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‘All I Want Is A Happy Family’ – Tiwa Savage’s Husband, Tee Billz Says

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Monday, January 09, 2017

Music star, Tiwa Savage’s estranged husband, Tunji Balogun, popularly known as Tee Billz has said that all he wants right now is have a happy family.
He made his feelings known on social media recently when he shared a post where he wrote, “I’m at a point in my life where I want my family happy, my faith strong, my health good, my mind right, my
dollars tight and no unnecessary drama.”
The artiste manager and his wife, Tiwa, are currently working on salvaging their marriage and they were spotted together for the first time since their messy
separation at TV presenter, Stephanie Coker's traditional wedding during the yuletide holidays.
The celebrity couple, who have a son together, Jamil, also spent Christmas together but are yet to move in together on a permanent basis.

Stop Beefing Me & My Kids, Cus You Aint Seen Nothing Yet, Toyin Lawani Warns

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Saturday, January 07, 2017

Oh dear! We are just lost for words here. The truth is people are free to raise their kids the way they want. It’s 2017 already, some people just need to chill, lol. But you know what? Toyin Lawani is not a nice person, she went to IN, lol, Just too IN, the Okin biscuit part killed me.
What she wrote..
I Teach my kids Good Values,what Do you Teach yours???You see A swag picture and Rant About my kids,when yours are not Even capable of half of what they are capable of,can your 6year old Roll moimoi????i guess not,that’s snc when she’s been Doing it,
You can’t even Beat @lilatmfashionista in science projects ,not to talk of @lordmaine2 s smartness in school,or church,so A child wear studs it means they will Growup a Gangster

hahaha I can’t stop laughing Atimes with ds people’s mentality,yo Mehn I’m the year 3000 parent,I’m not stuck in the old mentality,Im well exposed,i groom my kids to be the Greatest in all their various talents,I don’t hold them Back,Look @Beyonce she started young,y’all kiss her a** now,Continue…
Did you even know my little Maine is a Pastor and he preaches for days,so cut that crap,put the fear of God in your kids and when they open their mouth kinds words flows out,Appearance don’t matter it’s what’s in our hearts and Brain that’s matters,I love tattoos oh does that mean I’m a bad parent
,well think again it’s just something I love don’t mean you know me,If anyone comes After my kids Again for Having too much swag or me enriching their swaggg you going to get a whooping,we called the swag fam for a Reason,
A loser said to @lordmaine2 how can you be a president instead of you to go and read book you are modeling ,well you are a loser and I’m sure your parents couldn’t afford more than Okin Buiscuit for your Birthday that’s why you hating,free my super Talented kids joor,you Are ranting when you ain’t seen nothing yet,we ain’t your Regular family,watch out for the SWAGFAM REALITY SHOW ON @ebonylifetv #TIANNAHSEMPIRE YOU GOING TO EAT YOUR ASS OUT,And when my son Becomes the president of Nigeria in the future,I will remember your faces and Names losers,cause I know you will still kiss his Ass ,you don’t even know the kind of Drive I have as a mum to make my kids succeed,just watch it,learn to preach positive things into Your children’s lives,not negative,if you want to limit your kids do so,Not me….Both of them are No1 in class so what’s stopping them from swagging
#ATMFASHIONISTA
#THEENTREPRENUER

Victoria Beckham finally addresses rumours she's trying for baby No.5 at age 42

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Monday, October 03, 2016

Fashion entrepreneur and business woman Victoria Beckham, 42, has finally addressed rumours making the rounds that she has boosted her already spinach-heavy diet with "broccoli and leafy greens rich in folic acid" so she can get pregnant and deliver baby number 5...

David Beckham, 41, told chat show host Jonathan Ross in 2012:

"We might have one more or two more, you never know. We're not thinking about it yet, but if it happens, great. We're enjoying the kids as it is. It's always a thought.

"I mean, we're busy people and we’re enjoying the four kids that we've got already and we're lucky, we're lucky to have four healthy children."

But former Spice Girls member, Victoria Beckham has now addressed the rumours saying she doesn't want anymore children.

Speaking to Sunday Times Style Magazine, Victoria said "No! I am done. People have been obsessed with it - she's getting divorced, she's pregnant, she's getting divorced, she's pregnant - ever since I met David."

David and Victoria have 4 sweet kids which includes sons Brooklyn, 17, Romeo, 13, Cruz, 11, and four-year-old daughter Harper.

Actress Opeyemi Aiyeola on choosing family over career. "If given the opportunity I will do same over and over again"

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Nollywood actress Opeyemi Aiyeola's second son David Oluwasemilore turned five today. Taking to Instagram to celebrate her boy, the mother of two, who left the movie industry over six years ago also revealed the reason she left her successful career to start a family.

"People ask me all the time,' Ope why did u sacrifice ur career for family?,why did u leave at a time u were hotter than hot?, U could be up there by now, U could be getting most hot deals n endorsements, ur career would have blown supa huge!.
I look at them and always think n say to myself, 'ignorance' and 'petty'. Now I am glad n proud to ans those questions. This is one of the reasons why. Abandoning my career to have lovely, handsome, glorious, blessed, intelligent, world changer boys is why. If given the grace and opportunity I will do same over and over again. My pride, my prince, my joy, my future, my wealth, my endorsement, my primary career, words can't express how honoured and grateful to God I am for the grace to be ur caretaker. As u turn 5 today I celebrate u, I appreciate u, I honour God in ur life. David Oluwasemilore keep soaring on eagles wings and keep making ur creator, dad n mum proud. Happy birthday my 2nd prince, assistance boss mi, davidodo mi, long life and prosperity"

I learnt English by listening to radio - Sunmi Smart Cole

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Monday, September 26, 2016

Award-winning photographer, Sunmi Smart-Cole, who is 75 today, talks about his life and numerous interests

When do you remember about your boyhood?
I remember my boyhood as a time when I was unhappy because I wanted to go to school but I couldn’t. My schooling stopped at 14. Although I passed entrance examinations into Kings College, Stella Maris which is a Catholic school in Port Harcourt and Baptist High School, there was no money to fund my education and I could not get a scholarship. Instead, the bishop of our church said I should be given a job as a teacher. So from the age of 15, I taught till I was 17. I then became an apprentice to a draughtsman.

You did not have a privileged background…
There was no money and my mother was a dressmaker. Some people think I had a silver spoon-upbringing, maybe because of the way I carry myself or the way I live. I love to live decently but I am not rich. Compared to many people, I consider myself extremely blessed that at this time in my life, I have a roof over my head.

Since you did not have a formal education, how did you learn to read and speak the English Language?
I didn’t have a formal education but I’m self-educated. After standard six, I used to go to where second-hand clothing were being sold to buy second-hand books and magazines like Time Magazine ,
National Geographic , Readers’ Digest and News Week. I managed to read a newspaper everyday and I also read the Bible three times not for religious purposes but because I was searching for new words. I learnt to pronounce words by getting up every morning to listen to the BBC World Service. I listened to broadcasters like Sam Nwaneri, Ralph Opara, Segun Olusola, Christopher Kolade, and one Mr. Johnson in Ibadan. These men were trained by the BBC .

Growing up, what was your dream career?
Since I like to work with my hands, I chose draughtsmanship. Don’t forget that before the real architects with degrees came around, most of the houses in Yaba and Lagos Island were designed by draughtsmen. I designed the country home of the then Prime Minister of Sierra Leone, Sir Albert Margai, in his village, Gbamgbatoke. I was an architectural assistant with Construction and Design Ltd., Freetown. The most interesting house I designed was for Pete Myers, a BBC presenter on Good Morning Africa .

Why did you not continue to practise architecture?
All of the people who could employ me as a draughtsman thought that I must have attended maybe Yaba College of Technology or Ibadan because they had such schools in Enugu, Ibadan and Lagos. Then, I already liked dressing well.
A company called Nixon &Boris in Lagos and owned by a British and a German, saw my drawing. They liked my work and gave me a job without a certificate. A month later, they asked for my certificate and I told them that I didn’t have any. They asked me to go because at the time, all they wanted was a piece of paper. I was very bitter.
I saw Mr. Steve Rhodes and I explained my plight to him. He gave me a job as an artiste and road manager with his company,
RhodeSoundVision. My salary was £20 a month but I had a big office and for the first time an air conditioner. I did not have that at my home. What I had was a table fan and not even a standing fan. The company was managing the like of Fela Ransome-Kuti, Victor Uwaifo and Sonny Okosuns.

How did you learn to play the percussion?
There’s something a lot of people don’t know. Because of my training as a draughtsman, I used to design Fela’s flyers and posters by hand when he returned to Nigeria from England in 1962. I would paste them on trees inviting people to come to listen to Fela’s jazz group which was called the Fela Ransome-Kuti Quintet. At the time, I played the konga drums and other percussive instruments plus the wooden drums. Much later, Fela’s drummer left him. He had an assignment and he had to convert John Okoh, who was a highlife drummer to a jazz drummer. While Fela taught him and his band new techniques, I listened and that was how I learnt how to play.

Did you go into music full-time?
I had been adjudged one of the best drummers in Nigeria and I was a founding father of the soul and jazz group, The Soul Assembly, reputed for popularising African-American Soul Music in Nigeria. Notwithstanding, I have never played music professionally and I have never being paid to perform. I have never liked the lifestyle of many musicians. Some of them go to work almost every night. It is not an easy thing to jump around and perform. They then get very tired and that is why singers like Michael Jackson and Prince had to die because they were taking “lift me uppers.”

For how long did you work with Steve Rhodes?
Mike James, Nelson Cole, Segun Bucknor and I formed our own musical group and named it Soul Assembly. Steve Rhodes refused to manage our group, so I went to a nightclub called Maharani. I told the owner of the nightclub about our group and he said we should come for a one-hour audition on a Friday night.
After that first performance, a trumpeter called Agu Norris came to our office and was yelling, “Steve, your boys were great.” The man assumed that since Steve was in the business of putting bands in nightclubs, he must have put us at Maharani. I went to buy sausage roll and when I returned, I saw a letter terminating my appointment. I was sacked for conflict of interest. I ran to the home of Dr. Oladipo Maja to meet with his son, Kunle. I was bitter. That was when I spoke to a friend Niyi Soyode, who asked me to come to see his father. I met with his father and he gave me £20 with which I opened a barbershop. He gave me another £20 three months later. Within the six months that I was out of job, Fela made sure I had a meal with him every day. I ran the barber shop for four years and it was a cultural centre. People came there to read foreign newspapers and magazines because during the civil war, luxury items like foreign publications and butter were banned. The ban was lifted after the war in 1970. They also came there to listen to jazz, soul and classical music. On Friday and Saturday evenings, people came there to find out where parties were being held on weekends.

What spurred your interest in photography?
I shut down the barber shop in 1972 and I migrated to the United States, where I worked with VIDAR Corporation as an architectural drafter and technical illustrator. I needed something that I could use to express myself more and that is why I studied photography. I began my part-time study of photography in 1976, at Foothill College, California. I held my first exhibition at Stanford University’s Coffee House in 1978.

How did you get into journalism?
I used to accompany Ajibade Fashina-Thomas who was the pioneer Editor of The Punch to the stadium. I had a notebook and he would tell me to write down my observations. Later, he would review my report. Thereafter, I started contributing to either
Sunday Times or Lagos Weekend . I worked with The Punch and I was also at The Guardian where I became a managing editor supervising five publications.

Were you ever married?
I married an American who accompanied me to Nigeria. One day, she wanted to go out and all the cabs she hailed refused to stop. Instead they called her names like
asewo , a Yoruba word for prostitute, because she wore trousers. The word stuck and when I told her the meaning, she insisted on returning to the US. There was another time she sprained her ankle. She left and we did not have any children. When she got back to the US, she met someone she used to date before she married me.

Why didn’t you remarry?
I was going to marry the now deceased Remi Osholake, aka RemiLagos. She was sent by Nigerian Television Authority to interview me and we fell in love. It was a holiday job and Don Barber was the producer of the programme.

At 75, what are some of your high points?
I nearly fell out of a helicopter in-flight over Bonny NLNG. I was there to do some work and my co-passenger was trying to tell me what he could see. I unbuckled the seat belt, there was a jolt and I hit the roof with my head. I landed with my knee on the metal floor. I went for surgery in 2003 and my knee had to be replaced.
In 1986, a lorry hit my car at Cele Bus stop, Isolo, Lagos and I could have died. The third one was on a trip from Abuja to Zaria. I was in the convoy of a former first lady. The car I was in had a burst tyre and we were almost going under a trailer. The driver managed to regain control of the car. God showed me that He is alive and able.

What more do you want to achieve?
Some people say I am a man of many interests. Those are talents given to me by God. It is photography that I studied part-time but it was through my determination to succeed that I reached where I am today. I have exhibited in five continents

"Adult don't understand us" Jaden and Willow Smith open up in their first joint cover for Interview Magazine

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Wednesday, August 31, 2016

In their first joint cover, Willow and Jaden Smith posed together for Interview magazine in a high fashion shoot and sat down with Pharrell Williams for a Q&A. The teens opened up about a wide range of topics from their parents, generational discrepancies to where they see themselves in 10 years. The siblings noted that sometimes they feel misunderstood by judgemental adults.

"It seems like they don't understand our thought process. Or, like, things have happened in the past that they are still mad about," Willow,15, said.

But that is OK as their famous parents...Will and Jada Pinkett Smith completely understand them and they couldn't be more proud of their parents.

"My parents are definitely my biggest role models. And that's where me and Willow both pull all of our inspiration from to change the world," Jaden, 18, said.

Willow:

"Growing up, all I saw was my parents trying to be the best people they could be and people coming to them for wisdom, coming to them for guidance, and them not putting themselves on a pedestal, but literally being face-to-face with these people and saying, ‘I’m no better than you, but the fact that you’re coming to me to reach some sort of enlightenment or to shine a light on some- thing, that makes me feel love and gratitude for you.’ They always give back what people give to them. And sometimes they keep giving and giving and giving. And some people don’t feel like they need to give anything back because it’s like, ‘Oh, if you’re famous, you can just keep giving, and it doesn’t matter.’ It’s not just about money. It’s not just about giving people gifts or whatever. What my parents have given to me is not anything that has to do with money or success or anything that society says people should be focusing on—it’s something spiritual that only certain people can grasp and accept. And that’s how I act and move in the world today.

Jaden:

"I 100 percent agree with Willow on that one. My parents are definitely my biggest role models. And that’s where me and Willow both pull all of our inspiration from to change the world. It all comes from a concept of affecting the world in a positive way and leaving it better than it was than when we came. I feel like that enters into all types of different areas because there are so many different outlets that life has to offer for us. That goes into technology, into music. That goes into science, into spirituality, into education. Where me and Willow come from, a lot of it is trying to make society more efficient, so that kids don’t cry, like, ‘Why do I have to go to school?’ Instead, kids are like, ‘Yeah! I’m so glad to go to school! I’m a better person than I was yesterday, and I can help people.’"

Gospel singers Donnie McClurkin and Nicole C Mullen are engaged

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Monday, August 15, 2016

American gospel singers Donnie McClurkin and Nicole C. Mullen are getting married. Donnie McClurkin made the announcement when he appeared on TBN's long -running "Praise the Lord" ministry show on Thursday night.

Rumors that McClurkin and Mullen, 49, were dating started circulating after the two stepped out together at the 2015 Stellar Awards. But the gospel singers never made an official announcement about their romance until Thursday.

A.R. Bernard, who was also a guest on the show hinted at McClurkin's engagement during a discussion about his new book, What Women Want From Men. Th show host Matt Crouch then stood up and announced that the 56-year-old "We Fall Down" singer and Perfecting Faith Church pastor is, in fact, on course to getting married.

"OK, are you ready for something? You want me to just drop something on ya?" Crouch asked the audience as he shouted, "Donnie McClurkin's getting married! Come on!"

McClurkin then proceeded to explain his decision. "Well praise God," he said. "Honestly, the only thing in my life that is missing is marriage. The only thing that is missing in my life that can cause real family, is marriage. Financially, I'm there. Spiritually, I'm almost there. Emotionally, I'm getting it together. But the only thing that's missing out of everything that I'm doing locally, cross country and globally is that aspect that makes family, family — is that wife that would make man whole, that element that brings favor to man."

"I have a lot of great things, but I don't have a good thing, and there's favor that can only come through marriage to a man,"

The New York-based minister talked about spending his nights watching Cartoon Network until 2 a.m. and confessed that he has come to realize the missing part of his existence is to have a help mate.

"To have someone that I can love. I'm not saying to love me, 'cause there's a lot of people that love me. I want someone that I can love, heal and comfort, protect and secure. That's what I want," he said.

Crouch asked McClurkin to name his future bride and McClurkin described how God brought him and Mullen together on an flight to Africa in December 2015.

McClurkin said that even though they've known each other for 15 years, the first time they really had a chance to talk was when they were seated next to each other on a flight to Ivory Coast, during which they spoke for eight hours.

Mullen was married twice. During her first marriage, the songwriter and choreographer endured physical and mental abuse. In 1993, she married CCM singer-songwriter David Mullen. They announced their divorce in 2014, citing "Biblical reasons" The marriage produced three children, one daughter and two sons.

Donnie has a biological son and an adopted daughter but this will be his first marriage

Pres. Buhari receives the outgoing Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Hoang N. H

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Wednesday, August 10, 2016

President Buhari received in farewell audience the outgoing Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Mr. Hoang Ngoc Ho, in the State house, Abuja, today August 9. More photos after the cut...

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