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  • There’s more money in journalism now, but less training – Jackie Ankrah

    There’s more money in journalism now, but less training – Jackie Ankrah

    Veteran journalist and gospel musician, Jackie Ankrah has disclosed she has a lot to teach the new generation of journalists in Ghana.

    She says she has been approached many times by a good number of journalists who want to tap into her knowledge of journalism. Jackie expressed the desire in an interview with Doreen Avio on Daybreak Hitz,

    “Many people have approached me and I have often said I’m too busy or I’m too engaged with something, but now as I get older and now as I listen to the calls more and more, I think I will do something, put people together and teach them, good journalism and good public speaking,” she said.

    The ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ singer said unlike present day practices, there was a lot of training during her time when she started journalism.

    “In my day there was a lot of training. I wouldn’t just sit on the radio and talk. To this day, I script everything I say, I wouldn’t just come and sit on the radio without a script even though it is my show.

    “I like to script, I like to know where I am, what I’m thinking, step-by-step and from moment to moment and I think that’s what I think is lacking, there’s lack of training,” she maintained, arguing also that journalism is more lucrative now than in the past.

    “But now there’s more money in journalism compared to back in my day, so I think people are making more money now.”

    The Gospel musician is promoting her music video for her song, Hallelujah, which was released early on in February.

  • Ghanaians don’t appreciate my father enough, says Jackie Ankrah

    Ace broadcaster and singer Jackie Ankrah has said Ghanaians must celebrate past leaders like her father, former head of state Lieutenant General J A Ankrah as a way of inspiring the new generation to do more for the country.

    Speaking on the Between Hours show on Monday (21 November) with Naa Ashorkor, the singer said: “And just recently he was honoured at the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College, and when they wrote and spoke about him, I was proud because my father has done so many things that we don’t get told about, because we rewrite history all the time.”

    “But I think these are things that we must talk about to encourage one another and encourage the next generation.

    “We don’t talk about my father much, which is unfortunate because of the Nkrumah overthrow. My father was the first in many things, but my father was an amazing, remarkable, incredible soldier,” the songwriter added.

    About J A Ankrah

    Joseph Arthur Ankrah (18 August 1915 – 25 November 1992) was a Ghanaian army general who was the head of state of Ghana from 1966 to 1969 in the position of chairman of the National Liberation Council. Before becoming head of state, Ankrah served as the first commander of the Ghana Army.

    He was Ghana’s first military head of state. Ankrah also served as chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity from 24 February 1966 to 5 November 1966.

    Ankrah joined the Gold Coast Regiment in 1939. On the outbreak of World War II, Ankrah was mobilized into the Royal West African Frontier Force. While his Brigade was in East Africa in 1940, he was transferred to the Record Office in Accra with the rank of Warrant Officer Class II and made second-in-command.

    In October 1946, he went to the Marshfield Officer Cadets Training Unit in the United Kingdom and graduated in February 1947 as the first African officer in the Gold Coast Army. He was commissioned a lieutenant in 1947 and became the first African camp commandant at the Army Headquarters.

    He was later made the first Ghanaian Chief Instructor of the Education Unit. He was promoted Major in 1956 and became the first African to command an all-African company, the Charlie Company of the First Battalion at Tamale, Ghana. He later became Lieutenant Colonel and took over the whole battalion.

    He rose to the rank of colonel by 1960, at a time when there were few Ghanaian officers at that level. During the United Nations Operation in the Congo, he was the Brigade Commander of the force-based at Luluabourg, Kasai in the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo.

    He was the only Ghanaian awarded the Military Cross in Leopoldville for acts of unsurpassed gallantry in Congo in 1961.

    Source: Asaase radio

  • Adom Praiz 2022: Piesie Esther, Efe Grace, others join artistes’ bill

    Ghanaian gospel music sensation, Piesie Esther, gospel kid on the block, Efe Grace, and vocal queen, Jackie Ankrah have been added to the list of billed musicians for the 2022 Adom Praiz concert.

    The trio is joining an already powerful list of Ghanaian gospel music icons for the event.

    They include Celestine Donkor, Perez Music, Jack Alolome, and Edwin Dadson, among others.

    Headlining the show at the Perez Dome, on November 4, is American Gospel singer Travis Greene.

    The 12th edition of the Adom Praiz promises to be exciting, especially as the show takes a turn away from the coronavirus-imposed virtual concert held at the height of the pandemic.

    Tickets are available at all branches of First National Bank and at the front desk of Joy FM.

    Tickets are going for ¢100 and ¢150 cedis for single and double, respectively.

    Source:ghanaweb.com