Ini Edo keeps spirit high despite marriage failure

Weeks after her crashed marriage, Nollywood actress, Ini Edo, has apparently bounced back in style. The actress has put her travails behind her and has even promised her fans that she won’t allow her failed marriage to deprive her of happiness.

To prove that further, the Akwa-Ibom State born actress stormed Houston, USA for the just concluded African movie awards in North America, the Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards (GIAMA) which took place at the Stafford Center in Houston, Texas.

It could be recalled that Ini's ex-husband, Philips Ehiagwina lives within the neighborhood of Houston, but the star actress didn't seem to give a damn if she might run into him in the course of touring the town.

Ini and Phillip's wedding, also took place in the same town on Saturday February 28, 2009, so they were more chances of the divorced couple running into each other or perhaps meeting with their old joint friends.

Nevertheless, the unshaken actress ceases every moment to post the photos of all her activities in US on her Instagram page, not minding whose Ox is being gored.

Although she has been receiving tons of criticisms and tongue lashing by concerned fans, Ini insisted she had long moved on with her life and would not want to be dragged into the issue any further, a development which may have put to rest many questions on the minds of her fans.

A disappointed fan said she was one of those who prayed for her marriage so that it won’t crash, but when she read her post that she had decided to walk out of the union, she was shocked. “I said to myself after her decision that I won’t trust any actress again”.

The actress recently said that she had realised that “every situation does not need a reaction,” apparently responding to some of the questions being thrown to her by her fans.

I am not dating Maame Serwaa!

Award winning Ghanaian Movie Actor, Bill Asamoah has broken his silence about rumours that he is dating actress, Maame Serwaah.

According him, the Kumawood actress is a young lady he has mentored since she entered into the movie industry till date, so he only sees her as a daughter.

“Maame Serwaah is like my daughter and if I cannot date my daughter then I can equally not date Maame Serwaah,” he said.

It has been widely speculated that the President of the Ashanti Regional branch of the Ghana Actors Guild, is dating his young colleague, Maame Sewaah.

The two have of late been paired as lovers in several movies including ‘Maso Aware3? leading to a heightening of the suspicions among some Ghanaians.

But speaking to Adom News, Bill Asamoah described the speculations as false adding he was unaware of the rumours until his wife told him about it.

‘I was shocked when my wife told me that she had heard that I am dating Maame Serwaah and I just could not understand why people easily believed this,’ he said.

South African keeper Meyiwa murdered

South Africa captain Senzo Meyiwa, who prevented Fatau Dauda from being Orlando Pirates first choice goalkeeper, has been murdered in a gun shot incident in Johannesburg on Sunday evening, South African police have confirmed.
Meyiwa had visited girlfriend Kelly Khumalo when he was shot by unidentified gun-men and was pronounced dead when he was rushed to the hospital.
South Africa police reported on Twitter that and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper has been shot dead in Johannesburg.
The 27-year-old captained his club side in their 4-1 win against Ajax Cape Town on Saturday night. But the South African police service broke normal protocol to tweet that Meyiwa, who has also led the Bafana Bafana in recent games, was killed on Sunday.
“We can confirm that Bucs (Pirates) keeper Senzo Meyiwa has been shot and sadly declared dead on arrival at hospital,” the South African Police Service (SAPS) said on its twitter feed.
The SAPS took to Twitter to communicate with an emotional public, who’ve rushed to the scene and to the hospital.
According to unconfirmed reports, Meyiwa was at his girlfriend’s home in Vosloorus when a man demanded his cellphone and opened fire. Meyiwa was declared dead on arrival at the hospital.
Police reported that seven men entered the house where Meyiwa was shot, where an altercation took place
The South African goalkeeper was reportedly shot before the suspects fled on foot. He was declared dead on arrival at hospital.
Tributes have been pouring in across the continent with soccer fans tweeting about the incident which occurred in the evening of Sunday.
Meyiwa’s national team-mates Dean Furman and Andile Jali were quick to tweet their condolences.

Photos fro Kumasi premiere of ‘A Letter From Adam’

Popular actress, Lydia Forson has premiered her newly produced movie, A Letter From Adam in Kumasi on Saturday amidst a lot of excitement before and during the event.

The premiere took place at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST) CCB auditorium and attracted a number of patrons, though Saturday heavy downpour nearly disrupted the show.

There were two showings in all from 7pm to 9pm and 9: 30pm to 11:30pm. Each screening was applauded by audiences when credits started rolling to indicate they were content with the movie. On the red carpet were Lydia Forson, Akorfa Ejeani Asiedu, Louie Lartey, Maxwell Beganim and Funny Face as special guest.

The bubbly actress and her crew arrived in Kumasi for the premiere on Saturday morning and visited some student hostels to announce their presence.

They received a rousing welcome from African Hall session of the hostels, where students took photos and even sung a happy birthday song for Lydia Forson on her belated birthday last Friday.

The team was also on Yfm and Luv Fm to talk about the movie. Saturday event was the second red carpet event for the movie after the first at the Silverbird Cinemas in Accra on September 19. A Letter From Adam is a romantic drama directed by Atlanta-based Ghanaian director, Sam Kessie and produced and written by, Lydia Forson. Lydia is looking at further touring with it.

It is a contemporary story about love, loss and hope that will draw audiences into a realistic cycle of life seen through the pain of loss, the journey of self discovery and the courage and strength to find hope in the face of adversity. Set in the busy yet simple city of Accra, A Letter From Adam seeks to give the audience an often neglected truth about love – that love doesn’t always come in the form one expects it to.  

Hit or Miss? See what Lydia Forson wore to the Kumasi premiere of her ‘A Letter From Adam’

Actress and producer, Lydia Forson took her movie ‘A Letter From Adam’ to Kumasi over the weekend. The premiere took place at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST) CCB auditorium. Check out what Lydia wore..hit or miss?

Van Vicker takes OMGghana to court over Ebola story?

It appears that Ghana showbiz is set for another legal tussle as actor, Van Vicker drags omgghana.com to court for slander. Lawyer for the actor, Egbert Fabille is said to have concluded the lawsuit and ready to serve the CEO/Publisher of the website, Paa Kwasi Boakye with the writ. According to Razz Newsper, Van’s decision to go to court was necessitated by a publication on the website weeks ago, which stated that the actor had contracted the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia when he went there to shoot the movie, ‘Bendu Sudan’. The story also added that, Ghana’s Foreign Ministry had barred the actor from returning to Ghana.
The actor confirmed to Razz Newspaper that, since he made his intentions open about suing the website, he’s had calls from many media persons, pleading for him to drop the case – but he is determined to see the case through in court. He said that, the level of unprofessionalism in the field is becoming unbearable and his pursuance of the case in court may serve as a deterrent to others in the field. According to the actor, he has been a victim of many false stories over the years but he always let them go but this time, he will tackle the matter to its legal conclusion.
“All the false stories affect me a lot, but this particular one I must say, has made people to be look at me with so much skepticism. Others make expensive jokes at me when I go to town which is not funny. I waste time explaining myself to people that the Ebola story is bogus when I could be doing something productive,” he lamented.
Since the ‘Ebola story’ broke, Van has disclosed how such stories affect not only him, but his kids as well: “I am worried about my kids right now because the same thing happened when they put up a story on Facebook I had an accident and I was possibly going to die,” he said.
He recalled that during the said publication, he was out of the country but when his children went to school, they went through some trauma. “People were telling them all sorts of stories and this time too I am afraid they are going to go to school and their friends will probably be keeping their distance from my kids because there is the possibility that they are also infected,” he explained.
Speaking to the Paa Kwasi Boakye, he stated that, the story has already been taken down from the website although the story was a satirical piece which is meant for entertainment purposes only. The intent of such articles, according to him, is to mimic situations that make the headlines in daily news.

#BBAhotshots Update: See how Africa voted + Sheillah, Macky 2 and Mr 265 lead nominations for eviction

According to this week’s votes, Laveda and Alusa received the least votes. Here are the results:
Macky2: Botswana, Malawi, Rest of Africa and Zambia
JJ: Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe
Mam’Bea: Ghana and Nigeria
Ellah: Rwanda and Uganda
Permithias: Namibia
Alusa: Kenya
Laveda: Tanzania
Three housemates; Alusa, Permithias and Laveda received one country vote each, which means that the tie breaker rule came into effect for the two housemates that were evicted. According to the Big Brother Africa rules; “if the Popularity vote does not yield clear evictees and there is a deadlock between two or more housemates, the percentage vote from each of the 15 regions will be added together and divided by 14 in order to generate an across the board percentage, which will then ascertain who stays and who goes.”
Meanwhile nominations for eviction followed shortly after Sunday night’s eviction and Mr 265, Macky 2 and Sheillah were on the lips of many. Here is the tally of votes they received
Sheillah – 10
Macky 2 – 9
Mr 265 – 5
Luis – 4
Arthur – 3
Kacey More – 3
Permithias – 2
Nthanhla – 1
Samantha – 1