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The Director-General of the National Sports Authority (NSA), Prof. Peter Twumasi has in an exclusive interview with GhanaWeb stated that none of Stonebwoy nor Shatta Wale has booked the Accra Sports Stadium for a concert yet.

According to him, both artistes are still in the process of getting the contract signed for the stadium to be used for a concert but nothing has been decided yet as to who gets the contract.

His comment comes on the back of Shatta Wale’s claim that he has been told Stonebwoy will do his show this year and his own will have to be done next year due to the clash of the dates for the same venue.

Speaking exclusively to GhanaWeb, on Wednesday, September 20, 2023, Prof. Peter Twumasi refuted the claims by Shatta Wale and reiterated that the National Sports Authority has not signed a contract with any of the artistes yet for a show to be held at the Accra Sports Stadium.

“If the sports authority is helping them and they are creating problems for me? The two of them, none of them has a contract with us [Natioanal Sports Authority]. We are just helping to support their industry. We are yet to sign a contract, so don’t bother too much. For now, they are going through the process of getting the contract with the NSA, it’s not even done yet,” he said.

“If you write a letter and request for a space then we will look at it and see whether we can offer you or not but we don’t have authority over what we can offer and what we cannot. We are thinking that stadium is a multi-purpose in use and over the years we have been accommodating them [artistes] bit by bit so it shouldn’t create any controversies unless they are just using it to promote their shows,” he told GhanaWeb.

Background

In expressing his fury over a supposed decision by the National Sports Authority to allow Stonebwoy to host a show at the Accra Sports Stadium on a date he (Shatta Wale) is also scheduled to hold an event at the same venue, the Dancehall musician indicated that the action was taken without a critical analysis of the possible consequence which includes violence.

A 40-minute Facebook live video on Tuesday which captured his fury as he narrated his side of the story saw the Shatta Movement boss chastising the authorities for acting inappropriately.

Shatta Wale and Medikal had previously announced plans for their annual Freedom Wave Festival, scheduled to run from December 20 to 25.

The festival’s activities, as outlined in a flyer released on September 7, 2023, included the arrival of regional fan bases on December 20, an exhibition of SM merchandise on the 21st, a pre-concert featuring new artists on the 22nd, industry prayers on the 23rd, artist dress rehearsals on the 24th, and the climax of the festival on the 25th.

However, Stonebwoy on September 16 also released the flyer for his Bhim Concert to be held at the Accra Sports Stadium on 22nd December.

This stoked conversation with many people wondering how both artistes would have their respective events at the same venue on the same day.

On Tuesday, Shatta Wale accused President Akufo-Addo’s daughter of orchestrating this situation. He insulted colleague Stonebwoy with some unprintable words and jabbed the president’s daughter for acting “foolishly”.

Source: Ghanaweb.com

The manager of the late Ebony, Ricky Nana Agyemang, popularly known as Bullet has shared the financial difficulties he has been facing since the tragic death of iconic singer Ebony Reigns.

Speaking in a recent interview on UTV’s United Showbiz, Bullet opened up about the contractual complications that have left him burdened with the responsibility of repaying Midas Touch Records following Ebony’s untimely demise.

The original contract did not account for such an unforeseen event.

Bullet stated unequivocally; “I have not yet finished paying Midas Touch Records for the contract we signed for Ebony.”

As we speak now, I still owe Midas Touch Records, and I am still paying for it because the contract was supposed to run for some number of years for which they (Midas Touch) will share proceeds from the works of the artists, but we all know what happened.”

These revelations come amidst allegations of occultism following a car accident involving one of Bullet’s signees, Wendy Shay.

The CEO of RuffTown Records debunked these claims, stressing that during his earlier struggles, such notions were far from his mind.

He declared, “It would be wrong for anyone to say that I am into occultism because when I was suffering, I didn’t even think about that and will be stupid to do that now when God is blessing me now.” he said.

Musician Ebony Reigns died at the age of 21 in a fatal car accident.

The Afrobeat and Dancehall performer – real name Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng – was driving to Accra following a trip to Sunyani with two friends.

It was an intensely emotional moment when a teen sensational gospel artist, Odehyieba Priscilla, was asked about her father in an interview she granted with Delay.

The young singer has in the last few months been speaking about how painful life has been for her anytime she thinks about growing up with her father playing any role in her life.

According to her account, the older siblings are close to their father, he lived with them, but the narrative has not been the same in her case. But she has been abandoned so much that throughout her sixteen years of being on this planet, she’s seen her father, Kofi Agyemang, twice and is bent on meeting him to ask questions and if possible, turn things around.

She first saw her father at Wassa Akropong and saw him for the second time in her teens when she had risen to fame. At the time, she was twelve and was launching her project. She did not invite the father but he found his way to the event held in Kumasi.

During her interview on the Delay Show aired on September 18, 2022, Odehyieba Priscilla was emotional. She shed tears profusely in answering some of the questions and in a few instances, she flashed a smile.

Delay then offered her an opportunity to say something to her father, as it was likely that he would get to watch the interview.

Odehyieba Priscilla began to cry and begged her father to come back to them.

She stressed that her father should not hold grudges against them as their children even if their mother probably did something against him to get him to leave their home.

With tears flowing down her cheeks, she appealed: “Even if it’s my mother’s mistake, you have to let it go and look for me. You don’t even know where I live but you know you have a child. I told myself I would never look for him but Bishop Adonteng Boateng told me that I have to. So, I’m waiting for the day I’ll meet you.”

“After the event, he came to our house and said we should let bygones be bygones but my mother rejected it on the grounds that she was not informed of his coming. There was an altercation and he left,” she said while adding “I know he is at Pankrono but I don’t know where exactly the house is.”

An angry social media user has blasted fans of Nana Ama McBrown for failing to criticize the disgraceful outfit she wore to a recent event.

Renowned Ghanaian media figure Nana Ama McBrown attended the EMY Awards pre-party, held at the Labadi Beach Hotel over the weekend, in a dress exposing half her b*0bs.

As a married mother attending an event to award hardworking and prominent men, McBrown’s dressing was an eyesore and completely out of touch with what people expect her to portray.

However, she seems to have escaped criticism for her choices and that did not sit well with one netizen.

According to him, Efia Odo would have been destroyed if she wore the same dress to that program yet because it’s McBrown she’s being given a pass.

The fan wrote in reaction to McBrown’s video: “Hypocrisy in gh😢. If efya odo wears same attire she be ashawo n exposing herself too much. But sakof ebi ur fav s she’s lokin hot. 😂😂😂,”

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The Nigerian police in Lagos State has inaugurated a 13-man special investigation team to probe the sudden death of Nigerian singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad.

This was disclosed by the Lagos Commissioner of Police Idowu Owohunwa, at a press conference on Monday, stating that the command will use the powers within its reach to find the killers.

“Do not forget, we have unique access with INTERPOL. Everybody linked to it (the death of Mohbad) will be identified and they will be brought to establish their level of involvement,” Owohunwa said.

Mohbad, a former signee of Marlian Records owned by Azeez Faashola, popularly known as Naira Marley died last Tuesday at the age of 27.

He was buried on Wednesday in the Ikorodu area of Lagos and there have been concerns over his death.