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The founder of the1957News, a Ghanaian news and entertainment website. He has years of experience in online publishing and content creation and has built a successful online news agency through apt content coverage, timely reporting, and attention to accuracy.
PREMIER DJ AWARDS 2ND EDITION NOMINATION OPENS. The Premier DJ Awards organizers have opened nominations publicly for this year’s edition. The organizers of the annual Premier DJ Awards would like to officially inform all DJs, promoters, publicists, radio/FM stations, bloggers, and the general public that submission of entries for the 2nd annual edition of Premier DJ Awards is officially open. Nominations are open into various categories, both old and newly added Categories of the awards. The award scheme is to acknowledge and honor DJs and media houses, some media personnel who are doing incredibly well in the country and beyond…
The Teaching Assistant identified as, Miss Vida Kukua Aseidu has allegedly died after eating food she purchased from a fast food restaurant in Dzowulu, a suburb of Accra. LISTEN TO AUDIO VIA INSTAGRAM In a voice note circulating on WhatsApp, the late Teaching Assistant is heard explaining circumstances leading to her chronic illness which according to her was caused by the food she bought from the restaurant. She died on Tuesday at the Ridge Hospital in Accra.
Honourable Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, the Western Regional Minister, has proved loyalism by not overlooking one of the acts considered unacceptable here in the country. Renowned galamsy kingpin, Nana Okobeng, the Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of Okobeng mining company was escorted by the cops to the Police station after he was nabbed at Aroma plaza for mining illegally in Gwira, a town in the Evalue-Ajomoro-Gwira constituency and an area of the Nzema east district all in the Western Region. Upon our scout, the galamsy kingpin has been mining illegally while destroying lands without a mining permit and no lease. Meanwhile, about three…
Ashanti Region’s Kumawu Consistency’s Member of Parliament, Honorable, Philip Atta Bosoah passes on aged 54. A reliable source indicates that his demise was confirmed to have happened early this morning, Tuesday, March 28, 2022. Mr. Atta Bosoah’s sudden death occurred at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. During last Friday’s vote on confirming Prez Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s ministerial’s appointees, the MP was absent. Having no idea about his whereabouts, his room was forcibly opened up only to meet him collapsed. Plans to rescue and fly him out of the country for further healthcare were in vain since he passed on while…
Ghanaian singer-songwriter, Charles Kwadwo Fosuh, widely known in the entertainment industry as Daddy Lumba, has shared the rationale behind his inability to perform some of his songs on stage. Basically, his inability to perform some of his songs on stage is due to the personal emotions and attachment related to the song. An example of such a song is ‘Ama Esah’, which he composed specifically to honor his dear late mother. To him, performing such emotional songs on stage might cause him to halt and walk away in the process. In an interview shared through the legend’s YouTube page, he…
The Accra East District Football Association (AEDFA) yesterday, 24th March 2023 successfully launched its league for the 2022/ 2023 season. The league for the season will be fully sponsored by the Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku Constituency, Hon. Benjamin Ayiku Narteh. Speaking at the launch yesterday, a representative of the MP revealed that, the MP has committed Ghc 20,000 cedis to take care of the welfare of match officials, a 42 inches colored television to be awarded to the best player, a club jersey for the winning team plus other packages among others to be awarded to best-performing teams. The…
A man showed up at Barbadian Singer, Robyn Rihanna Fenty NH, popularly known as Rihanna’s home to ask for her hand in marriage. According to TMZ, law enforcement stated that the man who traveled from South Carolina to propose to the Singer in her house was almost immediately greeted by her security. TMZ sources added that the man claimed he was there to propose to the Singer, and Rihanna’s team called the cobs right away. The man was handcuffed and put in a car for a serious chat regarding his intentions of showing up at Rihanna’s home when the officers…
PREMIER DJ AWARDS is an eminent, innovative, and distinct award to empower Hard-working DJs with the aim to recognize the contributions of DJs and honor them professionally, they have influenced music culture, making an impact in their own way in the entertainment sector both locally and Internationally, through radio DJing, club DJing and mobile DJing, etc. The Awards platform will help give support to DJs playing great roles in promotion, distribution, development, advancement, positive impacts, and change putting musicians, music, and listeners(fans) in the art industry in a different phase. Vision, dreams, goals, and plans are made and set for…
Multiple award-winning Movie Producer, Anita Tetteh has launched a new Television Reality show, ‘Face-Lit Gh Make-Up Competition’ in Accra. Speaking at the launch yesterday, 17th Maarch, 2023 she disclosed the show would showcase a group of people as they compete in a make-up pageant. “The pageant is in two categories; the Make-Up Artist and the Make-Up Model. That is the make-up artists showcasing their skills on make-up modelsIt is a weekly competition that will be aired on television where the contestants will take part in various makeup challenges, such as creating a look for either a photo shoot or recreational…
Controversial Ghanaian Politician and Businessman, Honourable Kennedy Agyapong, has expressed his disagreement with the Electoral Commission’s decision to use the Constitutional Instrument (CI), which has been proposed to be used as a sole document for registration amid the forthcoming general elections in the year 2024. According to the Electoral Commission, the new Constitutional Instrument seeks to see the elimination of the guarantor system for all first-time registrants to the country’s electoral register. Despite this, the Assin Central Member of Parliament, in an interview at Sompa FM, a local radio station situated in the Ashanti Region’s capital town – Kumasi, stated…