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Oscars 2022: Will Smith, ‘Dune’ + full list of 94th Academy award winners

The Academy awards returned for its 94th edition on Sunday March 27 with its usual shock and thrills from awards to attendees.

For the first time in four years, the Oscars had three hosts- Amy Schumer, Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes plus a memorable event that stunned the world.

So who won the Oscars? The biggest winner of the shock-filled night was the Denis Villeneuve directed ‘Dune’ which won six awards in the cinematography, editing, score, visual effects, production design and sound categories.

‘King Richard’ star actor Will Smith finally bagged his first Oscar in the Best Actor category for his role in the biopic.

However, the actor’s major win barely made it to the most talked about events of the night as prior to winning, he took to the stage to smack comedian Chris Rock in the face for making a joke about his wife’s hair loss.

See the full list of winners:

Best supporting actress

Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)

Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) – WINNER

Judi Dench (Belfast)

Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)

Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)

Best supporting actor

Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)

Troy Kotsur (Coda) – WINNER

Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)

JK Simmons (Being the Ricardos)

Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

Best costume design

Cruella – WINNER

Cyrano

Dune

Nightmare Alley

West Side Story

Best sound

Belfast

Dune – WINNER

No Time to Die

The Power of the Dog

West Side Story

Best original score

Don’t Look Up

Dune – WINNER

Encanto

Parallel Mothers

The Power of the Dog

Best adapted screenplay

Coda (Sian Heder) – WINNER

Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe)

Dune (Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve)

The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)

The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)

Best original screenplay

Belfast (Kenneth Branagh) – WINNER

Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay, David Sirota)

Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)

King Richard (Zach Baylin)

The Worst Person in the World (Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier)

Best animated short

Affairs of the Art

Bestia

Boxballet

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DJ Dimplenipple accuses D’Prince of blocking her on Instagram for refusing to meet in a hotel

Nigerian disc jockey Rachel Oluwabukola Martins also known as Dimplenipple, has accused singer D’Prince of blocking her on Instagram over her refusal to meet him at a hotel.

In a series of posts shared via her Instagram Stories on Sunday, March 27, 2022, the disc jockey recounted how the music star asked her to meet him at a hotel in the Ikoyi axis of Lagos.

“So that’s how one celeb blocked me on Instagram because he asked me to come meet him at the George Ikoyi for a meeting and I said I can’t come to meet him there for a meeting and a three-way call would be better and oga blocked me on IG,” she wrote. “These Nigerian celebs be seeing their Lil ass as small gods. Tell me how do you expect people to grow when you must get in their pants before you can help them. I hate social media drama so much but it’s getting too much at this point.” She went on to share screenshots of the messages between herself and the former Mo’hits record label signee.

DJ Dimplenipple accuses D’Prince of blocking her on Instagram for refusing to meet in a hotel

“If he did not have any bad intention then why did he block me after I agreed to the three-way call. Why should I meet you in a hotel when there are thousands of places to meet for your business chat? Why must it be a hotel? And why did he block me after that?” she added.

D’Prince is yet to release any statement about the allegation levelled against him.

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Basket Ball / Sports

Ball scores 33 points, Hornets spoil Irving’s home debut

Kyrie Irving waited all season for a chance to play in front of his home fans, and this sure wasn’t the way he envisioned it going.

“Not the result we wanted, I didn’t shoot as well as I wanted,” Irving said. “Basically none of the things I had hoped for going well tonight just didn’t happen, and that’s just the flow of basketball.”

It went much better for the other point guard.

LaMelo Ball had 33 points, nine assists and seven rebounds and the Charlotte Hornets spoiled Irving’s first home game of the season by beating the Brooklyn Nets 119-110 on Sunday night.

Irving misfired for 3 1/2 quarters, finally warmed up to give the Nets the lead, and then the Hornets regained control with clutch 3-point shooting to give them a victory that tied them with Brooklyn for eighth place in the Eastern Conference.

Irving finished with 16 points and tied his season high with 11 assists but shot 6 for 22 from the field. He hadn’t been able to play at home this season until Mayor Eric Adams last week exempted athletes and performers from the New York City’s coronavirus vaccine mandate.

“It was great to see him out there, good to see the fans excited for him,” Kevin Durant said. “Unfortunately we took the ‘L’ though, but we move forward knowing that we have him here and build on what we have and try to get a win next game.”

Miles Bridges scored 24 points and PJ Washington had 18 points and 11 rebounds for the Hornets, who won for the seventh time in eight games. They beat the Nets for the second time in three meetings this season, clinching a potential head-to-head tiebreaker.

Durant had 27 points, eight rebounds and seven assists, playing the entire second half on the second night of a back-to-back. He shot just 9 for 24. Andre Drummond had 20 points and 16 rebounds.

Irving missed 15 of his first 17 shots, but then made two layups and a short jumper to …

Gospel / News

Why I dedicated a white garment church – Pastor Adeboye

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has offered reasons why he dedicated a white garment church last September.

Adeboye offered the reason for the dedication of the church on Sunday during a special sermon titled: “Going Higher (Part 54).”

The Man of God, who recently turned 80, had come under scathing criticism for dedicating the Lagos Cathedral of the Love of Christ Generation Church C&S (Worldwide), founded by Reverend Esther Ajayi.

Speaking on the event on Sunday in his sermon, Adeboye said: “In Acts 11:1-18, after Peter came from the house of Cornelius, the great apostles gathered together, called him to a meeting and challenged him: ‘What were you doing in the house of a gentile? We heard that you went there?’ “They didn’t tell us all that they said but they probably told him” ‘You went to the house of a gentile because he was rich.’

“Peter had to say that the spirit made him go.

“Whether you believe it or not, I got quite a lot of queries recently from well-meaning Christians: ‘Daddy GO Sir, we learnt that you went to a white garment church to dedicate a church. You of all people?’

“I said the spirit made me go. I was obeying the spirit.

“Years ago, I think 1982 or so, I was invited to one little white-garment church.

“It wasn’t a big one.

“I went because they said they have heard about me and I should come and preach.

“I got to the door, they asked me to remove my shoes.

“I did, because the spirit made me go.

“There was a man in the church, an Engineer, that God knew He was going to need in the building of a campground that we had not even located at the time.

“I went, I preached, he (the engineer) gave his life to Jesus.

“He came to the Redeemed Christian Church of God and he became the Engineer who started the work of the camp.

“He was the second-in-command to …

News / politics

Adamu, other defected new APC NWC members are repented sinners — Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the new National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, and others who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party and elected into the APC’s National Working Committee are repented sinners.

The President made his position known in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.

The statement on Sunday followed the criticism by the PDP that Adamu and some others who defected from the PDP to the APC were accommodated in the ruling party at the federal level to cover for their “sins”.

Apart from Adamu, others who defected from the PDP and now in the NWC of the APC elected by consensus on Saturday at the party’s National Convention in Abuja on Saturday included Senator Iyiola Omisore, Hon. Victor Gaidom and Osita Medener. But reacting in the statement by Shehu on Sunday, Buhari said: “That some of the APC’s new leadership were once in the opposition was the new line to take to the media, somehow suggesting that those who have left one party should not hold positions in another. Yet, do the Scriptures not teach us of the virtue of sinners who repent and change their ways?

“What the Scriptures say less is of sinners who repent, change their tune, and then choose to re-sin in full public view by returning to their former ways. Given that most important leaders of the opposition PDP first left the party before they returned to it, we might expect the media to ensure criticism of them is damning and absolute.

“It is incredulous that anyone would consider them trustworthy or acceptable candidates for any public office.”

Speaking on the next line of action for the party, President Buhari said the time had come to prepare the grounds for the primaries for the 2023 elections.

He said: “No doubt some will attempt to argue the impossible – that an APC primary election is a source of division while an opposition primary election is a source of consensus.

“But the good …

News / politics

APC National Convention: Full list of candidates endorsed as NWC members

Fifty-four consensus candidates were endorsed as members of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress at its National Convention on Saturday in Abuja.

At the National Convention held at the Eagle Square in Abuja, all positions were filled by consensus, achieved through dialogue.

This saw six other aspirants stepping down for former Nasarawa State Governor, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, who emerged as National Chairman.

The full list
Abdullahi Adamu – National Chairman

Abubakar Kyari – Deputy National Chairman (North)

Emma Eneukwu – Deputy National Chairman (South)

lyiola Omisore – National Secretary

Fetus Fuanter – Deputy National Secretary

Muhazu Bawa Rijau – National Vice-Chairman (North Central)

Mustapha Salihu – National Vice-Chairman (North East)

Salihu Lukman – National Vice-Chairman (North West)

Ijeomah Arodiogbu – National Vice-Chairman (South South)

Victor Ton Giadom – National Vice-Chairman (South East)

D.I. Kekemeke – National Vice-Chairman (South West)

Ahmed El-Marzuk – National Legal Adviser

Uguru Mathew Ofoke – National Treasurer

Bashir Usman Gumel – National Financial Secretary

Suleiman M. Argungun – National Organising Secretary

Betta Edu – National Woman Leader

F.N. Nwosu – National Welfare Secretary

Felix Morka – National Publicity Secretary

Abubakar Maikaf – National Auditor

Abdulahi Dayo Israel – National Youth Leader

Tolu Bankole – Special (Persons With Disability) Leader

Ibrahim Salawu – Deputy National Legal Adviser

Omorede Osifo – Deputy National Treasurer

Hamma-Adama Ali Kuro – Deputy National Financial Secretary

Nzo Chidi Duru – Deputy National Organising Secretary

Yakubu Murtala Ajaka – Deputy National Publicity Secretary

Christoper Akpan – Deputy National Welfare Secretary

Olufemi Egbedeyi – Deputy National Auditor

Zainab Abubakar Ibrahim – Deputy National Woman Leader

Jamaluddeen Kabir – Deputy National Youth Leader

Oluwatoyin Opawuye – National Ex-Officio (North Central)

Sirajo Dahuwa – National Ex-Officio (North East)

Allyu Ahmed Yako – National Ex-Officio (North West)

Aqunwa Anekwe – National Ex-Officio (South East)

Diriwari Akedewei – National Ex-Officio (South South)

Bunmi Oriniowo – National Ex-Officio (South West)

Yakubu Mohammed Adamu – Zonal Secretary (North Central)

Mohammed Wali Shettima – Zonal Secretary (North East)

Bello Goronyo – Zonal Secretary (North West)

Azobu Innocent Tapa …

Basket Ball / Sports

Bey scores career-high 51 points, Pistons beat Magic 134-120

Saddiq Bey scored a career-high 51 points and the Detroit Pistons beat the Orlando Magic 134-120 on Thursday night to end a four-game losing streak.

Bey tied the franchise record with 10 3-pointers in 14 attempts. He was 17 for 27 overall.

Two nights after being torched for 16 points in the first quarter by Brooklyn’s Kyrie Irving on his way to a 60-point game, the Magic gave up 21 points in the first quarter to Bey.

“I saw those highlights and it was just very efficient. It was within the flow of the game,” Bey said. “That was a great performance to watch, and I think just throughout the NBA there’s been a lot of great performances in the past two weeks. I’m just grateful to be in this league to have the opportunity.”

Marvin Bagley III added 20 points and 11 rebounds for Detroit in the matchup of the bottom two teams in the Eastern Conference. Franz Wagner led Orlando with 26 points.

“Rebuilding is always ugly,” Detroit coach Dwane Casey said, “but there’s a lot of beautiful moments like tonight.”

Bey finished the first half in spectacular fashion, scoring five points in less than five seconds. He hit a 20-footer while falling out of bounds with 8.8 seconds left, came up with a back-court steal and made a 3-pointer with 3.9 seconds left, leaving the Pistons with a 73-62 lead.

“He had 30 points at half so we were definitely expecting 50,” said Pistons center Isaiah Stewart, who had 16 points and 10 rebounds.

The Magic scored the first nine points of the game, but that lead was quickly erased by Bey. The Pistons moved ahead for keeps on a dunk by Stewart that broke a 50-50 tie midway through the second quarter.

“I think it was just the flow of the game,” Bey said. “I didn’t come into the game saying this is what I’m going to do, but you catch a rhythm and you get in a zone. My teammates did a great job of …

Fraud / News / politics

EFCC moves ex-Anambra State Governor, Obiano to Abuja

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has moved immediate past Anambra Governor, Willie Obiano to Abuja after he was arrested in Lagos Thursday night.

EFCC spokesperson Wilson Uwujiaren, confirmed this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Friday in Lagos.

“The ex-governor was arrested in Lagos, but was moved to Abuja this morning (Friday),” Uwujiaren said.

Recall that the anti-graft commission busted Obiano at about 8.30p.m., Thursday, at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Lagos, on his way to Houston, Texas, U.S after handing over to his successor, Governor Charles Soludo. The commission’s spokesperson added that Obiano had been on the EFCC’s watch list for some months, adding that his immunity as a Governor prevented his arrest until he handed over to his successor.

Uwujiaren said the commission had requested the Nigeria Immigration Service to provide information on the former governor’s movement out of the country from airports, or other points of exit from the country.

As at time of filing this report, the EFCC is yet to release details on Obiano’s offence.…

Foreign / Military / News

Ukraine launches operations to flush Russian Military out of Kiev

The Ukrainian military said it has launched operations to flush the Russian military out of the outskirts of the capital, Kiev.

The head of the regional military administration of Kiev, Oleksandr Pavlyuk confirmed that there was “resistance from the enemy.”

“Russians were moving around their units,” Pavlyuk added.

He said he could not divulge any details as operations are ongoing. He called the situation in Kiev region difficult but “controllable,” adding that it was difficult to make any prognoses.

Pavlyuk said the road to the western city of Zhytomyr and the towns of Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel north-west of the capital, near the Kiev city limits, are most at risk, as is Makariv to the west.

Shelling reported at north of the capital, he added.…

Education / News

ASUU Strike: UI management orders closure of institution

The management of the University of Ibadan (UI) has closed down the institution due to the extended industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The Registrar of the institution, Olubunmi Faluyi, Thursday made the position of the management known in a special bulletin addressed to the students.

According to the bulletin, students have been asked to vacate their halls of residence with immediate effect.

It read in part: “Management, at its meeting on Wednesday, 16 March, 2022, deliberated on the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which had now been extended by eight (8) weeks.

“As a result, academic activities in the University have become paralyzed. “Consequently, the Vice-Chancellor, on behalf of the Senate, has directed that the University be closed until further notice,” it read.

Faluyi said post-graduate students who have paid their school fees and undergraduate students who are on industrial attachment or practical training are exempted from this vacation notice.

“Such students are to visit the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs for accommodation arrangement.

“A new date of resumption will be communicated in due course.

“Management wishes our students a safe journey to their various destinations”

Recall that ASUU on Monday 14th March extended its one month industrial action by eight weeks, citing inability of the government to meet its demand. NAN…