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  • “I would have given you up for adoption if I gave birth to you”– Kemi Olunloyo tells Tonto Dikeh

    “I would have given you up for adoption if I gave birth to you”– Kemi Olunloyo tells Tonto Dikeh

    Nigerian journalist, Kemi Olunloyo, has told Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, that she would have given her up for adoption if she gave birth to her.

     

    In her words: ” If I gave birth to you, you would have been given up for adoption a long time ago.

     

    Their rift started when Olunloyo asked Tonto Dikeh if she knows about the demolition of the residence of her ex-lover in the Federal Capital Territory.

     

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) gathered that the question did not sit well with the actress who claimed that she would send the journalist back to prison.

     

    Olunloyo in her reaction to Tonto Dikeh’s statement accused the actress of purchasing a gun to kill her ex-husband, Churchill.

     

    The journalist wondered why Tonto Dikeh, who once donated to help her when she was in jail, is calling for her to go back to prison.

     

    Kemi, in a statement on her social media, wrote, “I REALLY WANT TO HELP TONTO DIKEH. I’m concerned about the businesswoman whose office she visited last week and her bag fell on the ground with a crack pipe dropping out.

     

    “I’m aware that she contacted the NDLEA on her post wanting to be an ambassador and requesting to be tested but have no idea of her dealings with the agency.

     

    “I don’t work for them. I’m just an advocate with my own campaign against the war on drugs, something I did in America 30 yrs ago.

     

    “We must never STIGMATIZE recovering addicts or those who have won the addiction battle and want to help others.

     

    “I’m an award-winning pharmacist and was once the outpatient pharmacy director of the addiction clinic at the world’s most prestigious hospital Johns Hopkins Medicine. But why was she still carrying drug paraphernalia?? She’s the mother of a small child.”

     

    Kemi pointed out that she has the right to ask why Tonto was bragging about her ex-boyfriend’s mansion demolition.

     

    “I supported Tonto Dikeh when she was going through extreme domestic violence and purchased a gun in Ghana attempting to kill Churchill her ex-husband.

     

    “As she was laying curses on another journalist Azuka Ogujuiba, I counseled Azuka on how to handle a dirty bitter divorce of public figures.

     

    “This is what I’m teaching my journalism interns @2222mediaschool now. After leaving Port Harcourt prison, Singer Dencia fed me, bought me new clothes and bought me a ticket to travel home to Ibadan,” she asserted.

     

    Kemi added: “My daddy, late Alabo Graham Douglas, housed me for 30 days in his hotel and took me to meet Pastor Ibiyeomie who I’ve never asked a single Naira from till today.

     

    “Dencia started the fundraiser, Yele Sowore the 3rd donor sent me money from New York and promoted the fundraiser heavily on Sahara Reporters. Tonto was the second donor with 200K, I can’t believe it’s the same person that is professing Ogun to help her send me back to prison.

     

    “Did she rush to donate that money for clout in one of the most controversial clout fundraisers known to man? Hushpuppi wanted me to beg Linda Ikeji first, Emenike contacted me lashing out at all these “small children insulting my wellness” and paid it off disgracing all the donation clout chasers.

     

    “May my life never go that low again. Tonto has no regard for humanity. She rejoices over other people’s demise. A narcissist who has a foundation possibly to prove to the world she’s doing her part.

     

    “Those praising her are beneficiaries of her giveaways. What you are today does not determine what you are tomorrow. You may be the one in prison tomorrow. May God forgive Tonto Dikeh.

     

    “Ms Tonto Dikeh pls don’t step on my toes. Remember you and my oldest son are the same age. If I gave birth to you, you would have been given up for adoption a long time ago. I won’t revisit this matter. Good luck and be a good citizen.”

  • Kaduna Govt. bans child fostering, adoption

    Kaduna State Government has banned fostering and adoption of children due to abuses by orphanage homes in the state, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Hafsat Baba, has said.

    Baba said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Kaduna that the government had discovered that some of the orphanages were conduits for trafficking and abuse of children.

    She said that the ban would remain in force until the government sanitise the system of adoption and fostering of children in the state.

    “When we came on board, we found out that people just turn their houses into orphanages and get these children, but won’t give them out for fostering or adoption.

    “Rather, they use them as a business to get donations and that is what they capitalise on to feed their own children.

    “We have also found out that children were being sold, so we felt that this is a very serious issue that needs our intervention.

    “We wrote to the governor seeking approval to stop fostering and adoption because we don’t know where the children are been taken to.

    “Some are being sold or trafficked, some are exposed to serious dangers; we even learnt that some of their organs are being sold.

    “So, for now we have stopped fostering and adoption.

    “We will seek justice for those children and some of those issues are already before the courts,’’ she said.

    The commissioner disclosed that in one of the cases, the ministry was dragged to court by a Ghanaian after it retrieved three children from him.

    “There is one Ghanaian man accused of buying three children in Zaria, we have collected these children from him but he took us to court and we are in court now.

    “The man is accused of buying the baby boy for N400, 000 and the baby girls for N350, 000.’’

    The commissioner explained that the ministry had drafted a regulatory framework to guide the operations of orphanages and as soon as it is ratified, the ban would be lifted.

    Baba said the ministry had undertaken the mapping of all orphanages in the state in conjunction with relevant government agencies.

    “As of now, we have the total number of orphanages in the state and their maps for easy tracking.’’

    On other activities, Baba said the ministry was battling with high number of teenage pregnancies and those who either sell off their babies or kill them after delivery.

    “We requested for shelter where we keep children on emergency or women that are bartered so as to undergo psycho-social and trauma counselling.’’

    According to her, the government will open a trauma centre in 2018 to offer 24-hour service to women and children.

    “We will have volunteer nurses and doctors, and also work with security agencies at the trauma centre.’’

     

  • Joke Silva drops bombshell, reveals how she was adopted from childhood

    Every day there’s a new opportunity to learn more about your favorite celebrities.Unknown to many, celebrated actress and thespian, Joke Silva popularly called Mummy Jay is an adopted child.

    The 56 year old actress was adopted by the late Chief E.A Silva, a respectable lawyer, and his wife late Dr Abimbola Silva, a pioneering female doctor who died in July 2015.

     

    The revered actress made this known at the recent first annual conference of Heritage Adoption Support and Advocacy Group (HASAAG).

     

    Joke Silva recounted her experience at the event which had the wife of the Vice President, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo in attendance

     

    According to her: I remembered going out with my cousin and we met a big cousin .She introduced me as ‘my cousin’s daughter and this is Dr Silva’s daughter.’ Then, the older cousin was like, ‘Dr. Silva ke? Se Doctor Silva bimo ni? (meaning does Dr. Silva have a child?) . I was so confused and when I got home I told my mum, ‘I met this lady that says you never had a child.’ My mum froze and she said, ‘Don’t mind them, they are used to rubbish talk.’

     

    But I got to know years later when I wanted to travel and was looking for my passport where my mum kept it. Since she was not around, I opened the box in her absence and I saw my adoption papers. I never discussed it with my mum because I felt it was something that would hurt her that was why, it was kept secret from me”.

     

    Speaking further, she shared how she told her husband she is an adopted child.

     

    Hear her: “Several years later, I brought home the one I wanted to marry and my mum asked my husband, if he knew I was adopted and he answered in affirmation that I had already told him.

     

    Many years later, there was another memory of a very nasty member of our family. My mummy always very supportive of her relatives sat on our balcony and said my aunty would never be supportive of her because in the Yoruba language, ‘won o kuku bimo’ (she never supported her because she didn’t have a child of her own.)

     

    When I heard about it I did what Pastor Rapu called the unchristian thing. (May God forgive me. I dealt with her, till today, she never believed what I did that day to her, but I dealt with her by being so cold towards her. She would never forget it.

    She also revealed how she told her children she is an adopted child

     

    “I then realized that I needed to tell my children about my adoption. I don’t want anybody to tell them in a way it wouldn’t be supportive. I called my children and I told them the ABC of my adoption story. They now told me that grandma had already told them. It was then I learn that somebody in my son’s school had told him about his mum being adopted. He told grandma and grandma told him everything. Little wonder, my mum and Soji, my son were very close. Till she died, my mum my son remained inseparable”.

     

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  • Court grants Madonna permission to adopt 2 children from Malawi

    Court grants Madonna permission to adopt 2 children from Malawi

    Madonna has been granted permission to adopt two more children from Malawi, a court spokesperson has announced.

    The country’s High Court made the ruling on Tuesday (today).

    The singer already has two children from the African country – David, adopted in 2006, and Mercy, adopted in 2009.

    Malawian judiciary spokesman Mlenga Mvula said the singer was inside the court in Lilongwe when the ruling was given.

    “In fact, at the time we were granting her the permission she was in the courtroom with her lawyers,” Mr Mvula said.

    But less than two weeks ago Madonna denied reports she’d applied to adopt any more children, during a charity visit to Malawi.

    On 25 January, a Malawian government spokesperson told news outlets the 58-year-old singer had appeared in court and had “filed an application expressing interest” to adopt two children.

    But Madonna said she was only there for charity purposes.

    “The rumours of an adoption process are untrue,” she said in a statement.

    “I am in Malawi to check on the children’s hospital in Blantyre and my other work with Raising Malawi and then heading home.”

    Madonna founded the children’s charity Raising Malawi in 2006, the same year she adopted David.

    Last summer she took David and Mercy to visit the orphanages where they lived before being adopted.

    The star has two other children – Lourdes and Rocco – from previous relationships.