Christy Joseph (@nycxclothes @nycxstudio) and Gezelle Renée at Sip N’ Slay LA via @gezellerenee ig stories

I am so thankful for being able to speak and be among so many incredible black women doing amazing things. I’ll forever be inspired by you. Thank you to @everystylishgirl and everyone in between. & so glad I got to meet some of you, yal warmed my heart! Truly thankful ♥️

Oboy Siki Advises Men Not To Marry If They Are Living In A Single Room

Oboy Siki Advises Men Not To Marry If They Are Living In A Single Room

Ghanaian actor, Nana Ofori Agyemang, well known as Oboy Siki, has advised men not to marry if they are living in a single room. He claimed the marriage will collapse early if the couple is in a single room. Siki made this statement in an interview with Ghanaman TV—which Newshuntermag.com has come across. “If you are a young man living in a single room, don’t marry. The marriage collapse…

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We Ghanaians Are Idiots, What A Cheap Party The NPP Has Become – Kumawood Actor Discloses

We Ghanaians Are Idiots, What A Cheap Party The NPP Has Become – Kumawood Actor Discloses

Kumawood actor Oboy Siki claims Kennedy Agyapong’s choice to run for the high office of President reveals Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-level Addo’s of incompetence. Oboy Siki, whose real name is Nana Ofori Agyemang, noted in an interview with Kofi TV that Kennedy Agyapong did not understand why some Ghanaians were calling President Akufo-Addo incompetent until he [Ken] decided to run for the same…

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Check out Akufo-Addo's moves as he dances with JJ's wife

Check out Akufo-Addo’s moves as he dances with JJ’s wife

In the video, President Akufo-Addo is seen sharing the dancefloor with the late JJ’s wife, Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings. At the luncheon to mark the Founders’ Day, the two seized the opportunity to dance their feet off. At a point. President Akufo-Addo whispered something into the former First Lady’s ears which went on to ginger her moves even the more. The relationship between the late former…

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Sports - WAFU U17 Nations Cup: Laryea Kingston’s assistants to take charge of third place playoff match against Nigeria

Ghana Sports Live; bringing you all trending sports news as it happens. Laryea Kingston’s assistant coaches, Jacob Nettey and Nana Agyemang, will take charge of the Black Starlets’ 2024 WAFU U17 Cup of Nations third-place playoff match against Nigeria on Tuesday. This decision came after the former Ghana international resigned from his role as head coach following the team’s elimination from…

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Prempeh I Airport will boost development in Ashanti Region - Richard Ahiagbah

The Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Ahiagbah, says the Nana Agyemang Prempeh I International Airport in Kumasi is expected to open up the Ashanti region for increased trade flows and investments. This, he believes, will set the stage for a rapid surge in development. “President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has successfully completed the expansion work at the…

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Catch Up Research - Week 7

Aperture Magazine - Fall 2023

Article "Makola's Market Queens" Photographed by Misper Apawu, Written by Nana Ama Agyemang Asante.

During my research into photo series, I came across this photo series of woman trading in the Makola Market in Ghana photographed by Misper Apawu. The images caught my attention as the use of colours, tones and striking imagery informed me of what life was like trading in this market. The way these series of images were laid out gave a more impactful storytelling experience for the viewer. Apawu took images of the local woman traders around the market with their inventory of produce, jewellery and textiles. Another image shows a full page spread of a birds eye view of the exterior of the market, showing the street looking bustling and chaotic. The way this photo series is composed gives me some inspiration of how I could potentially lay out my photo series by using some full page spreads for my more impactful image and how the use of vibrant colours in multiple images can be paired together to create a more attention grabbing look.

Jackie Aina (@jackieaina @lavishlyjackie) catches up with Sip N’ Slay event organizer and founder Nana Agyemang (@itsreallynana @everystylishgirl @everystylishgirlbiz) at Sip N’ Slay LA

US$12 million Agyapa deal promoters put Kweku Baako in trouble

The revelations by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mineral Income Investment Fund (MIIF) that a staggering US$12 million was spent on the failed Agyapa Royalties deal, has consumed an unintended casualty, veteran journalist, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako.

He had in the wake of the scandal first broke by Herald newspaper in a spirited defence, insisted that Africa Legal Associates, an Accra-based law firm owned by Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, was not paid US$2 million for its work on the Agyapa Royalties deal. But recent revelation challenged his claims. The figure was bandied about nearly four years ago by some persons as the amount Gabby and his firm grabbed for their advisory role on the deal. But Baako claimed the quoted amount was way above what was paid to the law firm by the government.

“It is not true that Gabby’s firm got US$2 million from the deal. It is not true that his firm is a beneficiary of US$2 million. It’s not even up to US$105,000. It is the main transaction advisor that paid Gabby. It is about US$103,000. It is not US$2 million”, the editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper had insisted.

He clarified that, Britain-based White & Case LLP International Law Firm a UK-based law firm, was the principal advisor on the deal and Africa Legal Associates worked for the firm. Also there was Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah.

The Herald’s investigations had landed that a knighted Ghanaian with British nationality, Joshua Siaw, a partner in White & Case’s Global Debt Finance Practice and director of the Firm’s Africa practice, is a known friend of Gabby. Their law firms, have been involved in gigs involving the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC).

The deal was fraught with assertions of nepotism, the presence of some key individuals and their companies, as well as their financial interests, including the immediate past Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta and his Databank Financial Service,s as well as its South Africa partners, Imara Holding Limited of South Africa.

The roles played by Kofi Bosompem Osafo-Maafo, the son of ex-Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo and a Deputy Director-General at the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) in charge of Investment & Development and Gabby Otchere Darko, a cousin of the President, Nana Akufo-Addo, were also at the centre of the scandal.

However, before the government placed the deal on ice to allow further deliberations with Civil Society Organizations, Baako held the view that people were making a mountain out of a molehill.

He was quoted by Ghanaweb in September 2020, as having likened the conflict of interest situation to Ibrahim Mahama’s companies getting contracts during the John Mahama regime and Nana Konadu Agyemang under the Rawlings regime.

“We have to be consistent. We have to be coherent. I don’t expect everybody to agree with me and I expect people who disagree with it vehemently if they like violently, disagree with me and criticize me”.

“The way we’re going around this politics, the so-called conflict of interest relative to political office holders over the period, I see a certain huge area of inconsistency and incoherence and I’m worried about that. This is not going to be the last time this will happen; you bet me!”

Ken Ofori-Atta’s company, Kweku Baako Jnr, further insisted that Data Bank, had as of November 2020 not received any payment for their role as financial advisors in the Agyapa Royalty agreement.

This was after it was publicly held that the investment bank which is owned by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, enjoyed monetary benefit from the deal.

On Tuesday, November 10, 2020, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) demanded the government to retrieve monies it claimed had been paid to Data Bank.

The opposition party gave the government a seven-day ultimatum to recover the monies, the failure of which will propel them to embark on a mammoth demonstration in the first week of December. The protest did not happen.

“The NDC, hereby, demands that President Akufo-Addo retrieves the state’s the billions of cedis his government has illegally paid under the shady ‘Agyapa’ deal to Databank, which is owned by his cousin and Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta; African Legal Associates, which is owned by another cousin of his, Gabby Otchere Darko; and their foreign compradors, within the next 7 days, failing which the NDC and other like-minded progressive forces shall embark on series of protest and legal actions to ensure that every pesewa paid to these companies are refunded back to the State for nation-building,” Asiedu Nketia, the then General Secretary of the NDC said at a presser.

In a reaction to the NDC’s demands, Kweku Baako, said that information available to him indicates that Data Bank, received no monies for their role in the deal.

“They made some demands that the president should ensure that some monies paid are retrieved. I have been told on authority that Data Bank as we sit here has not been paid a pesewa or dollar. But some payments have been done for Africa Legal Associates and the others,” Baako disclosed on Peace FM.

But in a post on Facebook, Gabby Otchere Darko, a leading member of the governing party, said that Data Bank, would have been given a certain amount of money had the deal been successful.

“You are calling on your supporters and Ghanaians to join you on the street to stage a massive demonstration to ask for a refund for fees paid to transaction advisors, including law firms for services rendered per a contract? (Note: Databank has received no money for work done so far. Databank was only to earn a success fee at the end of the transaction). That is why, with tongue in cheek, I wish to proclaim: I love the NDC! Fantastic bunch of patriots! Bless them! part of the statement reads.

Almost four years on, it emerged last week at the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament, that US$12 million was spent on setting up the offshore company which never materialized, but died on paper.

The CEO of MIIF, Edward Nana Yaw Koranteng, disclosed to the PAC that the Akufo-Addo government spent US$12 million on the failed Agyapa royalties deal.

But the US$12 million might just be the tip of the iceberg as the Auditor-General has, according to Kofi Adams, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Buem and a member of PAC, not captured the Agyapa Royalties deal in his report three years since it collapsed.

It is, therefore not clear how much Databank, Imara Holding Limited of South Africa, White & Case LLP International Law Firm, the two Ghanaian law firms Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah, and Africa Legal Associates, got as transaction advisors for the monetization of Ghana’s gold royalties through the dual listing of the Agyapa Gold Royalties Company on the Ghana and London Stock Exchanges.

Interestingly, MP for Abuakwa South, Samuel Atta Akyea, a cousin of Ken Ofori-Atta and Gabby Ochere-Dark, has cautioned the opposition NDC against its rhetoric on allegations of corruption in the Akufo-Addo government, accusing the party of resorting to concluding that allegations of wrongdoing in the government are crimes, even without any shred of evidence. He gave this caution while reacting to members of the NDC, including the National Communication Officer of the party, Sammy Gyamfi, saying that government officials and individuals implicated in the US$12 million expenditure on the suspended Agyapa Royalties deal are guilty of a crime and would be dealt with if they come to power. Atta Akyea, argued that the fact that something went wrong in the Agyapa deal does not necessarily imply that a crime was committed. He cautioned that the NDC was only endangering Ghana’s democracy with its baseless allegations, which are only aimed at winning the favour of Ghanaians for the upcoming elections, myjoyonline.com reports. “Bear in mind that, in this feverish pitch to succeed Akufo-Addo, the NDC, should not sort of make a fetish of every issue as if everything is criminal. “This nation is not safe with this level of propaganda, and press conferences are not just conclusive evidence of culpability and criminality, as it were. I want to stress also, let’s be careful. If there is a poor error of judgment in the investment in Agyapa, it will not be tantamount to criminality,” the MP is quoted to have said on JoyNews’ Top Story. Sammy Gyamfi, who was also on the show, contended that if there were no illegalities with the Agyapa deal, the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), would not have asked the president to suspend it. He said that OSP’s investigation, proved that the Agyapa deal was not beneficial to the state, which led to its suspension. “If the Special prosecutor was not a court and the President does not agree with the position of the Special Prosecutor, why suspend the bill?” he quizzed. However, Atta Akyea, did not agree with the NDC National Communications Officer’s suggestion.

He said that if the NDC has an issue with the deal, they should go to court and should stop calling people who have not been found guilty of any crimes criminals.

“If you convert the thinking of NDC to the decision of a court of competent jurisdiction, we know what the law is like.

“The accused persons will have a right to stand; they present the evidence and the rest of it, and it will culminate in a decision. If we don’t go this route and we still believe that in the name of propaganda, let’s turn the laws of Ghana upside down, and in the convenience of a one-sided press conference, let’s denigrate others; I am afraid that is not democracy, that is propaganda,” the MP said.

I am not into occultism - Bullet

Since 2018 and up to the present, Bullet has been accused of being responsible for the death of Ebony Reigns, his first female artist. However, since Wendy Shay’s recent near-death experience, these remarks have come back to life and become more intense. Ricky Nana Agyemang, widely called Bullet, an artiste manager of Rufftown Records has cleared the air that he is not into occultism. Bullet has…

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HEMP.gg : Industrial hemp cannot be abused Nana Kwaku Agyemang - Myjoyonline

Industrial hemp cannot be abused – Nana Kwaku Agyemang  Myjoyonline source https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiTGh0dHBzOi8vbXlqb3lvbmxpbmUuY29tL2luZHVzdHJpYWwtaGVtcC1jYW5ub3QtYmUtYWJ1c2VkLW5hbmEta3dha3UtYWd5ZW1hbmfSAQA?oc=5

Malta Guinness WPL: Dreamz Ladies and Ampem Darkoa Ladies continue winning ways

Dreamz Ladies won comfortably to move to 3rd position at Bantama Astro Turf but Ampem Darkoa Ladies run riot in the Bono Derby at the Nana Agyemang Badu Park. READ ALSO: Malta Guinness WPL: Points shared in Local Derby as Supreme Ladies draw with Dreamz Ladies Stella Nyamekye and Mary Amponsah continue to score to battle for the top scorer in the league. Dreamz Ladies won 2-0 against local…

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News Today - President Akufo-Addo declares full recovery of Ghana's aviation sector

Ghana News Online – bringing you all trending daily news as it happens. Get daily comprehensive summary of the recent news, sports news & top stories that have rocked the online scene. Check out the news below. During the commissioning of the Nana Agyemang Prempeh I International Airport in Kumasi, President Akufo-Addo celebrated the successful rebound of Ghana’s aviation sector post-COVID-19…

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Sip N’ Slay LA mini compilation of Delanique (@delanique @skintellect.co), Ryan Destiny (@ryandestiny) and Sip N’ Slay event organizer and founder Nana Agyemang (@itsreallynana @everystylishgirl @everystylishgirlbiz) via @nycxclothes ig stories