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Young Ghanaian visual artist, Bright Komla Kpoha who is known for his unique style of putting pen and pencil to paper has earn a nomination in this year’s Ghana Arts and Culture Awards  in the ‘Ghanaian Visual Artist of the Year’ category. The artist who is artistically known as Realpen Pencil has a peculiar way of making arts appealing  unlike the conventional approach to drawing, Bright Kpoha ‘Realpen pencil’, dramatize his drawing process, displaying gymnastic, dancing, jumping and other skills to transform his subject onto paper. Currently, Realpen pencil is the World’s First Gymnastic Artist, this claim was recently endorsed by Google. In the Ghana Arts and Culture Awards category, Realpen Pencil is with five other great visual artists. To vote for Realpen Pencil click on https://eballot-web.anmgw.com/#/awards/nominees/UExBTl8wMDAwMDAwMDU%3D/SCAT_000000235 . Voting end on December 4, 2019.

People are passionate about customer service in Ghana. Overall, the feeling is that companies do not care. The focus is just on profits and nothing else.  Take a cursory glance on social media today – Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp – and you’ll probably understand what I mean. ‘Vodafone has stolen my credit,” screamed an angry customer the other day on Twitter. “Things are too complicated,” - said another customer to our Experience Centre agents. In the telecommunications sector, since what we do is at the very heart of everyday life, the major brunt is borne by us. To give feedback, no matter how painful it is to hear, is to care. Customers want the best of services at all times because it is a promise we make to them when they sign up with us. Our brand promise is a proposition to stand beside the customer at all times as they make the leap into the unknown digital future. Customer service is the first step in becoming a loved brand. It is also the reason why Vodafone is stepp...

The Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Hon. Barbara Oteng-Gyasi has led some officials of the Tourism Ministry to inspects the site for the construction of one of the most iconic and ambitious projects in the history of Ghana’s Tourism sector, which is estimated at 1.2 billion U.S Dollars. This massive project is going to be a game-changer in turning the fortunes of Tourism in Ghana, thereby improving  on the country’s GDP. The project which is dubbed the “Marine Drive Tourism and Investment Project,” is under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism Arts and Culture, in collaboration with the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) and the Ghana Tourism Development Company (GTDC) and is expected to create 36 thousand (36,000) jobs during the first phase of the project and subsequently engage about One Hundred and Fifty Thousand (150,000) both skills and unskilled personnel’s upon completion. Hon, Barbara Oteng Gyasi, made the inspection tour at the Marine Drive project site on the 6th...

Ghanaian based Lebanese DJ and Electronic Dance Music Designer DJSky in an exclusive interview with WatsUp TV yesterday disclosed of his introducing of Electronic Dance Music into the Ghanaian music market. In talks with the host Champagnee Lee aka Faisal Carter, he said: "I started this kind of music in Ghana since 5 years ago". He continued by saying "It was hard for me for the first time, people were seeing everything as strange, but I didn't give up!"  Electronic Dance Music mostly called EDM is something new for African but it’s going far now because we started with some small shows and for now, I think the people like it and listens to it. We can take the love of EDM music from Africa far to the world because currently, there is no one doing this.

Tickets for Sarkodie’s Rapperholic concert for this year will be released on Monday, October 14th, 2019. Sarkodie and his Team Sarknation, are doing a 5-day countdown for the highly anticipated event slated for December 25th. The event which stages annually (on the same day, December 25), moves to the Grand Arena, the newly built dome at the Conference Centre in Accra. Details on ticket prices/packages and outlets will be out for public on the said day — Monday, October 14, 2019. Rapperholic 2019 was launched few weeks ago at a press soirée in Accra. Sarkodie had a big win at BETs last weekend as “International Act For Best Flow”, a newly created category of which he’s the first ever to win from Africa.

Discovery Inc., global leader in real life entertainment, today announced that one of its flagship channels, Discovery Channel (DStv 121), will be open to all active DStv Compact Plus and Compact customers, from 11 October 2019 – 18 November 2019. Discovery Channel is committed to delivering content that inspires, informs and entertains the next generation of passionate fans, as it has been for the past two decades throughout Africa.  As part of the promise, the channel will partner with MultiChoice to deliver an open window viewing period which will allow even more DStv customers on other packages to enjoy some of its Premium, popular content such as Gold Rush and Street Outlaws, and a special premiere of the Alex Gibney and Steven Spielberg six-part series, Why We Hate, which premieres on DStv this Sunday, 13 October 2019. “We believe that the success of Discovery Channel is due to the variety of programming offered, combining real-life entertainment content that speaks to bot...

The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, has expressed delight in awards won over the weekend by several Ghanaians musicians. In a statement issued by the Public Relations Department of the Ministry and sighted by Cypress Ghana , congratulatory message was sent to Sarkodie and Shatta Wale for exceeding in 2019 BET Hip Hop and Ghana Music Awards UK held in Atlanta and London respectively. Find Attached The Full Statement Below: CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO AWARD-WINNING ARTISTES – BEST HIP HOP AWARDS, ATLANTA AND GHANA MUSIC AWARDS, UK, LONDON The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, would like to congratulate all Ghanaian artistes who participated and won awards in the 2019 BET Hip Hop and Ghana Music Awards UK held in Atlanta and London respectively on Saturday, 5th October, 2019.  Particular reference is being made to Sarkodie and Shatta Wale, for excelling in these events.  You have indeed made your beloved country, Ghana, proud at the just ended awards programm...