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You can’t build a house in East Legon on an actor’s salary-Ekow Smith Asante

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Ekow Smith Asante

Ghanaian actor and film producer, Ekow Smith Asante, has shed light on the financial challenges faced by actors and actresses in the Ghanaian film industry. He emphasized that the industry’s low pay makes it difficult for them to afford houses in prime residential areas like East Legon.

During an interview with Fiifi Pratt on Kingdom FM, Ekow Smith explained that building a house in East Legon is a daunting prospect for actors and actresses, as they often rely on favors and gifts to be able to live in such upscale neighborhoods.

“I think building a house in East Legon would be difficult. It is very dicey because actors and actresses for instance, get favours”, Ekow Smith shared.

He dispelled the misconception that Ghanaian actors and actresses lead lavish lifestyles, stating that their earnings are insufficient to sustain such extravagance.

According to Ekow Smith, while actors may receive gifts from individuals based on their roles in movies, accumulating enough funds to build a house without such support would take a considerable amount of time.

“Somebody can give me something because of my particular role in a movie. With gifts from people, it can support you to build, but I think it will take a very long time without it. How much are you paid, GHc10, 000, Ghc20, 000, Ghc30, 000 or what? ” he queried.

He also raised the question of how much actors are paid, highlighting the significant disparity compared to their Nigerian counterparts who adopt a more business-oriented approach and earn millions of dollars.

Ekow Smith further revealed that many actors and actresses from his era were unable to invest in their craft due to the industry’s low wages, especially when compared to the Nigerian film industry.

He expressed his belief that Nigerian actors prioritize business ventures, which hinders the progress of the Ghanaian film industry. He noted that actors of his time have resorted to other businesses, such as operating restaurants, to supplement their income due to the industry’s inability to provide substantial financial returns.

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Forgive me if I’ve misled you –Akuapem Poloo apologises to fans

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Akuapem Poloo

Actress, Rosemond Alade Brown, popularly known as Akuapem Poloo, has officially rendered an apology to the youth, particularly her fans.

This is due to her deceptive social media lifestyle, which she thinks has had a bad impact on some young people including those who may look up to her as a role model.

Akuapem Poloo has been known for displaying luxury vehicles as birthday gifts every year. This year, none of these were seen in her post.

On her 34th birthday celebration, the actress did not flaunt any cars as birthday presents, although she received other gifts such as money and clothes.

According to her, ignorance and immaturity led to her forging her lifestyle on social media as she was young.

However, she has changed her ways after realising that such a lifestyle could have a negative impact on the youth, especially those who look up to her as a role model.

Therefore, she has appealed to all young people and fans to forgive her and mend their ways, just as she has done.

The actress also revealed that the majority of social media users, particularly celebrities, lie about receiving luxurious cars as birthday presents.

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Ruth Adjei bags Global Music Awards nomination in South Africa

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Gospel musician, Ruth Adjei

Ghanaian gospel musician, Ruth Adjei, has been nominated for the 2023 Global Music Awards in South Africa. The artiste earned the covetable slot with her hit songs like ‘Matchless Father’, ‘Oshidaa’, ‘Woye Ohen’, ‘Mɛbɔ’, ‘Ma Menyɛ dɛ wo’, ‘Same Old God’.

She has also been nominated as the Gospel Artiste of the Year by the Global Beauty and Art Industry Festival and the 2023 Jupiter Media Awards at Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.

Ruth Adjei has been touted as one of the hottest musicians when it comes to the new phase of gospel music.

Last month, Ruth Adjei beat off top competitors to be adjudged the gospel artist of the year at the just-ended Ghana Youth Entertainment Awards 2023.

She has also been awarded as the gospel artiste of the year by the Global TikTok Awards.

Already, there is a whole new level of anticipation that has started building up after she released her new song titled ‘Same Old God’.

The song hinges on the faithfulness, and unconditionality of God’s nature to fulfill every word he has spoken to his children.

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British Vogue editor Edward Enninful steps down

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Edward Enninful, pictured alongside singer Katy Perry, attended the Coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla last month

British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful will be stepping down from his role after six years of breaking boundaries at the top fashion magazine.

The 51-year-old will remain as an editorial advisor to the UK title but move into a newly-created job next year aimed at growing the brand globally.

His new portfolio as Vogue’s global creative and cultural advisor will also allow him to take on external projects.

Enninful will be involved with the recruitment search for his successor.

The Ghanaian-British creative is the first black man to hold the top job at the British fashion magazine.

British Vogue recently featured its first disabled models, including actress Selma Blair who lives with multiple sclerosis and Ellie Goldstein, a 21-year-old model with Down’s syndrome.

In an interview last year about his favourite Vogue covers, Enninful said the inspiration behind his first one in December 2017 featuring mixed race model Adwoa Aboah was aimed at resetting “the image of modern Britain”.

“It was important to create a cover that represented the Britain of today, a multicultural society where everyone was welcome – where my family was welcome,” he said.

Last month, Enninful attended the King and Queen’s Coronation. He has helped the King’s charity, the Prince’s Trust, with its work in Africa and worldwide as a global ambassador. Enninful has been a high-profile champion for greater inclusivity in the fashion industry.

He took over as editor-in-chief of British Vogue in August 2017 from Alexandra Shulman, who had been in the job for 25 years. One of his first priorities was to diversify his staff at the publication.

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Biden signs debt ceiling deal into law

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President Biden signed the bipartisan budget agreement into law

President Joe Biden signed into law Saturday a bill to suspend the nation’s debt limit through January 1, 2025, to avert a first-ever US default.

“I just signed into law a bipartisan budget agreement that prevents a first-ever default while reducing the deficit, safeguarding Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and fulfilling our scared obligation to our veterans,” Biden said in a tweet, which was accompanied by a short video of him signing the bill.

Suspending the debt limit through early 2025 takes the threat of default off the table until after next year’s presidential election. In addition to addressing the debt limit, the law caps nondefense spending, expands work requirements for some food stamp recipients and claws back some Covid-19 relief funds, among other policy provisions.

The bipartisan deal to address the debt limit was struck between the White House and House Republicans – the culmination of long days and late nights of contentious negotiations that at times looked like they might break down and fall apart entirely.

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Hong Kong police arrest pro-democracy figures on Tiananmen Square anniversary

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Police detain Alexandra Wong, a pro-democracy activist

Hong Kong police have detained several pro-democracy figures attempting to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown in China.

For years, Hongkongers would converge on the city’s Victoria Park and its surrounding neighbourhood to commemorate the events of 4 June 1989, taking part in candlelight vigils. But since Beijing’s imposition of the national security law on Hong Kong in 2020 to quell dissent, the annual vigil has been banned and the organisers were charged under the law.

This weekend, scores of police were deployed in the area, stopping people to search their belongings and question them.

By late afternoon, reporters had witnessed at least 10 people taken away by police in vans – including Chan Po-ying, the leader of the city’s League of Social Democrats, one of the last few remaining opposition groups. The veteran activist was holding a small LED candle and two flowers, before she was immediately seized by police.

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Israelis rally against Netanyahu’s judicial plan 

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Tens of thousands of protesters have rallied in Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities to protest judicial overhaul plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

 

The protests, now in their 22nd week, continued on Saturday despite Netanyahu’s announcement in March that the contentious legal proposals were being put on hold.

 

In the central city of Tel Aviv, some 100,000 people waved Israeli flags, lit torches and beat drums, according to Israeli media.

 

“We will keep demonstrating to show them that even if they have paused in the reform plan, we will stay mobilised – they will not be able to pass laws on the sly,” said Ilit Fayn, a 55-year-old dentist.

 

Netanyahu’s government, a coalition between his Likud party and extreme-right as well as ultra-Orthodox Jewish allies, argues the proposed changes are needed to rebalance powers between legislators and the judiciary.

 

Critics say it will grant the government unrestrained power and upend the country’s system of checks and balances.

 

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Guinea-Bissau holds legislative polls amid political deadlock

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Guinea-Bissau President, Umaro Sissoco Embalo

Guinea-Bissau heads to the polls on Sunday in legislative elections as voters seek stability more than a year after President Umaro Sissoco Embalo dissolved parliament over accusations of corruption. In the central district of Bairro Militar in the capital Bissau, 30 voters were up early to queue in the shade of trees before casting their ballots after the seven am (0700 GMT) opening.

Twenty-two parties are vying for 102 seats, with about 884,000 people registered to vote. Results are expected within 48 hours.

Three dominant parties, including Embalo’s Madem G15 party, share almost all the seats in the national assembly. Under the current political system, the majority party or coalition appoints the government but the president has the power to dismiss it in certain circumstances. That has led to political deadlock and infighting in the past.

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Signal fault cause of India train disaster that killed 275 –railway minister

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India train disaster

India’s railway minister has suggested a signal fault led to the Odisha rail disaster, with a “change in electronic interlocking” the likely cause. Ashwini Vaishnaw later said the cause and people responsible for the deadly three-train crash in eastern India had been identified but did not elaborate.

India’s Railway Board said there had been “some kind of signalling interference” rather than failure. A report into India’s worst rail accident this century is due later.

Meanwhile the death toll has been revised down to 275 after some bodies were counted twice, officials said.

Of the 1,175 injured people taken to hospital, 793 have been discharged. Some families are still searching for their loved ones.

In railway signalling the electronic interlocking system sets routes for each train in a set area, ensuring the safe movement of trains along the track.

The crash saw a passenger train collide with a stationary goods train and derail, after being wrongly directed onto a loop track by the side of the main line. Derailed carriages then struck the rear carriages of a second passenger train passing in the opposite direction.

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War with US would be unbearable disaster -says Chinese defence minister

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China defence minister, General Li Shangfu

China’s defence minister has said war with the US would be an “unbearable disaster” for the world in his first major speech since taking on the role.

At a security summit, General Li Shangfu said “some countries” were intensifying an arms race in Asia.

But he said the world was big enough for both China and the US, and the two superpowers should seek common ground.

Earlier the US alleged “unsafe” manoeuvres by a Chinese destroyer near a US warship in the Taiwan strait.

On Saturday the US navy said a Chinese destroyer sailed “in an unsafe manner” near an American warship as it transited the Taiwan Strait with Canadian vessels.

China criticised both countries for “deliberately provoking risk”. The US and Canada said they were sailing where international law allows.

Gen Li, who became defence minister in March, accused the US of a “Cold War mentality” and said this was “greatly increasing security risks”.

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