Twenty-year-old Dancehall star, Priscilla Opoku Kwarteng known in \nmusic circles as Ebony Reigns died in a car crash at Mankranso in the \nAshanti Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ebony, was returning from Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region when the \nJeep she was travelling in crashed into a VIP bus on Thursday, February \n8, 2018 evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Her funeral was held at the forecourt of the State House in Accra on March 24, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Preceding the funeral was a vigil concert at the Trade Fair Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other celebrities that passed away in 2018 include Super OD, CK Mann,\n Professor Attukwei Okai, Jewel Ackah, MacJordan Amartey, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Moesha Bodoung on CNN:<\/strong> One issue in 2018 that got\n a lot of people talking was when model and actress Moesha Bodoung told \nCNN\u2019s Christiane Amanpuor during an interview that \u201cbeing a mistress is a\n financial decision,\u201d and that like many Ghanaian women, she dated a \nmarried man for her livelihood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She explained that the reason these women dated men with mistresses was because the economy in Ghana was hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn Ghana our economy is such a way that you need someone to take \ncare of you. You can\u2019t make enough money as a woman here. Because even \nwhen you want to get an apartment, in Ghana they take two years\u2019 advance\n and I just started working where will get money to pay?,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The host who looked shocked by Moesha\u2019s response asked: \u201care you \nbasically telling me that you are having sex with this guy to pay your \nrent?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBecause he can afford to take care of you. He takes care of me, my \nfinancials, my apartment, my car, my rent, everything,\u201d Moesha said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While some thought her statement cast a dent on the image of Ghanaian\n women, others said it was the true representation of the situation on \nthe ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Patapaa goes mad at VGMA organisers:<\/strong> \u2018One Corner\u2019\n hitmaker, Patapaa, went berserk at the Accra International Conference \nCentre during the 2018 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He was angry for losing out to Fancy Gadam in the \u2018Song of the Year\u2019 category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Due to how big the song was in the year under review, a lot of people\n had tipped him to win that category, only to have been surprised when \nFancy Gadam\u2019s \u2018Total Cheat\u2019 was announced as winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Patapaa who had already gained so much attention for his oversized \nblue suit on the night walked out of the auditorium when Fancy Gadam was\n announced the winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He claimed he had been cheated. He even insulted the organisers of the awards scheme but later came out to apologise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Chief Moomen vrs. Ghana @ 60 organisers:<\/strong> Ghanaian\n poet and playwright, Chief Moomen, in July engaged in some verbal \nexchanges with the committee that organised the activities for the \n\u2018Ghana 60 Years On\u2019 celebrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to a post he put up on Facebook, the committee had not paid\n the GHS 100, 000 due him. He said he had charged GHS 200, 000 but they \npaid only half and failed to settle the remainder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his post, Chief said he was facing the most difficult time of his \ncareer, as government\u2019s huge indebtedness to his company has put it on a\n verge of collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The situation, he claimed, put his subsequent stage production in \njeopardy as he had to deal with the huge debt he incurred producing a \nplay at the behest of the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his emotional appeal, the famed poet lamented that government had \ncontracted him to show his \u2018Wogbejeke\u2019 theatre as part of activities to \nmark Ghana\u2019s 60th anniversary celebrations in March, and has since paid \nonly half of the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Chief Moomen, several attempts to get government to pay \nthe other half of the bill proved futile, forcing him into a terrible \nfinancial situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said he has had to put his car on sale to help raise money to sustain his business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, the Chairman of the \u2018Ghana 60 Years On\u2019 Committee, Ken \nAmankwah came out to say they had no agreement with Chief Moomen to that\n effect and that he was even \u2018lucky\u2019 to have been paid GHS 100, 000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Celebrity marriages:<\/strong> Some Ghanaian celebrities \ngot married in 2018. In fact, the first one that got a lot of people \ntalking was that of actor and politician John Dumelo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He got married to his fianc\u00e9e Gifty Mawunya Nkornu at a private wedding ceremony in Accra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to sources, Mawunya is a relative of actress Selassie Ibrahim and a close friend to actress Nadia Buari.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ghanaian musician Michael Owusu Addo, popularly known as Sarkodie in \nmusic circles also tied the knot with his girlfriend and \u2018baby mama\u2019 \nTracy this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\n rapper whose wedding information leaked on social media, reportedly \nperformed the traditional marriage rites on Tuesday, 17th July, 2018 at a\n secret location in Tema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He received plaudits from a lot of people, especially considering the\n fact that he had dated Tracy for many years and even has a child with \nher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another celebrity who got married this year is Ghanaian singer \nRebecca Acheampong known in showbiz as Becca. She got married to Tobi \nSanni Daniel, former business manager for Nigerian artiste, Ice Prince.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And then Ghanaian actor and broadcaster, Chris Attoh married for the \nsecond time after his first marriage with Nigerian actress Damilola fell\n apart in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The private ceremony took place at North Kaneshie in Accra on Saturday, October 6, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris\u2019 new wife, Bettie Jenifer, is Caribbean-born, based in the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The last celebrity marriage in 2018 took place in Tema. Gospel musician Gifty Osei tied the knot with politician Hopeson Adorye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hopeson Adorye, who is the Deputy National Security Coordinator in \ncharge of Airports, lost his wife in March 2017 after a long battle with\n cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last year, news had it that Gifty Osei had divorced her husband of 10 years, Prophet Prince Elisha Osei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reports about Gifty and Hopeson\u2019s relationship were rife when the two were seen together at public programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Fella-Medikal-Derby Love story:<\/strong> The Love \nTriangle! That\u2019s how I call it. The year has witnessed a gossamer of \nlove story involving musicians Medikal and Sister Derby, and actress \nFella Makafui.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It all happened when news broke that Medikal had jilted Sister Derby for Yolo actress Fella Makafui.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Medikal expressed his love on social media for Fella Makafui, glorifying her body and throwing shades at Sister Derby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He had said in one of his open letters that Fella had taught him true\n love and there was nothing wrong leaving one woman for another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sister Derby also released a song titled \u2018Kakalika Love\u2019 suggesting \nthat Medikal will also treat Fella the same way he did to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, Fella remains unfazed by all the backlash. She says she is \nenjoying the relationship and will have fun as long as it lasts. She has\n stated that she is not scared about what the future holds for the two \nof them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. Stonebwoy-Zylofon-Shatta fight:<\/strong> In 2018, Stonebwoy had issues with Zylofon Media and his record label mate Shatta Wale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stonebwoy was engaged in a scuffle with some officers of his record \nlabel, Zylofon Music, who had gone to Champs Bar to take from him, a car\n purported to have been given to him by the company. He reportedly fired\n a gunshot to scare them away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stonebwoy had earlier been to the University of Ghana to perform at the Artistes Night of the Hilla Limann Week Celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the order of Stonebwoy and his management, the organizers took off\n all Zylofon Media banners. This deepened speculations that the \u2018My \nName\u2019 hitmaker may have severed his relationship with Zylofon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was speculated that Stonebwoy felt uncomfortable promoting Zylofon\n Music in his activities because they had signed his rival Shatta Wale \non the label and were giving him special treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The feud escalated when Stonebwoy appeared on Hitz FM and poured his \nheart out about Shatta Wale\u2019s claim that he [Stonebwoy] killed his \nmother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. Sarkodie advises Shatta Wale:<\/strong> Shatta Wale, \ntypical of his maverick character, kept throwing shades at a lot of \nmusicians, claiming he was richer than all of them and that his other \ncolleagues are poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This seems not to have gone down well with Sarkodie who decided to do a song to \u2018advise\u2019 his one-time friend, Shatta Wale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even though he did not mention a name in the song, commentaries on \nsocial media pointed out that it was a diss song targeted at the \ndancehall artiste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the song, Sarkodie addresses the character who he claims is fond \nof discrediting other people and describes reserved people as not smart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He states in the song that he has always advised the character but he does not heed his advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sarkodie in the song challenged that wealth was not in bragging about a house and cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. Kwesi Arthur at BET Awards:<\/strong> Ghanaian hip-hop \nartiste Kwesi Arthur could not win the Best New International Act award \nat the BET Awards as had been anticipated by most Ghanaians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u2018Grind Day\u2019 rapper lost the Viewers\u2019 Choice award to South \nAfrican artiste Sjava at 2018 Black Entertainment Television (BET) \nAwards held at Los Angeles in the United States America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His nomination came as great news to most Ghanaian music fans \nparticularly because no Ghanaian musician made it to any of the \ncategories, unlike previous years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This year, there was no Ghanaian nominee for the Best International Act category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kwesi Arthur was nominated alongside Prince Waly (France), Mc Soffia \n(Brazil), Take A Mic (France), Niniola (Nigeria), Sik-K (South Korea), \nNailah Blackman (Trinidad And Tobago), Not3s (UK), Iamddb (UK) and Sjava\n (South Africa).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. Comedian Waris and Teacher Kwadwo Wahala:<\/strong> In a \nfledgling comedy industry like Ghana\u2019s, it was unfortunate that two \nincidents cast a dent on all the hard work that had been put in by \nGhanaian comedians in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ghanaian comedians had worked very hard by organising their own \nprogrammes and were gaining more visibility on social media but hey! \nthere came the bad moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Comedian Waris made a bad joke about Sarkodie\u2019a daughter that got him\n in hot waters. He tweeted, after seeing Titi\u2019s new photos that the \ntwo-year-old girl was ripening and soon men will start \u2018eating\u2019 her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Remorseful of his post, he apologised but another comedian (and a \nprofessional teacher) Teacher Kwadwo who had defended him also landed in\n trouble. His banter with some women on social media goaded feminist \ngroup PepperDem Ministries to dig out rape-related posts he made in the \npast on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The group petitioned Huawei Mobile which had signed on Teacher Kwadwo\n as an influencer to cancel their deal with him. They also asked the \nGhana Education Service to sanction him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Technology company Huawei Mobile later announced that it had severed its relationship with Teacher Kwadwo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The announcement came a few days after the comedian took to social \nmedia to disclose that he no longer had any contract with Huawei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11. Wendy Shay\u2019s \u2018Dumb Question:<\/strong> To some people, it \nwas right for Wendy Shay to have told Joy News\u2019 MzGee that a question \nshe asked her after one of her performances was dumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Journalists have on many occasions been chided for not asking \nrelevant questions. But was Wendy entirely right to have to cut the \ninterview after describing the reporter\u2019s question as \u201cdumb?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The artiste in one of her responses had said she wanted music lovers to \u201caccept me for who I am as Wendy Shay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n What triggered her \u2018dumb\u2019 response was when she was asked: \u201cWho are you as Wendy Shay?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The issue has engendered debates on various media platforms as people\n discuss the propriety or otherwise of the actions by either party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But in a Facebook post, Sarkodie wrote that the artiste, who is quite new in the music industry, may have acted on reflex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He added that Wendy\u2019s answer to the interview was not right; promising to apologise on her behalf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Credit: citinewsroom.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Moesha-and-Amanpour.jpg\")
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