{"id":1216440,"date":"2022-10-04T21:04:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T21:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/04\/how-i-got-the-name-captain-smart\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T21:04:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T21:04:39","slug":"how-i-got-the-name-captain-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/04\/how-i-got-the-name-captain-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"How I got the name &#8216;Captain Smart&#8217; \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-captain-smart-whose-real-name-is-blessed-godsbrain-smart-has-finally-let-ghanaians-in-on-how-he-came-by-that-catchy-moniker\">Captain Smart, whose real name is Blessed Godsbrain Smart has finally let Ghanaians in on how he came by that catchy moniker.<\/h2>\n<p>He said that Dr Kwame Addo Kufuor, Ghana\u2019s former acting Interior Minister and Minister of Defence, gave him the name which has become a part of his solid brand.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Dr Addo Kufuor was named Chancellor of the Kumasi Technical University (KsTU).<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, October 1, Captain Smart revealed to host Nana Biila Kantanka of Akoma FM\u2019s weekend personality profile show during an exclusive interview saying;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy real name is Blessed Godsbrain Smart but my stage name \u2018Captain Smart\u2019 was given to me by my uncle Dr Kwame Addo Kufuor.<\/p>\n<p>At that time I was working at a Kumasi-based radio station with the name \u2018Blessed Smart\u2019, so he advised me that name will not sink into the radio market in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>People won\u2019t really easily remember that name so I should add \u2018Captain\u2019 to my surname \u2018Smart\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s how come I got that popular name that has brought me this far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked why his uncle suggested Captain instead of any other name, Captain Smart responded thus:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeriously I wanted to join the military so at a point, I was nearly enlisted into the military academy and my mother cried that she won\u2019t allow her only son to join the military so I withdrew from the academy and then later became a media personality that\u2019s why my uncle suggested that if I had completed the military academy, I would have been a Captain by now so that\u2019s why he added \u2018Captain to my Surname \u2018Smart\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: <strong>www.Ghbase.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Captain Smart, whose real name is Blessed Godsbrain Smart has finally let Ghanaians in on how he came by that catchy moniker. He said that Dr Kwame Addo Kufuor, Ghana\u2019s former acting Interior Minister and Minister of Defence, gave him the name which has become a part of his solid brand. Recently, Dr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1216441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1099,839],"class_list":["post-1216440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-captain","tag-smart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}