A lot of people like things that clearly define them. While the rest of us want to rock different looks at different occasions and seasons, there are some people who feel attached to a certain lifestyle, costume, hair-do or even demeanor. For example American actor John Wick, has never been caught on camera holding the bodies of ladies, the far he can go is letting you stand close to him while he shows his palms to the screen. He has been known for never touching ladies when taking a shot with them, it makes no different if they’re celebrities or not. 

Some individuals have sort of informally trademark their appearances to be relative to just them alone.  This becomes much more fascinating when the individual is popular because it makes the ordinary people who think alike to be able to relate to them.

Here are five popular people who have over the cause of the years imprinted their unique sense of style on the hearts of people:

1. DJ Cuppy and her pink world: Let’s begin from Nigeria. It is no longer a surprise that popular disc Jockey, Florence Otedola is a pinkie. She in fact ostentatiously displays on our screens her love for the colour pink. She makes this a trade mark on everything around her, even to the colour of her hair. She moved from braiding, to wigs and then low cut but the colour pink remained a constant in all of her hair transformations.

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Cuppy alludes her love for pink to American female rapper, Nicky Minaj. Recall that when her father Femi Otedola got his three daughters Lamborghini cars, no one needed to be told that the pink one belonged to cuppy, it was already a given. It will not be a fallacy to say that if given the power, Cuppy would gladly paint her very skin to the colour of pink

2. Davido, his shiny lip-gloss and dimples. OBO as he is popularly called has been called a lot of things including ‘frog voice’ because of the texture of his voice. He had even got himself a diamond frog chain to own his flaws. But two of the outstanding things with David are his dimples and lip gloss. In fact, it seems as if he purposely smiles for the camera with the side of his face that shows his dimples. It is also now known that he doesn’t step out of his door without his lip gloss. It seems like the singer’s attempt is to create a mirror effect on his lips, one that would blind anyone who dared to stare too long at his shiny lips. A fan had even made a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) petite statue of the singer, which highlighted his nose and earrings, his chain, dimples and never to forget, his very shiny lip gloss

3. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and her headscarf: From being the minister of Finance and budget in Nigeria to being the minister of foreign affairs, back to being the minister of  Finance and budget to minister, to being Secretary to the world bank and finally the Director General of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo has experienced an upward trajectory of her career. It has been from one level of change to another for her but one thing remained constant, her head gear. The half-fitted scarfs she rocks has been a never changing adornment for the 68- year- old. One would think, for someone who had attained the height of global recognition, her dress sense would at least be influenced a little by ‘suit and tie wearing’ culture. But this woman remains unchanged. It seems as though  uncovering her hair is a privilege given to only a few people around her.

 After she became DG of WTO, Nigerian women and even female children took turns in tying head gears in an attempt to mimic her dress style and it was tagged ” The Ngozi Challenge”. Females dressed like the DG to showcase who is better at being an “Ngozi”

4. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and his Bayelsan cap: The few times we’ve seen Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in a suit and tie, without his popular South-South head cap, he just didn’t look good luck Jonathan enough. When a caricature is made in Nigeria, one might have trouble identifying who is who but with Goodluck Jonathan, his cap gives him away, like the character Peter in the Bible whose native accent made him stand out among people who regarded him a traitor. We have all come to accept that Goodluck never leaves his dark grey South-South cloth and his cap

5. Bishop David Oyedepo and White: It was not so in the beginning but it seems that the older he became the more Bishop David Oyedepo, the head Pastor of Living Faith ministries preferred white to any other cloth. The Christian faith have an inclination to white, it signifies a lot of things for us including, holiness, glory and sometimes the Holy Spirit who is the third Person in the God Head Family. Although his reason has not been quite revealed, One of his popular sluggard is, ‘moving from glory to glory,  that is the best bet so far. 

It is not uncommon for children to pursue careers in the same fields as their parents.. Favourite Nollywood stars are not exempt from this rule.

Here are four prominent movie stars whose children are doing successfully in same career path:

*Adebayo Salami 

Veteran actor Salami Adebayo popularly known as Oga Bello is the father of 18 kids. Only Femi and Tope Adebayo Salami are the most well-known actors from the Salami family, despite the fact that the Salami family is well-known in the Yoruba branch of Nollywood.

Tope, also known as “Wedee Wedee,” is a brand ambassador, actor, and filmmaker. Among others, he has produced the films Sixty Nine, Jelili, and Onome Aganga.

Popular Nollywood actor Femi Adebayo is also known as Jelili or Sonto Alapata. He is Salami Adebayo, aka Oga Bello, a seasoned Nollywood actor’s second son.

*Rita Daniel

Regina Daniels, an actress, is the daughter of Rita Daniels.

Regina developed a deep interest in her mother’s field of work from seven.

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Regina Daniels appears to have surpassed her mother’s notoriety in the Nollywood industry more than ten years later.

In the 2015 Nollywood film Marriage in Sorrow, Regina, the fifth child in a family of six siblings, makes her acting debut. Rita, Regina’s mother, is widely recognized in the film business. She is an actress and a well-known Actors Guild member in Delta State.

*Peter Edochie

Veteran actor, Pete Edochie a benefactor of a well-known family is the father of Leo, Adam, Linc, Jean, Yul, and Eva. Only Yul and Linc Edochie were interested in their father’s distinguished career out of the lots.

Yul Edochie joined Nollywood in 2005 and has been a mainstay in the industry for almost 20 years, while Linc Edochie is an actor, director, and scriptwriter who began acting professionally in 1995.

*Jide Kosoko

Actor Jide Kosoko is one of the original stars in the Yoruba branch of the industry. Sola, Bidemi, and Temilade, his three lovely daughters, are all successful in their fields.

Claim

A video on Tiktok under the name Earth Stories claimed that 50 million people had been displaced in Pakistan by the 29th of August 2022 due to flooding and the number of people displaced is the entire population of England.

The 59-second video uploaded on Tiktok on the 1st of September had 130.8 thousand likes, 1,570 comments and was shared 7,104 times as of the 4th of October 2022.

“This is a map showing Pakistan. The bottom picture was taken on the 29th of July and the one on the top was taken on the 29th of August. Pakistan is experiencing extreme flooding. 50 million people have been displaced due to the flooding.

“Putting this into context, that’s basically the entire population of England. It is estimated that one-sixth of Pakistan people are now homeless and that is all due to climate change,” she said.

Were 50 million people displaced in Pakistan in August 2022?

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNCHR, in a press release issued on the 30th of August, 30 million people in Pakistan were affected by torrential rains and flash floods across the country.

Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had called for support for a massive scale-up in emergency relief for millions of people in Pakistan hit by monsoon floods that have already killed more than 1,000 people.

“Over 30 million people in Pakistan have been affected by torrential rains and flash floods across the country, leaving 6.4 million people in need of immediate support. Since June, hundreds of thousands have been displaced by the floods, and are now living in camps, or with host families”, the press release read.

A news report by Reuters placed the figures of those affected at 33 million and read, “Army helicopters plucked stranded families and dropped food packages to inaccessible areas as the historic deluge, triggered by unusually heavy monsoon rains, destroyed homes, businesses, infrastructure and crops, impacting 33 million people, 15% of the 220 million-strong South Asian nation”, the report read.

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Claim 2: Is the entire population of England 50 million?

The Commentator also claimed that the entire population of England is 50 million

According to UK Population Data, the latest official government estimate of the population of England is 56,550,138 while the World Population Review placed, according to its latest mid-year estimates, the estimated population of England to be 55,977,178.

England is described as the largest of four countries which make up the United Kingdom as it makes up 84% of the total population of the United Kingdom

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Rating

The Claim is FALSE as between 30 to 33 million people were affected by the flood in Pakistan as of 29th August and not 50 million as claimed by the Tiktok User.

Significance

TikTok is one of the emerging media where people get information. This information had several likes and shares. This information would be seen by new users who are interested in climate stories and since the TikTok user seems to give a lot of information about issues around climate change, there is no doubt that her video would emerge for those who search for climate stories.

 This fact-check was produced by Justina Asishana, a Journalist with The Nation Newspaper with support from Code for Africa’s PesaCheck and African Fact Checking Alliance network.