LEGENDARY KAWASTONE

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 Mohammed Abdul-Rashid Kawawa (kawastone) is his nam.He is 28 years of age and Dagomba by tribe.He was born and bread in old Tafo - Kumasi in the Ashanti region of Ghana. He attended Methodist primary school and secondary education in bagabaga annex Jss and Tamale secondary school (tamasco) in Tamale, the northern regional capital his native land.In Tamasco, Kawastone met his bosom friend by the name Kamal Aryee Mudasiru(Flexx) and together they formed the group Blackstone(flexx and kawawa).After completing in 1998 they took music very serious and by the year 2000 they released their very maiden album, entitled, fe ma no, therefore making them the first hip life artist from the three northern regions of Ghana to cut across Ghana at the time. The album fe ma no was a super hit so therefore had Ghana locked onto it. It was played everywhere and in all occasions. The group Blackstone have toured the whole country and its surroundings like Nigeria, South Africa, Togo, Benin and East African countries like Kenya, Uganda etc.Blackstone flexx and kawawa performed on the same stage with highlife artist like Papa Yankson,Jewel Ackah,Slim Buster, Nana fynn,Nana quame.also on the same stage is hip life gurus like Reggie rockstone,lord Kenya,obrafuor,vip,obour,Tinny,kwabena kwabena,nkasie,kwaw kese,Sydney,castro,k k fosu among others and on bigger shows like national disaster fund raising show in Kumasi sports stadium, crime prevention in national theater, Miss legon hall week celebration, Gold blast, loud in Accra, TV Africa’s sound splash, club pleasure in all three northern regions and agro and many others.The album fe ma no won the group black stone so many awards including music ambassadors of all times, veteran hip life artist, evergreen song among others.cont.reading

 LEGENDARY KAWASTONE

Tamale SDA Hospital turns away NHIS subscribers

The Tamale Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Hospital on Monday refused treatment to subscribers of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in line with a directive from the Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG)
CHAG last week threatened to stop medical services to NHIS subscribers beginning from this week if government failed to honour its indebtedness to its (CHAG) members, who are mission hospitals.cont.reading

Tamale NGO invents new numeral and mathematical symbols

 Development Concern Centre (DCC), a Tamale-based NGO, has invented numerals and signs to aid effective teaching and learning and complement the government’s effort towards reducing illiteracy in the country.

When adopted by the country’s educational system, the new numeral research, which has been verified and certified by the University of Education, Winneba, could make counting and numbering easier in the various local dialects.cont.reading

Bunkpurugu MP advocates road map to bring peace in his area

Boar, Namliit Solomon

  Mr Solomon Boar, Member of Parliament (MP) for Bunkpurugu, has called for far-reaching stakeholder consultations to prepare a comprehensive roadmap to resolve the intermittent clashes between Bimobas and Konkombas dwelling in Kpemali once and for all.

“When a comprehensive plan is formulated through wider stakeholder consultation better ideas would come up to address the perennial cultural, economic, social and educational challenges confronting the people, particularly the young ones in the area,” he stressed.
The roadmap to peace in Kpemali will afford stakeholders the opportunity to revisit important points in the previous peace process and review them so that the challenges found would be dealt with systematically.cont.reading

Upper East Regional Minister to develop blue print

 Dr Ephraim Nsoh, Upper East Regional Minister at the weekend gave the assurance that he would not be “an armed chair Regional Minister” but rather strive to promote the development of the area.

He said plans are far advanced to bring technocrats and other knowledgeable people together to draw up a development blue print for the Region.cont.reading

Alleged witches must be integrated into LEAD programme – ActionAid

ActionAid-Ghana and Songtaba, both non-governmental organizations, have appealed to the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to work with the Department of Social Welfare to enroll all alleged witches onto the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme to ensure their sustainable livelihood.
The NGOs through the Reintegration of Alleged Witches Committee also called on the government, ministries, agencies and the general public to make it a priority to protect the vulnerable women particularly
women accused of witchcraft practices to make their lives positive.
Mr. Mahama Amadu Jaama, Secretary of the Committee on Reintegration was addressing the press in Tamale on Friday as part of activities to mark the International Women’s Day celebration on the theme: “The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum”.cont.reading

Bimobas-Konkombas clashes: 843 students may not sit for BECE, WASSCE

A total of 691 candidates of the Nankpanduri Senor High School (SHS) registered for the WASSE, may not be able to sit for their exams if pragmatic steps are not put in place to find lasting solution to the renewed conflict between Bimobas and Konkombas.

Similarly, 152 Junior High School candidates may not take part in the upcoming Basic Education Certificate Examination slated for April in the area within the Bunpurungu Yonyo District of the Northern Region
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Nankpanduri, Chief Kuipo Harrison Salifu, Headmaster of the School, said the centre of the examination, which is the Nakpanduri SHS is near Kpemale, the conflict flash point.cont.reading

SADA commissions office complex in Tamale

 The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) on Saturday commissioned its new office complex in Tamale with a call on staff to be pro-active in ensuring that the development agenda of the authority was achieved.

The new multi-purpose office complex, located at the industrial area, in the premises of the former Ghana Cotton Company, was commissioned by Alhaji Dr. Mustapha Ahmed, Minister of State at the Office of the President in Charge of Development Authorities including SADA.
The occasion was witnessed by the board members of SADA, chiefs and people of the area.
Alhaji Dr. Ahmed charged the Chief Executive Officer and staff of SADA to eschew mediocrity saying that “I will not accept any excuses of failure”.cont.reading

25 girls receive scholarships under SADA/MVP programme

 International Women’s Day was celebrated at Fumbisi, Builsa South District in the Upper East Region on Friday with the award of scholarships to 25 needy but brilliant girl.

The scholarships were under the “Connect to Learn” scholarship programme of Savannah Accelerated Development Authority/ Millennium Village Project (MVP).
The event was on the theme: “If you educate a man you educate an individual but if you educate a  girl you educate a whole nation.”cont.reading

Canada launches $2.6m climate change project for farmers in Northern Ghana

The Canadian Hunger Foundation (CHF) on March 5, 2013 announced a $2.6 million project to support women and other vulnerable farmers in northern Ghana to adapt to increasingly erratic rainfall and rising temperatures in the region.

Titled the Expanding Climate Change Resilience in Northern Ghana (ECCRING), the CHF said the project will build on earlier successes in the region by expanding into 18 new rural communities to increase harvests and augment incomes.cont.reading

Rocky Rocks Music Week

International reggae artiste and songwriter Rocky Dawuni yesterday gave an impressive live performance at the much anticipated Ghana Music Week (GMW) organized by the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA).
The seven-day music festival, which started on Monday, March 4, has a series of power packed events to keep music loving Ghanaians hyper throughout the festival.cont.reading

Tamale Poly sacks 120 students for exam malpractices

One hundred and twenty students of the Tamale Polytechnic have been rusticated for indulging in examination malpractices.

The action was taken by the authorities of the institution following recommendations made by its examination malpractices committee after investigating the case against the students.

According to the Assistant Registrar of the Tamale Polytechnic in-charge of Public Relations, Mr Wumbei Abdulai, the affected students were caught cheating during the last semester examination.

Their modus operandi included copying, sneaking of foreign materials into examination halls and impersonation. cont.reading

ABADA:living forever

Abada with Yaw sekyi

Abada is a Ghanaian music group based in the Northern region of the country.And was formed by Alhassan Suleman (Blaaq Shanti) and Abdul Ganiyu Alhassan (Blaaq Moon). cont.reading

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45% of JHS students in Salaga North drop out of school

 About 45% of students from the Junior High Schools in Salaga North end their education due to none existence of Senior High Schools (JHS), Mr Alhassan Mumuni Member of Parliament (MP) for the area has said.

He said although the nine JHS in the electoral area train and educate many students every year, however, only a hand full progressed to the other levels of education.cont.reading

Seven Police officials injured in ethnic clash in Ghana

Clashes between the Bimobas and the Konkonbas has resulted in the injuries of seven police men with three in critical condition.

A group of youth fired gun shots at the police team that was patrolling the area to maintain peace leading to the destruction of 30 houses and other personal properties while some people have been displaced. cont.reading

Renewed clashes between Konkombas and Bomibas

 While Ghanaians across the nation are celebrating the country's 56th Independence Anniversary, there has been renewed clashes between Konkombas and Bimobas in Timali, a farming community near Nakpanduri in the Northern Region...cont.reading

THE DAGOMBAS,MOSSI AND TAKAI DANCE

Princess Yennengaa(Mother of Mossi)

 Takai is one of the oldest drum rhythms of the Dagombas, and the story tells of how they came to be so close to the Mossi tribe..Takai is in the form of a suite or medley. Each section has its own name, musical phrases,and dance movements. Takai dancers, arranged in a large circle, hold rods in their right hands that they strike together. Wearing smocks that flare out when they wheel around, dancers strike rods to their front and rear on the cadence moment of the drum rhythm. The clacking sound of the dancers' rods is part of the overall percussive music of Takai. The joy of performance comes from the way the drummers and dancers meet at each cadence point in the recycling musical theme.cont.reading

Salaga, Kpandai health centres worried over unpaid NHIS claims

 Authorities at both the Salaga and Kpandai health centres in the Northern Region are threatening to stop attending to National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card holders due to unpaid accumulated claims.cont.reading

DON SIGLI

Don Sigli

 Northern music is generally growing bigger and better always, upon all the challenges they are facing the upcoming talents are doing their best to break through into the international music scene. there is one act who among them who  have been very promising.He has the  ability to make you feel music into your spine. with, its no wonder his elder brothers are already in the game and doing it big and he says he got inspired by them. In a phone interview with him, this is what he has to say about his life and music.cont.reading

SHERIFA GUNU AND R2BEES BILLED TO PERFORM ON HOPE CITY CONCERT...

Expect show stopping surprises!” organizers of the rlg sponsored Hope City Launch Celebration concert to be headlined by international ‘A’ list performer, Chris Brown on Tuesday March 5 at the Accra Sports Stadium in Accra, assure fans, and urge them not to miss out on what is expected to be a fantastic concert from the man popularly known as Chris Breezy.
Preparations are ahead to commence the construction of a mega stage at the Accra Sports Stadium in readiness for the concert, which is expected to feature local supporting acts including R2Bees, Samini, Efya, D-Black and Sherifa Gunu. 
People, who are skeptical about attending such a huge outdoor concert at the stadium, fearing attacks by hoodlums, are being assured by the organizers to expect improved organizational technique and strategies which is aimed to give them a comfortable and secure ambiance to enjoy themselves. The producers of the show promise that every patron, whether they were in the popular stand or in the VIP area set on the grounds in front of the stage, gets a great experience. The show will be heavy on dancing and patrons are urged to come in comfortable shoes.
Proudly powered by Ghana’s No. 1 ICT company, rlg, the Hope City Launch Concert is in commemoration of the sod cutting for a new technology village – Hope City. It is produced by leading events management company, Charterhouse, with support from GhOne Entertainment TV and Empire Entertainment....

Uniforms of Community Police in Tamale retrieved

The Ghana Youth Employment Development Agency (GYEDA) has terminated the appointments of Community Police personnel in the Tamale metropolis, and has consequently retrived their uniforms.
The GYEDA has therefore asked interested individuals with interest to re-apply to the agency for consideration by the Ghana Police Service, who will assess their eligibility for re-recruitment.cont.reading

ECOWAS endorses Ghana’s Mumuni for ACP Secretary General

Alhaji Mohammad Mumuni – Ex-Ghana Foreign Minister

ECOWAS has endorsed Ghana’s former Foreign Minister, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni as candidate for Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States.cont.reading

Military, Prisons Officers fight in Yendi

A football match to promote peace between military men and prisons officers in Yendi in the Northern region Saturday ended in a fight between the two security organisations.cont.reading

ALBUM LUNCH!!!!!! ALBUM LUNCH!!!!!

Dons of 2Gbini  with D.B Entertainment present  the  maiden album lunch of  Alhaji Boy from Thug Recordz. The album ABI CHEKIMA which will be lunch on 8th March,2013 at Picorna Garden,Tamale.Alhaji Boy whose singles have been making a lot of air waves has promise his fans to expert nothing but the best of best from him and his crew..artist like Don Sigli, Lord Destro, S.K.Y, Jamal Bamba, Fancy Gadam, Kaya( B.Flesh and Rocksin) Thug Lee, Baw Lee, Coda, BangBang will be passing through to make it more memorable..the AN TIMA hit maker is only damaging your wallet by 5gh cedis and the event will commence at 8pm..you all need to BE THEREEE!!! 

this event is proudly sponsored by North Star Radio,Azaa Radio,Staff Entertainment and Doobia Studio........

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