Photos From Bill Asamoah’s Vacation In Germany - Check Out!

Actor Bill Asamoah is currently on vacation in Germany. The actor saw the need to go on a holiday after jumping from one set to the other giving him no time to rest. He left the country after working on his last movie, “Adepa” which features other casts like Vivian Jill Lawrence, Akrobeto, Maame Serwaa, Bishop Bernard Nyarko and many others.
From the pictures available to Zionfelix.com, the Kumawood darling boy is really enjoying his stay in the country. He is seen in these pictures touring the beautiful city of Germany to release stress.

Bill Asamoah according to information will return to Ghana soon to continue his education and work. He was recently in the news for taking a picture with the wax statue of Lionel Messi when he attended a program in Berlin, Germany’s capital. To him, he sees nothing wrong with the picture because he loves Barcelona and Messi.

Sonnie Badu Says Sorry To Yaw Siki

 

Ghanaian born UK-based gospel artiste, Sonnie Badu has said sorry to former hiplife artiste Yaw Siki.

The “Baba” hitmaker in an interview with Antoine Mensah, host of Lifestyle Cafe, expressed regret for publicly announcing his support for the raper if the he felt embarrassed with his actions.
“My motive was to let him know that we are there for him. It was a touchy subject when he said he depends on money from people when he preaches. My motive was not to embarass him, if that is how he felt I apologize. ”

Last week, Yaw Siki, who is famous for the song ‘Wope Dodo’ told Graphic Showbiz he is not interested in Badu’s offer to help him because he felt that the offer was made public just for human praise and deemed it ‘‘dishonourable’.

“If he truly wanted to assist, he could have contacted me first without making it public. I’m not in support of that because my Christian beliefs are against that so upon careful consideration, I had to turn down the offer.”

Yaw Siki was involved in an accident on the Accra-Tema Motorway with a friend on Monday April 15, 2013, on their way back from Accra.

Their Toyota Camry car somersaulted near the Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC) Dominion Centre. All two were rushed to the 37 Military Hospital. Siki was later admitted and treated for deeps cuts on his head.

He was subsequently discharged after spending some two weeks at the military-run health facility.

In March, 2014, Siki announced via a post on his Facebook wall that he was done with secular music and now a gospel musician.

His then manager, Coaches told this reporter that after Siki’s full recovery he will be doing ‘positive’ music.

“This time around, it’s going to be more positive music. That’s what he is thinking now. Life by R2Bees is an example of positive music,” he said in August 2013.

“He is fine … as in he’s recovering … he’s 80% through with the recovery process. I can say he’s fine compared to how everything started he is fine now,” he added.

Last month, Yaw told Hitz FM’s Gloria Nyarku, he depends on his family and preaching to survive.

“(With) my bills, my family supports me and then when I preach, people give [me money], when I preach I do not ask but when I finish and some people call me, oh take this, take that and all with family support I am able to pay bills.”

“Last year December, I [preached] at the Motorway Roundabout and a man gave me GHc500. That’s the highest I have received so far,” he disclosed.

“I preach in the Trotros (Commercial buses). I preach in between lanes in the communities and you see that people will not give you that big amount for preaching to them but I don’t mind,” Yaw concluded.

US First Lady Michelle Obama Host Missy Elliott & Queen Latifah To Talk About Female Empowerment

Ladies first! Missy Elliott and Queen Latifah joined First Lady Michelle Obama for her Opening Keynote at SXSW in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday (Mar. 16). During the conversation, Misdemeanor opened up about her female influences.

“People like Queen Latifah, who is sitting on this stage, her album, MC Lyte, Salt-N-Pepa,” said Missy. “These women are the reason I am an MC. I became an artist because of their music. Queen Latifah taught us ‘U-N-I-T-Y,’ she taught us ‘Ladies First.’ Her music has done so much for me.”

The moment was also important for Latifah, who noted the irony of the occasion. “It’s weird to write ‘Ladies First’ and be sitting with the First Lady,” she explained, referencing her 1989 single off All Hail the Queen. “It’s surreal to me.”

The event, which also featured Sophia Bush, follows the release of “This Is for My Girls,” a female empowerment anthem written by Diane Warren, which features Missy, Zendaya, Kelly Rowland, Janelle Monáe, Kelly Clarkson, Lea Michele, and more. FLOTUS organized the song to promote her Let Girls Learn initiative and the #62MillionGirls campaign.

During her talk, Obama also shot down rumors that she’s eyeing the presidency as her husband, President Barack Obama, wraps up his final year in office.

“I will not run for president,” she said. “I got these two young people at home. Being the daughters of a president—just think about it. C’mon young people, not so easy! They handled it with grace and poise but enough is enough. There are so many ways to impact the world. You don’t have to be the president of the United States to do wonderful things.”

Ex-Gitmo Detainees’ Families Coming To Ghana

It is emerging that family members of the two ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees brought to Ghana on the orders of the United States government are fighting hard to come into the country to visit them.

They are desperately pushing to enter Ghana at a time the security apparatus has issued a high alert over a possible terrorist attack following the attacks in Grand Bassam in neighbouring Ivory Coast that left about 22 people dead on March 14, 2016.
The arrival of the two Al-Qaeda suspected terrorists – Muhammad Bin Atef, 36, and Khalid Muhammad Salih al-Dhuby, 34 – from the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, has sparked unending and heated debate in the country.

Some security experts have said that the acceptance of the Gitmo 2 ex-detainees which Foreign Affairs Minister, Hanna Tetteh described as Al-Qaeda foot-soldiers by the NDC government is making Ghana susceptible to terrorist attacks.

Security Alert

President John Mahama, who chaired the National Security Council meeting on Tuesday which reviewed the security situation in the country following the rising insurgency by Al-Qaeda militants in the West African sub-region, especially Mali, Burkina Faso and lately, La Cote d’Ivoire, later emplaned to Scotland.

Saudi Mission

DAILY GUIDE is reliably informed that the Ghana Mission in Saudi Arabia which has oversight responsibility for Yemen where the Gitmo 2 are citizens, had received visa applications from family members of the two men but was said to have referred them to the Foreign Ministry in Accra for clearance.

It is also emerging that the four Yemenis who were arrested for arriving in Ghana with fake visas appeared to have hands in the arrival of the Gitmo 2 former detainees in Ghana.

Government Sources
Government officials have been tightlipped on the issue; however, Deputy Minister of the Interior, James Agalga, recently said on radio that the NDC government could not prevent families of the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees from visiting them in Ghana.

“The decision that was taken was for the two to be admitted into this country. Family members, whether they are Yemenis or whatever, if they have to come to Ghana, there are laid down procedures for the entry of foreigners into the country,” he underscored.

He said that the two would not be denied their freedom of movement such as visiting the mosques, among others, although they would be closely monitored.

US Senators’ Threat

Even though the Mahama-led NDC government had variously insisted that there were no strings – whether financial or otherwise – attached to the deal for Ghana to host the two suspected terrorists, four US senators called on their Appropriations Committee to cut foreign aid to Ghana if the West African country failed to hold and monitor the two former detainees.

The Senators, Mark Kirk of Illinois, Roy Blunt of Missouri, James Lankford of Oklahoma and Steve Daines of Montana, stated this in a letter to State and Foreign Operations and Related Programs Chairman Lindsay Graham and the Appropriations Committee Chairman, Thad Cochran.

A statement on the US Senate website said the Senators requested for a reduction in assistance to Ghana by $10 million per detainee “in the event either of these detainees escapes from confinement or re-engages in terrorism while in Ghana’s custody.”

Their basis was that about 30% of terrorists released from Guantanamo Bay were known or suspected to have returned to their terrorist-related activities.

Fake Visas
The four Yemenis who allegedly arrived with fake French passports, as well as fake visas, have already been remanded in the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) by an Accra circuit court presided over by Aboagye Tandoh.

They are Esmail Yahya Zey aka Evra Allerson, Gaafar Eissa Yahya Amer aka Ciro Carlos, Waleed Ahmed Yahya aka Debuchya Allard – all students – and Eissa Yahya Airier, a businessman.

Source: Daily Guide

Security Man Defiles Ice Water Seller In Trotro

 Kofi Appiah, 20, a security man who defiled a 12-year-old girl in a vehicle at Atomic junction has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by an Accra Cirucit Court.

Appiah is said to have bought the victim’s sachet water but refused to pay for it so in her bid to collect her money she was defiled by Appiah.


Charged with defilement, Appiah had pleaded guilty before the Court presided over by Mrs Ruby Naa Adjeley Quaison.

The court on March 1, deferred Appiah’s sentence to today. Prosecuting Detective Inspector Judith B. Asante had earlier told the court that the complainant is a pantry man who resides at Atomic Junction with his family including the victim.

According to the prosecutor, the accused person is a security man who works at a car park in the same area. On February 23, this year at about 2200 hours the victim was selling sachet water in the neighbourhood, Appiah purchased one and declined to pay.

The victim, according to the prosecutor, insisted on taking her money but Appiah lured her into a parked vehicle and had sex with her. A witness who saw the victim quickly reported the matter to the victim’s parents but Appiah bolted.

The accused was later apprehended and escorted to the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU). The victim was issued with a medical form to attend hospital for examination and treatment after which the report was submitted to the Police.

Actress Jasmine Baroudi welcomes baby girl

Sleek Ghanaian Actress Jasmine Baroudi of Shirley Frimpong Manso’s “Adams Apple” fame has given birth to a bouncing baby girl.


According to report, last year November, she received a proposal from her fitness trainer on her birthday. Breaking the news on her Instagram page, the actress wrote “9 months wasn't easy but the joy you have brought into our lives is amazing ... Psalm 69:30@flashkickk hey daddy #proudmum#afia”.

Baroudi is famous for her roles in series/movies including Adam’s Apple, Peep, V – Republic, Desperations, Contract and I Do.

Meanwhile, congratulatory messages have been pouring on the Instagram pages of both mom and dad by their fans

Ebola Outbreak: Two New Cases Confirmed In Guinea Confirms

Two new Ebola cases have been confirmed in Guinea, almost three months after it celebrated the end of the outbreak.

Three other members of the family are suspected to have recently died from the virus.

The cases were reported in the southern region of Nzerekore, where the outbreak began in December 2013.

The Ebola outbreak killed more than 11,300 people – mostly in Guinea and its neighbours Sierra Leone and Liberia.

The new cases were reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) hours after it declared the latest Ebola flare-up to be over in Sierra Leone.

The WHO has warned that sporadic cases of Ebola are likely to re-emerge as the virus can linger on in body fluids of some survivors.

Health workers struggled to cope with the outbreak

This is yet another blow in the long lingering fight against Ebola. But it is not unexpected.

Guinea was, in fact, the only one of the three worst affected countries that hadn’t had a re-emergence of the virus after the outbreak was officially declared over there on 29 December 2015.

Both Sierra Leone and Liberia have reported little clusters of new cases after declaring the outbreaks over. But they’ve been dealt with quickly.

A risk of new flare-ups remains because Ebola can persist in body fluids of some survivors for months after they recover.

A very small number of new cases have been linked to sexual transmission.

The world is in new territory here – scientists are still learning as the worst Ebola outbreak in history continues to unfold.

More than 17,000 Ebola survivors are dealing with a wide range of complications and social stigma.

Some scientists say there’s a risk the virus may become an ever-present disease in West African society.

U.S Election: Donald Trump Presidency Rated Among Top 10 Global Risks

Donald Trump winning the US presidency is considered one of the top 10 risks facing the world, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The research firm warns he could disrupt the global economy and heighten political and security risks in the US.

However, it does not expect Mr Trump to defeat Hillary Clinton who it sees as “his most likely Democratic contender”.

He is rated as riskier than Britain leaving the European Union or an armed clash in the South China Sea.

China encountering a “hard landing” or sharp economic slowdown and Russia’s interventions in Ukraine and Syria preceding a new “cold war” are among the events seen as more dangerous.

“Thus far Mr Trump has given very few details of his policies – and these tend to be prone to constant revision,” the EIU said in its global risk assessment, which looks at impact and probability.

The EIU ranking uses a scale of one to 25, with Mr Trump garnering a rating of 12, the same level of risk as “the rising threat of jihadi terrorism destabilising the global economy”.


The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranks global risks on a scale of one to 25

“He has been exceptionally hostile towards free trade, including notably Nafta, and has repeatedly labelled China as a ‘currency manipulator’,” the EIU said.

It warned his strong language directed towards Mexico and China in particular “could escalate rapidly into a trade war”.

Mr Trump has called for a “big big wall” to be built on the US-Mexican border, paid for by Mexico, to keep its illegal immigrants and drug dealers out of the United States.

Why is Donald Trump considered only slightly less of a threat to global security than a new Cold War? Perhaps it is because unlike traditional presidential front-runners the candidate has little or no policy substance to back up his shoot-from-the-hip-style pronouncements.

Want details on how the New Yorker would restructure US trade relations with China? Or how he would implement his proposed Muslim immigration ban? Good luck finding out.

Mr Trump has been promising to reveal his foreign policy team since mid-February, but the deadline keeps getting extended.

A well-developed foreign policy campaign structure would provide not only substance behind Mr Trump’s rhetoric, it would also give foreign leaders connections for their questions.

So far, however, it seems international affairs and national security experts in the US are more focused on stopping Mr Trump than trying to help him. Until that changes, expect the global alarm bells to continue to sound.

‘Innate hostility’

On the campaign trail, Mr Trump has advocated killing the families of terrorists and invading Syria to eradicate the so-called Islamic State group and appropriate its oil.

“His militaristic tendencies towards the Middle East and ban on all Muslim travel to the US would be a potent recruitment tool for jihadi groups, increasing their threat both within the region and beyond,” the EIU added.


Mr Trump has been accused of having become a “divisive” force in politics

Critics of Mr Trump have raised similar concerns.

However, the businessman is moving closer to clinching the Republican presidential nominee ticket after winning most of the popular vote.

Mr Trump, who has no prior political experience, has said his supporters would “riot” if he was denied the nomination.

In the event he does win the nomination and presidency, the EIU forecasts that domestic and foreign policymaking will be undermined.

“Innate hostility within the Republican hierarchy towards Mr Trump, combined with the inevitable virulent Democratic opposition, will see many of his more radical policies blocked in Congress,” it said.


Source: jumpfon

See Photos Of Two Women Secretly Filmed Inside The ISIS Capital- Report

 

 

 Here’s The Terrifying World They Saw
A new video secretly filmed by two women inside Raqqa, Syria shows an inside view of what ISIS has made its de facto capital.

Militants captured the northern Syrian city in 2014. Since then, foreign militants have flocked to the city and other strongholds under their control, instituting strict control over those who live there.

Minor infractions can carry major punishments, and women have few rights under ISIS’ strict enforcement of Shariah law.

“I can’t wait to dress the way we used to in the past,” says one of two women who filmed there, at the risk of being killed by militants if discovered. The video was shot in late winter for Expressen TV, a Swedish affiliate of CNN.

Here is the terrifying world they are forced to live in.

The women are forced to wear veils in public, under threat of public flogging or worse. They are covered and have their voices changed for interviews since they remain in Raqqa.

Their hidden spy cameras show what life is like on Raqqa’s streets.



One goes into a shop, just as a fighter armed with an AK-47 walks past.



ISIS has instituted strict Shariah law, which requires women to be covered from head to toe. That interpretation apparently even includes faces on packages of hair dye.



Inside a taxi, the radio plays music praising the ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. “You instill fear into the enemy,” the singer proclaims. “The women of paradise are calling. I volunteer for martyrdom.”



The taxi driver tells the women that if he picked up only one of them, he would be punished with violence, along with his female passenger.



One woman describes watching her first execution: “I was shocked. It was the first time ever I saw anything like that,” she says.



Many of ISIS’ executions and punishments are carried out at the busy al-Na’im roundabout, a public square of sorts. There is also a cage there to detain people accused of crimes.



“They execute with bullets, desecrate the body, decapitate it, stick the head on a spike and put it on display at the roundabout,” one of the women says. “Or they will put the body on the road and force cars to run it over until nothing is left.”


an Islamic State militant, center, speaks to youths during a street preaching event at Tel Abyad town in Raqqa province, northeast Syria.

The video also shows some of the city’s nicer, much larger, buildings, which the women say have been stolen from their Syrian owners by foreign fighters.



Even if they wanted to flee, they can’t, since one of the women explains that ISIS fighters take their ID cards. “They confiscate the ID cards so they can use them when they flee to Turkey.”

Barcelona’s Neymar Fined €45m For Brazil Tax Fraud

Neymar

 

  The judge at a federal court in Rio de Janeiro on Friday found Barcelona star Neymar guilty of tax fraud for failure to report earnings from his contracts with Santos, Barcelona and Nike and ordered to pay 188.8 million Brazilian reals (€45.9m) in fines and back-taxes, according to Brazil newspaper Folha de S. Paulo.

Neymar can appeal the ruling. According to the court documents, Neymar used his businesses (Neymar Sport e Marketing, N & N Consultoria, N & N Administracao de Bens) to avoid paying €56.4m between 2012 and 2014.

The judges examining the case allege that false contracts were created to avoid paying the full taxes. The court last year froze assets related to Neymar valued at about 189 million Brazilian reals ($48m, €42m) because of the allegations of tax evasion.

“We studied the information regarding the tax case in question, Neymar, the three businesses and his business partners [parents of the player] and we found that there were fraudulent business practices,” wrote Develly Claudia Montez, who performed the audit for the court.

Neymar is also under investigation in Spanish court over his transfer from Santos to Barcelona in 2013. Earlier this year he testified in court along with his father and the former and current Barcelona presidents. Neymar had been fined earlier over unpaid taxes in Brazil and the decision was pending appeal.

Kendrick Lamar Sits Down With President Obama And Shared Same Views

 

From Compton to the White House: Kendrick Lamar is leading by example. Grammy’s golden boy continues his series of motivational PSAs. After promoting the value of “Hard Work,” he plays mentor in a new PSA for President Obama’s initiative, My Brother’s Keeper. In the minute-long clip, directed by Dave Meyers and The Little Homies, Kendrick becomes a mentor to the youth.

“If it helps the next kid become a better person in life, I will forever be aware of my influence and pay it forward,” he says.

He also shares never-before-seen photos from his visit to the White House, where he met with President Obama. Kendrick takes a seat in the Oval Office and shakes hands with Obama in front of a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, while discussing topics concerning the inner cities and youth.

“I sat down with President Barack Obama and shared the same views, topics concerning the inner cities, the problem, the solutions, and further more embracing the youth, both being aware that mentoring saves lives,” he reveals. “Sometimes I reflect and think back, ‘Where would I be if I hadn’t had the presence of an older acquaintance telling me what’s right and what’s wrong?’”

He encourages others to join him in “paying it forward” and support My Brother’s Keeper and MENTOR.

It turns out Obama is also a K-Dot fan. He chose “How Much a Dollar Cost” as his favorite song of 2015.