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  • Renew my mother’s diplomatic passport or go to court – DJ Azonto tells Medikal over copyright claims

    Renew my mother’s diplomatic passport or go to court – DJ Azonto tells Medikal over copyright claims

    Ghanaian entertainer and self-acclaimed Amapiano king DJ Azonto has issued a list of staggering demands after accusing rapper Medikal, dancehall artiste Shatta Wale, and producer Beatztrap KOTM of using his signature catchphrase “Alla” in their newly released song “Shoulder” without permission.

    DJ Azonto’s manager and PRO for the Rolls-Royce Family, signed a statement explaining that “Alla’ which forms part of his well-known slogan “Alla Wayo” was used without persmission.

    They believe it’s wrong because the term has become a big part of his image, performances and connection with fans.

    “As such, DJ Azonto is demanding $100million cash, a fully activated diplomatic Passport for his mother, 10 Diamond Chains, three brand new Rolls Royce (for his daughters), 90% ownership stake on Shaxi, beach house in Miami and a public apology and acknowledgment of DJ Azonto as the original creator and campaigner of the “Alla” movement,” the statement read.

    The letter further said that Medikal and his team should be prepared to appear in court if they fail to meet DJ Azonto’s demands.

    “If these demands are not met, we will not hesitate to take full legal action against all parties at the court.

    “We have repeatedly advised all creatives that intellectual property is not for free use, especially in an industry where only our identity and originality are the cornerstones of success,” the statement ended.

    Nigerian actress and filmmaker Bimbo Ademoye also took to social media months ago to express frustration over what she described as a blatant violation of her intellectual property rights.

    According to her, several TV stations in Ghana have been airing her work without permission—a situation she finds unacceptable and unlawful. She called on relevant authorities to investigate and address the matter promptly.

    Her post, which tagged both Sam George and Kafui Danku, gained significant traction online, drawing widespread reactions from the public. While many supported her demand for justice, others questioned her claims.

    Among the critics was Ghanaian media personality and plus-size advocate Miz Debbie, who argued in a video response that the broadcast of Bimbo’s films in Ghana amounted to free publicity. She dismissed Bimbo’s concerns as an attempt to chase clout and gain more visibility for her movies.

    Bimbo swiftly reacted by resharing Miz Debbie’s video and reiterating her call for official action. She maintained that the situation should not be trivialised, describing Miz Debbie’s position as “defending theft.”

    Responding directly under Bimbo’s post, Kafui Danku assured her that steps were being taken to halt the unauthorised broadcasts. “Hi ma’am, my management and I are working on putting a stop to this. You should see definite actions in a couple of weeks,” she wrote.

    Sam George also addressed the issue, confirming that he had taken note of Bimbo’s complaint and would engage his colleague responsible for overseeing television content. He reaffirmed the government’s commitment to upholding intellectual property rights and ensuring that such violations are addressed.

    “My attention has been drawn to your post thanks to the tag. I would be raising the issue with my colleague minister responsible for overseeing television content. However, I wish to assure you that our government is very respectful of intellectual property rights and will ensure the protection of same,” he stated.

    Both officials’ responses signal a willingness to strengthen protections for content creators and foster continued collaboration between Ghana and Nigeria’s creative industries.

  • Netizens stare at Despite as he drives his Rolls Royce on rough road

    Popular Ghanaian businessman, Osei Kwame Despite, was spotted in a video driving his expensive Rolls Royce on a rough road in bad condition.

    The video took a few netizens aback as they expressed worry after seeing such an expensive car on a bad road and feared the road might bring harm to the luxury vehicle.

    Osei Kwame Despite, who is one of the wealthiest men in Ghana, is known for his love for expensive and lavish items. One thing Despite does not hesitate to spend money on is cars. The wealthy businessman is a huge lover of cars.

    He has one of the most expensive car collections in Ghana, and his collection consists of almost every type of luxury car brand in the world. It is safe to say that a man of Despite’s wealth and status can afford to drive a car as expensive as the Rolls Royce Phantom on a bad untared road.

    @poshcars The GLS at the end though #despitemedia #kwamedespite #luxurycars #ghanatiktok ♬ original sound – Crazy_Ed_Gh🔥

    Despite leaves netizens in awe

    Khalid was amazed:

    on rough road… funny

    user2274381818128 expresssed shock:

    Eii you drive such an expensive car on such bad roads? The rich in Ghana are something else oo

    Sexton King said:

    money is Power

    KING FT commented:

    call him the Cars God

    Source:yen.com

  • Marrying an older man meant I became a widow at 34

    I admired my future husband from afar for a couple of years before we finally met at a horse show where we were both competitors. He had a great sense of humour, was a terrific horseman, and looked like Frank Sinatra. I was hooked.

    He was recently divorced and looking. Of course, I had been looking at him for a long time already. I was 20 and he was 45. I saw nothing but his smile. Neither the age difference nor the fact that he was two inches shorter than I am made any difference.

    There was something about him that caught and held my attention. Perhaps it was the way he treated his horses…he talked baby talk to them and I loved it.

    Our first date followed that show.

    We put our horses away in their respective barns then he picked me up for dinner in his Rolls Royce. He was wealthy, but it made no difference to me. He could have been a starving, out-of-work cowboy; I didn’t care. It was love at first sight.

    Within a year, I was marrying an older man.

    We were married and continued our winning ways together.

    One of our horse trainer friends invited us to dinner one evening. The wife was older than I was but she, too, was many years younger than her husband. After eating, the men talked about horses and training while we girls sat in the kitchen over a cup of tea and talked about being married to men twice our age.

    She mentioned that although she loved her husband dearly, he was slowing down and she was still rearing to go. She warned me about what was to come. Aches, pains, and illnesses…she didn’t paint a pretty picture.

    Some years later my husband had a stroke. He was 58. Within the year, I found myself alone, running a ranch without my best friend and confidant. I was only 34. 

    Things that had been so routine suddenly seemed strange and out of place. I began to doubt my abilities in the show ring. I was no different, but my life certainly was. The vultures came out of nowhere, and I had no one to watch my back.

    I had to keep telling myself that although my partner was gone, I was still the same person, I held the same knowledge, and my talents were still as great as ever. Yet a part of me was missing. It was hard to function as a whole person.

    I had known for a year that his life was ebbing and he would be leaving me. I often thought of what would be worse: a knock at the door informing me that my husband had been killed in a car wreck or watching him slowly slip away, hour by hour, day after day.

    I was with him when he took his last breath. I felt as though it was mine. One second he was there and the next he was gone. We had said all there was to say between two people in love. Sharing the good times and the sad times, we relived our entire married life within a few days. Then he was gone.

    I missed hearing him in the barn, talking to the horses. I expected him to walk around the corner any second to ask me a question or ask for my help. Instead, there was only silence. Day after lonely day … silence.

    I no longer had the desire to go to the shows, let alone win. I questioned what would happen to me. I wanted to shrivel up and die with him. My life as I had known it was over.

    My saving grace was running into the woman that had long ago warned me about what I was in for by marrying a much older man. She too had lost her husband.

    She had continued running their ranch after her husband’s death. I figured that if she could make it, so could I. I asked her to tell me the steps to dealing with the pain and the emptiness. She shared her grieving process with me, advising me to continue my life as it had been before he died. It helped, but still, the pain and numbness remained.

    Slowly, I dug into my horse business again, realizing that my late husband wouldn’t be happy if I quit and walked away from what we had built. I started showing again…and winning. With each blue ribbon, I’d raise it in the ring as though showing it to my love. I could feel his approval and could picture that ice-melting smile.

    Over time I realized that he wasn’t “gone,” he was just in a different form. I can still feel his presence at times. Love never dies — not even death can end it.

    Before he died, he told me to remarry and live happily; I was too young to be single and alone. It took a couple of years to get to know myself again before finding my current husband. He, too, is perfect for me. We’re a match made in Heaven if you know what I mean.

    Source:myjoyonline.com

  • COVID-19: 9,000 employees of Rolls-Royce to be rendered jobless

    Rolls-Royce has said it will cut 9,000 jobs and warned it will take “several years” for the airline industry to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

    The Derby-based firm, which makes plane engines, said the reduction of nearly a fifth of its workforce would mainly affect its civil aerospace division.

    “This is not a crisis of our making. But it is the crisis that we face and must deal with,” boss Warren East said.

    The bulk of the job cuts are expected to be in the UK at its site in Derby.

    Rolls-Royce employs 52,000 people globally and Mr East told the BBC’s Today programme that the company had not yet concluded on “exactly” where the job losses would be, due to having to consult with unions.

    But he said: “It’s fair to say that of our civil aerospace business approximately two-thirds of the total employees are in the UK at the moment and that’s probably a good first proxy.”

    Rolls-Royce’s civil aerospace business has a number of sites in the UK, but the largest plant is in Derby.

    The company said it will also carry out a review of its sites but declined to comment on which ones may close.

    John, a worker in Rolls-Royce’s civil aerospace division who spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity, said that while he expected there would be job cuts, the eventual 9,000 figure was “a shock”.

    “Since the Covid-19 outbreak we knew that business would shrink,” he said.

    But he said the scale of the cuts as well as the potential closure of some sites was a surprise.

    Unite the union said the decision was “shameful opportunism”.

    “This company has accepted public money to furlough thousands of workers,” said Unite’s assistant general secretary for manufacturing, Steve Turner.

    “Unite and Britain’s taxpayers deserve a more responsible approach to a national emergency. We call upon Rolls-Royce to step back from the brink and work with us on a better way through this crisis.”

    Rolls-Royce initially furloughed 4,000 workers in the UK last month. Some 3,700 people remain on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme though which the government pays 80% of a worker’s wage up to £2,500 a month.

    But Mr East said: “No government can extend things like furlough schemes for years into the future. We have to look after ourselves and make sure we meet medium term demand.”

    Job cuts a heavy blow

    This morning’s job losses are hardly unexpected – airlines have cut their flying hours by 90% or more, and Airbus and Boeing have slashed their production numbers for the next few years – but they are still a heavy blow to one of the UK’s few world-class manufacturing companies.

    While the details of where the cuts will fall have not been finalised, it is likely that two-thirds will go in the UK.

    The company has already used the government’s furlough scheme to help pay the wages of about 4,000 staff, but Warren East, Rolls-Royce’s chief executive, said companies could not expect the government to continue such a scheme for several years.

    There was also a clear hint this morning that some factories may close – the company said it would review its future manufacturing footprint.

    Some questions remain for Roll-Royce. Investors are scratching their head about when the company’s revenues – much of which rely on aircraft to be flying for money to flow – will return.

    The company has not yet tapped its shareholders for more money – some expect that may eventually come.

    Air travel has ground to a virtual standstill since the coronavirus began spreading across the world and many airlines have announced steep job cuts.

    Global air traffic is expected to decline by 45% this year, according to investment bank Baird. It also forecasts that airlines are expected to lose $310bn (£253bn) in revenue in 2020.

    Rolls-Royce said the impact of the pandemic on the company and the whole of the aviation industry “is unprecedented”.

    It added that it is “increasingly clear that activity in the commercial aerospace market will take several years to return to the levels seen just a few months ago”.

    As well as the job losses, the company said it would cut costs in areas such as its plants and properties. It expects to make cost savings of £1.3bn.

    Paul Everitt, chief executive of ADS, the aerospace industry association, said: “The crisis is having a major impact on aerospace companies who provide high value, long-term jobs in all regions and nations of the UK, putting thousands more jobs at risk now and in the months ahead.”

    Source: bbc.com

  • Coronavirus: Rolls-Royce to cut 9,000 jobs amid virus crisis

    Rolls-Royce has said it will cut 9,000 jobs and warned it will take “several years” for the airline industry to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

    The Derby-based firm, which makes plane engines, said the reduction of nearly a fifth of its workforce would mainly affect its civil aerospace division.

    “This is not a crisis of our making. But it is the crisis that we face and must deal with,” boss Warren East said.

    The bulk of the job cuts are expected to be in the UK at its site in Derby.

    Rolls-Royce employs 52,000 people globally and Mr East told the BBC’s Today programme that the company had not yet concluded on “exactly” where the job losses would be, due to having to consult with unions.

    But he said: “It’s fair to say that of our civil aerospace business approximately two-thirds of the total employees are in the UK at the moment and that’s probably a good first proxy.”

    Rolls-Royce’s civil aerospace business has a number of sites in the UK, but the largest plant is in Derby.

    Unite the union said the decision was “shameful opportunism”.

    “This company has accepted public money to furlough thousands of workers,” said Unite’s assistant general secretary for manufacturing, Steve Turner.

    “Unite and Britain’s taxpayers deserve a more responsible approach to a national emergency. We call upon Rolls-Royce to step back from the brink and work with us on a better way through this crisis.”

    Rolls-Royce initially furloughed 4,000 workers in the UK last month. Some 3,700 people remain on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme though which the government pays 80% of a worker’s wage up to £2,500 a month.

    But Mr East said: “No government can extend things like furlough schemes for years into the future. We have to look after ourselves and make sure we meet medium term demand.”

    Source: bbc.com

  • Rolls-Royce to cut 9,000 jobs amid coronavirus crisis

    Rolls-Royce has said it will cut 9,000 jobs and warned it will take “several years” for the airline industry to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

    The firm, which makes engines for planes, said the reduction of nearly a fifth of its workforce would mainly affect its civil aerospace division.

    “This is not a crisis of our making. But it is the crisis that we face and must deal with,” boss Warren East said.

    The bulk of the job cuts are expected to be in the UK.

    Rolls-Royce employs 52,000 people globally and Mr East told the BBC’s Today programme the company had not yet concluded on “exactly” where the job losses would be, due to having to consult with unions.

    But he said: “It’s fair to say that of our civil aerospace business approximately two-thirds of the total employees are in the UK at the moment and that’s probably a good first proxy.”

    Air travel has ground to a virtual standstill since the coronavirus began spreading across the world and many airlines have announced steep job cuts.

    Rolls-Royce said the impact of the pandemic on the company and the whole of the aviation industry “is unprecedented”.

    It added that it is “increasingly clear that activity in the commercial aerospace market will take several years to return to the levels seen just a few months ago”.

    As well as the job losses, the company said it would cut costs in areas such as its plants and properties.

    Source: bbc.com