Sir Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor honor at Sunday’s Academy Awards for his starring role in ‘The Father’. By this feat, the 83-year-old makes history with his second Oscar victory, becoming the oldest star to win an Academy Award for Best Actor award, after becoming the oldest Best Actor nominee when the 2021 Oscar nominations were announced in March. This is Hopkins’ sixth Oscar nomination. He beat out fellow nominees Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal), Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Gary Oldman (Mank), and Steven Yeun (Minari). Presenter Joaquin Phoenix, who won the category last year for his…
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Former presential spokesman now author, Reno Omokri took a swipe at women who see men as their source of income without working towards their career ambitions. According to him, ready-made men achieve their career goals with the help of other women who saw a purpose in their life. Taking to Twitter, he wrote; “Dear women, Stop looking for a ready made man. He was made ready with the help of a woman who saw his prospects when he had nothing. Leave him for her. Find your own man with prospects, and partner with him until his prospects turn to success.” xosotin…
Deborah Ojengbede achieved a huge feat in the cryptocurrency world to have raised the sum of $1 million for her technology startup in just one day. The 27-year-old ex-banker is the CEO of the AFEN group, the first government-backed NFT initiative, which held one of the quickest public sales in the cryptocurrency space where it raised over a million dollars during a token sales round on the 20th of April 2021. The former business analyst at Union Bank, where she had worked for the previous five years, her experiences coupled with a desire to explore the world of crypto enabled her to…
It is always commendable to see a top finance professional experienced in negotiation, financial markets, treasury management, business development and team building that is also passionate about gender diversity and personal finance matters. Our Woman Crush Wednesday, Ola (Oler) Oladele is definitely doing what she knows how to do best and making positive impacts in that regard. Ola is an accounting graduate of the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and has over 12 years experience in finance. She is currently the Senior Vice President, Global market at Parthian Partners Ltd, a fixed income brokerage firm in Nigeria. She is also a CFA…
Dear Dorothy, Trust you are doing well. I have an issue. Ever since I started dating this particular guy, he asks me what am I bringing to the table. This is because I told him he would need to show more commitment so we get married. When I told him I have the ‘hottest body’, he said that was that all. According to him, he sees hot bodies every day and mine was not special. What do you think I can use to keep him committed? Regards, Aurora Dear Aurora, Thanks for the pleasantries. I trust you are doing…
Burna Boy‘s mother, Bose Ogulu has been named one of the ‘International Power Players’ for 2021 by Billboard. The artist manager secure d this great feat on April 26, 2021. Bose Ogulu no doubt has been an active player in her son’s musical career. She is said to be the Executive Producer for Burna Boy’s Grammy-winning album, Twice As Tall. Billboard eulogized her efforts writing: “Amid the pandemic, Ogulu co-executive-produced, released and promoted the Twice As Tall album from Nigeria’s breakout global star Burna Boy (aka her son, Damini Ogulu). He is signed to Bad Habit/Atlantic in the United States…
A Nigerian, Raufikat Oyawoye made history in faraway Canada after she beat nine other bakers to emerge winner of the ‘Great Canadian Baking Show’ Season 4. She becomes the first Nigerian to win the competition since the contest inception in 2017. The Great Canadian Baking Show kicked off its season 4 on February 14, 2021, and Raufikat was crowned the winner on April 4, 2021, after 8 weeks of competition. In a touching ceremony that reunited the finalists with fellow bakers from earlier in the season, hosts Ann Pornel and Alan Shane announced Raufikat as the winner. “Raufikat totally deserved…
Nollywood actress, Iyabo Ojo has called out her colleagues for taking sides with Baba Ijesha, who was apprehended by the police for sexual abuse. You recall that the actor was caught on camera defiling a 14-year-old girl. Reports also revealed the 48-year-old had been defiling the girl since she was 7. She took to Instagram on Sunday to share her thoughts in an almost six-minute-long video. “We all heard what happened to Baba Ijesha and the rape issue and since yesterday, I have been seeing a lot of people posting his pictures, with some saying he was framed and others…
Business mogul, Elon Musk admits ‘a bunch of people will probably die’ during SpaceX’s initial voyages to Mars. However, he insisted it will be a ‘glorious adventure and amazing experience’. The SpaceX founder was speaking with Peter Diamandis, founder of the X Prize Foundation when he made the stark prediction according to a report by DailyMail. Musk has already said he hopes to get humans on Mars by 2026, seven years before NASA aims to land astronauts on the Red Planet. On Thursday, Musk warned: Going to Mars reads like that advert for Shackleton going to the Antarctic. You know…
Canadian singer, Justin Bieber has been accused of cultural appropriation after he shared pictures of himself rocking dreadlocks. Last Sunday, the ‘Sorry’ crooner premiered the controversial hairdo on his Instagram page with a poolside snap with his wife Hailey. The next day, Justin shared another photo of himself in a checkered shirt and a pink pearl necklace. Bieber had previously been under fire for sporting dreadlocks at the iHeartRadio Music Awards in 2016. Shortly after, he shaved his hair down to remove the dreads, but not without issuing a statement. Many black people consider it a form of cultural appropriation…