GC Staff Ob, Author at GhanaCelebrities.Com

Prescription Drug Abuse Kills Girl At 14

06/8/2016 4:12 pm

When the issue of drug abuse is raised, it is often misconstrued. For whatever reasons people think the only drugs that can be abused are narcotics and other hard substances. Well, news flash people, using any other drug without a professional’s prescription is an abuse on drugs.
Prescription drug abuse is the use of a medication without a prescription, in a way other than as prescribed, or for the experience or feelings elicited. According to several national surveys, prescription medications, such as those used to treat pain, attention deficit disorders, and anxiety, are being abused at a rate second only to marijuana among illicit drug users. The consequences of this abuse have been steadily worsening, reflected in increased treatment admissions, emergency room visits, and overdose deaths. A 14 year old girl unfortunately has suffered the latter.

HIV/AIDS Conference Takes Vice President Amissah-Arthur To New York

06/8/2016 1:05 pm

by GC Staff Ob

“You will never catch up with the spread of AIDS no matter how much money, no matter how many antiretrovirals are put into the system, unless you stop its growth. And the only way to stop its growth is prevention”. – Richard Holbrooke Living with HIV/AIDS is not an easy proposition, often subjecting one to … Read more

Tema Community 5 Residents At Risk Of Flooding This Rainy Season- NADMO

05/30/2016 11:53 am

by GC Staff Ob

Apparently Ghanaians do not believe in making hay while the sun shines, instead we wait for a mishap to occur before we try to find solutions to a problem that has been lurking in the light all along. Pathetically, that is the country we live in.
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), is crippled with fear for the brewing floods set to grip the Tema township with the onset of the rains. NADMO has estimated that over 70,000 lives would be at risk, excluding properties.

Belgium Player Gregory Mertens Passes Away Following Pitch Collapse

05/1/2015 9:56 am

by GC Staff Ob

These cases are rare in sport, but are no less tragic anytime they occur.

Belgian defender Gregory Mertens, 24, died in hospital yesterday of heart failure; after being hospitalised since he collapsed during the first half of a reserve team game on Monday.

Gregory, who plays for Lokeren in the Belgian Jupiler Pro League, was treated on the pitch after his collapse during a game with Genk. He was later sent to hospital and placed on life support, but his condition worsened with doctors giving him little chance of survival.

Subsequently, his family agreed for his life support to be switched off.

The club released a statement; “The medical staff have done everything to save Gregory, but they finally had to acknowledge their impotence”

Black Meteors Win First Leg Olympic Qualifier Against Liberia

04/27/2015 2:56 pm

by GC Staff Ob

Ghana’s senior U-23 team the Black Meteors beat Liberia 2-0 in the first leg Olympic qualifier in Tamale over the weekend. Ghana was embarking on the first step of what would be a long journey if they’re to make an appearance at Rio 2016, and they handled it with ease, dispatching the Junior Lone Stars … Read more

VIDEO: Kweku Baako Says KKD Must Tame the Animal in Him

04/25/2015 3:35 pm

by GC Staff Ob

Kwesi Kyei Darkwah who was facing rape charges became a free man this week when the state dropped the case, citing difficulties in getting the needed witnesses to prove the case in court as the reason.

On Joy FM’s Newsfile today, the Editor-in-Chief of the Crusading Guide newspaper-Kweku Baako said, KKD the discharged rape suspect must learn to control his libido to save a brand he took years to build.

He said ” he must seek strenuously to tame the animal in him.”

He added, “We all have animals in us. If you don’t contain it, it can escape and create irreparable damage to you.”

Late December, 2014, a 19 year old girl accused KKD of rape—an accusation KKD denied, claiming the sex was consensual.

Mysterious Outbreak Kills 18 In Nigeria: World Health organisation Attributes It To Pesticides, But A Traditional Leader Says It Is The Wrath Of The gods

04/20/2015 8:35 am

by GC Staff Ob

Over much of the last week an unidentified diseases has been ravaging the people of Ode-Orele in the Ondo State of Nigeria. The disease left its victims with blurred vision and headaches, unconsciousness, and then subsequently death- all within 24 hours.

It sparked fears of another viral outbreak, after Ebola hit Nigeria last year, albeit minimally. The swiftness of the infection made people start attributing all sorts of reasons for the outbreak.

Some tests were carried out, and according to the BBC, the current hypotheses is that herbicides were the cause of the outbreak. The tests, carried out by WHO, ruled out any bacterial or viral infection and that pesticide poisoning was the far more likely outcome.

The Designer of the Ghana National Flag-Madam Theodosia Okoh Passes Away

04/20/2015 8:24 am

by GC Staff Ob

There are some legends of the past, national treasures whose contribution to our history is undoubted. One of these is Theodosiah Okoh, the designer of the Ghana national flag. Unfortunately, Ms Okoh passed away yesterday April 19 in Accra. Aside her monumental contribution to the identity of Ghana as a nation, she was also an … Read more

My Take On the Increasing Xenophobic Attacks in South Africa + Why Blame Slavery, Apartheid or the White Man For This Too?

04/17/2015 10:02 am

by GC Staff Ob

So South Africans are killing other African immigrants—simply because they claim these foreigners are taking their jobs.

I have heard arguments that other African countries helped South Africa liberate itself from apartheid and as such they cannot do that to these same Africans.

Even if we did not help South Africans, they do not have any right to kill other Africans in their countries for whatever absurd reasons they are asserting.

Maybe, we should award the Europeans and American whites for their tolerance and hospitality, because, look at what we are doing to ourselves on our own continent—yet we flood into Europe and America and we don’t get lynched, at least not in this century.

Africans are becoming more brutish as the day goes by!

Now we are blaming white people, Apartheid and Slavery for the increasing Brutish nature of Africans—and the violence against other Africans in South Africa huh?

Nigeria’s President-Elect: Mohammed Buhari Pledges To Stop Boko Haram

04/17/2015 9:41 am

by GC Staff Ob

The wind of change, which many Ghanaian are hoping would sweep over this country in 2016, is already roaring way across Nigeria. The Government of incumbent Goodluck Jonathan was emphatically swept aside as Nigeria recorded the first loss of an incumbent government in its history.

One factor that led to the change, was the Islamic Terrorist group Boko Haram. They’ve been causing havoc in Nigeria for a while now, carrying out bombings, razing down villages, kidnapping girls and women. The feeling of the populace was that the government’s response to this crisis was lukewarm at best.

So the new President is aware of the expectations on him in that regard. In an op-ed piece for the New York Times, Gen Buhari pledges that his government’s response to the threat would be more serious. He pledges to stop the group, although he says he can make no promises that the abducted Chibok girls can be returned safe and sound.

ALL AFRICAN RADIO Stations, FREE, Anywhere in the WORLD

04/17/2015 9:30 am

by GC Staff Ob

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#VGMA 2015 Aftermath: Artiste of the Year Winner-Stonebwoy Deliberately Refused to Acknowledge SARKODIE Who Featured on His Song’s Name in His Acceptance Speech? | Social Media Folks Say YES…

04/13/2015 10:41 am

by GC Staff Ob

Trust social media to bring out the tiny details which keep the conversations and controversy going…

According to several people on Facebook and Twitter, the winner of the 2015 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards’ Artiste of the Year award-Stonebwoy played politics during his acceptance speech when he ‘deliberately’ refused to mention Sarkodie’s name or thank him, for featuring on his Baafira hit song—which arguably won him all the awards.

It just have been something he forgot to do but considering Sarkodie’s position with Charter House, the organizers of the award—many social media commenters think it was not a mere coincidence that Stonebwoy forgot his key artiste’s name.

Nigeria’s Don Jazzy Says ‘I Pity’ Charter House-Organisers of Ghana Music Awards | Find Out Why…

04/13/2015 10:12 am

by GC Staff Ob

Nigeria’s Don Jazzy may be good and important but to be frank, he doesn’t deserve to be flown in Ghana for an award show with 10 other people—and this is exactly what Charter House, organisers of the annual Ghana Music Awards did. Perhaps, with his artiste-Tiwa Savage as a nominee (which she did not even win … Read more

Research Confirms Aristotle Was Right | Buying Things Do Not Make You Happy in the Long Run—Rather Buying Experience Does…

04/10/2015 1:59 pm

by GC Staff Ob

According to a new research, Aristotle was right when he said ‘men fancy that external goods are the cause of happiness [but] leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment in life.’

The research by psychologists from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York has “proved the Greek philosopher right, by confirming that splashing your cash on designer clothes or the latest gadgets might give you instant gratification, but it’s experiences that will make you happier in the long-run,” MailOnline reports.

A collection of studies have revealed that even unpleasant experiences, such as getting lost in a wood, or a rainy camping holiday, are later valued more than material possessions.

This also confirms the long held notion that, experience is the most valuable thing in life—and not all the expensive things we work hard to buy. In fact, if anything at all, we should invest more in having experiences—such as travelling, spending quality time with friends and family and learning new things.

Whose CAKE Is This? | It’s For A Ghanaian Celebrity…

04/10/2015 1:29 pm

by GC Staff Ob

That looks like some huge and well positioned African cake—in fact, it’s one and we have every reason to want to know who it belongs to…

This photo was recently taken by a certain Ghanaian celebrity and standing next to her is Becca. We’ve not really paid attention to the cake of this person though she has some enviable curves. But from now, we will be checking out that cake a lot more…

Whose cake is this?

Flip to the next page to see the face of the person who owns the cake…

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