Award-winning actress Lydia Forson has announced to the general public that she is not raising funds on any social network.
The
announcement follows claims that the she is raising funds on facebook
with a new account bearing her name, images and information.
But
the bubbly actress has cautioned individuals who have given or may be
lured to give money to anybody on the platform to block that account.
“If
I ever need to raise any money in the future for a project, people will
hear about it first in the news and the account will bare my name or
the name of the organization,” she told NEWS-ONE yesterday.
“Anyone
who sends money to someone on Facebook posing as me does this at their
own risk. People should do a little bit more research before they agree
to send money to someone they have never met,” Lydia added.
Every December Google releases its
Zeitgeist list, highlighting the top trending searches all over the
world over the previous year.
In Nigeria, top actress Mercy
Johnson returned in the list again this year as Google’s Most Searched
Nollywood Celeb, while the shocking deaths of music star Goldie Harvey
and Paul Walker top the list.
Also making it on the list are
Wizkid as the Most Searched Musician, Beverly Osu, Chelsea FC, Range
Rover Sport, How to Kiss and What is Money.
Yvonne Nelson, the actress is
currently on set shooting a new movie with Kofi Adjorlolo, Jackie
Appiah, Frank Artus, Cameroonian born American actress-Okawa Shaznay and
Elikem.
We are told the movie is an Abdul
Salam’s work which is being directed by Frank Rajah. And these photos
were taken on Monday at a location at Cantonment, Accra.
Talented Ghanaian actress-Nana Ama
McBrown has been busy at work, shooting and producing her 7th
movie-Yellow Cece, which will hit the market on Monday-23rd, December,
2013.
Nana Ama McBrown has in the past successfully produced hit
movies like Alicia, ‘Diee Adie Wono’ and ‘Asofo Awarie’, featuring the
likes of Lil Win, Jackie Appiah and Kofi Adjorlolo in her productions.
In
order to make the Christmas a special one for her fans, the fans of Lil
Win, Kofi Adjorlolo and Ghanaian Movie lovers in general, Nana Ama
McBrown has tackled one of the most crucial issues in our societies in
her latest movie-Yellow Cece…
In Yellow Cece, a young obstinate
village girl-Cecelia, who had no respect for education stole from her
mother and escaped to the city, in search for greener pastures—leaving
behind her education, family and boyfriend-Lil Win.
In the city, she went through hell
each day so to make it to the next, joining a gang of street girls who
introduced her to smoking and a debauched lifestyle.
Then,
Cecilia landed a job as a house help whose madam’s husband-Kofi
Adjorlolo genuinely wanted to help her fix her life. But that was not
enough for her, so she did something shocking.
With Cecilia in
love with someone else, Kofi Adjorlolo deeply in love with her and Lil
Win having come to the city to find his old village girlfriend, the
story gets complicated and extremely funny.
Nigerian movie star Jim Iyke was involved in a brawl yesterday, at the Crave Café at Adjiringanor, East legon in Accra.
According
to an eyewitness account, some people were eating at the café, at about
5pm when a stout-looking gentleman in a black Range Rover with a
Nigerian number plate, came to the café.
Jim Iyke also arrived
about 20 minutes later in his Sports Chevy with a Nigerian number plate,
and engaged the man in a heated argument over $10,000 which later
turned into a nasty brawl on the street.
The eyewitness further
explained that it became difficult for those around to separate the two,
and at a point, Jim Iyke wanted to get into his car to pull out
something which was suspected to be a gun, but he was prevented by those
at the café.
The other man left but returned shortly with two
policemen, one in mufti and other in uniform who arrested Jim Iyke and
took him away.
But the eyewitness told The Ghanaian Times
newspaper that barely 20 minutes later, the actor resurfaced at the
venue, which created the impression the case had been ‘settled’ by the
two policemen.
The Legon Police Commander in a telephone
conversation, with The Ghanaian Times said, the men he dispatched to the
venue had information of the scuffle, but those at the scene were
reluctant to give the police indepth account of what actually
transpired, and so they were unable to bring the two men to the police
station.
The introduction of the Hiplife
movement and its growth in the 90s and early 2000s in Ghana was fueled
by something more than money.
According Tic Tac, one of the
pioneering artists who took the genre global, the movement survived
mainly on the passion of the artists and their promoters to grow and
become that lucrative business it is today.
Speaking on the Citi
Breakfast Show with Bernard Avle in the build up to Decemba 2 Rememba,
powered by Citi 97.3 FM and Airtel, he shared his story and that of the
art Ghanaians and the world have grown to love so much.
“I was in
secondary school when I started music. It started somewhere in class 6
and in 1996 I got into mainstream. I went professional in 1999/2000 when
I graduated from Secondary School. Abraham Ohene Gyan gave me a chance
to go professional. I had done gigs with Azigizah and Slim Buster before
that though. I had a group called Naty Strangers, we were three and
later we became four,” he explained.
According to him, music wasn’t his first choice career. Instead, he wanted to be a lawyer because he wanted to express himself.
“I
always wanted to be a lawyer but along the line I became a musician. It
was another way I thought I could express myself and my parents
supported me. I used to tell my Dad I wanted to rehearse with the fish
band in my neighborhood. The fish band gave me a chance and I flew on
that chance. My parents were very supportive. They made me know that as
long as I was going to be a good boy, I could pursue my passion of
music,” he revealed.
Asked what was the driving force behind the
Hiplife movement that employs so many people now, he explained that the
passion to succeed was huge and that got the results we see today.
Gospel singer Precious Hannah after
going solo to release her first album “Onyame Adom” seems not be
impressed with most of her colleagues in the gospel fraternity even
though she believes she is not in competition with any of them.
“I
think the gospel music industry is very choked, choked in the sense
that there so much out there that doesn't qualify to be out there as
gospel music.” Precious Hannah opined. “I listen to some songs and
wonder if it’s really gospel singers wanted to do.
“There are
two kinds of gospel musicians that I see in the industry, those that are
here to make noise and have fun and those that really understands the
rudiments of music and knows what it means to be a musician touching
other people’s lives with music.”
“My travel around the world has
given me a lot of exposure and experiences that really came in handy
making this album a more relatable album to everyone who listens to it.
The countless stories I gathered from my work as a Nurse and a professor
made “Onyame Adom” a richer album than you will get out there.”
Onyame
Adom is a ten track album which includes the title track “Onyame
Adom”,” Adom Nti”, “Agjei Wa Yeyie Nio”,”Osahene Nyame Nit3 Nam” and “Me
Nya Tekyir3ma Apemaa”.
Born and raised in an Adventist family,
Hannah Ewoo Asiem is a Nurse and Professor holding a Master’s degree and
insists gospel music shouldn’t be seen as a business.
“I am not here to compete because I don’t see my ministry as a business, I am here to reach out to console and uplift spirits.”
“Onyame
Adom” comes with a lot of projects attached to it and one is to visit
the prisons and minister to them and share with them the little we have
got for them to know we all deserve God’s grace irrespective of our
situation. That is happening this coming Saturday at the Nsawam Prisons.
