Leonardo DiCaprio wins Oscar on sixth nomination

This year was leonard DiCaprio’s sixth time has been nominated,each year gets nominated without winning,so much so that footballers and other people expressed their opinions why he has to win this time around and guess what it worked,he won the best actor in The Revenant,in the lead role

See the winners
Best Picture: Spotlight
Actress in a Lead Role: Brie Larson, Room
Documentary Feature: Amy, Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees

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Documentary Short Subject: A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Actor in a Supporting Role: Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Animated Feature Film: Inside Out, Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera

Animated Short Film: Bear Story, Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
Visual Effects: Ex Machina, Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett

 Sound Mixing: Mad Max: Fury Road, Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo
Sound Editing: Mad Max: Fury Road, Mark Mangini and David White
Film Editing: Mad Max: Fury Road, Margaret Sixel

Cinematography: The Revenant, Emmanuel Lubezki Makeup and Hairstyling: Mad Max: Fury Road, Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin Production Design: Mad Max: Fury Road, Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson

 Costume Design: Mad Max: Fury Road, Jenny Beavan
Actress in a Supporting Role: Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Big Short, Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
Original Screenplay: Spotlight, Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Debbie Reynolds
Honorary Oscar: Spike Lee
 Documentary Feature: Amy, Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees
Documentary Short Subject: A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Honorary Oscar: Gena Rowlands

Jada Smith boycotted because her husband Will Smith was not nominated

Oh yeah! You guys remember when there was an outcry among blacks in the States that was no nomination for any black movie in the Oscars award,which made most blacks boycotted, saying that Christ Rock who is the compere for the  should not host it, apparently Christ is saying that Jada Pinkett only boycotted because her husband was not nominted…..take a read at what he has to say about her and her husband,plus his view on  racism in Hollywood

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'What happened this year? Jada's going to boycott the Oscars. Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna's panties. I wasn't invited! 'It's not an invitation I would turn down.'

"You realize if they nominated hosts, I wouldn't even get this job. You'd be watching Neil Patrick Harris right now,' 'It's the 88th Academy Awards, which means this whole no black nominees thing has happened at least 71 other times,' Speaking on why the furor over diversity in the industry was an issue today rather than in the 1950s or 1960s, Chris Rock said black Americans had bigger issues to worry about then. 'Because we had real things to protest at the time.

We were too busy being raped and lynched to care about who won best cinematographer.' 'When your grandmother is swinging from a tree, it's really hard to care about best documentary foreign short.' Chris then told a true story that involved President Barack Obama. 'I was at a fundraiser for president Obama, a lot of you were there … It's all of Hollywood and there were four black people there: me, Quincy Jones, Russell Simmons, Questlove. The usual suspects,' 'At some point you get to take a picture with the president. As they're setting up the picture you get a little moment with the president. I'm like, 'Mr. President, you see all these writers producers and actors, they don't hire black people – and they're the nicest white people on Earth. They're liberals!'

On the aspect of racism in Hollywood he says

'Everyone wants to know in the world, is Hollywood racist? Is it 'burning cross racist'? No. Is it 'fetch me some lemonade racist'? No. It's a different type of racist…. Hollywood is 'sorority racist.' It's like, we like you Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa.'

Kemi Adeosun signs bilateral agreement with Qatar govt. today 28th of Feb 2016

You can see the president right behind her with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hammad Al-Thani as she signs the bilateral agreement on Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes Income Doha, Qatar.

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Rashford of Manchester United surprised Arsenal as made the goal 3-2

Kai! Arsenal didn’t see that coming as 18year old Rookie Marcus Rashford took them by surprise ............his strike,his header….menh! they didn’t it coming o!

Congrats to Man u,they tried

CBN targets N200/$ parallel Market rate

Okay this is the break down on how CBN targets N200/$ parallel Market rate

According to a top source in the apex Bank, “The aim of CBN is to ensure that the divergence between the official and parallel rate does not exceed N3, so we are looking at a parallel market rate of N200/$ because the downward trend in the pressure on the naira will be sustained.” 

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“The CBN has the capacity to sustain the downward pressure and will deploy further currency management initiatives, while capitalising on fiscal policies of the federal government to remain in support of non-devaluation of the Naira. The current stand of the federal government on Nigeria’s legal tender is Non-Devaluation. It will be unwise for anybody to be hoarding dollars because we can assure you that Naira appreciation is going to trend upwards going forward.”

 So far, the CBN in a bid to manage the pressure on supply has deployed over $11.7billion to support Agricultural Sector, SMEs, manufacturers and others. This has reduced patronage of black market by end-users and has forced rent seekers to dump the greenback thereby creating a dollar-glut in the black-market. The source noted that it has been observed that most of the imports that were draining forex resources have since found local substitutes with attendant savings in forex and shortage of demand for the greenback, which was fuelling the pressure, this is also coming on the heels of the CBN instruction to commercial banks to publish allocation of forex to end-users, this has in recent times ensure that real sector of the economy and genuine users for education and medicals have been able to access forex at official rate. In the same vein, industry analysts have described the development as a game changer for majority of local manufacturers in Nigeria.

The manufacturers acknowledged that the impact of CBN policy on forex since, its inception has more than double their productive capacity, with attendant benefits in terms of expansion to meet increasingly higher demands for their products and services. The Analysts said, “Conveniently, since the CBN foreign exchange policy came into existence, production capacity by local manufacturers has increased from 50%- 70%. This has impacted on their propensity to increase exports with higher volumes which is expected to also earn Nigeria commensurate higher foreign exchange earnings.”

 Speaking further, the analysts are of the opinion that the policy has helped the local manufacturers to realise the urgent need to expand because of increasing demands for their products. Some of the manufacturers have submitted proposals for expansion and creation of new manufacturing plants, which the CBN has agreed to provide commensurate foreign exchange requirements to finance such ventures that will create employment and improve Nigeria’s capacity to attract more foreign exchange earnings.