{"id":59944,"date":"2022-11-01T14:25:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=59944"},"modified":"2022-11-01T14:48:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:48:12","slug":"nigerian-singer-davidos-3-year-old-son-dies-domestic-staff-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/nigerian-singer-davidos-3-year-old-son-dies-domestic-staff-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian singer Davido\u2019s 3-year-old son dies, domestic staff arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lagos State Police Command has reportedly arrested nine members of Nigerian singer Davido\u2019s domestic staff to establish circumstances under which his three-year-old son Ifeanyi Adeleke, reportedly drowned. The arrested include the singer\u2019s nanny, cook and other domestic workers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to reports from Nigerian blogs, Ifeanyi drowned in a swimming pool at Davido\u2019s Banana Island mansion in Lagos as both parents were away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reports further indicate that the deceased was rushed to hospital and later confirmed dead by medical personnel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By press time, both Davido and his partner, Chioma, had not announced their son\u2019s death amidst outpouring support from celebrities across the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

British rapper Stefflon Don, tweeted, \u201cPrayers for Davido and Chioma.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Similarly, Nigerian rapper MI Abaga took to Twitter to condole with Davido, saying, \u201cWhat a dark day. My heart and love go to David and Chioma. @davido I pray for your heart and mind this period. You have endured so much loss brother. May God hold you in his arms and keep you through this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2018, Nigerian singer, D\u2019banj has lost his only son in a similar drowning incident. According to BBC, D\u2019banj was not in the country when the incident happened. The British media company reported that the singer was attending BET awards in Los Angeles. <\/span>The police in Nigeria later asked D\u2019banj and his wife to report the circumstances of the boy\u2019s death after their mourning period.<\/p>\n

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The Lagos State Police Command has reportedly arrested nine members of Nigerian singer Davido\u2019s domestic staff to establish circumstances under which his three-year-old son Ifeanyi Adeleke, reportedly drowned. The arrested include the singer\u2019s nanny, cook and other domestic workers.\u00a0\u00a0 According to reports from Nigerian blogs, Ifeanyi drowned in a swimming pool at Davido\u2019s Banana Island mansion in Lagos as both parents were away.\u00a0 Reports further indicate that the deceased was rushed to hospital and later confirmed dead by medical personnel.\u00a0 By press time, both Davido and his partner, Chioma, had not announced their son\u2019s death amidst outpouring support from celebrities across the world.\u00a0 British rapper Stefflon Don, tweeted, \u201cPrayers for Davido and Chioma.\u201d Similarly, Nigerian rapper MI Abaga took to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":59945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[887,888],"class_list":["post-59944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-davido","tag-davidos-son"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}