If marriages are meant to be celebrated then what happens to divorces? In the last couple of weeks what has been pouring out of Nollywood are stories of divorce. If there are any marriages, they are not hot enough to make good news. Okay, there are enough movies making their rounds of the cinemas and maybe some endorsement deals are being pulled off but aren’t they a bit of backstage stuff to take the shine out of these divorces?
With recent divorce of Nollywood superstar actress, Funke Akindele, it is no longer news that most marriages involving top Nollywood actresses hit the rocks just as soon as the oaths were taken. Maybe Funke’s drama with husband of barely one year tops the list, given the glamour that accompanied the solemnisation of their matrimony and the manner in which the separation was served to the public.
Everybody felt for Funke. At least the method employed by the husband, choosing the social media to break the news, even to his wife, got Funke a drove of sympathisers who were ready to take her husband apart. Maybe, that emboldened Funke because she has since shrugged it off and is already painting the town red as she was spotted last weekend, looking her smashing self at the Miss Global pageant .
While Funke’s husband, Kehinde Oloyede took to Facebook to announce his separation from his wife, Chika chose Twitter to tell her fans that “she was finally free of Mr Tony Eberiri”. “I’m now officially divorced. Thanks,” she tweeted.
Funke and Chika may now be on the spot but they have a long list of others before them. While a lot has been speculated on why these marriages fail, investigations have revealed that top on the list are abuse, infidelity, violence and what they have come to term ‘irreconcilable differences’.
The story of Laide Bakare was another messy divorce saga. She was reportedly married to Mr. Okunfulire who unknown to her was married to another woman with two children. But most of the facts were not made public until Laide was delivered of a baby for another man, Mr Tunde Oriowo. She however had a daughter for her estranged husband. Her own case was termed “glaring injustice”.
Nollywood diva, Stella Damasus is probably unlucky. She lost her first husband, Jaiye Aboderin to the cold hands of death shortly after their marriage. After that, she tried to get on with life and tried her luck with Emeka Nzeribe. That luck did not hold as they separated just after two years, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’.
Saheed and Fathia Balogun were the perfect couple, almost a model for what a celebrity marriage should be until cracks in that perfect picture began to manifest. While Saheed accused Fathia of infidelity, Fathia was always crying of domestic violence from her partner. Willy-nilly the marriage crashed despite interventions from families and colleagues.
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Ayo Adesanya and Goriola Hassan probably didn’t do badly. Their marriage lasted eight years and Ayo and her movie director husband were always together, in the house and on location until it seemed they got tired of seeing each other around. Ayo fingered ‘jealousy’ as the virus that stole into their home to eat out the nuptial knot.
It was hard to believe that Doris Simeon and her director husband, Daniel Ademinokan would go their separate ways after showing so much love and affection the way couples who seem to be in love do. They were married for a few years and then broke up. At a point, Doris accused her Daniel of scrounging on her.
Stephanie Okereke-Linus is now enjoying the bliss of her second marriage, her marriage to big boy Idahosa Linus.The A-list actress is said to have been very happy with her divorce from her ex-footballer husband Mike Iloanyusi, who, at a point allegedly completely likened Stephanie to a piece of football he played around. She divorced him on account of battery and infidelity.The breakup of the marriage of this top actress is said to be based on extra-marital affairs.
For Chiege Alisigwe, who was married to a UK-based businessman, she alleged that the man had other relationships. Unable to bear it, she came back to continue her life in Nigeria, where she met her present husband, an Enugu-based police officer.
After a number of failed marriages, fans were happy that Shan George had found love again, when she announced that she was getting married to Tony Nwosisi. They got married, but the marriage did not last, her reason, being ‘incompatibility’
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The list is endless. Hilda Dokubo, Monalisa Chinda, Foluke Daramola, Clarion Chukwura, Ngozi Ezeonu, Kate Henshaw, Jennifer Eliogu, Stephanie Okere and many more have experienced bitter pills of divorce and in most cases the reasons are not so dissimilar.
Most often than not, these super stars knew they were diving into troubled waters but for one reason or another they just didn’t give a damn. Funke Akindele’s husband was known to have fathered over ten kids by different women before Funke decided to settle with him.
Monalisa Chinda, who is romancing Lanre Nzeribe cannot say she is so wet behind the ears not to know that the guy is known as a top playboy. Many Nollywood actresses have also married at the expense of some other women who have had to relinquish their men to their beauty, fame and influence.
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na wa oh. these nollywood actresses. the rate at which they divorce makes it seem like divorce is not a big deal. what happened to fixing it (thats supposed to be what or culture promotes if nothing)
ReplyDeleteWell I'm not suprised,it seems dts the curse of fame check the trails from Hollywood, Gbollywood to the so called Nollywood also ghallywood or whatever but unlike the Americans, we africans has good cultures and good upbringing but that's no more our ladies/girls are now after MONEY!!, no values/love only money and class that's what they cherish,I won't pity anyone that's gts married to a man that alrdy fathered 10 kids from different women come to think of it she knows b4 hand!! What makes her thinks her's will be diff.from that of the others? Greed! Greed! Its Greed on their part.
ReplyDeleteThe nollywood actress are not sincere to there selves and they like to leave fake live, most of them don't go for average man in society but they like to attach them selves to rich/high class man, which they don't even know him well but because of material things(House,Range rover and so on) and they forget those men have bn struggle for years before they attain that level and one actress we now come from no way to attached her self to the read made Name,they want men that can buy them Range rover, house in vgc,lekki and Magodo but when that can't do that the actress called them diffrent name because they refuse to be Mugun. Like Toyin Ahimaku did,she went for average guy in society which we don't even know much about this guy,a young man that is perfect for her level and age and I believe her marriage wil long and last Insha Allahu.
ReplyDeleteWe hear about their divorce because they Are stars, this is happening everywhere now, the future generation will experience even more.
ReplyDeleteWith all our education things are getting even worst when compared with the days of our parent. This is as a result of Godlessness, what people want to hear this days is the name of the strongest Shrine priest, May God Save HIS own.
Well spoken. Its really happening oº°˚°Âº. Ppl aint ready 4 commitment. Marriage isn't a child's play. Most ppl talking aren't †Ñ’ξ ones inside, Wen ÐŽ☺ΰ step in ÐŽ☺ΰ'll know it takes only †Ñ’ξ grace of God 4 it to survive.
DeleteThey are copying their Hollywood counterparts. We copy all the rubbish from the West. Why cant we copy things that are good instead of rubbish???
ReplyDeleteI agree with the last two paragraphs. These women should really look at who it is they are in relationships with BEFORE they decide to get married. That lady that gave the reason that her and her husband were 'incompatible'... i don't even know what to say. That's so stupid. How can you not know how compatible the two of you will be before you get committed to marriage?
ReplyDeleteThat being said, a lot of the women complain that their husbands cheat on them and I think that this should be condemned! A marriage involves two people and we cannot only condemn one side of the equation, especially if infidelity or abuse is involved. As far as I am concerned, if a man cheats on or beats his wife and they get divorced, IT IS THE MAN'S FAULT!!
@Emex, you are right, godlessness is the root of this problem. People do not fear God anymore, and thus do not consider the sacredness of the institution that he created from the beginning of history.
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When you decide to do your dance with a strange music abandoning your own beats & tunes which you're used to. There are no two ways about it,u're bound to miss ur dance steps at a point. Marriage as an institution in Africa,used to have rigourous procedures,diverse according to different culture existing in Africa. Each protocol serving a definite purpose. Because of acquired disregard for our African ways,we have chosen modern virtues accompanied with their concequences such as unsuccessful marriages. We pay more attention to trivialities such as lavish societal nupitals whereas the important aspects of the entire activity get little or no attention. We're no longer able to distinguish between LOVE & LUST. In civilised countries where we see most of the attitudes we seem to copy ,their perspectives as regards certain issues are different. Most of them don't mind when the see their wives in another man's arms even when their actress wife isn't acting. Some belong to clubs where they switch their wives with other Apple's wives & openly engage in sexual bouts together. We are Africans & we must reconcile with the fact that there are certain things that can't change in our lives as Africans.
ReplyDeleteSorry guys,I meant to say; some belong to clubs where they switch their wives with other pple's wives & openly engage in sexual bouts together.
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