Tina Fey said it best. (Per usual.)
“George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year,” Fey joked during her Golden Globes monologue. “Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an adviser to Kofi Annan regarding Syria, and was selected for a three-person U.N. commission investigating rules of war violations in the Gaza Strip. So tonight, her husband is getting a lifetime achievement award.”
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To be fair, she seemed to like that joke about her and George, but mostly, she just looked like she would rather be anywhere else.
Even when she smiled and laughed and tried to look like she was having a good time, she mostly just looked like she was miserable and very unimpressed by all her husband's actors buddies giving each other ... Read more »

Generation of Peace (GOP) an organization promoting peace in Rivers State, has condemned the various ''unnecessary, unprovoked, retrogressive and inhuman attacks, shooting and attempts to murder innocent persons'' who were peacefully travelling to Port Harcourt from Khana, Degema and Abonnema to attend the flag-off of the Presidential Campaigns of their party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday 6 January, 2015. 

Speaking on behalf of the group, the Deputy Coordinator and Spokesman, Mr. Amakiri Amakuro, said the attacks have left at least 7 persons seriously injured and hospitalized; he described the dastardly act as shameful and primitive; an act perpetrated by desperate and criminal minded agents of darkness poised for destruction. 

Mr. A ... Read more »

Apparently, Amy Adams is used to showing off her Golden Globes.
Adams — who was looking stunning in a draped Versace gown — stopped by to talk with ET's Nancy O'Dell on the Golden Globes carpet, and she spilled details on her past job as a Hooters waitress.
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"I would be proud of that," O'Dell told the Big Eyes actress. "I would be like, 'I had the body, people!'"
Adams revealed that despite her petite frame, she was much more curvaceous in her youth. "Well I was like 18, so everybody has the body at 18," she said. "But it was a great job out of high school and I was a hostess at first, and then I waited tables for a while, and it was great. It was a great way for me to earn money for college.&quo ... Read more »

Ahead of the visit of President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP Presidential Campaign Team to Oyo State on Monday, security has been beefed up in Ibadan, the state capital.

A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent, who went around the city, reports that a combined team of security agencies was observed manning strategic places expected to be visited by the president.

Stern-looking security men were also sighted on roads leading to the Ibadan Airport where the president and his campaign team would be received on arrival.

Officers of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) also manned major roads to ensure free flow of traffic.

At the Monatan palace of the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Samuel Odulana, some security men, including military personnel, w ... Read more »

NIGERIA - Reports are flying that Northern leaders who had hitherto supported Buhari may be making a U-turn in the February elections after reports that the general may be having a serious health problem. 

This is following the online rumors that Buhari collapsed during his presidential campaign rally in Calabar. 

Even though the APC denied the report, it has given cause for worry, and the North has become wary, after they were 'sidelined' after Yar'Adua died in May, 2010 before completing his tenure, a development which led to the abrupt shift of power to the South-South under the rulership of incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. 

“The North is beginning to rethink the promised support for Buhari in view of reports that he is suffering from a certain ailme ... Read more »