I have not disrespected Muslims – Herty Borngreat

Ghanaian Gospel musician Herty Borngreat’s approach of getting her fans active and interactive with her regular “type Amen” posts is not new someone like me and you might have come across similar posts of hers if you spend more time on Facebook.

This approach which normally asks you to “type Amen” on posts just to avert curses or avoid any bad happening has been very helpful as her page is always active however, one of such posts has incurred the wrath of many in the Islamic faith as a recent post that had Prophet Mohammed bow to Jesus Christ with the inscription “every knee shall bow” has caused a lot of uproar among both Islamic community in Ghana.

After publications of her disrespecting Muslims broke last week and went viral, the artist has expressed dissatisfaction at the news and blamed journalists for not contacting her for the reality of the situation.

In an interview with News One, the management of the artist disclosed the picture was a Photoshop image embossed on a snapshot of her Facebook page to make it seem as if she was the one who published it.

“It is a very dangerous lie people are spreading about me. An evil lie that can spark a religious dispute and religious hatred and I want to use your medium to urge all well-meaning people in the media to help me to tell the world it is not true. That photo did not come from me or my camp. We have never uploaded or published such a photo and I suspect it is a Photoshop some people with a bad motive have designed to cause hatred for me.

“I believe in peaceful religious tolerance and co-existence because our belief in one God should unite us rather than divide us. Some call Him Allah, some call Him Adonai, some call Him Jehovah but God is one and that is what should unite us. I know the calamity religious disputes have brought to other countries. We don’t want that to happen in Ghana,” Herty told NEWS-ONE on Sunday.

She continued: “My attention was drawn to that report on Sunday morning and when I searched it on Google, I was shocked that people would write such a thing about me without even cross-checking from me. Why would I put out a photo that is offensive to the sentiments of Muslims? I have a very good relationship with the Islamic community.

At the last Salafest at Nima, I was there to perform for my Muslim family and I hope to be there this year because I have a lot of respect for Muslims and a huge fan base from the Islamic Community. I would not insult Muslims, I have not insulted Muslims and I feel disappointed by the false report.

“I call on all persons who have seen that report to disregard it. It is not from me and we are investigating to get to the bottom of it. Today, I am the victim, tomorrow it may be someone else and if we do not unite to speak out against such things, we do not know what it may lead to in future. Religious disputes and conflicts and discrimination are things we must all guard against.”

The comments from the management somehow seem interesting to me as the account that posted that picture is an account of hers unless we are meant to believe the usual concert party thoughts of “The account was hacked” or “The account does not belong to us”, which I would be very shocked.

I believe it is time, our people suffered the repercussions of their actions and stopped their easy of massaging issues.

Juliet Ibrahim reveals she admires Iyanya

Iyanya, Nigeria’s fast-rising music artiste, to some people, is not in the good books of Ghanaian actresses, who probably must have felt bad with the way he allegedly treated one of their ‘sisters’, Yvonne Nelson, who he reportedly dated and dumped later.

At the Ghana Music Awards held some weeks ago in Accra, it was reported that Yvonne Okoro initially snubbed the Nigerian singer, after he made efforts to drag her to the stage to dance with him.

As then reported, Iyanya, while performing at the event, called on his alleged former lover’s namesake to come on stage with him to probably ‘shake’ her waist, but she declined. It was said that Iyanya was later forced to meet with Yvonne Okoro on seat, called on her severally until the lady was embarrassed and forced herself to heed to the call.

However, while some Ghanaians may not like Iyanya for what he ‘did’ to Yvonne Nelson, by only interested in Yvonne Nelson’s ‘waist’, Juliet Ibrahim sees Iyanya as an admirable and talented act.

According to Juliet, while speaking in an interview on AY Show, confessed that Iyanya is one of the Nigerian artistes she admires, just like Flavour, another Nigerian music star.

Juliet stated that she likes Iyanya mostly in his R&B form, describing him as a good and talented singer.http://cdn.ghanaweb.com/GHP/img/pics/41469876.295.jpg
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Yvonne Okoro: I am not broke!

No nonsense actress Yvonne Okoro has vented her spleen at those involved in the brouhaha over her recent ‘repeated dress,' saying, “I will repeat my dress.”

Yvonne, last week, repeated a yellow Karen Millen modern tribal dress she wore in August 2012 at Showbiz Honours on a movie set in Nigeria.

Subsequent media reports claimed that the actress decided to repeat the dress because “she is broke.”

But the beautiful award-winning actress described the claims as “unintelligent and childish.”

She said she found it difficult to comprehend how “any learned person” would think that repeating a dress determined one’s bank account.

“I will repeat my dress anytime I want to. I don’t owe anybody any explanation. Billionaires and millionaires all over the world can repeat dresses and its fine, but we can’t. Who is arresting me for doing so? The inspector dress or the FBI of clothes?” Yvonne Okoro made a fun of her critics when NEWS-ONE contacted her yesterday.

Earlier, she took to instagram to react to the claims, advising young girls, “…if it looks that good let no one tell you, you can’t wear more than once. Bring back our girls to reality.”

She also denied claims about how she acquired her Mercedes Benz

Big Brother Africa Season 9 auditions announced for Ghana

The ninth edition of Africa’s biggest reality series BIG BROTHER AFRICA kicks off in September and already fans are asking…who will the new housemates be? Who will find their names and their faces gracing newspapers? Who will become the subject of drive time radio and just who will find themselves trending on all social media platforms?

Unlike previous years, this year’s entry process is slightly different as potential housemates are invited to come in their numbers for auditions in their respective country venues. Auditions will take place at Ghana – Accra (Holiday Inn Hotel Airport) on 5 and 6 July 2014

AfricaMagic has always been associated with unearthing, nurturing and recognizing talent from around the continent; and Big Brother Africa is one of the shows that have become known for transforming ordinary citizens into stars.

“We are very grateful and remain pleasantly surprised by the overwhelming response that the show has been receiving over the years. We look forward to the selection of our potential housemates coming in large numbers to auditions at the specified venues and take that chance at being the next Big Brother star,” says M-Net Africa Regional Director (West Africa) Wangi Wa-Uzoukwu.

“The fact that the fans truly adore the show is all the motivation we need to keep it fresh and that is always made possible by the enthusiastic and fun-loving young Africans who will answer to Big Brother. We are rearing to go and we know that this will definitely be another exciting season that is full of quality entertainment!” she adds.

Her sentiments are echoed by Endemol MD Sivan Pillay who says, “We have been producing this series for M-Net for a number of seasons now and as partners, together we have seen this show grow to the phenomenon that it has become. We hope the season will be even better as we strive to improve on our offering season after season. We will not hold back on the quality and exciting unpredictability that has become synonymous with Big Brother Africa. Audiences and fans can expect yet another high quality production and of course, another group of fun-loving housemates who will keep you guessing on who will be left standing come day 91.”

MultiChoice Africa CEO Nico Meyer says: “As MultiChoice Africa we are always pleased to welcome each new season of Big Brother Africa onto our platforms and we applaud its amazing success and ability to bring together audiences from all across the continent. The inclusion of Rwanda in this season is even more exciting as this displays that our reach and growth into the various sub-Saharan markets is going from strength to strength. We look forward to seeing further growth as well as the impressive social media presence that the show enjoys.”

All persons over the age of 21, who are citizens of one of the participating countries and have a valid passport, can enter Big Brother Africa 9. If you are open-minded, bold and adventurous, that’s even better! Previous editions of Big Brother Africa have boasted huge cash prizes for winners and this it is no different as the prize money is USD 300 000.

Remember, entries are open to the following 14 countries: Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

BIG BROTHER AFRICA 8 will be screened live 24/7 on DStv channels 197 and 198 while GOtv audiences will see highlights of the show, which begins on Sunday 7 September and is scheduled to run for 91 days. Big Brother Africa is produced by ENDEMOL SA.

Bisa Love Letter

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Tupac's final words revealed by police officer on scene of murder

The first police officer at the scene of Tupac Shakur's 1996 drive-by murder has revealed the last words spoken by the late rap legend. And they're not exactly peaceful.


"He looked at me, and he took a breath to get the words out, and he opened his mouth," says Chris Carroll, a retired sergeant with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, in a new feature with Vegas Seven. "And then the words came out: 'F**k you.'"

Shakur was shot multiple times on September 7th, 1996. After leaving a boxing match with former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, the rapper and his bodyguards got into a scuffle with 21-year-old Crips gang member Orlando Anderson in the lobby of the MGM Grand casino. Carroll, who worked with the city's bike patrol unit, had also been watching the same Mike Tyson fight, but was unaware of the brawl taking place in the lobby.

Later, a white Cadillac pulled up beside Knight and Shakur while they were stopped at a traffic light and one man began shooting out of the back window. Carroll was the first officer to respond to the grisly scene.

"I grab the car door and I'm trying to open it, but I can't get it open," he says. "[Knight] keeps coming up on my back, so I'm pointing my gun at him. I'm pointing it at the car. I'm yelling, 'You guys lay down! And you, get the f**k away from me!' And every time I'd point the gun at him, he'd back off and even lift his hands up, like 'All right! All right!' So I'd go back to the car, and here he comes again. I'm like, 'F**ker, back off!' This guy is huge, and the whole time he's running around at the scene, he's gushing blood from his head. Gushing blood! I mean the guy had clearly been hit in the head, but he had all his faculties. I couldn't believe he was running around and doing what he was doing, yelling back and forth."

Carroll says when he finally was able to open the door, Shakur's limp body fell out of the vehicle, "like he was leaning against the door."

"So I grabbed him with my left arm, and he falls into me, and I've still got my gun in the other hand," he continues. "He's covered with blood, and I immediately notice that the guy's got a ton of gold on -- a necklace and other jewelry -- and all of the gold is covered in blood. That has always left an image in my mind. . . After I pulled him out, Suge starts yelling at him, 'Pac! Pac!' And he just keeps yelling it. And the guy I'm holding is trying to yell back at him. He's sitting up and he's struggling to get the words out, but he can't really do it. And as Suge is yelling 'Pac!,' I look down and I realize that this is Tupac Shakur."

Carroll says he attempted to get a "dying declaration" of a potential suspect from Shakur, but the rapper was ignoring him at first.

"And then I saw in his face, in his movements, all of a sudden in the snap of a finger, he changed," he says. "And he went from struggling to speak, being noncooperative, to an 'I'm at peace' type of thing. Just like that. . . He went from fighting to 'I can't do it.' And when he made that transition, he looked at me, and he's looking right in my eyes. And that's when I looked at him and said one more time, 'Who shot you?'. . . He looked at me and he took a breath to get the words out, and he opened his mouth, and I thought I was actually going to get some cooperation. And then the words came out: 'F**k you.' After that, he started gurgling and slipping out of consciousness."

So why is Carroll coming forward with with information in 2014? Two reasons: Retiring from the Metro has allowed him the freedom to speak about the homicide case without being reprimanded ("It's been almost 18 years," he says. There's clearly never going to be a court case on this."), and he also didn't want "Tupac to be a martyr or a hero because he told the cops 'F**k you.'"

Carroll says Shakur never spoke another word -- remaining silent even when another officer tried to draw out a declaration in the ambulance.

"As soon as he got to the hospital, he went into surgery and was heavily sedated, and I guess he went into a coma and really never came out of that, until they took him off of life support," he continues. "So that moment I talked to him was his last real living moment where he was speaking. I talked to the cop who rode in the ambulance with him. He said Tupac never came out of it, and he never said anything at the hospital. There was nothing else."

Full nominations - 2014 BASS AWARDS

The second edition of the reggae and dancehall music awards show, Bass Awards, has been launched in Accra.

Nominations across various categories have been snapped up by some of Ghana’s fairly contemporary reggae, and dancehall acts, as well as songs by artistes who necessarily don’t experiment with the genre wholly.

See nominations list below…


• DANCEHALL ARTISTE(S) OF THE YEAR

1) Stonebwoy – Give it to them

2) Shatta Wale – Enter the Net

3) Jupitar – Freaky girl

• REGGAE ARTISTE(S) OF THE YEAR

1) Ras Kuuku – Father

2) Blakk Rasta – Iyawata

3) Iwan – Chant a song

• BEST ALTERNATIVE REGGAE/DANCEHALL SONG (GOSPEL)

1) Akesse Brempong – Crazy love

2) Nii Soul – Count it all joy

3) Jay Shady – Bestest friend

4) Jael Wiafe – Don’t give up the fight

• ARTISTE OF THE YEAR (KWAME NKRUMAH AWARD)

1) Shatta Wale

2) Stonebwoy

3) Jupitar

4) Blakk Rasta

5) Ras Kuuku

• DANCEHALL SONG OF THE YEAR

1) Episode – Turn up

2) Fuse ODG – Badder than bad

3) Shatta Wale- Enter the net

4) Stonebwoy – Give it to them

5) Jupitar – Freaky girl

• REGGAE SONG OF THE YEAR

1) Buk bak – Mama cry no more

2) Blakk Rasta – Iyawata

3) Iwan – Chant a song

4) Jah Wadada – Loving you

5) Konkarah – Rise

6) Ras Kuuku – Father

7) Tinny – Mi love you

8) Tsidifari – Ghana

9) Gyadu-Blay Ambolley – It doesn’t Matter

• BEST COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR (REGGAE)

1) Blakk Rasta/Lami – Iyawata

2) Kiki Jail/Shatta Rako – Me and You

3) Papa Jingo/Jeron Tempo – Yen ye Baako

4) Lingua Kat/Jah Amber – Makooma

5) Ras Kuuku/Norris man – Give thanks

• BEST COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR (DANCEHALL)

1) D2/Shatta Wale – Fever

2) Edem/Stonebwoy – Go harder

3) Episode/Edem – Circumstance

4) Method Ranking/Stonebwoy – Wind up

5) Sarkodie/Banky W – Pon di tin

6) Shatta Wale/D Black – Ina the Party

7) Trade Mark /Natural Face – Mi Girl Nie

8) Wiyaala/Jupitar – Rock my body

• RECORD OF THE YEAR (YAA ASANTEWAA AWARD)

1) Blakk Rasta – Eager to see Mandela

2) Papa Jingo – Yen ye baako

3) Episode – Mandela

4) Na U – Kudos Ghana.

5) Tsidifari – Ghana

• PRODUCER OF THE YEAR

1) Dakay

2) Genius selection

3) Infectious

• MUSIC VIDEO F THE YEAR (REGGAE)

1) Na U – Believe in me

2) Konkarah – Rise

3) Ras Kuuku – Father

4) Jon Germain – Still here

5) Blakk Rasta- Iyawata

• MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR (DANCEHALL)

1) Jupitar – Money Box

2) Shatta Wale – Like my thing

3) Sarkodie/Banky W – Pon di tin

4) Wiyaala/Jupitar – Rock my body

5) Mz Vee – Borkor Borkor

• BEST MALE VOCAL ARTISTE OF THE YEAR

1) Buk Bak – Mama cry more

2) Jah ambar – Eye Wunkuaa

3) Luther – Judge not

4) Nature – Chameleon love

5) Tsidifari– Ghana

• BEST FEMALE VOCAL ARTISTE OF THE YEAR

1) Mz Vee – Bokor Bokor

2) Wiyaala – Rock my body

• LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

1) Samson Quaye (Poncho)

2) Consular Hayes

3) Simple Man Kante

• DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR

1) Jah Wyz – My life

2) A K songtress – The Empress

3) Buju Stingo – Badder than them

• RIDDIM OF THE YEAR

1) Smirnoff and Guinness riddim

2) Kulcha riddim

• BEST PERFORMER OF THE YEAR

1) Shatta Wale

2) Stonebwoy

3) Ras Kuuku

4) Jupitar

• ALBUM OF THE YEAR (REGGAE/DANCEHALL)

1) Blakk Rasta – Ancestral Moon Splash

• BEST SONG WRITER OF THE YEAR

1) Buk Bak – Mama Cry no more

2) Konkarah – Rise

3) Ras Kuuku – Father

4) Tsidifari – Ghana

5) Ras Bomber – Danqua Circle

• BEST AFRICAN ACT OF THE YEAR

1) Wyre

2) Jesse Jagz

3) Alpha Blondy