{"id":452801,"date":"2018-01-07T08:30:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T08:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/07\/caf-awards-ghana-snub-booking-agency-blames-nigerian-organizers\/"},"modified":"2018-01-07T08:30:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T08:30:24","slug":"caf-awards-ghana-snub-booking-agency-blames-nigerian-organizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/07\/caf-awards-ghana-snub-booking-agency-blames-nigerian-organizers\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF Awards Ghana snub: Booking agency blames Nigerian organizers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Sunday,  7 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-01-07<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/54220741.295.jpg\" alt=\"Shatta Wale Ashaiman World\" title=\"Shatta Wale Ashaiman World\" width=\"295\" height=\"388\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Shatta Wale disclosed that he did not perform at CAF Awards despite being paid $30,000<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817981905\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817981905\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1515313824_947_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The booking agency for Ghanaian artistes at the just ended CAF Awards has blamed the Nigerian organizers for the way the Ghanaian artistes were treated at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>BookMe World Agency\u2019s Gregory Ankrah said his company did no wrong and that things did not go as planned because the Nigerian organizers did not stay on schedule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the awards, even the person who was sharing the water was Nigerian. So many things went wrong on the show,\u201d he told Showbiz A to Z host, Naa Ashorkor.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a public uproar over how Ghanaian artistes were almost neglected at the event which was held on January 4, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Singer Efya sang the national anthem and while dancehall artiste Shatta Wale was billed to perform, he was unable to, because he was not allowed to do simple sound checks.<\/p>\n<p>Another Ghanaian artiste, Kidi virtually performed to empty seats after the event was over and everyone was filing out.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, all the Nigerian acts -Wizkid, Patoranking, Phyno, Flavour, Tiwa Savage and Olamide all performed at reasonable intervals.<\/p>\n<p>So did the Congolese singer Fally Ipupa and Toofan from Togo.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory said the Nigerian organizers seemed to have hijacked the show and did not listen to constant prompts to allow the Ghanaian acts to perform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was hitting the production people when are my artistes going to perform and they came saying they will,\u201d but that did not happen.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the headline sponsor of the Awards, Aiteo Group has apologized to dancehall artiste Shatta Wale for his inability to perform at the event.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 65 updated by: 65 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Sunday, 7 January 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2018-01-07 Shatta Wale disclosed that he did not perform at CAF Awards despite being paid $30,000 The booking agency for Ghanaian artistes at the just ended CAF Awards has blamed the Nigerian organizers for the way the Ghanaian artistes were treated at the ceremony. 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