It’s the return of witty clapback’s, fashionable lateness and more.
The Real Housewives of Lagos – which follows Nigeria's most affluent and influential women - is set to return for its second installment on 29 September 2023 after a successful first season. Being the first Real Housewives franchise in Nigeria, the series brought opulence, drama and lots of eyebrow raising moments.
Gracing our screens in the second season will be the OGs - Nollywood actress Iyabo Ojo, celebrity designer and stylist Toyin Lawani Adebayo, and socialites and businesswomen Chioma Ikokwu, Laura Ikeji-Kanu and Mariam Timmer, as well as two newcomers, fashion entrepreneur Tania Omotayo and socialite Faith Morey.
Though the new ladies have been in front of the camera before, this will be their reality TV debut.
Tania, 32, in a statement said, “I joined The Real Housewives of Lagos because my life is so public but not because I shared anything, simply based on assumptions. This was an opportunity for me to step out of my comfort zone to share a bit of my life and challenge myself with something new.”
Former basketball player turned supermodel Faith, speaking on taking a leap of faith, says she’s a private person but always had a desire to have an experience like this. “I also wanted to meet fellow hard-working ladies. And of course, the franchise needed a touch of Faith Morey,” she says in the statement.
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With the highly anticipated second season, let’s recap on some eyebrow raising moments from the first season.
1. Chioma and Laura
The messy situation between ‘friends’.
The drama between the Good Hair businesswoman and Laura started in the first episode, at Toyin’s daughter’s product launch after Chioma referred to Laura as a “client” and not a friend, which the reality TV co-star took offence to that. It was the fuel to the fire of arguments on the show.
2. It’s not drama if Laura isn’t involved
Just as we thought the ladies could get along, Carolyna had underlying beef involving Laura’s sister, Linda Ikeji, who is a blogger in Nigeria. It is alleged that she [Linda] wrote some undignified blogs about Carolyna's life. Even though this situation didn’t directly involve Laura, she did promise that she’d speak to her sister to take down the stories Carolyna had complained about.
3. The good boss
Whether partaking in petty arguments with the ladies or arriving fashionably late, Chioma is a good boss at heart. Leaving tears in our eyes the businesswoman presented her employee with a prosthetic arm.
The Brass & Copper and Good Hair boss presented Jeffery, one of her bartenders who lost his arm in a bus accident, with a prosthetic arm.
Not only that but the show gave us insight into Chioma’s interaction with her staff.
4. Toyin loathes lack of punctuality
There are many moments on the show where some ladies don’t respect time. One is Laura who arrived “fashionably late” to Toyin’s daughter’s product launch.
Another late coming was when Chioma took the ladies to Abuja for a luxury getaway and there was drama between Toyin and Carolyna at the airport over lateness. At the reunion Carolyna had the ladies' side-eyeing her when she arrived after everyone was sat and the show was already in progress.
5. Rumours
What’s a reality show without a bit of ‘he said, she said’? We know this is how rumors spread like veld fire. It was rumoured that Laura was allegedly getting pimped to a certain Nigerian governor. This stemmed after Carolyna made an accusation that Laura had been pimped to a Nigerian governor.
At the show reunion, Laura revealed that after the episode aired, she got calls for her in-laws and her village looking to find out what exactly had happened. But Carolyna, stood by what she said.
