The two domestic staff detained are Ifeanyi’s nanny and cook as police begin the autopsy plan.
Lagos State police spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said the cook and nanny, whose duty was to cater for the wellbeing of the little boy, have been detained after serious interrogation.
Ifeanyi reportedly drowned in a pool at the singer’s Banana Island residence on Monday.
It was reported that the nanny was with the toddler when the cook came to join them. The nanny was said to have moved away to receive a call, leaving him with the cook, who also said he had left the three-year-old with the nanny.
Ifeanyi was later spotted in the pool by a security guard 20 minutes later.
The deceased was Davido’s only child with his third baby mama, Chioma Rowland.
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Is there no CCTV camera there?
ReplyDeleteThis is so sad in that it was avoidable on all fronts. Nanny should have done her job better by ensuring that boy never left her sight. She knew how precious that boy was to his parents. This is u're negligence on her part and she will have to suffer the consequences.
DeleteOn the other hand,after what happened to Dbanj's son in 2018,I would have expected most parents with toddlers who have pools in their house to be more safety conscious. Granted Ifeanyi doesn't live with Davido full-time,but his kids are always visiting him. It's just unfortunate that history has to repeat himself. I keep imagining that if he had no access to that pool,he would still be alive right now. Poor baby! I just pray he didn't suffer too much! I pray that Davido and Chioma can pull through this unimaginably horrible loss.
I was watching the vidoee of them wearing matching outfits and kissing,maybe just before they set out for Ibadan. They were so happy,full of smiles with everything right in their world. They won't be smiling and happy for some time to come...but they will surely get to smile and be happy again. Time heals all wounds,even the loss of a beloved child. They will be happy again.
Anon he suffered a lot before he died😥... Mtcheww God💔💔... I cannot get over this child's death. I'm still so very sad. Very very sad over this boy's death🥺
DeleteMaybe because I am crime movie addict, I found it difficult to believe that the young champ no matter how hyperactive he was can climb down from upstairs as alleged by some online comments to go and swim at that time of the day. The young champ was lured by a friendly face when the nanny or chef was absent minded, ki!!ed and thrown in the pool with the previous musician case in mind to stage same narrative.
DeleteFor cctv to be seen? An insider job knows camera positions and can unplug or cover or re position to commit the crime.
Nanny/ chef was carried away cos they are all nice to each other but one of them at that house or visited that house that day executed it. The problem is who and why?
Am autopsy will show if he was murdered and thrown in or not.
DeleteExactly my thoughts. Someone killed that child.
DeleteThats pool is just a story to cover up the murder.
All the other ones released should be rearrested immediately.
Who called the Nanny on phone and what were they talking about?
What exactly was the Nanu discussing with the chef?
There is no call she couldn't have answered in front of IFEANYI. He is just a kid and wouldn't even eavesdrop at your conversation.
Soemone used someone here in order to get IFEANYI out of the house and kill him or drown him.
The Adelekes should hire a private international investigator.
God will punish whomever has a hand in this.
One can still be drowned in the pool by another person. And autopsy will read drowned. I am not too sure, I stand to be corrected
DeleteI totally agree with you.The Adeleke's should hire an independent investigator to unravel the mystery surrounding this boy's death. Ifeanyi just died like that,oh my God it's so painful.
Delete3mins is enough for a kid to drown
DeleteToddlers are active. No one need lure them to anywhere
Iv actually fallen in a pool as a young child of 5 before at a family friends house and i didnt know how to swim, everyone was upstairs while i wandered there myself.
DeleteI will tell d story another day.
This statement “death of Ifeanyi “ is so hard to come to terms with.
ReplyDeleteThis life is so somehow .
Who would have thought this baby would have such a short life span ?
It is well with your parents .
I'm telling you anon 11:14, very difficult to come to term with
DeleteAble God
I go cold when I read that line
DeleteSame here.
DeleteI’ve been battling with depression for a while now and this just made it worse. I keep hoping everyday I’ll hear something positive about this boys passing but no it keeps getting real by the day
DeleteAnon 12.07. It is well with you. I also recently suffered from depression and one thing that helped me was taking a break from the news, blogs and social media. At least 80% of the time, the information we receive from the news etc is negative. Someone murdered, rape, war, suicide etc. You don’t realise how much this weighs down on your soul, especially if you are a sensitive person. It just dragged me further and further into despair to the extent that I thought there was nothing positive about humanity. You need to take control of the information you absorb. Take a break and then come back when you are in a better mental state. There is another somewhat popular Nigerian blog that I have banned myself from ever visiting. They have even progressed to taking negative news from the British press to feed their vapid readers. Even the comments made on that blog show you the kind of people that visit the blog and what all that negativity is doing to their hearts. Guard your mind jealously. I hope you feel better soon. I know life can be hard but it always won’t be hard. It has peaks and troughs. Things will get better. Please just try to maintain a positive outlook when things are rough. Count your blessings even when it seems there is no end in sight. I hope this helps in a little way. Remain blessed.
DeleteAnon 12:54, you are so correct! I shield myself from bad news. Most times I don’t even read it. I would see the headlines but I don’t have to read it. Guard your mind people guard your mind. It takes deliberate effort. There are also positive content out there, seek it!
DeleteIt is well
ReplyDeleteIfy,rest well champ🕊
So sad at this news! RIP Champ!Watched the video, Chioma! You will have two boys this time next year! He will be back!
DeleteEven if Chioma has 300 kids in the future, they would never replace Ifeanyi.
ReplyDeleteMy immediate elder brother, J, died at the age of four. Thirty years later, my mom still talks about him with so much pain, grief and fondness. She loves us, her five surviving children, but we're not J.
Sweet Jesus, be what only you can be at a time like this. The Great Comforter. Wrap your sweet arms around Chioma and make her smile again.
Amen,sincerely only God can console her.
DeleteExactly Castle. The pain doesn't go away. It lives in the heart for ever, talking out of exprience.
DeleteThere’s someone behind this killings and it is the same person that uses fake accounts to accuse Davido of occultism. Just one day, there shall be a caught.
DeleteI have been screaming since this news broke out. I just can’t bear this pain I’m feeling now!
DeleteOh God help chioma Rowland and David!
No child can ever be replaced never
Merryment
Amen 🙏
DeleteAmen @castle.
DeleteAmen.
DeleteKING XOXO MYSTERY
☹️☹️
DeleteMay God give Chioma strength. Ah!
Amen! No one can understand the mother's pain. June 20th 2015 i miscarried my twins, 7 years later i still think of them and the pain is yet to go away how much more a child. Dear Lord heal David and Chioma, give them grace to carry this cross
DeleteThank you. I hate when people say you have or you can have other children at the death of a child. It's not the same, nothing replaces the loss. I have lost friends, but I don't feel like it doesn't matter since I have other friends - the other friends are not the same with those who died
DeleteThe unfortunate thing we don't learn from the experiences of others. So there are likely to be more deaths like this tomorrow. The carelessness of mothers, fathers, nannies and teachers have led to the death of children since the beginning of time..
DeleteHannibal
Amen
DeleteNothing replaces the child but there’s a reason for the term rainbow child. Another baby will balm the parents heart in time
DeleteRest on Ifeanyi 💔💔
ReplyDeleteI cannot imagine how he struggled to breathe in water for 20mins!!! Jeez…The thought of leaving toddlers for someone who aren’t your family members scares the shit outta me! I am never leaving my child for anyone unless you my sister or mother
ReplyDeleteSame thing that worries, a child trying to scream for mama to no avail.
DeleteOk
DeleteAccidents can still happen even with your mother or close relative watching your child. Even with you watching your child,it can still happen. Was it not Dbanjs wife that was watching her child when he slipped away and drowned in their home pool in 2018?
DeleteThe most important thing is to make your home as safe as you possibly can for your children so that even if they do wander,the chances of injury are small. How many homes in Nigeria have safety fence around their pools,or even gates at the foot of their stairs to prevent small children climbing up and falling off?
See,my colleague in the office lost her only daughter while in the care of her mother and sister. The child wandered off and fell into a stagnant pool of water in the compound and drowned. She was just 2 years. The garndmither wanted to kill herself. My colleague had to leave her own grief and be consoling her mother and sister cos they were in a very bad state. Their guilt almost consumes them alive. Thank God she had another baby girl now.
12:08 after all the horrible things I’ve heard from leaving your child with a childminder?? I’m not doing! leave all these ones wey you dey talk
DeleteAlthough it’s a small consolation, I don’t think it would have taken him 20 minutes to drown. It would have been a lot quicker. I almost drowned as a young child during school swimming lessons while the teachers supposed to be minding the kids were drinking Pina Colada. Shocking behaviour - they even tried to convince me not to tell my parents. Anyway, until I was saved by my brother and another student, I could feel the life being drained from me and I had only been in the water for a few minutes at that point. I’m in my late thirties and still petrified of pools and the sea.
DeleteWill you stay with your kids 24/7? You all are blaming the child miner. What about Davido that did not learn from what happened to dbanj? Parents pls be responsible! Take safety measures seriously in your homes!
DeleteI don't like to think about mothers losing their children.
ReplyDeleteMay you never experience such. I lost my child this year and i am still not sound mentally.
DeleteSo sorry. May God comfort you
DeleteMay God comfort and heal you. It is well.
DeleteSighs in grief
ReplyDeleteThis boy's death is so heart wrenching
Words of mouth alone cannot comfort at this time, if you have been there. I therefore pray that the Holy Spirit, the Comforter will be present for David and Chioma. If as a fan I am grieving this much, imagine what the parents are going through. Rest in the Perfect Arms of God, Ify.
ReplyDeleteMost of us are grieving this child. I just start crying anytime I remember this boy. Smh
DeleteI think our grief is both comfort and burden to the parents. I hate to cause people pain so when something bad happens to me, I have the added distress of feeling bad that others are feeling bad for me
DeletePlease Lord come through for Chioma. Have mercy on her o
ReplyDeleteSleep well, little one. The news of your demise hurts.
ReplyDeleteChai!, This sad news again😭😭.. I refused to come online since Monday because of this news, i guess i can't totally avoid it! David and Chioma take heart please🙏
ReplyDeleteChai Ify nwa mama😭 it's so hard to believe that you are gone.
ReplyDeleteChai, innocent boy. This world is too wicked.
DeleteHow could they be so careless knowing how superactive that little boy was.I have become a stranger to sleep since the terrible news.God please comfort his parents.
ReplyDeleteThis is why St Paul says in Colossians3, whatever you do, do with your whole heart, as unto the Lord. Whether driver, nanny or medical doctor, do your job as unto the Lord. For in doing your job well, you are serving God. We focus so much on going to church, but it's really our day to day activities that determines how Christian we are... how well are we doing the job we are paid for? Especially when no one is watching?
ReplyDeleteI woke up around 2am cus my stomach was hurting me I was not able to sleep I was just going tru my phone I kept seeing ifeanyi's post every where..I just log out and was just thinking the kind of struggle he did before he finally gave up..only God can console his parents ..
ReplyDeleteIs still HARDDD for me to accept this
ReplyDeleteLillysimple
I can't stop thinking about this news, may God come through for Chioma and David.
ReplyDeleteWho opened the door downstairs that leads to the outside?
ReplyDeleteSomeone killed that child.
Dear everyone, please don't throw parties at your home.
Maybe the person came to that party and learnt how to enter and go out without being noticed.
I haven't slept since the news of the passing of this child.
I can't even function
My aunt lost her son at 25 and till today she isn't wholey sane.
And if you tell her someone has passed she would say good, let everyone feel the pain.
This is terrible
You have not slept for 48 hrs ba? It's okay.
DeleteAfter this, let everyone go to their fathers house.
ReplyDeleteRelocate Chioma or let her stay in her father_in_laws house.
They need to sell that house after mourning cos it would be a constant reminder.
Exactly, she should stay far from that environment.
DeleteIt's so painful,.....
This is the correct thing to do. They should bear the consequences.
ReplyDeleteBut PO PO did not do anything to Dbanj's wife who was at home when their son died o.
All they can do is investigate
DeleteA mistake is usually not a crime
Negligence that lead to a fatal mistake.
DeleteYou don't just get a pat on the back for that.
Let say a transport company - train airline or whatever makes a mistake of not servicing or replacing a worn out part, an accident happens and ppl die you go say na just mistake ba?
Some ppl will lose their jobs and the company gets sued.
Nothing like you're forgiven and don't do such again.
Dbanj's son was only a year old.
Gross negligence.
I have never felt the way I feel for one who isn't close to me, since that night I haven't been my self, I instantly had headache, shivers and runny tummy. Till now I haven't gotten myself... May God come through for his family, this is hard just too hard to bear.
ReplyDeleteVery hard to bear, , so unfortunate. I can't even imagine their pains. It's so heart broken.
DeleteI'm doing everything to believe this never happened. I sincerely pity CHIOMA, this is damn too painful
ReplyDelete*Larry was here*
Like...I've been trying to convince myself that it never happened. Whenever the thought flash through my mind I always try to remove my mind cos I don't even know. Haaaaa. God. Great Comforter, please comfort Chioma cos only you can. My heart is still tighten. God please
DeleteToo hard to bear for we that are not close to Davido and Chioma not to talk of D and C
ReplyDeleteThey should go to court and marry. Stick together and not blame each other. Many women leave their man after something like this and men have done same too. But if you love each other, then actively stick together because the thoughts will come and some will suggest your partner caused it
ReplyDeletePeople are mourning and your own concern is "marriage" . Nigerians! Who do una this thing!
DeleteYou seriously believe showing one of your baby mamas off for about 1 month, quickly moving her and the kid in, taking her to London to benin to see Obas and publicly promising her marriage whilst throwing a birthday bash for that particular child creating the impression that you favour this child more than others only for the poor child to tragically loose his life a few days after his birthday, means they are in love?
DeleteWhy not advise Chioma to slow down and take a breather, move out for now and just breathe. It was quite puzzling with all the videos online, they were moving so fast,,.
How many Children or girl child have died since boko haram invaded the Northern regions? How many children have died in the flooding happening now in Nigeria? How many children have died by negligence on the part of their most entrusted guardians? We know this is an unfortunate e event that happened to the Adeleke family but we should not sensationalize this PLEASE! Poor people's children die or go missing nobody is saying anything or shouting from the rooftops! There is fire on the mountain but nobody is running! Nigerian Child Matters!!!!
ReplyDeletePls, be kind with your words.
DeleteThe fault may lie more with the cook than the nanny.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I've read, it seems the nanny was outside with Ifeanyi, and the cook came to join them. The nanny then received a phone call, and since the cook is sitting there, she would have excused herself to have some privacy.
At that moment, the care of the child lies soley on the cook. If he/she needed to go back inside, then they should have taken the kid along, or found the nanny wherever she was, and transferred care back to her. Why leave the child alone, when you know the nanny is still conversing on the phone?
By right you shouldn't receive phonecalls at work unless the call is directly related to your job. Its easy to get carried away by a call and stay an hour on the phone thinking its just 5mins. Worth ethic in Nig is really poor, I learned this when I moved to the states. Even as an office worker earning minimum wage, I had to resume on time 8am, no excuses and leave only at 5pm. Twice I left 5 mins early (4.55pm to catch the bus) and was reported. I didnt touch my phone except during break. Here people take their work verrrry seriously.
DeleteIf that be the case, the blame is on the cook. Who do you leave a child of 3 yrs all alone? Is the cook a little child as well. Cause I don't get this senselessness.
DeleteFirstly, you don't know who called her. Could have been either one of the parents checking in on their child.
DeleteAlso, you are not the first nor the last to have lived and worked abroad...so quit this "here" silliness! *eye roll*
Lastly, not everyone is a low-level/minimum-wage employee like you! Many of us hold top-level/c-suite positions, so we aren't confinded to the same work restrictions as you!
Thank you @SMH, not to mention this is probably a a full time nanny. So when will she stop work to permit her to take calls?
Delete‘Here’ indeed. Mstewwww
SMH, I really don't understand why you are triggered by my comment. I didn't claim to know who called her, that was why I added unless the call is related to work. Yes I once worked low level jobs but today I have a very high position earning more than I ever thought I would but I won't forget the training I had at my low position 10yrs ago. It shaped my approach to work and anyone can learn from that. And my making comparisons between countries is just that, making comparisons and nothing else so no need to sneer...
DeleteGo back to your initial reply. Read it again! Do you honestly think your response was related to my comment, or the topic at hand??
Delete5% of your comment had relevance, whilst the other 95% was just you, you, you!
Absolutely no one needed to know that you live in the US; had an office job that paid minimum wage; had a 8-5pm work schedule and caught the bus to and from work!
The only thing you mentioned of relevance is that Nigerians have a poor work ethic, and that an intended 5 mins call can sometimes go on for an hour.
Conclusion: you talk too much!
Solution: learn to stay on-topic!
Thank you SMH! You can’t blame a (most probably) full time care worker for taking calls at work abeg, leave that thing
DeleteMy dear top-level/c-suite employee kindly be calming down cos 15:15 never said anything wrong neither did s(he) mean any harm. You are the one trying to show yourself here with your "confinded".
DeleteIt's CONFINED @SMH
i wish the whole story will be all fake so that we all can come back to normal life. I don't want to read more about this painful story.
ReplyDeleteMay God rest the soul of the little one and give his parent the fortitude to bear this huge loss.
ReplyDeleteI have tried as much as possible to avoid reading anything concerning this child's death but I couldn't. Only God can console this two young parents.
There is something called “negligent homicide”. If this was as the nanny narrated, it was a negligent homicide. I never imagined this would affect me this much as I only read about them online. Apparently we grow to love people from positive online stories. I had come to like the dad’s reported generosity and child-like behaviors as well as the love the parents seem to share despite all his imperfections. I have been stressed out and unhappy since the news. Does anyone know how the parents are doing? My heart broke when I read the dad “tore his clothes and ran” out in heartbreak😔 From here reading Nigerian SM it felt like most good folks in the country mourned the little saint. The dad may have changed forever. To think they were away and 8 staffers couldn’t dote on their 3 year old as generous as he has been to them! Life is deep. It’s still unbelievable that he celebrated his birthday barely a week prior. Many have made valid points on hiring a private investigator here. This may have been intentionally carried out especially as they said it was late in the day and he was supposed to be in bed. I’m still heartbroken. Why do I get the feeling that more and more homicides are being overlooked and passed off in Nigeria due to the lack of DNA database & high tech forensic criminal investigative capabilities. One thing I have leant here is that the cops dig deeper than every story when a life is involved. Things aren’t always what they seem on the surface. Who called the nanny? That was a distraction. Who have the staff been in touch with, check the movement of money into their accounts… everyone who can owes it to the little saint and his parents to ensure thorough investigation is conducted. It won’t bring him back but it will give the parents justice.
ReplyDeleteYour points are valid. It's such a traumatizing event. I really hope they scale through this nightmare.
DeleteOnly God can truly console them.
u people should just rest before you start looking for a killer somewhere, the rich also cry .....in this life? to live long? your eyes Will see a lot and you will witness a lot. the good, the beautiful and the very dirty.the end of everything is still death. we are all just going to go through that lane no Matter how much you cast, bind over your dead body it, it will surely come, so live your everyday like your last. an accident have happened, it have happened, let us learn from it
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DeleteAbeg sharap. I hate comments like yours honestly. So so condescending and negative. This is not the time for this your stupid nonsense insensitive oshi talk. Yea we all know we don’t live in this world forever but at the same time, we don’t want a death of a child!!!!
Delete@arc. Adefila
DeleteEvery death of a young person is usually investigated to rule out foul play here🇺🇸. Even in “obvious” cases here, detectives swing to work because the “obvious” may not be the truth. Detectives work even on 30 year cases where they are not sure of what truly happened.
ReplyDeleteThis may look like drowning, may be accidental drowning/negligent homicide but it may be also be an assassination of a little saint. Watch 🇺🇸 Investigative forensic channels, you will be amazed at the wickedness of humans. They need to rule out his associates, political frenemies, even rivals if it were here where police still carry out investigations even when it’s obvious there was mass shooting. They still investigate every detail including the trajectory of guns, measuring how far the bullets travelled vs where the shooter was located to rule out the possibility of another killer etc. I was & I’m still so distraught though I don’t know them that I hope they investigate everyone that attended the party discretely, look at the flow of money into the accounts of all his domestic staff & associates as he got involved in the dangerous politics of Nigeria. Who called the nanny that night? They need to figure out what happened beyond the obvious fallouts of the rich not securing their pools. I remember when we wanted to but a house with a big pool almost twenty years ago, the pool had Tarpaulin cover but we refused the juicy offer of pool, laundry parachute etc that I really liked in the house because we had little kids. I couldn’t guarantee we would have the cover on ALL the time. I see a lot of small plots on the island at N300m where pools are close to the back door to the porch. I’m shocked at how we do not childproof homes in Nigeria from pools, to staircases m, to glass furniture. Kids have been known to be mistakenly locked up in washing machines so some brands here have solutions for that. A society must constantly improve. It seems building codes do not specify certain things here as they should so “Nigeria happens” to both the rich & the poor else the builders would have been forced to comply if there were codes & they were updated after the Dbanj case. Forgive my rantings, I’m just very sad & upset about this as with all the things happening in Nigeria. This is not really an open & shut case. There was a doctor here who poisoned the spouse with a muscle relaxant used for surgery whose metabolites disappear quickly & are difficult to detect in toxicology tests. It took a while but they caught her. Another was putting arsenic in low doses of coffee for the spouse until it built up. Checking hair strands & nails exposed high levels of arsenic and they solved it. If both homicides took place in Nigeria they will have moved on with a killer on the loose.
We are too simplistic & move on too easily without solving problems which is why they recur. There could be a serial killer on the loose among his associates making him look like those close to him are prone to harm.
David should hire private detectives and rule out the possibility of someone trying to frame him as a ritualist as his life & that of his loved ones may be at risk.
Anon 11:43..gbam. I have always felt this way. Someone is after Davido and doing all of these to make it look like it is Davido. I do pray there is a caught....and fast too
ReplyDeleteIf they like let them detain holy Spirit, the boy is dead. A big lesson to young parents. 1) No unsecured swimming pool in the house. 2) keep your kids away from large crowds at home 3) Limit your gallivanting all over the place if your kid is below 10 years old.
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