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Gene Simmons from KISS is heading to the US Senate Judiciary Committee to push for the American Music Fairness Act, which would make AM and FM radio stations actually pay performers when they play their songs. Right now, streaming services and satellite radio compensate artists, but traditional...

Peermusic just brought Alex Black onto the team as Vice President of A&R for the US operation, and Jamie Cerreta made the announcement. Black will handle signing and developing songwriters plus producers while working out of Los Angeles. Cerreta has a history with Black from their time at Big...

Rukayatu Issaka is running point on global strategy for Adam Ro Music Ltd, a Ghana-based entertainment outfit, and she has been pushing the label into markets across Africa and the United States. Her role covers digital branding, media relations, and partnership coordination while getting the...

Prophet Prince Osei went on Instagram and dropped his thoughts about why his marriage to gospel artist Empress Gifty fell apart, saying spiritual stuff alone cannot carry a relationship through rough patches. The pastor explained that couples lean too hard on praying instead of actually talking...

Prophet Kofi Oduro from Alabaster International Ministries told Daddy Lumba's relatives to knock off the family drama and stop embarrassing the late highlife legend's memory. The pastor addressed his congregation and said fighting over funeral arrangements while pretending everything is fine at...

A woman who threw false rape accusations at Rudeboy from P-Square got formally charged after cops arrested her back in early November. The accuser went by @chubbiedivah on X before nuking her account and reportedly bailing from her marriage once people figured out she was lying about the...

Olivetheboy went on Hitz FM and basically said nobody actually finds real love anymore. The Ghanaian artist told listeners that meeting someone decent does not equal discovering a genuine connection, and his whole catalog gets pulled from old flames rather than whatever he has going on right...

Kojo Vypa cleaned up at the 14th Central Music Awards in Cape Coast after grabbing four trophies, which included the big Artiste of the Year prize plus wins for best EP/album, best rapper, and best event. The guy got pretty emotional accepting his hardware and thanked his crew, family, and fans...

Nana Romeo Welewele walked back his trash talk about Shatta Wale after telling Highest Eri to drop her beef with the artist by comparing him to a pig that always returns to filth. Romeo said the whole thing got twisted, and he actually respects Shatta as a major player in Ghana's music scene...

A pastor basically kicked his pregnant wife out of their congregation after calling her a witch and blaming her for empty pews and tanking donations. The woman went on the Makosem Show over at Ezra TV and said her husband claimed she was cursing his ministry and blocking all his blessings. Her...

Victor Kwaku Kovey from the Hohoe Municipal Education office told kids at a Ghana Library Authority event that books basically unlock everything in life, and he name-dropped leaders like Nelson Mandela and Kwame Nkrumah who got shaped by heavy reading habits. Four schools competed in spelling...

Elizabeth Opoku-Darko from the Newmont Ahafo Development Foundation stopped by the Ahafo Regional Minister Charity Gardiner's office in Goaso to invite her to a scholarship alumni meetup happening mid-December. Opoku-Darko brought along Nana Frimpong Addai, and they pitched the event as a...

Sammy Gyamfi from GoldBod got handed the Suma Adinkra Sword by Paramount Chief Odeneho Dr. Affram Brempong III for basically turning Ghana's gold game around. The award goes back over 470 years, and past presidents like Kufuor, Akufo-Addo, and Mahama have all gotten it before. Gyamfi pushed...

Vice President Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang rolled out the Think 360 Degrees Prisons Initiative while speaking at a cadet graduation ceremony, calling it the backbone of Ghana's overhaul of the correctional system. The program ties into President Mahama's reset agenda and pushes for mechanized...

A Catholic priest from the Techiman Diocese in Bono East just wrapped up training at the Prisons Officers school in Roman Ridge and got commissioned as an Assistant Superintendent. Richard Baatabe finished with Intake 32, and the diocese threw up a social media post hyping him up along with the...

Ghana's Public Utilities Regulatory Commission jacked up power bills by almost 10% and water rates by nearly 16% starting next year after wrapping up their multi-year tariff review. The hikes hit all customer types and factor in stuff like inflation sitting at 8%, the cedi trading around 12 to...

Ghana's government dropped a relief package for families after six people died in a stampede at the El-Wak Stadium during an Armed Forces recruitment drive. Each family gets 50,000 cedis for burial costs and another 100,000 cedis on top of that, plus the option to send one qualified relative...

The Centre for Research and Education Policy is calling out some pretty rough numbers from Ghana's latest WASSCE exam results. Math scores tanked from 67% passing last cycle down to just 49%, and Social Studies dropped hard from 72% to 56%. The group says the Ministry of Education and Ghana...

The Kwahu South Municipal Assembly rolled out a faster system for handing out building permits, and the Municipal Chief Executive Effah Osei Bonsu says his team already knocked out the entire backlog of old applications. The speedup is meant to tighten up oversight on construction while also...

The Ashanti Youth for Development group is backing John Dramani Mahama on his plan to build a major expressway in the Ashanti Region. They say the president deserves credit for pushing both this new route and finishing up the dual-lane upgrade on the Accra to Kumasi road, which apparently has...