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Wizkid Spends Half A Billion Naira On New Car | SEE PHOTOS

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The Afrobeats superstar continues to add more cars to his garage, and this time it’s a pricey Royce Rolls.

Nigerian global superstar, Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has splurged several millions on his recently acquired Rolls-Royce Cullinan.

The father of four who was in the news in 2022 after he reportedly acquired seven cars in a single day is back in the news for adding to that list.

According to an automobile dealer named Mayfair, the organization made it known that Wizkid purchased a sleek 2022 Black Badge Rolls-Royce Cullinan, which is said to be worth around a whopping N620 million.

Videos and photos of the said car have circulated the internet, and indeed, it is a grand vehicle for a grand artiste. Congratulations, Big Wiz!

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Wizkid Rolls Royce Cullinan 2022
Wizkid Rolls Royce Cullinan 2022

#Oscars2023: See The Full List Of Winners

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Here is the full list of winners for the 95th edition of the Oscars 2023, which was held at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, US.

The 95th ceremony in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars 2023) was held in the early hours of today, Monday, March 12, 2023, and saw some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry appear and bag the biggest awards as the full list of winners were announced.

Who are the Oscars 2023 winners?

Best Picture

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” — Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, producers

“All Quiet on the Western Front” — Malte Grunert, producer

“Avatar: The Way of Water” — James Cameron and Jon Landau, producers

“The Banshees of Inisherin” — Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, producers

“Elvis” — Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, producers

“The Fabelmans” — Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, producers

“Tár” — Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert, producers

“Top Gun: Maverick” — Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer, producers

“Triangle of Sadness” — Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, producers

“Women Talking” — Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand, producers

Best Lead Actress

Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Cate Blanchett (“Tár”)

Ana de Armas (“Blonde”)

Andrea Riseborough (“To Leslie”)

Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”)

Best Lead Actor

Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”) 

Austin Butler (“Elvis”)

Colin Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)

Paul Mescal (“Aftersun”)

Bill Nighy (“Living”)

Best Director

Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) 

Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)

Steven Spielberg (“The Fabelmans”)

Todd Field (“Tár”)

Ruben Östlund (“Triangle of Sadness”)

Best Film Editing

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” — Paul Rogers

“The Banshees of Inisherin” — Mikkel E.G. Nielsen

“Elvis” — Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond

“Tár” — Monika Willi

“Top Gun: Maverick” — Eddie Hamilton

Best Original Song 

“Naatu Naatu” from “RRR” — music by M.M. Keeravaani, lyric by Chandrabose  

“Applause” from “Tell It Like a Woman” — music and lyric by Diane Warren

“Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick” — music and lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop

“Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” — music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler

“This Is a Life” from “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne

Best Sound

“Top Gun: Maverick” — Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor

“All Quiet on the Western Front” — Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel and Stefan Korte

“Avatar: The Way of Water” — Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers and Michael Hedges

“The Batman” — Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray and Andy Nelson

“Elvis” — David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson and Michael Keller

Best Adapted Screenplay

“Women Talking” — Sarah Polley

“All Quiet on the Western Front” — Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell

“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” — Rian Johnson

“Living” — Kazuo Ishiguro

“Top Gun: Maverick” — screenplay by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks

Best Original Screenplay

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

“The Banshees of Inisherin” — Martin McDonagh

“The Fabelmans” — Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner

“Tár” — Todd Field

“Triangle of Sadness” — Ruben Östlund

Best Visual Effects

“Avatar: The Way of Water” — Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett

“All Quiet on the Western Front” — Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar

“The Batman” — Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” — Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White and Dan Sudick

“Top Gun: Maverick” — Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson and Scott R. Fisher

Best Original Score 

“All Quiet on the Western Front” — Volker Bertelmann

“Babylon” — Justin Hurwitz

“The Banshees of Inisherin” — Carter Burwell

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” — Son Lux

“The Fabelmans” — John Williams

Best Production Design 

“All Quiet on the Western Front” — production design by Christian M. Goldbeck, set decoration by Ernestine Hipper

“Avatar: The Way of Water” — production design by Dylan Cole and Ben Procter, set decoration by Vanessa Cole

“Babylon” — production design by Florencia Martin, set decoration by Anthony Carlino

“Elvis” — production design by Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy, set decoration by Bev Dunn

“The Fabelmans” — production design by Rick Carter, set decoration by Karen O’Hara

Best Animated Short Film

“The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” — Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud

“The Flying Sailor” — Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

“Ice Merchants” — João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano

“My Year of Dicks” — Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon

“An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It” — Lachlan Pendragon

Best Documentary Short Film 

“The Elephant Whisperers” — Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga

“Haulout” — Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev

“How Do You Measure a Year?” — Jay Rosenblatt

“The Martha Mitchell Effect” — Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison

“Stranger at the Gate” — Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones

Best International Feature Film 

“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Germany) 

“Argentina, 1985” (Argentina)

“Close” (Belgium)

“EO” (Poland)

“The Quiet Girl” (Ireland)

Best Costume Design 

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” — Ruth E. Carter

“Babylon” — Mary Zophres

“Elvis” — Catherine Martin

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” — Shirley Kurata

“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” — Jenny Beavan

Best Makeup and Hairstyling 

“The Whale” — Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Anne Marie Bradley

“All Quiet on the Western Front” — Heike Merker and Linda Eisenhamerová

“The Batman” — Naomi Donne, Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” — Camille Friend and Joel Harlow

“Elvis” — Mark Coulier, Jason Baird and Aldo Signoretti

Best Cinematography 

“All Quiet on the Western Front” — James Friend

“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” — Darius Khondji

“Elvis” — Mandy Walker

“Empire of Light” — Roger Deakins

“Tár” — Florian Hoffmeister

Best Live Action Short

“An Irish Goodbye” — Tom Berkeley and Ross White

“Ivalu” — Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan

“Le Pupille” — Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón

“Night Ride” — Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen

“The Red Suitcase” — Cyrus Neshvad

Best Documentary Feature Film 

“Navalny” — Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris

“All That Breathes” — Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer

“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” — Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov

“Fire of Love” — Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman

“A House Made of Splinters” — Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström

Best Supporting Actress

Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”)

Hong Chau (“The Whale”)

Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)

Stephanie Hsu (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best Supporting Actor

Ke Huy Quan (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) 

Brendan Gleeson (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)

Brian Tyree Henry (“Causeway”)

Judd Hirsch (“The Fabelmans”)

Barry Keoghan (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)

Best Animated Feature Film 

“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” — Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley

“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” — Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan and Paul Mezey

“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” — Joel Crawford and Mark Swift

“The Sea Beast” — Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger

“Turning Red” — Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins

Asake To Perform On Popular American TV Show “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”

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The YBNL/Empire signee continues to grace the international scene with his craft as an African act.

Nigerian buzzing singer and songwriter Ahmed Ololade Asake, popularly known as Asake, has been confirmed as a guest on one of the biggest American TV shows.

The Neo-Fuji act who recently disrupted social media after he shared a snippet of an exciting, amapiano-infused tune that might be his second single of the year continues to be in the news for the right reasons.

In an update of events, Asake is scheduled to perform on the popular American TV show known as “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on March 13th, 2023.

 

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Carlo Ancelotti Sends Warning Message to His team ahead of Liverpool Clash

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The manager of Real Madrid, Carlo Ancelotti has sent a warning to the members of his team ahead of the game against Liverpool.

The Italian was speaking in a post-match interview after the game against Espanyol in a league match on Saturday, March 11th, 2023 at the Santiago Bernabeu. He advised his players not to be overconfident going into the second leg against Liverpool.

The first leg at Anfield last month (February 2023). Early goals from Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah had appeared to put the hosts in control, but Vinicius Junior and Karim Benzema both scored a brace and Eder Militao was also on the scoresheet. Real Madrid won the game 5-2.

Ancelotti mentioned last season’s tie against the Blues, when they secured a 3-1 first-leg victory at Stamford Bridge before almost crashing out. Chelsea raced into a stunning three-goal lead in the Spanish capital to put them ahead of the tie, before a Madrid fightback saw them eventually advance after extra-time, the game ended 5-4 in favour of the Galacticos.

We had the experience of last year against Chelsea. We had a three-goal advantage, which is why we are and were favorites, but the other fact is that we have to play another 90 minutes.

Liverpool fans will hope that their team can avenge the defeat of last season’s final by booking a spot in the Quater-finals.

“Landlord is Back!” – Social Media Erupts Over Asake’s Latest Snippet

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Even though the singer came like a thief in the night, his presence was duly felt and acknowledged by his fans.

Nigerian buzzing singer-songwriter Ahmed Ololade Asake, popularly known as Asake, is back to being the talk of the town following his recently released snippet.

Taking to social media in the wee hours of Sunday, March 12, 2023, the Neo-Fuji act shared a snippet of an exciting, amapiano-infused tune, which without an iota of doubt is a potential banger.

With so many “number one” songs in the country to his name, the recently released snippet, which could be a follow-up to Asake’s introspective song ‘Yoga,’ has the potential to record another top position feat for the artiste.

Few minutes after sharing the snippet, fans on social media have gone wild, with a sizable number of fans urging the singer to release the snippet as his second official single for 2023.

#TheBest: FIFA Announces the Winner of the 2022 Best Player Award

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The body governing football in the World, FIFA has announced the winner of the best player award for 2022.

Paris Saint-Germain’s forward player, Lionel Messi was named winner of the prestigious award for the second time since 2019 following his amazing run last year. The award ceremony was organised in Paris, France on Monday, February 27th, 2023 after last year’s virtual event took place in FIFA’s Zurich headquarters due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Messi won the award following his efforts in helping the Argentine team to win the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup, he scored seven goals in the competition. He also won the 2021/22 Ligue 1 title.

The 35-year-old won the best player award of the tournament, an award he won at the World Cup in Brazil. Messi became the first player to receive the honor twice.

Messi beat his PSG teammate, Kylian Mbappe and Real Madrid forward player Karim Benzema to the award.

 

Burna Boy: Why I haven’t been vocal about the elections

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Burna Boy, the Afro-fusion singer, has given reasons for his silence regarding the elections.

In an Instagram post on Monday, the singer said that he doesn’t have any candidate he believes in.

He added that he has never supported any candidate because he doesn’t want to influence people’s choices and have them disappointed.

“I dunno why it’s such a big deal to some Nigerians that I’ve not been vocal about the elections. Personally, I don’t have a candidate that I believe in,” he wrote.

“I’ve never supported any political party or candidate in my life because I don’t want to make you vote and then blame me when the person f*cks up as usual. That being said, I hope all votes count and the best man wins.”

On Sunday, the Afro-fusion singer appealed to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure the presidential election results are not altered.

“Let Nigeria decide o! @inecnigeria! No try any result magic 🇳🇬,” he wrote.

The presidential election was held on Saturday with a total of 18 candidates contesting for Nigeria’s highest office.

Out of the 18 presidential candidates, four are leading the race for the election.

They include; Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party

 

#TheBest: FIFA Announce Winner Of Coach Of The Year 2022 Award

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Football governing body FIFA has announced the winner for the prestigious coach of the year 2022 award.

The world football governing body FIFA has announced at the best ceremony, the winner of the coach of the year award at the event which was held today, Monday, February 27, 2023. The award was presented to the head coach who had an outstanding year 2022.

Argentina head coach who had won the 2022 World Cup Lionel Scaloni was named the best men’s coach of the year following his outstanding year 2022. Sarina Wiegman was crowned the women’s coach of the year following her outstanding 2022 as well.

Previous winners of men’s coach award

2016 — Claudio Ranieri
2017 — Zinedine Zidane
2018 — Didier Deschamps
2019 — Jurgen Klopp
2020 — Jurgen Klopp
2021 — Thomas Tuchel

Previous winners of women’s coach award

2016 — Silvia Neid
2017 — Sarina Wiegman
2018 — Reynald Pedros
2019 — Jill Ellis
2020 – Sarina Wiegman
2021 — Emma Hayes

#2023GeneralElections: Banky W Loses Federal House Of Representatives Seat

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Music mogul Banky W has lost the federal house of representative seat for the Eti-Osa constituency in the 2023 general elections.

EME CEO Banky W who represented the People’s Democratic Party has lost the federal house of representatives seat for the Eti-Osa constituency in the 2023 general elections to the Labour Party candidate Attah.

The result was announced and confirmed by the INEC returning officer for Lagos, Prof Funmilayo Odukoya. The result confirmed according to the daily post Nigeria was;

Attah won with 24,075 votes, beating his counterparts, Mr Olubankole Wellington (Banky W) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who had 18,666 votes, and Mr Babjide Obanikoro of the APC, who had 16, 901 votes.