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  • Ailing actress’ sister thanks Tonto Dikeh, Kogi’s First Lady

    Sister to Nollywood actress Halima Abubakar whose picture of frail body is circulating on social media since Sunday, has thanked the wife of the governor of Kogi State Rashida Yahaya-Bello, and Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh for support given the ailing actress.

    Halima was said to have developed some health complications after a fibrosis operation in India in April.

    “On behalf of our big sister, we want to thank everyone who called, commented and prayed for her,” she wrote on Halima’s Instagram page.

    “We all are grateful. And to Aunty Tonto for being a good friend and for always being there. And to her mentor and guidance The First Lady of Kogi state @rashidayahayabello for being an example of love, and kindness towards our sister who had complications from fibroid. We love and pray for God to keep uplifting you for all you do for everyone. For being a mother to our sister, your kindness will never go in vain. Written by @itsyungissy Isah Abubakar ps to all her colleagues who posted pictures, calls omg called much respect to you all. She will thank you herself as soon as she is fit.”

    However, commenting on the post, Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh, said Halima needed to rest.

    “Bless you too,” Tonto wrote.

    “Am coming soon #filming pls don’t lt her take calls now.. She needs rest @itsyungsissy.”

    On Sunday, Tonto shared a picture of a frail Halima on Instagram, saying she picked Halima from hospital and would personally take care of her.

    “My prayers love and strength are with you,” she wrote in part.

    “God never lets us go through a situation if he didn’t know we could overcome it.”

    Halima, who started acting in 2001, is also the CEO of a Modehouse Entertainment, a music label and entertainment management company.

  • TONTO DIKEH TO HELP REHABILITATE PREGNANT TEENAGER

    A few weeks after posting the picture of a 13 years-old teenager in Ghana, who traded her body to cater for her unborn child, Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh has revealed that all is being done by her foundation to make sure she is well catered before and after delivery.

    In an earlier post, the actress called out to her colleagues in Ghana to help locate the teenager.

    “Glory be to God. We found Afia the pregnant teenager who we posted about few days ago. We are super grateful to the public/Media, for bringing her case to our notice. Recently becoming a mom Afia’s case hit too close to home. These are a few things we would be doing for Afia.

    “The Tonto Dikeh Foundation will make sure the young girl gets her life back: by giving her a new home, taking care of the hospital bills, taking care of antenatal and postnatal for five month, we will be creating a salary plan till she can be able to work, we will be employing a psychologist to work on her(Rehabilitate her), and of course set out an economic empowerment plan that will sustain her and the unborn child.

    “And as we all know education is very important, we shall try our best to make Afia go back to school. Our foundation shall be working in collaboration with the St John’s Hospital and fertility centre, Multimedia group, the biggest media and television company in Ghana and of course Honourable Dr. Nana Ayew Afriye MP Effiduase-Asokore constituency. We are using this opportunity to encourage well meaning Ghanaians and Africans to come on board in any means possible to make this a reality,” she posted.

    Tonto Dikeh, in partnership with other organisations, has been using her Foundation, to help people in rural areas get quality health care and education.

  • Mercy Aigbe, Tonto Dikeh break down during violence against women campaign

    Nollywood actresses Tonto Dikeh and Mercy Aigbe at the weekend, broke down in tears as they particpated in the Stop Violence Agaunst Women campaign organised by Olori Wuraola Ogunwusi in Lagos.

    Recently, both Mercy and Tonto have left their matrimonial homes, citing violence by their spouses, Lanre Gentry and Olakunle Churchill, respectively.

    Dressed in white and black T-shirts with the inscription ‘Stop the violence against women’, they carried placards with messages like ‘verbal abuse is domestic violence’, ‘emotional abuse is deadly’ and ‘no to bullying’, the protesters chanted, “Silence is not golden” as they marched.

    Speaking to journalists, Tonto said women do not deserve to suffer domestic violence.

    “You’re beautiful,” she said, addressing women.

    “Love doesn’t hurt and love can be healed. Whatever you’re going through, you can heal. Speak up, get help.”

    On her part, Mercy said violence does not solve anything.

    “I actually say violence does not do anything. It does not solve the problem. So, it should not be an option. I’m here because I believe is a no, no. And because I am also a victim, I can relate, because of my experience, I know how it is. So, there is no shame in my pain. I am here to say no to violence. Enough is enough. Your wife is not your punching bag. You should stop beating your wife.”

    The walk which was organised by Olori Wuraola Women Empopwerment Programme and House of Oduduwa Foundation started with hundreds of men and women under the Falomo Bridge, Ikoyi, Lagos.

    Olori Wuraola advocated for the passage of a bill to protect women’s rights and ensure women are not abused again.

    “We know there are a whole lot of good men out there but we want these men to emulate these good men,” Olori Wuraola said

    “A woman that is kept in your care not just by her parents but by God almighty, it is your right, your responsibility to look after that woman. You violate her (and) you have failed in your duties and that means you are ungrateful to God.”

    Also present was Nollywood Foluke Daramola Salako who has been outspoken about domestic violence, herself being a victim.

    “If a man is beating you up, don’t be ashamed to speak out,” she said.

  • Tonto Dikeh goes ‘conservative’ with dressing

    Tonto Dikeh goes ‘conservative’ with dressing

    Currently engaged as a speaker at the ongoing ‘Women For Women’ conference holding in Abuja, the dressing of Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh, has been getting attention for being ‘conservative.’

    Her recent pictures on Instagram show her in long gowns, skirt and blouse with hair covered in turbans, and all covered up in a hijab like a Muslim woman.

    Involved in advocating for the welfare of the less privileged, the sombre outlook of the mother of one raised dust on her Instagram page as some of her fans think it is all a ploy to get sympathy. Recall the actress recently was engaged in amessy fight with her husband which resulted in her leaving her matrimonial home.

    However in her defence, another fan, @shugar_1913, believed her dressing was appriopriate for the Ramadan season.

    “You should give her credit for being all covered up and still gorgeous,” @shugar_1913 wrote.

    Another fan retorted; “How dear u insult her @tontolet, what do mean by that? So dressing like a Muslim now means that you are a Muslim Abi?”

    Yet another fan replied saying she could have dresses in a traditional Nigerian attire.

    “Are you saying that the two options she has is either to dress this way or dress like she is going to club… Really, don’t we have other decent traditional dresses like Ikwerre traditional wear?

     

  • Fans attack Tonto Dikeh for using frog to describe her marriage

    Fans attack Tonto Dikeh for using frog to describe her marriage

    Popular actress Tonto Wigo Charity Dikeh-Churchill, better known as Tonto Dikeh recently attracted the attacks of her fans on her Instagram page as she throws shades at her estranged husband using frogs in her description.

    Recall that Tonto Dikeh, who was dishing out marriage and relationship teaching through her Instagram page, broke up with her husband allegedly for domestic violence and other sundry issues a few months ago.

    She vividly compared tolerance in marriage and relationship to the level of tolerance of the frog when being exposed to varying degrees of heat in a pot of water.

    She said:

    “Put a frog into a vessel fill with water and start heating the water. As the temperature of the water begins to rise, the frog adjusts its body temperature accordingly. The frog keeps adjusting its body temperature with the increasing temperature of the water. Just when the water is about to reach boiling point, the frog cannot adjust anymore. At this point, the frog decides to jump out. 

    The frog tries to jump but it is unable to do so because it has lost all its strength in adjusting with the rising water temperature.

    Very soon the frog dies.
    What killed the frog?
    Think about it!
    I know many of us will say the boiling water. But the truth about what killed the frog was its own inability to decide when to jump out.
    We all need to adjust to people & situations, but we need to be sure when we need to adjust & when we need to move on. There are times when we need to face the situation and take appropriate actions.
    If we allow people to exploit us
    physically, emotionally, financially, spiritually or mentally they will continue to do so.
    Let us decide when to jump!
    Let’s jump while we still have the strength. Are you ready to #Jump

    In the reactions, some fans blamed her for embarrassing her husband in the media, urging her to apologise to him. She was reminded of how she praised God for using him to make her a better woman that she now claims to be.

    Another fan pleaded with her to make up with her husband, adding that her marriage has been a source of inspiration for many others. The fan stated: “I am not a I.G person, but I always comes up here to read your sweet and motivated messages you used to put up here. I referred so many women to your page including my own wife and my friends wife’s both black and white women. But you let me down and you let God down.”

    Generally, Tonto Dikeh was advised to make the conscious effort to make her marriage work once again as fans disapprove of her reactions and disengagement from her husband.

  • Tonto Dikeh saves man thrown out of moving tricycle

    Tonto Dikeh saves man thrown out of moving tricycle

    Nollywood actress Tonto Dike on Tuesday revealed how he saved a man pushed out of a moving tricycle in Abuja.

    Dike, who posted picture of the victim being treated at a hospital on her Instagram page, said the victim landed on the ground with his head.

    According to the actress, he left her car and started pleading with other motorists to stop in order to take the victim to a hospital.

    She said: “After picking up my son from school, I saw a man being thrown out of a speeding tricycle. It was around 1:40 p.m. The sight was horrible. I saw this from a distance. I watched his head serve as a landing plate and I watched his lifeless body slumped.

    “I was in the car with my son. I was scared. I was trembling as I stopped my car. I have never been in a situation like this before. I prayed for a second and heard my baby let out a scream on seeing the horror.

    “I stepped out of the car, went to the middle of the road trying to stop others to help me save this young man. I was ignored but to God be the glory, a few great people stopped.

    “He was not breathing. Not responding. Everyone thought he was dead but I told them that as long as my hands have been laid on this young man in prayers, he will be fine. They helped put him in my car with only a Good Samaritan motor mechanic agreeing to follow me.

    “We have since taken him to the hospital. His bill is being taken care of by the Tonto Dikeh Foundation and we are trying to locate his family and friends.

    “We refer to him as John Doe because we don’t have his name yet as he is on oxygen. Doctors said he is stabilized and will be ok. Glory be to God. I will be posting his face and full name with his permission as soon as he can communicate. Please pray for him.”

  • Tonto Dikeh abuses alcohol and marijuana, husband reveals

    Tonto Dikeh abuses alcohol and marijuana, husband reveals

    Dr Olakunle Churchill, the estranged husband of Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, has blasted the latter, saying she abuses alcohol, marijuana and is temperamental.
    Churchill, a Ghana-based businessman and owner of Big Church Group of companies said this in an interview with Media Room Hub TV published over the weekend.
    About a fortnight earlier, Tonto had granted the same station an interview where she lambasted Churchill for domestic violence among other things.
    Relaying the incident which happened in Ghana, Churchill said he picked her from the airport a day before her birthday in 2015. However, due to a misunderstanding she spent the night in a hotel. He said Tonto came to his house the next day in the afternoon and “started breaking everything in the house. Luckily for me, I switched off the electric fence wire before I left the house. So, she started from the electric fence.”
    Churchill said she destroyed many things in his house.
    “There is this thing about my wife. It’s just like crisis. It doesn’t stop for like two, two and half hours. I’m sorry about this but I have to say it.”
    Explaining what he means by ‘crisis,’ Churchill said, “she gets too temperamental due to her negative intakes. I don’t know. I don’t want to say anything about that but it got to that point.”
    Churchill however, continued and clarified, “alcohol abuse, negative, marijuana, negative, anything that has something to do with drugs. When you’re always on a trip.”
    Churchill said her anger erupted as she was rude to the police officials and even spat on one of the police officers.
    “When her anger starts, six men can’t hold Tonto down, talk less of me beating Tonto. It’s not possible. She uses everything she has. Everything I have, she destroyed everything to zero.”
    Churchill also dismissed as lies that he didn’t buy Tonto luxury gifts, saying he had receipts to everything.
    Churchill revealed that he met Tonto about two and half years at his brother’s birthday party and they exchanged contacts. He said Tonto got pregnant for him six months later and he decided to marry her.
    The couple have a one-year old son named King.
    In February, Tonto revealed that there were cracks in her marriage via an open letter on Instagram.

  • Tonto Dikeh abuses alcohol and marijuana, husband reveals

    Tonto Dikeh abuses alcohol and marijuana, husband reveals

    Mr Olakunle Churchill, the estranged husband of Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, has blasted the latter, saying she abuses alcohol, marijuana and is temperamental.

    Churchill, a Ghana-based businessman and owner of Big Church Group of companies said this in an interview with Media Room Hub TV published over the weekend.

    About a fortnight earlier, Tonto had granted the same station an interview where she lambasted Churchill for domestic violence among other things.

    Relaying the incident which happened in Ghana, Churchill said he picked her from the airport a day before her birthday in 2015. However, due to a misunderstanding she spent the night in a hotel. He said Tonto came to his house the next day in the afternoon and “started breaking everything in the house. Luckily for me, I switched off the electric fence wire before I left the house. So, she started from the electric fence.”

    Churchill said she destroyed many things in his house.

    “There is this thing about my wife. It’s just like crisis. It doesn’t stop for like two, two and half hours. I’m sorry about this but I have to say it.”

    Explaining what he means by ‘crisis,’ Churchill said, “she gets too temperamental due to her negative intakes. I don’t know. I don’t want to say anything about that but it got to that point.”

    Churchill however, continued and clarified, “alcohol abuse, negative, marijuana, negative, anything that has something to do with drugs. When you’re always on a trip.”

    Churchill said her anger erupted as she was rude to the police officials and even spat on one of the police officers.

    “When her anger starts, six men can’t hold Tonto down, talk less of me beating Tonto. It’s not possible. She uses everything she has. Everything I have, she destroyed everything to zero.”

    Churchill also dismissed as lies that he didn’t buy Tonto luxury gifts, saying he had receipts to everything.

    Churchill revealed that he met Tonto about two and half years at his brother’s birthday party and they exchanged contacts. He said Tonto got pregnant for him six months later and he decided to marry her.

    The couple have a one-year old son named King.

    In February, Tonto revealed that there were cracks in her marriage via an open letter on Instagram.

  • Tonto Dikeh vows to disgrace Churchill, family source

    A source close to the Churchill family has described as laughable, claims by Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh that she bought her estranged husband, Olakunle Churchill, the vehicles they were driving.

    According to the source, who chose to remain anonymous, Churchill is in possession of the keys and documents of the cars.

    “If she really did buy them, she should have taken the keys and receipts when she was leaving. No one knows why she is doing what she is doing. Maybe, she is using their son as bait and as a means to get sympathy from the people on social media,” the source said.

    Continuing, the source claimed that the actress wanted her foundation merged with her husband’s Big Church Foundation, but bearing her name.

    “That was why, last year, after the Big Church Foundation had organised its work, the Tonto Dikeh Foundation organised its own too. She did that because she wanted the NGOs to be joined together and handed over to her, so that she can use her celebrity status and run the whole show. Churchill, on the other hand, was passionate about the whole thing, as a way to help the masses and did not want it to be hijacked by someone who just wanted it for show,” the source continued.

    The source further stated that when things got to a point where Churchill could not condone it any further, she boasted that she would use her overwhelming influence on social media to drag his name to the mud, then rubbish his foundation.

    The source also said that there is no truth to the report that Churchill ever assaulted her as he never laid a finger on her.

    Recall that since news broke that her marriage has hit the rocks, the actress used the social media to pour her heart, the latest being that her husband infected her with STDs.

  • Tonto Dikeh to speak on education

    Tonto Dikeh to speak on education

    Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh has been selected alongside some top personalities to speak at the International Women’s Day.
    At the event with the theme ‘Be Bold For Change’ which holds on March 8 at Tauba Hotel, Abuja, Tonto Dikeh, who is the CEO of Tonto Dikeh Foundation will speak on the topic, ‘Importance Of Education In Nigeria.’
    The actress who recently separated from her husband is passionate about education of children and her charity, Tonto Dikeh Foundation, has pursued that mandate by assisting children go back to school.
    “The great movement continues, Tonto Dikeh Foundation is taking our Children BackToSchool,” said the actress.
    “At the TD Foundation, we are not giving back simply because we enjoy doing what we do. We are giving back because the greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own. Education is exactly how we do that.”
    She also said that education is key in securing a better future for everyone.
    “The next generation needs a leverage to build on, a plan and pivot to achieve dreams,” she said.
    “The future is guaranteed with empowering the children of today to be the leaders of tomorrow. We are opportune to affect lives positively to change the orientation of the next generation from cradle stage. In doing this, the project has the initiative to advance the status quo in learning environments by providing educational stationaries, educational scholarships for at least fifty students, building new blocks of classrooms, learning amenities as black boards as well as school uniforms and more.”