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Rapper and former Sarkcess Music signee, Strongman has described his two year contract with the music label as both ‘good and rough’. Speaking to TV3 after his performance on TV3 ‘Music Music’ last saturday, the rapper disclosed that although he enjoyed working under Sarkcess Music, his two years with the label was not without few hitches. He indicated that the owner of Sarkcess Music, Sarkodie, did his personal best for him, but expectations from fans were just too high for just the two of them to do anything about. “But on the real, he was also doing his personal best…

Several alumni of the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship (DME) at the University of Ghana Business School have been featured in the list of the top 100 public speakers in Ghana. The list published by the Speakers Bureau Africa seeks to highlight prominent people in Ghana who have excelled in public speaking in the country. It is also to provide an updated database on public speaking in Ghana as well as give recognition to speakers who are shaping lives and building legacies through their work. Prominent among the alumni featured in the list was Dr. Michael Boadi Nyamekye, a Minister…

Deputy Minister of Communications, George Andah, has donated 12 executive chairs to the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship (DME) at the University of Ghana Business School. They are to support the Department’s desire to establish a part-timer’s lounge. The Department is in the throes of engaging several local and international part-time personnel and a need has consequently arisen to establish a part-time room for them. Mr Andah holds an MBA in Marketing from the Department and has served in the past as a Corporate Executive in Residence in the Department. Making the donation, he indicated that it was always a…

Recipient of the Dr Jacob Paarechuga Anankware’s Best Student Award (BECE category) of the N-Town Awards in Navrongo, Gloria Kawe Agampim, has written a very chilling story about her saddest day. The 17-year-old girl, who scored seven 1s in nine subjects in the 2018 BECE, came top of all candidates in the Kasena-Nankana municipality to win the award, which came with a cash prize of $ 100. Adafi Augustine, a science student from the Notre Dame Seminary Senior High School also won the Best Student Prize in the WASSCE category. Though the award is solely sponsored by Dr Jacob Paarechuga Anankware, who…

A meeting between the management of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) and the Meridian Ports Service (MPS) to commence negotiations for job retention in the Tema Port expansion deal has ended inconclusively. The government granted a 35-year concession to MPS to develop and operate the Tema port, a deal which leaves workers of the GPHA in the balance. There was therefore the need for the two institutions to meet and work out the operation modalities with regard to job security. Both parties called for more time to compile needed documents to advance the discussion. The meeting followed a…

The District Chief Executive of Amasie West in the Ashanti Region, Nii Larteh Ollenu and some officials from his district and National Disaster Management Organization have been accused of interfering and impeding the works of the inter ministerial taskforce on illegal mining. The head of the taskforce monitoring team, Francis Assibi Abu, revealed on Onua FM’s Yen Sempa, Monday, the team had a tip off that some Chinese nationals were illegally mining at Manso Adjaadjokrom, so they moved in and arrested two of them. To the surprise of the team, Mr. Assibi Abu recounted, some officials from the Assembly and…

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says the call by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that it should reduce the producer price of cocoa “makes economic sense.” However, the COCOBOD said any attempt to heed that call would mark the beginning of the collapse of the country’s cocoa industry. In an interview that discussed a range of issues on the producer price of cocoa and cocoa sustainability in Ghana, the Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD, Mr Joseph Boahen Aidoo, said any attempt to “reduce the price by even GH¢5 will spell doom for the industry.” Such a reduction will motivate farmers…

Sri Lanka has banned face coverings in public, following a spate of suicide attacks on Easter Sunday that killed at least 250 people and injured hundreds. President Maithripala Sirisena said he was using an emergency law to impose the restriction from Monday. Any face garment which “hinders identification” will be banned to ensure national security, his office said. The niqab and burka – worn by Muslim women – were not specifically named. The move is perceived as targeting the garments, however. Sri Lanka remains on high alert eight days after Islamist attacks that hit churches and hotels. Dozens of suspects…

Avengers: Endgame has made box office history by taking a record-breaking $1.2bn (£929m) in global ticket sales in its opening run. The Disney blockbuster has become the fastest film ever to break the $1bn barrier, doing so in just five days. Endgame is the 22nd offering in the Marvel Studios superhero franchise. Its opening takings smashed the previous global debut record of $640m set by last year’s Avengers: Infinity War. In the US alone, Endgame, which stars Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man, brought in a record $350m. It also drew huge audiences in China, where it made a record…

Award-winning Tamale-based rap sensation, Maccasio, has disclosed that his 69 Fans Army is going at length to make sure he wins the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) Reggae/Dancehall Song of the Year. Maccasio’s ‘Dagomba Girl’ has been nominated together with Stonebwoy’s ‘Top Skanka’, Samini’s ‘Obaa’ and Shatta Wale’s ‘Gringo’ in a category many have described as highly competitive. Being the only debutant among A-list artistes in the category, the 2018 3 Music Awards New Act winner will need some ‘magic’ to pull through. But he is confident that as far as the public voting is concerned, he has huge support…