Beyoncé Fires Her Manager For Jay Z so he can manage her and Expand Their Family?!

We like, no, LOVE the sound of this!
Back in 2008, Beyoncé set up Parkwood Entertainment where Live Nation Executive Faisal Durrani has been managing the superstar.
Not anymore though!
Reportedly, Bey has let Faisal go so that her hubby Jay Z can manage her!
An insider gave some deets about the move, saying:

“Jay has been heavily involved in Beyoncé’s career for years, and was instrumental in organizing the Mrs Carter Show World Tour. But he isn’t officially regarded as her manager – she really is independent… Now the couple have Blue, she wants to make sure her family come first at all times, especially as there’s talk of them adding to the brood. The best way to do that is to make sure all managerial decisions are made by her and her husband – together.”

zOMG! Blue Ivy is going to have a sibling! We hope it’s sooner than later!
It’s also super fab how Bey and Jay spend so much time together! We see relationships fall apart way too often because work gets in the way, but these two find a way to keep the magic alive!
And we have a feeling that Faisal won’t have a problem finding another gig after managing Bey for all of those years!

Source: PerezHilton

How This Attractive Woman Lay Dead in Her Flat For 3 Years With The TV On (MUST READ)

On 25 January 2006, officials from a north London housing association repossessing a bedsit in Wood Green owing to rent arrears made a grim discovery. Lying on the sofa was the skeleton of a 38-year-old woman who had been dead for almost three years. In a corner of the room the television set was still on, tuned to BBC1, and a small pile of unopened Christmas presents lay on the floor. Washing up was heaped in the kitchen sink and a mountain of post lay behind the front door. Food in the refrigerator was marked with 2003 expiry dates. The dead woman’s body was so badly decomposed it could only be identified by comparing dental records with an old holiday photograph of her smiling. Her name was revealed to be Joyce Carol Vincent.

I first heard about Joyce when I picked up a discarded copy of the Sun on a London underground train. The paper reported the gothic circumstances of her death – “Woman dead in flat for three years: skeleton of Joyce found on sofa with telly still on” – but revealed almost nothing about her life. There was not even a
photograph of her.

Joyce Carol Vincent in a studio photo

The image of the television flickering over her decomposing body haunted me as I got off the train on to the crowded platform. In a city such as London, home to 8 million people, how could someone’s absence go unnoticed for so long? Who was Joyce Vincent? What was she like? How could she have been forgotten?
News of Joyce’s death quickly made it into the global media, which registered shock at the lack of community spirit in the UK. The story ran on in the British press, but still no photograph of Joyce appeared and little personal information.
Soon Joyce dropped out of the news. I watched as people discussed her in internet chatrooms, wondering if she was an urban myth, or talking about her as though she never mattered, calling her a couch potato, and posting comments such as: “What’s really sad is no one noticed she was missing – must have been one miserable bitch.” And then even that kind of commentary vanished.
But I couldn’t let go. I didn’t want her to be forgotten. I decided I must make a film about her.
At this point all that had been revealed in the press was that Joyce Vincent was 38 when she died, had been born in west London to parents who were from the Caribbean, and that some of her family had attended her inquest. Some reports suggested Joyce was, or had been, engaged to be married, and that before living in the bedsit she had been in a refuge for victims of domestic violence. But she didn’t fit the typical profile of someone who might die and be forgotten: she wasn’t old without family; she wasn’t a loner, or an overdosed drug addict; nor was she an isolated heavy drinker. Who she was and the circumstances of her death were a mystery.
I placed adverts with various publications and internet sites. On a poster on the side of a black cab I asked: Did you know Joyce Vincent? Meanwhile, as I waited for any response, I contacted people who were involved with bringing Joyce’s story to light.

Joyce Carol Vincent in an undated photo

I met Alison Campsie, news editor for the Tottenham & Wood Green Journal, whose journalist David Gibbs had reported on Joyce Vincent’s inquest. She told me that while the paper would have liked to have pursued the background to the story, they didn’t have the time or money, and that even the BBC with all its resources had tried and failed to run an item on Joyce.
In the Three Compasses pub below her office, I talked to Lynne Featherstone, MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, Joyce’s constituency. Lynne had urged the police to reopen their investigation into Joyce’s death but they decided there was nothing to answer to in terms of foul play. The coroner recorded an open verdict, with the cause of Joyce’s death “unascertained”. “We don’t know how big a part Joyce played in her own isolation or whether it was more down to society neglecting her,” Lynne told me.
Lynne wrote to the local council, the utility companies, and the housing association about Joyce’s unpaid bills, questioning why alarm bells didn’t ring earlier – but she either received no reply or little insight. “The point is, Joyce Vincent is dead, no one murdered her, and no one seems to care that much. I gather she was very beautiful, which for reasons totally spurious makes it more poignant because we always think beautiful people have everything go their way.”
On the way to her next appointment Lynne drove me to Wood Green, to the back of Shopping City, where lorries rumbled in and out of a delivery depot. She pointed to the housing estate above the mall known locally as Sky City, where Joyce had lived and died. I looked at the red brick walkways and tiers of water-stained grey concrete, interspersed with metal grilles, indistinguishable from the car park or the shopping centre below. “I suppose, in a way, we all walked by,” Lynne said. As I stepped out of her car she wished me luck.
Dominating the skyline was a round blue sign for Shopping City – a beacon to commercialism. In one of the flats I saw an open window with a billowing net curtain and I thought of the window in Joyce’s bedsit that had been open for the two years she lay dead, insects crawling along the windowsill, the escaping smell of her decomposing body attributed to the rubbish bins below. I walked around to the other side of the complex – to the high street, hectic with shopping activity and traffic. The main door Joyce used to access her part of the estate is here, sandwiched between the usual chain of shops.

Source: The Guardian UK

#Believe It Or Not: This 4-YEAR-OLD is already a member of Al Qaeda terrorist group (WATCH)

Shocking revelations have emerged of child soldiers being used to fight the deadly war in Syria which has already claimed thousand of lives.
Photos show a 4-year-old boy standing behind an AK-47 as he fires two shots amid shouts of ‘Allahu Akbar’
The young boy is believed to be part of a group of terrorists known as ‘Cub jihadists’
Daily Mail reports:

Counter-terrorism officials say it is further evidence of how jihadists are grooming children to become fighters, as Al Qaeda factions strive to establish a Taliban-like Islamic state in Syria.
The disturbing footage was posted on YouTube and is believed to be that of a son of a jihadist from Albania who is one of thousands of foreigners fighting with Al Qaeda in Syria.
The youngster, who wears a black ski mask, can be seen firing shots from a black AK-47-style
automatic assault rifle with a folding stock.
He is so small that the barrel of the gun has to be supported by a section of road block so that he can cope with its weight.
The child opens fire to shouts of Allahu Akbar – Arabic for ‘God is Greater’ – before an arm reaches down and retrieves the weapon.

Children of war: The boy will have lived almost his whole life through the Syrian conflict, though with his high voice and chubby cheeks, he belongs more in infants’ school than on a battlefield

FOUR-YEAR-OLD firing an assault rifle in Syria

Warfare: The footage comes amid warnings that up to 700 young British extremists are fighting in Syria

War games: The video shows the child smiling and talking in his native language with the adults filming him.

The video of the four-year-old first emerged on January 21 on a YouTube channel operated by a jihadist who claimed to be based in northern Syria. It was entitled in Arabic: ‘A message from one of the cubs of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.’
The footage was removed after it was exposed by an American-based ‘anti-jihad’ activist who claimed it was evidence of child abuse.
Copies of the video, however, remained in circulation on other online channels.
Suspected British Al Qaeda fighters in Syria have been circulating other images showing children being trained to use deadly weapons in a jihad training camp.

Watch the video below:

Actress Yvonne Nelson Proposed To John Dumelo On His Birthday.....lol

Today is John Dumelo's birthday and Yvonne Nelson swallowed her pride and poped the question! She shared the photo above on Instagram professing her love for him. No word yet from John Dumelo to know if he accepted her proposal. They will make a cute couple.....hehe

‘How I Got Married To My Own Father And Only Found Out 6 Years After His Death’

 Valerie Spruill

AKRON, Ohio -- It was a dark secret. The kind that destroys lives, devastates families and decimates faith.
Nobody shared it with Valerie Spruill while her husband was alive. For years after his death, she heard bits of the story. It was something about an absentee father, something about her husband.
None of it made sense, she said. That's not until her uncle finally told her what no one else had: She had unknowingly married the father she never knew.
"It is devastating. It can destroy you," Spruill told CNN late Thursday by telephone. "It almost did."
Spruill, 60, of Doylestown, Ohio, went public with her story this month, first published in the Akron Beacon Journal, with the hopes that it would help others facing what seem like insurmountable problems.
It's a story that has gone viral, attracting attention as faraway as Australia and India where the questions are always the same, she says: How could that happen?
It's a question that Spruill said she has been grappling with since she first learned the truth in 2004, six years
after her husband Percy Spruill died.
"I don't know if he ever knew or not. That conversation didn't come up," she said. "I think if he did know, there is no way he could have told me."
She confirmed that her husband was indeed her father through a DNA test, hair taken from one of his brushes.
The aftermath of the secret was devastating emotionally -- and physically, Spruill suffered two strokes and was diagnosed with diabetes.
All of it, she believes was brought on by learning the family secret.
"Pain and stress will kill, and I had to release my stress," Spruill said. "I'm just telling the story to release my pain."
She has a deep, abiding faith in God, who she believes has guided her through the experience -- and others that have shaped her life.
"You have to have faith," she said. "If God brought me this far, he's not going to leave me now."
Spruill met and married her husband-father in Akron and settled in Doylestown, a working class suburb of about 2,300.
It was her second marriage. Spruill was a nice man, a good provider. He was kind to her three children from her previous marriage.
"We had a good life," she said.
She initially struggled with anger, with hating Spruill for what happened.
But therapy taught her what happened wasn't her fault. Her faith taught her to forgive.
Initial response to her story has been mixed: "More positive than negative," she says.
In recent days, she has been in contact with a couple who found out after they were married that they were brother and sister.
They told her, she said, that her story is helping them deal with their own experience.
"They are trying to be friends now," Spruill said.
Others, though, have been less kind.
"They've said things like 'Some secrets should stay secrets,'" she said. "I can't do anything about what they think. I just know what I think. God is always mighty, and he teaches you to tell the truth no matter what."
Spruill knows not everybody tells the truth. It's a lesson she learned as a child the hard way.
By all accounts, Spruill's mother got pregnant as a teenager while dating her then 15-year-old father.
She was 3-months-old when she was sent to live with her grandmother and grandfather, who she initially believed as she grew up was her father.
Spruill said at about age 8 or 9, she discovered that the woman who often visited the house was not a family friend but her mother.
But nobody, she said, talked about her father.
There's nobody left to give her the answers about her husband-father. Her mother, Christine, died in 1984. Her grandparents have long since passed. So, too, have a number of Percy Spruill's relatives.
Spruill knows her mother worked as a prostitute and even got caught up in 1980 high-profile corruption scandal surrounding James Barbuto, a probate judge who was convicted of intimidating investigators and gross sexual imposition for attacking a courthouse clerk in his chambers.
"My mother showed me lots of love. All said and done, I have no regrets in my life at all," she said.
She believes she has siblings or half-siblings from Spruill's previous relationships, including the one with her mother.
She said she wants to find them and let them know they are not alone.
Spruill, herself, has three children and eight grandchildren. She struggled with telling her children that the man they believed was their step-father was their grandfather.
A therapist "advised me to tell my kids," she said. "I told them about two years ago. They are remarkable. They are handling it better than I am."
In recent days, shortly before the news broke, she also told her grandchildren.
"They have been so supportive. They are telling me they love me, telling me they will do whatever I need," she said.
In her spare time, since retiring from the accounting department where she worked for 34 years at Goodyear, she has been writing down her story with the hopes of publishing it.
"I thank God that he gave me a chance to live through all of this," she said. "It is nothing short of a miracle that I'm still here. I want people to know that they can survive something like this."

Source: CNN

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Hit or Miss?

Pdiddy proposes to Cassie on Instagram? (Photos)

 44year old Piddy who has been dating 27 year old Cassie for years now posted this on instagram with the caption " The caption read, 'Baby do you like it? I just want to get you wat you Like! I just wanna Mk you smile :) #takeDat. !' [sic]

Later Keysha Cole posted a photo of Cassie wearing the ring inthe photo indicating she said yes. 

However Mailonline claims Piddy's rep denied the news of their engagement 

Hope it's not a publicity stunt 

D’Banj’s Brother, KaySwitch Dumps Nigerian Babes For Liberian Ex-Beauty Queen

The younger brother of pop star, D’Banj, KaySwitch, has found love in a neighbouring West African country, Liberia.

The Ogun State-born wannabe star by-passed many Nigerian girls to fetch love and affection from a former Liberian beauty queen called Meenakshi Monica Subramani.

It was gathered that KaySwitch has been seeing the black and pretty chic for the past one year now, which was confirmed few days ago by the lady and was celebrated.

“1 year and still going strong. I love you baby. Always n forever,” Subramani posted on her Instagram page.

Recall that few months ago, the twin sister of KaySwitch, Taiwo, married Cool FM’s presenter, Dotun in Lagos.

Tuface Babymama, Sumbo Sends Annie Idibia a Message

2face Idibia's wife Annie, her daughter Isabel and Tuface's younger brother, Charles were having fun at the Hollywood walk of fame in Los Angeles, California and shared pictures and One of Tuface's babymama, Sumbo who bore him a child but is now happily married to Pastor Adeoye of Royalty Christian centre stormed into the pictures and sent Annie Idibia, wife of Tuface a sweet message, saying they all looked good. But it was tuface who replied her saying I see you. That was a really kinda too straight reply...he would have replied her better...or what do you think about 2face's reply to sumbo?

Wizkid's Lover, Tania Omotayo Shows off Diamond Ring

Love in the air, Afro pop singer, Wizkid and his long time love Tania Omotayo deceived many by playing pranks on many people as their relationship is believed to have ended last year. But to break the hearts of many, they are still strong as ever. The music star shared photos with Tania rocking a very large ring set with diamonds. Looks like an engagement ring, but we really don't know, hoping for the best from this two love birds.

Accra records 2,570 ‘Okada’ accidents

The Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) recorded 2,570 motorbike accidents between January and December last year.

As of the middle of January this year, the department had recorded 36 of such motorbike accidents.
The Accra Central Commander of the department, Chief Superintendent of Police, Mr Anderson Fosu–Ackaah, told the Daily Graphic that  it was difficult to tell whether the accidents involved commercial motorbike operators, popularly called Okada.
Challenges
He said the major challenge confronting the police in the fight against the booming Okada business was how to differentiate between a private motorbike user and a commercial one.
“It is difficult knowing which motorbike rider was using the bike for commercial or private use,” he said.
Measures
Mr Fosu-Ackaah said the police had identified a number of operating joints for the Okada riders and would take appropriate steps to halt the practice.
He mentioned Odorkor, Abossey Okai, Circle, Railways, Ghana Post and the central business district of Accra as areas where many of them operated.
He, however, said because of the mobility of the riders, they shift locations from time to time, as well as move away from their locations upon seeing the police approach.
Advice
Mr Fosu-Ackaah advised members of the public to desist from patronising the Okada business because it was risky.
Besides, he said, the operation was not covered by law.

Nelson Mandela 'left $4m estate'

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela left an estate valued at more than 46 million rand ($4.13m; £2.53m), a public reading of his will has revealed.

Executor Justice Dikgang Moseneke, summarising what he said was a 40-page document, said he was "not aware of any contest" to the will.

Close personal staff each get 50,000 rand. Schools the former South African president attended are due to receive 100,000 rand.

Mr Mandela died in December, aged 95.

University of Ghana students threaten demo over road tolls

Students of the University of Ghana say they will be embarking on a demonstration in protest against the introduction of road tolls by the University's authorities.
The students took the decision at a Students' Representative Council (SRC) meeting Monday.
Joy News Sammy Obeng Apah, who followed the meeting, reported that the students have vowed to embark on series of demonstrations to press home their demand for a suspension of the policy.
The introduction of the road tolls by the university is being opposed by the students who say the tolls would put untold financial hardships on them.
The students say the demonstration will be preceded by a press conference Tuesday where they provide details of their grievances pertaining to the introduction of the road tolls.
Meanwhile, two students of the university have filed a legal suit against the University in respect of the tolls at the Supreme Court, questioning  the Constitutionality of the action.
A private legal practitioner has warned the University to push for an out of court settlement.
Speaking on Joy FM's Super Morning Show, Mr. David Ofosu Dortey noted "the Ministry of Finance and Government must step in and speak to the lawyer on the other side to solve this issue. I don't think it is a matter for the courts".
While supporting moves by the university to raise funds through various means for development, he said that must be done in such a way that public assets will not be put at risk of confiscation by creditors.
There has also been stiff opposition from the general public to the introduction of road tolls.
Depite this opposition, the university has started implementing the tolls.
Until the court or the university itself reverses the policy, private vehicles entering the Univrsity of Ghana campus will pay one cedi; commercial vehicles will pay two cedis while trucks as expected to pay three cedis.

WATCH PHOTOS: Essien, Balotelli, Asamoah visit Sulley Muntari’s luxury car company

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Oya ladies how far?

Miley Cyrus totally transformed and naked for W magazine

Miley is totally different in this new shoot for W magazine. Here is what she said about haters"

"I don't give a s--t," she said, when asked about the bad press surrounding her tour, including accusations that she is exploiting her minority backup dancers. "I'm not Disney, where they have, like, an Asian girl, a black girl, and a white girl, to be politically correct, and, like, everyone has bright colored T-shirts.  You know, it's like, I'm not making any kind of statement. Anyone that hates on you is below you, because they're just jealous of what you have."

"Is it not the money I worked hard for"?-Chika Ike on why she flaunts her shopping trips

If you recall, Chika Ike came under fire for posting photos of her day to day shopping spree in Abu Dhabi..Speaking to the Sun,she said....

Usually, every year, I take a vacation, because I feel have worked so hard all through , I deserve a break. As they say all work and not play makes “Chika a dull girl”. I just had to take a time out and whenever I do, I make sure I rest very well. I don’t know why it has been all over the whole nation, but I had fun..
Whose money? Is it not the money I worked hard for? Did anybody give me? I have worked hard and I deserved every bit of the luxury I enjoyed over there and I can proudly say that. I will do it over and over again because I deserve it.

I guess she is dispelling rumours her trip was sponsored by a big wig.. she is an independent woman...

Checkout John Okafor(Mr Ibu) & beautiful wife at their child's dedication

 Nollywood top actor, John Okafor known as Mr Ibu held the child dedication of his 3rd child with his 2nd wife Stella maris .His friends,family and colleagues were there..
If you recall he accused his ex-wife of killing their son and wanting him dead .He also accused her of kidnapping his 2nd wife and his 2 year old son who died 10 days after he paid an undisclosed ransom for their release .
He and his wife have been blessed with another son
Photos below

Wife and son

Over 30,000 subscribers dump MTN & Airtel

Vodafone and Tigo were the only winners in the latest mobile market share report by the National Communications Authority (NCA).

The report which is for November 2013 saw the dominant mobile operator in the country MTN losing over 20,000 of its subscribers.

Its subscriber base reduced from 12,731,772 to 12,711,675 as at the end of November, 2013.

Another mobile operator which experienced a decline in subscriber base was Airtel.

Its subscriber base at the end of November, 2013 decreased from 3,347,173 to 3,333,126 subscribers.

Vodafone however was the biggest winner it gained 75,000 subscribers during the period.

Another gainer was Tigo its subscriber base shot up to over 4 million representing 14.51 % of the market share at the end of the review month.

GLO’s market share reduced while Expresso maintained its market share of 0.52% with their subscriber base increasing from 147,731 to 145,057 as at the end of November, 2013. Culled: Citifm

Three cocaine transporters to appear in court today

An Accra High Court presided over by Justice C.J Hoenyenugah will on Monday hear a case between the state and three Guyanese accused of transporting 414 slabs of cocaine estimated at $60million.

The three, Perceval Curt, Samuel Mornty and Saint Praimchad are among a group of five who were arrested in November 3013 aboard a Guyanese Ship christened ‘ATIYAH George Town’.

The vessel was believed to be travelling from Guyana, when it was intercepted on Ghana’s territorial waters in the Western Region.

Two of their colleagues, a Ghanaian, Seth Grant including the Captain of the Ship, Mila Ronald O’Neil were however sentenced in January, 2014 to 15 and 20 years in prison respectively after the court found them guilty.

National Security arrests eight armed land guards

The National Security Council has arrested eight persons believed to be from Niger in a police-military operation at the Tema Development Corporation (TDC) Acquisition Area who have buried over 800 cannon balls in some dugouts.

The suspects are currently in the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) which is investigating to establish the source of supply, disposal methods and what use their customers have for the cannon balls.

A source from the Council told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the National Security was undertaking a police-military operation to smoke out hardened criminals, armed robbers and armed land guards who had become notorious and a nuisance to genuine developers and people who wanted to go about their daily activities in peace.

“One main objective of the National Security is to ensure that peace and tranquility prevails in the land administration and acquisition in this country,” the source said.

It added that the Council had the responsibility to ensure that land and property owners lived in safety and were protected at all times without intimidation, fear and harassment from criminal elements and armed land guards.

It said this phenomenon has engulfed land acquisition and ownership in the country especially in Accra and other major urban centres.

According to the source, recent events of criminality and encroachment on government lands had given cause for concern for the National Security apparatus, since such phenomenon tended to undermine the national security interests and, by extension, a threat to peace, stability and security.

At the centre of land acquisition, administration, ownership and related developments are state institutions like the TDC, Land Valuation Board, Land Commission, Survey Department and other related agencies including the Land Title Registry.

It said one such critical entity which had come under public criticism recently was the TDC for the demolition of illegal structures in Communities 23 and 24 of the Tema Acquisition Area.

“In spite of TDC’s attempt to operate within the law establishing it, the phenomenon of what National Security would describe as Armed Landguardism has taken root in most of TDC’s land acquired areas,” the source said.

It commended the TDC for putting in place a Task Force which patrolled the acquired area in order to address the indiscipline and impunity with which encroachers invaded undeveloped areas.

However, the Task Force has come under severe harassment, intimidation, fear and physical attacks from armed land guards who subject them to severe beatings and deadly attacks, wielding AK 47s and machetes among other things.

In addition, the surveyors of the Corporation find it difficult to carry out survey of the areas as a result of the activities of land-guards and other encroachers.

According to the source, during a routine patrol of the area, the Task Force stopped to caution an illegal developer, only to find about 60 armed land guards surrounding them.

In the ensuing confrontation and to escape the wrath of the armed men, a member of the task force had his wrist severely cut by a member of the armed gang while a second person was beaten to pulp.

The source said the National Security Council was aware of encroachment in the Free Zone Board’s land area and it was as a result of this that it was sending a stern warning to armed land guards and other hardened criminals to desist from their activities or face the wrath of the security forces. 

“The National Security will not compromise on this threat to the nation,” the source said.
    
It advised nationals from the ECOWAS sub-region and other foreigners to respect Ghana’s laws and avoid getting themselves into criminal activities.

Escape from heartache — Raquel tells her story

When Raquel came back to Ghana in 2006 after living in the UK for many years, her immediate reason was to move away from her past love life and from an environment that brought back only memories of pain.

“It was really devastating. I couldn’t eat, sleep and just wanted to be alone but that was a learning period for me. That experience taught me to be bold and brace myself for the worst in life”.
Seven years down the line, Raquel who took to singing on her return  to Ghana, looks back and says that she has no regrets for abandoning the many great opportunities out there in London to start life afresh back home.
“I came back to Ghana to pull myself together after a heartbreak that I went through which nearly landed me in a psychiatric hospital. Coming home  was the best decision that I took”, she told Showbiz last Monday.
”I was very young then so it really got into me but God had His own plans for me. Perhaps, it was a blessing in disguise for me because I found my groove and found a new way of loving and being loved through music”.
The Sweetio singer said that she had always found satisfaction when she sings love songs because it gives her a feeling of belongingness which she had always wished for.
“When you listen to my songs, it always talks about love and how a sweet feeling it could be when you get the right person. My sweet-turned- sour relationship back in London has always been the shadow that haunts me so I take solace in writing love songs. Anytime I sit down to compose a song, the only theme that comes to mind is love and it is not surprising that all my songs are love related” she said.
 “Today, I have found people who have shown me great love and words cannot explain the joy that I feel when I mount the stage and see people respond cheerfully to my love songs. It only tells me that people still believe in love so I shouldn’t give up on it either.
She told Showbiz that it is with the commitment to be a crusader of love and to champion it that she put together the annual Raquel’s Cupid Party on Valentine’s Day to celebrate the special occasion with her cherished fans.
“Valentine is a special season of love where we express our love to those who matter most to us and so it must be celebrated in a special way. I will tell my bitter love stories to my fans and hope my experience will inspire somebody there. The night will just be about love and for the singles and searching, they can be at+233 and may found their loved ones” Raquel said.

Work for decisive victory in 2016

A leading member of the National Democratic Congress, Mr Henry Ekow Manly-Spain, has encouraged members and supporters of the party to work towards clinching decisive electoral victory in 2016.

To achieve this goal, the thoroughbred NDC member asked the party to strive to implement effective working strategies to attain the goals of the Better Ghana agenda, as well as meet the 2012 campaign promises.
Campaign to support NDC
In a chat with the Daily Graphic, Mr Manly-Spain pointed out that he had personally embarked on a campaign to intensify his support for the NDC’s cause and to attain the better Ghana agenda for all.
In line with this, he said he was visiting some constituencies within the Greater Accra Region to share party experiences, find out challenges confronting the constituency offices and offer his widow’s mite by way of logistical support.
He argued that in a mass party such as the NDC, there were bound to be logistical challenges which required all hands on deck to solve.
“No one individual can solve the problems but with a collective action and unity of purpose, we will overcome,” he told the Daily Graphic.
Key objective
According to Mr Manly-Spain, it is his key objective to contribute his quota to ensure that the Greater Accra Regional  constituency offices of the NDC were very functional to play their expected roles as the 2016 elections approached.
“I am currently looking at the Gt. Accra Region and what can be done to support them,” he told the Daily Graphic, and mentioned that “ in the past years,  I have been on the ground working to support the party’s foot soldiers and I intend to continue to make the NDC a party of choice.”
He said his visit to some of the constituencies had revealed many teething problems, and mentioned the burden of the payment of electricity bills, hiring of canopies and chairs for political education, and welfare meetings,  as well as other logistical needs as some of the critical ones.
Mr Manly-Spain said so far,  he had visited 12 out of 34 NDC constituencies in the region and was working on an effective strategy to help.
He said lack of job opportunity for the party’s foot soldiers and the youth also came up during his visit.
According to Mr Manly-Spain, some of the foot soldiers who contributed to the 2012 electoral victory of the NDC feel ignored, and it is time “we arrested this problem by eliminating their concerns.”
Call centre
He disclosed that he would open a novelty call centre to enhance his interaction with the NDC party at the grass roots.
He stressed that the center was aimed at ensuring party supporters were always in touch with the party and themselves, constantly drawing attention to their needs and suggesting pragmatic strategies to win the 2016 elections hands down.
Message of hope
On whether or not the NDC’s Better Ghana agenda was on course, Mr Manly-Spain declared; “Sure, the NDC agenda is on course and we will work to ensure that we succeed in 2016.”
“I want to assure our party foot soldiers that I am coming on board and they must keep faith with the party,” he stated.
Mr Manly-Spain, who is a founder member of the NDC in the US,  had contributed to the welfare of the party since 1992. In 2004, he contested the Ablekuma South Constituency seat of the NDC and supported the campaigns of NDC parliamentary candidates.

A leading member of the National Democratic Congress, Mr Henry Ekow Manly-Spain, has encouraged members and supporters of the party to work towards clinching decisive electoral victory in 2016.

To achieve this goal, the thoroughbred NDC member asked the party to strive to implement effective working strategies to attain the goals of the Better Ghana agenda, as well as meet the 2012 campaign promises.
Campaign to support NDC
In a chat with the Daily Graphic, Mr Manly-Spain pointed out that he had personally embarked on a campaign to intensify his support for the NDC’s cause and to attain the better Ghana agenda for all.
In line with this, he said he was visiting some constituencies within the Greater Accra Region to share party experiences, find out challenges confronting the constituency offices and offer his widow’s mite by way of logistical support.
He argued that in a mass party such as the NDC, there were bound to be logistical challenges which required all hands on deck to solve.
“No one individual can solve the problems but with a collective action and unity of purpose, we will overcome,” he told the Daily Graphic.
Key objective
According to Mr Manly-Spain, it is his key objective to contribute his quota to ensure that the Greater Accra Regional  constituency offices of the NDC were very functional to play their expected roles as the 2016 elections approached.
“I am currently looking at the Gt. Accra Region and what can be done to support them,” he told the Daily Graphic, and mentioned that “ in the past years,  I have been on the ground working to support the party’s foot soldiers and I intend to continue to make the NDC a party of choice.”
He said his visit to some of the constituencies had revealed many teething problems, and mentioned the burden of the payment of electricity bills, hiring of canopies and chairs for political education, and welfare meetings,  as well as other logistical needs as some of the critical ones.
Mr Manly-Spain said so far,  he had visited 12 out of 34 NDC constituencies in the region and was working on an effective strategy to help.
He said lack of job opportunity for the party’s foot soldiers and the youth also came up during his visit.
According to Mr Manly-Spain, some of the foot soldiers who contributed to the 2012 electoral victory of the NDC feel ignored, and it is time “we arrested this problem by eliminating their concerns.”
Call centre
He disclosed that he would open a novelty call centre to enhance his interaction with the NDC party at the grass roots.
He stressed that the center was aimed at ensuring party supporters were always in touch with the party and themselves, constantly drawing attention to their needs and suggesting pragmatic strategies to win the 2016 elections hands down.
Message of hope
On whether or not the NDC’s Better Ghana agenda was on course, Mr Manly-Spain declared; “Sure, the NDC agenda is on course and we will work to ensure that we succeed in 2016.”
“I want to assure our party foot soldiers that I am coming on board and they must keep faith with the party,” he stated.
Mr Manly-Spain, who is a founder member of the NDC in the US,  had contributed to the welfare of the party since 1992. In 2004, he contested the Ablekuma South Constituency seat of the NDC and supported the campaigns of NDC parliamentary candidates.

A leading member of the National Democratic Congress, Mr Henry Ekow Manly-Spain, has encouraged members and supporters of the party to work towards clinching decisive electoral victory in 2016.

To achieve this goal, the thoroughbred NDC member asked the party to strive to implement effective working strategies to attain the goals of the Better Ghana agenda, as well as meet the 2012 campaign promises.
Campaign to support NDC
In a chat with the Daily Graphic, Mr Manly-Spain pointed out that he had personally embarked on a campaign to intensify his support for the NDC’s cause and to attain the better Ghana agenda for all.
In line with this, he said he was visiting some constituencies within the Greater Accra Region to share party experiences, find out challenges confronting the constituency offices and offer his widow’s mite by way of logistical support.
He argued that in a mass party such as the NDC, there were bound to be logistical challenges which required all hands on deck to solve.
“No one individual can solve the problems but with a collective action and unity of purpose, we will overcome,” he told the Daily Graphic.
Key objective
According to Mr Manly-Spain, it is his key objective to contribute his quota to ensure that the Greater Accra Regional  constituency offices of the NDC were very functional to play their expected roles as the 2016 elections approached.
“I am currently looking at the Gt. Accra Region and what can be done to support them,” he told the Daily Graphic, and mentioned that “ in the past years,  I have been on the ground working to support the party’s foot soldiers and I intend to continue to make the NDC a party of choice.”
He said his visit to some of the constituencies had revealed many teething problems, and mentioned the burden of the payment of electricity bills, hiring of canopies and chairs for political education, and welfare meetings,  as well as other logistical needs as some of the critical ones.
Mr Manly-Spain said so far,  he had visited 12 out of 34 NDC constituencies in the region and was working on an effective strategy to help.
He said lack of job opportunity for the party’s foot soldiers and the youth also came up during his visit.
According to Mr Manly-Spain, some of the foot soldiers who contributed to the 2012 electoral victory of the NDC feel ignored, and it is time “we arrested this problem by eliminating their concerns.”
Call centre
He disclosed that he would open a novelty call centre to enhance his interaction with the NDC party at the grass roots.
He stressed that the center was aimed at ensuring party supporters were always in touch with the party and themselves, constantly drawing attention to their needs and suggesting pragmatic strategies to win the 2016 elections hands down.
Message of hope
On whether or not the NDC’s Better Ghana agenda was on course, Mr Manly-Spain declared; “Sure, the NDC agenda is on course and we will work to ensure that we succeed in 2016.”
“I want to assure our party foot soldiers that I am coming on board and they must keep faith with the party,” he stated.
Mr Manly-Spain, who is a founder member of the NDC in the US,  had contributed to the welfare of the party since 1992. In 2004, he contested the Ablekuma South Constituency seat of the NDC and supported the campaigns of NDC parliamentary candidates.

Komla Dumor’s body arrives today

The late Komla Afeke Dumor   

                                                                                                                                                                The body of Komla Afeke Dumor, who passed away in London on January 18,  2014, will be flown to Accra at about 8 p.m today.

Dumor’s body will be formally received by the Paramount Chief of Aflao Traditional Area, Togbe Amenya Fiti V, a delegation of chiefs from Aflao where Komla was a youth development chief,  the clergy from the Roman Catholic Church, as well as members of the Dumor family.
A statement signed and issued in Accra by Ms Esther Cobbah,  the Dumor family spokesperson, said arrangements to enable the public to be part of the arrival of the body of Dumor would be announced in the course of the day.
The statement further said information could be obtained at www.komla-dumor.com and dumorfamliy@gmail.com as well as on hotline, 0303 932 383.
It provided further media contacts as Amb. Patrick R. D. Hayford, 020 601 309; Ms Esther A. N. Cobbah, Stratcomm Africa 28 Samora Machel Road, Accra 023 084 7021
Komla Dumor, was the son of Professor Ernest Dumor, the first Chief Executive Officer of the National Identification Authority (NIA) and a former member of the Electoral Commission of Ghana and Professor of the University of Cape Coast.
 Dumor was a well-respected international broadcast journalist who worked for the BBC.
He previously hosted the Super Morning Show on Joy FM in Accra for almost a decade before joining the BBC in 2007
He is survived by his wife Kwansema and three children. He was the brother of Mrs Mawuena Trebarh, Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), and Dr Korshie Dumor, a medical doctor currently practising in the USA.
Meanwhile, the BBC last Saturday held a memorial service for Komla Dumor.
The memorial service, which was held at the St. Martin-in-the-Field Church at Trafalgar Square, London was attended by his friends, family and colleagues at BBC.
Speaking at the memorial service, Ms Josephine Hazeley, the Deputy Editor of the BBC Africa Service said Komla had shown that Africans could be understood.
“Komla represented all that is good in Africa. He has opened doors and we have to make sure those doors are never banged or closed anymore. He has broken the glass ceiling,” she said
Dumor, who passed on at 41, was reported to have died after a cardiac arrest.

‘Kufuor gallon’ borehole water costs GH¢10: It’s said to heal all sicknesses

Hundreds of people from all walks of life are trooping to Adomfe, a small town in the Asante Akyem South District in the Ashanti Region, to fetch water from a borehole which is believed to heal all manner of illnesses.

They are not perturbed by any cost – be it money, distance or long queues for hours and days – to fetch the water for their personal use and for their relatives and friends, far and near.
One gallon (popularly called Kufuor gallon) of the borehole water is being sold for GH¢10 to visitors and GH¢1 to community members.
And when the Daily Graphic visited Adomfe last Friday, a day reserved for visitors to fetch the water, there were long queues of people carrying gallons.
The atmosphere was one of mixed feeling, with people who were fortunate to fetch the water wearing smiles on their faces, while anxiety was written on the faces of those yet to have their turn.
News about the healing potency of the Adomfe borehole water has even gone beyond the shores of Ghana, as some Ghanaians living abroad call their relations back home to go fetch the water for their ailing relatives.
Some residents of Adomfe are said to be doing brisk business, fetching and selling the borehole water to visitors.
The Daily Graphic learnt that some pastors had visited the borehole site, while other prominent people had also sent emissaries to fetch the water for them.
Testimony
The only proof of the healing power of the borehole water lies in the testimonies of people who have used it.
“This water is very good. I have used some already and it’s good; that is why I’ve come for more,” an elderly woman told the Daily Graphic, as she carried a gallon of the borehole water on her head with broad smiles on her face.
Madam Yaa Fosu Hemaa was waiting patiently for her turn to fetch the water after joining the queue for more than five hours before the visit of the Daily Graphic.
“I have an ear problem and after putting some of the water into my ear, I felt an improvement in my condition. So I’ve come to fetch more of the water,” she said.
In another instance, a man was said to have testified that his wife could not take seed again nine years after giving birth to their only child, but after drinking the borehole water, she had become pregnant.
The power of these testimonies had lured Madam Akua Comfort from Ohene Nkwanta at Konongo-Odumase to Adomfe with a ‘Kufuor gallon’ to fetch the water for her ailing mother who is stricken with waist pain and swollen legs.
“I have a heart problem and so I’ll also drink some of the water,” she added.
However, one woman the Daily Graphic spoke to in town was not enthused about the borehole water because after drinking it, she said “I did not see anything.”
Background
The borehole was sunk in September 2008, but, according to Mr Wilberforce Obeng Anane, popularly called WO Anane, the people abandoned it for five years.
That was because they did not find the water suitable for cooking and, when they used it for washing and bathing, the soap did not lather.
He said he later learnt that the borehole water was hard water, hence the inability of soap to lather when the water was used for bathing and washing.
Mr Anane, who is the Financial Secretary of the Water and Sanitation Committee at Adomfe, said having read about hard water from the science notes of his nephew in junior high school and also done further research into it, he discovered the health benefits of the water and started proclaiming same to the people.
He said following the promotion of the water, some people tried it and immediately many of them started giving testimonies of its healing potency against diabetes, heart diseases, abnormal menstrual cycle and other sicknesses.
What is hard water?
According to scientists, water is considered to be hard when it has relatively high levels of calcium and magnesium and other metals.
Water is referred to as hard because it requires more soap for a good lather, making it harder to clean with than soft water, which, unlike hard water, contains few of calcium and magnesium and other metal cations.
Scientists say hard water is not harmful to human health. Rather, it has many health benefits when compared to soft water because calcium and magnesium are considered essential nutrients required in diet to maintain healthy body functions.
“Calcium is a critical component of bone, and has many positive effects on the body, as well as the prevention of serious life-threatening and painful ailments like osteoporosis, kidney stones, hypertension, stroke, obesity  and coronary artery disease,” according to information from a website on chemistry: http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu.
“Magnesium also has positive health effects because inadequate amounts of magnesium in the body increase the risks for health problems, such as hypertension, cardiac arrhythmia, coronary heart disease, and diabetes mellitus.
“Studies done on the health effects of hard and soft water have shown that people who drink greater amounts of soft water have much higher incidences of heart disease, as well as higher blood pressure and cholesterol levels and faster heart rates, than those who drink mostly hard water,” it added.
Scramble for Adomfe hard water
The source of hard water at Adomfe is believed to be rocks beneath the ground on which the borehole was sunk.
In view of the high patronage, the managers of the boreholes have scheduled days on which visitors and community members are allowed to fetch the water.
The borehole is opened to visitors on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, while the community members are given access on the remaining days – Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Upon arrival, one has to register and wait for his or her turn to be served according to the numbering on the registration list in an orderly arrangement supervised by Mr Anane.
However, Mr Anane gives room for what he termed as “consideration” to people with special needs, such as the aged and the sick, who are served earlier than their position on the registration list.
Some of the community members complained that whereas they were restricted to the number of gallons with which they could fetch the water, visitors were allowed to fetch as many as they could.
Business
Meanwhile, some community members are cashing in on the situation by fetching the water at a low cost of GH¢1 and selling it to visitors at GH¢10.
But there are concerns about dubious business practices, as some people allegedly mix the borehole water with tap water for sale to unsuspecting visitors.
The Gyaasehene of Adomfe, Nana Boakye Yiadom, advised visitors to endeavour to fetch the water from the borehole in order not to fall prey to such fraudsters.
He appealed to the government to support the community with a big water tank in order to ensure that people, especially those who travelled long distances to the place, could fetch the water in good time.
Commercial drivers plying routes from Adomfe to Konongo and other surrounding towns are also making brisk business, given the increased human traffic to and from Adomfe.