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Mikel's current girlfriend, Russian businesswoman Olga Diyachenko
Mikel, who has made 64 appearances for his country, is said to have met his daughter's mother at a nightclub in 2013. She reportedly gave birth last year.

The newspaper quotes a friend of the girl's mother as saying that Mikel has 'provided' for the woman and their child.
The friend said: 'She is not from a well-off family and does not now earn much, but she drives around in a new car.
She seems to have come into money since having the baby and is keeping a low profile.'
Mikel, whose team lost 2-1 at home to Crystal Palace on Saturday, is currently in a relationship with the Russian businesswoman Olga Diyachenko.

In an interview in Nigeria in 2014, he said: 'I've been dating seriously for two years now. I'm in love. I've found love.'
Last week it was reported that Turkish club Besiktas was interested in signing the midfielder.
Mikel is one of Chelsea's longest-serving players behind John Terry after joining the club from Norwegian side Lyn in 2006 but the Nigerian has found first-team opportunities limited this season.
A spokesman for the footballer is quoted by the Sun on Sunday as saying: 'This is an entirely private matter.

John provides for and cares for his children and will continue to do so. He asks that their privacy be respected.'
MailOnline has contacted Chelsea for a statement.

Nollywood actor, Funsho Adeolu, in an exclusive interview with Nigeriafilms.com has disclosed that acting has not really paid his bills like before. He told us that he has remained in the profession because of his passion for it.

The actor, who in his opinion described celebs flaunting their wealth on social media as fake, also pointed out that such actions only put their lives at risk.

Your face has been scarce lately, any reason for it?
Well, you are right, seriously, the jobs are not like the way it used to be. Though I have been moving from one location to another, but the roles are not just coming and we need to do something about it.

Asides acting, what else do you do?
I’m into entertainment generally, that is really my calling. Apart from that, I’m a church person.

How does your family cope with your absence from home?
Ah, that is why she is my wife now; she is supposed to take care of the home while I go outside to make money, but anytime I am less busy, I am always at home. Like now, I have been at home for some days and I play with my kids.

How were you able to convince her to marry you?
She met me as an entertainer and she was behind the camera too and so we became friends for eight years and we were doing it together (acting) behind the camera and she was a welfare manager, continuity person and that was how it started and here we are.

With your black belt in Taekwondo, do you fight?
No, I don’t fight. If are really trained as a Taekwondo person, you don’t fight; it’s supposed to be in self-defence and for entertainment and I have not had any cause to defend myself because nobody has attacked me. But I still train till date just to make myself flexible and I do that in my house, not at the stadium.

Is any of your children also in the entertainment industry?
Yeah, my first son is towing that line somehow but I just feel when he gets to a particular age, that is when he can decide for himself. Right now, I know he likes to act, he does it in school, he plays instruments in school and he is a Taekwondo person too.

What is your opinion on s3x for movie roles?
Well, s3x is an intimate thing and it shouldn’t come into whether you want to act or not. But looking at it, you cannot do without that in Nigeria. Everywhere in the world, it happens in every industry but if you know what if you are skilled and you have something to show, then nobody will tell you until I have s3x with you before you can get a job. Because if you are seated on table of panel and others don’t like you, someone else will see the skills in you and pick you. So, I’m just saying that if you go to the right place, people will see you and you don’t need to be slept with before you get a role.

You said the scripts are not coming and some say the payment is not cool, why are you still there?
I think it’s just the passion that we still have, whether it is paying like it used to be or not, we must act; that’s the way it is because some of us started not with money because we had this passion for it and yet, we still get paid. But it might not be like the way it used to be. Aside that, I do some other things; MC jobs and other events.

Why don’t you live a flashy lifestyle like others?
Maybe because I’m just original; that’s why. I’m real and not a fake person. I live my life for myself and God I don’t live it for any human being.

So you mean celebs live fake lives?
All of them live fake lives, all of them that you see flaunting their wealth. Generally, it is a thing of the industry and you need to make the people see you all the time, but when they see you flaunting cars and other things, you are endangering yourself and your family. Some people will see that and say ok, let me go and steal it.

No mother will take the news of her daughter being molested with joy. It is no longer news that ace Nollywood actress, Foluke Daramola-Salako was forcefully slept with some years ago, but what might be news is that she never told her mother about until she also heard it in the news like others.
The mother of the actress, Rev. Aderonke Daramola, told Nigeriafilms.com that she was shocked when she read about the incident on the pages of newspaper.

It would be recalled that when Foluke was 16, she was reportedly molested in her father’s uncompleted building.

When Nigeriafilms.com asked Foluke’s mother what she would have done if she knew about the incident back then, she said nothing, but she would have tried to play her role as a good mother. She also spoke with us on other issues. Excerpts;

How did you feel when your daughter was r@ped?
In actual fact, she did not tell me. I just saw it in the newspapers, but she never told me. Maybe she was wondering how I was going to feel because she lost her dad at a very tender age of three. It was not easy at all because we were living in an uncompleted building that the father built before he died. We had terrible experience with tenants even there was a time she was beaten.

Maybe she did not want to break your heart
Yes, you know she said that she had to visit the psychologist. You know many of them like that will not be able to tell anyone, maybe not to frustrate me.

But if she had told you, what would you have done then?
As at that time, I might feel disturbed but by God’s grace, you know she is a wonderful child, I would have felt very bad. As at that particular time, I have not got my anointing, I was ordained as a Pastor in 1991, but I would have felt disturbed, maybe God would have given me a message.

Did you remarry after you lost your husband? 
No, I did not remarry. I felt bad about the loss and I asked him why he took away my better-half and he told me that he needs me.

How old were you when you lost your husband? 
I was 34, in 1981, when I lost my husband.

How have you been able to cope especially without sex?
Ah, I was about to get married to a man of God when I was in the Bible College. Even the Director of the school then was trying to match-make the two of us because he had no wife, but on the long run, it never came to pass. The man suddenly took ill and died, I could have remarried.
Even my mother insisted that I should not get married. She asked who I was going to marry because she was scared. She just told me not to marry because she was scared of what people would say, probably accuse me of deliberately killing her husband.

I was brought up in a way that I don’t usually go out. She was there for me during the period and prayed that God helps me cater for my children. I later changed my mind about remarrying.
What is your advice to young ladies, especially widows? 

My advice is that if you are a widow and you are still young, if you know you can’t hold yourself, you can get married but remain focus to God. If you can hold yourself, fine, but if you can’t, just pray for somebody who is going to understand you. Your children should be paramount in your decision. It is not easy, but I think my mother was my Angel because she supported me.