Angelina Jolie posts pictures of her and kids having great fun

On March 10, 2002, Jolie adopted her first child, seven-month-old Maddox Chivan, from an orphanage inBattambang, Cambodia. He was born as Rath Vibol on August 5, 2001,^[in a local village^]After twice visiting Cambodia, while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and on a UNHCR field mission, Jolie returned in November 2001 with her husband, Billy Bob Thornton, where they met Maddox and subsequently applied to adopt him. The adoption process was halted the following month when the U.S. government banned adoptions from Cambodia amid allegations of child trafficking.Although Jolie's adoption facilitator was later convicted of visa fraud and money laundering, her adoption of Maddox was deemed lawful. Once the process was finalized, she took custody of him in Namibia, where she was filming Beyond Borders (2003).Jolie and Thornton announced the adoption together, but she adopted Maddox alone,and raised him as a single parent following their separation three months later.^[

A pregnant Jolie with director Clint Eastwood at theCannes premiere ofChangeling in May 2008

Jolie adopted a daughter, six-month-old Zahara Marley, from an orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 6, 2005. Zahara was born as Yemsrach on January 8, 2005, in Awasa. Jolie initially believed Zahara to be an AIDS orphan, based on official testimony from her grandmother,but her birth mother later came forward in the media. She explained that she had abandoned her family when Zahara became sick, and said she thought Zahara was "very fortunate" to have been adopted by Jolie.Jolie was accompanied by her partner, Brad Pitt, when she traveled to Ethiopia to take custody of Zahara.She later indicated that they had together made the decision to adopt from Ethiopia, having first visited the country earlier that year. After Pitt announced his intention to adopt her children, she filed a petition to legally change their surname from Jolie to Jolie-Pitt, which was granted on January 19, 2006.^[Pitt adopted Maddox and Zahara soon after.

In an attempt to avoid the unprecedented media frenzy surrounding their relationship, Jolie and Pitt traveled to Namibia for the birth of their first biological child.^[On May 27, 2006, she gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, in Swakopmund.^[They sold the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images with the aim of benefiting charity, rather than allowing paparazzi to make these valuable photographs.^[People and Hello! purchased the North American and British rights to the images for $4.1 and $3.5 million respectively, a record in celebrity photojournalism at that time, with all proceeds donated to UNICEF.^[202]

On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted a son, three-year-old Pax Thien, from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.^[He was born as Pham Quang Sang on November 29, 2003, in HCMC, where he was abandoned by his biological mother soon after birth.After visiting the orphanage with Pitt in November 2006, Jolie applied for adoption as a single parent, because Vietnam's adoption regulations do not allow unmarried couples to co-adopt.After their return to the U.S., she petitioned the court to change her son's surname from Jolie to Jolie-Pitt, which was approved on May 31. Pitt subsequently adopted Pax on February 21, 2008.

At the Cannes Film Festival in May 2008, Jolie confirmed that she was expecting twins. For the two weeks she spent in a seaside hospital in Nice, France, reporters and photographers camped outside on the promenade. She gave birth to a son, Knox Léon, and a daughter, Vivienne Marcheline, on July 12, 2008. The first pictures of Knox and Vivienne were jointly sold to People and Hello! for a reported $14 million—the most expensive celebrity photographs ever taken. All proceeds were donated to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.

She posted these pictures on instagram And also wrote this
“When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.” – Angelina Jolie

Toke makinwa used ciara's past and present love life to state a point

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How To Tell You Might Be In The Wrong Relationship: If you've been dating seriously for months and still feel so anxious you need to re-write all your texts five times before you send them, or feel afraid of making an off-the-cuff remark or silly joke to your partner because you fear they may not like it, it might not be just because they still give you butterflies — you might just be wrong for each other, and that's why you can't relax. If the idea of being your true self around your partner fills you with anxiety well after the "getting to know you" period, you may want to investigate why
 If you and your partner seem to have almost nothing in common — from your tastes in movies to your beliefs about how people should conduct themselves in relationships — you're not only going to experience needless stress; you may also have a rough time bonding. Trying to build a life together with someone who doesn't understand your jokes, your values, why you're obsessed with your job or why you love your collection of vintage Pokemon figurines can be really difficult. If you're making it work with your cartoon cat and you're happy, good for you! But if you feel like you're banging your head against the wall every time you try to make your partner see your point of view, it could be time to rethink your relationship.

Understanding Your Partner ’ s Love Language

This article really says it all,am glad I came across it.

Wish you guys will take your time to read this,trust me,its not time wasting.

Recently I was reading a book and I kept smiling and blushing while reading, I’m very sure everybody in the house that day was like ‘what is wrong with this girl’. Eureka, Eureka, Eureka, I have found it! I thought to myself. I really don’t know how to explain it but it was like I found the secret to my life and I just couldn’t stop smiling.

Well, you hear some people complain:

he doesn’t love me again, he is too busy with work, she can’t even hug me and when you enquire from the other person, they would say: I love her very much, I buy her gifts all the time, I clean the house everyday, I make sure his food is ready on time, WHAT MORE DOES HE/SHE WANT?

Do you want to know what more he or she wants? Now here is the secret –

she wants you to love her in the right way or love him in the right way. People understand love as different things because we have different emotional make-up. Every single reason why I have gotten sad, angry, or hurt in the past is captured in this. It is not like they knew what they were doing was affecting me but I wasn’t just feeling loved.

Now, you hear some people say that if you really want to get a girl, you just have to tell her sweet things. Well, I can tell you its not everybody it works for. It works majorly for people who have “words of affirmation” as their primary love language. Well, for someone like that, if you wake her up with one of the sweetest message she could ever dream of, I bet you she will keep on smiling and thinking about you throughout the day

For someone who understand love as receiving gifts and doesn’t get anything on her birthday, she would feel so unloved, like nobody cares about her or loves her. No matter how much you wake up every morning to tell her she is the sugar in your tea……blah blah, she won’t still feel loved because that is not just her language. The honest truth is that you just need to get her something no matter how little or large – just something tangible to capture your emotions at that point in time.

           There are some other people that just love when people help them do stuff. They just don’t want to work alone. This is called “acts of service” stranger things have happened . This is what they understand love as and you just have to take them like that.

Now let us go to the next one –

 Quality time. Does he or she just want to talk to you every time? Or be around you? Well, you would know if this is her love language if the happiest moment she has with you are the times she spends with you alone. She just wants to be with you even though you’re doing nothing. She values your presence more than anything. I find that people with this language hate the word “busy”. To love her, take her somewhere alone just to spend enough quality time with her, give her your 100% attention and you would make her feel on top of the world.

The last of this is Touch. Maybe that’s what he or she understands love as – kisses, hugs, holding hands. Just learn it. Really what is the point of loving someone if you are not loving them in the right way.

Here is the thing: 

everybody has a primary love language that works for them. Just look in deep: What is the pattern? When has she felt the most happy? Is it when you get her something or take her out or tell her sweet words? What does he or she complain the most about? Look deep then love him or her in the right way.

Source:http://thenakedconvos.com

I am scared of marriage – Actress, Ebube Nwagbo

Nollywood Actress, Ebube Nwagbo, has shared her fears concerning marriage following the high cases of divorce in the industry.
The Anambra State-born actress told ‘Star Gist’ in an interview.
She said: “I try to keep to myself, but the industry where I find myself is a complex one.
“You have to be very close to me to know the real Ebube, because most times I camouflage just to create an impression.
“The real me is not what you see in TV or read on the papers , but I am also human; I have my moods, my bad sides, my flaws, etc.
“I love the good thing of life, so I work hard to get them.
“I only stress myself when money is involved.
“Marriage is always going to be at the right time, and don’t ask me when is the right time.
“I’m single but I’m not searching, Why would I?
“Well, I am seeing somebody, but starting my own family I can’t say for now.
“But I will do that at the right time.
“I don’t like doing something and later jump out of it.
“I take my time to do whatsoever I want to do making sure it is the right decision.
“I am scared of marriage, we see divorce everyday.
“Although no one goes into marriage believing she would soon jump out of it.
“I strongly believe that before a couple considers divorce, they must have put in their best to make it work, all to no avail.
“Marriage in the limelight is not easy, even those outside it are not surviving easily.
“For me, before I take the decision, it just has to be right.
“I have learnt a lot from other people’s mistake and that has helped me a lot.
“Being in a relationship alone is not easy not to mention marriage, I just want to do it right to avoid regret.
“So I am treading carefully.

Actress Yvonne Jegede and actor/musician Abounce are engaged

Actress Yvonne Jegede turned 33 years old today August 25th and her man of many years, actor/musician and late veteran actress Bukky Ajayi's son Abounce, proposed to her. She said yes, of course. Big congrats to the couple.

Gov Wike & wife in another public show of affection...kiss at IFWL dinner (photo)

Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike and his wife Suzette, pictured kissing at the International Federation of Women Lawyers dinner which held at the state government house in Port Harcourt yesterday.

Victoria Kimani in sizzling romance with business man, Stanley Obiamalu (photos)

Kenyan music star Victoria Kimani signed to Chocolate City is dating South African based Nigerian Stanley Obiamalu who runs SOS media productions. The pair, who began dating earlier this year have been inseparable since then.
A source told LIB exclusively that Stanley recently threw Victoria an over the top black tie birthday party attended by close friends in Johannesburg. See photos from the party after the cut.

Guess who the lastest dad in town is.

Singer ChuddyK has welcomed a daughter with his wife Fina. The couple got married in October last year. An excited ChuddyK wrote “Latest dad in town. My princess is here…thank you Jesus…”.
Congrats to them.

Jennifer Lopez ends relationship with Casper Smart

Jennifer Lopez has ended her almost 5-year relationship with former dancer, now actor, Casper Smart, according to a report by TMZ. Read below...
We're told J Lo pulled the plug on the relationship. Sources close to Casper are saying the breakup didn't happen, but our Lopez sources are clear ... the relationship is over. J Lo, 47, and Casper, 29, started dating as far back as October 2011.
It appeared as if they broke up in 2014 but our sources say they were never really apart ... and they were really spending time at her house when they were supposedly separated. Things seemed alright a couple weeks ago when they hung out at her Vegas show ... where she gave ex Marc Anthony a shout-out. People first reported the breakup.

Younglady narrates how a pastor in Edo state almost abused her sexually while conducting deliverance on her

Facebook user, Honey Phoenix Evarist took to her Facebook page to narrate how a pastor her mother took her to for deliverance in Auchi, Edo state almost abused her sexually in 2013. She wrote

"In 2013 my mum told me i needed deliverance because i refused to act like a "christian" she took me to a pastor of Omega Fire Ministries (OFM) he said i will do a retreat with him for one month so i went back home to pack my stuff. This man would always enter my room without knocking. His hands would linger around my breasts when he hugs me...i was uncomfortable but i tried to bring my "mind out of the gutter".

We used to have night prayers and he would prolong the prayers till his heavily pregnant wife got tired and he'll encourage her to go to bed and rest...once she leaves he starts to tell me how much he loves me and how I don't need deliverance because there is nothing wrong with me, and how I am a nice girl who her parents misunderstood.

I was not all that surprised and i tried to take advantage of the situation. I would miss prayers or evening service because i knew he wont do anything about it.

But then his wife started to notice that i had too much freedom. and what surprised me was that he did not seem to care...he would try to kiss me when his wife was just one room away...he would wink at me when her back was turned...he would hold my hand at the back seat of the car when we are returning from night vigil. He was like a love struck teenager.

I began to avoid him and it made him more desperate...one time he asked if i was avoiding him and I made him know i did not like what he was doing and he told me if i want his P.A could arrange for us to have a quiet time somewhere...

I had to tell the Assistant pastor all that was going on. I still recall the tears and the look of unbelief on his face that night.

The assistant did nothing about it...but advised me to pack my stuff and leave before things get out of hand. But i couldn't leave because the "retreat" was not over.

One night at the night vigil at OFM headquaters in Auchi i went to confide in a friend...and my father's driver overhead everything and he told my dad once we returned to Abuja.

The sad part about it all was that my parents called the pastor and his wife to ask them...instead of me. And they heaped it all on me. They said i have been misbehaving because i am tired of the "retreat" and i sleep during prayers,i dont go to the evening services and i have come up with accusations because i want to go. The good thing was that i moved back home.

Till today i wonder what sort of brains the pastor's wife had in her head.

Nollywood actress Ivie Okujaye shares adorable new photos of her daughter

Ivie Okujaye-Egbo shared adorable new photos of her daughter.
The actress and her husband, Ezie Egbo welcomed their first child last month.
"l Loved you before I even met you... & I'll Love you till long after my last breath" she captioned the photos

Congratulations

Chris Rock’s Divorce Has Been Finalized

Chris Rock’s divorce from his wife Malaak Compton-Rock has been finalized.

The former couple finalized their divorce on Monday after appearing in front of a New Jersey judge, reports TMZ.
The pair announced the end of their nearly 20-year marriage in 2014, and spent the next two years hashing out the details of their divorce settlement – including the issue of child support.
Rock and Compton-Rock were in
disagreement over whether the comedian should support a child whom Compton-Rock says was raised as their own for years.
In Rock’s original divorce filing on Dec. 23, 2015, the comedian, 50, stated the couple have just two children together. However, in Compton-Rock’s counterclaim, she stated that in addition to their two children, there is a child “who has resided with the parties since before her first birthday.”
Though Compton-Rock maintained that the couple raised the child together and served as her parents, she decided to proceed with the adoption process alone once the divorce was announced.
According to TMZ, the divorce case was sealed, so details of their settlement, including child support, have not been disclosed.

TV gal Eku Edewor is pregnant!

TV gal Eku Edewor is pregnant. A source exclusively told LIB that Eku, 30, is about 7 months and that she's due to give birth in October. She's currently in London to give birth.
Her baby shower will hold in London soon. Eku has been dating Chini Odogwu, the son of billionaire businessman, Sunny Odogwu, for about two years now.

Source:lindalkeji'sblog

I love this couple so much... check them out

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama
The first couple who were married on October 3, 1992, at Trinity United Church in Chicago have two beautiful daughters together - Malia, who was born in 1998 and Sasha , born in 2001.

Mutual Respect for Each Other:

Barack Obama called Michelle his “rock” and has said she “had the power of veto,” meaning if she would have told him not to run for president he wouldn't have. Michelle has revealed that time, love, sacrifice and hard struggles make you stronger and that the pair is “constantly balancing each other.”

One of the most important things in a relationship is to have respect for each other because a respectful marriage is a marriage with integrity. The two of you are in a partnership together and each person needs to be able to weigh in on decisions that will affect the entire family. Be there for one another, back each other up and listen to what your partner has to say.

Michelle and Barack: A couple that stays together and works together

Not only did Barack and Michelle meet while working at a Chicago law firm, after they married, Michelle has tirelessly campaigned for Barack and will soon be working with him in another capacity – as First Lady of the United States.

If you feel a romantic connection with a coworker, be sure to weigh all the consequences of workplace relationships before moving forward. Your employer could possibly see it as a distraction and other employees may sense favoritism. If you proceed with the relationship, agree to keep it strictly professional in the office and make a decision ahead of time as to how you’ll handle things if it doesn’t work out.

Keeping the Passion Alive: 
Michelle has revealed that Barack is still very romantic. They have date nights together and even after 16 years of marriage, he surprises her with flowers. Only a few days after winning the Nov. 4 election, the couple went on a date to one of their favorite Italian restaurants in Chicago.

A relationship that has grown tired and stale may only be inches away from being over. After years of being together, it’s necessary to keep the spark alive. Don’t let your relationship become routine. It can be as easy as sending flowers to say you’re thinking about the other person, or setting aside one evening a week to have a date night or spending time together away from the television.

Respect, understanding, support, communication and romance are all ways Barack and Michelle Obama have sustained a successful relationship in the midst of their wild journey together. Keeping your significant other as the top priority regardless of schedules or other distracting factors in life is a key component for any couple’s long-term happiness.