The Guinness World Record contender for the longest individual singing marathon, Afua Asantewaa, has been formally disqualified.
On their social media page, GWR revealed via a tweet that although Afua’s attempt to set a record for the longest singing marathon was unsuccessful, they hoped she would try again soon.
“Unfortunately Afua’s Guinness World Records attempt for the longest singing marathon was not successful, but we hope that she will make another attempt soon. We’ve seen how inspirational it has been for her fans. The evidence check had already begun before Afua requested priority service, so we refunded her payment earlier this month. We wish Afua the best of luck with any future record attempts” GWR tweeted in response to a fan’s question about Afua record.
Unfortunately Afua's Guinness World Records attempt for the longest singing marathon was not successful, but we hope that she will make another attempt soon. We've seen how inspirational it has been for her fans. The evidence check had already begun before Afua requested priority…
Afua Asantewaa sang for five days straight, starting at midnight on Sunday, December 24, and ending at seven in the morning on December 29.
The young woman had sung for five days, six hours, and 55 minutes when she ended her record attempt on Friday morning.
A few weeks ago, Afua Asantewaa revealed that she and her team paid for the priority review because they had been waiting weeks for an official statement from Guinness World Records regarding the longest singing marathon attempt ever made by an individual.
She claims that although the priority review is $650, there are additional unstated fees. As a result, she ended up paying $750 in total.
Ghanaians have been deeply hurt by this disqualification.
The esteemed Concordia Advisory Council is pleased to announce the official appointment of Lady Dentaa Amoateng MBE, the founder and president of GUBA Enterprise, as Advisor.
Concordia is a global platform that brings together heads of state, government representatives, C-suite executives, and global leaders of foundations, think tanks, and nonprofit organisations.
The US-based organisation organises regional summits with a focus on the Americas, the US, Europe, and Africa, in addition to the Concordia Annual Summit, which is the biggest and most inclusive nonpartisan forum held in conjunction with the UN General Assembly.
“It is a great pleasure to invite you to join the Concordia Advisory Council as an Advisor to contribute your insights and guidance to this body,” the invitation letter to Lady Dentaa states in its entirety.
The letter further stated, “In confirming your role as an Advisor to Concordia, you would join us at a critical and exciting time in our organization’s development. We continue to lead a rigorous effort to incubate and steer partnership around the world in close conjunction with our convening platform”
Lady Dentaa Amoateng MBE joins Concordia Advisory Council
“Our advisors play a vital role in this effort, by providing thought leadership expertise, strategic guidance and advocacy for Concordia’s ever-growing range of operations. We would be truly honored if you would join our group of remarkable thought leaders and connectors” the letter concluded.
Lady Dentaa responded to the invitation by expressing her excitement about taking advantage of Concordia’s opportunities to improve the world.
“Leveraging opportunities at Concordia to make the world a better place is a privilege,” said Lady Dentaa.
“This invitation is timely considering the current call by global policymakers to ignite conversations that create opportunities through cross-sector solutions that address the biggest challenges of our time. I am indeed privileged to be joining Concordia at this time.” Lady Dentaa indicated.
According to her, Grow, Unite and Build Africa (GUBA) will keep having a positive impact on strengthening the bonds that currently exist between Africa and the diaspora.
About Concordia
In 2011, Matthew A. Swift and Nicholas M. Logothetis established Concordia, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organisation that is registered in the United States.
Its Advisory Council was made up of a small group of sixty experts from around the globe who advise on creating agendas that foster the development of a network of important stakeholders and exchange updates on innovations in their fields. Advisors assist Concordia in advancing and maintaining cross-sector collaborations for positive social effects.
Concordia seeks to establish an international community in which problems are resolved amicably and inclusively.
About GUBA Enterprise
Through a variety of socioeconomic programmes and initiatives, GUBA Enterprise is a social enterprise organisation committed to the advancement of Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. The GUBA Awards are a prominent one among the roughly eight distinct brand initiatives that The Enterprise has launched.
Authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State have shut down the zoological garden on the institution’s campus following the killing of a veterinary technologist, Mr Olabode Olawuyi, by a nine-year-old lion on Monday.
Speaking with The PUNCH on Tuesday, the Chairman of the National Association of Non-Academic Staff of Universities, OAU branch, Mr Wole Odewumi, said the management of the university had shut the garden.
He explained that the veterinary technologist was attacked by the lion while he was attempting to free a woman, who was first attacked by the lion.
Odewumi said, “I spoke to some of his colleagues, and they told me what happened. The lion attacked a woman first. The woman is also a staff working at the zoo.
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“The deceased intervened to free the woman from the lion. He must have assumed that the lion would recognise him. His intervention to free the woman must have infuriated the animal. The lion left the woman and attacked him squarely.
“After he was freed from the lion’s grip, they rushed him to the health centre on campus here. He however died before he got there. But the second person that was attacked, a woman, is still on admission receiving treatment presently.”
Odewumi also said a mourning procession was held on the campus on Tuesday in honour of Olawuyi while the management of the university met with his family.
He said, “We held a mourning procession in honour of the deceased this morning and members of the management addressed us after that sober event.
“All unions on campus joined the procession. The management promised to take necessary action. There will be a committee that his union will also have a representative in, that will work on the issues raised. I have visited the scene. The zoo has been locked up. It is officially locked up.
“The management will not want anybody to go there for now. Some members of the family of the deceased were around and we handed them over to the management.”
Going by the information on the Curriculum Vitae of the deceased, the 59-year-old Olawuyi born on December 22nd, 1965 would have exited service in 2025.
The management of the institution had in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the University, Abiodun Olanrewaju, on Monday, explained that members of staff who were at the scene of the incident did everything within their power to rescue the deceased, but could not, as the animal held him and mauled him.
According to a video recorded at the scene, the lion was later shot dead by a security operative working with the school, as the mangled remains of the late Olawuyi soaked in blood were laid at the entrance to the garden.
According to information obtained by Kobbyjosvan.com, Hajia 4 Reall has accepted guilty plea to a romance scam.
Hajia 4Reall is expected to be freed on a $500,000 bond and wear an ankle GPS tracker. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, announced on Wednesday, July 21, 2024, that MONA FAIZ MONTRAGE had entered a guilty plea to her involvement in the laundering of the proceeds of several romance scams, according to an official report from the US Attorney’s Office.
“MONTRAGE pled guilty today to conspiracy to receive stolen money before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah L. Cave,” the report said.
Mona 4Reall
According to Damian Williams, “Mona Faiz Montrage was arrested abroad and is currently facing serious consequences for her actions after she knowingly accepted money stolen from older Americans through romance scams.”
Romance scams such as Montrage’s harmed her vulnerable, elderly victims not only in the cruel betrayal of trust in the realization that their online romantic connection was fiction, but by also callously stealing their money.
“This Office and our law enforcement partners are relentless in bringing fraudsters who target Americans to justice, no matter where they are,” the U.S attorney concluded.
It is reported that Hajia 4 Reall entered a guilty plea to one count of conspiring to receive stolen money, which entails a five-year maximum prison sentence.
The Ghanaian influencer additionally consented to make restitution in the same amount and forfeit $2,164,758.41. Hajia 4 Reall is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty.
U.S. prosecutors claim that Hajia 4 Reall was a part of a criminal organisation (the “Enterprise”) based in West Africa that perpetrated a number of frauds against people and companies in the U.S., including romance scams, from at least in or about 2013 through at least in or about 2019.
Numerous elderly, single men and women who were susceptible to romance scams were targeted by the Enterprise. The Enterprise routinely tricked victims into thinking they were in a romantic relationship with someone who had a false identity that members of the Enterprise had taken on by sending them texts, emails, and social media messages.
Several victims of romance scams who were duped into sending money by members of the Enterprise are alleged to have given money to Hajia 4 Reall. Payments to transfer gold from abroad to the United States were one of the many deceptive pretences used to coerce victims into sending money to Hajia 4Reall.
Over $2 million in fraudulent funds from the Enterprise were received by the mother of one controlled bank account.
On this day, February 21, 2024, beloved Ghanaian actress and media personality Nana Ama Mcbrown has flooded the internet with adorable pictures to commemorate her daughter Baby Maxin’s fifth birthday.
The Ghanaian movie star took to social media to share her happiness and gratitude, posting images of the young daughter looking stylish in a variety of ensembles.
Safo Newman, a young, rapidly developing talent, wishes come through after finally meeting Sarkodie, Africa’s most decorated rapper. Safo Newman shot to fame when a performance of his recently released song “Akokoa” went viral on the internet.
His song gained popularity and support from Sarkodie, and has attracted the attention of both the music industry insiders and fans.
A possible collaboration was hinted at when Sarkodie and Newman were seen together in a video.
The public recognition of Sarkodie’s ability and his appreciation of Newman’s genuineness and talent created a buzz among fans for a collaborative project. We are hoping for a remix of “Akokoa” or something completely new, as evidenced by this Instagram video of the two in the studio.
Ghanaians have been cautioned by Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Mavis Hawa Koomson to be happy with the state of affairs in their nation.
The cost of living is a global crisis, she claimed, but living conditions in Ghana are still far better than in other countries.
The Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East recently urged Ghanaians to compare rent rates in Ghana and Canada during an interview with Nana Yaa Brefo and JB on Onua FM’s morning show, Yɫn Nsʛmpa.
She spoke about her recent trip to Canada, pointing out that it was much more expensive than Ghana to rent even a single room there—more than 2,000 Canadian dollars a month.
“People have been bemoaning the high cost of rent in Ghana. They should go to Canada. You pay more than two thousand Canadian dollars a month. That is not even for a chamber and hall—that is just for one room.
“When you compare Ghana to other countries, Ghana is doing far better,” she said in Twi. “Things are hard now, and there is a high cost of living everywhere.”
She claimed that despite difficulties in the world economy, Ghana is still reasonably priced, and she attributed this to the efforts of the government.
In response to complaints that living conditions in Canada were better than in Ghana, Koomson refuted the claim that living expenses in Canada are higher.
According to a report, adult film star Kagney Linn Karter, who apparently committed suicide last week, suffered from mental health issues, according to friends. She was thirty-six.
Karter passed away in Ohio on Thursday, according to TMZ reports monitored by Kobbyjosvan.com. Her body was delivered to the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s office from a Parma address that same day.
According to a city police department spokesperson, Karter appears to have committed suicide.
Kagney Linn Karter dies at age 36
Karter’s beauty and passion for dancing and singing were honoured on a GoFundMe page. “Kagney was kind. Kagney was generous. As cold as the world could be, Kagney brought with her a light,” two of her friends wrote.
However, “despite all of her many impressive accomplishments and talents, Kagney struggled with mental health issues as the years passed by,” the fundraising page also mentioned.
Her friends, who knew her from working out studios, said that despite how alone she must have felt inside her own head, she kept trying to be there for them and the people who loved her. “She exerted all of her strength and determination into fighting her own battles, just as she did in every other aspect of her life.”
She “tragically took her own life” in her home, according to the GoFundMe, which is collecting money for burial expenses.
She began her career in adult films in the middle of the 2000s, and in the last few years, she returned to Ohio and opened a pole fitness centre.
Karter’s IMDb profile states that she was nominated for and won multiple AVN awards during her career.
Important supplies like baby pots and a digital baby scale were donated by Ruff Town Records signee Wendy Shay to help the paediatric surgery unit.
“I’m actually very happy and honored to be here today, today is my birthday and I was born here in Korle-bu and so I thought of giving back to where I was born and the Shay Foundation, we came here to donate baby pots, digital baby scale and some other essential items to the Pediatric surgery at the Korle bu teaching hospital. We are not only donating stuff or items but we are also paying off and discharging mothers who gave birth on my birthday” she revealed
@wendyshaygh Wendy Shay gives a kind donation to Korle-Bu Paediatric Surgery on her birthday
She expressed her happiness and honour to give back to her birthplace by taking the initiative to pay medical bills and release mothers who gave birth on her birthday, in addition to her material contributions.
Arsene Wenger, Chief of Global Football Development at FIFA, has disclosed that the organisation responsible for overseeing football intends to establish an academy in Ghana.
He claims that with the opening of academies, FIFA’s Talent Development Scheme will assist five African nations, including Ghana.
FIFA plans to establish 75 academies worldwide by 2026; the other nations are Cameroon, Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Zambia.
“Over the next six months and one year, it’s to open more academies,” Wenger told Supersport in an interview.
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“We are now close to opening a new one in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ghana and Zambia and we want to develop five new academies there and, at the end of 2026, we’ll have 75 academies all over the world.
“That means football education has moved forward and that’s what we’re focusing on at the moment. We want the game to be more competitive and of better quality and there is only one way to do it: it’s the quality of the education and quality of the competitions.”
The Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Ghana Football Association (GFA) are under intense pressure to make investments in the nation’s sporting facilities.
Arsene Wenger The “Save Ghana Football” demonstration was a protest that took place last Wednesday with the goal of holding football authorities accountable.
The conveners sent a petition to Alban Bagbin, Speaker of Parliament, outlining some of the most important reforms that must be implemented, such as creating a national football policy and forming a commission to look into the underwhelming performance of the different national teams.
The dissolution of national team management committees and accountability for the distribution of funds from competitions such as the World Cup were also high on the agenda.
