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Celebrities › Re: Olamide Wears Face Mask To OLIC5 Stage, Shares Photos by potbelly(m): 9:25am On Dec 25, 2018
Merry Christmas... smiley
NwanyiAwkaetiti:
Lol. Sorry for d mention
Celebrities › Re: Olamide Wears Face Mask To OLIC5 Stage, Shares Photos by potbelly(m): 8:55am On Dec 25, 2018
Nope...
NwanyiAwkaetiti:
Is that a baby potbellyhuh
Sports › Re: Breaking: Romelu Lukaku Leaves Manchester United by potbelly(m): 6:04pm On Dec 21, 2018
Oga edit this your title joor undecided
Romance › Re: Nigerian Lady Warns Haters As She Shows Off Her Lover. See Reactions (Photos) by potbelly(m): 11:07pm On Dec 20, 2018
She resemble all these native diety in the second picture lipsrsealed
Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Unemployed Rises From 17.6m To 20.9m In Nine Months by potbelly(m): 11:55am On Dec 19, 2018
And some people will still want to vote buhari abi na jubrin...

*spits*
Celebrities › Re: Lilian Bach Shares Cleveage-Baring Photos by potbelly(m): 12:11am On Dec 19, 2018
Maami water... embarassed
Romance › Re: Was Linda Ikeji Played? by potbelly(m):
Baba that's the right word... Manipulative...

Toying with people's emotions... And they fall for it...

See how people are sucking up to her as though she was the victim and didn't know what she was getting herself into...

lefulefu:
its like u dont know dat ikeji has fanatical fanscheesy. Who wan dare write sumptin about hercheesy. But she's quite manipulative and intelligent though. See as she jus put down dis story and everybody dey suck am up.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL: Mourinho Gives Injury Update On Nine Man United Players Ahead Of Liverpool by potbelly(m): 1:44pm On Dec 14, 2018
How about Phil Jones. sad
Romance › Re: Was Linda Ikeji Played? by potbelly(m): 1:31pm On Dec 14, 2018
From stories of her putting peoples personal life's in public... To blackmail e.t.c I find it hard to believe her words...
Health › Re: Christmas Raises Risk Of Heart Attack by potbelly(m): 1:26pm On Dec 14, 2018
Well in Nigeria, new year (January) gives a higher risk of heart attack...

School fees

Rent

Yet to recover from Christmas spending...

Generally January is a month people hope to finish quickly
Celebrities › Re: Collins Ejike Traditional And White Wedding Photos by potbelly(m): 9:30am On Dec 14, 2018
You sef fear am... grin grin
Luciferdevil2:
This type of girl with tattoos all over her body hmmm. Well let me keep mute before they say the devil is a hater.
Celebrities › Re: Linda Ikeji Breaks Up With Sholaye Jeremi Her Baby Daddy by potbelly(m): 9:01am On Dec 14, 2018
So now she is a baby mama... sad

Meanwhile, there is always 3 sides to a story...
She's said her part...
Waiting for his part (I doubt we will get a response)
And the truth...

But my inner guts is telling me she's doing this to get more views for her blog and that shiit might backfire...
Celebrities › Re: Linda Ikeji And Her Son Jayce…says, Sholaye Jeremi Is His Dad! by potbelly(m): 8:41am On Dec 14, 2018
Here is the full story...

Two days before my 38th birthday on September 17th, I welcomed my first child, my son, Jayce. I look at him and I wonder why I waited so long to have a child. I’ve never known love like this. I literally have tears in my eyes every time I look at him. I can’t believe he came out of me. He is by far my greatest blessing and I’m looking forward to navigating him through life!



Now to the reason why you are reading this. I argued with myself for a long time whether to put this out or not…and finally decided it was a story I wanted to share. I've always been open about my life but I'm sharing details about my personal life mostly because of the girls who look up to me. The girls I have mentored, mentoring right now and plan to mentor in the future. I’m very particular about our young girls and I have personally tried over the years to be an example in some way; tried to teach these girls how to fight for their dreams, how to live right and do right and then I go and have a child out of wedlock and that must be a little confusing to some of them and especially with so many untruthful stuff out there about me. The most hilarious is that I had a child for a married man. Lol. Here’s my answer to that! The married man that I will sleep with has not yet been born. If he’s been born, he will die, be buried, rise and die again before he will lay with me. I don’t do married men. The father of my child is a single man and his name is Sholaye Jeremi. To be honest, at some point I thought he was my final bus stop but you know how life happens...lol. Unfortunately he and I are a completely closed chapter. Sadly for our son Jayce, it’s the kind of chapter that can’t ever be opened again.



One of the things many people have asked me is how I met this man because we don’t run in the same circle. Well, I met him 3 years ago at Wheatbaker Restaurant in Ikoyi in December 2015 shortly after I moved to my home in Banana Island, Ikoyi. It was a day after Christmas and I was having dinner with friends when he walked in. He saw me and the rest is history. He claimed at the time that he had never heard of me which was seriously a turn-on for me because up until then I’d only been meeting men who behaved like fans. At the time we met, I was 35 and he was 37 and I’d been single for nearly 4 years. I was definitely searching and I fell in love almost immediately and so we became an item.



At the time I met him he lived in a 3-bedroom flat at what used to be 5th roundabout in Lekki after Mobil. I used to drive for almost two hours in traffic from my house to go see him. Most of the time, I carried my laptop to his home to enable me to work and at the same time spend the whole day with him.



It was a whirlwind romance. He was the funniest and most romantic guy I’d met up until that point, so it was easy to fall in love and I truly believed the feeling was mutual. A few weeks after we met, it seemed like we were planning a future together. This man was already calling me Linda Ikeji Jeremi and making all these plans but then just like that, it was over between us. I went from waking up every morning to love text messages from him to no more calls. I was just thanking God for finally sending me my own man when all of a sudden we were no longer talking to each other. Later he would tell me what scared him off. My public life. He claims he’s a private business man and didn’t want the attention being with me would bring to him and I told him I understood and we went our separate ways. We tried to get back together in 2016 but it didn't work out so much so we separated again but stayed in touch (mostly him to be honest), stayed friends and that was how our back and forth started.



By mid-2017, we were both still single and we started seeing each other again quietly. There were times it was very intense and we talked about a future together, and there were times that I couldn’t figure out what exactly I was doing with this guy. We were not suited for each other. Totally different lifestyles. And there was the problem of my fame. I walked away from this man a million times and he came after me a million and one times. No matter how much I pushed him away, he kept coming back and me, because I couldn’t find anyone else, I kept going back. Lol. So I was basically going back to my ex because I couldn’t find anyone else. *sigh*.



Then I fell pregnant. It wasn’t planned, it just happened; though we talked about having a child together just two months before I fell pregnant. He said something about putting a billionaire baby inside me and I remember jokingly telling him that I’m also a billionaire so our child was going to be a billionaire on both side...and we laughed. But after I fell pregnant, things became extremely weird between us. If I tried to explain what happened, I wouldn’t be able to because it was confusing to me. We went from talking about the pregnancy and being okay with it; he even suggested I go to Dubai for my pre-natals as he didn’t trust doctors in Nigeria, to literally not talking to each other anymore. Around when I was about three months pregnant, he did come to see my parents and actually became very cool with my dad. They were literally exchanging Whatsapp messages every day. He later agreed to a traditional wedding which he didn’t follow through and then he switched. He began to treat me with so much hate and aggression that I and my family had to cut him off completely.



To be honest if anybody had told me when we met three years ago, considering how deeply we cared for each other that I would fall pregnant two years later and he would completely turn his back on me for most part of my pregnancy, I never would have believed it but that’s what happened. I had to draw strength from myself, my family and close friends.



And Jayce...oh my son Jayce, he was my biggest strength. It was almost as if he knew his dad was acting up so he came through for his mum. He was gentle with me when I was carrying him. I had an extremely easy pregnancy. I pushed him out under 3 mins and was in the labour room for less than 30 minutes. And then my snapback was amazing. Three weeks later, it was almost as if I’d never been pregnant. Jayce was my soldier when his dad turned his back.



But still, I have absolutely no iota of regret meeting Sholaye. Gosh, have you seen Jayce? How can I regret that? God doesn’t make mistakes. If you believe that you’re always led by God like I believe then I have to believe that God led me to this man for whatever reasons best known to Him. I thought God sent him as my life partner but I guess He just used him as a vessel for my greatest blessing. Now his part in my story is over. I know when to put my hands up and surrender. That God brought someone significant into your life doesn’t mean they are supposed to follow you throughout your life’s journey. We should learn to know when people’s part in our story is over. Don’t fight for closure, don’t ask for explanations, don’t chase answers, just let them go and know that if God meant for you to have them in your life, He would have given them to you. Sometimes people just come to serve a purpose in your life and are not meant to stay and there’s no point holding on to them. This one is done and dusted. It’s just Jayce and I now moving forward and I know life will be beautiful for us.



Being a single mum wasn’t the dream I had for myself; I’d prayed for the kind of happy home my parents built for us (they’ve been together for 40 years). Nothing is more important to me than family. For years I’d hammered on how much I was looking forward to getting married, having children and building my own family and I believed God was going to come through for me on that one, but I have come to understand that we have no control over what life throws at us no matter how much we plan, pray, or work. And we also have no control over the actions of other people towards us. One of the things I have learnt in my life’s journey is that your idea of how life should go might be different from the way life actually goes. It’s called Life Happening. Sometimes it unfolds into something we never dreamed of but because we don’t recognize the route we find ourselves on our journey through life, doesn’t mean God won’t get us to our destination. Remember, an uncertain chapter doesn’t ruin the whole book. Life will happen whether we are ready or not. All we can do is keep our heads up and keep moving.



Family and close friends told me I owed no one any explanation about the circumstances that led to the birth of my son, but I knew without writing this, I could never stand in front of the young girls who look up to me and talk to them again. I could never go on my secondary school tour and speak with these girls again about living right and doing right. I would always feel like I have no moral right to do so. I went to 15 secondary schools in 2017 and talking to those young impressionable girls has been one of the highlights of my life. I cancelled this year’s tour because I was pregnant and I haven’t made any preparations for next year’s tour because I wanted to set things right first.



I have so many plans for young girls next year and in the coming years with the Selfmade finance and mentorship projects with international collaborations, so this was important for me to do, to explain myself to the young girls who look up to me and feel disappointed that I got pregnant and had a baby out of wedlock. For years, I have preached decency, morality and uprightness and despite what happened to me, I mean it from the bottom of my heart. That should be the only way to live. That’s the only way I live. Don’t ever compromise your values. With this, I was led by my heart and my clock ticking and even though I have no regrets, I’m sorry if I let any of you ladies down by the decision I made, and I hope you learn from my experience. I hope you do better than I did. The ideal thing would be to find a man you love, who loves you back and gives you stability, get married, have kids and raise a family, not being a single mum or a baby mama. I was 37 years old at the time I conceived and if I want to be honest, my age played a role in me allowing myself to be pregnant out of wedlock. I don’t want to be having kids in my 40s or struggling with fertility later in life. This wasn’t the plan but like I said before, life happens. You just have to find a way to make the best of what life throws at you. And so for any young girl this means anything to, I am truly sorry. I am not sorry I had Jayce, I’m just sorry I didn’t go about it the right way.



But you know, despite this crazy love experience, I still believe in love and I believe in happy endings and I can’t wait to one day, God willing, have my fairy tale ending. The father of my child is the only man I’ve given a chance to in 6 years. Lol. I swear. I’m not really a relationship kind of girl. I’m more a career girl. I can go for years without a man. I’m one of those women who don’t need a man to validate their existence but biko, I’ve done the single life enough in the past…lol… going forward I’m looking forward to giving someone else a chance and try this love thing again. I was raised in a happy 2-parents’ home and that’s what I want for Jayce. So I hope I meet a great guy soon until then I’m enjoying motherhood. It rocks! Life has never been more beautiful!



I’d also like to address a few other issues. Number one is this celibacy issue. So many people have trolled me over it and I’d like to correct the misunderstanding. I have never ever in my life said people shouldn’t have sex before marriage. NEVER EVER have I said that. I have even argued with quite a few people that it is not feasible in this day and age. What I have always said and I maintain till today is; Do not ever sleep with men for money because any woman with a brain and determination can get her own money herself. And there’s nothing sweeter than your own money. I am 38 years old and I recently bought a N100million+ car; what the heck do you need to be sleeping with a man for? For designer bags, first class tickets and luxury holidays? GTFOH with sleeping with a man for rent money! You can give yourself all that and more if you apply yourself, fight for your dream and work your butt off. Men don’t have the exclusive right to create wealth; women can also create wealth. Money is not male. Wealth is not male. Success is not male. We women just need to believe in ourselves more and get off our butts and stop relying on our looks and charm instead of our brain, mind, will, and our God given talent/gift. We can be rich, we can be successful, we can break barriers, do what was formerly termed impossible, do what men can do, be CEOs of conglomerates and billionaires without ever having to lie on our backs. Please ladies, we are powerful beyond measure and can do anything and be anything we want to be.



The other thing I’ve always said is; do not sleep around with multiple men who just use your body for their pleasure; that is; too many one night stands, casual sex, many sex partners in a short period of time all in the name of relationships. Your body deserves better. I feel sex should only happen when you’re in a loving, committed relationship with someone you love. I was celibate for many years until I met my son’s father and fell in love. And instead of increasing my body count, I just went back to the same eggplant…lol. My mistake was I should have walked away when the relationship became a waste...lol... but then again, Jayce wouldn’t be here today if I had. So really, there’s nothing that I have preached that I didn’t practice. So you guys stop trolling me over this abeg! Lol.



Thank you for reading and thank you for your understanding.

Love and kisses to you and yours

Hugs

Linda

Link below...

https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2018/12/meet-my-son-jayceand-yes-sholaye-jeremi-is-his-dad.html
Celebrities › Re: Linda Ikeji And Her Son Jayce…says, Sholaye Jeremi Is His Dad! by potbelly(m):
So now she is a baby mama... sad

Meanwhile, there is always 3 sides to a story...
She's said her part...
Waiting for his part (I doubt we will get a response)
And the truth...

But my inner guts is telling me she's doing this to get more views for her blog and that shiit might backfire...
Celebrities › Re: Small Doctor: Friends Mocked Me For Choosing Agege Stadium For My Concert by potbelly(m): 10:54am On Dec 13, 2018
Some one who allegedly threatened to shoot a police officer is been guided by one in the third picture... huh
Celebrities › Re: Small Doctor: Friends Mocked Me For Choosing Agege Stadium For My Concert by potbelly(m): 10:53am On Dec 13, 2018
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Politics › Re: Babachir Lawal In Villa, 13 Months After Sack by potbelly(m): 9:33am On Dec 13, 2018
One of the two people Aisha Buhari is referring to?
Politics › Re: Babachir Lawal In Villa, 13 Months After Sack by potbelly(m): 9:32am On Dec 13, 2018
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Politics › Re: APC Has No Achievement To Promote - Dele Momodu by potbelly(m): 7:49pm On Dec 09, 2018
Bros wetin I do you na... sad sad
zlantanfan:
No subscription for potbelly is really affecting this Buffon.

Mr confusion keep your silly apologies to your indomie brain
Politics › Re: FG To Begin Repairs Of Third Mainland Bridge Expansion Joints Jan by potbelly(m): 2:40pm On Dec 09, 2018
Thanks boss...
bestpunterever:
The bridge is built over sea or in water by constructing piles as foundation.

The pile foundation in water is the most difficult task.

The piles are constructed from Reinforcement cement concrete up to hard rock,Then a pile cap of RCC are constructed.

Then a column or pier is further constructed on the pile cap .This cap on the pier bears the load of the bridge.
Politics › Re: FG To Begin Repairs Of Third Mainland Bridge Expansion Joints Jan by potbelly(m): 9:19am On Dec 09, 2018
Thanks boss... cool
fkj950ax:
Yes.
Several meters actually.
Politics › Re: FG To Begin Repairs Of Third Mainland Bridge Expansion Joints Jan by potbelly(m): 8:44am On Dec 09, 2018
are the piers the brown covering in the picture attached?
Meaning they are sunk to the water bed which is several feet deep for both repair and construction work to be done?
fkj950ax:
Piers are built around them and most of the water pumped and repairs carried out. Some may involve under water welding / casting.

They are built same way. A pier is either sunk or built at the spot, and work is done inside the pier. When finished, the pier is taken away and the structure is there.
Politics › Re: FG To Begin Repairs Of Third Mainland Bridge Expansion Joints Jan by potbelly(m): 7:56am On Dec 09, 2018
Please can someone help explain how the bridge pillars settle deep into the ocean and how repair works can be done on the such joints/pillars....

I am just curious and want to learn... smiley
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Manchester United Vs Arsenal (2 - 2) On 5th December 2018 by potbelly(m): 10:58pm On Dec 05, 2018
Dialot... Atleast Valencia go rest small...
Genduzi... Good arsenal midfielder

Now we can see the hunger, zeal and good performance without pogba in the team...
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Manchester United Vs Arsenal (2 - 2) On 5th December 2018 by potbelly(m): 10:35pm On Dec 05, 2018
Pogba sad
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Manchester United Vs Arsenal (2 - 2) On 5th December 2018 by potbelly(m): 10:30pm On Dec 05, 2018
We back!!! cool
Education › Re: ASUU Strike! Lecturer Turns Spiderman To Attend To Students by potbelly(m): 6:30pm On Dec 05, 2018
Like they don't know his car at the department... grin cheesy

Spiderman using glasses... grin grin
Celebrities › Re: Between Gov Ajimobi Son & A Troll Who Ask Him Why He Allows His Wife dress Naked by potbelly(m): 11:05pm On Nov 28, 2018
You put up a post ask me a question..

You were asked a question...

And your response just had to be vile...

Not surprised though... undecided
Politics › Re: Ganduje Donates N10 Million To EFCC And ICPC Event by potbelly(m): 12:06am On Nov 27, 2018
Corruption fighting back..
Celebrities › Re: Linda Ikeji's Brother, Peks Joins The Groomsmen Sqaud (photos) by potbelly(m): 12:03am On Nov 27, 2018
Zero class/dress sense...
Grey suit on white shoes with red socks...
Smh
Romance › Re: Groom Poses With 7 Busty Bridesmaids In Braless Gown On Wedding Day by potbelly(m): 5:42pm On Nov 26, 2018
Extreme left... wink
Celebrities › Re: Dabota Lawson Flaunts Her Big Surgically Enhanced Nyash At Eloy Awards by potbelly(m): 5:41pm On Nov 26, 2018
Lefulefu

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