She is over 70 years old for Gods sakes!!!!
Veteran Singer Uche Ibeto who is popularly known as the “Jigida Queen,” is crying out for help after she was forcefully evicted from her mothers house in Surulere on August 15, 2025 by family members...
She says that she has been squatting from place to place since the eviction.
Ibeto, who also lamented that her health has been negatively affected, alleged fraud, conspiracy, and illegal court execution between her elder sister, land grabbers, a senior police officer, and the court in the process that has left her homeless.
In a press statement issued in Lagos, the 70-year-old singer lamented her current ordeal, stating that she has been moving from one place to another since the incident.
“At my age, being over 70 years of age, I should be enjoying the dividends of my labour of love as a senior citizen, but that is not the case.
“Since the 15th day of August, 2025 that I was unjustly driven out of my home, I have been perching from one place to another at my age and time in life.”
Ibeto explained that her late mother, Mrs. Esther Uche Ibeto, who died intestate in 2013, was the owner of the property located at No. 36 Ibezim Obiajulu Street, Off Marsha Road, Surulere, Lagos.
She recounted that she had lived there with her mother for over five decades until her death.
According to her, despite letters of administration granted to her two elder sisters, Laura Okoh and Ifeoma Stella Ilodibe, by a court in Lagos, the Surulere property was excluded from the estate they were authorised to manage.
She alleged that a purported sale of the house to one Cecil Ezem Osakwe, whom she accused of being a land grabber, was carried out without her knowledge or involvement.
“To my surprise, on Friday, 15th day of August, 2025, at about 6:00am, my residence was invaded by some policemen, thugs and sheriffs of the High Court of Lagos State who broke into my residence and apartment and informed me that they came to levy execution on my mother's said property on grounds of a judgment delivered on the 10th day of July, 2025 by His lordship Hon. Justice Adewunmi-Oshin of the High Court of Lagos,”
Ibeto alleged that the court case (Suit No: LD/9481GCM/2025) between Cecil Ezem Osakwe vs. Laura Okoh & Ifeoma Stella Ilodibe excluded her and the tenants from the proceedings, even though she was a direct beneficiary of the property.
The singer said she was forcefully thrown out of the house by over 50 policemen and thugs.
The veteran singer appealed to authorities, including the Lagos State Government, the Inspector-General of Police, the Attorney General of the Federation, the Nigerian Bar Association, the National Assembly, and the National Judicial Council (NJC), to intervene in what she described as a grave injustice.
“I need to return to my home and resume my life,” Ibeto said in an emotional appeal.
She says that she has been squatting from place to place since the eviction.
Ibeto, who also lamented that her health has been negatively affected, alleged fraud, conspiracy, and illegal court execution between her elder sister, land grabbers, a senior police officer, and the court in the process that has left her homeless.
In a press statement issued in Lagos, the 70-year-old singer lamented her current ordeal, stating that she has been moving from one place to another since the incident.
“At my age, being over 70 years of age, I should be enjoying the dividends of my labour of love as a senior citizen, but that is not the case.
“Since the 15th day of August, 2025 that I was unjustly driven out of my home, I have been perching from one place to another at my age and time in life.”
Ibeto explained that her late mother, Mrs. Esther Uche Ibeto, who died intestate in 2013, was the owner of the property located at No. 36 Ibezim Obiajulu Street, Off Marsha Road, Surulere, Lagos.
She recounted that she had lived there with her mother for over five decades until her death.
According to her, despite letters of administration granted to her two elder sisters, Laura Okoh and Ifeoma Stella Ilodibe, by a court in Lagos, the Surulere property was excluded from the estate they were authorised to manage.
She alleged that a purported sale of the house to one Cecil Ezem Osakwe, whom she accused of being a land grabber, was carried out without her knowledge or involvement.
“To my surprise, on Friday, 15th day of August, 2025, at about 6:00am, my residence was invaded by some policemen, thugs and sheriffs of the High Court of Lagos State who broke into my residence and apartment and informed me that they came to levy execution on my mother's said property on grounds of a judgment delivered on the 10th day of July, 2025 by His lordship Hon. Justice Adewunmi-Oshin of the High Court of Lagos,”
Ibeto alleged that the court case (Suit No: LD/9481GCM/2025) between Cecil Ezem Osakwe vs. Laura Okoh & Ifeoma Stella Ilodibe excluded her and the tenants from the proceedings, even though she was a direct beneficiary of the property.
The singer said she was forcefully thrown out of the house by over 50 policemen and thugs.
The veteran singer appealed to authorities, including the Lagos State Government, the Inspector-General of Police, the Attorney General of the Federation, the Nigerian Bar Association, the National Assembly, and the National Judicial Council (NJC), to intervene in what she described as a grave injustice.
“I need to return to my home and resume my life,” Ibeto said in an emotional appeal.
Nothing like ur own Money and House , GOD please I want to own my own house and be Financially Stable to avoid all these Nonsense
ReplyDeleteI tell you. Oh my, this is painful and it doesn’t sound like she has anyone in her corner fighting for her.
DeleteOh dear 😭
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised she didn't own her own place all the whole she was famous. So sad.
ReplyDeleteHer era didn't make much apart from name.
DeleteLate Nelly Uchendu didn't own much too.
Flavor N'abania and Phyno Fino dem should look her way for collabos.👍
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You're right XP.
DeleteRoyalties paid to them then cannot be compared to these days unless they have brand endorsements. These people did her bad o 😩
I dont even know what to say.
ReplyDeleteThis is ntó na aní. SACRILEGE.
ReplyDeleteWhen their Momma passed on, her favorite child Uche was given the building. The siblings got the other properties.
Being rich, ornaments,gold and some other resources like cars and money in the bank went to her sisters. Men got landed properties.Traditionally, they only inherit such but since Momma decided it was for Uche, it had to become hers. Specifically sorted, well past tradition. It happens.
Now years after, they've sold the ornaments and cars which of course had more value then than the house, they went to forge documents to evict her?
This one called Cecil, ebute mmanya, iñua, ebute ngwó, iñua. Ebe akúna asili ngínwa.
( If they bring wine you drink, they bring fermented drink, you take, they bring weed you smoke, any where bad stories are circulating, your name is there, guy you are a completely finished human. Only you, claimant, your staff defendant abi what sef?
Otolo mgbagbu ga esi Otolo Nnewi wee gbaa unu ncha.
Infact, you deserve Akiri. What nonsense?🥺
Akiri tawu kwee ghu
(In my Enugu voice)😂
#pissed
They all bvs. Abuse me, I'll spill nonsense here. Ndi uchu.
On this one, if Lagos State govt can't solve it, let Anambra State Ministry of Women Affairs assist her.
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So this is the back story, Nawa for some people and greed.I just hope she has something to back up her claim that her mummy gifted her the house
DeleteHer sister was married to ekenedilichikwu na so why dragging this house with her ? Lawao
DeleteUche should contact Mrs Ify Obinabo immediately!
DeleteShe is very active!
So sad. Where do they want her to go to?
ReplyDeleteEven if this is not her property, it belonged to her mum.
So sad. Family disputes. 😔😔😔
ReplyDeleteShe doesn't have kids? Didn't she made money during her reign? What happened?
ReplyDeleteI'm shocked that with all her labour she was living in Mummy's house and has no house of her own.This is the first time I'm hearing such a story.
ReplyDeleteMay God and people come through for you ma'am
Is it wrong to live in mummy's house ? You always misyarn
DeleteSo I should start explaining myself to you now,as who?keep monitoring my comments,na you go taya.
DeleteI'm not responsible for how you understand my comments, if you cut out a part of my sentence and choose to salivate on it,that's your problem.
Her mother must be rolling in her grave. The dead has no power in earthly affairs. Please put your house in order so your loved ones don’t suffer when you pass on. Imagine a complete stranger has acquired something he knows nothing about. Without money you are at the mercy of the world, and at her age dealing with homelessness in a country with limited social security. May God pave a way for her so she can find peace in her old age.
ReplyDeleteMay God come through for her, thisvis sad...
ReplyDeleteI pray the Government intervene
This is sad, the state government should please intervene.
ReplyDeleteOver 50 police men for your own sibling, na wa oh.
ILO KA N' UNO! in my Daddy's voice 😡
ReplyDeleteEni ore da, ko ma se binu, eni abinibi, ndani, ala jobi ko si mo , ala jogbe ni oku. Rendering a 70 years old homeless, not by strangers, but by her siblings. I am sure devil is in heaven already.
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