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WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2018 Ages Africa ft Tiyumba drops ‘Hold Me’ GHANAIAN REG- GAE and Afrobeat artiste, Ages Africa has dropped a new song, ‘Hold Me’ which featured musician, philanthropist and Radio personality, Tiyumba previously known as Trigmatic. The new classic afropop, which was produced by Hasty Baba, tells a love story everybody can relate to. The two crafted their lyrics carefully to enable them get to the heart of all music lovers. Ages Africa is known for his good music with countless collaboration he has done over the years. He is currently trading his music as an independent artiste who is passionate and hopeful of getting a major breakthrough soon. Hold me’ is officially out now and available for downloads. •Reggae, Afrobeat artiste Ages Africa I was not part of ‘By The Fire Side’ – Shatta Wale A CLAIM by Veteran actress Grace Omaboe (Maame Dokono) that Dancehall artiste Shatta Wale was a part of television programme ‘By The Fire Side’ is false. Omaboe recently claimed on ‘After Hours‘ on TV3 that the ‘Taking Over‘ artiste was the gong gong beater on the show. “Shatta Wale was beating the gong gong on ‘By The Fire Side,” stated the veteran actress. A post by Wale on March 25, 2016 disputes the claim. It states that he couldn’t get a role on the show because he wasn’t fluent in Twi. “You wanted me to play a role in your by the fireside series as a gong gong beater, In fact I trust if my Twi was good at that time I would have been in it but you said one thing which touched my heart at that tender age that ‘wow boy, you are very good and will go far just learn the Twi for me ok’,” reads part of the post on Facebook. ‘By The Fireside’ aired on Ghana Television in the late 90s. It chronicled the numerous misadventures of Kwaku Ananse and other characters in the animal kingdom. It was acted out by persons representing the characters. •Shatta Wale, artiste Meek Mill’s lawyer questions legitimacy of Cop’s testimony MEEK MILL’S legal team is doing everything in its power to get the rapper released as soon as possible. On Wednesday, his lawyer filed an appeal in the form of the Post-Conviction Relief Act petition. It questions the legitimacy of his original 2007 arrest after the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a report revealing that the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office put together a “secret list” of suspect cops last year. The main officer spotlighted is Reginald Graham, who arrested Mill in 2007. His testimony as the sole witness during the rapper’s 2008 trial is now being called not credible as the petition documents cites former Philadelphia Police Officer Jerold Gibson, who provided a sworn affidavit to Licensed Private Investigator Cliff Goldsmith stating that Gibson was present during Meek’s arrest. According to Gibson, officer Graham’s testimony contradicts what actually occurred that day. Gibson states Mill never pointed a gun at Graham or anyone else; the officer only claimed that detail once he was in custody. Gibson also •Meek Mill, American artiste points out Mill took his gun out of his waistband to discard it, so the officers did not yell at him to “drop the gun.” Graham never took cover behind a parked van and Mill never tried to escape. Former officer Jeffrey Walker (who worked in the narcotics field unit with Graham from 2003 to 2005 or 2006 and again in 2012) was also cited in the petition, and his affidavit is different from Graham’s. During Mill’s 2008 trial, Graham testified to recovering two packets of alleged crack cocaine from a criminal informant who allegedly purchased them from Mill, but the officer never offered a property receipt or lab report for those packets, or even the packets themselves, as evidence. According to the documents, Graham frequently stole and kept money that was recovered during searches and arrests, beat people who were considered suspects, and even admitted to Walker that he beat Meek in 2007 or 2008. On Tuesday, Mill’s attorney Joe Tacopina told Complex all legal avenues would be pursued. complex.com
DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH Sports DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2018 2018 Winter Olympics Frimpong fails to impress AKWASI FRIM- PONG, Ghana’s sole representative at the ongoing 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea failed to make a better running time in the men’s skeleton competition early yesterday morning as he played 30th in heat one and heat two respectively. The Ghanaian finished his first heat with a time of 53.97 seconds and the second run in a time of 54.46 seconds finishing 30th out of 30 athletes. The 32-year-old will be hoping for a better outing today when the competition concludes with two further runs. South Korea’s Yun Sung-Bin leads by 0.74 seconds with a total time of 1 minute 40.35 seconds after two runs. However, Frimpong has caught the eye for his colourful helmet which has won rave reviews as the best in the skeleton competition. His helmet has an illustration of a rabbit inside the mouth of a lion. “My former sprint • Akwasi Frimpong coach Sammy Monsels talks about the analogy of a rabbit in a cage, ready to escape from a lion,” Frimpong said in an email Monday. “I am that rabbit, and I have escaped the lions [of my past]. I am no longer being eaten by all the things around my life.” The former track athlete was raised in Ghana but moved to the Netherlands at the age of eight. He caught up with Ghana born United States (US) speed skate Maame Biney during the games. Frimpong made history by becoming Ghana’s first skeleton athlete to qualify for a Winter Olympic event while Maame on the other hand, is the first African-American woman to qualify for the United States Olympic speed skating team and the second speed skater to ever qualify for the Winter Olympics. Maame, 18 years of age, was also born in Ghana but migrated to the US at a young age. Eight basketball teams set for Battle Ground Tourney EIGHT TEAMS will compete in the Battle Ground Tournament scheduled to commence at the Tema Community 4 Court. The competition is the latest warm up tournament ahead of the 2018 Tema Basketball League season due to start in late March. Headlining the list of teams is league champions Tema Community 4. The team will be competing for the first time since clinching the title last year. Ashaiman Lions is listed among the teams competing for the next three weeks; lions head to the competition with their tails up after winning the preseason competition in December 2017. Former league winners Nungua Coldstore have been included after skipping the previous warm up competition due to internal reasons. Akatsi Rifles, Teshie Rangers, Tema Heat, Tema Community 2 and Ghana Police are part of the eight team roster for the competition. All teams competing in the tournament have featured in at least one of the past two league campaigns and are likely to compete in the upcoming season. Ghana Amputee Football team in Turkey calls for Minister’s attention BY ANNETTE S. YEBOAH PLAYERS OF the Ghana Amputee Football national team, the Black Challenge based in Turkey has called on the authority of the country’s sports, the Ministry of Youth and Sports to pay critical attention to amputee sports. A letter copied to the DAILY HERITAGE in Accra and signed by the captain of the national team, Richard Arthur Opentil, said there were attempts by some individuals and groups of people to create confusion in the amputee football sector for reasons best known to them. According to him, they have also observed certain negative trends anytime the team is scheduled to participate in the amputee football world cup. The captain said due to the obstructive actions, the team missed the opportunity to play in Mexico due to late arrival. “We would not sit down for any person or group of persons to play with our destiny since the game of amputee football means a lot to us. We, therefore, want to state that, anybody wishing to play a role in amputee football should join the current leadership to help the team participate in the World Cup to bring glory to the nation,” he said. Captain Opentil noted that those with leadership ambitions should hold on with their plans till “we finish with the World Cup this year since we have a very short time ahead of us; so we can’t afford to waste time on leadership struggles.” He urged people with good intentions to support the sport.
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