Oscar time! ASUP Non-Strike, More Champions League & “Grey” Matters top Google's most searched list last week

Oscars 2015    

The razzle-dazzle, the glitz and the glamour, the awkward moments and of course, the controversies that make the Oscars were present and correct this year.

Three of the acting gongs went to nominees who hit the ball out of the park the first time: Eddie Redmayne(Best Actor, The Theory of Everything), J.K. Simmons(Best Supporting Actor, Whiplash) and Patricia Arquette(Best Supporting Actress, Boyhood).

For Julianne Moore, however, the fifth time was the charm as she finally took home the little fella for Still Alice.

Most Dangerous Quote of the Night

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu(Best Director, Birdman): “Fear is the condom of life. It doesn’t allow you to enjoy things.”

Thank you, Senor Inarritu - if we all listened to you and dropped the C’s, we’d have the 2050 world population before the year was out!

Showbiz people! what they know about real life!


Fifty Shades of Grey

 

The critics booed the “literary quality” of the books and say the cinematic equivalent of the first is creatively only a few shades better. But who gives a whip and chain when said books have sold over 100,000,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into 52 languages. The movie is no slouch either, grossing close to 150,000,000 USD since its Premiere on Valentine’s Day.

Welcome to the kinkfest that is Fifty Shades of Grey, proof painful that you don’t need the critics or Oscar for validation. Just a sizable following of practicing and aspiring fetishists apparently.

At a recent showing of Shades in Milton-Keynes (UK), a female member of the audience is reported to have lost control of her bodily fluids. Crap is everywhere…lol


ASUP Strike

After its 10-month industrial action - suspended in the middle of 2014 only after the Federal Government had given assurances that its demands would be met, it was with some foreboding that the nation received a new threat of an indefinite Strike from the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP.

Well, Wednesday was supposed to signal the start of “the Mother of all Strikes” but thanks to a perfectly-timed “high-powered” meeting between the union’s leaders and representatives of the Federal Government, neither Mother or child Strike will happen - for now, at least…

After another slew of assurances were given regarding funding, the CONTISS 15 salary structure and restoring union activities in a couple of Polytechnics, the union says aluta continua another day.


Taraba State

It was starting to smell like another wreckage. Since the plane crash that left ex-Governor Danbaba Suntai brain-damaged and subsequently compelled to hand over the reins of power, Taraba State’s ruling People’s Democratic Party has had more divisions than the State has local governments. It seemed certain the opposition was going to usurp.

Now, maybe not so sure. Thanks to the postponement of the State and National Polls, another ex-helmsman of the State and man on a mission, Jolly Nyame, is seizing the “extra time” to try and add the still-multiplying divisions back together again. The man’s must be some sorta genius at arithmetic…



Chatham House

Founded in 1920, the Royal Institute of International Affairs A.K.A Chatham House, London says its mission is to analyse and promote the understanding of major international issues and current affairs. A proper place then for one of Nigeria’s current affairs, All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Muhammadu Buhari to stop by Thursday to promote the international understanding of his presidential ambition.

The real drama, though was happening outside where pockets of pro and anti-Buhari supporters rent the London air with their chants and protestations. One of the Anti’s would allegedly and unwittingly revealed her crew had been hired by an interested party.