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23 May

Rex Omar Shares Details To Expose Akosua Agyapong

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The chairman of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO), Rex Omar, has strongly denied allegations made by Akosua Agyapong, a highlife musician, regarding the late Kwadwo Akwaboah's medical treatment. Akosua Agyapong had claimed that GHAMRO neglected Akwaboah during his illness, providing only a meagre amount of GH¢250 for medicine. However, Rex Omar in a Facebook post vehemently refuted these allegations, calling them false and emphasizing that there is no record of such assistance in their welfare books. “Akosua is the biggest liar! So why didn’t she speak about it till now that the man is dead? We have no such records in our welfare books.…

23 May

Akosua Agyapong Reveals Plans To Use Nima Boys To Fight GHAMRO At Akwaboah Snr’s Event

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Veteran Highlife musician Akosua Agyapong has made explosive allegations against the Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO), hinting at organizing a group of individuals from Nima to ensure that GHAMRO executive members would not be allowed to attend Akwaboah Senior’s One-Week funeral observation. In a 3news.com report, she accused the members of neglecting the late Kwadwo Akwaboah, when he was in need and expressed her determination to do everything in her power to prevent GHAMRO executives from attending the event. According to Akosua Agyapong, GHAMRO's executives frequently cheat and neglect musicians who are in dire need, instead diverting a significant portion of the musicians'…

30 Jan

Close Down Office Of The Auditor-General – GHAMRO CEO Fumes

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The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO), Abraham Adjatey, has called for the closure of the office of the Auditor-General. The Auditor-General of Ghana, who is the head of the Ghana Audit Service, undertakes audits of the public accounts of Ghana and all public offices as mandated by Article 187 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana. Mr. Adjatey told host of Joy FM’s Showbiz A-Z, George Quaye on Saturday, January 28 that, lack of power on the part of the Auditor-General to directly prosecute people who have misapplied or misused state funds, has rendered the institution…

19 Dec

Kwaw Kese Has About GHc13,000 Sitting In Our Black Box – Rex Omar

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The interim Chairman of the Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO) Rex Omar has responded to the rants of Kwaw Kese over his royalties. A few days ago, Kwaw Kese went on a ranting spree on his Twitter page over his unpaid royalties from GHAMRO. According to Kwaw Kese, he has not received any money after 20 years of doing music. On Thursday, December 15, 2022, Kwaw Kese tweeted, “20 years of doing music in Ghana and [I’ve] never got[ten] paid any royalties.” “You rather have to pay DJs to play your music, pay TV [stations] to show your videos, bloggers…

19 Dec

GHAMRO Is The Most Useless Entity For Artistes In Ghana – Edem

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Ghanaian musician and performer Denning Edem Hotor, better known on stage as Edem, has expressed his anger with the Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO). The Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO) is the most inefficient government agency in Ghana, says the composer of the famous song “You Dey Craze”. This follows GHAMRO’s end-of-year payout of royalties to its registered members, in which some artists received as little as GH153.27. Edem took to social media to air his grievances, stating, “No entity for Artiste in Ghana be useless pass “GHAMRO” on my Mama..on GOD.” Meanwhile, GHAMRO Board Chairman Rex Omar recently responded…

02 Nov

Musicians Urged To Register Their Works With GHAMRO

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The Chairman of the directors of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO), Rex Omar, has implored Ghanaian artistes to register their music with GHAMRO before demanding music royalties. He explained that GHAMRO can only provide royalties to artistes who have registered with the organisation. The ‘Abiba’ hitmaker was speaking at the Showbiz Roundtable organised by Joy Entertainment at the Labadi Beach Hotel last Saturday. He spoke on the topic, “Importance of royalties to the life of the musician.” According to Rex Omar, while serving as Chairman for GHAMRO, he realised Ghanaian artistes were reluctant to register their songs with the organisation but demand…