Lil Frosh and Camille [Photo: Courtesy]
Four months after allegedly beating up his girlfriend to a pulp, rapper Lil Frosh is in police custody. Frosh was remanded Thursday after he honoured summons by police in Lagos State and has not been released since, reports local media. Frosh, real name Sanni Goriola, is accused of assaulting model Iyomaterire Okeoghene Taiwo - popularly known as Gift Camille.
According to Camille’s manager and brother Mayoks Michael, the rapper assaulted the 21-year-old severally. My client and sister has suffered enough!!! We have kept quiet enough Lil Frosh. You have done enough damage for almost a year now you have been in a relationship with my sister and client and you have brought her nothing but horror, pain and disaster,” cried out Michael in October 2020.
2020 has been a very eventful year. First the Covid-19 pandemic hit, closely followed by Nigeria shutting its borders and imposing a nationwide lockdown and curfew.
The Nigerian entertainment scene was also filled with several dramas during these trying times. From D’banj losing an endorsement deal following a rape allegation to Funke Akindele getting arrested, below are our top five celebrity controversial moments.
1. Funke Akindele Getting Arrested After Her Throwing A Party During Lockdown
With the coronavirus pandemic, the entire country had to deal with a unique challenge. Lockdown measures were put down in Nigeria to curb the spread of the virus.
Celebrities are susceptible to controversy, either through their recklessness or from just being famous. The former is common across humans, celebrity or not while the latter is strictly based on their status. Things that wouldn t have mattered are blown out of proportion because they are celebrities.
We saw several examples of both in 2020, despite the large part of the year we spent just surviving a pandemic.
In this Pulse Picks 2020 piece, we look at the five most controversial Nigerian celebrity moments of the pandemic year.
1. Dbanj and the rape allegation Seyitan Babatayo says D banj raped her back in 2018 at Glee Hotel [Instagram/IamBangaLee] [Instagram/Seyitann]