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Bella Shmurda welcomes baby boy year after newborn’s death

Popular Nigerian artiste, Ahmed Akinbiyi, popularly known as Bella Shmurda, on Monday, announced the birth of his new child. The singer also revealed that he lost his child at birth last year…

Popular Nigerian artiste, Ahmed Akinbiyi, popularly known as Bella Shmurda, on Monday, announced the birth of his new child.

The singer also revealed that he lost his child at birth last year when he was preparing to release his album, ‘Hypertension’.

Announcing the arrival of his son on Twitter, the elated father said losing his child at birth in 2022 left him “emotionally wrecked.”

He wrote, “A few days to the drop of my album last year, I was an emotional and mental wreck. I’d just gotten to the UK, where I was scheduled to do some promotional activities when I heard the news that I’d lost the child I was expecting at birth.

“At the same time, I started getting threats to my life. The mere fact that I was in the UK was an opportunity for certain people to hurt me, and I saw a video of a group of guys that had been sent to a location where there was supposed to be an attack on me.

“I was hurt, angry, and confused. It was the darkest place I’d ever been in my life, but somehow, light found its way through to me in that tunnel. It’s a few days to the drop of my project this year. This time, I got news that my little boy is here.”

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Published July 24, 2023
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