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The Academy Awards won't mandate COVID vaccination condition for the attendees of the awards on March 27, but other awards insist on the criteria. COVID-19 led to the cancellation of numerous events in recent time while some events were either held virtually or with a smaller audience. The Academy Awards had been a smaller-sized event last year, having to move away from the traditional venue, Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, to Union Station. With a drop in cases after a recent high, that had led to the postponement of Grammys this year, the Oscars are also set to return in a full-fledged manner. Full vaccination has become a common requirement to attend large-scale events, and the upcoming Screen Actors Guild Awards and Critics Choice Awards are among those to mandate this condition. However, the Academy Awards will not be mandating the proof of the doses to attend the awards ceremony.…

Nigerian rapper, Olamide Adedeji, simply known as Olamide, on Saturday announced that his next album, Unruly, was 95% ready. Taking to his verified Instagram page, the rapper noted that though he didn’t know the release date for the album, he was making it the best ever. Noting that Unruly may be his last album, he stated that he would drop singles occasionally when he felt like it. His tweet read “Next Album = #Unruly 95% ready. Release date = I don’t know.Taking my time to make it the best ever… probably my last album. “Though I’ll drop singles once in a blue moon when I feel like it. It’s been a mad ass run; giving albums back to back.” The rapper also shared the screenshot of his tweet on his Instagram story. Olamide’s last album, Uy Scuti, was released in June 2021. Uy Scuti is a red supergiant star in…

The Lagos State University (LASU), has tasked sensational singer, Akinbiyi Abiola Ahmed, professionally known Bella Shmurda to return to the institution to complete his degree programme Bella Shmurda recently tweeted on his birthday about how he dropped out of the school because he failed some courses. However, Bella the Far Away crooner also said that he does not regret leaving school for music as it is paying off. Bella Shmurda tweeted: “I now worth over half a billion streams (550millions streams to be precise). I for still Dey lasu Dey wine and dine with carryovers and stranded with nothing in my pocket… forever glad I did my thing.” The 25-year-old artiste became popular after the release of his debut single ‘Vision 2020’ after he featured Olamide in the remix version. He said he's glad he left LASU for his music dream. Reacting to Bella’s tweet, LASU said it’s happy to…

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday convicted skit maker, Joshua Sunday otherwise known as ‘D General’ of drug trafficking. The defendant, also a social media influencer, was dragged to court by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), alongside Caleb William, a cinematographer.⁣ Delivering judgment, Justice Osiagor held that the volume of substance was minimal and would rather convict the defendants and caution them, rather than sentence them.⁣⁣The court, consequently, convicted the defendants and cautioned them to “go and sin no more”.⁣⁣Both defendants, 22, were charged with three counts of trafficking Tramadol and Cannabis Sativa.⁣⁣They both pleaded guilty to the charge.⁣⁣After their pleas, the prosecutor, Mr Jeremiah Aernan, reviewed the facts of the case and tendered evidences before the court, through an NDLEA exhibit keeper, Mr Lucky Oghaifu.⁣⁣Among the evidences tendered include: statements of the defendants, dr*g analysis form, certificate of test analysis, request for scientific aid form,…