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  • Toke Makinwa savours freedom

    Toke Makinwa savours freedom

    After what seemed like several months of suffocation in a dead marriage, on-air personality Toke Makinwa is ready to breathe the fresh air of freedom once again. Having filed for divorce against her estranged husband Maje Ayida in June last year at the Lagos State High Court, she was in court this week as the divorce proceedings finally began.

    During the brief hearing, her husband, through his lawyer, indicated that he was ready to quit the marriage and move on with his life. However, the court adjourned the case. Still, it was clear that Toke is practically a free woman now and the relief was palpable on her face as she took pictures with her wide-eyed fans during the session.

    It will be recalled that Toke and Maje were involved in a  clash in the second half of last year as the baby-faced beauty revealed in her book, On Becoming, how she was allegedly maltreated in all the years she was married to Maje.

  • Dokubo savours derby against Dolphins

    Dokubo savours derby against Dolphins

    Interim head coach of Sharks football club of Port Harcourt Ere Dokubo is already savouring the build up to the local derby involving his team and Dolphins FC when the Glo Nigeria premier league resumes this weekend.

    Dokubo, who will be leading a premier league side for the first time in his coaching career to a local derby says the tie against Dolphins means a lot to him because he was once a member of Dolphins technical crew when they won in 2004.

    “The derby means a lot to me as head coach of Sharks because It is my first outing against a club that I was once involved in as a coach when they won both the league and F.A Cup in 2004,” Dokubo said.

    “Local derby has not been easy but we are use to it haven played against them severally, so we are going for victory and by the grace of God we will get it”.

    The calabari born soccer tactician says there can never be room for compromise when the two teams file out for action contrary to the thought of soccer enthusiasts each time both sides square up against each other.

    “There is no compromise in a game like this, they are not comfortable on the log and we are not as well and nobody knows how the league will end that is why any point you can grab now you have to take it”.

    Dokubo, who was coach Gbenga Ogunbote’s right hand man in the dug out when he was with the team said Ogunbote will surely be missed describing the relationship between him and his former boss who left Sharks football Club about two weeks for Shooting Stars Sports Club of Ibadan as beyond friendship.

    “Definitely I will say yes because there are people God will bring your way when they are out of the system you will miss them”.Dokubo added

    “Gbenga is like a brother, our relationship is beyond that of friendship ,haven worked together in Dolphins few years ago and now in Sharks for two years and today his exit has created a vacuum for me to occupy,” Dokubo added.

  • Yetunde Ayeni savours new phase of marital life

    Yetunde Ayeni savours new phase of marital life

    Mrs Yetunde Ayeni, wife of Mr. Dipo Ayeni, who recently retired as the Plateau State Commissioner of Police, is enjoying a new lease of life. It is a jolly good life that had somehow eluded her and her children for more than three decades of Ayeni’s years in service.

    Today, reprieve is written on Yetunde’s face, as the Akure-based business woman is now enjoying the warmth of his workaholic husband.

    In all his years in service, Ayeni was widely reputed as a disciplined, honest and no-nonsense police officer. “He would not give nor take bribe. It was for very few times that we really had times together as a couple. Many a time, I would prepare his meal but he would don his uniform if there was an emergency and off he went no matter how hungry he was,” Yetunde recalled in a chat with Celeb Watch.

    It was learnt that some corporate organisations and multinational companies are now on Ayeni’s neck to handle their security systems on account of his track records. But before he makes up his mind on this, Yetunde is savouring the new phase of her marital life.

  • Uju Muphy savours single’s life

    Leggy beauty and top socialite, Uju Murphy, is having a ball. She is savouring her ‘freedom’ from matrimonial entanglement. The social lioness seems to be not in a hurry to settle her differences with her estranged husband who has also been living without a woman since they parted ways.

    There is every reason to believe that Uju is not really complaining about her single status. She is seen always looking relaxed and at peace with herself. She is no doubt living life to the fullest, apparently with no feeling of nostalgia about her days with her hubby. The fruitful and once smooth union turned sour when darts were thrown at their balloon of love.

    Many had thought their misunderstanding was only a storm in a tea cup. But their separation has rolled from days into weeks, months and years. Close associates of Uju, a mother of two, say she is not in a hurry to go back to her estranged husband. She is also said not to be considering any relationship for now