I know some few celebrities who are well vested in this Juju BS. Folks are finding it difficult to accept the existence of God even, and yet some of us pride ourselves in believing in some powerless little gods who live in shrines.
I never knew Castro was a true jujuist ( My word for people who believe in the power of juju)…If it were some of the celebrities I already know as jujuist, I would not have even be amazed but for CASTRO?
Do you know these black charms are very popular in our Entertainment Industry? Various Actresses and Actors, Musicians and Footballers live in shrines-seeking for spiritual protection…Protection from what? From another colleague who will be determined on destroying their career with different form of juju…LOL
If Christopher Hitchens wrote and convincingly said ‘God Is Not Great’ then I guess with my experience, knowledge and understanding of the workings of some of these juju, I can proudly say ‘Juju Is Not Great’ else Atta Ayi would never have been arrested…Get out of these scamming Africa charms because they never bring anything good!
The concept of juju and any form of such power is a totalitarian belief that destroys individual freedom. Do you believe in juju? I will surely like to know how primitive minded some people are…LOL
Read below for the NewsOne Juju Story on Castro
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Hip-life artiste Theophilus Tagoe, who goes by the showbiz name Castro, is reported to have gone in for a very potent juju, a spiritual charm, to help advance his music career.
Castro, who won the hearts of music fans the world over with his hit track, ‘African Girls’, in which he featured soccer hero Asamoah Gyan, was reported to have gone for the juju from a powerful female spiritualist at Madina Zongo in Accra.
He was said to have obeyed all the ‘juju rules’ and presented a bottle of good quality foreign schnapps, confectionaries for ‘sadaka’ and a cash amount.
Month: January 2012
Celebrity At Day, A Stripper In Milan At Night…DELAY Is A Stripper In Italy?
Having two or more jobs is admirable and the best way to keep income streaming…However, you cannot successfully engage in two opposing jobs, something like a big clean celebrity at day and a dirty naughty little strip dancer at night charging some little dollars for ass slaps… The above way is how NewsOne’s current report … Read more
Part 2: Celebrities Talk To GC About Their Expectations For 2012!
January is the month of the year where everyone arrange themselves with resolutions here and there. By default, most people won’t achieve their wishes because they will just fold their arms and expect a miracle from God.
GhanaCelebrities.Com continues to speak with Ghanaian celebrities for their expectation for this New Year 2012. We published part one last week, check it up if you missed it from HERE. This week we are bringing you the continuation.
Nikki Samonas [Actress, Model & Presenter]:
I hopefully expectGhanago through a safe and peaceful period in electing a new president. I hope to see Ghanaians have a cordial and peaceful relationship in all the regions. No more tribal, ethnic disputes and fights.
I also hope to seeGhanaachieve her goals in all developmental projects through a stable economy. I expect that theGhanamovie industry will grow higher in excellence and perfect execution of movies.
Personally, I expect a breakthrough in my television show ‘African Movie Review’ and other international contracts in my modelling career like with Chris Aire.
I also expect a cordial working relationship in the movie industry and beyond. I am also hoping to achieve my goal in contributing my quota through my project ‘Help Them To Read’ in donating educational tools to the kids in all the districts in Ghana thereby helping Ghana achieve her aim of boosting education in the country.
I’m hopeful to experience the best in everything I do this year. I am busting out.
Finally may the Grace of God continually be with us in accordance to our purpose and the will of God in our lives. God bless us all, God bless Ghana.
Eddie Nartey [Actor]:
2011 for the movie industry was a bit rough. Banning people here and there and so many misunderstandings. But in the end, I must say that, we were able to produce great movies such as ‘Adams Apple’, ‘Somewhere In Africa’ and ‘Ties That Bind’.
Even though the industry dulled up a bit towards the end of the year, I hope things will be great in 2012. I hope we will have more movie producers and investors in the industry. I hope in 2012, creativity will be at its peak with directors and scriptwriters.
I hope that we will produce things of our own and do more of originality. I hope the trend changes in relation to casting as many audiences complain of the same people over and over again. Greater height is what I wished for the industry in 2012.
Kobi Rana [Musician, Actor & Movie Director]:
2011 was promising. I pray for more investors and talents. Not just popular actors but NATURAL actors. Wider and better market and more amazing scripts.AfehyiaPa!
Jackie Appiah [Actress]:
I want to see a Brighter, Greater Achievements, More development, more film makers and continue peace in Ghana and the world as a whole. To have more of the fear of God Almighty by becoming more sharing and helpful to people and help them find their purpose in life.
Audio + Photos: Bola Ray, Family & Friends Donates To SOS Children Village!
Yesterday at the forecourt of the SOS Children’s Village in Tema, host of the most-listened to drive on radio in Ghana; Drive Talk on Joy FM, Bola Ray, real name Nathaniel Kwabena Anokye Adisi with family [made up of his beautiful wife and two sons] and friends donated varied items to the home.
The donation was part of Bola Ray’s contribution to the home after being made an ambassador last year in addition with TV3 News Anchor Nana Aba Anamoah and boxer Joshua Clottey.
The three were made ambassadors of the home and expected to be committed in solving the problems that has bedevilled the village, notably child abandonment, destitution and the orphaned in collaboration with SOS Children’s Villages Ghana.
2012 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Loading …
The Ghana Music Award Festival is the biggest event on the Ghanaian entertainment calendar which aims among other things to recognize and celebrate the hard work and dedication of the various players in Ghana’s growing music industry through a coveted Awards Scheme.
Preparations for this year’s event began in October 2011 with a series of intensive Technical Review sessions that sought to overhaul the entire awards scheme as parts of efforts to revamp the scheme when the new partnership with Vodafone was announced.
The entire scheme was reviewed by a Technical Review Team consisting of a cross section of seasoned industry practitioners and executives who spent several days deliberating on ways to uplift and revamp the scheme. The full outcome of the review exercise will be presented to the media next week.
Motivational Message Of The Week: Formal Education Will Not Make You A Fortune…Yes It Will Not!
As much as formal education is important in life and therefore has been entrenched in our quest for knowledge as human beings, it is the least ride that will take you the fortune land.
The above is probably the major reason why despite our desire for success and fortune, so many of us still remain chasers and will continue to be chasers instead of achievers.
It is difficult to break away from the norm but then, it is your distinctiveness and uniqueness which will fetch you success and not your commonness.
As human beings, we are somehow programmed to see formal education as the corner stone to achieving the success we desire and the fortune we so bad want in life.
The irony of this is that, even though when we give our surrounding a close look, we will find that majority of those riding the fortune wheel never got unto the wheel through formal education, we still endure this lousy belief.
It is not that difficult to understand why formal education hardly fetches life success or fortune. Attending the best educational institution with thousands of others, reading the same or similar books, being thought the same or similar things by the same or similar professors create nothing unique in you as an individual. This rather creates commonness…
It is sad to mention that majority of the people I know living on fortune land never got there by the great courtesy of the formal education they received. No, it is by something else, something that made them unique, something limited to them and not that which was taught to masses of people.
Photo: The Forever Young Pascaline Edwards!
Was deleting the bunch of unpublished Ghana Movie Awards 2011 photos and Pascaline Edward’s picture caught my attention. How could we have missed this? The forever young Pascaline Edwards ( a name which also fits Akorfa Asiedu) was looking more younger and prettier that night…Won’t you agree?
Out Of Box Story: Beyonce Finally Gives Birth & It Is A Girl Named Blue IVY Carter
Beyonce has finally popped, giving birth to a baby girl named Ivy Blue Carter in New York City on Saturday via c-section. Beyonce is said to have checked into a hospital under the alias Ingrid Jackson and together with her family, rented out the entire 4th floor for $1.3 million dollars…. Read More On This From Here
My Sincere Thoughts On Fashion 101 On TV3, Get Your Coordination & Fundamentals Right…
Ripping off a TV show which is successful elsewhere in the world happens a lot in Ghana. In fact, it happens even in developed countries like UK. However, when it comes to Ghana, we even get copying wrong. If we cannot be master architects, does it mean we cannot also be good photocopiers?
I have had the time to watch the new much talked about fashion show-Fashion101 which airs on Tv3 on Saturdays @ 8:30am and to be frank, I am not impressed with how poorly the show pays attention to crucial ‘comparison’ tenets.
To compare anything in this world, the fundamental principle is to compare LIKE to LIKE. This does not mean you cannot compare two distinctive attires, what it means is that, you have to get the fountain-head right…
By the above, I mean, the showing is getting things totally wrong by comparing various outfits of celebrities’ when these celebrities attended separate unrelated occasions/events.
I say ‘comparing’ because after groundlessly (I will come back to why I say groundless) chastising the fashion sense of the celebrities they randomly pick, they choose who’s the best and worst of the day…
How on earth can you compare a celebrity dressed for a movie premiere to one who was dressed for her neighbourhood random stroll? It is a comparison because at the end of it all, you choose one as the best and another as the worst.
To get comparison right, certain factors must be equivalent and in this sense, the occasion/event must be the same or closely related.
On the show last week, the fashion sense of Efya was considered by comparing a picture of her with photos of people like Jackie Appiah (at a movie premiere). This is fundamentally wrong, Efya was at a birthday party in Kumasi and as such you cannot on any term compare her outfit to what others wore for a movie premiere and then proceed to judge one as worst and the other as best. This is suicidal!
I am not in any way suggesting that one cannot talk about the fashion sense of people at different events concurrently, but all I am saying is, you have to stop the ‘best of the day’ and the ‘worst of the day’ if you are not comparing these people under the same shelter. How do you justify comparing what I wore to a funeral and what he wore to a party and then proceed to choose the best?
The Licentious Raquel, The Ghanaian Artiste Who Forgot Her Panties Home & Showed Off Her Iniquitous ‘Coochie’ On Stage…My Thoughts!
I have heard and seen several entertainers putting their ‘coochies’ on full display whiles on stage or out and about for wearing panties which do not have enough fabric to cover their ‘chunky’ genitalia.
However, to absolutely wear nothing under a skimpy dress in our part of the world as a female entertainer and mount the stage in this skimpy dress with the excuse that you genuinely forgot your panties at home is implausible. Did I just say it is implausible? In fact, it is plain psychosis and utterly disrespect for your worthy as a woman.
The above is the summary of what happened with Ghanaian rising musician-Raquel at Citi Fm’s December 2 Remember Concert. In simple words, Raquel jumped on stage to perform in a skimpy dress which she claimed had a mal-function backstage. And beneath this skimpy dress, she had no panties…
Various media men I know have confirmed seeing photos of Raquel’s genitalia on full display and NewsOne-an entertainment tabloid in Ghana claims to have clear shots which they intended to publish.
NewsOne has not been able to publish these photos despite their earlier publication which suggested a date- 6th January. NewsOne claims reputable persons like Ambassador Kabral Blay-Amihere, Musicians Union of Ghana President Bice ‘Obour’ Osei-Kufuor, Former National Women’s Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Daavi Ama, Chairman of the National Media Commission, Rev. Opambour Adarkwa Yiadom of the Ebenezer Miracle Worship Center and others have bombarded them with calls not to publish the photos for various moral standings and for the sake of the dignitary of Raquel.
I am somehow bemused that morality and dignitary is being bought and lobbied for Raqual, a woman who seems to have lost absolute track of her status as an African woman and for that matter a Ghanaian woman.
I do not have a single bit of compassion for her and this is simply because, her actions were premeditated. Raquel is reported to claim that her dress was not made as skimpy as we see it but rather it tore (wardrobe mal-function) at backstage before she came to perform. Her account continues that, her team had to somehow fix the wardrobe mal-function by performing emergency stitches.
Is It Me Or Martha Akomah Is Talking Absolute Rubbish?
I did not want to pick up on this but then if not said, the disrespectful and loose rate at which some of our Ghanaian celebrities talk during interviews will forever continue… Though a champion of free speech and freedom of expression, I still think accentuating some absurd disparity between classes of human beings … Read more
HOT SHOTS: Actress Emelia Brobbey Looking All Fresh & Innocent!
2011 Ghana Movie Awards ‘Best Actress In A Lead Role’ for Local Language nominee; Emelia Brobbey is looking all fresh and set for the 2012.
Though she missed out on the award to Vivian Jill, Emelia appears unperturbed and ready to work hard for the busy months ahead of her.
How many times do I need to remind you that I’m attracted to dark-looking ladies? Now I have a reason to become an actor. Laughs!
Check the pictures out. I’m feeling home girl, I don’t know about you.
“I Wanted To Be A Gynaecologist, To Of Course Take Care Of Women” – John Dumelo!
Actor John Dumelo has disclosed that growing up; acting was not on his card. He said growing up, he wanted to be in a field to “deal with the health of the female reproductive system; uterus, vagina and ovaries” termed as a gynaecologist.
He told Glitz Africa Magazine, “I wanted to be a gynaecologist”, continuing that “to take care of women of course”. John has been linked with many ladies after his ‘surprise’ entry into the Ghana Movie Industry. So it is no surprise that he wanted to be a gynaecologist.
Though he studied Engineering at the university yet wanted to be a gynaecologist, John narrated how he ‘mistakenly’ re-entered the movie industry after he featured in ‘Baby Thief’ as Saka, a boy who found her kidnapped sister in a village through a birth mark.
New Music Video: 'Gallo' By Tic Tac Feat. Gyedu Blay Ambolley
Tic Tac has finally released a video for his come back tune ‘Gallo‘ Feat the legendary Gyedu Blay Ambolley…The song is a danceable material but video is like a home made CRAP… Is Tic Tac serious with this video? Come on, even you wouldn’t do this low quality and high light video capable of blinding … Read more
Photos: Joselyn Dumas Adds Beauty & Glamour To BP-Shawl By Renee Q!
I don’t like engaging in free promos (after all bloggers deserve all the cheques) but then when a link to Renee Q’s Boarding Pass Shawl (Bp-Shawl) was sent to me via twitter, I couldn’t let it go without sharing the exquisiteness of the design and the glamour Joselyn Dumas adds to the collection… This classy … Read more