2016 Oscar Winners!

Finally, Leonardo DiCaprio wins his first Oscar for his performance in the film, Revenant. 

Brie Larson won the 'Best Actress' for her performance in Room.

Alejandro Inarritu wins Best Director for the film The Revenant.




Mark Rylance wins the award for best actor in a supporting role for the film 'Bridge of Spies'.

Alicia Vikander wins the award for best actress in a supporting role for the film The Danish Girl.

Presenter Ryan Gosling seen in the picture below, with Russell Crowe, wore a made- to- order Gucci velvet shawl lapel one button Signoria tuxedo and white silk bowtie,  as they present the award for best original screenplay.

Lady Gaga stole the evening with her 'Til it Happens to You' performance with sexual assault survivors.

Other winners are: 

ORIGINAL SONG

"Writing's On The Wall," Spectre

ORIGINAL SCORE

The Hateful Eight

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Son of Saul, Hungary

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

Stutterer

DOCUMENTARY - FEATURE

Amy

DOCUMENTARY - SHORT SUBJECT

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Inside Out

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Bear Story

VISUAL EFFECTS

Ex Machina -- WINNER

SOUND MIXING

Mad Max: Fury Road

SOUND EDITING

Mad Max: Fury Road

FILM EDITING

Mad Max: Fury Road 

CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Revenant

MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING

Mad Max: Fury Road

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Mad Max: Fury Road

COSTUME DESIGN

Mad Max: Fury Road

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Big Short

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Spotlight

Congrats to Chris Rock on his performance at the Oscar...

The 2016 Oscar took place on February 28, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. 

Throes Of Religious Extremism!

Ohhh dear, when will these baseless killings stop??

Security has been beefed in Somalia capital city, Mogadishu, where no fewer than so far, 25 people lost their lives in attacks, when al-Shabab group Friday night February 26, engaged about an hour of automatic gunfire on unsuspecting people from 7:45 pm (1645 GMT), on SYL Hotel and a nearby Peace Garden.

Authorities revealed that at least five militants from the Islamist extremist group were also killed in the attacks which each involved suicide car bombers.

The al-Shebab group fighting to overthrow the 22,000 African Union troops protected and internationally-backed government in Mogadishu....



...like its sister groups: Isis and al-Qaeda groups operating in the Middle East, Hezbollah group,  Boko-haram in Nigeria,  and countless others springing up by the day to back up heinous crimes against humanity with mis-translated verses from the Holy book, is clearly all about the struggle for power, over who controls what...

My question is, since government is all about control over territories which boils down to people, for without the people, there will be no government; when these people are senselessly killed on a daily basis, who will be left to be governed???

If there is an iota of care for the people whom you kill to govern, there should equally be ways to go about arriving at a non-violent resolution. Resolving to violence at the slightest provocation is inhumane, barbaric and totally unacceptable. 




Most of all, the part I love to think about is, after all the terrorism, killings, making orphans out of children, making forceful widows out of women, forceful widowers out of men, turning a beautiful world into a nightmare for many...

...forcing people to flee their homes and all they labored for and making them live under unthinkable situations in foreign lands, depriving people of their sources of joy and comfort...

When you...yes you the terrorist finally dies....because death, which you force upon others, interestingly is inevitable for every one...how will you face your maker? I just wonder, if you have stopped to think about this reality...

Mad Rush for Dstv Explora!

It's been a mad rush to Multi-Choice offices across Lagos, as Lagosians take advantage of the =N= 30,000 Dstv Explora promo to purchase their Exploras. 

DSTV explora which usually sells for =N=70,000 has been on a give away price of =N=30,000. 

The promo ends on Monday, 29th February. 

Swedish Teenage Rescued From Isis Back In Sweden!

Swedish Foreign Ministry says that Marilyn Nevalainen, the pregnant teenage girl who traveled to Syria on her own accord on trains and buses with her then 19-year-old boyfriend, a Muslim who become radicalized,  and whom she met in Sweden in 2015, has been rescued. Nevalainen and her boyfriend traveled all the way to Mosul, an the Islamic State-controlled city in Iraq.

Authorities could not give the actual location of Nevalainen in Sweden since her rescue, it was however gathered that the teenager who lived in a foster home in Mark, a town in the snow-sprinkled flatlands of southwestern Sweden, as in cases that involves minors, is being held for questioning by the police. The boyfriend has not been publicly identified, and  the status of Nevalainen's child is at the moment not clear.

Photo credit: Mirror

Infantino Elected FIFA President!

Swiss born Gianni Infantino was on Friday, February 26, elected to succeed Sepp Blatter as FIFA president,  Infantino defeated Sheikh Salman of Bahrain in the second round of voting with 115 votes in Zurich - Switzerland.

Gianni Infantino has been the general secretary of UEFA since 2009, he holds both Italian and Swiss nationality.

Shehu Shagari Clocks 91!

Second president of Nigeria's Second Republic, Shehu Shagari Usman Aliyu Shagari, Turakin Sakkwato clocked 91 on Thursday, February 25.

After the handover of power by General Olusegun Obasanjo's military government, Shehu Shagari was Nigeria's President between 1979–1983. His adiministration was toppled by the Muhammadu Buhari's military government.

Al Mann Dies At 90!

Jewish- American Billionaire, pioneering entrepreneur and philanthropist whose companies developed breakthrough medical devices including the first rechargeable pacemaker and Second Sight Medical Product, an artificial retina that allows the blind to see,  Alfred E. Mann,  also known as Al Mann, is dead. 

Mann passed in Las Vegas, where he had spent the majority of his time over the past several years on Thursday, February 25, at the age of 90. 

Alfred Mann founded 17 companies in aerospace, pharmaceuticals, and  medical devices fields, including MannKind Corporation, a Valencia, California, based biopharmaceutical company which  is focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapeutic products for diseases such as diabetes and cancer.