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Sound, check! New venue, check! Performing Artistes, check! Everything needed for the 20th Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs) is set, and all artistes, music lovers and industry players also ready to gather at the Accra International Conference Center tonight for music’s biggest event. As part of measures to ensure as many music lovers as possible join this big celebration, organizers have ‘built’ a new dome at the Conference Centre to accommodate a lot more people. The journey towards the 20th VGMAs will be  crowned tonight after more than month-long celebrations including a nominees jam, a music concert and a music…

Wilder and Breazeale meet at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn[/caption] Dominic Breazeale says he will mentally break Deontay Wilder and ensure the WBC world heavyweight champion never wants to lace up boxing gloves again. Breazeale, 33, challenges his fellow American on Saturday after an acrimonious and controversial build-up. The pair were involved in a scuffle at a hotel in 2017 and Wilder has drawn fight-week scrutiny for comments about killing an opponent in the ring. “I am Deontay Wilder’s retirement plan,” said Breazeale. “I will beat him so bad that he is not going to want to ever lace up the…

This July promises to be amazing as Ghanaian playwright Kobina Ansah is set to unveil his new suspenseful play, THE BOY CALLED A GIRL. The 11-cast family play, set in a dance studio, is pregnant with a great plot that will hurl its audience into a new world of bewilderment. Not a usual theatrical piece, the musical stage play is slated for National Theatre on July 20th at 4pm and 8pm. Aside the enthralling music and dance that the play is laced with, Kobina Ansah has littered the piece with some thought-provoking quotes that will set everybody thinking so deeply…

A member of the music group Buk-Bak, Bright is tipping highlife musician Kuami Eugene to be crowned Artiste of the Year at the 20th Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs). Bright who was speaking on TV3 New Day expressed his admiration for the young musician and strides he has made so far in the music industry. “I see him as a young version of me. He is smart, he is adventurous, and he treads crazy terrains to actually bring songs together. I think he is blessed enough to win this,” he said. There have been a lot of campaigns on social…

A member of the music group Buk-Bak, Bright is tipping highlife musician Kuami Eugene to be crowned Artiste of the Year at the 20th Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs). Bright who was speaking on TV3 New Day expressed his admiration for the young musician and strides he has made so far in the music industry. “I see him as a young version of me. He is smart, he is adventurous, and he treads crazy terrains to actually bring songs together. I think he is blessed enough to win this,” he said. There have been a lot of campaigns on social…

CID boss, DCOP Tiwaa Addo-Danquah[/caption] In my last article, my attempt at mischief made me refer to the Ghana Police Service as Maame Serwa’s Police Service. It was a joke that was potent with some thoughts. The Ghana Police Service despite its reputation as the best in West Africa has been fraught with too many moral challenges. It gets into the headlines often as one of the most corrupt institutions. And something tells me the CID boss is just a mirrored picture of who we are as a people. Not too long ago, we had DSP Azugu who told a…

File photo[/caption] The Executive Director of African Centre for Security and Counter Terrorism, Emmanuel Kutin, has raised doubts about the preparedness of some hotels in Accra to counter activities of terrorists. A survey, Mr. Kutin noted he was a part of on 14th and 15th of May, conducted in some hotels in the capital revealed that most of these hotels have several security vulnerability including defective scanners, inactive CCTV and security protocol that could be exploited by terrorists. “We went round top hotels in Accra and it will shock you the scanners are not even working. And then you ask…

The Duke of Cambridge has said he felt “pain like no other pain” after the death of his mother, Princess Diana. Prince William made the disclosure in a BBC TV documentary about mental health. He said the “British stiff upper lip thing” had its place when times were hard, but people also needed “to relax a little bit and be able to talk about our emotions because we’re not robots”. William also spoke of how working as an air ambulance pilot left him feeling that death was “just around the door”. He said dealing with the loss of…

Former President Jerry John Rawlings, National Democratic Congress (NDC) party chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo and other leading members of the NDC were among the congregants at a memorial mass marking the fifth anniversary of the demise of Mr. Paul Victor Obeng held at the Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Tema Community Two on Friday. Former Minister of State, Akwasi Oppong Fosu in paying tribute to the former leading member of the PNDC and the NDC said he had generous heart, was humble and possessed a modest temperament. He said P.V. Obeng was a committed and devoted servant of God who…

Fisher folks at the Tema Canoe Beach have appealed to government to establish a marine bank in the country to provide the needed financial support to the fishing sector. Nii Odametey, Tema Awudum Chief Fisherman, explained that if the country had a bank totally dedicated to the marine sector, fisher folks would access soft loans  to expand the businesses and also cushion them during the closed season. On the close season, he said leadership of the Tema canoe beach ensured that all fishing activities among canoe operators stopped at about 12:00 hours on May 17 in compliance with the ban as…