Nollywood actress Chika Ike, has revealed that she is set to marry again once the ideal man walks up to her.
According
to the brand Ambassador of energy drink, ‘Bullet,’ who was once married
to Tony Eberiri in 2006 before they officially got divorced in 2013,
said that she was once a victim of domestic violence when she married
and almost lost her life in the process.
“I don’t want to talk
about the divorce because it is already in the past and I have since
moved on. I am still open to marriage and I might give it a second shot
because I believe in love. For now, I am most concerned with my own
happiness”.
Speaking about the high rate at which celebrities'
marriage are crashing, Chika said: “Celebrities also make mistakes. I
don’t think they have a bad time combining their successful careers and
managing the home front or their marriages on the side.”
“All the
talk about some men being afraid to walk up to a female celebrity and
ask her out does not make sense to me. Any man that cannot walk up to me
and toast me is not manly enough. I don’t have a long list or criteria
for my ideal man. All I want is that he must make me happy.”
Ever since hiplife artiste, D. Cryme
came to prominence with the release of his debut hit single, Kill Me Shy
in 2010, the artiste who refers to himself as ‘Twi Pop General’ has not
had it rosy sustaining hie fame and popularity.
It seems all his
songs after Kill Me Shy which earned him the Hiplife Song of the Year
gong the following year at the Ghana Music Awards did not meet the
expectation of music lovers.
But the Tema-based artiste has
debunked the perception that his popularity has waned and says he is
sill as popular as when he hit the limelight some four years ago.
He
told Showbiz last Thursday that different issues about life inspire
artistes during the composition of songs and his latest, 'No Mercy' just
came to mind when he was strategizing on how to bounce back in style.
“That
is not to say that my popularity has waned. That is not it all because I
still amass a large following on social network and it shows that my
fans are still behind me.
“No Mercy is just to ask people to
watch out for me as I do my own thing with music this year without an
iota of mercy”, he said.
Earlier this year, he released a new
song, Memories On The Wall which featured R&B singer Chase, and soon
after it has received considerable airplay, D. Cryme is back with No
Mercy.
Produced by Mix Master Garzy, No Mercy is a danceable hiplife tune unlike Memories On The Wall which was in the Slow tempo vain.
No
Mercy tells the story of a lady who has deceived many men and taken
their affections for her for granted until she meets D. Cryme who is
poised to teach her the lesson of her life showing her “no mercy.”
Last week, the blogosphere was
bubbling with the news of the death of the mother of popular Nollywood
actor, Jim Iyke. The 67 years old woman died on Monday, March 24, 2014.
In
a press statement made available to nigeriafilms.com by the actor’s
publicist, Mitch Ngaman, it stated that Jim Iyke’s mother, “Mrs Ngozi
Gladys Okelue Esomugha, was born on May 3, 1947, and succumbed toa long
battle with illness.”
The statement quoted Jim Iyke:- , “she (her
late mum) was a force of nature. My big sis, my 1st wife, my
confidante, my rock, my critique, my greatest fan and regal leader.
“She
was a radiant, gorgeous woman with a smile bigger than the sun and
always ready to embrace anyone for all the good and even wrong reasons.
“My
sun is gone. The dull numbing ache in my heart will never be pacified
by any woman alive. Not my lover, sisters nor even a daughter I may one
day bear.
“The relationship of a mother and an only son is
uniquely eternal and spiritual, transcending human comprehension. Mine
with Gladys is even far strangely beyond that.
“They say it’s a blessing if a son buries his mother and not the other way around. I'm not sure they’re entirely right.
“They
also said one never recovers from the loss of their mother. I hope they
are right! May I never recover from the memories of your celestial
love, sacrifices, warmth, your contagious laughter and merciless wit.
“Your
enthusiasm for life and service of others was infectious. I’ll miss you
each and every waking moment of my life. I know you're in a better
place now.
“I’ll carry on everything you stood for ‘til my last days.
“You came and saw and conquered.
“Adieu Gladys from your boy Jim.
“I love you till the last breathe I take.”
Meanwhile, the family is yet to announce the funeral rites.
Kwabena Kwabena, has told enewsgh.com
what he feels is wrong with the current MUSIGA set up headed by fellow
musician Bice Osei Kuffour (Obour).
“There is no industry,” he says.
“It
is crazy when you are an artist and you talk like this and people take
it from the music politics point of view. I don’t have any interest in
going near any music politics because I have about 15 years of active
music in me I still want to pursue.
“But there are certain people
who should make sure whatever we create yields benefits to us, and
these are the people in the helm of affairs. The people managing the
structures don’t even understand what they are doing. I don’t mean to
criticize anyone but these guys are not doing great as long as far as
governing the music industry is concerned.”
Still on promotional rounds for his Daakye album, the talented singer says:
“Ask
any musician what they get from doing a hit record apart from being
famous and being called a musician, so if you have a leader and he is
not thinking about putting money in the pocket of the hit maker then
what are we doing as a group? It’s simple; you ask yourself what the
other developed countries are doing to put monies in their artist’s
pocket. Why won’t you consult their expertise, I heard two million Ghana
Cedis was giving to a company to check our contribution to the nation’s
GDP. How does that benefit the musician?”
Kwabena Kwabena, who
has been nominated seven times at this year’s Ghana Music Awards is
however hopeful the body would get around the any challenges the sector
faces.
“First you fix the money collection system from the media
houses and try and control how people steal the music, then after that
you go and research and you will even get a handsome figure to show
government. If we had checked the systems and shown good figures, we
would have earned the respect of the government more,” he adds.
“Put
money in the musicians pocket through his work. If I had two million, I
will go to the UK and consult them on how they collect the revenues for
the work the musicians do, buy the software that will monitor the
systems for us, then seek the government to help us make it mandatory
for every media outlet to be on that monitoring scheme.
“We are
in a technology era and we are still complaining about things like this,
nobody cares about nobody. How long can an artist survive on his show
money? If you are an artist, you think about how you can create your own
team to help you build and move your career from one point to other and
just hope it changes. I feel we can do due diligence to our selves, in
life the moment you think selfless and think about achievements, that’s
when you begin to head somewhere.
“Our main problem is we don’t
understand our time and what to do with our time. That’s why I was happy
to see a young man become the president and unfortunately things are
yet to change. Every leader should have a vision everyone is following.
That is why we submit to you and call you president. In the ancient
world it’s the brave ones that got the chance to the throne. Leadership
is more about action. I pray someone has a change of heart or we get
someone who will change things.”
On how he managed to make four award-winning albums even with all the challenges he talked about, he revealed:
“I
have never been on a label and I have always been on my own, Kontihene
helped me as an artist but we didn’t sign any papers for a label kind of
thing. I paddled my own boat from then, I didn’t intentionally plan to
be on my own. As a matter of fact I had a lot of trouble impressing
anybody from the beginning of my career, after the success of “Aso” I
decided to steer my music my own way because anyone who approached me
afterwards were people who had turned me down in the past.
“And I
just believed if they didn’t believe in me before I did “Aso”, then;
there was no need to be with them after finding my way out from back-up
singing to a hit album. I knew also everyone who approached me after
“Aso” became a hit and I didn’t believe they had something new to offer.
The people who believed in you from day one are the people you should
hold on to.”
Ghanaian dancehall artiste Jupitar has descended heavily on Ghanaian artistes who hail themselves as dancehall kings.
He
says “all those claiming they are dancehall kings are living a fairy
tale. Even in Jamaica, no one calls himself a dancehall king”.
Once
they gain a little fame, dancehall musicians in Ghana begin to arrogate
to themselves the title “dancehall king”. Some including Shatta Wale
and Samini are “beefing” allegedly over who the dancehall king is.
But
in an interview with seasoned entertainment radio host Kwame Poku,
Dancehall sensation, Jupitar lambasted all artistes clamoring to be
recognized as “dancehall kings”.
“It’s not a competition and we
are learners, learning from Jamaica. How can you be here and call
yourself a dancehall king?” he queried, adding that “you cannot be in
Ghana and call yourself a dancehall king”.
He advises all dancehall artistes to be humble and learn the nuances of the language and art constituting dancehall music.
The fast growing dancehall artiste also called for unity among dancehall musicians in order to promote their kind of music.
Jupitar
used the interview with Solid FM’s Kwame Scientific to apologise for
his inability to honour a performance at the Republic Hall week
celebration at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
and gave assurance of future appearances in Kumasi.
