VAN VICKER: I HAVEN'T CONTRACTED EBOLA

Charming Ghanaian actor, Van Vicker has discredited reports that he has been diagnosed with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease.

An entertainment online platform reported Tuesday that the actor contracted the virus while he was out in Monrovia, Liberia's capital shooting the sequel to the movie ‘Bendu Sudan’.

Other reports on social media also suggested that Vicker has been quarantined and denied access back to Ghana.

But speaking on the Starr Drive, the 'Hands of Time' actor said the reports are disheartening.

“It's annoying. I checked the website and just couldn’t believe my eyes. Why would someone just sit somewhere and just write what they want. Is there nobody that regulates the activities of these websites?” he asked. “I don’t get the story. It’s just not right!”

According to him, he cancelled the Liberia trip last month when he heard the news of the outbreak.

“I read the story, my intention was to go to Liberia to shoot...but I didn’t go”

Vicker who is also of Liberian lineage revealed on the show that he is working with the UN response team based in Ghana to help the situation in his home country.

“My heart does go out to all Liberians and I want them to know I have not abandoned them. I am doing all I can to help them in this time of crisis.”

More than 3,400 people have died in the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa mostly.

In Liberia, the death toll is at least 1,100.

BLACK RASTA LACKS CREDIBILITY - DACOSTA

Reggae artist and Hitz FM presenter Black Rasta seems to have incurred the wrath of many and will soon suffer a heavy backlash after utterance that Ghanaians should not hail highlife music since his experience over the past few months outside Ghana has proven that the genre brings nothing better to Ghana.

Among the people who seem worried about the utterance is the interim board chairman of GHAMRO, Nana Aboagye Dacosta.

The ace musician who was already in a heated mode due to an early discussion on GHAMRO issues in a passing a comment on the Angel Entertainment Show with Charles Asare over the weekend described Black Rasta’s utterance as totally uncalled for and compared it to the saying of a lunatic.

“Some people talk like lunatics…tell it back to him”

“I wish he could lay bare proof of how accepted his records are……What better rhythm has he (Black Rasta) played?”

According to the highlife music icon, it was worrying people could just make any damning comments about what we have already.

GHANAIAN GAY MOVIE PRODUCERS EXPOSED?

Following ‘sex for movie roles’ allegation by Kumawood actor Big Akwes, beautiful Ghanaian actress Vicky Zugah has revealed that the Ghanaian movie industry is flooded with gay producers who also demand sex from her colleague actors.

The actress who disclosed that over 10 movie directors/producers demanded sex from her before giving her a role in a movie on Radio Univers said actresses are not the only persons susceptible to physical or emotional attack in the movie industry but the gents as well.

According to her “we have female producers and gay movie producers in Ghana” who demand for sex from actors before assigning them movie roles.

She further stated that female movie producers demand for sex from actors after finding them attractive at auditions.

“So if the female movie producer wants her “cut” of share of the cake after she has auditioned you and finds you attractive, she will call and negotiate with you” she told Abrantepa, host of the show.

Vicky added that “It is not just the female producers” who demand for sex from actors but “it’s all over”.

To her, the ‘sex for role’ dilemma cannot be eradicated from the movie industry because it happens in any business field.

“There is very little or nothing we can do about it because it happens everywhere even in the cooperate world bosses sleep with their workers every day to give them jobs”

“As a woman, what I will say is that the ladies and women out there, if you want to act lets be patient. You will surely make it if you have the talent. If you are not determined but you think because you have a pretty face so you can go and open your thighs for someone to enter for a movie role, then you are wrong”.

Vicky Zugah celebrates her birthday on Saturday, October 11 at the Borstal Institute for juveniles in Accra, a correction centre for people who are under 18 years old and have been convicted of criminal or civil offenses.

CHARTER HOUSE SUES SHATTA WALE FOR GHS10M OVER DEFAMATORY VIDEOS

The nation’s number one event production company Charterhouse have brought a lawsuit for defamation against Ghanaian dancehall artiste and reigning Artiste of the Year at the same company’s annually organised Ghana Music Awards Charles, Nii Armah Mensah Jnr aka Shatta Wale.

The Plaintiffs are seeking the court, inter alia, to award damages of ten million Ghana cedis against the Defendant for what they consider as defamatory statements made against them in some videos he recorded and uploaded to Facebook.

Documents sighted by this website show that the suit numbered APB/2015 and dated 2nd October 2014, which also has as plaintiff the CEO of the company Mr. Iyiola Ayoade, was filed at the Fast Track Division of the High Court in Accra in relation to four separate videos the musician uploaded on social media which they consider as defamatory.

The two plaintiffs, that is Charterhouse and Mr. Ayoade, pray the court to declare that the Dancehall King singer had defamed them with the four separate videos he recorded and uploaded to his Facebook page. According to the writ, two each of the said videos were respectively uploaded on 23rd and 24th September 2014 respectively.

Another relief the Plaintiffs are asking from the court is to order the Defendant to render “an unqualified apology and retraction of each of the four separate videos with the approval by the Plaintiffs prior to the recording and uploading” to his Facebook page and to remain on his page for one month within a week of the judgment.

The third relief sought by the Plaintiffs is for Shatta Wale to send the four videos in which he renders apologies to the Plaintiffs to “all media houses and online publications that have aired the defamatory videos complained of and ensure that same and/or published at his own expense” within a week of the judgment.

The Plaintiffs again seek the court for an “order of perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant, his agents, hirelings, manager(s), privies and assigns or any person through him and howsoever described from making and/or repeating the defamatory statements or similar statements in the nature of the ones complained in the video recordings.”

Pending the hearing of the case, as requested by lawyer for the Plaintiffs Egbert Faibille Jnr, on 20th October 2014, the Plaintiffs are praying the court to order an interlocutory injunction on the Defendants from uploading on Facebook or any other social media platform the four videos aforementioned and/or any other similar videos.

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"USE MUSIC AS A TOOL"

Ghanaian music legend, Kojo Antwi, has tasked young and upcoming musicians to see music as a tool rather than a product.

According to the music maestro, a lot of young people venture into music because of the money and fame it brings, which in turn results in poor output.

“I hear a lot of music right now and the only thing I hear, lyric wise, shake your booty, make your body and baby you are that and this and all that. To us Africans, music means more to us than these things,” he told NEWS-ONE.

The ‘Densu’ hitmaker explained that for a country, which is being confronted with Ebola and Cholera, it is only wise that music is used to uplift people.

“We are confronted with Ebola; so much filth here in Accra and we are dying because of Cholera; so we cannot sing about shaking your booty all the time. We must use music as a tool to uplift people. The young ones need to see music as a tool and not a product,” he said.

Kojo Antwi, who was unveiled as the recipient of the 2014 edition of the annual Legends & Legacy Ball, stated that he never set out to be a legend but to churn out great music that will last for eternity.

“If you sow the right seed then, you will rip the right fruit, but if you go cashing money from the beginning, a lot of things will elude you. I never set out there to become a legend. I just came out to do great music, music that my grandson will listen to in 10yrs time and say oh granddad you did very well on that song,” he added.

Kojo Antwi has over the years produced some timeless hit songs which have won him various awards both internationally and locally.

"I HAD A CRUSH ON AGYA KOO"

Actress and Producer, Kafui Danku has confessed she had a crush on Actor, Agya Koo when she first joined the movie industry.

Appearing as a guest on the reloaded ‘Late Night Celebrity Show’ on E-TV Ghana with the versatile Okyeame Kwame; Kafui said the affection died away naturally after some time.

Also, Okyeame Kwame revealed on the show that he has been exercising vigorously for the past three months in anticipation of the next Versatile Show on the November 8, “I'm pushing myself to the limit and will surprise patrons of the show on the 8th November."

He also acknowledged the firm competition from EL; Manifest and Sarkodie bodes well for the industry.

The Late Night Celebrity Show is on E-TV Ghana every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10pm. Giovanni hosts the show with Celebrity Trends segment presented by Vanessa Gyan.

ANAS TO FIND CASTRO ALIVE OR DEAD?

Report reaching Razz newspaper has it that award-wining investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, is likely to be involved in the attempt to find missing musician, Castro and Janet Bandu.

Speaking to a source at The National Security on how far their outfit has involved itself in the quest to find Castro, the source said Anas is one person they have in their plans to bring on board as a helping hand to find Castro, whether dead or alive.

The source claimed; “Anas is very smart in such matters, so we have plans of bringing him on board to help with the investigations. I hear some big men have started some talks, but I won’t be able to give you the final results because the confirmation has not yet been reached.”

The source also disclosed that Castro’s case has already caught national interest, which is why he is making such revelation to the paper to assure the public that the security service is not resting on finding reasonable answers to the Janet-Castro saga.

Razz newspaper made attempts to get in touch with Anas Aremeyaw Anas to confirm or deny his said involvement in helping find Castro and Janet and the circumstances that led to their disappearance but the attempts yielded no positive results.

Last year, Anas, whose investigative works know no boundaries, was reported to have disguised himself into a female to cause the arrest of Hiplife musician, Deeba who was alleged to have defiled his 8 years old step daughter (of his fiancée) in the UK.

Anas, who also got infuriated by actor, John Dumelo-over a particular lady who claimed John owed her some money; threatened to release 65 different tapes of conversations she had with John.

After issuing a two-week ultimatum to John, Anas was reported to have rescinded his decision to release the tapes without any tangible reason.

A multimedia journalist who specializes in print media and documentary, Anas focuses on issues of human rights and anti-corruption in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa.

He is famous for utilizing his anonymity as a tool in his investigations with very few people having seen his face.