The 2019 edition of Ghana’s prestigious media awards event, The radio and television personality awards(RTP AWARDS) came off yesterday at the Accra International Conference Center. The highly patronized event saw attendance from a large cross-section of media personalities in Ghana and also witnessed great performances.
Meanwhile, big winners for the night were Nana Aba Anamoah and Despite media group, who took home RTP personality of the year 2018-2019 and Media group of the year respectively. Other big winners include Media General’s Tv3 who got eight awards on the night.
Before the beginning of this month, your network service provider I am sure sent you a notification about the implementation of the Communication Service Tax (CST) increment. Prior to this, the government of Ghana publicly announced that it has increased the Communication Service Tax from 6% to 9%. This increment according to the report was going to be effective on 1st October, 2019.
In view of this, network service providers within the country began deducting the tax element of 9% from every recharge purchase you make. Which by implication, meant that you are no longer entitled to the exact amount you purchase as airtime, but the amount you purchased minus a 9% CST charge. The tax deduction, I must confess can be very disheartening especially to those of us, who frequently buy higher amounts of airtime for work and other equally important purposes.
Why should others be paying higher?
The Plight
The issue of paying higher CST comes up when you think of how people, who require higher amounts of airtime to facilitate their business operations. Should it be that they should be incurring this high cost every time they purchase airtime? If yes, do you not think it will rather increase operational cost, serving as a disincentive for business expansion and may cripple their operations?
Top Ghanaian dancehall award-winning act, Shatta Wale’s interview on Good Evening Ghana(GEG) aired yesterday, really got social media buzzing. The interview with Paul Adom-Otchere saw the dancehall singer making some attention provoking statements, which many could not help but react to. Shatta Wale apart from speaking on issues regarding his music career and the Ghanaian music industry also gave, his take on recent happenings regarding his colleagues.
It has been five months since the spouse of internationally acclaimed Ghanaian actor, Chris Attoh was shot dead. The actor’s wife, Bettie Jennifer was shot to death in the US and though investigations were still ongoing, he resolved to remain mute on the matter.
However, Chris Attoh has finally broken the long chain of silence with a recent Instagram post, though it has been a long while since he last made a post. The actor in the post opened up about the pain and sadness he had to endure following the sudden demise of his wife.
The exceptionally talented Ghanaian musical act, Trigmatic make mention of the immense efforts he was putting into producing his forth studio album some months back. He even disclosed of how he had to sell his car in other to continue production of the album.
But finally, it looks like all just worked out well as he had planned, as he has unveiled the much awaited album. The album dubbed The Eighth Element is a fully highlife centered album, consisting of 13 tracks.
The album had compositions from Karina Suwalski, Aka Blay, Sena, Prince Jadon, Dela Botri, Nii, O.T, Kwame Jnr, Cyndric and Bismark. And with great instrumentation from some of the most celebrated highlife icons, the album also features a considerable number of top rated artistes. The likes of Wiyaala, Raquel, A.I., Prince (BukBak), Manifest and Akan had features on the the album.
It is all joy and positivity at the camp of celebrated Nigerian songstress, Yemi Alade as they have made the move to submit ‘Woman of steel’ for consideration for the 2020 Grammys. The ‘Johnny’ hit maker’s most widely patronized project piece, the Woman of Steel album will be put through a voting process by the Recording Academy to be considered for the ‘Best World Music Album’ category.
The 2020 Grammy awards is slated for January 26 and if things turn out well, Africa will have a representation from Nigeria. With high hopes of sailing through for a nomination, the ‘Oh my gosh’ hit maker took to her Instagram handle to break the news whilst beseeching for support.
Apart from being accused of being poor before signing onto Zylofon music, top celebrated Ghanaian vocalist, Becca had other accusations leveled against her. The now Mrs. Tobi was also rumored to have landed her contract to join the Zylofon music record label, through an amorous affair with the boss.
These claims the singer in a recent interview, clarified were baseless and were false. She explained that, her relationship with her former boss at Zylofon music, Nana Appiah Mensah (NAM 1) was nothing more than a working relationship.
The utterances of talented musician, Kofi Mole on the Delay Show left many in doubt of his sexuality. The rapper in the interview, disclosed he loves his colleague Quamina MP and would not mind kissing his cheeks nor publicly showing his love for him.
The ‘biibi ba’ rapper in the same interview refuted claims of he being a homosexual. Despite his categorical denial of being gay, his earlier statements sparked speculations on social media about his sexuality.
However, Kofi Mole in a recent Instagram post shared a photo of himself and a little boy, whom he called his son. But considering the fact that, he has never mentioned of his son anywhere before this, it is surely a bid to refute rumors about his sexuality.
Meanwhile, though there currently are no proves the boy is actually his, all indications show he was actually being truthful about the boy being his son, according to trusted sources.
Making more and more money has now become the side job for Grammy award winning vocalist, Rihanna. It is now an open secret, she is raking in huge sums as she has endeavored to partake in various ventures, with the most recent one being her maiden visual autobiography.
The 504-page book, consisting of over a 1,000 intimate life moments and career highlight photos was produced in partnership with Phaidon. She calls it Rihanna on social media yesterday. The book when released will be her first ever visual autobiography.
Many were those who lauded multiple BET award winning Ghanaian rapper, Sarkodie for his powerful acceptance speech after winning the first ever Best International Flow at the 2019 BET hip-hop awards. The ‘Adonai’ hit-maker was highly credited, for positively projecting Ghana and Africa to the world in his speech at the recent BETs.
Well, it looks like the rapper had even a lot more up his sleeves, as he has dropped some thought striking bars on the 2019 BET hip-hop cypher. Sarkodie in a rap session with his colleague nominee, Kalash touched on issues ranging from the skin bleaching menace to Africa’s quest for total emancipation.
