Beyonce and Jay Z had a lot of fun last night at the Parkwood Holiday Party in New York City.
Parkwood, an entertainment and management company owned by Bey, held a Christmas party on Tuesday evening. Close friends, staff and employees of Parkwood Entertainment were invited to the party.
Rita Ora, Roc Nation signee was also seen at the party cozying up with Beyonce.
More photos of the Jay and Bey living it up at the Parkwood party below…
Esther Abena Nyarkoa Prempeh, popularly known as Lady Prempeh has released two promo photos—rocking African prints and we love the shots.
Lady Prempeh is a Ghanaian gospel musician who aims to bring the gospel to people through music. Apart from music, Lady Prempeh is into bead making—and you can clealy see her signature trade in a form of bracelets in the photos…
Lady Prempeh made a triumphant entry into the local gospel music scene in 2004 with her eight-track award-winning debut album, Onyame Ne Mekamafo (God is my Advocate).
Actress-Juliet Ibrahim, Kwaku Manu, John Dumelo and others have joined the 2014 Ghana Movie Awards photoshoot train—holding the awards’ gold plated plaque.
This year’s Ghana Movie Awards will take place at the Accra International Conference Centre on 30th December, 2014 and almost every movie star is expected to attend.
Surely, some of our stars have the swag for tradition wear and others should just stick to their suits…
What kind of animals would carry out such actions on little children without batting an eye; brain dead, brainwashed animals- that’s who.
The type of atrocities being committed in the name of Allah keeps mounting up. The IS have taken terrorism to a whole new level, and now this attack by the Pakistani Taliban exhibits a depravity the former would be proud of.
The cowards attacked Peshawar Army Public School yesterday December 16, with military officials identifying seven attackers. All seven wore explosive vests, and were carrying automatic weapons which they used to fire indiscriminately into classrooms filled with kids.
Aside that, they set off bombs at different locations within the school; and according to this New York Daily News Report, set a female teacher ablaze right in front of a classroom full of kids.
“They literally set the teacher on fire with gasoline and made the kids watch” A witness told the publication.
And when they were finally cornered by Pakistani military, they blew themselves up, causing more carnage.
The terrorists were from Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and attacked the Army school because the kids of army personnel who have been carrying out a sustained offensive against them were enrolled there.
For many years, religion led by Christianity has been the only main game in town—and this goes as back into the Paleolithetic era.
Today, Science has become a key game player having demonstrated its substantial credibility, tackling some of the fundamental mysteries surrounding our existence, well being and universe—or multiverse if you are a String Theory proponent.
It’s difficult to reconcile religion and science at all levels; as one dwells on faith, the other is deep rooted in evidence—two sharply opposing but essential principles.
However, both science and religion have connecting tails and for the purpose of this piece, let me point out that the two condemn SKIN BLEACHING, either directly or indirectly and I don’t think we even need any of the two as humans to be able to position this self-hating act, considering its consequence.
Yet many of our Pastors, Bishops and Evangelists on TVs today, propagating the gospel (let’s say cashing in on the name Jesus Christ made possible by the credulity of many) have become bleaching ambassadors—and it’s as if some of them have shares in TURA.
Interestingly, it would be literally impossible to point out any leading scientist who has bleached his or her inner butt, like these charlatans called men of God have done. Here again, science seems to be winning as it’s being led by unadulterated people.
The church has not just become a place where all sorts of vices are entrenched, the leaders have no shame—and God does not also strike them.
Someone just sent me a video of a certain Ghanaian man of God called Bishop Obinim and his thousands of credulous congregants singing praises under his feet—and though I can forgive him for his spiritual hogwash miracles, I find not just his teachings but also his bleaching ‘offensively ignorant’.
The draw for the 2015 African Cup of Nations took place earlier tonight in Malabo and fans of the Black Stars would not be having a fun night contemplating the ramifications of the draw.
Ghana has landed in the fabled ‘Group of Death’, alongside South Africa, Senegal, and Algeria.
With a new coach who just assumed responsibilities today, barely a month to the tournament and a team in disarray from their worst world cup campaign, getting a good group would have been essential in any hopes of going far in the tournament.
It seems now that was just a pipe dream, and now any ambitions would have to be fulfilled through the hard way.
South Africa had one of the best qualifying campaigns on the continent, sailing through unbeaten whilst knocking out defending champions Nigeria. Algeria was the best African side at the world cup and in the intervening months have shown little signs of slowing down. Senegal’s Teranga Lions are always a huge threat.
The 2014 British Fashion Awards is currently underway at London Coliseum in London. Rihanna who just arrived this morningin London, is spotted at the event.
The Bajan songstress looks absolutely gorgeous in her racy attire. The outfit donned by the pop superstar has a very plunging neckline that reveals her cleavage.
Peep inside to see more photos of Rihanna slaying with her beauty at the ongoing 2014 British Fashion Awards.
Nicki Minaj’s forthcoming third studio album, ‘The Pink Print’, drops on December 15, 2014.
The hotly anticipated album has already spawned four single. Only ‘Anaconda’ has been a massive hit, the rest (Pills n Potions, Only, Bed of Lies) have all performed moderately on the charts.
This morning (December 1st), the official tracklisting of the album was revealed via Amazon fr . Check out the tracklist for ‘The Pink Print’ after the jump…
Ghanaians are yet to experience the ‘hottest’ musical concert ever on the Ghanaian event calendar as telecommunications giant – tiGO – brings to us ‘tiGO Music Unplugged’.
On the 31st day of October 2014, all roads will be heading to the Accra Sports Stadium where the ‘tiGO Music Unplugged’ concert is scheduled to take place.
It will interest you to be in the know that Ghana’s fastest rapper – Sarkodie – is billed for the concert. As if that’s not enough, the reigning artiste of the year and ‘Dancehall King’, Shatta Wale, Davido, Guru, 4X4, MzVee, etc. have also been added to the list.
Rihanna is back in Los Angeles. The ‘Diamond’ songstress was in Atlanta on Saturday for the launch of ‘Rogue Man’ fragrance at Macy’s Lenox Square.
Last night, the 26-year-old Bajan superstar was spotted leaving her favourite restaurant, Giorgio Baldi after dinning. Riri was photographed wearing an Adidas dress while holding a bottle of wine.
Is there a body that regulates churches in Ghana? Make that Africa. Is there a body that regulates churches in Africa? Because the rot is deep!
It’s only in Africa you find out that the black man knows more about God and the bible than the Europeans who brought it to us. Sometimes I look upon the state of religion in Africa and I cannot help but congratulate the white man. He knew exactly how to keep us in chains no matter how much independence we have.
I once wrote an article here in lamentation of our worship of pastors. Yuups, we do not worship God anymore in Africa. We worship pastors because we are so devoted to pastors that we cannot question them. If you do, you go straight to the brainwashed firing squad of millions of people. Pastors can stand up in church with the nerve to do anything because you know what? They themselves know they are untouchable.
So often you will find the ‘sheeple’ gather and obediently listen to, defend and obey the ‘man of God’
Which of you ever watched the recorded South African pastors who made their congregation drink petrol because they claimed the pastor had turned it into apple juice? (Jesus mpo nfanihu). Sagaa!
Anyway, to the hot topic of today that has set me out on this rant, Duncan Williams said, women must realise that when a man proposes to them, it is a privilege. Because no matter how beautiful or intelligent you are, you will ‘’Rot’’ with it.
Where are my beautiful, intelligent women? Are you listening? You are nothing until a man does you this huge marriage favour.
At this point talking about the state our beloved country has been plunged into seems hardly worth the effort anymore. You should know how bad things have become when ‘things are hard in Ghana’ has assumed the mantle of a cliché, but every time you think we cannot hit another low this government of ours surprises us in a whole new way.
Through all the hardship, incompetence and corruption one thing I have noticed is that there is a big problem with misplaced priorities in this country. It manifests in so many ways, but every time there is a problem facing us, you can be sure we would be looking at the option least likely to bring a lasting solution.
I wish I could say it is limited to those in authority, but sadly it isn’t. We see it in the ordinary Ghanaian as well, in our haste to apply spiritual connotations to every little setback, in our stubborn reliance on divine intervention, in our love of shortcuts that in the end cause five problems way bigger than the initial one.
The worst manifestation of this problem, which led me to pen this piece, is when we have problems staring us right in the face but then ignore them and attempt bigger plans which frankly are folly if the initial problem is not solved yet.
I don’t know whether it is a problem of delusion or obliviousness, but the notion that Ghana has the capacity to handle its electricity needs and those of any other countries in addition is extremely laughable.
Chris Breezy has stirred up some sh*t this morning, revealing his thoughts on the Ebola epidemic sweeping across West Africa; and a lot of people are not going to be happy with the popular RnB star.
The Loyal hitmaker hit twitter this morning to give his take on the issue, and somewhat surprisingly, he is in the camp of those who believe the epidemic might be a form of population control.
A certain hypotheses is going round that this all epidemic might be an intentional gimmick by the powers that be, releasing the virus in certain African countries to check their unstoppable population growth. The theory has more supporters than you might think.
To think that some years back Nick Cannon stepped into the musical boxing ring to fight Eminem because of Mariah Carey even though he knew Shady was the definition of rap—and now, it is all over for him makes it sad.
But Nick says all is well with him—and he is taking each day at a time so we should not be worried. We guess Eminem will be laughing out loud, despite having murdered Cannon in the diss ring.
Speaking to Extra today at the Los Angeles during the premiere of ‘Addicted’, Nick had some few things to say, including on the recent drama surrounding Mariah Carey’s vocal flop.
My current relationship lasting a bit over three years is the longest one I’ve been in by far. My first and supposedly true love who assured me of her eternal love for me with corny recycled text messages that at the time made me incredibly smite and go red in my black cheeks didn’t last six months.
And we were barely eighteen. A couple more reality inducing, jarring, brief flings disguised as relationships, and then i met KAF who’s getting married next month to a man who’s not me. My current relationship overlaps that with KAF slightly.
The current relationship may or may not have ended last night. Or more likely three months ago when I bedded an incredibly attractive close friend and admitted to it. With this background I may appear not too credible a contributor to the topic Monogamy. However, my experiences I believe put me in a good stead to speak on this contentious issue. Is `Mongamy feasible? Is it natural? Is there one person destined to be coupled with you forever?
No. Well according to common sense and logic. Marrying for love as we know it now only began in the 18th century. Prior to that marriage was primarily to form business ties, secure already existing family worth, expand family networks or even pay family debts, writes Rainier-Mackie Plahar on BrutallyUncensored.Com.
Indeed back then a man was better respected and admired if he had multiple women. Montaigne the renowned essayist said in the 16th “any man in love with his wife was a man so dull no one else could love him”. This best reflects the values and standards of the time.
Monogamy is a social construct that aims at organizing our sex lives and furthermore provide a stable environment for the raising of children, but also (and this is often overlooked), that by pairing up couple for life, it does a good job in alleviating the jealousy and mayhem which would ensue from a sexual free-for-all.
Countless examples in our everyday lives alone is enough proof that jealousy and mayhem is rife in monogamous relationships. This is because it takes a superhuman level of discipline and commitment for monogamy to work to achieve the aims for which it was constructed.
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly has been on the warpath in recent times, forced to make a grandstand due to the cholera outbreak that has swept through the capital and most parts of the country.
One of the recent initiatives meant to battle the outbreak is a surprise inspection of food vendors within the metropolis, an initiative that has so far yielded some disgusting results; proving that we are not as safe as we would like to feel within our own capital.
What bugs me is that this is a problem we are all too familiar with. We go through our lives doing the minimum possible we can get away with, waiting for the inevitable outbreak of a disaster to force us to do what we should have been doing all along.
That is what the AMA has been doing with this recent clampdown on food vendors. The surprise inspection has spanned chop bars, restaurants, and is meant to tackle wayside vendors as well.
Aside the fact that these routine checks should be the status quo and not a panic measure when an epidemic sweeps over the country, the results gleaned so far should put the fear of God in any Ghanaian who patronises any food establishment outside their own homes.
You might say it’s not any surprise, Accra after all is engulfed in filth wherever you look, and people sell adjacent to gutters without any scruples. But whilst you would expect this kind of tactics from small time food vendors and the chop bars, the fact that restaurants, some of whom have huge reputations have fallen foul of the standards is a frightening thought.
I often marvel at the tenacity of Ghanaians when it comes to matters of faith, and for the absurd levels we are willing to take our belief in a supreme being. We place too much trust in our men of God, we interpret everything through the lens of religion and superstition, and we are willing to do anything so long as we are sure it enhances our chances of one day ending up in heaven.
It’s a problematic mindset that as much as we hate to admit, remains at the root of most of our ills as a society. We often place too much trust in faith to the detriment of hard work and innovation, whilst we spend fortunes keeping pastors rich whilst we remain in our lives of dilapidation.
South African pastor Lesego Daniel, of the Rabioni Centre Ministries, made his congregation drink petrol because he claimed to have changed it to pineapple juice. It was an exercise modelled on when Jesus turned water into wine (See the video above).
Blind faith as demonstrated by this South African congregation is very worrying. When people slip into mindsets like this, they can be asked to do anything and they would so long as they believe it is in the name of their religion.
I am sure we can all see what problems such a mentality would breed. Blind obedience to a person or deity breeds fanaticism, and fanaticism breeds far worse problems we should all be familiar with.
It seems the general public is now tired of Kimye and their antics.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were greeted with boos for arriving late at the Lanvin show in Paris. The crowd started booing the supercouple as they walked to the front row of the show.
Kanye however got defensive and confronted the crows for heckling them. He told the crowd it Alber Elbaz’s fault they were late because she asked to see them at the backstage.
“Alber asked to see us. Don’t boo us. We’re not late.” said Kanye.
In its latest fight against cholera in the city, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) yesterday closed down Dynasty Chinese restaurant in Osu after an inspection team stormed several restaurants in the area to inspect.
For some time now, the AMA has been inspecting the hygienic practices of restaurants, chop bars and other eating businesses. A move I highly applaud. People pay so much for food from these restaurants only to end up with all sorts of food poisoning.
The Public Health Directorate of the AMA headed by Doctor Sampson Anim Boateng closed down Dynasty Chinese Restaurant because it had the most unhygienic kitchen in which it prepares food for customers. Algae infested surroundings, a defective gas cylinder which was supported by a stone, grease and soot accumulated surfaces and heat extractors, rusted and filthy stoves and algae infested areas at the entrance to the kitchen.
Other restaurants like Noble House and Frankies were warned of slight uncleanliness which they promised to clean up but the filth encountered at Dynasty was too much for the AMA to overlook leading to the closure.
Well it seems the families who lost relatives in the T.B Joshua church collapse are not planning to let the matter rest. Two relatives of the deceased have informed the BBC they plan to sue T.B Joshua.
And they are not planning to go it alone, calling on other families to join them in their action against the church due to the circumstances leading to the collapse.
T.B Joshua has been telling anyone who would listen that the incident was caused by a hovering aircraft, and that it was an attempt on his life. I believe anyone who has even a peanut for a brain would recognise the explanation for the nonsense that it is and for T.B Joshua to attempt to take the public for granted as he has done he should expect consequences.
After all people died in the collapse, people with families, and this is what you come to tell them after the incident?
Thanduxolo Doro and Mpho Molebatsi are the two South African nationals planning the suit, and they told the BBC it’s not the collapse, so much as what happened after the collapse that is informing their action.
“It’s not that the building collapsed, rather what was done after the collapse” Mr Doro told the BBC
“We saw reports that emergency workers were denied access initially, access that could have saved lives. The actions of the church after the incident are very telling”
On Tuesday, Amber Rose filed for divorce from her husband Wiz Khalifa. The 30-year-old ex-stripper cited irreconcilable difference as the cause of the marriage breakdown.
Ever since the unexpected divorce news was put out by TMZ, the press gathering their source from the grapevine had accused both Wiz and Amber of infidelity.
However, Amber Rose has denied cheating on rapper husband Wiz Khalifa. The model took to twitter to quash rumours that she was unfaithful in her 1-year marriage to her husband. “Please stop with the fake stories. I would never ever ever cheat on my husband in a million years I think u guys know this…..,” Rose tweeted.
She also used the medium to call out her soon to be ex-husband, Wiz Khalifa for cheating. ” Unfortunately my now ex husband can’t say the same….,” she slammed her ex boo.
As much as we would like to push our nation into the 21st century, certain superstitions and prejudices are just too sunk in for us to be rid of anytime soon.
This is why we keep recording these incidents which quite frankly, belong in 12th century Europe and not in any society that dares call itself civilised: as we are oft too quick to point out but never prove via our actions.
A 55 year old woman in the Northern region, Duukwaak Laar, has found herself on the wrong side of these outdated superstitious prejudices, losing her life after being hanged on suspicion of being a witch.
Making the act more dastardly is that of the two suspects in the case, one is her stepson, 44 year old farmer Naanpaak Laar; the other being one Maten Jabong.
Daily Guide reports that Jabong, a 24 year old student, is believed to have disclosed to Naanpaak that he often had dreams about the victims. In these dreams, Jabong revealed, the victim was chasing him around and threatening to kill him.
After a little chit chat between the two, they reached their most logical conclusion; that Duukwaak must be a witch.
Looking at Ghanaian culture and tradition, you would understand how they would reach that conclusion. What does that tell us about Ghanaian culture and tradition then?
Despite the fact that University Education is the highest on the educational ladder, the Secondary School a person attended in Ghana sort of becomes his or her pride; defining the person in so many ways. Sorry to the various celebrities who did not have a secondary school education—you are irrelevant to us today. Let’s name … Read more
The third of Starr’s triple threat programming leading their brand introduction is The Morning Starr. Hosted and by presented and MC extraordinaire Kafui Dey, the Morning Starr is to give you the best start you could ever hope for to your day.
Running from 5am through 9am, Kafui Dey takes the hot seat on a tightly knit, perfectly woven morning show blessed with a smidgen of everything a morning show needs. News, intervening programming (business, sports etc), music, lifestyle, and the relevant political and socio-economic segments skewered towards improving the quality of life of the people of Ghana; whilst steering clear of the endless political squabbling you see on countless other morning shows.
And it’s all hosted impeccably by Ghana’s premiere Master of Ceremonies, bringing to Radio hosting the same excellence he has graced every other challenge in his life.
All of which adds up to the ultimate morning show, bringing a fresher dynamic to the radio morning show scene and threatening older more established staples within the time slot.
So what gives The Morning Starr a leg up over its older, more established competitors? It’s not any one thing, but a myriad of little things combining to give it that ‘just right’ feel.
But if you insist on being a quantitative junkie; there’s the presence of one of Ghana’s more recognisable hosts, there’s the general feel of the program which runs less political than you’re accustomed to; then there’s that first hour of the show which I call ‘soothing your guilt’ segment.
In principle, I refused not to go and cover such an inane gathering because the Gyan’s failed to assure me of my safety. Secondly, their attack on one of my compeers who asked them a question is one that I still feel justice has not been seen served to whom it is due – the journalist by name Daniel Kenu of Graphic Communication.
Thirdly, I refused to cover because it’s Asamoah Gyan I feel the masses want to hear from and not a lawyer. Finally, I refused to cover to serve as a boycott-precedence so that others will not attack journalists or any human being for asking a question – unfortunately, some people who hold pen, paper and write were present to cover.
The latest news reaching GhanaCelebrities.Comis that the journalists who went to cover the event had high hopes that after the meeting, they will receive ‘FAT’ money as transport fees usually called ‘SOLI’ in the media trade from the Gyans because the latter are rich.
To their utter dismay, the event ended only for one of the people who organized the meeting to start pulling and sharing GHC 20 to the press. Shock was written on the silly faces of the press.