I’M NOT JOINING ANOTHER TV STATION - GIFTY ANTI SPEAKS

Ace Ghanaian broadcaster and philanthropist Gifty Anti has disclosed her resignation from Ghanaian media giant, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation after sixteen years of dedicated service and hard work was not influenced by money as news from certain quarters of the media suggest.

The media mogul shared this with her friends (in her own words);

My dear friends, yea it is true that I have resigned from GBC. 31st December 2013 will be my last day at my alma mater in terms of work. After over 16 years that chapter will be closed.

Effective 1st January 2014, I will become the chief employee officer of GDA Concepts Ltd. I shall also become the Official Begger for the Girl in Need. Thank you for accepting me into your homes, offices etc for all those years.

For those I annoyed forgive me. To those who loved and supported me irrespective of my flaws, THANK YOU. No, I am not going to work at any other station!! I will be at GDA Concepts LTD. I know it’s not going to be easy. I know it is going to be challenging.

I need you to remember me in your prayers!!! I need you to be there for me like you have been in The past years. It is scary. But with God all things are possible!!! I believe God will see me through this next phase of my life.

I am Going into 2014 with a clean slate, starting all over again!! Remember me in your prayers my friends and thank you for being there for me!! God bless.

Earlier this month, Ebenezer Donkoh of nydjlive.com reported the broadcaster had tendered in her resignation which takes effect from December 31st 2013.

We wish the broadcaster the best in her new endeavor.

BISHOP CONDEMNS NUDITY IN GHANAIAN MOVIES

The General Overseer of Holyfire International Church, Bishop Reginald Ofori-Twumasi, has condemned the nudity portrayed by Ghanaian movie stars and celebrities.

He said the negative phenomenon in the country’s movie industry where movie stars and celebrities posed nude in movies must stop.

The General Overseer described the practice as ungodly since it did not glorify God and cautioned young ladies to avoid posing nude because of monetary benefits.

Bishop Ofori-Twumasi gave the advice in a sermon at the Church’s Annual Camp Meeting in Takoradi on Sunday under the theme: “Jesus Christ, the Truth that Turns Tragedies to Triumphs.”

He observed that Ghana’s movie industry had blindly copied that of the western world, which portrayed movie stars and celebrities in nudity.

He said those movies had not profited them but rather resulted in divorces and wrecked homes; and therefore cautioned Ghanaian movie producers to stop authorizing such movies in the country in view of their negative social implications on the youth.

“Some producers come with juicy movie contract worth $10,000.00 for you to pose naked because it will fetch them money, but such things sadden the Holy Spirit because your body does not belong to you, it is the temple of God, therefore you must use it profitably to please God.” he noted.

The man of God entreated Christians to lead morally upright lives worthy of emulation so as to win more souls for Jesus Christ.

SHATTA WALE APOLOGIZES TO CHARTERHOUSE

Outspoken and controversial Ghanaian dancehall artiste Bandana (Shatta Wale) has taken back all the unprintable words he used against foremost event management company Charterhouse in a public display of remorse.

Shatta Wale took a bold step to apologize at event organizers; Charter House during his performance at Ghana Rocks 2013 concert which took place on Friday December 27 at the Accra International Conference Centre.

After performing a number of his hit songs Shatta Wale surprisingly dropped the ‘diss’ song he recorded for Charterhouse after the 2013 VGMAs and performed the first 30 seconds of the song after which he asked his DJ to stop the music.

He then called George Quaye aka Aboagye of GH One Entertainment Television and Charterhouse to come on stage.

“In this industry we love ourselves and we love Ghana. I really want to apologize to Charterhouse because I never knew they love me so much. I want you to talk to Charterhouse for me that am sorry”, Shatta Wale told George Quaye.

For those who are of the opinion that Shatta Wale chose to apologize to Charterhouse at this time because he wants to win awards at the 2014 VGMAs this is what he had say “It is not that I want the awards but I feel that life has to continue. I love you people”.

Even though George Quaye looked surprised on stage he accepted Shatta Wale’s apology on behalf of Charterhouse. “It is a big surprise and it is one of the most matured things I have seen this gentleman do. Ladies and gentlemen two fingers in the air for Shatta Wale we accept your apology”, George responded.

His long overdue apology to Charterhouse, sparked mixed reactions from the media and stakeholders in the entertainment industry with some alleging that the move was an orchestration between him and Charterhouse, whiles others still believe it is deliberate attempt to win public sympathy for upcoming VGMAs.

2013 GHANA MOVIE AWARDS WINNERS

The 2013 Ghana Movie Awards held at the Accra International Conference Centre on Monday was full of drama, which appeared scripted to ‘unite’ perceived factions in the Ghana Movie industry.

From Leila Djansi and Shirley Frimpong-Manso sharing the nod for Best Director award which was presented by Akorfa Ejeani Asiedu (who has been involved in a very public split with Leila) to Sandra Ankobiah presenting the award for Favorite Actress to her former BFF, Yvonne Nelson, it was clear that the organizers wanted to make a statement.

The award also suffered some hitches including calling out wrong winners in wrong categories.

Leila Djansi took home eight (8) awards with her new movie-“Northern Affair.”

Shirley Frimpong-Manso’s collaboration with Yvonne Okoro on the movie-“Contract” got two awards.

Yvonne Nelson’s “House of Gold” also took home two awards.


Full list of winners:

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Shaun Burdick- NORTHERN AFFAIR

WRITING- ADAPTED OR ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: CONTRACT-Written by Herty Owusu and Shirley Frimpong-Manso

PRODUCTION DESIGN: THE PLEDGE – Production design-D.J Vegas… Set decoration-Ghana Armed forces

EDITING: NORTHERN AFFAIR – Dave Goldberg

MUSIC- ORIGINAL SONG: NORTHERN AFFAIR -Music and lyrics by Jon Germain and Kofi Akyeame

MAKE UP AND HAIR STYLIST: BARIMA NYE SUNYE- Jude Odeh

BEST AFRICAN COLLABORATION- BEST ACTOR: CONTRACT-Hlomla Dandala & HOUSE OF GOLD-Francis Odega

BEST AFRICAN COLLABORATION BEST ACTRESS: SLAVE BOY- Patience Ozorkwor

SOUND MIXING & EDITING: NORTHERN AFFAIR- Shaun Burdick

A PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Kwadwo Nkansah (Lilwin)-TIME CHANGES

A PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Joselyn Dumas – NORTHERN AFFAIR

A PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: John Dumelo – NORTHERN AFFAIR

A PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Jackie Appiah – CHEATERS

BEST PICTURE: NORTHERN AFFAIR – Mabel Germain- Producer

SHORT MOVIE: GALAMSEY

MONALISA MAGAZINE AWARDS FOR BEST MOVIE: Heartbreak Hotel

MONALISA MAGAZINE AWARDS FOR BEST ACTOR SERIES: Funny Face

MONALISA MAGAZINE AWARDS FOR BEST ACTRESS SERIES: Esi of Chorkor Trortro

GLITZ MAGAZINE FAVORITE ACTOR: John Dumelo in Northern Affair

GLITZ MAGAZINE FAVORITE ACTRESS: Jackie Appiah in Cheaters

GLITZ MAGAZINE FANS’ FAVORITE ACTOR: Prince David Osei

GLITZ MAGAZINE FANS’ FAVORITE ACTRESS: Yvonne Nelson 

MEDIA AND BROADCASTING AWARDS 2013 - NOMINEES LIST

1. Media Entrepreneur of the Year:

– This award will go to the media entrepreneur who has demonstrated exceptional media entrepreneurship skills in 2013. Criteria includes the adoption of best practices for media businesses, the introduction of innovative business models that are ethical, creation of high value jobs, the provision of resources to support high quality media and broadcasting, investment in capacity building and training for media practitioners among others.

1. Mr. Osei Kwame Despite (Despite Group of Companies)

2. Mr. Kwesi Twum (Multimedia Group)

3. Mrs. Stella Wilson -Agyapong (Kencity Media)

4. Mr. Edward Boateng (Global Media Alliance)



2. Radio Programme of the Year – This award will be presented to the radio programme that makes the most measurable contribution to specific social causes. The winning radio programme is identified as the force behind a high-impact social change.

1. Nsem Pii (Happy FM)

2. Super Morning Show (Joy FM)

3. Kokroko (Peace FM)

4. Boiling Point (Oman FM)



3. Television Programme of the Year – This award will be presented to the television programme that makes the most measurable contribution to specific social causes. The winning television programme is identified as the force behind a high-impact social change.

1. Good Evening Ghana (Metro TV)

2. The Stand Point (GTV)

3. The Challenge (GH One)

4. News 360 (TV3)



4. New Media Practitioner of the Year – This award will be presented to an exceptional blogger or online journalist whose work made the most significant contribution to society in 2013. The winning journalist would have leveraged the internet and social media to educate, inform or entertain in a unique way.

1. Ameyaw Debrah (ameyawdebrah.com)

2. Adventuresfrom.com

3. Ato Kwamina Dadzie (atokd.com)

4. Kajsa Hallberg Adu (kajsaha.com)



5. General News Media House of the Year – The General News Media House of the Year will be the Media House with the most complete and comprehensive coverage of news from around the country. This Media House will have provided the most varied and accurate news content in the year under review.

1. Daily Graphic

2. TV3

3. Peace FM

4. Ghana Broadcasting Corporation



6. Print Media House of the Year – This award will be presented to the print media house that focused the spotlight on pertinent national issues with a view to inform, educate and cause action.

1. The Finder

2. Daily Graphic

3. Ghanaian Times

4. Daily Guide


7. Radio Broadcaster or Practitioner of the Year – This award will be presented to a Broadcaster or Practitioner who most positively used radio to influence society in 2013 whilst using radio to educate, inform and mobilize action on the nation’s most pressing issues.

1. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah (Joy FM)

2. Bernard Avle (Citi FM)

3. Kwami Sefa Kayi (Peace FM)

4. Wisdom Agbodza (Nyansa Boakwa) (Happy FM)



8. Television Broadcaster or Practitioner of the Year – This award will be presented to a Broadcaster or Practitioner who most positively used television to influence society in 2013 whilst using television to educate, inform and mobilize action on the nation’s most pressing issues.

1. Odelia Ofori (TV3 News)

2. Gifty Anti (The Stand Point)

3. Paul Adom Otchere (Good Evening Ghana)

4. Randy Abbey (Good Morning Ghana)



9. Print Journalist of the Year – This award will be presented to a journalist who most positively used print media to influence society in 2013 whilst using print media to educate, inform and mobilize action on the nation’s most pressing issues.

1. William Asiedu (The Mirror Newspaper)

2. Mabel Aku Baneseh (Daily Graphic)

3. Cephas Larbi (Daily Guide)

4. Edmund Kofi Yeboah (Daily Graphic)



10. Radio Station of the Year – This award will recognise the radio station that made the most significant contribution to national development. Quality of programmes, relevance of issues reported and causes canvassed for, quality and accuracy of news, among others will form the basis of selection.

1. Joy FM

2. Citi FM

3. Oman FM

4. Peace FM



11. Television Station of the Year – This award will recognise the television station that made the most significant contribution to national development. Quality of programmes, relevance of issues reported and causes canvassed for, quality and accuracy of news, among others will form the basis of selection.

1. Viasat One

2. TV3

3. Metro TV

4. GTV



12. Media Practitioner of the Year – This award will be presented to the overall best Media Practitioner in 2013. This is MaBA’s most prestigious individual award.

Comes with a cash Prize of $500.00

1. Ransford Tetteh (Daily Graphic)

2. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah (Joy FM)

3. Kwami Sefa Kayi (Peace FM)

4. Gifty Anti (The Stand Point)



13. Media Organisation of the Year - This award will be presented to the overall best media or broadcasting organisation in 2013. This is MaBA’s most prestigious award for organisations. Comes with a cash prize of $500.00

1. Viasat One

2. Graphic Communications Group

3. TV3

4. Ghana Broadcasting Corporation



SPECIAL AWARD CATEGORIES

Environment Award – This award will go to the Media House that has done the most outstanding work on environmental issues; providing education, and pushing for action on pressing environmental issues.

1. TV3

2. Adom FM

3. GTV

4. Junior Graphic

Arts, Culture & Entertainment Award – This award will be presented to the Media House that has done the most outstanding work in the area of arts, culture and entertainment in the year under review.

1. TV3 – Ghana’s Most Beautiful

2. YFM – Area Codes

3. e.TV - Panorama

4. TV Africa – Promoting African Values



Social & Gender Award – This award will go to the Media House that has done the most work on social and gender issues.

1. Ghana Television for the Stand Point

2. Daily Graphic for its Gender Column

3. Happy FM for Mass Wedding

4. JOY FM – Bridal Show


Democracy & Governance Award – The recipient will be a Media House whose work has made the most significant contribution to deepening democracy and promoting good governance within the year.


1. Daily Graphic (Reportage on Election Petition Hearing)

2. GTV (Coverage of Election Petition Hearing)

3. Metro TV (Good Morning Ghana)

4. GTV (Talking Point)


CSR Award – This will go to the Media House with the best participation and significant impact in any community or project through its Corporate Social Responsibility programmes.


1. Joy FM (Easter Soup Kitchen)

2. e.TV Ghana (Helping Little Maame Akua Siaw)

3. Viasat One (Right to Dream)

4. Citi FM (Easter Orphan Project

TRAGEDY! HIGHLIFE LEGEND DR. PAA BOBO IS DEAD

Peacefmonline.com can confirm that Ghana’s classic highlife musician Dr. Paa Bobo has died after battling with sickness at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for some weeks now.

A close pal to the musician told Peacefmonline.com that, the highlife guru died at about 2 O’clock pm today Saturday December 28 2013 afternoon at korle-bu and his body is yet to be deposited at the morgue.

“Yes I can confirm that to you. Dr. Paa Bobo is dead. He died just this afternoon. His wife confirmed that to me now. I am going to see her and will let the general public know the details of his death”,he said.

Dr. Paa Bobo’s real name is Kwaku Agyapong Danemah. He was born on the 11th 1951 in the Eastern part of Ghana (Akyim Maase).

In 1968, Kwaku Agyapong Danemah started his music career by learning how to play rudiments of guitar from Smart Nkansah (Ghana's ace guitarist) and later formed his band in Nigeria – Aba (Former Imo state).

Standing as the only African music legend who recorded 2 hit albums in 2hours with DeccaNigeria, Dr. Paa Bobo has 40 albums to his credential and 35 great hits songs.

The multi award winning superstar and african’s legend has worked with great names like Okukuseku International Band, All Brothers Band, the Kusum Agoromma (Drama studio now known as National Theatre), Smart Nkansah. And has toured and musically explored countries like Nigeria, Ivory Coast, United Kingdom, Italy and Holland.

May his soul rest in perfect peace.

I DON’T HATE SONNIE BADU - OMANI ACHEAMPONG

Gospel singer Nicholas Omane Acheampong of ‘Maher-shalal-Hash-baz’ fame says he has nothing against his colleague musician, Sonnie Badu.

“I don’t know where this is coming from but I want to put it on record that I have nothing against Sonnie Badu. I don’t hate him. I don’t have any grudge [against] him. All I did was to advice his handlers to find a way of ending this back and forth over a tape bearing his voice and his denial. This harmless advice has been taken by some people to mean something else,” Omani Acheampong told NEWS-ONE.

Nicholas was recently asked his opinion on comments from Sonnie Badu that most of the songs from Ghanaian gospel musicians neither made sense nor glorified God.

Though Sonnie held a press conference to deny ever making such statements, an audio recording of his voice making the exact statement has gone viral and raised questions about his truthfulness.

Nicholas, in his comments, said the back and forth between Sonnie and the media was not helping the image of the musician and that of the gospel music fraternity in general and therefore his management should find a way of putting a stop to it.

He also disagreed with Sonnie that gospel songs from Nigeria generally had better lyrics and rhythm.

“I have vowed not to have a problem with any man of God or any gospel musician because of my pastor, Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi, head pastor of Glorious Wave Church.”

“I am focusing on my music career and moving from one congregation to another, ministering to God’s people through my music. That is my focus, but not to get involved in a debate over Sonnie Badu. I was asked my opinion on what he said and I answered. I did not condemn or attack anyone,” Nicholas explained.