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Juliet Bawuah is the new Group Head of Sports at Media General, the parent company of TV3, 3FM, Onua TV, Onua FM, Akoma FM, and Connect FM. Her appointment took effect July 1, 2020. She replaces Michael Oti Adjei, who has moved on to head the group's Digital division. Juliet is expected to bring her years of experience to bear on the new role. In the last few years that she has practiced, she has built an enviable brand that is credible and alluring. Juliet holds a Masters from the Cardiff University in Wales, United Kingdom, and is an alumna of the US State Department-sponsored International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). She is also a Fellow of the Radio Netherlands Training Centre (RNTC). She holds other certificates from two of Ghana's prestigious Journalism institutions, the Ghana Institute of Journalism and the African University College of Communications. She has also worked with other reputable Ghanaian media brands including CITI FM, ETV, and Metro TV.

Absa Bank Ghana has congratulated its Brand Ambassador and award-winning musician Kwame Amet Tsikata known in showbiz as M.anifest for being named one of the nine recipients of the Macalester College 2020 Alumni Awards in the United States of America (USA). Nominated by peers selected by the College’s Alumni Board, M.anifest was announced winner of the Distinguished Citizen Award at the Grand Celebration: Reunion Kick-Off event held earlier this month. According to the Macalester College Alumni Board, the award recognizes M.anifest’s leadership in civic, social, religious, and professional activities. “It is given because the Macalester community believes that a college education should be the training and inspiration for unselfish and effective service to the community, the nation, and the world.” In a congratulatory message, Nana Essilfuah Boison, Marketing and Corporate Relations Director at Absa Bank Ghana commended M.anifest for positively impacting society through his music and a

Telecommunication giant, Vodafone Ghana, has enhanced its data packages to give customers exceptional value for money and unmatched experience on the network during this period. Customers currently enjoy double data allocation on a host of Vodafone’s data offering including the Ghs 0.25, Ghs 1 and Ghs 2 daily bundles, and the Ghs 5 weekly bundle. Data allocation on Vodafone’s ‘2 Moorch Data’ proposition (Ghs 10, Ghs 20, and Ghs50), which offers the best volume of data and price points across the industry, was also doubled earlier this year. The extra data allocation, which is available for browsing from 12am to 4pm, empowers customers to do so much more at the same price. Additionally, the Telco has lifted the limited validity on its daily data bundles, Ghs 0.25, Ghs 1 and Ghs 2, as well as Ghs 5 weekly bundle. This means that all four bundles are now ‘No Expiry’ products. The prices of all the above bundles have been marginally reduced to enable customers confidently connect to the th

Ghanaian presenter, Brown Berry continues to stamp his authority on the media scene with his top notch presentations and interviews. He recently interviewed DJ Cuppy, about her new single ‘Jollof on the Jet’ off her upcoming debut album ‘Original Copy.’ “The way the song came about is I was flying from Accra to Lagos, and I was eating jollof. I was with my producer, Killertunes and I said ‘you know what, what if we had a song called jollof on the jet,” disclosed Cuppy to Berry on his show ‘Ryse N Shyne,’ the morning show on Y 107.9 FM. “It’s just about celebrating us being together. I thought this was a great way of just representing Africans,” added the host of ‘Africa Now Radio’ on Apple Music’ Beats 1 about the song featuring Nigerian artiste, Rema and Rayvanny from Tanzania. Born Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola, the founder of Red Velvet Music Group, a London-based music management and content production company has collaborated with top talents on the African continent including Sarkodi

The Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hollard Ghana, Patience Akyianu, has been named the outstanding Group CEO of the year at the 10th edition of the Ghana Entrepreneur & Corporate Executive Awards. The event was held under the theme, “Celebrating Ten Years of Entrepreneurial Excellence and Business Development in Ghana.” The prestigious awards, which took place at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel, through a virtual live broadcast on TV3 Network and social media platforms, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram, sought to publicly honour outstanding corporate executives across a wide range of sectors in Ghana. Patience Akyianu is an experienced and well-rounded business leader with a strong commercial acumen. She has over 27 years of experience in Banking, Finance, and Insurance. This award is a testament of Patience's exceptional and versatile leadership having overseen Hollard Ghana’s double-digit revenue growth, a feat she achieved since assuming office as Group CEO in October

Angry Panda Music Label, a new record label that is making big moves has released its debut music video called Shots Fired. The video which features the label's formidable trio FRD, Q and KOJO LINTON is also an introductory video to  outdoor the talents on the label. SHOTS FIRED is the trio’s first feature song together and the label apparently took no expense in delivering a dope and different music video with an interesting storyline and great visuals. The story sees the trio acting as themselves in the video that was shot like a feature film. The video was shot by SYNMATION STUDIOS and directed by RICHMOND BOADI (Ichigo Al Ghoul).

While some of us are still stuck at home, it’s easy to feel like we are forever cooped up indoors. While we have some spare time, a great way to pass it is trying out new things. A great habit to pick up is regular exercise, especially cardio workouts. Cardio exercise is important, so let’s talk about one of the easiest ways to add an effective cardio workout to your fitness routine—running. Here are some easy tips to get you started on reaching your desired running goal. It’s important to keep exercising while staying safe. One of the easiest – and safest - ways to stay fit is running.  More and more of us are finding fun and more creative ways to stay fit. From home workouts, using full water bottles as weights to online yoga classes and more, we can now choose the exercises we want to do from the safety of our homes.

Fast-rising afro-dancehall musician Mijay is elated as government has announced it will allocate GHC50 million to cushion the creative arts industry amid the coronavirus pandemic. She describes the development as refreshing since government seems to have answered the persistent calls by creatives for some support since the pandemic broke. She said “it’s refreshing to note that government is thinking about us. Personally, I just released my song ‘Sweet Vybez’ and without events, I can’t promote it and ultimately get paid for performances. All I have is online revenue.” “I applaud government for the initiative. It gives the younger ones like us hope that the future is bright,” she added. Industry players have since March advocated and pleaded with government to support the creative arts industry since it had adversely been affected by the Covid-19 virus. Events, concerts, movie premieres etc were canceled by authorities as measures to curb the spread of the virus. A situation which stifl

Afro-dancehal musician Mijay is out with a brand new single christened ‘Sweet Vybez’. This single comes after the afrobeats singer took a short break from the music scene, but is positive of a breakthrough in the coming weeks. Mijay has had successful records in the past including ‘Carry Me Go’ featuring former label mate Gidochi and “Space’. Sweet Vybez is a mid-tempo jam that talks about how the artiste feels around her lover. According to her, it’s a song everyone that has fallen in love or wishes to fall in love can easily relate to. ‘Sweet Vybez’ is available on all digital stores and Youtube. Listen To The Song After The Cut....

The former Mobile boiz member Yaw Grey has announced his upcoming album ‘AfroCan’ is dropping on 25th of July 2020. The body of work, has proudly been titled “AfroCan” simply because Africa Can. The Rapper is particularly excited about this album since it completely highlights his growth as an artist from the Mobile boiz era to the current Yaw Grey. AfroCan is an 12 track album that together communicates that he, Yaw Grey “believes it’s only 1 race that can have Afro on and that is the African, that the black race.” “If other races can really do big and explore, I believe we can as Africans. And I believe as a young man or young lady from Africa, we can sell Africa in the African way, in the African voice, and this album is put together to really sell Africa through music, with the passion.” The Album is being powered by Muse Media Networks owned TunesXmuse, a global music distribution and label services platform.

A major COVID-19-themed music concert put together by the Coalition of Event Managers and Suppliers, an interest group of professionals in Ghana's events ecosystem, has been held in Accra. Featuring KiDi, Lamisi, Prince Bright, Yaw Sarpong and Asomafo, Kuami Eugene, Mr Drew and a host of others, it paid a fitting tribute to the group's socially-progressive campaign to contribute to ongoing COVID-19 relief efforts. Broadcast live to a global television audience, it saw in full splendour, the expertise of all the members of the group, which handed the event a solid appeal. Prior to Saturday's event, the Mask4All campaign had garnered support by embarking on a massive drive to mobilize face masks for distribution to the vulnerable while putting out educational material on multiple mediums to help in the fight against the spread of COVID-19. Organizers set out to acknowledge the collective efforts in fighting Covid-19; creating public awareness and education on preventive safet

Pan African entertainment TV show, WatsUp TV has announced a partnership with Guinea Evasion TV and Burkina Faso's 3 TV , to extend its content onto the Canal+ platform thereby extending their viewership to over 40 countries and 7 million homes on the satellite platform. The shows which will be produced and aired in French for the Francophone audience will feature a Top 10 countdown show and WatsUp TV playlist. This initiative is expected to open the WatsUp TV's brand to a new market and presenting musicians and music promoters an opportunity to promote their content across the globe through this new platform instituted by WatsUp TV. Commenting on this historic feat, Abdoulaye “ ABD “ Traore, CEO of WatsUp TV remarked that, the brand is growing to become a preferred platform for music artistes to promote their songs to the whole African continent. The show will air on Evasion TV from 31st July, 2020 and will be shown on Fridays, 3pm to 5pm and Sundays late night 1

On August 6th, women-led B2B Enterprise Development Agency, ScaleUp Africa, will virtually host its inaugural Pan-African Business Festival coined IGNITE. The festival is poised to nurture closer economic ties and opportunities for youth and women-led businesses in Africa and across the global stage. The digital experience is set to provide practical resources for entrepreneurs of African descent, globally. The festival programmes are geared toward entrepreneurs with an interest in doing business in Africa and will support them with accessing new markets across Africa, the USA, the Caribbean and Europe. The event will offer attendees five Curated Sector Segments. ScaleUp Africa will work with corporations to connect entrepreneurs to the networks and organizational partners needed to scale their solutions. Network connections will include professional advisors and partners to help overcome barriers that prohibit their growth. By 2050, Africa will account for 50% of the wor

Absa Bank Ghana has rolled out a free banking service for any Ghanaian start-up business that is less than three years old. It is an industry first and a game changer expected to support young start-ups in the country to scale up. The free banking service forms part of the bank’s newly launched ambitious proposition known as “Absa StartUp Banking” which is an initiative that supports the grooming and scaling up of Ghanaian-owned start-ups with solutions that will bring their possibilities to life. The Absa StartUp Banking, which is available across the bank’s branches and offices, will provide start-up businesses with clear- cut and tailor-made solutions such as opportunity to tap into Market Access, Business Mentorship, and free banking services. Detailing the opportunities available for Start-ups, Mrs. Grace Anim-Yeboah, Business Banking Director at Absa Bank Ghana indicated that the free banking offering includes services such as zero commission on turnover (COT), free cheque books,

Renowned Indian online University DPU today announced a special package for Ghanaian and African students. To this end, it has partnered with a number of local entities including the Accra-based Kandifo Institute to facilitate the admission of persons who desire to take up some of the available MBA courses. Courses in Finance, Marketing, IT, Operations, and International Business Management among others, are available for the 2020 admission year. Interested persons can apply at dpuacademicadvisor@gmail.com and also book through the mobile numbers +233 241 267 943 and +233 302 953 831. With Covid-19 impacting physical classrooms, options such as what DPU offer, provide a seamless window for students to reach their dreams even in this pandemic. Globally, over 1.2 billion educational institutions are out of use. Education has changed dramatically as a result, with the distinctive rise of e-learning, whereby teaching is undertaken remotely and on digital platforms. It is the new normal and

Following multi award-winning South African musician, AKA’s, public disclosure of his positive COVID-19 results this past Friday, and his candidness about being transparent as possible about his recovery journey, AKA’s COVID-19 diaries will start airing today on MTV Base and BET. You can catch AKA’s COVID-19 diaries at 17:00 on Newsish on MTV Base (DStv channel 322) and during the 21:30 break on BET (DStv channel 135). As AKA continues to build his strength on his COVID-19 recovery, he also celebrates his two #SAMA26 nominations for his single Jika, in the categories Record Of The Year and Music Video Of The Year which were announced last week. See Categories After The Cut......

With the countdown to the season five premiere of Africa’s popular reality TV show, Big Brother Naija officially on, MultiChoice Nigeria has revealed that this season’s winner will walk away with a whopping N85m grand prize! The grand prize which includes a N30m cash prize, makes this season’s winnings the biggest since its debut back in 2006 and highest prize for reality TV show on the continent! Chief Executive Officer, MultiChoice Nigeria, John Ugbe said: “The fifth season of BBNaija marks a major milestone in the reality TV series. We are making this season significant by not only increasing the winnings, but by also implementing other creative and innovative ways to ensure the show lives up to the premium entertainment especially during the current pandemic.” The breakdown of the grand prize for BBNaija season five includes: a N30m cash prize; a two-bedroom apartment courtesy Revolution Plus ; a top of the range SUV from Nigerian automaker,  Innoson Motors ; a trip to Dubl

Vodafone Ghana has partnered with Opera, one of the world’s leading browser developers, to give its customers free browsing of up to 50 MB every day for those who use Opera Mini , Opera News , and Opera News Lite on their smartphones.    The partnership seeks to enhance the online experience for the millions of Vodafone customers by giving them access to their favorite websites, latest local and global news, as well as connecting them with family and friends via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram on the Opera Mini browser. Commenting on the initiative, Pushpinder Gujral , Consumer Business Unit (CBU) Director at Vodafone Ghana said : ‘’This initiative affirms our commitment to finding innovative ways to offer our customers matchless value. We want customers to enjoy the experience of free browsing with Opera, products. Additionally, this initiative will give Vodafone users access to free and unlimited information about the global pandemic and more.’’ On his part, Jørgen Arnese

Vodafone Ghana has invested in an extensive fibre infrastructure rollout to provide seamless ultra-high speed fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connectivity for its customers at home and at work. As part of this initiative, Vodafone has begun a campaign to upgrade customers on its copper-based broadband to its FTTH service for free. The campaign is part of Vodafone’s FTTH rollout strategy, aimed at progressively replacing its copper network nationwide with fibre. Vodafone’s fibre broadband service is already transforming communities in Ghana by enabling businesses and customers to do so much more . It offers far greater reliability and seamless connection across data and voice calls. As part of this campaign, Vodafone is upgrading customers in various communities within the Greater Accra Region onto its fibre broadband service for free. These communities include Abeka, Abelemkpe, Achimota, Adenta, Airport Residential Area, Ashongman, Asylum Down, Avenor, Awudome, Botwe, Bubuashie, Cantonmen

Technology giant, IBM Corporation has appointed Angela Kyerematen-Jimoh Regional Head for North, East and West Africa where she will be responsible for IBM operations in over 40 countries in Africa including Morocco, Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, Ghana and Tunisia.   Before her appointment, Ms. Kyerematen-Jimoh was Chief of Staff to the Senior Vice President in charge of Global Markets and Sales in IBM’s corporate headquarters in New York. Ms. Kyerematen-Jimoh who was previously Country Manager for Ghana joined IBM in 2011 as Marketing Manager for the West Africa Market Segment and rose through the ranks to become the Strategy Leader for Central East and West Africa. Prior to joining IBM Ms. Kyerematen-Jimoh worked in banking, for UBS Investment Bank & ABN AMRO in London and GT Bank Ghana. Chris Kirubi, East Africa Business Mogul and founder of Centum Investment said “I am exceptionally proud of Angela. Her dedication and commitment to her work is unwavering.  She has all our su

On 17 July, we are celebrating World Emoji Day, and what better way to spend the day than with entertainment that evokes some of the emotions associated with our favourite emojis? World Emoji Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated on 17 July.   The day is deemed a "global celebration of emoji" and has been celebrated annually since 2014.   The first ever emoji was created by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999 as part of a team working on a mobile internet platform in Japan where he distributed the first 175 pixel emoji's.   Following the release of Apple's iOS6 the emoji keyboard has revolutionalised texting.   Whether you’re feeling the love and seeing hearts or having a thumbs down kind of day, we have a show to suit any mood. Take a look at the shows below and let emotion take over.

Multi award-winning South African musician, AKA, has tested positive for the novel COVID-19 virus. In an attempt to create awareness around the virus and to caution citizens to be more careful in their daily interactions with others, AKA has chosen to make his results public. AKA pleads for everyone to adhere to social distancing guidelines, to wear masks and to hold stringent hygiene measures by frequently sanitizing and washing our hands. Since the announcement of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, AKA has taken precautions that were stipulated by the WHO and the SA Government. COVID-19 has become a very real part of many lives in South Africa and AKA will therefore be sharing his recovery journey with everyone whilst in self-isolation as he aims to be as transparent as possible about his journey with COVID-19.

Ahead of the commencement of Season 5 of the Big Brother Naija show on Sunday, all new housemates are currently in isolation. The organisers had announced that the 2020 edition of the reality show will go live on Sunday, July 19 on GOtv. Amid the Covid-19 crisis and the social distancing protocol, many wondered if BBNaija will hit TV screens this year. At a virtual press briefing on Thursday, MultiChoice disclosed that they were working with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to ensure the highest level of safety of housemates and the production crew.  The organisers announced that “potential housemates are currently in isolation ahead of the July 19 premiere”. “They will be monitored whilst in isolation until they are cleared as Covid-19 free. Anyone that shows signs of ill health, will as expected not be a part of the show.” The Big Brother House has also been disinfected and won’t be accessible to anyone till when the housemates make their way into their new

Absa Bank Ghana has unveiled an ambitious proposition known as “Absa StartUp Banking”, a new initiative that will support the grooming and growth of Ghanaian-owned start-ups with solutions that will bring their possibilities to life. The Absa StartUp Banking initiative, which was launched in Accra July 6, will see the bank provide start-up businesses with clear- cut and tailor-made solutions and support in key areas of Market Access, Mentorship, Visibility, among others. The Bank in their bid to alleviate some of the financial burden, characteristic of Start-ups, is also offering free banking services such as zero commission on turnover (COT), free cheque books, free transfers and free debit card printing to start-ups. Speaking at the virtual launch, Mrs. Abena Osei-Poku, the Managing Director of Absa Bank Ghana said “As a passionate, bold and forward-looking bank, Absa is committed to help entrepreneurs to scale up their businesses by connecting their dreams to financial services and

The arts and entertainment industry has over the years grown from just being a medium of entertaining people to a more business oriented space. However, in spite of the attempt to merge the two; there is a huge gap between making practitioners of the arts benefit from their works. Well-meaning industry players and personalities have for years tried to revamp the Ghanaian Showbiz industry more lucrative. Some progress has been made and it is in this light that TV3, the best station when it comes to entertainment is once again out with another entertainment show. In recent times, several stakeholders in the Ghanaian creative arts space have had a cause to complain about guests on entertainment magazine shows who are supposed to be impacting knowledge. It appears these half-baked panelists are just attention seekers parading themselves on media platforms for their parochial interest. This is all about to change as Ghana’s leading television station, TV3 Network will be premiering a new ex

Language barriers can be frustrating for patients and health professionals during healthcare delivery. Clear correspondence is basic to delivering excellent healthcare. The results could be disastrous, if medical information gets lost in translation when patients are describing their symptoms or when doctors explain treatment procedures. Vodafone Foundation through its Healthline Medical Call Centre is successfully addressing the gaps in healthcare delivery brought about by language limitations. As part of efforts to provide accurate information and medical advice on COVID-19 and other health issues, the Vodafone Healthline Medical Call Centre is resourced with medical doctors who speak a host of local languages including Ga, Twi, Fante, Ewe and Hausa. In addition to English, the doctors at the call centre deliver expert health advice in five other languages - Mandarin (Chinese), French, Spanish, Russian and Portuguese. This is one of the many interventions by the Vodafone Foundation t

Ghana continues to make strides in its effort to bring the situation of COVID-19 under control. The global health crisis has undeniably affected the country with restrictions on key activities put in place to contain the spread of the virus. There is now a stronger need for corporates to respond to the crisis and work with Government to help the people of Ghana. This was a strong factor in Samsung’s decision to support the country. Samsung has donated 500 units of Galaxy A2 Cores to the efforts. The devices will be used by frontline health workers to improve communication as well as to monitor the movement of testing and care resources. This is an essential part of Samsung’s strategy to support Ghana on its mission to curb the infection rate and flatten the COVID-19 growth curve.