Richie Mensah has postponed the release of the music video for his fast rising club banger “Every Morning” to next week Thursday due to the Supreme Court verdict.

Last week, it was announced that the release would be done today on Amanda Jissih’s E-TALK Show on GHOne.

The video premier will however come on next week Thursday exclusively on E-TALK at 9pm and will be followed by video premier event at Hollywood Boulevard inside the A&C Mall.  

Anticipation is very high for the video following the release of behind the scenes shots online last week. The song has also received heavy rotation on the nightlife scene since its release a few weeks ago and the video is certain to generate an even greater buzz.

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My dear politicians

As you know already, am very happy to write you this letter.

In fact, am sure you are doing well since you have our gargantuan tax at your disposal.

Anyway continue to enjoy them nyafu nyafu after all who will question you for embezzlement?

We love you so we want to tell you something that you don’t know about we Ghanaians. If you had known this, you will not be disturbing the police moving them from their favorite location all in the name of Pace peace.

Do you know how much they make standing by the roadside telling drivers to park their cars?.In fact the deployment  is killing business like ECG.

Now the fact that we follow you during your campaign season   does not mean we will die for you if the court verdict does not go in your favor.

We only follow you because the ecomini is very bad and that is the only way we can fool you to get at least one Ghana credit to buy credit to whataspp   and also  post our pictures on instagram.

If you have forgetting so soon, go and ask dada author kennedy. We followed him everywhere saa on the ‘D’day’ even his family did not vote for him.

So if you think we will follow and go and cause confusion then we go do you antenna. You want us to go jail or die for you??.... Masa you lie bad.

We are only waiting for the campaign season to make some good money from you.  Infact   this time around if you don’t give us 100gh and above we will not follow you. Now we want party lactose .We’re fed up us the Chinese T-shirts.  _____ Letter part two is coming soon!!

Ghanaian Afro Roots star and renowned social activist, Rocky Dawuni, returns to Southern California with a full band appearance on Saturday, August 24 at 8pm. The free to all ages concert is part of KCRW Summer Nights and will be hosted by Afro Funke's Jeremy Sole with DJ Glenn Red spinning!

Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts Los Angeles at MacArthur Park (LevittLA) is a non-profit organization founded in 2007 to restore the historic band shell in MacArthur Park and feature a diverse lineup of artists from acclaimed, emerging talent to seasoned, award-winning performers.  Programming is designed to appeal to all tastes, bringing people from all walks of life together to share an evening of great music.  As music fills the park, so do families, friends, and Angelinos from all over the city creating community through music.

Rocky has had an unbelievable year touring the world at many of the top music festivals including two European tours where he played the legendary Montreux Jazz Festival, the massive Summerjam in Cologne, Afro Pfingsten in Switzerland alongside Alpha Blondy & Lee Scratch Perry and many more. He also was invited to the recent tribute to Bob Marley at the prestigious Kennedy Center for Performing Arts where he put on a stellar performance that had everyone on their feet and singing along!

As a UN Foundation Ambassador for the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, Rocky has visited Kenya, Ghana and Cambodia this year doing speaking engagements and performing.  He is also the co-founder of Afro Funke' at Zanzibar (along with Cary Sullivan & Jeremy Sole) in Santa Monica which is LA's most popular African inspired club night which just crossed over its 10th Anniversary in June with an unforgettable performance by home town heroes Ozomatli.

EA's new video game "The Sims 3 Island Paradise" features one of Rocky's brand new tracks "Reggae Soca Party" that was recorded in Ghana and the US and is his first foray in to Soca music! This song will appear on his upcoming 6th solo album due to be released early next year which he is currently recording.

The Miss Teen Ghana 2013 was launched yesterday 17th  August, 2013 at University of Professional Studies in Accra. The launched officially outdoor   all the 19 young beautiful girls representing all the 10 regions of Ghana contesting in this year’s contest.

Miss Teen Ghana 2013 is the 3^rd edition of the contestant put together by   Neas   Media Concept to select one competent young Ghanaian girl who can represent Ghana in the international Miss Teen Face of Beauty contestant in Thailand, Miss Teen Universe in Nicaragua and Miss Teen Earth International in Ecuador and Miss Teen Africa in South Africa respectively

The organizers used the occasion to also outline some of the programs and activities ahead of them before the grand finale on the 13^th September 2013 at the Ghana National Theatre. They also urge parents and corporate bodies to show their support and interest in the parent, since this has become one of the national platforms for your girls to exhibit their hidden potentials.

Most of the people and fans who were in attendance last night expressed satisfaction about the event and also urge the organizers to find a befitting solution to the technical hitches that delayed the program for about 5 minute.

This year’s event is supported by   Showbiz GH,HD Media Ghana, Teen Exclusive Magazine,Jonilar,Ghana Youth Television,Glitz Ghana,Stepout Ghana and many more.

The ‘Yenko Nkoa’ hit maker Raymond Eduwoji  Gbedza known in the Ghanaian music industry as Eduwoji  has finally spoken about  his sudden absence from  the  music industry .Eduwoji  whose hit single ‘Yenko nkoa’  featuring Stay Jay was a big tune in 2011 and beyond has been on the silence for a while now .However in an interview with  Afia English  he stated that,  he has been in the studio working on a couple of  songs for his fans which he will be release soon.

According to him,  ‘Yenko nkoa’ was a success but the new ones coming will take his fans and the entire  music fraternity by surprise.

Besides  ‘Yenkoa’  eduwoji  has other songs to his credit including ‘I don’t care’ which features Edem, ‘Someone’ which is also out there now and one yet to be released collaboration with another budding musician Hecta whose evuna  song and a couple of others are currently enjoying massive airplay both in Ghana and Togo.

Source: Afia English

The  Volta regional capital Ho experienced for ones, a spectacular performances from the all new Hecta at the Volta regional Old School Reunion.

Hecta, one of the region’s celebrated artiste and Ghana's first rising and promising musician climbed the stage at Ho sports stadium last Saturday at the Old School Reunion with energy and skillfully moved the crowd. A day after the event, he visited the Ho municipality to show   appreciation for those who turned up to show their support for him.

However, the young kids were not exceptional; they hail him as he walk through some suburbs of the town. He shared some good memories of his childhood days with the kids and also urge them to respect their parents and make education their priority. Below are some of the pictures from the hang out with the kids.

Evicted Zimbabwean representative in the Big Brother Africa (The Chase) reality show, Pokello Nare seems to have received approval from her love, Elikem's family.

The Zimbabwean, who developed a strong bond with Ghana's Elikem, during her stay in the reality show disclosed after her eviction that, her relationship with him was not a gimmick and that she really has a thing for the Ghanaian.

"I'm feeling Elikem big time," Pokello said. When asked if it will survive outside the Big Brother house, she said: "I'm waiting for him."

To prove how serious she was about the Ghanaian, the Zimbabwean beauty, who was in a relationship with famous Zimbabwean rapper Desmond “Stunner” Chideme, was reported to have parted ways with the musician.

She is quoted to have said: "When I left the house, I spoke to Stunner on the phone about the developments in the house and we have agreed to be friends.” 

Pokello seems to be talking to Elikem's family since her eviction from the show and there are speculations that she could be making her way to Ghana as soon as her love wins or exits the reality show. Well she is confident Elikem will win the money!

The 'Queen of Swag' disclosed on twitter Monday that she has been having telephone conversations with some family members of the Ghanaian designer.

"Been quiet on twitter 2day,spent hours speaking to Elikem's brother on e fone. Too much love from Ghana.in laws are feeling me big time, lol," she posted.

Pokello's 10-year-old son seems to have also noticed the love bond between his mum and the Ghanaian.

She tweeted on July 27 that: "My son says 'Mum i think Elikem really misses u coz he is just sitting by myself'. Awwwww."

The 22-year-old student of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Guiseppina Baafi who is now Miss Ghana 2013 says she is taking over with hard work from where the former Miss Ghana Naa Okailey Shooter left off.

Speaking to Joy News on Multi TV, the newly crowned Queen described how excited and at the same time shocked she was when her name was announced as Winner of the Miss Ghana 2013 Beauty Peagent.

“..it was exciting, I was so confused and I didn't believe it was my name when it was being mentioned,” she told Multi TV in an interview. She added, it had been her dream to be part of a beauty pageant and that winning Miss Ghana was a dream come true.

she added that she will work diligently in order to attain the set goals for “Miss Ghana, beauty with a purpose”.

“Miss Ghana foundation is a registered charity arm under the Miss Ghana beauty pageant. What they do is to assign projects to each Queen and her runner up. Naa’s own was infant maternal mortality. This was her assigned project. By sustaining her project, I have to take it up from where she left it”. 

Guiseppina Baafi hinted of plans to pursue a personal project, but she would not disclose further details.

“I have a personal project, I don’t want to say it on air, it’s a very special project. Apart from this project, I would like to have my own NGO someday that will be geared towards single mothers. My mum is my inspiration because she is a single mother too”.

The former graduate of New Juaben Senior High School (NJUASCO) is a die-hard fan of Spanish football giants Barcelona FC but loves to listen to Ghana's 'Rapperholic' Sarkodie whom she says is her favourite artiste. 

She advised the youth to "...always be who you are, be proud of it and work hard”.

The 12 contestants in the MTN Hitmaker reality show will be housed for thirteen weeks during the broadcast of the television series to determine who emerges as winner in the second season of the show.

This was made known to a gathering made up of media personnel, bloggers, sponsors, the contestants and their families during a short event to outdoor the contestants last Thursday evening at the poolside of the Oak Plaza Hotel in Accra.

An official of MTN Ghana Mr. Guido Sopiimeh, who unveiled the contestants, said while in the house the contestants “will be assigned to professional music production houses in Ghana who will support them in making their songs better.”

The producers of the show will also rely on season judges Ofie Cudjoe, Zapp Mallet and Bessa Simon to help groom the contestants into world class artistes. “The judges will also support by grooming the contestants to becoming the great performers that the MTN Hitmaker show wants them to be,” Mr. Sopiimeh mentioned.

According to the producers of the show there were over 2000 submission of demos across the country by wannabe musicians willing to take part in the season two of MTN Hitmaker. 

Mr. Sopiimeh told the gathering that “the demos received were subjected to rigorous scrutiny by our able panel of judges after which the best ones were invited to undergo an auditioning process.”

The twelve contestants who were unveiled to the gathering by Mr. Sopiimeh and MC for the evening Bola Ray ARE Abigail Antwi, Albert Buabeng, Stephen Kim (Kofi Korea), Olevya Aba, Fiifi Sey Armah, Priziners (George Kwasi Sarpong aka Abraham and Christopher Boakye Yiadom aka Kojo Boakye), Jamilatu Mohammed, Miguel Oduro Daniels (Qwabyna), Nana Adobea, Hussein Musah, Koo Ntakara and Gilbert Bossu (Cano-Z).

On their part judges for the season, who incidentally were the judges for the first season, were all happy for the choice they had made and were confident that the twelve finalists would not disappoint them when the reality show begins to air on television and viewers see the potential of the contestants.

It is planned by the producers that the 13 week television series of the MTN Hitmaker 2 show would commence from the first week of August and would air on Metro TV, GTV, Skyy TV and Multi TV on Sundays at 8:30pm.

The public can participate in the show by voting to keep their favourite contestants in the competition towards the weekly evictions.

The MTN Hitmaker season two has a prize package of a recording and artiste management deal worth GH¢100, 000.00 for the winner and GH¢50, 000.00 for the first runner-up. The third and fourth-placed winners as well as all finalists will also receive some handsome prizes.

MTN Hitmaker will also reward the sound engineer with the Best Beat on the show and weekly prizes for Best Performer, Best Appearance, Highest ‘Texters’ and more. Introduced last year, the show aims at identifying, grooming and supporting young aspiring artistes to record their own music and turning them into stars.

The first season was a huge success and everyone saw the wonderful, transformed talents on television for several weeks before the final showdown at the Accra International Conference Centre where Shadrach Adjei alias Naterial beat Miriam, Chiki and Atimbilla to claim the first prize.

Miriam placed second. Naterial and her have since recorded their debut albums titled Mamle and My Testimony respectively. 

The Hitmaker initiative is championed by MTN and supported by the MTN Ghana Foundation under the auspices of the Youth Empowerment Programme in partnership with the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA).