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  • Funke Akindele’s gesture moved me to tears – Bimbo Akinsanya

    Funke Akindele’s gesture moved me to tears – Bimbo Akinsanya

    Actress Bimbo Akinsanya has come to the defence of colleague Funke Akindele over claims she abandoned deceased junior colleague, Jumoke Aderounmu.

    Bimbo on her Instagram post recalled that 10 years ago, the late Folake Oshadare, one of Nollywood’s make-up artists, told her how Funke was sending monthly money for her medication as she was a cancer patient.

    She stated that she remembered calling her sister and mother and telling them of the  gesture which moved her to tears.

    Making a case for her, Bimbo noted how Funke isn’t perfect and no one is but she is sure that Funke is an Angel in her own way .

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    She wrote: “About 10 years ago I saw the late folake oshadare ( one of our make-up artists ) at Ikeja & we exchanged phone numbers. She called me that very day & said I should please help her with some money to buy her drugs cos she was a cancer patient. In her words, @funkejenifaakindele was the one giving her money for the drugs every month. Yes, EVERY MONTH.

    ” But she couldn’t get through to Funke because she was not in the country and she asked me for help. I remember calling my sister & even telling my mum about Funke’s kind gesture, in fact, I was moved to tears.

    “Funke is not perfect & no one is, but I know that this lady right here is an Angel in her own way. We all have our shortcomings but with what I know & heard about Funke, please let’s give it to her. May God Almighty continue to guide & guard our steps”.

  • Court dissolves 14-year-old marriage for lack of care

    Court dissolves 14-year-old marriage for lack of care

    An Ado-Ekiti Customary Court on Tuesday dissolved the 14-year-old marriage between Funke and her husband, Samson Darmola of lack of care.

    The President of the Court, Mr Joseph Ogunsemi, dissolved the marriage following the petitioner’s testimony‎ and the refusal of the respondent to appear in court to defend himself.

    He awarded the custody of the three children, namely, Ayomide,14, Lekan, 8, and Timi Daramola,4, to the petitioner, while Adesola Daramola,11, was awarded to the respondent‎.

    Ogunsemi said that the respondent shall be paying N2,500 as monthly upkeep allowance for each of the three children awarded to the petitioner.

    He further ordered that payment of the money shall commence from Oct. 31 through the registry of the court.

    The court president also granted unrestricted access to both parties to visit the children in their custody.

    Funke Daramola, 39, a foodstuff trader and a resident of No. 23, Dalimore St. Ado-Ekiti, had earlier prayed the court to dissolve the marriage on grounds of desertion, lack of  love and care for her and the children.

    The petitioner testified that she deliberately left  the respondent’s house in April 2017 because she was suffering.

    She said that whenever the respondent had money, he would abandon her and her ‎four children for six months and at times one year without considering their welfare.

    Funke explained that ‎she has been the only one responsible for the education and feeding of the children.

    The mother of four children said the ‎respondent did not give her peace of mind  and often maltreated  her.

    The petitioner prayed the court to dissolve his marriage with the respondent ‎because she no longer love him.

    She further prayed the court to award the custody of his four children to her for proper care.

    Funke requested that the petitioner should be paying N2,500 as monthly feeding allowance for  each of the children.

    The mother of four children agreed that she and the respondent would be responsible for the education of the children.

    The respondent, Mr Samson Daramola, ‎a carpenter, refused to honour the court’s  summons thrice to defend himself .

    NAN

  • Funke Kuti not in a hurry

    Funke, the estranged wife of Afrobeat singer, Femi Kuti, seems to have adopted as her motto the saying, once bitten twice shy. With a breast plate that blocks off cupid arrows and a resolution to stay off love and marriage, the elegant, fair-complexioned former wife of Femi Kuti seems to have embraced celibacy.

    With the crash of their marriage after a son, the sassy dancer had put together the pieces of her life and moved on. She dumped her skimpy attire as an Afrikan Shrine dancer and built a career for herself in the corporate world. Having given up on men, her son and her company, F.K Management, became her priorities.

    When the crisis of her collapsed marriage abated and she joined the singles club again, many thought it would not be too long before she would get involved in another affair and ultimately, another marriage. Surprisingly, she has shown extreme restraint, preferring to live as a single mother. She has seized every opportunity to tell the world that she has no man in her life except her son.

  • Funke Treasure’s memoir of nostalgia

    Funke Treasure’s memoir of nostalgia

    NOTABLE broadcast journalist, Funke Treasure Durodola took the reminiscence lane recently with what she calls Memories of Grandma; an autobiography of her young innocent days in a more rational and more civil society. And perhaps, through diplomacy and reality of the perception and wisdom of the story teller at the time of events, the author critically engages with the thinking behind cultural choices from the eyes of a child.

    Grandmothers symbolise different things to children. For young Funke, Grandma could never do wrong, Grandma meant travel, variety of traditional meals, entry into the wisdom of the aged, folk tales, songs and an excursion into the strange world of adults, who ‘always have a reason for everything’.

    She’d bet you would keep a steady smile, reading through series of accounts that link you to your past. The setting is Western Nigeria of the early 80’s, when most Nigerians maintained vegetable gardens close to their homes, men rode Vespa’s motor cycles for leisure; when Peugeot 404 was the cool car for mid-income families, when seeing a corpse on the street was rare and close to an abomination; when public schools were as good as the private ones. It was the days of Kingsway and Leventis and Odutola stores in Ijebu Ode. The days without traffic gridlocks, when parents returned home early enough from the office, to be involved in their children’s growth.

    According to Treasure, “Memories of Grandma is a collection of stories about my childhood. It’s a childhood memoir. It’s about the world I grew up in and at whose feet I drank the water of knowledge and wisdom. It is set in the Nigeria of the 1980’s. I don’t know about recent times, but back in the days when we resumed from holidays, our teachers made us write a generic kind of essay usually titled, ‘How I spent my last holiday’”.

    Continuing she said “Memories of Grandma speaks to the need for a child to familiariase herself with her cultural environment. It is about a child’s search for the reasons things are the way they are in her culture. It is a book about how a network of people and places united to feed the curiousity of a child. It captures food, music, transportation, farming, life in the country side and respect for elders ,which is gradually getting lost in today’s global culture. There are more lessons in Memories of Grandma, individuals will have to appropriate those lessons according to their needs. I must also add that adults will find Memories of Grandma fascinating because it will definitely take them to their places of childhood and fill them with nostalgia.”

  • Why Funke Adedoyin is off social radar

    TWO-TIME federal minister in the Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, Funke Adedoyin, used to be a recurring decimal on the social scene. The second daughter of the Agbamu, Kwara State-born billionaire-industrialist, Prince Samuel Adedoyin , has, however, maintained a low profile since her exit from government.

    A single mother of one, though never married, her love life has been shrouded in secrecy. But she had once been amorously linked with Segun Fowora, estranged hubby of Senator Gbemisola Saraki, who has since remarried to an American. Sources close to her said her world now revolves around her 16-year-old son, whom she never stops telling whoever cares to listen that he is the reason she wakes up in the morning and goes to bed at night.