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TV3’s Paa Kwesi Asare Becomes First Ghanaian To Receive The Prestigious BBC News Komla Dumor Award

08/21/2023 12:13 pm

Paa Kwesi Asare of TV3 has been named the 2023 BBC News Komla Dumor Award winner. Paa Kwesi oversees the business desk at Media General, the top media organization in Ghana. He serves as an anchor for TV3’s main newscast at 7 o’clock each evening and is the host of the weekly business and economic … Read more

7th BBC World News Komla Dumor Award Launched

01/27/2022 10:51 am

by Maurice Divine Boye

The BBC has begun the search for the next worthy winner of the Komla Dumor award. The search was launched with an online event on 26 January 2022, featuring an exclusive interview with Komla Dumor’s family. READ ALSO: Kidi Is My Coach, Not My Boyfriend – Cina Soul Validates Dating Rumours The award will search … Read more

8 Years Ago Komla Dumor Passed On – A Brief Recap Of His Legacy

01/18/2022 8:28 pm

by Maurice Divine Boye

Exactly 8 years ago, Ghana lost Komla Dumor. He was an inspiring young and ambitious journalist. Nicknamed ‘The Boss Player’, he was the standard. A global standard that always operated at 100% when given an opportunity. READ ALSO: More Trouble for Captain Smart As he’s Sued AGAIN For Ghc 100m For Defamation Komla was born … Read more

BBC to Launch 6th Komla Dumor Award In Johannesburg, South Africa

02/25/2020 6:23 pm

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

The BBC are launching the 6th edition of the annual Komla Dumor award. The award is given out to a chosen, young African journalist and is named after the legendary Ghanaian broadcaster who died in 2014. READ ALSO: Shatta Wale To Lead SM Fans On A Demonstration Against FDA According to the BBC, the award … Read more

Photo: Komla Dumor's Wife Shares Beautiful Family Pic To Mark 4th Anniversary Of His Passing

01/18/2018 7:24 pm

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

Wife of late Ghanaian broadcaster Komla Dumor, Kwansema, has remembered the late broadcaster on the 4th anniversary of his passing.
Kwansema shared a photo of herself and their three kids with a caption remembering their loved one, who passed away four years ago today.

It’s Three Years Komla Dumor Died, See 5 Memorable Pictures/Video Of Him

01/19/2017 5:18 am

by Sel The Bomb

18th January marks the date BBC Presenter Komla Dumor died out of cardio-arrest, in the U.K and 2017 makes it the third year.

Komla Dumor, who couldn’t complete Medical School in Nigeria due to poor performance in the discipline, moved back home for a BA. in Sociology and Psychology from the University of Ghana and later won Ghana Journalist of the Year award in 2003.

Nigerian Journalist Didi Akinyelure Wins Second Komla Dumor Award

07/19/2016 8:06 am

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

The BBC has announced the winner of the second annual Komla Dumor award, Nigerian journalist Didi Akinyelure.
A panel of judges settled on the Nigerian news anchor, who also presents business news for the continent wide CNBC channel.

Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings Insists She Helped Komla Dumor and She Has No Reason to LIE

07/7/2016 12:00 pm

by Comfort Asante, GC Staff Writer

A few days ago, former first lady of Ghana-Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings stated in an interview that while late the BBC journalist-Komla Dumor was in university, she helped pay his fees. “I paid Komla Dumor’s fees at the university,” she told Bola Ray in an interview on Starr Fm. Immediately after her interview, the family of … Read more

Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings Reveals She Paid For Komla Dumor’s University Education

06/30/2016 10:12 am

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

Former First Lady and flagbearer of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, has revealed a connection in her past to the late ace journalist, Komla Dumor.
According to the former first lady, Komla was a son of a close friend of her husband the former President. Thus at one point, she was paying the fees for his university education, although she did not know him at the time.

Good Name is Better than Riches: Starr FM Honours Komla Dumor By Naming Their Newsroom After Him

10/31/2014 11:17 am

by GC Staff bG

The newsroom of Starr 103.5 FM has been named after internationally acclaimed Ghanaian journalist, Komla Dumor, who worked with the BBC until his untimely death in January.

The ‘Komla Dumor Newsroom’ was commissioned by the father of the late journalist, Professor Ernest Dumor, former Presidential Advisor and Chairperson of the Komla Dumor Foundation, Mrs Mary Chinery-Hesse, veteran actress and deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Dzifa Gomashie and the CEO of Starr FM Kwabena Anokye Adisi, Thursday.

Expressing her heartfelt appreciation to Starr FM, Chairperson of the Komla Dumor Foundation, Dr. Mrs. Chinery-Hesse expressing her heartfelt appreciation challenged journalists to emulate the high standards set by the late broadcaster.

“His onerous voice, his sense of humor, the way he managed to package message caught attention and retained attention.

Komla Dumor’s Worst Enemy, Appiah Stadium, Apologizes To Him Ahead Of His Burial

02/21/2014 4:57 pm

by GC Staff Sw

Blakk Rasta, host of ‘Taxi Driver show’ on Hitz fm, today Friday 21^st Feb, 2013, interviewed the man tagged as the late BBC broadcaster, Komla Dumor’s worst enemy.

That worst enemy of Komla Dumor, is called, Frank Appiah, popularly known as Appiah Stadium in Ghana. He’s a staunch member and serial caller of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). Indeed, any Ghanaian who listens to radio in Ghana has on one occasion, heard of him before call into political programmes on radio.

More than 10 years ago, Appiah Stadium called into Joy fm’s Super Morning Show (aka SMS) and insulted Komla Dumor, then the host of the programme. “….Komla, Komla why are you always criticizing the government. Why are you always criticizing the Kufour government? Komla are you a fool? Are you are a fool? I’m asking you…”

The humane, affable and tolerant Komla Dumor only heaved a deep sigh and reacted, “thank you. Have a pleasant morning.” The forgiving Komla used Appiah’s insults as a sound bite he played for many years before leaving Joy fm for BBC.

Okyeame Kwame Says Komla Dumor Would Have Become Ghana’s President

01/24/2014 9:36 pm

by Sassy Chic

This is now getting hilarious and unnecessary…How are people able to read Komla Dumor’s mind?

I am not sure if Komla ever had any presidential ambition but according to Ghanaian hiplife musician-Okyeame Kwame, the deceased would have become the president of Ghana…

Can we mourn Komla Dumor and leave these wild assumptions and predictions behind? And which party would he has become a flag-bearer for?

Soon, NPP and NDC will start fighting—over whose side he would have stood for this presidency…

According to MyJoyOnline;

Hiplife artiste, Okyeame Kwame, known in real life as Kwame Nsiah Appau, believes the late iconic broadcaster Komla Dumor would have become the president of Ghana.

According to the award winning musician, Komla Dumor’s giant strides in journalism and achievements at the BBC made him a perfect candidate for Ghana’s top job – President.

Okyeame Kwame, who was speaking in an interview with myjoyonline.com after signing the book of condolence opened at Joy FM in honour the late iconic broadcaster said: “He had this demeanor of importance around him that wasn’t something he artificially carried, it was natural. You can see that this guy is grooming himself to be the next president of Ghana.”

Kwasi Pratt Punches Dzifa Gomashie and Kojo Antwi | Says Komla Dumor Can Never Be Compared To Nelson Mandela

01/23/2014 12:44 pm

by Nana Yaw Adjapong

Musician Kojo Antwi eulogized late broadcaster Komla Dumor who died last Saturday 19^th Jan, 2014, disclosing that the latter’s death is as painful as that of Bob Marley, Nelson Mandela and other legends.

Kojo Antwi made those remarks in an interview with Myjoyonline.com on Tuesday 22^nd Jan, 2014 after signing the book of condolence opened at Joy 99.7 fm in honour of the former Super Moring Show host on Joy 99.7 fm.

On today, 24^th Jan, 2014 edition of Adom 106.6 fm’s morning show – Dwaso Nsem, ace Journalist Kwasi Pratt spit venom at those who seem to be passing hyperbolized remarks at the late Komla Dumor; all in the name of solidarity.

“How can you liken Komla Dumor to Nelson Mandela? How can you compare the two? What do they have in common? Comments like these bring up needless wrangles! You say Komla Dumor is like Nelson Mandela and then another person comes to refute it. At the end of the day, we end up digging into their personality ‘work sheets.’

Mr. Pratt also took a swipe at Deputy Minister of Tourism, Dzifa Gomashie. “Komla Dumor is bigger than Ghana! How could the Deputy Minister of Tourism say that? How can any person be bigger than his or her country? Nobody is bigger than Ghana! Kwame Nkrumah, Komfo Anokye, Asaboamanfi, Aggrey, and others were all not bigger than Ghana!”

Nelson Mandela’s Daughter Pays Tribute To Komla Dumor, Says He Was ‘A Shining Star Of Africa’

01/20/2014 9:53 pm

by GC Staff Yaa

Makaziwe Mandela, who the late Komla Dumor interviewed after her father’s death has paid tribute to Komla, saying he was “a shining star of Africa”. Komla Dumor died on Saturday, 18 January, 2014 at the age of 41 from a cardiopulmonary arrest. Komla joined the BBC in 2007 after a decade of broadcast journalism in … Read more

MUST READ: The Last Words Of Komla Dumor

01/19/2014 9:50 pm

by GC Staff Tisha

Like every other human being, Komla Dumor had his down days but what made him a man of greatness is his outstanding ability to rise above his own weakness…

Before his sudden death yesterday, Komla Dumor reportedly sent out the below touching message to some of his best friends, letting them in on some of the things he has overcome and the things he was looking forward to achieving in the near future.

Check out the touching message below…

“God has been v good to me.,last year I experienced a lot of illness ..my BP nearly gave me a stroke but I trod on..waking up at 2am and heading to work..exhausted sometimes..aching in my body a soul..mentally and emotionally drained ..but I kept going ..I smiled for the camera..I volunteered for extra shifts ..

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