Hadgimuzik wins artist of the year with empty seats l coconutnews24

   The third edition of Sissala music awards has just ended with the artist of the year going to a dancehall musician called Hadgimuzik, he however received his award with empty seats in the hall. The artist of the year this time round will receive a certificate, undisclosed amount of money and a standard video recording for free, this was announced when the award was presented to him. This year the program went successfully but the attendance was very low, there were a lot of empty seats in the hall during the program. The people were not happy with the attendance this year because it was not far far better and bigger than last year.
  Full list of awards from SMA;
1. Artist of the year - Hadjimuzik
2. New artist of the year - Santana
3. Traditional song of the year - Manager
4. Hip- pop song of the year - Batwou
5. Video of the year - Mega Bush
6. Dancehall song of the year Hadgimuzik
7. Popular song of the year - Mega Bush
8. Album of the year - Manager
9. Hip-life song of the year - Amani
10. Best rapper of the year - Santana.

11. Sound engineer - Nabadei

12. Most committed volunteer of Radford FM - Prince Bayi Yahaya

13. Stardom Awards - Raphius Amingo

   coconutnews24 spoke to some participants in the program and they were ok with the performance and more especially the guest artist Raphius but was however very worried about why the empty seats were many in the hall. They were blaming the organisers for not marketing the show enough for people to come, others also suggested that because of the Sanla today most people were relaxing for the Eid prayers.
  We made efforts to speak to the program organisers and they were busy attending to other matters of great interest, we will still follow up to hear their side of the story and why the program was patronized by the general public.

I looked like a "Johnny just come " before an ATM machine l coconutnews24

    We all travel to places to see things or for official assignments, some even travel just to visit friends or family members. In most of this travels, people tend to encounter themselves with the new environment they have gone to meet, Not because they have not  traveled before but because they have gone to meet a totally different society. Some will even go to the extend of losing their way, A similar thing happened to me just some few days back in one town in Ghana. I nearly became a laughing stock before something in one of our big institution.
    I visited one town in Ghana to visit my relatives, friends and also to carryout some official assignments. In one of those days during my visit, I got short of money, so I had to pick a Taxi to one of the nearest banks just to take some money. I got to one bank called GT Bank, I was not their customer nor do did I have an account there but my fortunate aspect was that, they operate an ATM machine. This their ATM machine I was lucky because it accepted Visa card from other banks, so I inserted my card into the  machine. This was where I became a "Jonny just come" before this ATM machine.
    When I inserted the card, in my location when you insert a card you wait for some minutes to access it but theirs was different. Because in my location when your card is accepted by the machine, the ATM request for your pin number, not knowing this GT Bank ATM was different from my usual bank. In their case it was not requesting for my pin number but for me to select a language, so I also stood there waiting for this ATM to ask me for my pin. I stood there for more than minutes and this ATM will not ask me for my pin, so I became helpless at that time. I was looking left and right to see weather I was doing the wrong thing or what, because someone may thing i wanted to do something bad before the machine. Do you know what happened when I stood there for those minutes without the ATM machine asking for my pin? If not that experience, I never knew an ATM machine could request for something apart from a pin number first.
    It took the services of a second party who was then the security man at post, he had to approach me to see what I was doing before this ATM machine for all that long. When he came he saw the machine asking for a Language and I was standing, so he directed me to select the language. There was English and other two languages, he further guided me to select my purpose and finally withdrew the money from the bank. You see, I am a professionally trained teacher but yet I took the services of a " common " security man ( I don't even know his level of education) to guide me perform my service. Who knows, I may had stand there for long hours or even put my self into trouble for staying long with the device.
Lessons we all need to learn from this trip
1) We should know that, in this world no body knows everything on this earth. That's why you cannot be rich and poor at the same time or good or bad at the same time, you will be one at time.
2) We should also know that, you can be a teacher today and be a student tomorrow due to the situation. Like what happened to me, I became a student before the ATM machine and the security man the teacher.
3) We should show love to who ever we meet, because the one you will pass by today will rescue you from something some day some where. In my situation I first greeted the security man before I went to the ATM machine.
4) We should be ready to learn from others, because God have created us all different. So what you know I may not know it and the vise Verser. If I thought I was more than the security man, can you imagine what would have happened to me?
5) This  also shows that, learning is a continues thing not a one day job. ( a process not an event)
   This my personal experience, a real life situation not a fiction. I hope you have learned something from it too, it can be of help to you one day.

Personality profile: Romantic the Afro-pop/fastest rapper l coconutnews24

   Mubarik Kanyan is his name, he is known by his showbiz name Romantic. A native of Tarsor in the sissala east district, a JHS graduate this year. He is one of the brain in the district, but his talent have not been discovered yet. He has been underground for far too long doing his own things. He is signed to Jinapor Entertainment label, This guy can sing and rap almost all Sarkodie tracks, very versatile in the rap music. I call him the fastest rapper / Afro-pop star to happen to the music industry in the region. This guy when given the support and prayers he will do more than what he is currently doing, he is more than creative  to the music fraternity .
   He has just recorded his first single about to drop it, the  song have been done, the mix and everything is done. What is left now is for the time to come for the song to be released to the public. The song is an Afro-pop tune, the lyrics and fine lines are too much. You will have to open your eyes and ears to hear what he is saying. Very fast in the flow. The song he recorded is titled " we go do am" , produced by Asaynnigi recordz and mixed by Abortion Kudus. To be released this sanla day 1st September, 2017.
    coconutnews24 spoke to his management this week on his upcoming single, they said he is still to hit the industry before he can take part in shows and other social events, for collaborations and features contact the management of Romantic on 0248858268/0506102449.

Writer : Citizen Bashiru Jinapor
Niche : Freelance Journalist

Member of Parliament meets sports contingent at Cape Coast l coconutnews24

    The member of Parliament for Sissala East Hon. Ridwan Abass Dauda visited the upper west regional contingents taking part in this year's inter regionals competition held at Cape Coast, the member of Parliament after visiting also met the girl from the Sissala East district who is making the Sissala's proud in 100m and 200m. Hon. Ridwan donated an amount to the tune of Ghs1000 for them  for their upkeep at the camp.
     Hon. Abass is one of the football lovers  in the region, this man likes sports like everything. He has always visited sports contingents from the local level to the national level just to interact with them. This information was gotten on the official Facebook page of the member of Parliament yesterday, he posted a picture with the coaches from the region and other important dignitaries from the region. Hon. Abass also took a picture with the girl who won both 100m and 200m, Halutie Hor.
    coconutnews24.com can also confirm that, the member of Parliament also met other sports representatives from both his constituency and even outside his constituency. From the reports we are getting, Halutie Hor from Sissala east who school at Ashanti region broke close to 15 records in the whole competition. This years regional competition ended yesterday at the Cape Coast stadium.

Writer : Citizen Bashiru Jinapor
Niche : Freelance Journalist

Minister donates equipments worth Ghs7,000 to beneficiary communities l coconutnews24

  The deputy upper west regional minister, Mr. Amidu Issahaku Chinnia today donated some office items and other assorted items to two communities in Sissala East and Sissala west. He was called by the educational director about their inability to photocopy and print official documents, The minister after hearing that from the directorate took steps to address their challenges from his personal savings.
    In the early hours of day, the deputy minister visited Nabugbelle in the Sissala east and Gwollu in the Sissala west district to make his presentation to them, at Gwollu educational office, he donated a printer, photo copier and scanner worth four thousand eight hundred Ghana CEDI's ( Ghs4,800 ). He challenged the directorate to take good care of the equipment. At Nabugbelle CHIP compound the deputy minister donated an air conditioner and a refrigerator worth two thousand two hundred Ghana CEDI's ( Ghs2,200 ), he told the health facility officials to take good care of the items for them to last longer, Mr. Chinnia said the items were founded by himself.
    coconutnews24 spoke to Mr. Latif Chakilia, who is the special assistant to the deputy minister, he said the minister made this presentation from his personal pocket because of how health and education is very dear to His heart. He said the people were full of praises to the minister and his donation, adding that they also told the minister to constantly visit them to get first hand information about their problems.

Source: Special assistant to deputy minister
Writer : Citizen Bashiru Jinapor
Niche: Freelance Journalist

SMA board member respond to 'critics', saying there is misunderstanding about SMA l coconutnews24

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   " Please you are getting SMA concept very wrong and totally deviated, Do you know we have sissala music association? What are the roles of music associations ? SMA is an awarding scheme setup to recognise our own local artist for their hard work during a period, which has always been made competitive to avoid been bias, a whole board is setup to do independent work just place nominees on the right categories filed for competition. Where is the personal interest here bro? SMA is not just only the organisers work it constitute a lot and I believe you should have even known better because Frankly speaking if you are talking about other bigger programs , let me ask bow many of our own local artist can even meet such standards ? We look up to them for improvement and in sissala music we can boast of at least five competitive artist (musicians) who can meet every standard in Ghana music, the rest are still learning so SMA can not leave them out of competitions like this though " they are still basic "
    Take a look at almost every small business which is capital intensive, how many of our own business operators are willing to sponsor to make our programs standard ?they even see musicians sometimes like "jokers" I think the purpose for SMA -SISSALA MUSIC AWARDS is helping to change perceptions within us, Pls am advising you put right ups to promote because your intentions are too early to be thought of. Thanks
    Let's take time and visit what kuri has posted and rectify some his errors, every body just feels like putting something out to the media because he feels he has a good diction, we are rushing without facts let's stand and be one
   Kuri you are deviating the minds of people here good you make those corrections and lets all support, in your own way as some one helping to work in the local media house in tumu (Radford FM) what do you think the board of SMA or the Organisers should be doing? Have you raised these concerns to the board ?then why resorting your grievance to the social media ? Is this the only way to correct issues if at all things are done wrong? There should mediation between you as a concerned person to the board for any improvement before this kind of steps which will not bring sanity to such event "
Writer : Ganiew Takra Nurideen
Niche : Shaffing technology limited

Sierra Leone mudslide claim over 400 lives and over 600 people mission l coconutnews24

    Sierra Leone is in the news again for all the unfortunate reasons, latest information coming from this country suggest that over 400 people have allegedly lost their lives and even more frightening is the number of people who have been reported mission in Sierra Leone at the capital town called free town, a mudslide occurred in the countries capital town free town.  Other properties worth thousands of United State dollars have also been reported destroyed or either misplaced from the reports coming from the towns news papers.
    The issue of Sierra Leone being affected by a natural disaster is not the first time,  just some few years back during the year 2014 this same country was affected with this Ebola endemic disease which took several lives over there, they have always had one problem or the other since years back in history. From terrorist attacks to natural disasters. See photos of the mudslide in Sierra Leone.
Writer : Citizen Bashiru Jinapor
Niche.: Freelance Journalist