Ahead of this year’s edition of the prestigious Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) taking place in Calabar, the tourism hub in Nigeria, organisers are calling for film entries from African filmmakers, with a closing date now extended to July 24th, 2014. The event which enters its fourth edition this year, will resonate with film workshops, training programmes and thrills, from November 9th to 16th, at the popular Tinapa Business Resort, Calabar, capital of Cross River state. AFRIFF, according to [....]

Exclusive Events Ghana, organizers of the Miss Ghana event, the longest running beauty pageant in Ghana, has with immediate effect relieved the reigning queen, Miss Giuseppina Nana Akua Baafi of her role as Miss Ghana 2013 Ambassador. The decision, Exclusive Events say has been reached after Miss Baafi’s decision to stand down as Miss Ghana 2013.A letter dated July 3, signed by the Chief Operating Officer of the company, Samuel Bokorvie, and sent to Miss Baafi reads [...]

Candymania Entertainment, an events company based in Cape Coast has created a music awards scheme for musicians in the central region. The Obama City Music Awards which is in its third year is aimed at encouraging musicians from the Central Region to perform better and attain greater heights in their music career. The first and second editions were very successful and got many people interested hence this third one which is slated for 26th December, 2014. There are categories like [...]

It was a great evening of music and entertainment at the 2014 BET Awards held at the Nokia Theater L.A. Live on Sunday (June 29) in Los Angeles. The big winner of the night was Beyonce, who took home three awards – Best Female R&B/Pop Artist, the FANdemonium Award, and Best Collaboration for “Drunk in Love” with Jay Z. Receiving two awards each were were Pharrell Williams, Nicki Minaj, and newcomer August Alsina. Video of the Year went to Pharrell for his hit song [...]

The father of Lawrence Asiamah Hanson a.k.a Bulldog says his son is innocent of the crime he is suspected to have committed. Mr. Jacob Hanson told Citi News, his son, who is currently in the custody of the Criminal and Investigative Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, is being unlawfully held by the Police. The Police Homicide Unit of the CID on Thursday arrested Bulldog who manages dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale, as the prime suspect in investigations of the murder of Fennec Okyere, who managed Hiplife artiste, Kwaw Kesse [...]

For all those who thought rap music had very little to offer Ghana's music industry anymore, looks like they thought wrong yet again because out of Dansoman comes the young rapper who is out to impress and leave a mark in his trail; GH Hip Hop is never gonna be the same now that hes here… Welcome '1CeDi. 1Cedi who have made quite a name for himself already as an act amongst his peers. Striving hard to reach the peak of his abilities, 1CeDi keeps working tirelessly as he remain determined to break into GH's [...]

Private legal practitioner, Lawyer Kwame Akuffo says the basis for the arrest of Lawrence Nana Asiama Hanson (Bulldog) as the prime suspect in the murder of Fennec Okyere is untenable. The Police Homicide Unit of the Criminal Investigative Department (CID) on Thursday arrested the manager of dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale and CEO of Bull Haus Entertainment, Bulldog as ”prime suspect” in investigations of the murder of Fennec. But lawyer Akuffo on[...]

Lawrence Nana Asiama Hanson (Bulldog), has been arrested for the murder of Fennec Okyere, manager of musician, Kwaw Kese. Bulldog was arrested Thursday afternoon after investigations by the Homicide Unit of the Police Criminal Investigative Department (CID) pointed to him as the prime suspect. According to Public Relations Officer of the Criminal Investigative Department, ASP Joseph Darkwah, investigations established that Bulldog had issued numerous death threats on the life of[...]

One of Ghana’s favourite rappers, Okyeame Kwame, has condemned Faisal Hakeem, aka Paedae, a member of a Hiplife music group, R2Bees, for using various social media platforms to launch several attacks on the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA. Paedae went on Twitter last week and attacked MUSIGA by describing its leadership as having lost focus. He rather called for better remuneration, effective institution for revenue collection[...]

While the Australian military continue to search the southern Indian Ocean for the wreckage of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, producers in Hollywood are already working on a possible movie adaptation of the tragic crash. Although no studio has been pitched about a Flight 370 project, one movie-industry producer told the Hollywood Reporter[...]

Smooth highlife musician, Kwabena Kwabena, appears to be of two minds about his hit song  Adult Musik. Last year, when the song made its debut, it was largely believed that Kwabena Kwabena was being careful not to hurt  public sensitivity by categorising the song as 18+, the reason behind the title Adult Musik. But that does not seem to be the case. The song is now  virtually on air at all...