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Joshua Clottey has partly blamed his defeat to Manny Pacquiao in the WBO welter weight bout on a meal he ate hours before the bout.
Clottey was less than impressive on the night and was hugely overwhelmed by the Philippine who was devastating with his punches from start to finish.
The most versatile member of hiplife trio Praye born Eugene Boadu Baah popularly known as “Praye Honeho” (Choir Master) has graduated from the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI).
Jean-Louis is set to play the leading man in the new Turning Point Pictures project written and directed by Leila Djansi. The pair had recently teamed up for an African epic “I Sing of a Well,” which garnered 11 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Screenplay and, Best Director from the 2010 Africa Movie Academy Awards announced on Mar. 7.
After successfully using Jackie Appiah and Majid Michel in the “Perfect Picture” and “A Sting In A Tale” respectively, Shirley has finally given Nadia Buari a chance in her recent movie called CheckMate.
Ghana’s female hip-hop artist, Tiffany survived a motor accident on Wednesday night. The Rap Diva whose latest track “Fake London Boy” is currently receiving massive airplay is confirmed to have been involved in a collision with a truck after a studio session around 11pm.
Young Ghanaian star and winner of Miss Ghana USA 2002, Vida Q Darko known in showbiz circles as Veeda plays a role in one of the most successful African movies produced in recent times in the Diaspora ‘My American Nurse 2’.
The Ghana entertainment industry was rocked with many controversies last year with one being the Obour-Obrafour-Okyeame Kwame saga. The other was the Leila -Akofa burst up. The latter could be on the lips of many because of the AMAA nominations.
Did the organizers of the African Movie Academy Award preconceived this year’s edition of the awards is all going to be about Ghana? I don’t think so but the reality is that Ghana tops with 11 nominations.
This year’s could possibly be the turning point for Ghana. 500 movies were submitted to be considered for the African Movie Academy Awards, the number was trimmed down to 280 movies among those are 5 Ghanaian movies in serious contention.
‘I Sing of a well’ tops the nominations with 11, Shirley Frimpong Manso’s ‘Perfect Picture’ and ‘A Sting in A tale’ had 8 and 3 nominations respectively. The pointless controversial movie ‘Heart of Men’ had 5 nominations.
The numbers of female artistes in Ghana are growing considerably. Also there are several elements which contribute to the success of any female artiste, one is looks and Eazzy has it abundantly.
She doesn’t need to show her cleavage to be noticed, she gets the attention she wants anytime she is on stage doing her own thing backed with a strong instrumentation from Richie.
Stakeholders of the African movie industry were on tenterhooks last night, March 6, as all attention shifted to Accra, Ghana for the announcement of nominees for the 2010 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA). The glitzy nominations party brought together some of the crème in the industry from all over Africa to celebrate the growth of African movies in the past year and to observe which movies, actors and technical players were deemed fit by the Academy for laurels this year.
After secretly wedding a Canada based Ghanaian girl “Awura Abena” at the Roman Catholic Church at Akim Swedru and keeping himself away from the public to enjoy his honeymoon, Castro resurfaced last night at Aprodisiac Night Club.
Ghana’s 53rd independence party at The Troxy in East London was a night of hit and miss. GhanaCelebrities.Com was there to chill out with the crowd and below is our account. The programme did not start until 11pm although it was scheduled to start at 10pm.
This week has been good to the Ghanaian hip life artist Samini (Batman). After being mortified publicly by his engagement to two women, he can now relax and do what he does best, which is entertaining his fans. According to statement signed by Samini’s manager Mr. Anthony Pun, Samini apologised to both women and their families and is trying to resolve the scandal privately. I like that fact that he stood up and accepted his mistake and have taken due course to rectify them.
Event organisers of the annual Ghana Music Awards (GMA), Charter House last Friday released a list of nominees for this year’s awards.
The nominee list has since excited some debate in certain quarters, mainly on the lines of whether some of the nominees deserve any award at all or whether the selection truly reflect industry movers and shakers.
If you’ve been wondering why Dentaa is missing from your TV screens, fear not, she has been away handling what she considers her greatest task of all time, motherhood! Congratulations are in order to the captivating and endearing Ghanaian TV personality Dentaa who just gave birth to her second child, a beautiful baby boy this morning in London.
