What you must know about divorce and the top 5 Nigerian celebrity divorces of 2022

In our modern society today, divorce has become a pervasive issue. Unlike the good old days when our great and great grandparents stayed together till their old age and even till death.

It is evident that young persons have now have eclectic tastes in sexual matters, fashion, and entertainment, and there is an idealized version of what their partners must be.

The diverse tastes are one of the reasons many men and women cannot settle down with their partners for a long time.

Besides, young men are growing more and more adventurous, in exploring their sexual preferences and playing new games.

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Values, such as tolerance, faithfulness, and especially commitment, have now gone on a forever holiday in our society today.

Divorce occurs among seemingly ordinary people, but as celebrity couples, the media has taken special interests in their marriages.

Korra Obidi and Jean Austin

Korra Obidi is a famous Nigerian dancer who ended her marriage with her husband, Jean Austin, with whom she already had two children. They made this announcement on social media and have remained divorce since then. Dr Jean Austin accused her of continued adultery and she lamented that he was an abuser.

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Eke Chacha and Austin Faani

Eke Chacha is a popular Nollywood actress who ended her marriage after several complaints about the marriage that are related to abuse.

Nkechi Blessing

Nkechi Blessing is a Yoruba film actress took many of her social media aback when she announced her divorce from her husband. She revealed several events between them that led to her decision to quit the marriage.

Funke Akindele and JJC Skills

Funke Akindele, another popular film actress also divorced her husband. Although this announcement was made by her husband on social media who complained that the marriage had not been, and was never, been working, it is believed that both of them fully consented to the marriage.

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Yewande Adekoya

Yewande Adekoya, a popular Yoruba film actress, also decided to end her eight-year marriage because of an unclear fight with her actor ex-husband. Her colleagues’ attempts to douse the digit proved abortive

Though divorce is becoming increasingly normal in our modern society today, it needs reminding that divorce has an insidious effect on children from broken homes and these children will grow up later to be part of our collective ecosystem tomorrow.

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Borrowing the words of Bayo Adebowale in his book Out Of His Mind, he wrote that “Lawyer Mustafa watched Labake walk away.

He was full of pity for her. 

If only women would learn to endure and men would learn to be patient; if only couples would learn learn to talk over their grievances with mutual love and respect, and laugh over their mistakes, surely, bitterness would find no place in their homes and the question of going to settle scores would be entirely out of it. But then, that would put lawyers out of business. Lawyer Mustafa knew it was good that he had agreed to help Labake prosecute the case.” (page 85)