Category: Entertainment News

Twenty-three-year-old entrepreneur, Ekua Mends Bannerman, representing the Central Region has won Ghana’s Most Beautiful 2019 after 13 weeks of competition fused with entertainment and education.

She beat off stiff competition from four other finalists, including Enam [Volta Region representative] who was seen by some as the favourite for this year’s crown, to walk home with the ultimate prize.

Few minutes after midnight Sunday, the Grand Arena dome at the Accra International Conference Centre went agog when one of the three judges, Linda Ampaw, announced: “GMB winner 2019 is Ekua.”

She becomes the second person from her region to win the GMB crown. Ama first won the crown in 2007.

Ekua gets a brand new car, a cash prize of 10,000 cedis, a round trip to Dubai courtesy Camel Antiseptic’s ‘Buy and Fly and one year supply of GTP fabric among other souvenirs from sponsors.

Volta region’s Enam, born Anita Mawuena Bossoh, who gave Ekua a good run, came second, walking away with a cash prize of 8,000 cedis, a round trip to Dubai and six-months supply of GTP fabric.

Serwaa from the Ashanti Region, who was evicted but got a second chance to prove her mettle, eventually took third place. She receives a cash prize of 6,000 cedis, a trip to Dubai and a three-month supply of GTP fabric.

Western North representative, Saah, placed fourth and walks home with 4,000 cedis cash and a month supply of GTP fabric.

The fifth spot went to Ayisha who represented the Upper East Region in the competition. She also won the Best Model [golden shoe award] for the night. Ayisha receives a cash prize of 2,000 cedis and a month supply of GTP fabric.

The final night saw great performances from the legendary Ga band, Wulomei, and ‘zanku’ hitmakers Dope Nation as well as Adina.

The event was attended by some past queens and contestants of Ghana’s Most Beautiful pageant.

The 2019 Ghana’s Most Beautiful pageant was on the theme: ‘Black and Proud’ and for the first time, had 16 contestants from all the regions who throughout the competition, projected their respective cultures to the world.

Story by: Pearl Abaidoo-Abbam

Multiple award-winning actress, Martha Ankomah chooses to live a social media life that would attract brands for ambassadorial deals over sharing of nudity.

She made this known on the latest episode of Kisa Gbekle’s “Business of Entertainment” show on GHOne TV monitored by dikoder.com.

According to Martha, she isn’t perfect but wouldn’t succumb to using her naked photos to drive engagement for her social media accounts.

She told Kisa: “I have my flaws but I wouldn’t wake up in the morning and post a picture of my naked self.” She asked: “What am I teaching the people following me?”

The 38-year-old actress who is a brand ambassador for GTP revealed that social media is giving people a lot of pressure they can’t handle.

She advised that one needs to live a life that would attract ambassadorial deals.

“Listen, social media is putting a lot of pressure on people’s minds and is making go wayward. It’s making people take some drastic decisions.”

“Companies would want to associate themselves with good brands. Ask yourself, do I deserve to be a brand ambassador?”

Story by: Pearl Abaidoo-Abbam

Ghanaian actress Yvonne Okoro is calling for regulation of the movie industry to cap the airtime given to foreign movies, especially telenovelas so as to boost the local industry.

“We can’t say telenovelas should be banned. What we can say is, maybe, 30 per cent of movies of feature films or series should be telenovelas so every network or TV station must show 70 per cent of Ghanaian movies,” she proposed.

She told Nana Romeo on Accra100.5FM’s mid-morning show AyekooAyekoo on Tuesday, November 5, 2019, that such a move will help resuscitate the ailing Ghana movie industry.

The 2010 Ghana Movie Awards Best Actress is of the view that the industry needs investors, significant funding and laws “to regulate the types of movies that are shown”, adding that telenovelas are one of the “major” causes of the declining industry in Ghana.

Ms Okoro has featured in more 30 movies and has been nominated for Africa Movie Awards Best Actress twice in a row – 2011 and 2012 – for her movies ‘Pool Party’ and ‘Single Six’.

Her latest movie is ‘Fix us’, which was produced by fellow actress Yvonne Nelson and set to be premiered at the Silverbird Cinema on 6 December 2019.

Apart from the two Yvonne’s, the other notable names in ‘Fix Us’ are Tobi from Big Brother Nigeria, Michelle Attoh, Hajia4real, Irene Logan and Prince David Osei.

By: Pearl Abaidoo-Abbam

Young Ghanaian female Disc Jockey, Erica Armah Bra-Bulu Tandoh, well known as DJ Switch, has sent a reply to people who posit she does not deserve the Best DJ award.

The 12-year-old beat DJ Mic-Smith, DJ Vyrusky, DJ Sly, DJ Aroma and DJ Black to grab the coveted award. She also won the Best Female DJ at the Ghana DJ Awards event held at Accra International Conference Centre, Saturday.

While others have criticized her, others say she deserves the awards since she has played a lot of high-profile shows than the competitors.

The young DJ has reacted to criticism with a new hot tune titled ‘success’.

The song the young talked about how a lot of people including her own people envy her but with the help of God, she still controls.

By: Mavis Davor

Entertainment journalist, MzGee, has officially resigned from The Multimedia Group.
Dikoder.com a media organisation say the resignation of the broadcaster known in real life as Gloria Akpene Acquah, is effective today, November 1, 2019.

It is unclear where she heads next but our sources say her former employers are in talk with her to rescind her decision as “she is our lead and best entertainment hand”.

The entertainment host and fashion icon’s resignation comes after Manasseh Awuni Azure and Afia Pokua’s exits.

MzGee joined Multimedia in 2014. During her days, she co-produced Daybreak Hitz which is Hitz FM’s four-hour magazine entertainment and lifestyle morning show.

She hosted ‘Campus’ and ‘Entertainment This Week’ on Hitz FM and anchored Hitz News @1.

The silky-voiced presenter also handled the entertainment segment on JoyNews’ evening bulletin and hosted G-Spot, a relationship TV talk show with celebrities as guests on Joy Prime.

MzGee has covered several high profile programmes across the continent including Ghana Music Awards and African Movie Academy Awards.

By: Mavis Davor

The President of the Creative Art Council, Mark Okraku Mantey has called on  the industry players to come together as one body to promote growth and development in the industry.

Mr. Mark Okraku stated that there are lots of groups in the creative industry which hinders the full growth of the industry.

He said instead of concentrating on building associations within the industry, they should rather consider brainstorming on ideas that will lead to  development as some of these associations even lack the relevant equipment to fully operate.

Mr. Okraku Mantey again urged the industry players to learn how to solve problems and differences within the industry and also stop dragging issues among themselves within the industry to court.

He said this today during the Ghana Creative Art Forum at the National Theatre Accra.

Speaking to some of the industry players in an interview with d-FM news concerning the 10 million Dollars released by the government to the Creative Arts Industry, according to some of them a portion of the money should be used to establish a body that will review songs before it is released.  

 TO conclude they called for actions instead of the numerous promises.

STORY BY:Mavis Davor