I FAILED KABA – KWAKU BAAKO CONFESSES

    After the unfortunate passing away  of multimedia group’s  Asempa 94.7fm ‘s drive time political show host Kwadwo Asare Baffour Acheampong, many Ghanaians have took to various platforms to share some words of condolences and one person whose words of condolence were in a form confession is ace broadcaster Abdul Maleek Kwaku Baako. 
   On peace fm’s “kokrookoo” morning show, the Managing editor of the New Crusading Guide newspaper in a sorrowful voice said;

“… he calls me an absentee panelist, people didn’t understand why he often read my messages and so I had an arrangement with him to appear on his show and I kept postponing and so I failed him on the score…. It’s very painful but God knows best, too young to go, it just doesn’t make sense “

    In describing how tragic the death of the “ekosii sen”host is, Mr Baako said it’s interesting to see bad old people still living whiles  the good people are dying. 

THE SMILES OF THE “UNKNOWN” – the Worawora story

    After staying away from the town for almost four years, I had an invitation from my grandmother to come visit her in the town  and true to my word I decided to travel to Worawora, a town located in the Biakoye district in the Volta Region of Ghana. 

  On the journey, I had in my mind that the kind of development happening in Accra is similar to what is happening in the village. This mindset stay on my mind until I got to Peki where a kind of  road network that made me  revisit the kind of mindset about  development in the Volta Region. Knowing that the road network from Hohoe to Jasikan to Worawora  is as bad as the forefathers used, the driver thought it wise to go through  the Kpando to Abotoase to Worawora  route. As the driver decided to take the route, the  smiles on the faces of the passengers were one that was clearly for the decision of the driver. But without knowing what was ahead of them, the situation of bad road came to the party when we left Kpando municipality into the Biakoye district . Thinking it won’t happen the car suddenly went through a certain pothole that made everybody to become aware of what is about to happen. It became worse when we got to the Nkonya – Abotoase road where the experience was very bad. The kind of dust on the bad road can make a white shirt in rubber turn brown. This made everybody in car to sit on the edge of their seats until we got to the Abotoase – Worawora road  where we felt comfortable due to the good nature of the road. So I finally got to Worawora and the feeling I always had whenever I go there was felt. 

   

  On arrival, a phenomenon that got me wondering was seeing Ghanaian female  teenagers carrying babies but because it was a festive season, the thoughts of parents giving their babies to their older children came in mind. As lively as the town was a week vacation ended  up being  two weeks vacation and all the experiences can not be shared here. One may ask so what happened to the children carrying the children? So it went on through the festive period until the time of education came when I released that the  virus of teenage pregnancy had spread through the town. So I decided to engage my grandmother who happens to be Nana Abena Safoa Awerewaa,  the Queenmother of Worawora in a conversation  and she disclosed  the traditional council and education officers in the town are trying their possible best to curb it.  She also said she is looking to meeting with the DCE and other influential people in the town to find another way of reducing teenage pregnancy in the community drastically. 
   Talk of education, though the current situation of the Ghanaian educational system,  in Worawora , it seemd most of the children in the school going age have the passion to go to school but the time of closing for the public schools in the town was when that will make any concerned person ask what they study at school? Unlike the private schools which ends a days lessons at 3:30pm , the public schools ended a days lesson at 12:30pm and I even witnessed a day a saw junior high school students of one of the public schools pass by my house at a time that was not even 12noon and when I decided to ask questions, the respond I had was “ we have closed”. A statement that left my jaw widely open. Yes open, not because of the time they are going home, but the kind of students going home. I kept asking myself “how can a jhs student close school at 12pm? “. So I decided to pay the town shs a visit and when I got to the place I realised that  the infrastructural life of the school has grown to the extent that they had some classrooms abundant knowing not what to do with it but without not withstanding I had a problem with the place the school calls it it’s assembly hall. The room looked like a death trap. 

  

    After visiting the Worawora Senior High School which is popularly known as Worasec by people in the area, the interest of visiting other facilities in the town with Dr.  Papa Kwasi Nduom’ s facility at the Worawora rice mall being the first but after many discussion with the curator  of the place I was not allowed into the facility. Without being discouraged at what happened, I visited  the Worawora Police Station, the Worawora government hospital and the site of the construction of the region campus of a medical university.

 
   One significant situation that the town faces is that even though it’s not the district capital for the Biakoye district which comprises Worawora, Apesokudi, Bowiri, Tapa and Nkonya, it has most of the district headquarters of most institutions that  were supposed to be at the district’s capital of  Nkonya. Examples of such institutions includes the Worawora government hospital, the district police headquarters, Worawora Senior High School and the Worawora rice mail and the Asubonteng Rural. So one may ask how is the commercial life of the town? To be honest, the people in town are very hospitable so the commercial life of the town is one that will be pleasant to any body who will like to engage in any form of commercial activity. But after walking through the principal streets of Worawora I release that there were shops everywhere and because of this reason the demarcated area which was supposed to be the market place had become a place that looked virtually like a cemetery. Nothing really happens at the place and sheds also getting out of shape as the days go by. 

   One problem that has become a problem of almost every rural community in Ghana is the problem of the availability of proper or good drinking water, so going there I known that the water situation of the town has improved but I was amazed when I saw pipeborne water at various places in the town and in enquiring from some of  the natives of the town I learnt that through the initiative of the Omanhemaa, the Gyaasehemaa, the Nkosuohene and other influential individuals from the town they were able to get the Ghana Water company to extend their pipelines to the town. The issue of electricity was also one that was applaudable, no “dumsor”, access to electricity. 
    After all these one will be wondering what will be the reason why major stakeholders of the town still think of the problems the town all night. In a documented magazine that contains a summary of what the town who traces it’s route to kuntunase  is about and it’s future projections, I saw some items that seem to be the dream of the major stakeholders. In the book, it had in it  the following; 

*Construction of all roads in Worawora 

*Construction of another senior high school but this time round a technical and vocational school. 

*Construction of an ultramodern sports centre. 

*Construction of the town’s assembly grounds  to meet modern standards 

*Improvement in education especially girl child education 

*Expansion of the Worawora government hospital to be able to admit more patients. 

and many others. 

   In as much as the town is not in the public eye, the twi speaking town prouds it’s self as a member of the Asanteman council and will always pay it’s  tributes to the Asante kotokohene Otumfuo Osei Tutu and any other Asantehene after him. 

 

Credit: Rescuing Dreams Foundation 

RHYME SONNY SET TO RELEASE ANOTHER INSPIRING SPOKEN WORD PIECE

     After many year of doing what he is comfortable at doing, Ghanaian spoken word artist Rhyme Sonny became a household name when he released his popular spoken word piece “ My CV Of Sin”, a piece that anybody can relate to whether young or old, male or female. 
    Well information reaching kgnewsonline is that the inspirational spoken word artist is repairing to release his spoken word album and after scooping around, we had some of the name of some of the spoken word pieces on his album. The name which includes M‘asem, True  Friend and the about to be released Treat & Threat. The news of the treat and threat’s release was shared on the social media platforms of Rhyme Sonny. The announcement was made with the artwork and “…. ” in the post. The yet to be released spoken word piece according to the post will feature another sensational spoken word artist called RezThaPoet. The piece according to sources will be one that every spoken word artist or addict will listen and listen to it again without getting bored. 
      The award winning spoken word artist whose versatility can not be doubted is looking forward to seeing and hearing that not only his treat and threat piece is touching lives but his yet to be released album is also doing same. 

ISN’T IT TIME FOR KWABENA KWABENA TO RETURN?

After being introduced into the Ghanaian music industry by Kontihene in the early 2000’s, Kwabena Kwabena have been able to earn some amount of respect for him and even one of Ghana’s best live band performers. 

After churning hit songs like “aso”, fakye, royal lady, tuamudaa, adult music and many others, it seems the Ghanaian Hi-life music export has suddenly vanished from the music seen. The cause of his disappearance was or is somehow attributed to introduction of competitive genres like dancehall, hip-hop, reggae and many others. Others also attributes it to the lack  of highlife singers. Others also said the type of people managing his affairs are weak in terms of managing his activities. 

But it seems most of the reasons that led to Kwabena Kwabena  deciding to go on a musical break is gradually working on his and the highlife genre’s favour. Music lovers have witnessed that most of the songs released from the second quarter of 2017 are lighlife songs and are also doing very well on the music market. We have also witnessed the introduction of highlife artists like wutah, kidi, Kumi Guitar, Joojo who he introduced and many others who have been able to release great highlife songs. 

Though the Ghanaian music industry still faces problems that can be discouraging Kwabena Kwabena whose last song was “siwagegem” can return into the music scene  stronger if he and management team decides to tighten things up. 

WHY WILL SOMEBODY ATTEMPT TO “KILL” STONEBWOY?

After many weeks of promotion of the annual Stonebwoy’s  Ashaiman To The World, the show came off on 30th September, 2017. 
With performance from Patapaa, Lil Win, Fancy Gadam and other Zylofon music label mate like Kumi Guitar, Becca and a surprise appearance from Shatta wale. The concert which is likely to qualify for concert of the year if an award scheme is organized. With both the performances and the crowd who were at the grounds, there is no doubt that the show was a successful one. 

But one thing that has become the talk of town is the alleged killing of Stonebwoy which ended up becoming an injury of the wife of the dancehall might. In the post on Stonebwoy’s Facebook page, he claims he was the target but ended up on Dr. Louisa getting hurt. The question is why will somebody attempt killing Stonebwoy? 

After some thinking, one will start asking questions like; 

1. Was there any attempt to murder Stonebwoy at the first place? 

2. Was Stonebwoy the person who target? 

3. Was is just it just a coincidence? 

4. What if Dr. Louisa was the target of the person? 

5. Was the cut through the tent a result of fans over excitement upon seeing their hero? 

6. What will even be the gains after killing Stonebwoy? 

7. Who will even want to kill Stonebwoy? 

7. Or was it even a purblicity gemic? 

These questions and many more will pupe up when one decides  to make assessment of the negative incident that happened at the saka saka park at Ashaiman. 

JOE METTLE INTRODUCES “BO NOO NI” CHALLENGE

One phenomenon that is gradually becoming a way of promoting a product, an event or anything else is the social media challenge. Internationally we have witnessed challenges like the ice bucket challenge, whiles locally we have also we have also witnessed challenges that have been initiated by artistes like Samini, Mzvee, Ebony and many others.One that has not been witnessed yet is what gospel artiste and 2017 VGMA artiste of the year Joe Mettle has initiated. 
After releasing the latest song on his upcoming God Of Miracles album, Joe Mettle posted on his social media platform a post that had in it what he called “The Bonooni challenge “. The challenge which is aimed at giving people the opportunity to show the part of the Bonooni song which happens to be the favorite. The challenge according to the post on Joe’s page is for soloists, duets, choirs, keyboardist, chorale groups, guitarists and anybody who wants to take part. In that same post,all what participants need to do is to record a minute video doing their favorite part of the Bonooni song and post it with the hashtags #Bonooni and #GodOfMiracles. After posting the video of social media, participants are likely to take home amazing prizes from the Joe Mettle Ministries. 

The Bonooni song which literally means No One  Else in a Ghanaian language is the third single of his upcoming album. The song features Luigi MaCLean and has become a hit song among the gospel industry and is gradually taking over the Ghanaian music industry. 

Joe Mettle who will  release the  God Of Miracles album later in part of 2017 is looking forward to retain his VGMA artiste of the year title in 2018 and continue to touch more lives with his music 

SP KOFI SARPONG TO LEAVE MEDIA EXCEL?

Artistes leaving their various managements or various record labels is a phenomenon done everywhere. We have witnessed artistes like Kaakie, Eazzy, Zigi, OJ Black leave their various record labels. 

In the Ghanaian gospel music industry, we have also witnessed artistes like Cecilia Marfo, Obaapa Christie and others also leaving their various managements or record labels. In the mid year of 2017, we witnessed a shocking separation between Joyce Blessing and Media Excel. The separation which was unexpected became the talk of town and later revealing many secrets. In the event of forgetting what happened, it seems there is going to be another separation very soon. 

Rumors that are gradually becoming the talk of town has in it the possible separation between media excel’s “darling boy” and lead artist Superintendent Kofi Sarpong and Media Excel. Media Excel who plays both the role of executive producers and Management to the Superintendent since his debut album till now. The self -acclaimed “King of Borboobor” who recently held his first concert at the national theater is yet to record another album after his last one in a year or two ago. 

This rumor has become a difficult one to believe but if it turns out to be true, the question that will obviously become the lead question is “what caused the separation? “. 

WHAT IS NEXT FOR LUIGI MACLEAN?

The Ghanaian music industry was hit with a sensational moment when the late Danny Nettey introduced young Joe Mettle on to the music scene  by giving him the opportunity to be part and even perform of him ministry. It seems the opportunity that was given to Joe Mettle has also been transferred to another person in the name of Luigi MacLean.  

Born in the Greater Accra region to a Ga parents, Luigi grew up singing in the bathroom and later joined the school choir at Mfantsipim Shs and later joined the Joyful Way Incorporated. He had the opportunity to grace stages and platforms to minister onto people until he had his break into the limelight when the reigning artist of the year, Joe Mettle decided to introduce him to the world by featuring him on a song in his upcoming God Of Miracles album. “Bo noo ni” or “No one else” which is topping charts on Aftown.com and iTunes and also enjoying massive airplay on both local and international platforms features the young vocalist and is someway somehow projecting the ability of Luigi. 

So one may ask, that what is next for Luigi MaCLean after the song fades off from the main music seen. Well, kgnewsonline has gathered some possible questions that will make people know what Luigi will be up to. They are; 

1. Will Joe Mettle sign Luigi MaCLean onto his label? 

2. Will Luigi MaCLean go solo and try to do everything on his own? 

3. Will any record label sign Luigi on? 

4. Will Luigi go back to the hinterlands again? 

5. What will become of Luigi after some years to come? 

6. Will he even divert to doing  circular songs? 

7. Will Luigi go to the extra mile of doing more than what Joe Mettle did? 

8. Or will Luigi MaCLean just find his way to do another thing aside singing. 

Kgnewsonline hope these questions will lead readers to what Luigi MaCLean might be doing after being given this great opportunity. 

LORD PAPER SET TO RELEASE ANOTHER JAW DROPPING MUSIC VIDEO

After breaking onto the Ghanaian music seen with a music video which looks like a “pornographic” video, Michael Takyi-Frimpong known in the showbiz circles as Lord Paper is set to release another music video which may also cause another controversy in the country. 

The self-acclaimed “North K guy”  posted some photos of his upcoming song which will be released on 20th day of September, 2017. In the photos that were posted on the controversial artist’s instagram page, it had in it models that were almost naked and in pose that seem to seductive. Though many people have complained about the kind of music videos the gentleman has been releasing, it seems he does not give a ear to the complains and has even threatened or gone ahead to say that if his style of music is not accepted he will release more of the “porn-like” music videos. 

After releasing songs like awurama, sika duro and Call on me which features Mr. Easi, the new song which will be released a day before Ghana’s founder’s day holiday will feature another sensational artist from north kaneshie by the Joey B. 

The song which will be titled “Insecure ” according to Lord Paper is looking forward to enjoy massive airplay on both local and international music platforms. 

ISN’T EBONY OVER DOING IT?

Breaking into the Ghanaian music industry is not an easy thing to do. One will have to pay money to djs,  presenters and even producers to get their music played. Others go to the extreme of sleeping with people in the industry to get an opportunity but one other thing that has suddenly become the norm is the exposure of parts of their bodies in both pictures and music videos. We saw how artists like Lord Paper and others got noticed as musicians. 
Other person who has also become a suspect in this behavior is Rufftown Records’ Ebony. The young Ghanaian who broke into the Ghanaian music seen in 2015 seems to be one of the musical acts who will be first mentioned when names of people who exposes parts of their bodies. 

Though in the past artists like Mzbel and Eazzy did something like what Ebony is doing at the moment, it seems the poison hitmaker is over doing it which makes it very alarming. One may ask, She said she is the 90’s bad girl so what is your problem or why are you lamenting? 

It seems the team managing the girl are trying to make the talented singer an established artist and by doing that they make her do things that are sometimes extreme. Things that will make parent prevent their children from watching. Things that will make the news for just a week or two and die off. Things that people will call alarming. So my question is, if the future generations are prevented from watching your stuffs, if people have issues with whatever you do, who are you trying to please?  

It will be sad if one day we wake up to see Ebony naked in a music video all in the name of show business.Unless that’s what the people at Rufftown Records want for the girl.