{"id":463013,"date":"2018-02-09T13:23:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/bawumia-grieves-ebonys-death-general-news-2018-02-09\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T13:23:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:23:51","slug":"bawumia-grieves-ebonys-death-general-news-2018-02-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/bawumia-grieves-ebonys-death-general-news-2018-02-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia grieves Ebony\u2019s death | General News 2018-02-09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday,  9 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-09<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/72065514.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ebony Bawumia\" title=\"Ebony Bawumia\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is saddened by Ebony&#8217;s death<\/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=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518182631_227_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has joined millions of Ghanaians to mourn the death of dancehall artiste Ebony Reigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy deepest condolences to the family of the songstress Priscilla Opoku-kwarteng known in the entertainment industry as @ebony_reigns and the families of the other two who lost their lives in the gory accident at Mankraso, last night. May their souls rest in peace,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his immediate predecessor John Dramani Mahama, have also tweeted to mourn the award-winning artiste.<\/p>\n<p>Ebony and two others died in a car crash on Thursday, 8 February 2018.<\/p>\n<p>She was discovered by renowned musician Bullet of Ruff n Smooth fame when she sent a recording of her voice and was signed to his Rufftown record label just a day after listening to the recording.<\/p>\n<p>Ebony came out with her first single, &#8220;Dancefloor&#8221;, in December 2015. The song became a hit on radio landing her nomination for the unsung category at the 2016 Ghana Music Awards. In March 2016, Ebony released her major hit single &#8220;Kupe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Her latest song \u201cMaame Hwe\u201d is enjoying massive airplay across the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">My deepest condolences to the family of the songstress  Priscilla Opoku-kwarteng  known in the entertainment industry as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ebony_reigns?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ebony_reigns<\/a> and the families of the other two who lost their lives in the gory accident at Mankraso, last night.<\/p>\n<p>May their souls rest in peace .<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia (@MBawumia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MBawumia\/status\/961923914350907393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/kkhABKFx-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: 55 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\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>General News of Friday, 9 February 2018 Source: classfmonline.com 2018-02-09 Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is saddened by Ebony&#8217;s death Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has joined millions of Ghanaians to mourn the death of dancehall artiste Ebony Reigns. \u201cMy deepest condolences to the family of the songstress Priscilla Opoku-kwarteng known in the entertainment industry as @ebony_reigns and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":463014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}