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- Airport Repack Area for Africans and Asians | Why Always Us?
- LIFESTYLE GUIDE: Stanbic Bank and Their Wahala | Better Stay Away From Them
- VIDEO: Chris Brown Talks Karrueche, Rihanna, Drake and more on Hot 97
- The High Price Some Women Have to Pay for Patriarchy: ‘Virg*nity Stones’ in High Demand in Cameroon Despite Obvious Health Implications
- It’s Happening Tonight in London | The Premiere of DOUBLE CROSS Featuring Ama K. Abebrese, John Dumelo, Adjetey Anang, Jasmine Baroudi & Others
| Airport Repack Area for Africans and Asians | Why Always Us? Posted: 01 Nov 2014 04:09 AM PDT
If you are a frequent flyer like me—and you mostly take African or Asian routes, I am sure you would have once been greeted by the way some Africans and Asians hijack the Airport check-in desks with their overweight luggage. The airline luggage rules are pretty simple and for most airlines, the same rules apply—which is, two bags with maximum weight of 23 kg each for economy travellers. Though passengers are made aware of the rules, people in queues are frequently put on hold by some African and Asian travellers because their bags weigh up more than the allowance—and mostly, they are not ready to pay for the excess so they end up begging the check-in desk staff. And this can go on for about 10 minutes, while holding every other person in the queue hostage. During a recent trip, I nearly got out of my queue to land a big punch on the face of a Ghanaian woman whose bag weighed 33 kg instead of 23 kg—and for almost 15 minutes, she kept begging the airline check-in staff who had made it clear to her more than 10 times that she cannot help her in anyway, except to pay for the excess. This woman was not ready to bring out her wallet and she was not ready to reduce her weight too—yet, she was ready to inconvenience all of us. I've seen check-in desk staff letting certain bags go through when they are a little over the allowance. So if a bag allowance is 23kg and yours weighs 24kg or 24.3kg, they may overlook the little variation but to expect to get away with 33kg when you are allowed 23kg is just preposterous. This may sound a little upsetting but it is the truth. When you travel with whites or have them in your queue, it's so simply—and every one of them stays within their given allowance. Those who have excess would already know of this and would have paid for it online before even getting to the airport. I have never in my life seen any white person begging an airline staff member to allow his or her over weight bags through—but Africans and Asians do it all the time. And mostly, the overweight African and Asian bags are full of 'useless stuffs' such as old cooking utensils, bottles of water, old shoes and clothes—and sometimes, sardines, soaps and cheap perfumes. Why don't we ship these stuffs if we really need to send them across the ocean to make more rubbish in our countries?(...) © Chris-Vincent A. Febiri for Ghanacelebrities.com, 2014. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us  Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh |
| LIFESTYLE GUIDE: Stanbic Bank and Their Wahala | Better Stay Away From Them Posted: 01 Nov 2014 01:45 AM PDT  Stanbic Bank-Ghana It is funny how some banks find it so easy to take your money when opening a new account but frustrate you when you want to close that same account. Months ago, I signed up for internet banking with Stanbic bank and was told it would take 24 hours to activate but guess what, it took almost three days. Aden? I relocated from Ghana so was counting on doing some transactions online but my password failed to work hence I was left powerless. A few days ago, I got back into the country and needed some quick cash at the airport but to my dismay my bank card refused to work. You know how embarrassing that is when you have a queue right behind you. I headed straight to the Airport branch of Stanbic to withdraw the money and then close my savings account as I had relocated and had no need for it. I was able to do the former but was told the process of closing an account takes a while so I should come back the following day at noon to retrieve the remaining money in my account. Being the diligent person that I am, I arrived punctually at Stanbic, waited fifteen minutes for a staff member who pretended to be so busy processing my request( which I felt should have been done the day before), only to be told I couldn’t close my account at that branch as I opened it at another branch. Can you imagine? Are they mad? Why wasn’t I told this the day before? And why do some banking staff feel they are doing you a favour by serving you? ‘Massa’, if the job is frustrating you, quit. There are millions of people waiting to occupy your position in a microsecond.(...) © Catherine for Ghanacelebrities.com, 2014. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh |
| VIDEO: Chris Brown Talks Karrueche, Rihanna, Drake and more on Hot 97 Posted: 31 Oct 2014 11:34 AM PDT  Chris Brown From BeyondGossip.Com Yesterday Chris Brown stopped by Hot 97 for an interview. He sat down with host Ebro, Peter Rosenberg, and Lauren Stylez to discuss a whole lot of issues relating to him. The ‘Loyal’ singer talked about his relationships, musical influences, album sales and marriage. Excerpts from the interview below + videos (...) © Gossip for Ghanacelebrities.com, 2014. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2014 11:19 AM PDT  Being a woman is difficult The storm that Archbishop Duncan Williams statements regarding ladies and marriages should have kicked up from feminists and social commentators has been sadly lacking, and the lack of response indicates the highly religious and patriarchal nature of our society. GhanaCelebrities.Com editor Chris-Vincent wrote an article on it, in which he placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of religion: the age old institution which enforces these outmoded beliefs. Muslim women in Cameroon and other parts of the continent are finding themselves pressured to fit into the roles assigned them by their patriarchal societies and the religion that inspires it. A woman must prove her virginity on her wedding night else serious shame and ridicule follows her and her family henceforth, this has forced some of them to go to extreme lengths to fulfil this totally unfair societal norm. Hydrated potassium aluminium sulphate, or Alum stone, a chemical substance used in the production of aftershave and deodorant, is the solution these women are using to the detriment of their health. The substance causes a temporary contraction of the vaginal walls, giving the illusion of virginity to a woman who has already engaged in intercourse. It is a desperate last resort many have turned to, despite the substance having been found to be harmful. It's applied by crushing it into powder, mixing it with water and sometimes a little bit of honey or lemon, and applied as a cleansing agent.(...) © Gossip for Ghanacelebrities.com, 2014. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2014 07:33 AM PDT  Double Cross Premiere in London Ghanaian actress-Ama K. Abebrese, John Dumelo and Adjetey Anang are currently in London for tonight's the red carpet premiere of DOUBLE CROSS at the Odeon Cinema in Greenwich (8pm) and you should not MISS it. African movie lovers who will attend the premiere tonight will get to see something totally different and yet interesting as the movie breaks away from the usual African movie story-lines mostly dominated by witchcraft and unrealistic romance. In Double Cross "Effie Howard (Ama K. Abebrese) a streetwise programmer's life is dramatically turned upside down when her fiancé Ben Boateng (Adjetey Anang) is convicted and sentenced for a bank robbery he did not commit. Determined to prove his innocence; she carried out her own investigation and finds the actual robber; Danny Frimpong (John Dumelo) a calm and collected sophisticated genius of a thief who has a personal vendetta against the bank he robbed Neptune Bank International. He robbed the bank using urbane technology which enabled him to enter, steal and exit the bank leaving everyone mystified as to how the theft was carried out, no witnesses, no evidence, yet the money is gone.
She meets Danny and threatens him but later offers him a deal; and it's to rob the bank again with similar methods as the first so the authorities know the actual robber is still out there, then Danny will not lose what matters to him most and the reason for the bank robbery. She plans to relocate with the stolen money and start a new life with Ben when he is acquitted so as to get away from the stigma attached to ex-convicts and their families. They are successful in the robbing the bank, Effie now sets her sights on a jewellery warehouse and she wants Danny to rob it. With a lot of jewellery and money at stake, each one of them tries to outwit each other with medleys of smart thinking as they plan and execute the robberies. They meticulously plan the robberies, but no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare them for the dangerous enemy, an enemy Effie least expected and never saw coming; an unexpected turn of events on the day of the robbery, what happened”(...) © Chris-Vincent A. Febiri for Ghanacelebrities.com, 2014. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh |
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