The white wedding took place at Saint Leo’s Catholic
Church, Toyin Street, Ikeja and the reception was at NECA House, Hakeem
Balogun Street, CBD, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos.
See photos courtesy of Yes Magazine below after the cut>>>>>>>>>>>>>:
See photos courtesy of Yes Magazine below after the cut>>>>>>>>>>>>>:
Oh by the way Sola has cleared the air on the reports that she's a drug pusher. See excerpts from her interview with Yes mag.
So many things have been written and heard about you, which one do you consider the most damaging?
I don’t give a damn. Nothing. They said they have killed me in America and at a time in Saudi Arabia. They even said that my hands were cut off in Saudi Arabia before they killed me. They said I begged the Saudi Arabian authorities that they should please spare my life that I’m an actress in Nigeria, but they refused my plea and cut off my head. When I got back to Nigeria after the story, everyone that saw me ran away from me because they thought I was really a ghost. They asked me, “Shola, but they said they have killed you?” I told them that I don’t believe in abracadabra. That it was magic that I used. I told them I commanded the head to come back, because I was coming to Nigeria and the head got fixed. I came from England again sometime for a meeting at the National Theatre and a colleague of mine saw me and marveled. She said, “Shola, but they said you are in Holloway Prison in England and I said yes!” That those people recognized me and gave me a break to come home so that when I’m done here in Nigeria, I will go back to the prison in UK. She said I wasn’t serious, but I asked that when they told you I was in prison, did you believe the story? And she said yes! So, I said fine, because she told me she heard that somebody came to Holloway Prison and saw me there and that the person even spoke to me; that all I could do was just to cry. She said it was that lady who came to Nigeria and told them. If I carried cocaine and got imprisoned in Holloway, there is no way the UK government would have kept me in England till now. I would have been deported. So, I have never carried cocaine and I have never been imprisoned. So, all they have said or written about me is none of my business, because it doesn’t bother me a bit.
But why do you think the allegations of drug peddling surfaced in the first place?
Why are you asking me? Let me re-direct the question to you. Why are you asking questions? (I asked because there is a general belief that there is no fire without a smoke). Okay. You will do me a very good favour by announcing to the whole world that anyone that saw Shola Shobowale where she was peddling cocaine should come out and I will personally give a monetary reward of one million (N1,000,000). But the person must be able to tell the world where he/she saw me, the time, the occasion, with who and who we peddled the drugs together. I think that will surely answer your question.
Tell us a bit about the documentary you are working on.
Don’t worry, it is coming. The whole world will know what I did in the UK, but let me brief you about it. It wasn’t prostitution, not drug peddling, not 419, not yahoo, not rituals, but it is called dignity of labour, because (owo igbe ki run). Money
from shit doesn’t stink.
But is it true that you were working in the mortuary over there?
Just leave it till the documentary comes out. Some said sweep, others said I was washing dead bodies in the morgue. But I will tell you this, as I am talking to you now, I am an Assistant Manager in a care home in England. So, I never swept. Let me also say this, when I got to the UK, I became a student, I went back to school and I got my certificate in everything. But leave it for the documentary to come out. Those who are saying rubbish about me are only being envious and jealous because no one can know the source of my grass to grace story. I am 51-years old and I’m proud to say it. I can hide my age and let any 25- year old lady stand me and see who is stronger. God created me complete and I’m a hustler, because my foundation was as solid as a rock.
So many things have been written and heard about you, which one do you consider the most damaging?
I don’t give a damn. Nothing. They said they have killed me in America and at a time in Saudi Arabia. They even said that my hands were cut off in Saudi Arabia before they killed me. They said I begged the Saudi Arabian authorities that they should please spare my life that I’m an actress in Nigeria, but they refused my plea and cut off my head. When I got back to Nigeria after the story, everyone that saw me ran away from me because they thought I was really a ghost. They asked me, “Shola, but they said they have killed you?” I told them that I don’t believe in abracadabra. That it was magic that I used. I told them I commanded the head to come back, because I was coming to Nigeria and the head got fixed. I came from England again sometime for a meeting at the National Theatre and a colleague of mine saw me and marveled. She said, “Shola, but they said you are in Holloway Prison in England and I said yes!” That those people recognized me and gave me a break to come home so that when I’m done here in Nigeria, I will go back to the prison in UK. She said I wasn’t serious, but I asked that when they told you I was in prison, did you believe the story? And she said yes! So, I said fine, because she told me she heard that somebody came to Holloway Prison and saw me there and that the person even spoke to me; that all I could do was just to cry. She said it was that lady who came to Nigeria and told them. If I carried cocaine and got imprisoned in Holloway, there is no way the UK government would have kept me in England till now. I would have been deported. So, I have never carried cocaine and I have never been imprisoned. So, all they have said or written about me is none of my business, because it doesn’t bother me a bit.
But why do you think the allegations of drug peddling surfaced in the first place?
Why are you asking me? Let me re-direct the question to you. Why are you asking questions? (I asked because there is a general belief that there is no fire without a smoke). Okay. You will do me a very good favour by announcing to the whole world that anyone that saw Shola Shobowale where she was peddling cocaine should come out and I will personally give a monetary reward of one million (N1,000,000). But the person must be able to tell the world where he/she saw me, the time, the occasion, with who and who we peddled the drugs together. I think that will surely answer your question.
Tell us a bit about the documentary you are working on.
Don’t worry, it is coming. The whole world will know what I did in the UK, but let me brief you about it. It wasn’t prostitution, not drug peddling, not 419, not yahoo, not rituals, but it is called dignity of labour, because (owo igbe ki run). Money
from shit doesn’t stink.But is it true that you were working in the mortuary over there?
Just leave it till the documentary comes out. Some said sweep, others said I was washing dead bodies in the morgue. But I will tell you this, as I am talking to you now, I am an Assistant Manager in a care home in England. So, I never swept. Let me also say this, when I got to the UK, I became a student, I went back to school and I got my certificate in everything. But leave it for the documentary to come out. Those who are saying rubbish about me are only being envious and jealous because no one can know the source of my grass to grace story. I am 51-years old and I’m proud to say it. I can hide my age and let any 25- year old lady stand me and see who is stronger. God created me complete and I’m a hustler, because my foundation was as solid as a rock.
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