Justin Opara
The dust generated over the marriage of teenage actress, Regina Daniels, to a 59-year-old billionaire, Ned Nwoko, is yet to settle as a man who claims to be her biological father has emerged from nowhere and distanced himself from the marriage.
The man known as Jude Ojeogwu posted on social media that Regina Daniel is his biological daughter and that whatever is going on between her and Ned Nwoko is without his knowledge and consent. “Regina Daniel Ojeogwu is my biological daughter.
Whatever is ongoing is not to my knowledge and without my consent. The fact speaks for itself looking at the picture. Her mother Rita Daniel is threading on a dangerous path and I hope she will retrace her steps.
“Even the initiation ceremony into otu odu appears completely strange to Regina Daniel Ojeogwu. Regina is from Ogwashi Ukwu and not from Olor as being rumoured.
“All the opportunities for Mr. Ned nwoko to discuss with me proved abortive not realising that we once lived in the same house in Awoyokun street, Onikpan, Lagos,” Ojeogwu said. The implication of all this is that she impregnated herself. The name Regina was my late mother’s name.
I have tried to exercise restraint but Regina’s mother kept pushing me to the wall. ‘Am alive and not dead. If in doubt of this post call Barrister. According to him, himself and Nwoko were neighbours in the Regina Daniel’s father takes on Ned Nwoko A 100-year-old death row inmate dubbed ‘Nigeria’s oldest prisoner’ has been released from jail after receiving a state pardon.
He had spent over 18 years in prison after being found guilty of plotting a murder. Egbunuche was met outside Enugu state maximum security prison by his daughter and the representatives of Global Society for Anti Corruption, an NGO who campaigned for his release.
“I’m so grateful to God for this day,” his daughter Chisom Celestine told the BBC. “I’m the happiest human being on Earth,” Ms Celestine said. Egbunuche, who suffers from health problems including diabetes and failing eyesight, is currently in hospital for observation, but there is concern about what will happen to him next. His daughter says she does not have the means to take care of him.
Whilst he was in prison, he was being care for by his son Paul, who was also jailed on the same murder charge. He did not receive a pardon and remains in jail. The state government who pardoned Egbunuche has been replaced by a new administration and it is not clear, what, if any assistance they will offer him.
100-year-old death-row inmate released in Enugu same house in Awoyaya Street, Onipanu in Lagos. He also said that the name Regina is his late mother’s name. Ojeogwu, who is a spitting image of Regina, blamed her for the imbroglio. He said Regina is from Ogwashi-Ukwu and not from Olor, her mother’s hometown.
He said all efforts to get Nwoko to talk with him has proved abortive and said that the trio are pushing him to the wall. He said the initiation ceremony into a cult of married Otu-Odu is strange to Regina, who appeared morose throughout the ceremony.
The lawyer lamented the enormous influence Regina’s mother, Rita Daniel, wields over their daughter and said the implication is that Rita must have impregnated herself. People have wondered over the whereabouts of Regina Daniel’s father when the news of her marriage to Nwoko broke.
All efforts to speak with Ojeogwu on the phone number he provided proved abortive as the line was always engaged and later switched off.
