{"id":6024,"date":"2020-04-05T16:39:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piginloaded.com.ng\/?p=6024"},"modified":"2021-04-19T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:41:10","slug":"funke-akindele-explains-why-paty-was-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/funke-akindele-explains-why-paty-was-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Funke Akindele Explains Why Party was Held Amidst COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Nollywood actress, <a href=\"\">Funke Akindele<\/a>\u00a0the omo ghetto has explained why her husband\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/daviral.ng\/news\/tag\/jjc-skillz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JJC<\/a>\u00a0celebrated his birthday party which led to social gathering amidst\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/daviral.ng\/news\/tag\/covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignnone wp-image-6928 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 768 432'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/daviral.ng\/news\/assets\/files\/sites\/9\/Funke-Akindele-and-JJC-Skillz.jpeg\" alt=\"Funke Akindele Explains Why Party was Held\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The movie star and her husband JJC Skillz in the early hours of Sunday was heavily criticized by fellow Nigerians on social media. The counterblast to the celebrity couple was due to the house party they help recently in celebration of JJC Skillz\u2019s 43rd birthday. In a video clip that went viral on social media, the couple were seen dancing to singer <a href=\"https:\/\/daviral.ng\/music\/artiste\/naira-marley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naira Marley<\/a>\u2019s \u201cTesu Mole\u201d song.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daviral.ng\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DaViral News<\/a> gathered that the house party was held at their home in Amen Estate, located in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booknaija.ng\/city\/lagos\/ibeju-lekki\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ibeju-Lekki<\/a> axis of The <a href=\"https:\/\/booknaija.ng\/city\/lagos\/lekki\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lekki<\/a> Peninsula, <a href=\"https:\/\/booknaija.ng\/city\/lagos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lagos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerians angrily called for the arrest of Funke Akindele and her husband <a href=\"https:\/\/daviral.ng\/news\/tag\/jjc-skillz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JJC<\/a> for breaking the rules of \u201csocial distancing\u201d to prevent the spread of the <a href=\"https:\/\/daviral.ng\/news\/tag\/covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Covid-19<\/a> after which the said video went viral online. However, in another video on Sunday afternoon, <a href=\"https:\/\/piginloaded.com.ng\/tag\/funke-akindele\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Funke<\/a> explained that the people seen in the video were workers in her studio who live outside Lagos but were caught up with the lock-down when it was announced by the federal government unexpectedly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_left\"><p>Dear Friends, I really have to do this!! I hear you all and I acknowledge all your honest feedback. I also thank you for your concerns, well wishes and calls. I am sorry and hope this video offers some explanation. Please stay safe. And God bless. @lagosstategovt<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>You May Also Like:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/piginloaded.com.ng\/kikiope-olutunu-mi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kikiope \u2013 Olutunu Mi (Prod. E\u2019keyz) [Music]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/piginloaded.com.ng\/most-populated-cities-in-nigeria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 Most Populated Cities in Nigeria 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Watch the video below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0;\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/B-mapD0l6Qk\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/B-mapD0l6Qk\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I hear you all and I acknowledge all your honest feedback. I also thank you for your concerns, well wishes and calls. I am sorry and hope this video offers some explanation. Please stay safe. And God bless. @lagosstategovt<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/funkejenifaakindele\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Funke Akindele Bello<\/a> (@funkejenifaakindele) on Apr 5, 2020 at 6:33am PDT<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele\u00a0the omo ghetto has explained why her husband\u00a0JJC\u00a0celebrated his birthday party which led to social gathering amidst\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0pandemic. The movie star and her husband JJC Skillz in the early hours of Sunday was heavily criticized by fellow Nigerians on social media. The counterblast to the celebrity couple was due to the house [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/funke-akindele-explains-why-paty-was-held\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[149,219,374],"reaction":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-covid-19","9":"tag-funke-akindele","10":"tag-jjc-skillz","11":"post_format-post-format-video"},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6024"},{"taxonomy":"reaction","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reaction?post=6024"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=6024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}