Actor and business man, John Dumelo,
is easing the pressure some fans and loved ones are mounting on him to
get married. The actor is not putting much importance to the marriage
subject, at least not for now.
“People rush into marriage and
their marriage plummet within a short time, whiles some people relax and
wait for God’s time and enjoy the best marriages,” the actor made such a
pronouncement when Razz Newspaper caught up with him when he made some
donations to widows at Ada Foah Kewumor in the Volta Region during
Valentine’s Day.
The actor also disclosed that marriage is not
compulsory(by-force) and he does not fathom why people should be
coercing him into settling down. He groused, “Yes, people are giving me
pressure to marry but they need to know that, it is not a nine-day
wonder and one can’t just wake up and get married.”
On the
donations of items to the widows via his John Dumelo Foundation, the
actor said that the foundation has assisted over 1000 school children
across the world last year and this year, they are looking forward to
touching many more lives.
Touching on his other business
ventures, John said that a grand opening of his new hotel/ Apartment
called ‘Maselo’ is still underway and promised to update his fans on the
preparatory activities towards opening
‘Well, I wanted to open
the place in December like I proclaimed, but am still putting things
together. I will update my fans on the date the hotel will officially be
opened,” he concluded.
Mercy Johnson is Nigeria’s busiest
actress, YES International! investigations have revealed. The Igbira,
Kogi State born movie star, according to our findings, is also one of
the richest actresses right now.
She allegedly pockets between
N1.5m and N2m per script. And ever since she became the hottest thing in
Nollywood, no month passes by without her interpreting at least two
movie roles.
We even learnt that producers queue up now to have
her take part in their movies, with most of them crediting her account
up front. “The situation has been like that for some time now. Even when
she was pregnant, she was still working non-stop, including shooting a
movie in the United States of America with her bulging tummy.
As a
matter of fact, the producers were so desperate that they started
writing scripts to align with her pregnancy”. Among Mercy’s latest works
are: Obioma The Slave Girl, Sleeping Walker, Heart of A Twin 1 & 2,
Mud of Hardship, Dumebi and Bitterleaf Cynthia, There are also
Daniella, First Experience, Endless Agony, Immaculate Heart, Painful
Soul, Tears of Madness, Weeping Kingdom, Troubled King, Baby Oku in
America, Dumebi in School, Somma The Local Champion, Ebute The Only
Girl, Leave My Tears 1 & 2, Mary The Hunter, Cry of A Widow, Voice
of A Mother, etc. Obviously busy as a bee, a source, however, advised
that Mercy should learn from those before her and invest wisely. “And
this is why:
There was a time that Liz Benson was the hottest
thing in the industry. But where is she today? How busy is Liz right
now? Same thing with Patience Ozokwor, Victor Osuagwu and the rest of
them.
Even Genevieve Nnaji. My advise to her is: Maximize this
and make good use of the opportunity because some opportunities don’t
come twice”.
Married to Odianosen Okojie and blessed with a
daughter, Purity, she is the fourth child in a family of seven. In love
with playing monopoly and enjoying sentimental music, well endowed Mercy
attended Nigerian Navy Primary and Secondary Schools in Lagos.
An
unabashed admirer of Genevieve, her lead role in Kenneth Nnebue’s
movie, The Maid, thrust her onto prominence. The daughter of a retired
Naval personnel, that first major role fetched her only N50,000. But
today, the story has changed. Born on August 28, 1984, her favorite food
is Eba with Egusi.
Nikki Samonas, the Ghanaian actress
who reportedly had real hot sex with Jim Iyke on a movie set, has
described Ghanaian musician E.L. as her number one sexist guy and says
she wants to have twin babies by him.
Nikki was answering a
question on which guys she found sexy and after mentioning Nigerian
stars RMD and P-Square, she settled on E.L. as her number one and
pleaded with him to ‘look for her.’
“My sexiest guy would go to
RMD (Richard Mofe Damijo) because he is matured but still looks
amazingly good; the P-Square brothers are also smoking hot! And E.L. is
number one. Damn! That guy is sexy; he is tall, has a chisel face and
muscles. (In a bass voice) E.L. look for me wai. Oh gash E.L. is
sexxxxxyyy!,” Nikki told Joyce Gyebi in an interview for GLITZ magazine,
Fashionista Issue.
Attempts to reach E.L. proved futile as he was out of town and calls placed to his phones did not go through.
E.L.
is currently not dating and it would not be a surprise if the two
initiate something romantic anytime soon, depending on what E.L. thought
about the Nikki-Jim Iyke sex saga.
Nikki is a daring person who says what she feels, but she has consistently denied she got bonked by Jim Iyke.
“Jim
and I have done a couple of movies together and he seems impressed with
me, so he invited me to Nigeria and we starred in two or three movies
including the one with the sex scene and unfortunately for me, I trusted
people a bit too much.
“Jim is the second guy I had done a sex
scene with so I was pretty comfortable, but all Ghanaians, please it was
only a sex scene in a movie and make-believe, so they could be edited
on the editing bench to make it have that real effect. Whatever you
watch is not a sex tape…I am not the only one who has done sex scenes,”
Nikki explained in the same interview.
NEWS-ONE has gathered that the tussle
between artiste manager Fennec Okyere and rapper Kwaw Kese on one hand
and the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) about who has legal rights to
use the franchise and brand name, “Ghana Music Week” is coming to a
peaceful end.
Fennec Okyere is said to have agreed to hand over
the rights of the brand name to MUSIGA if only it would be registered in
the Union’s name but not the name of another private company.
Though
MUSIGA was putting up a bold face in the media, NEWS-ONE has been
reliably informed the Union has sent emissaries to dialogue with Fennec
for a settlement of the tussle and this seemed to have yielded some
positive result.
“I am ready to go to the Registrar General’s
Department and change the name from mine to that of MUSIGA so the Union
owns the franchise and this would save us all because if you remember,
after MUSIGA held the first one, we were told that a certain company had
registered it and if I had not gone to do this, by now the story would
be that Ghana Music Week belongs to a private company,” Fennec noted.
In
an earlier interview with NEWS-ONE, Fennec explained that he and Kwaw
Kese went ahead to register “Ghana Music Week” as their company because
they felt Obour and his administration were trying to outsmart the
members of the Union.
Fennec, who has been receiving threats on
his life over his claims on GMW, added that Obour had earlier admitted
on radio that the music festival was owned by a company called Yendi; a
story which turned out to be false.
According to him, his sources
had told him that Obour was getting ready to register the GMW
celebrations as his personal entity, and he felt that was unfair to the
entire creative industry.
“My Brother do you know what has
brought about this fight? When Obour was asked who owned Ghana Music
Week sometime last year, he said it was owned by a company called Yendi
and our checks at the Registrar General show that that was not true.
Which
means Obour and his people had decided to register the name of the
Union’s event in their private name so that many years after they were
gone they will own the event and claim royalties. It is a clear case of
Obour using his colleagues and trying to outsmart them,” Fennec
revealed.
Meanwhile, checks by the paper disclosed that since Mad
Time Entertainment threatened to sue MUSIGA and any other cooperate
bodies involved with the GMW festival jointly and severally, Obour and
his administration have been behind closed doors deliberating on how
best to resolve the issue.
It is officially confirmed that
Charter House, organizers of the prestigious Vodafone Ghana Music Awards
and event giant in Ghana, is hitting Ghana again with another uniquely
prestigious award scheme dubbed Ghana Entertainment Awards.
The long awaited official launch is scheduled to happen at the plush Villa Monticello in March this year.
The
scheme seeks to award all sectors of Ghana’s arts and entertainment
industry. This is perceived by professionals in the industry as a step
in the right direction considering its diverse scope.
The Ghana
Entertainment Awards is designed to award people in all the different
sectors of the creative arts industry and shall reward excellence in
music, movies, radio, TV, fashion, arts writing, events, sports and many
more.
Yaw
Sakyi, host of TV Africa’s “Rundown”, was the only live wire during the
just ended second edition of Ghana DJ Awards at the National Theatre,
Saturday February 22.
Yaw, who went to the show to enjoy himself
as an industry observer and to also present an award, ended up on stage
as the only MC for entire awards event, because the advertised MC for
the night, for some reason, decided not to show up.
According to
an official press release from the organizers, prior to the event,
Nigerian Comedian Klint De Drunk, was to be the MC but for unknown
reasons, he was conspicuously missing from the venue from the beginning
of the show to the end, and organizers didn’t even have the decency to
apologize to the audience and explain why the MC couldn’t make it.
This
perhaps was one of the numerous reasons why the show started late. As
usual the show started after 11pm with most of the people having been
sitting for hours waiting. Care-taker MC Yaw Sakyi, who couldn’t believe
he was on stage as an MC, walked on stage with his signature laughter,
introduced himself as the MC apologized for the late start, and took
over the stage to kick the show running.
Without any idea as to
what the running order and the program line-up was, Yaw improvised and
hosted the show like he had been paid for it. Inviting stars like Praye
Tiatia, Adolf Tagoe and some people from the audience randomly on stage
to entertain the audience, he interacted with selected people quite
professionally.
Yaw Sakyi saved the disgraceful situation so
well that after a few minutes everybody even forgot he was not the
original MC for the night.
As if absence of the MC was not
enough, the audience had more unforgivable hitches during the award
presentation. Award presenters were embarrassed on stage because after
they introduced themselves and said the popular phase “and the nominees
are” there was no screen and there were no nominees. This happened ones,
twice and after the third time the presenters themselves had to mention
all the nominees before they eventually name the winner.
Performances
on the night were virtually like a dancehall show at DJs awards night.
Most of the artistes who performed are dancehall artistes. The likes of
Mz Vee, Stonebwoy, AK Songstress, Episode, Pope Skinny, Diamond amongst
others.
Discovery of the year Dj Bryte, DJ Slim from Kumasi, and
DJ Foe also did their own things on the turntable to entertain the
crowd. One of the highest points on stage was when guest DJs like
Nigeria’s finest DJ Jimmy Jatt, DJ Rab from New York, and South African
queen of turntable DJ Divalash, were introduced on stage.
The
stage design was not fit for an awards event. The only visible thing on
stage was an oval-shaped Redbull branded DJ stand on a bare background.
There
was no backdrop or any set design or screens to display the name of the
event on the stage (Sakora stage). The sound and light were manageable
but could obviously have been better. Attendance was about 50% of the
National Theater capacity.
Yaw
Sakyi, host of TV Africa’s “Rundown”, was the only live wire during the
just ended second edition of Ghana DJ Awards at the National Theatre,
Saturday February 22.
Yaw, who went to the show to enjoy himself
as an industry observer and to also present an award, ended up on stage
as the only MC for entire awards event, because the advertised MC for
the night, for some reason, decided not to show up.
According to
an official press release from the organizers, prior to the event,
Nigerian Comedian Klint De Drunk, was to be the MC but for unknown
reasons, he was conspicuously missing from the venue from the beginning
of the show to the end, and organizers didn’t even have the decency to
apologize to the audience and explain why the MC couldn’t make it.
This
perhaps was one of the numerous reasons why the show started late. As
usual the show started after 11pm with most of the people having been
sitting for hours waiting. Care-taker MC Yaw Sakyi, who couldn’t believe
he was on stage as an MC, walked on stage with his signature laughter,
introduced himself as the MC apologized for the late start, and took
over the stage to kick the show running.
Without any idea as to
what the running order and the program line-up was, Yaw improvised and
hosted the show like he had been paid for it. Inviting stars like Praye
Tiatia, Adolf Tagoe and some people from the audience randomly on stage
to entertain the audience, he interacted with selected people quite
professionally.
Yaw Sakyi saved the disgraceful situation so
well that after a few minutes everybody even forgot he was not the
original MC for the night.
As if absence of the MC was not
enough, the audience had more unforgivable hitches during the award
presentation. Award presenters were embarrassed on stage because after
they introduced themselves and said the popular phase “and the nominees
are” there was no screen and there were no nominees. This happened ones,
twice and after the third time the presenters themselves had to mention
all the nominees before they eventually name the winner.
Performances
on the night were virtually like a dancehall show at DJs awards night.
Most of the artistes who performed are dancehall artistes. The likes of
Mz Vee, Stonebwoy, AK Songstress, Episode, Pope Skinny, Diamond amongst
others.
Discovery of the year Dj Bryte, DJ Slim from Kumasi, and
DJ Foe also did their own things on the turntable to entertain the
crowd. One of the highest points on stage was when guest DJs like
Nigeria’s finest DJ Jimmy Jatt, DJ Rab from New York, and South African
queen of turntable DJ Divalash, were introduced on stage.
The
stage design was not fit for an awards event. The only visible thing on
stage was an oval-shaped Redbull branded DJ stand on a bare background.
There
was no backdrop or any set design or screens to display the name of the
event on the stage (Sakora stage). The sound and light were manageable
but could obviously have been better. Attendance was about 50% of the
National Theater capacity.
One of Ghana’s finest rappers,
M.anifest, also known as Kwame Ametepe Tsikata, says he does not want
his private life to be like a soap opera watched by the public.
Giving
an insight on his off stage life, he further revealed that he “always
had a keener or deeper interest in music than the normal person” adding
that he had an interest in writing as well.”
“I was in my first
rap group when I was in Secondary School. It was called Rebel Camp -
there was nothing rebellious about us though. It was just a nice name.
But that was just how I got my feet wet. When I went to university, I
got the chance to experience more of the different aspects of the music.
I was hanging out with more producers, I saw different shows,” he
stated.
Commenting further on how his music career began he
stated that “I saw definitely more artistes outside of hip-hop so I
basically dived into a music making aspect and maybe took a bit of a
back seat even to the creation. Without going to a music school, that
was music school. By 2005 when I finished college, I basically begun
attacking it and in 2007 I released my first album, Manifestation. I did
my first album the DIY (do it yourself) way; I recorded it, mixed it,
got some money doing a Pepsi jingle, used that money to print CDs myself
and I did everything myself,”
“I’m married to my music. My
private life will be my private life which is the beauty of it. I give
the people a lot in my music and if they listen to my music, they will
know so much about me more than I want them to know. But one thing I’m
not interested in is becoming a public soap opera and people talking
about whom is he dating and all that. It is of very little interest to
me because I feel like there is a lot to be done creatively with my
music that I don’t need any of that distraction. It is an unhealthy
distraction for people to be vested in what is my private life,” he
added.
Answering the question on the reactions from his dad after
becoming a musician, he stated that “I think he is fine with it. Who
wouldn’t be? He was at my studio release party last December. Everybody
likes good music, so does my father.”
