Is your boyfriend serious about you? The 50 signs that show you're in a committed relationship

Planning a holiday, driving each others' cars, having a key to your partner's house, being invited to family gatherings, posting a 'loved-up' photo on Facebook, are all signs a relationship is serious and past the 'seeing each other' phase, according to a new survey. 

Researchers questioned 2,000 people to reveal the top 50 things which indicate a couple are in a committed relationship. Check on it below and tell us what you think...

1. Meeting the parents
2. Exchanging house keys
3. Planning a holiday together
4. Discussing plans for the future
5. Being invited to family gatherings
6. Saying 'I love you'
7. Staying overnight at each other's houses
8. Signing Christmas / Birthday cards together
9. Seeing each other at least every other night
10. Leaving a toothbrush at each other's house



11. You tell each other absolutely everything

12. Letting them take care of you when sick
13. Being introduced to wider friendships circles
14. Discussing how many children you might want in the future
15. Buying a dog or cat together
16. Driving each other's cars
17. Inviting them to a wedding as a date
18. Divulging salary details
19. Letting them know your pin number
20. Discussing holidays
21. Having a drawer at each other's house
22. When you HYPOTHETICALLY talk about IF you lived together
23. Inviting people round as a couple
24. Having clothes and other belongings at each other's houses
25. First name terms with their mum and dad
26. Talking about intimate health issues
27. Farting in front of each other
28. Inviting them out with your friends / family
29. Receiving cards or gifts addressed to both of you
30. When you know what each other's plans are for every single day
31. Showering together
32. Changing Facebook status to 'in a relationship'
33. You know each other's passwords
34. Wearing pyjamas when you get home from work
35. You share secrets about friends with each other
36. Always being the 'plus one' on invites
37. Getting food in your big shop just for them
38. You start watching TV shows they like
39. Phoning each other at work
40. Stop putting make up on to look gloriously fresh before they wake up
41. When they start asking for your opinion on stuff
42. Going out with friends or family without the partner being there
43. Signing off 'love' in a card
44. You start listening to music they like
45. You stop seeing people you know they don't like
46. Putting a photo of the two of you on Facebook
47. Sending good morning / goodnight texts
48. Having a pet name for each other
49. Telling each other how many sexual partners you've had
50. When all their friends add you on Facebook

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Gidi Culture Festival Announces First Lineup of Artistes

Wizkid, Timaya, Lynxxx, Ice Prince, Seyi Shay, Jesse Jagz, Reminisce, DJ Hazan and DJ Obi will all take the stage at this year’s Gidi Culture Festival, but the bill still boasts many more artists.

Are you ready for the biggest beach party that Lagos has ever seen?  Eclipse Live, the organisers of Gidi Culture Festival today announced that its much anticipated beach festival is set to take place at Elegushi private beach on Sunday, 2nd March, 2014.

There is nothing like the thought of a beach party to get you all excited; the sand between your toes, the water around your ankles, the waves lapping against the shore, dancing around a crackling bonfire and music courtesy of some of Nigeria’s hottest acts. Continue..

The Gidi Culture Festival, brought to you by Eclipse Live  gives you the opportunity to feel the effervescence of a beach festivity, Naija style. With a line-up that boasts some of Nigeria's hottest and upcoming musical talents such as Poe, Blink and Ayo-Jay, you cannot miss this. 

Be ready to get your groove on to tunes from some of the hottest DJs on the clubbing circuit and if you wish to unleash the foodie in you, our food court provides a mouth-watering menu. For the adrenaline junkies and sport enthusiast, our fully equipped sports arena will get you ‘bending it like Beckham’.....

And that’s not all; we even have a treat for the Techies. Our range of tech inspired experiential zones will have you thinking all Silicone Valley. 

For the fashion lovers, we will be providing you with festival fashion tips from some of our celebrity friends including your favourite TV presenters, Eku Edewor & Zainab Balogun and fashion designer and stylist Bubu Sigo, so just hold on tight.

The organisers of Gidi Culture have made it their mission to draw upon influences from festivals around the world including Glastonbury festival, Coachella and Made in America and What’s more? The Gidi Culture Festival promises a fun, yet affordable and safe environment to enjoy the ultimate festival experience.

Come join the fun!!! 

Tickets are now available from our official ticket partner: www.afritickets.com/event/gidiculture_festival_251

Photos: Bruce Jenner gradually turning himself into a woman

Former Olympic athlete and Keeping Up with the Kardashians reality star Bruce Jenner is reportedly gradually transforming himself into a feminine version his old self. The 64-year-old father of six is rumoured to have recently undergone a procedure to shave down his Adam's apple, a procedure typically done on patients who are in the first stage of gender reassignment

TMZ reports that Bruce has gone through other changes as well, including growing out his hair and nails in a pronounced way. And he seems to be growing breasts. Continue...

A source told TMZ that no one on the family's reality show discusses the changes in Bruce, and there are no plans to address them on the show.

A report from Star magazine last year

“Bruce has a feminine side,” a family friend told Star. “He likes growing his hair out, loves getting manicures and pedicures and won’t leave home without his diamond earrings.”

The source added: “Kris even says that Bruce is more of a woman than she is!”

The family insider said Bruce was tired of being “bullied and bossed around” by the more masculine Kris. But the insider said Bruce stayed with Kris for 22 years because she fiercely protected his dirty secret — that he’s a cross dresser.

Star first reported Bruce’s fetish for feminine things two years ago — when Robert Kardashian’s former wife, Ellen Kardashian, spilled the tea.

“Kim got a phone call from a lingerie company called Bordelle; they were checking to see if Kim got the lingerie they sent her,” Ellen explained.

“She never got it. They told her they had called the house and spoken to Bruce, and he told them that Kim would wear a size large. Kim thought that was odd, because she is a medium.” Ellen continued: “When Kim went to the house, she asked Kris if she signed for it, and Kris said no. Kim asked the housekeeper if she’d seen any lingerie, and the housekeeper said it was in Bruce’s closet. So Kim went in Bruce’s closet and found tons of expensive lingerie that was all stretched out! She took it all and left. When Kim asked her mother about it, Kris denied it was Bruce’s.”

Paul Okoye & fiancee Anita Isama to wed March 22 in Port Harcourt

According to a press statement released this evening by P-Square publicist, Bayo Adetu, Paul Okoye, one half of the P-Square music duo, has picked March 22nd, 2014 for his traditional wedding with heartthrob, Anita Isama.

The ceremony will hold at Aztech Arcum Events Centre, Port Harcourt in Rivers State. The lovebirds already have a son, Andre. Congrats to them.

Jim Iyke puts hand on Nadia Buari's butt in new pic

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Handsome actor Michael Ealy says his wife isn't his type

Handsome Hollywood actor Michael Ealy, 40, married Khatira Rafiqzada, 32 (pictured above with him) in October 2012 after dating her for four years. But now he says she's not his type..

When asked to advise other men looking to settle down, Michael told Rolling Out magazine...

While, I don’t consider myself a person that should write a book, or give advice on relationships, what I will share is my personal perspective.

What helped me along the way was I had two personal friends of mine whose fiancés died. And I went through a personal struggle where my father got really sick, and I spent a week with him and it just dawned on me that we don’t have as much time as we think. And when you’re done playing games, and you find someone who has qualities that are much more practical as opposed to romanticized ideals, then you've got to hold on to them.

People think that you’re supposed to marry your type … well, I didn’t marry my type. It’s much more practical, and based in a day-to-day existence. So when you have that, and you’re happy, and you love her, don’t waste time. Because time — and I’ve learned that at this point in my life — time is my most precious commodity. Nothing is more precious than time. Because when it runs out … that’s it.

Who agrees with him? Shouldn't you marry your type?

Why I Think The Gay Community Should Come Out’ by Seun Kuti

Afrobeat musician Seun Kuti writes for OkayAfrica.com. Find it below...

I’m writing to condemn the recent anti-gay bill signed into law by our President Jonathan Goodluck. This law – which contains penalties of up to 14 years in prison for anyone in a same-sex marriage or civil union, 10 years for anyone who attends a same-sex wedding, 10 years for anyone involved with an LGBT organization, and even 10 years for anyone who shows affection for someone of the same sex – should be cast out. Since the law was passed, police across Nigeria have begun arresting and torturing dozens of our fellow citizens suspected of being gay. Don’t forget that in some of our states, if you are found guilty of being gay, you could be stoned to death.

First of all, this law was unnecessary. There is not space in the existing constitution for gay marriage. Our constitution is very definitive of marriage as a union between man and woman. I see the signing in of this law for what it was: a cheap shot by an under-achieving government to discriminate against people because they are different.

The president of Nigeria has a PhD, so he should understand better than most the implications of the law. Even if he couldn’t stop the senate from passing the bill, he had the power to delay signing it as a way of protecting the gay community. The President has had the Petroleum Industry Bill in front of him for years, and he and our senators have stalled on the bill calling for harsher punishment for corruption. Meanwhile, Nigeria’s senate has just sanctioned pedophilia in our constitution (girls that are as young as 9 years old can continue to be married in if they are “physically developed enough” according to their parents or prospective husbands) – so this the ban on homosexuality can hardly be a so-called “moral” issue. This is simply a move for cheap political points. Meanwhile, people’s lives hang in the balance.

Today I am writing this not as a fight for “gay rights”, I am fighting for all rights. People should be allowed to express themselves freely and this includes their sexuality. I believe all gay people should come out and organize openly. I expect that society should allow them live their lives as they please.
It’s not a cultural thing – it’s a sexual thing. I have even heard people say it’s Western culture imposed on us and if the West doesn’t recognize polygamy we should not accept homosexuality. This is the kind of scary ignorance that this kind of law will foster. (I can say for a fact that the constitution of Nigeria does not recognize polygamy. We have customary laws that are non-binding, but our secular courts and national constitution does not allow polygamy even though it’s “our culture.”)
I believe in education as the answer to any problem and I know this law does not educate positively. It just criminalizes and institutionalizes hate towards the gay community.

Here’s a call to action: I believe the gay community should come out! They need to put love above fear. I also believe that gay people in Africa not just Nigeria who are being targeted like this should put pressure on the West by claiming asylum in their countries. I think we are about to see a new wave of sexual refugees!

Love over fear should be the way forward.
-Seun Kuti

Mom was having sex with male friend while her kids died in hot car

The mother of the two boys who died of hyperthermia has been arrested. Authorities say they found out she was having sex with her boyfriend while the kids were left alone for two hours with the heat on in the car. (The boys and their father pictured above) The story below...

A mother whose children died after she locked them in the car with a heater running, while she had sex in another vehicle, is on trial for homicide.

Prosecutors say Heather Jensen, 25, carried out a "death sentence" against her two young sons when she locked then in the hot car, Fox 31 Denver reports.

The charges against Ms Jensen include criminally negligent homicide, child abuse resulting in death and false reporting. Continue...

"Ms Jensen created the situation that caused her children to die," prosecutor Danielle Lewis said in opening statements.

Her defence says her actions should be assessed with regard to her low IQ, her youth and the fact her husband died six weeks earlier in a car accident.

"It was a tragedy, but it was an accident. It was not a crime," said public defender Elsa Archambault.
Ms Jensen sobbed loudly as her trial opened last week in Mesa County District Court, Colorado.

Ms Jensen’s sons, William, 2, and 4-year-old Tyler, died on November 27, 2012. She told her new live-in boyfriend she was taking the boys to play in the snow and drove them to a snow park, where she met up with a male friend to have sex in the car park.

At first, she left the two boys in the car with the heat on and the doors unlocked.

After about 30 minutes, Tyler opened the door and Ms Jensen returned him to her car, gave him a mobile phone to play with and secured the child locks before returning to her friend.

The children are said to have spent 90 minutes in the car, where an investigation revealed temperatures could have reached 60 degrees Celsius. Both boys died from hyperthermia.

Ms Jensen’s defence attributes her poor decision making to her low IQ of 76, which makes her borderline developmentally disabled.

A boyfriend also told investigating police that Ms Jensen had smoked marijuana the day before the children died.

In the three months leading up to the deaths, she had failed court-ordered drug tests three times, the Daily Sentinel reports. The testing was tied to a March 2012 arrest for domestic violence. Her husband Eric had told police Ms Jensen became violent after he confronted her about spending time with friends who supplied her with painkillers Vicodin and Percocet.

Following the deaths of her sons, Ms Jensen also violated the terms of her probation and left Colorado for Florida, to be with her family.
"I believe it would be a great opportunity for me to start my life over again in Florida, and being surrounded by all my family who loves me to help me get through the losses I’ve had in this past month," Ms Jensen wrote in the letter to a Mesa County judge. "And I would greatly appreciate it if you will let me move on with my life in Florida."

Ms Jensen's request was denied and she was arrested at her mother's home in North Fort Myers, Florida on January 16, 2013.

The jury deciding the case was made up of 10 women and five men, but a judge removed one of the jurors from the trial when he found out she added a witness from the trial as a friend on Facebook, CBS Denver reports. The trial is expected to run for nine days.

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2014 Grammy red carpet photos + Full list of winners

Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Taylor Swift, pregnant Ciara and Amber Rose looking fabulous at last night's Grammy Awards which held at The Staples Center in Los Angeles. Continue to see more red carpet photos and full list of winners...

17-year-old Lorde won Best Pop Solo Performance and Song of the Year for Royals. Amazing! Love that song...

Beyonce

 Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz

 Paris Hilton

Rita Ora

Katy Perry

 Madonna and son

 Paula Patton

 Ariana Grande

Ciara

 Pink

 

 Amber Rose

 John Legend and Chrissy Teigen

Kelly Osbourne

 Guiliana Rancic, Colbie Callat, and Bonnie Mckee

 Fantasia, Tamar Braxton and Faith Evans

Full list of winners

Best New Artist: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: "Get Lucky," Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams and Nyle Rodgers

Best Rock Song: "Cut Me Some Slack," Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, Krist Novoselic & Pat Smear

Best Pop Solo Performance: "Royals," Lorde

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: "Holy Grail," Jay Z ft. Justin Timberlake

Best Country Album: Same Trailer Different Park, Kacey Musgraves

Song of the Year: "Royals," Lorde

Best Pop Instrumental Album: Stepping Out, Herb Albert

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: To Be Loved, Michael Buble

Best Reggae Album: Ziggy Marley In Concert, Ziggy Marley

Best Spoken Word Album: America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't, Stephen Colbert

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: Summertime Sadness, Cedric Gervais, Remixer (Lana Del Rey)

Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance: "Break Every Chain [Live]", Tasha Cobbs

Best Gospel Song: "If He Did It Before... Same God [Live]", Tye Tribbett

Follow her arrow: Kacey Musgraves also won two gongs

Best Gospel Album: Greater Than [Live], Tye Tribbet,

Best Latin Pop Album: Vida, Draco Rosa,

Best Song Written For Visual Media:  "Skyfall," Thomas Newman

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Brady Wells and Roomful of Teeth, "Roomful of Teeth"

Best New Age Album: Love's River, Laura Sullivan

Best Jazz Vocal Album:  Liquid Spirit, Gregory Porter,

Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue, Terri Lyne Carrington

Best Latin Jazz Album: Song For Maura, Paquito D'Rivera And Trio Corrente

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album: Sound City: Real To Reel, Butch Vig (Compilation Producer)

Best Musical Theater Album: Kinky Boots, Cyndi Lauper

Best Americana Album: Old Yellow Moon, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell

Best Folk Album: My Favorite Picuture of You, Guy Clark

Best Dance Recording: "Clarity," Zedd ft. Foxes

Best Dance/Electronica Album: Random Access Memories, Daft Punk

Best Comedy Album: Calm Down Gurrl, Kathy Griffin

Best Rap Performance: "Thift Shop," Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Best Rap Song: "Thift Shop," Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Best Rap Album: "The Heist," Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Best R&B Performance:  "Something," Snarky Puppy With Lalah Hathaway

Best Traditional R&B Performance: "Please Come Home," Gary Clark Jr.

Best R&B Song: "Pusher Love Girl," Justin Timberlake

Best Urban Contemporary Album: Unapologetic, Rihanna

Best R&B Album: Girl on Fire, Alicia Keys

Best Blues Album: Get Up!, Ben Harper With Charlie Musselwhite

Best Music Film: Live Kisses, Paul McCartney

Best Country Duo/Group Performance: "From This Valley," The Civil Wars

Best Country Solo Performance: "Wagon Wheel," Darius Rucker

Best Country Song: "Merry Go Round," Shane McAnally, Kacey Musgraves & Josh Osborne

Best Rock Performance: "Radioactive," Imagine Dragons

Best Alternative Music Album: Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Pharrell Williams

Best Metal Performance: "God Is Dead," Black Sabbath

Best Rock Album: Celebration Day, Led Zeppelin