Making noise whiles having sex is an offence – Lawyer

Popular Ghanaian lawyer Maurice Ampaw has disclosed that one can end on the wrong side of the law for having pleasure in the bedroom.

The private lawyer educated Ghanaians on some part of the law that frowns on making noise during intercourse when her appeared as a guest on United Showbiz on UTV on Saturday.Related Articles

He explained that it’s an offence to make noise when having any form of sexual intercourse with your partner – a shocking revelation that sparked a cacophony on set.https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-3157269697167964&output=html&h=458&slotname=7369566748&adk=3083131527&adf=2184461763&pi=t.ma~as.7369566748&w=450&lmt=1638782394&rafmt=11&psa=0&format=450×458&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zimgazette.co.zw%2Fmaking-noise-whiles-having-sex-is-an-offence-lawyer%2F&flash=0&fwr=1&wgl=1&uach=WyIiLCIiLCIiLCIiLCIiLFtdLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsXQ..&dt=1638782392728&bpp=30&bdt=10855&idt=2155&shv=r20211201&mjsv=m202111170101&ptt=9&saldr=aa&abxe=1&prev_fmts=0x0&nras=1&correlator=8281243536902&frm=20&pv=1&ga_vid=2070839399.1638782393&ga_sid=1638782395&ga_hid=1674200666&ga_fc=1&rplot=4&u_tz=60&u_his=1&u_h=975&u_w=450&u_ah=975&u_aw=450&u_cd=24&u_sd=2.4&dmc=4&adx=0&ady=1432&biw=450&bih=786&scr_x=0&scr_y=0&eid=44750773%2C44754331%2C182982100%2C182982300%2C31060475%2C31062930&oid=2&pvsid=4122310906381796&pem=641&tmod=350353545&eae=0&fc=1920&brdim=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C450%2C0%2C450%2C845%2C450%2C786&vis=1&rsz=%7C%7CoeEbr%7C&abl=CS&pfx=0&fu=128&bc=31&ifi=2&uci=a!2&btvi=1&fsb=1&xpc=TRECeIGzUd&p=https%3A//www.zimgazette.co.zw&dtd=2190

Although Bulldog — a regular pundit on the show disagreed with Lawyer Ampaw’s submission — the lawyer explained that couples can have wonderful sex in their private space accompanied by moaning sounds.

But the response to the sexual pleasure should not transcend into shouting and noise to disturb the peace of others.

According to lawyer Ampaw, the constitution clearly defines noise-making during intercourse as a sexual nuisance – an offence punishable by law – hence partners should be aware of their environment before engaging in any bedroom activity.https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-3157269697167964&output=html&h=458&slotname=7369566748&adk=3083131527&adf=2397240519&pi=t.ma~as.7369566748&w=450&lmt=1638782394&rafmt=11&psa=0&format=450×458&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zimgazette.co.zw%2Fmaking-noise-whiles-having-sex-is-an-offence-lawyer%2F&flash=0&fwr=1&wgl=1&uach=WyIiLCIiLCIiLCIiLCIiLFtdLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsXQ..&dt=1638782392758&bpp=22&bdt=10886&idt=2205&shv=r20211201&mjsv=m202111170101&ptt=9&saldr=aa&abxe=1&prev_fmts=0x0%2C450x458&nras=1&correlator=8281243536902&frm=20&pv=1&ga_vid=2070839399.1638782393&ga_sid=1638782395&ga_hid=1674200666&ga_fc=1&rplot=4&u_tz=60&u_his=1&u_h=975&u_w=450&u_ah=975&u_aw=450&u_cd=24&u_sd=2.4&dmc=4&adx=0&ady=2231&biw=450&bih=786&scr_x=0&scr_y=0&eid=44750773%2C44754331%2C182982100%2C182982300%2C31060475%2C31062930&oid=2&pvsid=4122310906381796&pem=641&tmod=350353545&eae=0&fc=1920&brdim=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C450%2C0%2C450%2C845%2C450%2C786&vis=1&rsz=%7C%7CoeEbr%7C&abl=CS&pfx=0&fu=128&bc=31&ifi=3&uci=a!3&btvi=2&fsb=1&xpc=7tGa2F5Nrd&p=https%3A//www.zimgazette.co.zw&dtd=2226

SATURDAY SHORT: TRYING TO CHOOSE A MOVIE ON A DATE (2021)

A couple tries to choose between titles such as Old Man City (2020) and a 223 minute romantic comedy called The Heart of the Equation (2007). CONTENT WARNING: This short contains strong language.

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EVERYBODY’S GOT THE RIGHT TO BE DIFFERENT: STEPHEN SONDHEIM (1930-2021)

The film was a very British Guignol called Hangover Square, the story of a composer with a tendency to commit murder when stressed. The climax of the film is a performance of the composer’s concerto (actually the work of the legendary Bernard Herrmann), which culminates in his death in a cataclysmic inferno, still banging away at the piano. It’s not subtle.

For the adolescent watching this tale unfold, it was a formative experience. He was so captivated by the dark story and Herrmann’s score that he rushed back to the moviehouse to watch the whole thing again in hopes of memorizing the sheet music to the villain’s composition. He wrote Herrmann a fan letter, which the recipient acknowledged was an unusual treat for a film composer. And years later, that young man had the opportunity to pay homage to his inspiration by using a familiar Herrmann chord throughout the score of a musical he had written, which just so happened to be about a murderous barber whose victims become the main ingredient in meat pies.

Stephen Sondheim was a noted cinephile, so it makes sense that movies would have a prominent role in his career. He was, of course, primarily a figure of the stage; long before his passing at the age of 91, he had cemented his reputation as perhaps the most significant creator in the history of American-style musical theater. But he got to indulge his love of film directly more than once; he won an Oscar for the song he contributed to the mélange of color and makeup that was Dick Tracy, he co-wrote the all-star puzzle box The Last of Sheila, and six of his shows made the jump to the silver screen, albeit none entirely successfully. He also made an impression on other filmmakers; audiences were treated to surprise appearances recently in films as diverse as Lady Bird, Knives Out, and Marriage Story. So although not a creature of film, he certainly made his mark.

But what am I doing here, talking about a Broadway composer on a weird movie website? Well, I think Stephen Sondheim has something to teach us about the role that personal vision and committed interest play in making a thing weird. Because while his reputation as the giant of American musical theater may rest on a foundation of rich, adventurous melodies and breathtakingly gymnastic and insightful lyrics, the thing that always kept him apart from the establishment – that marked him as an iconoclast of the highest order and denied him a true blockbuster – was his taste in material. No light comedies or mindless spectacles for him. His most dance-heavy show features tragic murders to end both acts. In search of pure comedy, he adapts plays that are 2,000 years old. Ask him to bring a movie to the stage and he’ll turn to an Italian film about a soldier is ensnared by the obsessive love of an ugly, sickly woman. Welcome to Broadway!

Even by Sondheim standards, my first experience with one of his shows was a doozy: a college production of Merrily We Roll Along, a story of lost idealism and the cost of one’s soul that has the temerity to unspool its tale in reverse chronological order. This stylistic choice was so poorly received that the original Broadway run lasted only two weeks. To this day, the structure leaves audiences baffled. Me, I was enthralled. It didn’t feel like other musicals. The melodies were captivating, the lyrical wordplay dizzying, the story at its center heartbreaking. I had to know more.

Here’s the kind of thing that awaited me as I plunged into the Sondheim catalog:

A town fakes a miracle to lure tourists, but the plan is derailed by the arrival of patients from an asylum devoted to curing nonconformists
The feudal kingdom of Japan is irrevocably altered by the arrival of American warships
A painter invents pointillism and creates a masterpiece
Mamma Mia, they ain’t. By the time I had acquainted myself with his whole catalog, I was perfectly primed for the newest piece he had to unveil: Assassins, a revue featuring men and women who have attempted to kill the president. For sheer chutzpah alone, it was a masterpiece. Not surprisingly, it was met with derision by traditionalists, especially arriving as it did at the height of the first Gulf War. But for those willing to pay attention, it proved remarkably prescient, giving voice to those who feel their lack of fortune is due to a debt unpaid and who are willing to throw society into chaos in pursuit of the respect they think they are owed.

A new Sondheim musical usually felt weird when it debuted. At a time when half of Broadway seems to consist of jukebox musicals, repurposed trifles from movie studio back catalogs, and revivals of past hits, his works may be even weirder now. And if he was disappointed by that fact, he held fast to his muse. “I always believe my shows are going to be successful,” he told one collaborator. “Their subjects are always so interesting to me. I assume they would be interesting to others as well.” Nothing could better demonstrate that blissful ignorance than the work he was undertaking at the time of his death: a show based on the Luis Buñuel films The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel.


Stephen Sondheim, 1930-2021

Stephen Sondheim made Broadway safe for weird, and maybe even made it possible for weird to become welcome. You know what shouldn’t be a smash musical? A story of bohemian squatters living and dying in the East Village. A heretical tale of disobedient Mormon missionaries. A hip-hop salute to America’s first treasury secretary. The creators of these shows have acknowledged their debt to Stephen Sondheim (the cast of Hamilton paid the ultimate tribute by co-opting that bloody barber for themselves), and so many others who might be outcasts or rejects found comfort and hope in the work of a man who whole-heartedly walked down the less-trod path for the simple reason that it interested him. We shall not see his like again, but we can always hold out hope that he lit the way for the rest of us to love loving the wild and the weird.

I wish.

Cholera Outbreak: How vendor, four others died mysteriously

Shock, pandemonium, and fear gripped Lagosians as another five persons from Ago area of Lagos reportedly died of cholera recently. Before now, three persons were confirmed dead out of the 13 cases reported to the Ministry of Health.

Sunday, 25, a newspaper vendor in Ago Palace Way, Okota, Lagos state was found dead on the staircase of a residential building in the area recently. It was also discovered that another young man who tried helping the deceased in his helpless state to the hospital  died few hours after Sunday’s death.   Comments from neighbours suggested that he stooled and vomited profusely the previous day.

Chika Eze, a resident in a wing of the complex located by Marcity bus-stop, Ago, Lagos told Saturday Vanguard how Sunday, from Abia State who made the corridor of the complex his home had shown no sign of illness until the day before  his death eating African Salad popularly known as  Abacha.

Eze disclosed that the deceased was stooling and vomiting consistently from Friday evening till Saturday when he was taken to the hospital. “We rushed him to a nearby hospital but he wasn’t attended to because we couldn’t pay the mandatory deposit.’’

We brought him back to the complex and tried ‘self – treatment’ and there was no improvement. It was about 8pm that fateful evening that someone upstairs screamed that Sunday had died on the staircase.

The founder of Balm of Life Ministry (BLM) at the wing of the complex where Sunday died, Pastor Ralph James, said:  Sunday could have survived if he had gotten financial help to pay the required deposit at the hospital. So, it was a great shock that Sunday morning to see his corpse lying on the staircase. It is indeed so sad.”

*File photo: Some of the victims had eaten Abacha

Awa Idika, a, fashion designer who seldom sleeps in the complex  exhibited the same symptoms but was lucky because he had some money to pay for treatment. He  approached Treasure Gold Hospital in the area where he promptly received treatment.  According him, he had taken about 59 drips within 72 hours.

Narrating his ordeal, Idika said: “I shared a plate of pepper soup and a bottle of stout with my wife last week Monday. But I later woke up in the middle of the night stooling which lasted for more than four times before dawn.  I didn’t see it as anything and went about my work.  Again, since I didn’t eat anything, I thought the stooling would stop but it continued with intermittent vomiting. So, I spent four days in the hospital and paid the sum of N100,000 before I was discharged.

That same day, Saturday Vanguard gathered  a woman and her son who were said to have eaten the popular African Salad called ‘abacha’ were both hospitalised after showing similar symptoms.  The 15-year old boy died after a few hours while the mother as at press time, is still receiving treatment in another hospital.

When Saturday Vanguard visited Treasure Gold Hospital, the doctor in charge, Dr. Tosan Hamsa disclosed that the hospital had eight chronic cases of cholera patients in the past few weeks.

He advised Nigerians to imbibe the culture of visiting the hospital regularly to ascertain their state of health.

“Nigerians are known to indulge in ‘self–treatment’ and it is when they cannot help themselves that they take themselves to the hospitals. In one of the cases, we had treated a patient who had stooled up to 40 times before he was brought to the hospital,” he said.

He advised the public to watch out for consistent running stomach and vomiting and that first aid can be applied on the sick person before being taken to the hospital for immediate attention. He said: “It is worthy of note that cholera cannot be treated at home but the victim can be given (ORL) Oral re-hydration before the professional attention.

“What the hospital basically does is to send back fluid into the patient’s body through drips and stop the infection causing cholera. Hands washing cannot be over emphasized; it saves life. A word, they say it’s enough for the wise,” he said.

Another young girl who was said to have gone to GKS hospital to see her sister being treated for cholera also died mysteriously last Monday.  She was said to be retuning from the hospital when she also slumped and died.

Again, at Cele Bus-stop, Lagos, another young woman in her 30s  while returning from work was said to have eaten Africa Salad (abacha) which she bought at the same bus-stop.  We gathered that on reaching home, she began to stool and rather than visit the hospital, embarked on self-treatment.  The situation grew out of control and she died the following day.

Sources from her residence hinted that she was stooling and vomiting heavily before she passed on.

The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, had in a statement a few days ago said: “The suspected cases that were recorded have been contracted from food sources such as the African  salad popularly called abacha, well-water sources, especially in areas like Ikare community, Amuwo-Odofin local government area and Badia area of Apapa local government area, as well as other infected foods from food sellers and other unhygienic habits.

Cholera is an acute contagious bacterial disease characterized by severe form of sudden onset of profuse painless watery stools, nausea and profuse vomiting. The disease is acquired through the ingestion of an infective dose of contaminated food or water, and could be transmitted through many mechanisms like direct or indirect contamination of water or food by faeces of infected individuals.