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POLITRICKS OF THE DAY: President John Dramani Mahama Says 40% Of Schools Under Trees Removed
OBS: Don’t Pregant Women Wear Panties? Pregnant Kim Kardashian Caught Pants Off
PHOTOS: A Wonderful Dinner With Actress Roselyn Ngissah, GC Reader Fiona Baffour, Actor Atto Erick & Others
OBS: Inside Nigeria’s secret Gay Club…What You Did Not Know!
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POLITRICKS OF THE DAY: President John Dramani Mahama Says 40% Of Schools Under Trees Removed

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 07:14 AM PST

President John Dramani Mahama has disclosed that over 40% of the 4,000 Schools Under Trees have been eliminated by the NDC administration.

He said this delivering his first State of the Nation's address in accordance with Article 67 of the Constitution.

In what he dubbed a brief overview, President Mahama said the NDC administration even though was faced with some significant distress at the beginning of its administration, has been able to achieve most of the promises it made to Ghanaians.

Cataloguing the strides made by his administration in improving access to quality education, he said: "in line with our commitment in investing in people, measures were rolled out immediately to address these problems at all levels. Madam Speaker, I am happy to report to you that remarkable progress has been made. Four years on, about 40% of the over 4,000 schools under trees have been replaced… Millions of school uniforms, text books, and laptops have been distributed and we intend to work hard to replace the remaining schools under trees. With the implementation of the Single Spine pay policy, teachers have seen an appreciable upward adjustment in their remuneration making them better motivated than they were before…"

President Mahama, whiles commenting on the health sector, also touched on significant progress made in the energy industry, which has seen over 1700 communities being connected to the national grid.

"we have not only held down inflation and maintained micro economic stability, we have also worked hard to ensure discipline in government's fiscal regime to avoid unbudgeted expenditures… Madam Speaker, Ghana over the last four years, has made tremendous contribution in the energy sector. The Ghana Police Service can boast of an Ultra-modern laboratory which helps in their crime prevention activities. Madam Speaker we have built 12 new hospitals, 15 new poly clinics and bought 161 new ambulances for the national ambulance service. The administration has worked relentlessly to give individuals and families access to quality healthcare…

Madam speaker I could go on and to speak about the gargantuan strides that this government has undertaken…we are making rapid progress as a nation…the success story of our country over the last four years would not have been possible without the full support of this house…even as we pat ourselves on the back let us not forget the work ahead of us. What they (Ghanaians) demand from us is partnership and not partisanship and that is the direction I believe we must take as a country…the state of our nation is strong…" the president said.

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OBS: Don’t Pregant Women Wear Panties? Pregnant Kim Kardashian Caught Pants Off

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 06:56 AM PST

Earlier this week, Kanye West announced that his girlfriend-Kim Kardashian is pregnant with his child. The exciting news has put Kim Kardashian under increase surveillance of the paparazzi. Her activities are being extensively photographed.

As a result of this surveillance, the reality TV star has been photographed wearing no panties…To some of us men, we just don’t know if pregnant women do not wear panties anymore…Maybe Kim Kardashian is simply doing her own thing-being panty-less.

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PHOTOS: A Wonderful Dinner With Actress Roselyn Ngissah, GC Reader Fiona Baffour, Actor Atto Erick & Others

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 04:54 AM PST

GC Reader Fiona And Actress Roselyn Ngissah In London

Ghanaian Actress Roselyn Ngissah is currently holidaying in London and by kind courtesy of GhanaCelebrities.Com, a fine dinner was held yesterday at Jade Palace, located at the posh suburb of North London-Crouch End, with the actress and her number one fan who is also a GC reader-Fiona Baffour.

Also at the dinner were GC Staff member-Higreen (from the RunUp Show), my girlfriend & GC Staff member-SassyChic, GC reader-Grace (username-Ticia) and her boyfriend-Ghanaian Actor Atto Erick.

At the table, we had chit chats about almost everything. I still cannot figure out how we landed on the topic '3some' and for almost an hour, it led us to discuss several related and unrelated issues.

We also talked about the prospects and weakness of the African movie industry. Roselyn Ngissah gave us facts about real ground issues and talked about some of the problems she face as African movie actress on and off set.

Attoh Erick who has worked on a couple of movies with Roselyn Ngissah backed her with his experiences.

It was such a wonderful gathering with plenty to eat, drink and chat about. If GhanaCelebrities.Com can pay regularly, I wouldn't mind putting such interesting gathering together more frequently to help create that sense of community and friendship.

Thanks to everyone who made it to the dinner, especially Roselyn Ngissah and Miss Fiona Baffour for winning the competition and also coming out to be part of the gathering…

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GC Reader Grace-Ticia

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Actor Erick Atto And GC Reader Fiona

SassyChic And Roselyn Ngissah

GC Reader-Fiona And Staff Member-Higreen

Grace-Ticia

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OBS: Inside Nigeria’s secret Gay Club…What You Did Not Know!

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 03:11 AM PST

Either you like it or not, ‘Gayism’ has come to stay and there is nothing wrong with accepting and respecting people’s sexual orientation.

When it comes to most parts of Africa, being Gay is not only morally unaccepted by members of our various societies, several governments are also pushing the gun by enacting legislations to make homosexual activities illegal.

If it turns out that it is true that some people become homosexuals not by choice but through hereditary as a recent study suggests, do you think these people are being fairly treated by us?

Even if people become homosexuals by choice, don’t you think the last thing they need is societal segregation and governments’ efforts to make their lives hell?

The BBC has pulled together an interesting piece titled ‘Inside Nigeria’s secret Gay Club‘.

Read it below

About 50 people, mostly men, crowd around the front porch of a social club in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, cheering on a shy-looking young man, who proceeds to sing a ballad.

Backstage, another man puts on his wig and takes a quick glance at his pocket mirror, before adjusting his tight-fitting red dress.

Five other men also dressed in drag outfits appear, checking on each other’s make-up as they wait for their turn to perform for the crowd.

“A friend invited me here a few months ago,” one chatty spectator says excitedly. “I love this place because it makes me feel at home”.

This gathering of members of the gay and lesbian community in Lagos is held regularly, albeit discreetly, but it could soon be illegal.

The vast majority of gay Nigerians may not be interested in this kind of event but they still have to hide their sexuality in this conservative society.

Whilst already illegal, homosexuality is widely frowned upon across Nigeria and has been the subject of several bills in the National Assembly.

The Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill specifically outlaws same-sex unions.

It also bans gatherings of homosexuals or any other support for gay clubs, organisations, unions or amorous expressions, whether in secret or in public.

‘Repulsive’

The bill has been passed by Nigeria’s Senate – the highest chamber – and is now being reviewed by the lower chamber, the House of Representatives.

If approved, it will be sent to the president to sign it into law, after which same-sex couples could face up to 14 years in prison.

But Nigerian homosexuals complain that the stigma they face is already enough punishment for their way of life.

Kunle (not his real name), a gay man living in Lagos, is outraged by the proposed law: “How does a government think that sending someone to prison would change his or her sexual orientation?

“How logical is that?”

One of Nigeria’s few openly gay human rights activists, Rashidi Williams, notes that the bill seeks to ban something which is already illegal and which no-one is publicly advocating.

“All we are asking for is to repeal the repressive laws in this country,” he says.

The bill has been condemned abroad – most recently by Australian lawmakers – making its proponents see this piece of legislation as a way of protecting Nigerian society from foreign influences.

“Ours is to weigh the aggregate of opinion – what the majority of Nigerians want,” says Abike Dabiri, a member of the House of Representatives.

“If majority of Nigerians want same-sex marriage, then why not?”

She adds: “You have a right to your sexual preference but by trying to turn it into marriage do you realise you could be infringing on the human rights of the other person who finds it repulsive?”

In hiding

This view is echoed on the streets of this country, where religious influences, particularly from Christianity and Islam, are heavy.

“How do you even become gay, not to mention wanting to get married to another man?” asks Okechukwu Ikenna, a 33-year-old software engineer, visibly irritated by the topic.

Friends and family members of gay people could get implicated if they do not report cases of same-sex unions because they could be seen as being in support of them.

Critics of the bill also worry that health workers who provide HIV counselling and treatment to homosexuals could be committing an offence as well.

However, some of these doctors say they hardly ever know the sexual orientation of those they attend to because it is not a requirement for treatment and counselling, and even if the patients were to reveal that they were homosexuals, it would not affect the quality of healthcare offered.

Some lawmakers have condemned violence against homosexuals but this has done little to prevent the growing anxiety among those the bill would target as its likely adoption, in whatever form, approaches.

If the bill is passed, same-sex couples could face 14 years in prison

Mr Williams says some gay Nigerians may seek asylum in countries where homosexual people are accepted, while others will have to go underground.

At the gay club, despite the jovial atmosphere, there is heightened caution, and no-one is allowed to take any photos.

The thought of being identified as being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender in a country where the public still turns to mob justice haunts some here.

And that is a huge concern for Richard (not his real name): “If you don’t become discreet and try to hide yourself, even the man on the street will want to also act on the bill because it has been passed.

“If you’re walking on the street and he stones you, he knows the law would stand for him because the law is against you.”

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