Ghanaian dancehall and reggae artist and the CEO of Gideon Force International (GFI), Iwan has Announced to be in Ethiopia this February Starting from 4th Feb to 1st March 2018 for some musical tours.

The Multiple Award winning Artist, IWAN the Lyrical Gunshot was featured on China’s Major Reggae Label DB Bross Rumors of War riddim earlier this year which is already making waves in Asia.

The Thanks and Praise hit maker would be participating in the U Day Celebrations in Addis Abbaba, ShaShamane and other parts as well as tour The Land of origins.

Black Avenue Muzik churned out a number of hit songs in 2017 including DJ Breezy’s Slow Down featuring King Promise, D-Black and Joey B, Dahlin Gage’s viral street anthem ‘Come Take’, D-Black’s hiphop banger Bottles with Medikal and Julie featuring Bisa Kdei.

This year sounds more exciting as they plan on releasing a BAM #AllStars song in the first quarter of March as well as separate singles and videos from all artists on the label.

First artist on the label to kick it off this year is the gorgeous, vocally talented singer S3fa with a lovely Afrobeats tune “Marry Me“ featuring Ghanaian Dancehall vet Jupitar.

Award winning music producer DJ Breezy crafts the song giving it a danceable African vibe perfect to celebrate love ahead of Valentine’s Day.

Marry Me is available on all music streaming sites as well as an interesting music video directed by Jeneral Jay which is available on YouTube and showing now on Ghanaian TV stations.

Click the links below to watch or listen now.

https://soundcloud.com/user-98448858/sefa-ft-jupitar-marry-me-prod-dj-breezy

Roots Magazine Paris latest issue features Victoria Michaels in a series titled “Trapped” shot by French Photographer @CoralieCoco.

Fresh Looks with Multi-dimensional finish, skin-like glow and rich tones touched by award winning make-up artist @alexandrinamakeup .This story depicts a once vibrant and strong girl who got trapped but sought freedom and got out.

She had some limitations in the beginning but through her relentless determination she figured out a way to be emancipated from her captive oppressors.

Victoria Michaels has evolved in her career as a model. She can pull off just any look and has a fantastic relationship with the camera. She just knows her craft and is considered one of Africa’s emerging International Models. Let’s just say that the camera loves her.

Victoria Michaels

Victoria Michaels

Victoria Michaels

Victoria Michaels

Victoria Michaels

Victoria Michaels

Victoria Michaels

Urban Gospel singer, Jonn Winner has released the video of his first single off his Africa Praiz and Worship Invasion Project.

Titled ‘Big God’, the video was directed by Phamous Films and was shot in locations in Ghana.

” I want to thank my fans for the Patience, Prayers and the Love they’ve shown me in the past and now, ” Jonn Winner said.

Born John Oppong Inkoom, the Tema-based act Jonnwinner started singing at an early stage in the church due to his strong Christian background. His mother was a deaconess and choir director.

Jonn Winner is credited with hit songs like ‘God be too much’, I can’t imagine’ and call him.

Watch the video below:

Her insight, enthusiasm and dedication to news production greatly inspired colleagues in the newsroom, reason she was adjudged Best News Room Staff of the Year, 2017 by GHOne TV.

Stepping out of her comfort zone in the entertainment industry where news is more softer and filled with sensational gossips, Serwaa Amihere joined the GHOne News team and readily bonded with other reporters, instantaneously started learning from experienced mentors like Nana Aba Anamoah and Bola Ray, who took her through various teachings to enhance her experiences worth the journey into the space of broadcast journalism.

She needed to learn and adjust quickly to beat tight schedules; the skills demanded in any newsroom are quite different from that used in the area of showbiz. “Indeed those early lessons are with me everywhere I go” – She explained.

We are proud of Serwaa Amihere’s accomplishments, incredibly gifted news anchor, producer and event host.

You will know Serwaa Amihere as the talented young Ghanaian female broadcast journalist, known for producing the award winning current affairs/political show on primetime televison, State Of Affairs. She also reads the early morning news on the number one breakfast show in Ghana, GH Today.

Resourceful lady. Serwaa Amihere also reports for GHOne News on GHOneTV and occasionally hosts the ever-trending sports show, Cheers on Saturday mornings.

Serwaa Amihere has been part of several charity projects, supporting children and young women with specific focus on the marginalized and persons living with disabilities. Hoping to implement more philanthropic ideas, her new ‘S.A Initiative’, which will be launched soon, will address the gap of women enterprises in a male dominated business space.

Serwaa Amihere was born on 8^th March 1990, first child to Lydia Tetteh and Frank Yeboah.

Serwaa Amihere

Serwaa Amihere

Serwaa Amihere

Serwaa Amihere

On the 18th of December 2017, Flourish Africa in partnership with top child photographer, Ria Solanke visited the new-born unit of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital for a free photo shoot session with some new mothers. This would have been an ordinary shoot except for one thing: the mothers were all kangaroo care mothers. Yes, you heard right, ‘kangaroo mother care’.

The kangaroo mother care (KMC) is a form of nurture given to pre-term babies that involves the baby being placed skin-to-skin as he nests upright against his mother’s chest while wearing only diaper, hat and socks then, both mother and child are held together with a firm cloth.  According to Prof Chinyere Ezeaka, Head of Neonatology Unit, LUTH, and National President of the Nigerian Society of Neonatal Medicine (NISONM), KMC keeps the preterm baby warm, facilitates breastfeeding on demand, improves maternal-newborn bonding, and furthermore, the mother’s heart beat and respiration helps to maintain the baby’s breathing and heartbeats.  Talk about magical!

The Kangaroo Mother Care is affiliated with the way a kangaroo carries her newborn kangaroo called “joey”, which is by nature delivered preterm, it then crawls into the mother’s pouch where it gets fused to the breast for nutrition for about four to five weeks. KMC was first started in Bogota, Colombia in 1979. The human body’s temperature is stable; as a result, the baby can get all the warmth they need from the mother. The parent’s stable body temperature doesn’t only help to regulate the neonate’s temperature, the closeness that kangaroo care offers both mom and child equally allows for readily accessible breast feeding so that the baby can readily feed and mature.. Thus, KMC ensures physiological and psychological warmth, readily available breastfeeding with improved bonding.

This form of care has been recommended worldwide by the World Health Organization (WHO), and all international and national health agencies as the standard form of care for premature babies who are defined as babies born before 37 weeks. This is in response to the large numbers of premature babies dying globally, and the challenges due to lack of incubators, manpower and stable electricity.  The Federal Ministry of Health adopted this method for all levels of care in Nigeria, to complement the use of incubators, in order to help reduce our neonatal mortality; and produced a KMC training manual in 2008. However, many hospitals within the country are still on the brink of implementation making LUTH one of the foremost tertiary hospitals leading the trail on this side of Africa with a dedicated Kangaroo Care Unit to add to the use of incubators in caring for the teeming number of premature babies referred to the hospital for specialized newborn care.  This is despite that LUTH has one of the largest newborn wards with about the highest number of incubators in West Africa. Prof Chinyere advises that this form of care be urgently cascaded in other parts of the country as it is not only effective but equally economical; as incubators are very expensive, and beyond reach of many health care providers.

At the LUTH newborn unit, the three mothers were met with their preterm babies tied to their chests in the kangaroo care position. The first mother had a baby, the second had given birth to twins while the third mother had given birth to triplets with the babies each taking turns to nestle against their mother— all pre-term and administering the skin to skin form of care.

Although fathers and grandmothers can take part in kangaroo care after appropriate hygiene, especially when the mother needs her rest, the mother should be the primary provider of skin-to-skin contact, as only she can breastfeed. Since skin-to-skin contact is basic to early bonding and attachment, it should probably not be done by hospital staff and other surrogates.

In kangaroo mother care, the baby wears a small diaper, socks and a hat which is placed in a flexed (fetal position) with maximal skin-to-skin contact on the parent’s chest. The baby is secured with a wrap that goes around the naked torso of the adult, providing the baby with proper support and positioning, constant containment without pressure points or creases, and protecting from air drafts (thermoregulation). If it is cold, the parent may wear a shirt or hospital gown with an opening to the front and a blanket over the wrap for the baby.

Lagos University Teaching Hospital seems to have pioneered a groundbreaking movement that needs to be practiced by other hospitals in a bid to reduce the high levels of mortality rates of preterm babies, as pre-term babies have less chances of survival due to immature organs and inability to maintain their body temperature; and even where survived, may suffer life long ailments. For a country ranked as the third highest rate in premature births, KMC practice nationwide in Nigeria is highly significant for our progress.

All the photos were taken in their most natural state and child photographer; Ria Solanke worked her magic to the excitement of the glowing mothers. At time of publishing, all the women had been released to their homes along with their healthy babies boasting the success of this form of care.

After serving Ghana and beyond with great event news and updates, your favorite Events hub EVENTGUIDE Ushers into 2018 in grand style. The official publish and outdooring of the new and improved first 2018 edition of Eventguide magazine.

The beautiful January edition which features winners of the maiden edition of Ghana Event Award also have full profile of Lifetime Achievement Award of Ghana Event Awards 2017,C.E.O of Charter House, Mrs. Theresa Ayaode and all exclusives photos during the main event juicy launching both happened at one of the best hotels in Accra African Regent Hotel and successful nominees party at Django .The beautiful magazine contains deep and exclusive of Mrs.Ayaode as well as all your favorite events in 2017.
Jerry Adjorlolo and Berla Mundi won both event MC of the year male and female that has exclusive profile about and their out life.
The New edition of Eventguide Magazine contain the history of one of best event houses in Ghana and beyond talking about some of the events organized apart from Ghana Music Awards .
Grab your copy shell shops and media houses near soon be in new stands, free magazines will be given out soon so just keep your eyes on all our social media platforms. Facebook and twitter @eventguidegh instagram @eventguidemagazine

With February being the month of love, DStv is here to ensure that you continue your secret love affair by indulging on your favourite guilty viewing pleasures. From Dad’s secretly favourite reality show binges, to Mom’s suspicious and curious love affair with crime; and what’s with the kids’ obsession with music videos? DStv will serve it all up for you this whole month!

Some of the content to look forward to includes the season premiere of the multi-award-winning sitcom The Big Bang Theory on Valentine’s Day at 5pm on M-Net, when Amy is expected to finally give Sheldon an answer to his proposal.

BET is having Black Love Month this February on Saturdays and Sundays at 6pm, with movies all about hook-ups, break-ups, make-ups and ultimately love everlasting (hopefully)! There’s 35 & Ticking on 3 & A Weekend with the Family on 4 February, Mr. Right on 10 & My first Love on 11 February, Where’s the Love on 17 & Love and Other 4 Letter Words on 18 February Closing off the love chapter is Angela Bassett’s Golden Globe-winning performance of legendary Tina Turner on What’s Love Got to do With It on 24 & Boy Bye on 25 February.
There’s a real-life Royal love story unfolding…and it’s only befitting that DStv shares it with customers in this month of love. Prince Harry and Meghan: Truly, Madly, Deeply airs on iTV Choice on Thursday 15 February at 6pm. The documentary charts the history of Prince Harry and Megan Markel after their engagement, their romance and asks: Who is this woman that the fifth in line to the British throne wants to marry? Tune in!
E! Entertainment is celebrating Valentine’s Day with a ‘…putting a ring on it’ theme from 7am to 7:50pm. The channel will bring you a whole day of wedding-themed programming, from romantic engagements and venue hunting to beautiful weddings. It will feature proposals from Total Bellas, WAGS Miami and Keeping Up with The Kardashians.
Another reality show about love is on the way on Lifetime, Questions of Love from 23 February at 6pm. This bold new relationship format examines what happens to three different couples when they decide to take a major step in their relationship: moving in together for the first time.
Also discover the sinister side of love on IDx’s ‘Love Hurts’-themed programming from 7 February at 7:05pm. Kiss Of Death tells the true, heart-stopping stories of love turned deadly; Married With Secrets looks at what happens when ‘happily-ever-after’ goes horribly wrong, while Love Kills tells the sordid tale of lovers who vow to be together in sickness, health and murder.
Trace Urban has crooners Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith to serenade you on Focus while Trace Africa will have put together just the right playlist to set the tone for your love-filled Valentine’s weekend.
So, no need to call for a ‘Valentine’ to keep you company because it will just be you and your remote cuddling for all the special love moments DStv has in store for you. Besides, there is a whole lot more to explore and discover by visiting www.dstv.com. Who knows you might just find new love!

E.L premieres the visuals to his single ‘Pay Like A Boss’, a song off his forthcoming, ”WAVs” (West African Vibes).

Shot in London and directed by Wowa, the video sees E.L disclose his financial capabilities as well as how his money ”speaks” for him when he wants it to.

E.L, similar to some songs of his, sings throughout this one. In terms of instrumentation, the beat definitely has a West African mid-tempo vibe, one which has evolved to the Afrobeat genre. Regardless, the mellow grooves on this piece are adorned with some drums to make it lively.

Watch and share.

The Zylofon Arts fund was launched some two weeks ago and has since received a number of entries which are currently under review by the 5-member administrative board.

Proposals should be sent directly to the Zylofon Media headquarters in East Legon, Lagos Avenue opposite Mensvic Hotel. Meanwhile here’s all you need to provide in order to access the $1million fund successfully.

The Zylofon Arts Fund is a scheme structured to support the various creative arts
arms of the Nation both locally and internationally, to boost the prominence of the
Arts and Tourisms in Ghana. ZAF is a credit relief fund with a non-interest

Areas

The fund will cover a wide spectrum of which include Film (Documentary, Movie
Producers, Set Designers), Music ( Drummers, Sound Engineers, Song
Writers/Composers, Instrumentalists, Performers), Theatre Arts (Stage Managers),
Dance, Visual Arts, Tourism Writers and Bloggers, Architects, Artisans
(Hairdressers, Painters, Craftsmen, Sculptors, Weavers, Make-up Artists), Fashion
Designers and Dressmakers, Jewelry, Publishers
Eligibility Criteria
Open all well – meaning Ghanaians in the Arts Industry.

Basic Information Required

1. Full Applicant name
   2. Full applicant address including GhanapostGPS address (office or house
   location)
   3. Creative Art industry category (e.g. Food, fashion, comedy, etc)
   4. Country
   5. Region (if project location and address is in Ghana)
   6. Contact phone numbers
   7. Contact email address
   8. Amount requested
   9. Project brief (one paragraph)

Documentation and Information Required

1. Project scope details review
   2. Project financials – Previous spend and projected spend/budget
   3. Historic performance review – Proof of revenue where applicable?
2. Talent/creativity confirmation – This will include sampling of product or
   service (demo CD, script review, artwork analysis, food tasting etc)
3. Potential impact/Benefit to society

Final Application Phase

1. Verification of information provided by phone, email, site visits and meeting
2. Project defense by owner or management (At office or by phone)
3. BOD members final review and recommendation for success and evaluation
4. BOD sign off with a brief justification for authorizing of fund release.

Board Guidelines

1. BOD members and family (spouses, parent, brothers and sisters) are not
   allowed to access the funds
2. Board meetings shall be held once every 2 weeks
3. After a project has progressed through all phases of the review process, the
   BOD will vote to approve funding.
4. A majority vote is required to pass for funding.
5. All BOD members must sign off on all project after final phase review has
   been completed.
6. BOD members must meet approved project lead at least once before funds
   can be disbursed
7. All application must be acknowledged in writing via email confirming receipt
8. BOD must process and respond to “ALL” received application no later than 1
   calendar month with decision either positive or not.
9. BOD must endeavor to select project across all creative art sectors, all
   regions and the diaspora
10. Special priority must be given to projects that promote Ghana’s creative art
    abroad

Practitioners in the Ghanaian creative arts industry and management members of the Arts Growth Foundation Ghana (AGFG), over the weekend reiterated their commitment to partner with all relevant institutions and key stakeholders to revamp, strategically position and promote the Ghanaian creative arts sector.

AGFG is a registered non-governmental organization based in Accra and seeks to stimulate discussions, initiate concepts for the general development of the Ghanaian Arts and Entertainment industry through various schemes. These include building the capacity of practitioners within the Ghanaian arts space as well as creating cross cultural experiences for Ghanaian arts practitioners.

Addressing audience at a stakeholder and media gathering held at the Coconut Grove Regency hotel in Accra, the Executive Director of AGFG, Mr. Jonathan Christopher Koney (popularly known as Chris Koney) emphasized the need to get all players within the sector to advocate for the wellbeing of practitioners to lead to the development of the sector.

“Marketing Ghanaian arts extensively and building of synergies between Ghanaian arts practitioners and their foreign counterparts is very important to move our creative arts sector to the next level.  Founded on the conviction that the arts and creative media can awaken and release human potential in profound and unique ways, we will not relent in our effort to achieve that”, Mr. Koney added.

He further stated that “the Arts Growth Foundation Ghana as a body is keen on establishing a dependable relationship among individuals, communities, artists, and organizations working to create vibrant and sustainable approaches to human prosperity”.

Membership of the AGFG is open to everyone that operates in the creative arts space such as musicians, actors and actresses, painters and artisans, poets, spoken word performers, content creators, talent managers, fashion entrepreneurs and sporting personalities.

The most recent success of the organization was in 2017 when the organization under the leadership of Mr. Chris Koney worked with the Netherlands Embassy in Ghana to execute at Orange week celebrations at which Ghanaian musician Bisa Kdei was celebrated. The organization also helped with the roll out of the “Afrocentrc Collection” by Ghanaian clothing line Aba & Thursday in Ghana and the United Kingdom.

More information about Arts Growth Foundation Ghana can be accessed at www.chriskoney.com/agfg

The average annual snowfall for Sub-Saharan Africa is a paltry 0.01 inches less than half a millimeter. This is nowhere near enough to create the alpine conditions needed to participate in a winter sports event like cross-country skiing, bobsleighing, alpine skiing or skeleton. Yet, this has never been a deterrent for African countries like Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ghana, South Africa, Madagascar and Cameroon who have all at some point since 1984, sent athletes to participate at the Winter Olympics.

As Africa’s enchantment with the winter spectacle continues, DStv customers will enjoy a decidedly warmer viewing experience to this year’s Winter Olympics being hosted in PyeongChang, South Korea where Nigeria and Uganda are set to make their debuts.

The 2018 Winter Olympics gets underway on Friday, February 9 and will be broadcast live on DStv across four dedicated SuperSport channels: SS11; SS12 and the soon-to-be launched pop-up channels; SS13 and SS14.

DStv customers in Ghana will witness history in the making when Ghana’s Akwasi Frimpong rolls down the ice track head first in the skeleton. These events will air on SS11, SS12, and SS13 available to all active DStv Premium, Compact+, Compact and Family customers plus SS14 which will also be available on the DStv Access package. SuperSport 11 and 12 will air in high definition (HD) while SS13 and SS14, the designated as the 24-hour Olympics news channel, will be standard definition (SD).

SuperSport 11 will kick off its broadcast on Monday, February 5 with build-up content (archive footage from previous Winter Olympics games). The channel will also carry the opening ceremony on Friday, February 9th from 11am. The Olympics news channel, SS14, goes live on Wednesday, February 7 from 3am. The launch for SS12 and SS13 is set for Thursday, February 8 from 12am.

All four channels will also be available on the digital platforms, the DStv Now Mobile App and website and the SuperSport website for customers to enjoy the live Winter Olympics chills and thrills on-the-go! Select events not carried on the four dedicated channels will be aired across various SuperSport channels, space permitting.

To enjoy the Winter Olympics as well as an enhanced entertainment offering on DStv, get an DStv Explora to record, pause and rewind live TV and stay up to date with daily highlights of medal ceremonies plus record-breaking performances on the CatchUp service. A daily one-hour English highlights package will be available on SS Maximo 1 while GOtv customers will also be treated to a piece of the action with Winter Olympics news and highlights on Select 3 – available to GOtv Plus and GOtv Max customers.

After spending seven days in the Big Brother house, the housemates got their first taste of reckoning at the first live show. Hosted by the ever suave and dapper Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, Sunday’s show brought with it the usual blend of intrigue, suspense and entertainment as Kcee, the Limpopo crooner, entertained studio guests and viewers at home.

Soothed by the absence of evictions for this week, the housemates got to share their experience thus far in the house. After last week’s pairings, the housemates were once again tasked with competing to become the next Head of House. Bam Bam, Cee C, Tobi and Teddy A came out victorious, meaning that teams Cebi and Bamteddy will have to do battle for the HOH crown.

Another pair caught in the spotlight albeit for the wrong reasons was the dynamic quo of Khloe and K Brule, otherwise known as K-Square, who were handed their first strike by Big Brother following their unruly behavior. Khloe was able to single handedly tie herself to every controversy in the Big Brother house with her confrontational and approach, but it was K Brule who escalated the duo’s troubles by jumping off a balcony, an action that triggered an emotional response from fellow housemate Bitto.  Biggie handed K-Square a strike which ultimately is a step closer for them to get booted out of the Big Brother house; they were also disqualified from the HOH contest that took place shortly after.

Viewers were thrilled by Kcee, who performed his hit singles Pull Over, Limpopo and more. After sharing his usual dose of wise words with the housemates, Ebuka let the viewers in on a twist: there will be fake nominations on Monday night, and no evictions next week Sunday. The housemates are however oblivious of the development and this guarantees even more excitement for the viewers.

Make sure you tune in to DStv channel 198 and GOtv channel 29 to catch all the excitement, drama, and suspense on Big Brother Naija, proudly sponsored by PayPorte, your preferred online store.

Follow us on twitter @BBNaija and on Instagram @Bigbronaija to find out more. You can also visit www.dstv.com or www.gotvafrica.com

Many people have criticised Kuami Eugene for releasing “confusion”, a song that is believed to be a remix of an original by Sidike Diabite. Albeit I concur that the song by the lynx entertainment singed youngster is indeed a cover of Sidike’s “Fais mois Confiance”, I believe Eugene has done nothing wrong in making this beautiful song for the gusto of his fans and Ghanaians at large.

First, there are over dozen copyright laws that may prevent an artist from putting up a remix. However, standard industry practice and conventions give room for an artist to take inspiration from another’s creativity but ought to give due credit to the original creator of the piece. The emergence of remixes is not a new practise in the music industry across the globe.

I hope you enjoyed the hit single by Sean Kingston titled “Beautiful girls”. Oh! I bet you didn’t know that it was a cover of Ben E. king’s Stand by me. Did you bash The then 17 year old Kingston for that amazing creative work? Kingston used Ben E. King’s riddim to express his high school self-pity, warning a possible girlfriend that her good looks will make him want to kill himself if they break-up. Teenage angst paid off well, though: The song went to Number One on three continents. Ben E. King’s stand by me has been remade in different genres by Legendary acts like John Lennon, Junior Murvin, Maurice White, R – Kelly, U2 and Bruce Springsteen. In recent times, former Disney star, Miley Cyrus cut lyrics from “Stand by Me” into the chorus of “My Darlin’,” she and the perpetually Auto-Tuned Future rhyming the older song’s title with a promise to make a movie in the 3D and had contributions from Pharrel, Dr. Luke and Mike Will I am. So Miley and Future did a perfect collabo as remix. Even the Greatest, Muhammad Ali took a shot at recording an amazing version of the same song.

The just ended Grammy awards also nominated many songs that were covers of other songs. In fact, the album of the year won by Bruno Mars had all the songs in it sampled from originals by other musicians. And oh! My very own favourite musician of all time Jay Z sampled “Bam” from Sister Nancy’s 1982 hit rock on the 4:44 album. The album had the highest number of nominations at the Grammys this year. The album that got most people dancing around the world, Grateful by DJ Khaled. The timeless song , “Wild Thoughts “ which features “Bad Gyal” Rihanna and “Kojo fine boy” Bryson Tiller is just another good sample of Santana’s “Maria”. I bet you never knew ?

As I mentioned earlier, there are copyright laws regarding how to go about a cover of someone’s creative work. I am not a lawyer so I would not dare into explaining those laws. I would leave that to my dearest , Annica Nsiah-Appau, wife and manager of Okyeame Kwame.

To the fans and lovers of kuami Eugene, keep supporting the young talent. He has caused some “confusion” with his new song but give him a break, he’s done nothing wrong.

Jacob Kwaku Gyan
International Music Promoter/ Fmr Project Manager of Okyeame Kwame

Miss Ghana Foundation, the Charity Arm of the Miss Ghana brand has donated $5000.00 to the Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine (FOCOS). Scoliosis is a medical condition in which a person’s spine has a sideways curve.

The curve is usually “S”- or “C”-shaped. In some, the degree of curve is stable, while in others it increases over time. Mild scoliosis does not typically cause problems, while severe cases can interfere with breathing. In most cases causes unknown except for main conditions of cereal palsy and muscular dystrophy.

The donation is a first instalment to commence surgical procedure for a teenager suffering from scoliosis and an extreme orthopaedic ailment; out of a total cost of $15,000.00.

The beneficiary, 13 year old Gifty Amuzu is living with a life threatening condition called TB Kyphosis of the Thoracic spine which will require urgent surgery to save her life or it will paralyse her soon. Her condition was noticed five years ago while in primary school. All efforts by her mother to curb this deformity proved futile. Currently, Gifty has dropped out of school due to the intense pain in the back which causes her to loose concentration in class. She is unable to sit, stand or walk for long periods and also cannot perform simple house chores. She feels stigmatised, sad and often isolates herself in social gatherings. Gifty Amuzu enjoys singing and aspires to become a soldier in future.

She caught the eye of the Miss Ghana Foundation recently when the Foundation’s current Ambassadors Miss Ghana 2017 Margaret Dery, her runner ups Pricilla Gameli and Marigold Frimpong visited the FOCOS Hospital as part of the Miss Ghana Foundation’s charity plans for the year.

Presenting the donation, Chairwoman of the Miss Ghana Foundation Ms. Inna Patty reiterated that, Miss Ghana Foundation was passionate about health, especially that of less privileged children. She commended the efforts of the queens and a good Samaritan for the donation thus far. She appealed for more support to complete the surgery by the end of this month of Love, February 2018.

On their part Miss Ghana 2017 Margaret Dery and her runner ups recounted how they raised funds through the Miss Ghana Kids Bazaar event, some corporate institutions such as Nasco Ghana, Brommon, Crystal Capital and Investment limited and other fund raising drives at Accra Mall, ANC Mall and Tang Palace Hotel.

Receiving the donation on behalf of 13 year old Gifty Amuzu, the nursing director of FOCOS Hospital Miss Jemima Owusu, expressed gratitude to Miss Ghana Foundation.

“We are happy to see the Miss Ghana Foundation helping to put a smile on the face of Gifty; thereby helping her fulfil her dreams of going back to school and becoming a soldier one day. Even though her case is a serious one she has been on the waiting list for weeks now, hoping for some assistance somehow. I appeal to everyone, corporate bodies and individuals to join in this good deed so that the full cost of the surgery would be covered” She said.

The Medical Doctor on Duty Dr. Gerhard Ofori Amankwa, Director of Medical Services, used the opportunity to reiterate that such conditions are not hereditary nor a curse. As such, society should show more love by supporting such patients.

Ghanaian singer, Efya burst into uncontrollable tears on GHOne TV on Friday, when she attempted to talk about Ebony on live TV.

Death of the sensational singer, Ebony has been devastating and unbearable to say the least.

During the interview with the host of the Rythmz LIVE show, Efya said..“for strength for everybody” following Ebony‘s death on Friday.

She told Jason El-A on Rythmz Live On GhOneTV Friday afternoon, she hopes that people can do the best before they leave the earth.“I pray for strength for everybody. For her family, my condolences.” expressed the ‘Forgetting Me’ crooner. “I pray that we can do as much before we go and that we can do our best in everything because God gives us the strength… and everything will be okay.”

Watch the video below.

Good news, students will now have until Thursday, 1 March 2018 to enter the 2017 edition of DStv Eutelsat Star Awards competition. The closing date has been extended to allow science and technology fans between the ages of 14 and 19 have extra time to be inspired to write a creative essay or design a poster.

This year’s topic is “It’s sixty years since the first satellite, Sputnik, was launched, broadcasting a unique and easily captured ‘beep, beep, beep’ signal. Looking back at this historic moment, write an essay or design a poster depicting how satellites have launched humankind into the 21st Century and acted as a unifier.”

Follow us on our brand new Facebook page and get the latest news and useful tips on how to win a once-in-a-lifetime trip by entering the 7^th edition of the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards competition.  The essay winner will be eligible for a trip for two to Paris, France in the company of Eutelsat, and onwards to French Guiana to see a rocket launch into space. The poster winner will win a trip for two to South Africa which includes a visit to the South African National Space Agency as well as exploration of several heritage sites as guests of MultiChoice Africa. The schools attended by the two winners will also receive a DStv installation, including a dish, TV, decoder and free access to the DStv Education Package.

 The DStv Eutelsat Star Awards competition is open to all learners from secondary (high) or combined schools on the continent where MultiChoice Africa maintains operations. Entry forms can be obtained from any MultiChoice Resource Centre, the nearest MultiChoice office or via www.dstvstarawards.com. Entries are accepted in English, French and Portuguese and will be judged on the basis of high-standard criteria of accuracy, creativity, originality and innovation. For the first time this year students are also invited to engage with the Awards community through a dedicated Facebook page.

 The competition closes on 1 March 2018. Only entries submitted on the official entry form will be eligible. The overall winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in April 2018.