainer, and brand ambassador. In 2012, he won the BET Awards for “Best International Act Africa”. Many Ghanaians recognize him as one of the Ghana’s leading hip hop and hip life artiste in the country.

He is considered one of the major proponents of the Azonto genre. Sarkodie often raps in his native language; Twi, and is considered a “multifaceted rapper” due to the various musical styles he possess.

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Ivory Coast Bans Skin-Whitening Creams Because Of ‘Health Concerns’ | Nigeria With 75% of Its Women Bleaching Should Take Cue

Skin bleaching
Skin bleaching

No matter the fancy name you give to it, all bleaching be bleaching.

We have this unfortunate trend in Africa now where people are not content with their natural dark colour, so they use creams and other methods to look like the white people they claim not to like.

Even some of our celebrities are not exempt from this. Anyway, over in Cote d’Ivoire they are doing something about this trend. According to a report on the BBC, their health ministry have banned skin whitening creams due to health concerns.

Medical experts have said some of the ingredients in these creams can cause cancer, diabetes, or severe skin conditions; but what are a few ailments in the quest to look beautiful?

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Actress Yvonne Nelson Goes for Comedian-David Oscar’s Head Over His Dumsor Comment | See What She Said + MORE

Yvonne Nelson
Yvonne Nelson

Yesterday, we reported that struggling comedian-David Oscar had taken to his facebook to blame Ghanaians for causing dumsor themselves—and says, he would be a hypocrite to join the #DumsorMustStop campaign.

His comment got several people going after him on social media, especially on his facebook where he made this comment (You can read some of the things people had to say to him below this post).

The comedian who is not anyway funny took to his facebook to call those preparing to stage a #DumsorMustStop vigil a hypocrite by saying;

“I’m not even gonna be hypocritical and join the ‪#‎DumsorMustStop trend.

“How many of us have tried to conserve energy? Thanks to our waste, the dams are suffering. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a mindless critic of the president JDM, and I understand that there are alternative sources of energy, but do you think that if it was that easy to fix the power crisis, the president would not saved himself the blames and constant harassment?

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WTF! Man Defiles 3 year old Girl at Church Urinal in Ghana

WTF
WTF

In fact, many weird things are happening in God’s own houses – from scamming vulnerable individuals to ‘chopping down’ ladies – spearheaded by God’s anointed children.

Rape is among the many global issues that keep rising each and every day and if you think you’ve read or heard enough, then you will be shocked at what a guy has done to a 3 year old girl at church.

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 21-year-old man who defiled a three-year-old girl at a church urinal to 18 years’ imprisonment with hard labour, The Mirror reports.

According to the newspaper, the suspect, Lawrence Yerba, pleaded guilty to the charge of defiling the young girl. Lawrence was said to have baited the 3 year old girl by saying he was going to buy biscuit for her. He then took the small girl to the church urinal where he sexually abused her. Lawrence ran away after the act.

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President John Mahama is Feeling the HEAT | He Tweets to Ghanaian Celebrities Saying ‘Let’s End the Polemics’

President-John Mahama
President-John Mahama

The official President John Dramani Mahama’s twitter page has tweeted, and the message is pretty clear—the smoke coming out of the kitchen is worrying.

The social media Dumsor campaign has intensified, though, it has somewhat become an opportunity to insult and be mischievous for some people.

Being offensive or unleashing attacks in every campaign is not forbidden but such actions mostly taint the campaign so in a tweet, the president wrote; “The division in our politics is bad enough. Let it not spread to our creative industry. Let’s cease the polemics. — JM”

In effect, the president is not asking for the activism in the Creative Arts Industry to stop, he is only saying, the manner and shape in which this activism is taking place must be re-considered.

For a few days now, Ghanaians are making good use of social media, sending all manner of messages and discussing the unbearable power crisis they find themselves in—made worse by the government’s inability to honour his promise of finding a fix.

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Police Grant Permission For #DumsorMustStop Vigil To Go Ahead: But University Of Ghana Say They Have Not Approved Use Of Their Premises For Any Vigil

Dumsor
Dumsor

Yvonne Nelson kicked off a whole hornet’s nest when she decided one day to start her campaign against the power crisis that’s killing us in this country.

Since then we have seen insults from uncivilised politicians and supporters of the NDC, plus even more ignorant comments from some celebrities. Yet the vigil was not even officially approved yet.

They received that approval yesterday, after meeting with the Greater Accra Regional Police Command. They granted approval for the vigil, slated for 16th of May, ostensibly for the University of Ghana premises.

Well, the management of the University disagrees. In a public statement, they have asked to be disassociated from any planned vigil. This is because, as at now, they haven’t officially received any request for, not to talk about giving approval, for any vigil to be held on their campus.

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HOT SHOTS: Rihanna Spotted at Game Nightclub

Rihanna
Rihanna

Rihanna was spotted Wednesday night arriving at Game nightclub in New York City.

As always, she was a gorgeous sight, donning white vest and cutoff denim short while flaunting her flawless legs.

According to Mail Online, rumoured boyfriend Leonardo DiCarpro and ex boo Drake also partied last night at Game nightclub.

Check out another photo of Rih arriving at the club…

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WTF: Chris Brown Returns Home To Find a Nekkid Woman in His Bed?

 

Chris Brown
Chris Brown

After celebrating his birthday party with friends last night, Chris Brown returned home only to find an unknown nekkid woman in his bed.

The 25-year-old took to Instagram to share his horrible encounter with a ‘crazy’ fan. He wrote:

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Taylor Swift’s ‘Bad Blood’ Music Video Will Open Billboard Music Awards 2015

Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift

The official music video for Taylor Swift’s new single ‘Bad Blood’, will be premiered to kick off the forthcoming 2015 Billboard Music Awards.

The music video which is rumoured to feature Selena Gomez, Zendaya Coleman and Cara Delevingne will be premiered live at the awards show on May 17 at 8 pm EST.

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Nebraska Woman Sues All Gays in The World On Behalf Of ‘God And His Son Jesus Christ’

Gay
Gay

There are many reasons why anyone would not like religion. However, more than any other reason, the intolerance it breeds is the most sickening one.

This intolerance, honed by centuries of indoctrination and sanctioned by ‘Holy Books’, is why someone would blow up people of other religions, or use force on people whose world view does not align with theirs.

A good example of this intolerance is that exhibited by this Nebraska woman, 66 year old Sylvia Ann Driskell. She has filed a suit in the US District Court of Omaha, claiming to be an ambassador for the plaintiffs, God and his son Jesus Christ.

In the suit, officially entered as ‘Driskell vs homosexuals’; she is suing all homosexuals for breaking ‘religious and moral laws’.

In a rambling, handwritten seven page petition, Driskell quotes Bible passages to show homosexuality is a sin, and claims that homosexuals know they are living in sin.

“Homosexuality is a sin and they the homosexuals know it is a sin to live a life of homosexuality. Why else would they have been hiding in the closet?

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Pastor Bolts With Money Given To Him By Businessman In His Church To ‘Bless’

WTF
WTF

You would think at this point people would have wised up to the machinations of some of these so-called men of God. But we love refusing to think, especially when religion is involved.

A Lagos man is in dire financial straits after his pastor made away with N10m he gave to him for prayers. The man went for a bank loan to start a business but through some very elaborate scheming his pastor was able to swindle him out of it.

PM News reports that Lagos police have declared Timothy Gabriel, a preacher from Lagos, a wanted man. He is wanted for allegedly swindling one of his church members out of N10m.

The member is said to have told his pastor that he intended to go for a bank loan for some business deals. The pastor prayed for him to be successful in getting the loan, and he managed to get it.

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VIDEO: An Anonymous Caller Blows Yvonne Nelson’s Phone to Call Her Ashawo | All Because of #DumsorMustStop Campaign

Yvonne Nelson
Yvonne Nelson

This is not even funny—some Ghanaians are really backwards, it is as if they just picked them from the Paleolithic age and dropped in our century.

An anonymous caller blew Yvonne Nelson’s cell phone to blast her, calling her Ashawo (prostitute)—and the actress posted a video of what happened on instagram.

The caller used the number; 0307095195 and proudly kept calling the actress Ashawo as though he was her customer. This is obviously because of the #DumsorMustStop campaign which the actress and a few others are championing.

Many have seen the campaign which is a call for the incumbent government to fix the current energy crisis as an attack on the Mahama-led NDC government—so it wouldn’t be far-fetched to say the caller is an NDC sympathizer.

Politics in Ghana is pretty unintelligent and that is why most intelligent and noble people stay away from it—for me, if you can, just find some cool country and jump out there because our people are just too much to deal with.

How can you get someone like the one in the call below to reason?

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Read Tina Knowles Beautiful Open Letter To Beyonce And Solange To Commemorate Mother’s Day

As Mother’s day draws nearer, we often think of ways to celebrate our very special mothers who brought us unto this earth and nurtured us into whatever we have become today. Time Magazine decided on a very interesting idea for this year’s celebration. Instead of asking celebrities to celebrate their moms, they are asking celebrity … Read more

If You Think John Dumelo’s Recent Dumsor Comment Makes Him A Punk…Meet Struggling Comedian-David Oscar Who is Blaming Ghanaian Citizens for Causing Dumsor…

Comedian-David Oscar
Comedian-David Oscar

In Africa, people cannot separate politics from national issues and this has been evident in the sort comments the various NDC celebrities have been making in the last few days in relation to the current power crisis-Dumsor.

Ghanaian actor-John Dumelo came under massive attack for saying, ‘Rome was not built in a day’ and as such Ghanaians should stop putting pressure on President Mahama—and allow him to solve the current power crisis at his own pace.

If you considered John Dumelo’s statement unforgiving , then I am sure you wouldn’t take it light with Ghanaian struggling comedian-David Oscar who blames Ghanaians for causing dumsor themselves—and says, he would be a hypocrite to join the #DumsorMustStop campaign.

The comedian who is not anyway funny took to his facebook to call those preparing to stage a #DumsorMustStop vigil a hypocrite by saying;

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Emmanuel Adebayor’s Sister-Lucia Hits Back | She Says Adebayor is a Goddamn Big Liar & The Family Does Not Need Him Again

Emmanuel Adebayor
Emmanuel Adebayor

Being an African, it’s impossible to understand why footballer-Emmanuel Adebayor will lie about the kind of support he gives his family—more also, he is pretty good at giving to even strangers.

The fact remains that, Africans are greedy and when they know you have some money coming through, until they milk you dry, they wouldn’t consider anything you give to them as enough.

Following Adebayor’s recent facebook post in which he stated bitterly how his own family has treated him—taking more and more from him and yet claim he has done nothing for them, his sister-Lucia Adebayor has hit back, claiming the footballer is a goddamn liar.

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Ooops Not Again! Ciara’s ‘Jackie’ is set to Flop!

Ciara Jackie
Ciara Jackie

Ooops it has happened again! Three flop albums in a row…

It has been revealed that Ciara’s new album ‘Jackie’ will likely flop. The album, which is her sixth studio was released (on Monday) to rave reviews from music critics, but sadly the album is likely to be a commercial disaster just like its predecessors, ‘Ciara (album)’ and ‘Basic Instinct’.

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Karrueche Tran Lands Role In Upcoming TV Show

Chris Brown’s on-again, off-again lady love Karrueche is gradually coming up in the world. Her career as a model is pretty much established, and she’s now building a budding actress career. The 26 year old has landed a role on an upcoming scripted show by Style Haul. The show, Vanity, is a fashionesque  scripted show … Read more

Money Mayweather Sued By His Ex For Lying About 2010 Domestic Violence Incident

Mayweather
Mayweather

Mayweather might be a genius in the ring, but outside of it he’s a very terrible person. He’s been convicted in the past of domestic abuse, including one incident with Josie Harris, mother of 3 of his children.

That incident is the subject of this lawsuit being brought by Josie. In the run-up to his mega fight with Manny Pacquiao, Mayweather said in an interview that Josie was in a drug fuelled rage, and that he had to restrain her.

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Who Is Hip Hop’s Wealthiest Artiste For 2015?

Diddy
Diddy

There are very few hip hop artistes who get to the top of the list. Because aside your music you need to be an astute businessman to send your earnings into the level required to get to the top.

So very often you find the same names inhabiting this list. And so it was, as Forbes released their list of Hip Hop’s five wealthiest artistes for the year.

Dre made a windfall when he sold Beats to ‘Apple’, but somehow, he failed to wrestle the title from the king. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is that man, worth approximately $735m. Everyone knows Diddy is a whack rapper, but his numerous business ventures put him at the top.

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Mzbel is Back | She Says Christianity is Like Idol Worshiping….Do You Agree?

Mzbel is back and this time, she is not only saying Jesus Christ is fake or the Jesus story was stolen from ancient gods like Horus—this time, she has extended her comments to Christianity which follows Jesus. Of course, the linkage is clear; if Jesus is fake as Mzbel thinks, Christianity in her estimation must … Read more

Powerful Earthquake Hits Nepal Killing Over 2000 People: Others Still Trapped As Rescue Efforts Continue

Natural disaster such as these are inevitable in many places, but it doesn’t still stop you from experiencing the shock such mass loss of human life brings about. Avalanches off the side of Mount Everest killed 17 people, before powerful aftershocks rippled through Nepal, causing massive loss of life. According to the BBC, the earthquake, … Read more

South Africa’s Xenophobia: Former White President Of South Africa P.W. Botha’s Controversial Speech Vindicated- He Said ‘The Fact That, Blacks Look Like Human Beings And Act Like Human Beings Do Not Necessarily Make Them Sensible Human Beings. Give Them Guns And They Will Kill Each Other’

Former white President of South Africa, P. W. Botha, gave a speech to his Cabinet which created a world hubbub – making many intellectuals call him a racist and an imp. After 30 years of delivering that speech, actions and inactions of modern day South African blacks, seem to have vindicated Botha who died at … Read more

It’s Happening Tonight | The Premiere of ‘Love Regardless’ + Celebrity Pop Corn Sale & MORE

Love Regardless
Love Regardless

Ahead of tonight’s premiere of Zynell Zuh’s latest movie-Love Regardless at Silverbird Cinemas (Westhills Mall, Weija), GhanaCelebrities.Com caught up with actress Yvonne Okyere who featured in the movie—to tell us about her role in the movie and why fans should attend the premiere.

The premiere will be marked by a socialization event dubbed the ‘Love Regardless Celebrity Popcorn Sale’ where some celebrities will take over the sale of popcorn, tickets, and drinks at the mall whilst interacting and taking pictures with movie patrons.

The movie which has been released on irokotv has gotten people who paid to watch the new movie online saying interesting things about it, with some describing it as the best Ghanaian movie so far.

Synopsis

Love Regardless features actress Yvonne Okyere, Kwaku Eliott, Paulina Oduro, Zynnell Zuh, Helen Asante, KOD, Michelle MCkinney Hammond, Gbenga Titiloye and others…

The movie revolves around Ivory (a character played by Zynnell Zuh), a struggling singer with a Law degree whose dream of recording a hit song and breaking into the music industry seems impossible. While pursuing her music ambition, her mother (Paulina Oduro) hangs around her neck—asking that she finds a conventional job and ditch her dream.

Ivory meets Rachael (Yvonne Okyere) and somehow they become good friends—leading to Rachael finding Ivory a temporal job at divorced father’s small law firm.

From here, events take a very dramatic turn when the father meets and falls in love with Ivory. What happens next is attention-grabbing.

Do make it a point to watch this thought-provoking movie on Saturday, April 18, 2015 at the Silverbid Cinemas (Westhills Mall – Weija).

Listen to Yvonne Okyere below…

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Check out what those who have had the chance to watch it have to say below…

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Now You Can Study Game Of Thrones In School | Northern Illinois University To Offer A Game Of Thrones Course

Ned Stark
Ned Stark

It’s the series of the moment; HBO Game of Thrones returned from hiatus last week, and people had missed it so much they couldn’t wait to watch it- leading to the leak of the first four episodes.

Now having a course in honour of pop culture icons is nothing new- Rihanna and Beyonce were the subjects of courses offered by the University of Texas last year. Now, it’s the turn of Game of Thrones, with Northern Illinois University offering a course in the Westerosi drama.

According to Hollywood Gossip, the new course is named ‘Game of Thrones, Television and Medieval History’. The rationale being that the television series and its source books ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’- accurately reflect what happened in our own history during the middle ages.

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