Nigerian Times

Photo Credit: UPI . 10 Feb 2012 15:00 Africa/Lagos TouchTunes Third Annual Valentine's Day Love Survey Taps Bar-goers to Fess Up About Celebrity Crushes, Sex and Dating Deal Breakers Nearly Half Have Admitted To Cheating Seal's Smash Hit "Amazing" Best Describes Participants' Sex Lives Black man with his White woman. Photo Credit: Cutcaster.Com . NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Love is in the air and on the minds of bar-goers nationwide as the country gets ready for this year's celebration of Valentine's Day. Released today, TouchTunes Interactive Networks' third annual Love Survey results revealed that women find legendary rocker Jon Bon Jovi to be the sexiest man in music (29%), beating out R&B sensation Usher (26%) and Country superstar Blake Shelton (24%). In less than a week, over 120,000 people across the US participated in TouchTunes' Love Survey, sharing their opinions on love, sex and the big V-day. What 2011 celebrity break-up...

Dear Single Black Sistas, You Have To Settle For Mr. Available The collapse of marriage among blacks is well documented (see chart), but not the sexual, psychological, emotional and social toll this has taken on black women. Seven out of ten are single. Of the others, many are forced into “man-sharing” . ~ From Unmarried black women, Down or out : A black male professor kicks up a storm about black women and marriage. According to his new book Is Marriage for White People? How the African-American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone , Ralph Richard Banks, the Stanford professor of family law says the crisis in the black “relationship market” starts with a “man shortage”. About one in ten black men in their early thirties are in prison. As a group, black men have also fallen behind in education and income, just as black women have surged ahead. Two black women graduate from college for every black man. As these women rise into the middle class, the men stay in the lower class, becoming le...

Britney Spears Celebrates Engagement at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas Pop princess debuts her 3.5-carat Neil Lane sparkler from longtime love Jason Trawick Jason Trawick and Britney Spears celebrate their engagement at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on Dec. 16, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Denise Truscello/WireImage) LAS VEGAS (Dec. 19, 2011) /PRNewswire/ — Britney Spears celebrated her engagement to longtime love Jason Trawick at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino the evening of Friday, Dec. 16. The pop icon debuted her 3.5-carat Neil Lane ring at the famed Las Vegas resort, which Trawick presented to her the previous evening in Los Angeles. Jason Trawick and Britney Spears celebrate their engagement at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on Dec. 16, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Denise Truscello/WireImage) Spears and her fiancé checked into one of the resort’s 3,100-square-foot mega-suites designed by famed designer Jonathon Adler. The two-...

Cartier puts love in the online spotlight with three short films in cinema-mode by Luca Guadagnino: Jardins du Palais-Royal, Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Place de l’Opéra Paris, 25th November/PRNewswire/ — Cartier is releasing three short films, three marriage proposals, exclusively on Facebook and on YouTube. Love, the proposal, and the red box are the three themes Cartier has entrusted to the Italian director Luca Guadagnino (2011 Oscar nominee for the Best Foreign Film: “I Am Love”). Working with the American screenwriter Xan Cassavettes, the director shows three proposals of marriage, three iconic love stories involving Paris and jewellery, each set in a different part of the city: the rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, the Opéra and the Palais Royale. Shot in cinema mode, these original stories show how romance affects three generations of lovers in turn: On a night tinged with nostalgia, the wonderful Aurore Clément, best known for her performance in Louis Malle’s Lacombe Lucien and ...

Safe Escape: Survivors and Experts Offer Advice for Fleeing Domestic Violence In recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, BeSmartBeWell.com shares the hopeful story of one woman who successfully escaped domestic abuse. CHICAGO, October 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Each year, more than 4 million women and one in 10 men are harmed by their partners, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Tragically, the most dangerous time for victims of domestic violence is when they try to leave. In recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, BeSmartBeWell.com, in collaboration with the National Domestic Violence Hotline, shares the story of Bessie, a domestic violence survivor, and provides practical tips and resources to help people break free from abusive relationships. Barriers to escape For years, Bessie hid the bruises. She lied to her friends and family, wore long sleeves and used make-up to cover the latest scars. She wanted to escape from her abusive husba...

August 13, 2011 New Yorkers give Sherri some insight on those tough marriage moments! Marriage is a Monopoly of one man keeping a woman all to himself selfishly after playing Totopoly for many years. ~ Orikinla Osinachi Tweet

Mrs. Peju Adebajo, Managing Director/Chief Executive, Mouka Foam Ltd. The greatest ambition of Nigerian women ends in the bedroom while the greatest ambition of Nigerian men ends in the boardroom. Majority of Nigerian women are more desperate to marry than Nigerian men. In fact, majority of Igbo parents send their daughters to school to increase their material value more for marriage than careers. The higher standards of education you have, the higher bride price and greater matrimonial status. You are exposed to more men who are the potential suitors. Whereas the first and foremost priority of majority of Nigerian men is to be successful in their careers to increase their purchasing power to afford a good accommodation, a good car/SUV and a good wife or trophy girlfriend. Many Nigerian men are still single, because they are yet to achieve this priority and there are not many choices of good women or trophy girlfriends to marry in Nigeria. Because, Nigerian men have been relegating ...