“When I got casted in the movie titled ‘The Dead’, people made mockery of me. Sometimes you go on set they don’t give you room, you wear something and they tell you it’s too nice,” Prince David Osei disclosed.
The famous actor further disclosed that at a point in his rise to fame in the movie industry, he felt unwanted.
According to him, his rise to stardom in the movie industry was characterised by backstabbing and hatred by industry persons, who did not want him in the space.
He mentioned that even though the likes of Ivan Quashigah believed in his abilities, there were other film producers who worked behind the scenes to get him off the screen.
“I felt unwanted in the movie industry. There was this feeling like ‘Where is he coming from?’ I felt that bad energy but all the victimisation kept me going,” Mr. Osei noted.
The Fortune Island actor said there were times his roles were even taken from him because some industry persons and those “who called the shot” felt he didn’t qualify for it.
He also added that for his eagerness and drive to succeed, he would have given up and killed his dreams.
Concerning his experience in the Ghanaian movie industry, he urged up-and-coming actors to remain steadfast in their commitment and persevere in the face of deliberate industry saboteurs, adding that “It’s all about you attracting people. Don’t give up when you come face to face with these kinds of people who would sabotage you in the industry.”
Celebrated Ghanaian actor Adjetey Anang has urged young people in the creative industry to learn the ropes of the job.
He told Kwame Dadzie in an interview on Joy FM’s Showbiz A-Z that a lot of people, especially the young creatives, have neglected the business aspect of showbiz.
He noted that the only way this could be solved is for them to take their time to learn.
“One of the ways through which we can is if our younger generation gets to stay in the process. Because before you can make business out of something you have to be baked. You can’t be in a certain craft and not be baked,” he said.
“People come to my dms and say they are passionate about acting, I should give them a chance and they will prove it. Sometimes I just take a stroll to their social media handles and all I see is selfies of their food and designer wears,” Adjetey Anang added.
He said those who claim are passionate about what they do should at least have them posted on their social media pages.
According to him, most young people are not utilising the social media platforms well.
Pusher made this comment while responding to a part of his new book ‘Adjetey Anang: Faith, imperfections and resilience’, that highlights the lack of business in activities of Ghana’s entertainment industry.
In the book, he writes: “we get on the screen, make money and fame and it ends there. There is no zeal for further education or improvement of knowledge in acting or new ways of making movies.”
He is hopeful that if people in the arts educate themselves in various business and marketing fields, it will go a long way to help the industry.
This is an example of a fish with a red ulcer caused by the disease, shown in a FAO document
Fishing has been banned at three lakes in northern Mozambique after the outbreak of a suspected fungal disease affecting fish.
It was imposed after fish at the Lakes Chiúta, Chirua and Amaramba, which straddle the border with Malawi, were found with red spots on their bodies.
This indicates an outbreak of epizootic ulcerative syndrome, also known as red spotted disease.
While some of the fish have been sent to a laboratory in the capital to confirm this, the authorities in Mecanhelas district have sought to calm fears.
“Although the subject is under investigation, we guarantee that the syndrome does not affect humans as long as the fish is boiled well,” Armando Maulana, the district’s director of economic activities, said.
The Ministry of Fisheries further warned that it was advisable to properly cook all fish from endemic areas, with or without red spots.
According to the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), the disease has the potential to financially decimate those who rely on fishing for income.
Communities around the lakes, which are fairly large, depend on fishing and the move is likely to affect many Mozambican and Malawian fishermen.
The FAO says infected fish should not be thrown back to open waters and should be disposed of properly by burying or burning.
Smoke rises as a fire broke out on the cargo ship Fremantle Highway, at sea on July 26, 2023
A fire blazed on a ship off the Dutch coast with nearly 3,000 vehicles on board on Wednesday, killing one member of the crew and injuring several others, the coastguard said.
The fire began on Tuesday night on the 199-metre Panama-registered Fremantle Highway, which was en route from Germany to Egypt, forcing several crew members to jump overboard. Dutch broadcaster NOS said all the crew were Indian.
Rescue ships sprayed water onto the burning boat to cool it down, but using too much water risked its sinking, the Dutch coastguard said. A salvage vessel was hooked on to stop it drifting.
The fire might last for several days, Dutch news agency ANP reported, citing the coastguard. Smoke continued to billow from the vessel near the northern Dutch island of Ameland.
“The fire is most definitely still not controlled. It’s a very hard fire to extinguish, possibly because of the cargo the ship was transporting,” said Edwin Versteeg, a spokesperson for the Dutch Department of Waterways and Public Works.
The coastguard said on its website that the cause of the fire was unknown, but a coastguard spokesperson had earlier told Reuters it began near an electric car. Roughly 25 out 2,857 vehicles on the ship were electric.
The International Maritime Organisation, which sets out regulation for safety at sea, plans to evaluate new measures for ships transporting electric vehicles next year in light of the growing number of fires on cargo ships, a spokesperson said.
A $20 million Medical Waste and Waste Treatment plant has been commissioned by JOSPONG Group of Companies at a short ceremony in Takoradi. The Group’s Hungarian partners, Puereco, with support from EXIM Bank of Hungary, are supporting the $20 million project. The commissioning brings to four the number of Liquid Wastewater Treatment Plants that have been constructed by the government, in collaboration with the Jospong Group.
The Wastewater Treatment Plant, for instance, has the capacity to treat one thousand cubic metres (1000m3) of faecal matter per day, using a comprehensive European technology. The plant has been designed to introduce a sustainable and unique solution for Takoradi in the management of the current illicit dumping of faecal sludge in an efficient and environmentally friendly way.
Commissioning the project, the Chairman of the JOSPONG Group of Companies, Dr. Joseph Siaw Adjepong, commended the Hungarian partner for supporting the project. He said: “We are particularly grateful to our Hungarian partner, Puereco, for being part of this transformative agenda and making these projects a reality.”
Touching on the facility, the JOSPONG Group Chairman mentioned that the Medical Waste Treatment Facility and the Centralised Medical Waste Treatment Facility would serve the purpose of collecting and treating hazardous healthcare waste, including used syringes, blood-stained materials, pathological waste, COVID-19 waste, and waste from vaccination exercises.
He added that the installation of the 10,000 kilogrammes ultra-modern Microwave Treatment Equipment (Ecosteryl) on-site allowed for the treatment of hazardous waste daily.
The waste treatment plant being commissioned
“The equipment has the added advantage of recycling the treated waste, adding more value, and reducing the waste that goes to landfills. Moreover, its non-incineration technique ensures no harmful pollutants are released into the atmosphere, promoting environmental health and safety.”
He thanked the chiefs and people of Assakae for releasing land for the project, which is sitting on 200 acres.
Benefits
The two facilities, he said, were expected to generate over 500 direct and indirect job opportunities, both technical and non-technical. Additionally, the two facilities would help improve the air and water quality of the Sekondi-Takoradi Municipality and its environs, thereby improve the health and wellbeing of the people.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Puerco KFT, Balint Horvath, indicated that the project stood as a testament of the fruitful collaboration between a Hungarian and a Ghanaian company.
“Together we embarked on a shared mission to construct an advanced, fully customized wastewater treatment facility that will address the challenge of managing collected septic water in a self-sufficient manner.”
He said it was a profound honor for his company to partner to contribute value to the lives of the remarkable people in Takoradi and its surroundings.
“We see this project as merely the inception of a long term and fruitful Ghanaian-Hungarian collaboration in the realm of water management”.
Present at the commissioning were Tristan Azbej, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary, Balinth Horvath, Group CEO of Puereco, Florence Cobbold, General Manger Sewerage Systems Ghana Limited, the Member of Parliament for Takoradi and Western Regional Minister Kwabena Okyere Darko Mensah.
The rest are Nana Kwesi Agyemang, Omanhene of Lower Dixcove, Nana Kwaw Entsie, Omanhene of Mpohor, and Nana Asante Kojo, Chief of Assekae among other traditional leaders and the clergy.
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (centre) welcomed at an airport in Pyongyang on 25 July
A Russian delegation led by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has arrived in North Korea, to be joined by a Chinese delegation later on Wednesday.
They will attend Pyongyang’s celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, marked typically by massive military parades.
The visits are the first of their kind to the North since it shut its borders to try to keep out the pandemic.
It is unclear if this signals a change in Pyongyang’s border policies.
Reclusive North Korea had sealed itself off from all trade and diplomatic ties in early 2020, even with Russia and China, its main economic and political partners.
They even cut off imports of essential goods like food and medicine.
North Korea has been facing food shortages, which have been made worse by its border closure and strict international sanctions that have been imposed because of its nuclear programme.
Some analysts say the inclusion of Chinese and Russian envoys in this year’s “Victory Day” parade – as the 1953 Korean armistice is called in the North – hints at a possible loosening of Covid restrictions.
It comes weeks after images of North Koreans walking around without masks were shown on state media.
The Russian delegation arrived in North Korea late on Tuesday, and received a warm welcome on the tarmac at an airport in Pyongyang.
The Founder of SHE4G Foundation, Nimatu Asilgya, has donated valuable items to a 37-year-old mother and her new born triplets on Saturday, July 22, 2023.
The triplets were delivered on July 12, 2023, at the Tali Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Compound in the Tolon District. The triplets arrive at a time she already has four children to care for.
The items donated range from mattresses, baby clothes, feeds, diapers, toiletries and an amount of GH¢1,000.00.
According to Madam Nimatu Asilgya, the parents of the triplets had been going through terrible financial difficulties, and as such, were not able to cater for the newly born triplets.
She believed that the less privileged in the community deserved support, as such, her team decided to extend support to the family.
Family of the triplet in a picture with the donated items
Madam Nimatu Asilgya disclosed that she believed in self-confidence, and it had always been her dream to empower girls/women and youths across Ghana and beyond to speak up and stand for themselves, irrespective of wherever they were.
“I was inspired to start She4G Foundation because of the challenges I had growing up,” she stated.
She said her outfit had reached out to over 12,000 girls/women and youths across the country, and each of them received sanitary pads.
She added: “I distribute clothes, shoes and other items to the less privileged communities as well, and visits the Akuse Prisons and donated a lot of items to the prisoners.”
She has, with the help of a few people, sponsored the fees of most lest privileged individuals, the majority who are currently in school, ranging from Tertiary, Secondary, Junior High, to the Kindergarten level.
Despite this, Mrs. Asilgya bemoaned that because of limited resources, her outfit was not able to reach a wider audience and communities.
It was for this reason that she urged all and sundry to extend their support to her Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) to be able to carry out its humanitarian mission.
SHE4G Foundation
It is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) established in November 2019, out of love and passion for humanity, especially for the girl-child. The sole aim of the NGO is to empower. The NGO received three nominations last year from Humanitarian Awards Globally.
Niger’s presidency has said members of the presidential guard tried to move against President Mohamed Bazoum, warning that the army was ready to attack them if they did not back down.
The presidency’s official Twitter account said on Wednesday that presidential guards engaged in an “anti-Republican demonstration” and tried “in vain” to obtain the support of the other security forces.
It added that Bazoum and his family were well after news agencies quoted security sources as saying that the guards were holding Bazoum inside the presidential palace in the capital, Niamey.
The palace and ministries next to it had been blocked off by military vehicles on Wednesday morning. Staff inside the palace were also unable to access their offices, according to reports. But there was calm elsewhere in Niamey.
Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris, reporting from Abuja in neighbouring Nigeria, said there was a directive from the army for troops loyal to Bazoum to move in to quell what seemed to be a coup attempt.
He said there are reports out of the capital signifying that there is “some form of negotiations”, with one report suggesting that the coup plotters just wanted Bazoum to “surrender power”.
“Right now we also heard about mobilisation in the outskirts of Niamey where military barracks are situated,” he added.
In a statement, Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairperson of the African Union Commission, “strongly” condemned what he called a coup attempt “by members of the military acting in total betrayal of their republican duty”.
The Naira on Tuesday appreciated against the dollar, exchanging at N791.42 at the Investors and Exporters window.
According to NAN, the Naira gained by 0.08 per cent compared with N792.04 which it exchanged for the dollar on Monday.
The open indicative rate closed at N779.50 to the dollar on Tuesday. A spot exchange rate of N845 to the dollar was the highest rate recorded within the day’s trading before it settled at N791.42.
The Naira sold for as low as N730 to the dollar within the day’s trading.
On Tuesday, $51.55 million were traded at the investors’ and exporters’ window.
Since the Central Bank of Nigeria introduced foreign exchange market reforms, the forex window has been fluctuating.
Yusuf Muda, the Director of the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise, had advised the apex bank on policy intervention to curb the forex market volatility.
Meanwhile, Folashodun Shonubi, the Acting CBN governor, assured of an improved forex market in a briefing on Tuesday after its Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
Alex Otti, the Governor of Abia State has said Aba will be independently powered through the Geometric Power Limited’s power plant in one or two months.
Otti disclosed this on Tuesday in a statement through his official Twitter handle when the Chairman of Geometric Power Limited, Prof Bartholomew Nnaji, a former Minister of Power and his team paid him a courtesy visit.
Gov Otti expressed delight that Aba will soon have a reliable power supply. He stated that the State and GPL were in talks with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited to resolve the gas supply issue.
“Right now, we are buying power from the National Grid, that is why power is not reliable yet, and so, we would like to ask our citizens of Aba to bear with us that we are getting there. We are there.
“The turbines to power the electricity plant, which were taken abroad for maintenance, have been brought back to the plant and reinstalled.
“We are now working with the NNPC to resolve the gas supply issue to the plant,” he said.
DAILY POST gathered that the Geometric Power Aba Limited, located in Alaoji Aba, is expected to add 188 megawatts to Nigeria’s electricity output.
