Known for her beauty and sense of fashion, Nikki shared a video of her luxury car on Instagram, making her the first female celebrity in Ghana to show off a new ride on the platform this year.
In the video, she looks classy and confident as she cruises through town in her new convertible.
She sports a designer ensemble complemented by chic black sunglasses, radiating sophistication.
Notably, the actress wins over fans by flaunting her natural beauty, appearing without makeup and showing off her natural hair.
The post has quickly garnered attention, with fans and fellow celebrities praising Nikki for her classy presentation.
Metro TV journalist, Paul Adom-Otchere, has alleged that Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, has presented the Ministry of Finance a ‘luxurious’ budget to ensure the smooth running of the Office of the Special Prosecutor.
In an edition of Good Evening Ghana, Mr Adom-Otchere claimed that the Special Prosecutor, whom he describes as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, has requested a number of sophisticated automobiles that cost billions of cedis.
Among the vehicles allegedly being demanded are a Range Rover, S-Class Mercedes, Lexus 600. These cars are to be bullet-proofed, Mr Adom Otchere added.
According to Mr Adom-Otchere, he will request a Right to Information (RTI) to allow the Finance Ministry furnish him the details of the OSP’s budget.
“We are going to use the RTI to apply to the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning to give us the budget submitted to the Ministry of Finance for the Office of the Special Prosecutor. Viewers, it will shock you to the bone and marrow because we have seen it, you know what he was asking for in the budget.
The budget was something like a billion cedis—bulletproof cars, Range Rover, S-Class Mercedes, Lexus 600. That’s what he was asking for. We will come and show it on the touch screen and you will see it so that when you are dealing with people in wolves in sheep’s clothing you can see it.
According to Mr Adom-Otchere, he has decided to reveal this information now because “he’s (Special Prosecutor) taking on the Judiciary and claiming, giving the impression to Ghanaians that he’s righteous and somebody’s unrighteous, therefore we’re going to bring out the things that he’s been doing.”
He further criticised the OSP for allegedly exhibiting hubris by deciding to go for an automobile only used by President Akufo-Addo.
“Only the president of Ghana is allowed to use an S-Class Mercedes as official car. Only the president of Ghana says he wants to use a S-Class Mercedes. Special Prosecutor, you are going to pursue people, you want to drive to court in S-Class and Range Rover,” he explained.
Last week, Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng held a press conference where he mentioned the Judiciary as one of the stumbling blocks in his way in the fight against corruption.
Reacting to this, Mr Adom-Otchere said the Special Prosecutor was playing a PR stunt and sought to deceive Ghanaians.
“All of them are like that, all of them are like that. They’re coming to cry that façade that they put there and then behind the façade, they are doing evil,” he said.
The journalist asserts that Mr Kissi Agyebeng can not withdraw cases on his own volition and then cry foul to the public.
The person driving, who is a man in his twenties, was taken into custody for possibly causing someone’s death by driving recklessly and driving while under the influence of drugs.
The roads are still closed while the police are investigating.
Formula One pundit Martin Brundle says Lewis Hamilton‘s Mercedes team is currently grappling with feelings of frustration and confusion, operating in what he termed “survival mode.”
In the recent Belgian Grand Prix, Hamilton secured a fourth-place finish, with his teammate George Russell coming in two places behind. Meanwhile, Max Verstappen of Red Bull clinched his eighth consecutive victory.
Despite holding the second position in the constructors’ championship as they head into the sport’s summer break, Mercedes is struggling to address the challenge of Hamilton’s 35-race losing streak.
This situation has left the team searching for answers and navigating a complex phase of uncertainty.
— Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) July 30, 2023
In Spa-Francorchamps, the seven-time world champion faced another significant setback when a new upgrade for his car, featuring revised sidepods and a modified floor, seemingly led to the reemergence of porpoising – a bouncing motion of the car.
Following the race, Hamilton expressed his frustration, noting that his Mercedes was bouncing uncontrollably and likening the sensation to that experienced with last year’s car. This vehicle had resulted in his lowest championship finishing position in his career.
“Mercedes will be very frustrated,” said Brundle, 64. “Their car is on a knife edge to set up, to understand and to drive.
“They are surviving the season, as they did last year, and making the best of a bad situation because they are a great team.
“But I would imagine they are confused with this car. They promise a great result, get something special, then go to the next race with upgrades and fall off the pace.”
Over the last 19 months, Mercedes has only managed to secure a single victory, a stark contrast to their previous dominant performance that led to an unprecedented eight consecutive constructors’ titles. Russell disclosed that the team has been seeking inspiration from their previously triumphant machines.
Solid result to end a tough run of races. We know where we need to improve and will be back stronger in the second half of the season. For now, though, it's time for a break over summer. Thanks to the whole team for their hard work so far this year. Enjoy some well-earned rest.✌️ pic.twitter.com/kcrsytDBg6
“We are working really hard on the characteristics for next yea, and we are looking a lot at how the previous generation of cars were for Mercedes, the glory years, and using that as inspiration,” said Russell.
“Clearly they were some of the best cars in history. So that is giving us some pointers of where we need to aim for.
“I am sure we will be strong in the second half of the season. We have some little things coming after the break and I am confident we will secure second in the team championship and close the gap to Red Bull.”
Lewis Hamilton has dismissed reports claiming he has received a contract offer from Ferrari and anticipates signing a new deal with Mercedes “in the coming weeks.”
As his current £40 million-a-year contract nears its expiration with just six months remaining, there has been speculation about Hamilton’s future in the sport.
Leading up to the Monaco Grand Prix this week, there were reports suggesting that Ferrari was preparing a substantial offer to secure Hamilton in a high-profile transfer.
But when asked on Thursday if the Italian giants had been in touch, Hamilton replied: “No. When you are in contract negotiations there is always going to be speculation, and unless you hear it from me that is all it is.
“My team is working closely behind the scenes with [Mercedes team principal] Toto [Wolff], and we are almost at the end of having a contract ready.
“This is the first time that I have not been negotiating myself. I have a great team in the background that does the work and I focus on the job on hand.
“I say what I want and that is what we are working towards so hopefully in the coming weeks [it will be decided].”
Hamilton, 38, will get his first taste of a major Mercedes upgrade in practice on Friday which the seven-time world champion hopes will haul him up the grid.
Hamilton qualified 13th at the last race in Miami before driving well to finish sixth, but he is already 63 points behind Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in the championship standings.
However, Hamilton insisted Mercedes’ dethroning as kings of the Formula One road will not impact his decision to re-sign with the Brackley side.
“We are still a championship-winning team,” added the British driver. “We have just had the wrong car, and there have been decisions that have been made over the past two years that have not been ideal. We are working our way through that.
The long-awaited upgrades have arrived for Mercedes 🙌
“We have a new upgrade this weekend. The team have worked incredibly hard to bring this upgrade to this race after we decided that was the direction we wanted to take.
“Although this is not the best track to see it come to fruition, we will hopefully get a better experience of that at the next race.”
Both Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz are under contract with Ferrari until the end of next season.
Addressing the speculation surrounding Hamilton, Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur said: “We are not sending an offer to Lewis. We didn’t do it, and we have not had discussions.
“Every single team on the grid would like to have Hamilton at one stage, and it would be bulls*** to not say something like this.
“But if I have had discussions with Hamilton, it is because I have had discussions with him for the last 20 years.
“I have discussed things almost every single weekend with Hamilton, and I don’t want to have to stop having discussions with him because you are chasing me (about a contract offer).”
Despite Mercedes‘ challenges to contend for race wins in Formula One this season, Lewis Hamilton is rising to the occasion.
In a season that already appears to be challenging for the squad, Hamilton’s second-place finish in Australia represented his strongest performance of the year.
Last year, Mercedes lost the Constructors’ Championship to rival Red Bull, and Hamilton concluded the season without a race victory for the first time in his career. He will likely finish far behind the pack in 2023.
Given that he has a contract that expires at the end of the year, Hamilton’s problems have raised worries about his future once again, but he has reiterated his devotion to the squad.
Tied with Michael Schumacher for the most F1 title wins of all time, an eighth crown would hand Hamilton the record outright, and he is ready to clinch that honour.
However, for the time being, he is focused on pushing himself to achieve the best possible result despite Mercedes’ issues.
“I don’t like driving not great cars. I don’t like driving a car that’s not the car that we weren’t meant to have, but I love that challenge of ‘OK, what can I do with it?’,” he told Fox Sports.
“Wins are not possible right, so what is the maximum we can get? Can we be a little cheeky and if fifth is the best we can get, can we get a fourth or a third?
“Just make sure we are consistent and fit and ready so when the car does all of a sudden switch on, and it is the car you dreamed of having, you’re ready.
“I am ready to win a world championship. I have prepared the best way I can this year – the best I have ever prepared – and if the car comes correct tomorrow I will be ready to fight for the world championship, but unfortunately that’s not the case.
“I am working with everyone here and back at the factory to get there.”
A taste of being back out in front. 🤩
Proud of the steps forward we’ve taken over the last few weeks. But there’s still plenty more to come. 👊
Lewis Hamilton urged Mercedes engineers to “own up” for their performance issues after a slow start to the season.
The seven-time world champion finished fifth in the opening race of the 2023 Formula One season in Bahrain, behind both Red Bull cars, Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso and Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz.
Any hope that Mercedes would be able to compete at the front of the grid following a woeful campaign in 2022 is already on the back burner, with the zero-pods concept continuing to attract criticism.
Team principal Toto Wolff admitted on Sunday that “radical” changes are needed, a view that Hamilton clearly shares.
Major improvements for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix later this month are unlikely, but Hamilton is keen for the engineers to own up to their errors.
“Last year, I told them the issues that are with the car,” he told the BBC’s Chequered Flag podcast.
We need to take our chances – Howe disappointed at another Newcastle blank
— Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) March 7, 2023
“Like, I’ve driven so many cars in my life, so I know what a car needs, I know what a car doesn’t need.
“And I think it’s really about accountability, it’s about owning up and saying ‘yeah, you know what, we didn’t listen to you, it’s not where it needs to be and we’ve got to work’.
“We’ve got to look into the balance through the corners, look at all the weak points and just huddle up as a team, that’s what we do.
“We’re still multi World Champions you know, it’s just they haven’t got it right this time, they didn’t get it right last year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get it right moving forwards.”
A murder investigation has been launched after a woman was fatally shot at a pub near Liverpool on Christmas Eve.
Merseyside Police officers were called to the Lighthouse Inn in Wallasey Village at about 23:50 GMT on Saturday.
Three men and the female victim were taken to hospital suffering gunshot wounds – the woman later died.
Det Supt Dave McCaughrean said the shooting happened at a “busy venue full of young people”.
He added: “We believe that the gunman left the pub car park in a dark coloured vehicle – possibly a dark coloured Mercedes shortly after the shooting.”
The force said a “number of others” were also injured in the shooting, which was described as despicable by the chief constable.
Det Supt McCaughrean appealed for anyone who witnessed the incident to come forward.
“This investigation is in the very early stages and we understand that this is a truly shocking and devastating incident that has happened just before Christmas Day,” he added.
“We have a number of officers at Wallasey Village who are carrying out extensive inquiries to understand exactly what has taken place and take immediate action.
“A woman has tragically lost her life at Christmas whilst several people are being treated in hospital and our thoughts and condolences are with the victim’s family.”
Police added the woman’s next of kin had been informed and her family were being supported by specially trained officers.
Mercedes “just got it wrong,” in George Russell’s opinion, this season and will be much more competitive next.
By the time 2022 rolled around, the Silver Arrows had won eight straight constructors’ titles and seven drivers’ titles, including six for Lewis Hamilton.
But Russell’s switch to Mercedes came at the same time that their car had a terrible year, struggling to keep up with Max Verstappen’s Red Bull.
Russell finished fourth in the driver standings and Hamilton dropped to sixth place for Mercedes, who finished third in the constructors’ championship.
Russell does not anticipate that to be the case in 2023, but he is convinced that Mercedes will still be able to produce a championship-winning vehicle.
“They haven’t forgotten how to build a fast race car,” Russell told BBC Radio Norfolk. “We just got it wrong this year.
“We got the philosophy wrong. We went down a route which turned out to be the wrong route.
“Sometimes it takes you a long time to dig yourself out of that hole. Now I feel we’ve dug ourselves out of that hole and we’re building on top of that.
“We are a step behind Red Bull and Ferrari and we’ve got a lot of catching up to do – but we’re definitely going to be in a much stronger position from race one next year than we were this year.”
Debut season with @MercedesAMGF1 complete. We hoped for more but I’m proud that together we achieved my maiden pole, sprint victory and race win. Lots of positives to take away from the year and even more motivation heading into 2023. We’ll be back stronger, I have no doubt. 👊 pic.twitter.com/RHmqyWub5H
At the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, the year’s penultimate race, Russell finally achieved his goal of earning his first career victory, but he still longs for more.
“When you join a team like Mercedes, you’re expecting victories,” he said. “I felt ready to fight for race wins and championships this year, but you’ve just got to manage your expectations.
“You’ve got to change those sights slightly, and it’s been really intriguing for me this year, seeing how the team deal with this situation.
“I’m here for the long haul, and even though I wanted victories and [to be] fighting for that championship in 2022, as a team these struggles are going to set us up for the coming years.
“I hope I look back in 10 years’ time and say the 2022 season was a positive one in the journey.”
Max Verstappen suffered a car failure early in Dutch Grand Prix first practice and managed only seven laps as Mercedes set the pace with a one-two.
Verstappen, championship leader after a series ofFerrari errors, stopped on track. Team boss Christian Horner said he lost drive while shifting gear.
He was fastest at the time but slipped down to 19th out of 20 runners.
George Russell was fastest by 0.240 seconds from Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton with Carlos Sainz third.
Mercedes set their times on the fastest soft tyre much later in the session than most others, so their times are not necessarily comparable.
Ferrari’s Sainz was 0.390secs off the pace, with McLaren’s Lando Norris less than 0.1secs further back in fourth.
Russell led the way by more than two tenths of a second from his team-mate
The second McLaren of Daniel Ricciardo was fifth, ahead of Verstappen’s main title rival Charles Leclerc of Ferrari, Red Bull’s Sergio Perez and Alpine’s Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon.
No-one crashed as the teams returned to the seaside Zandvoort circuit, which last year was reintroduced to the calendar for the first time since 1985 as F1 and local organisers sought to capitalise on Verstappen’s huge popularity in his home country.
A few drivers ran wide through gravel traps – including Perez and the Haas drivers Mick Schumacher and Kevin Magnussen – but there were no serious incidents.
Drivers were asked to try using the DRS overtaking aid through the banked final corner with the intention of it being in place for the race to aid overtaking, which is traditionally tricky at Zandvoort. As expected, none reported any issues.
