Nedu Wazobia | |
Birth Date: | 1982 8, df=yes |
Other Names: | Nkechi, Officer Jato |
Occupation: | On-air personality, comedian, actor, presenter, events compere |
Organization: | Wazobia FM |
Nedu Wazobia (born Chinedu Ani Emmanuel) is a Nigerian on-air personality, broadcast journalist, TV presenter, actor, comedian, and content creator. He is known for his pidgin English rendition of the daily news on popular radio station Wazobia FM 94.1 Lagos.[1]
Nedu was born in Kaduna, Nigeria. He studied accounting at Madonna University, Elele Okija, Anambra State. He has an NYSC in Jigawa on a radio station as an on-air personality. He moved back to Abuja to work as a site manager, a period he tagged as unfulfilled. After two years as a site manager, he moved to Lagos to fulfill his lifelong dream of being a broadcaster and entertainer.[2]
Nedu is known for his alter-ego personalities as Sister Nkechi,[3] Alhaji Musa, EndTime Landlord, and Officer Jato. He has a following of over 1.3 million people on Instagram.[4]
Nedu married Uzoamaka Ohiri in 2013, but their marriage ended in 2018. The couple has three children together.[5] Nedu claimed his marriage had been dissolved, but his ex-wife has said otherwise and has challenged him to produce the divorce papers.[6]
Ohiri, on Friday, September 3, 2021, called out Nedu for domestic violence. She accused Nedu of battering her a few weeks after she delivered their child by c-section.[7] On September 4, 2021, Nedu responded to his wife's allegations and denied physically violating her.[8] Nedu would later respond to her claims, saying their marriage was plagued with a lot of issues. He wrote, ‘‘Our marriage was plagued with a lot of issues. One of which was continuous infidelity from her side, which led to me conducting a paternity test on our kids which led to the revelation that our first son is not my biological son even though he was born within the period during which we were married’’. To substantiate his claims, he also posted a copy of the DNA test, which was conducted by a forensic laboratory, Viaguard Accu-metrics, located in Toronto, Canada. The radio personality and Instagram skit maker said, "The continuous infidelity from her side made me conduct a paternity test on our kids, which led to the revelation that our first son is not my biological son".[9]
Although Uzoamaka had said that she did not cheat on Nedu during their brief marriage, she noted that she did not intentionally give another man's baby to her ex-husband.[10] Uzoamaka stated that she was already pregnant for her ex before she married Nedu, albeit, unbeknownst to her. Uzoamaka claimed that shortly after her previous relationship ended, she decided to get to know Nedu, and then they were married while she was pregnant, not knowing that he wasn't responsible for the pregnancy. She was visibly pregnant during the wedding, and everyone could see it. She said that it was communications issues that were solely responsible for the disruption of their marriage. She said that their marriage was plagued with domestic violence and that it was not the DNA test report that led to their eventual divorce.[11]
Nedu is a brand influencer.[16] He is a brand ambassador for popular brands like MTN,[17] Fidelity Bank, Quickteller and Sun Lottery.[18]