{"id":81288,"date":"2026-01-08T10:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81288"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:57:24","slug":"adekunle-gold-simi-welcome-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/08\/adekunle-gold-simi-welcome-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Adekunle Gold, Simi Welcome Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian singers Adekunle Gold and Simi have welcomed twin children.<br \/>\nAdekunle Gold announced the development on his Instagram page on Wednesday, January 8, 2026, expressing gratitude for the double blessing. \u201cI asked God for another child and He gave me double,\u201d he wrote.<br \/>\nDetails of the twins\u2019 birth were not disclosed, but the announcement sparked an outpouring of congratulatory messages from fans, colleagues and well-wishers across social media.<br \/>\nThe couple, who married in a private ceremony in January 2019, previously welcomed their first child, a daughter, Deja, in May 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Nigerian singers Adekunle Gold and Simi have welcomed twin children. Adekunle Gold announced the development on his Instagram page on Wednesday, January 8, 2026, expressing gratitude for the double blessing. \u201cI asked God for another child and He gave me double,\u201d he wrote. Details of the twins\u2019 birth were not disclosed, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81290,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81288\/revisions\/81290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}