It was a joyful thanksgiving session at the house of the Deputy Managing Director of ThisDay Newspaper, Mr Kayode Komolafe, as friends and well-wishers thronged his Ikosi GRA residence, Lagos, to felicitate with him on the birth of a baby boy after 22 years of seeking the fruit of the womb.
Tajudeen Adebanjo was there.
For the family of the Deputy Managing Director of ThisDay Newspaper, Mr Kayode Komolafe, otherwise known as KK, and his lovely wife, Funmi, an Assistant Editor with Vanguard Newspaper, giving birth to a bouncing baby boy after 22 years of barenness, was joy unlimited. Of course, they have every cause to be happy. Their mates, who married at the same time with them, had long thrown away their babies' diapers.
However, that God answered them after more than two decades of waiting was good enough to establish the feeble-minded Christians in similar circumstances.
After marriage, their career took priority on their minds hence they planned to work for two years before making babies. But unknown to them God had another plan.
They were to wait for twenty-two years to glorify His name. As the holy book says:
And when the baby finally came, it was a moment of gratitude and celebration of their strong faith in God. Last Tuesday, families, friends, colleagues and well-wishers joined them for the christening of the long awaited baby.
Guests at the christening were led by Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole; Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governorship candidate in Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi; his Osun State counterpart, Rauf Aregbesola; Human Rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana; former Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy; Mr Dele Alake; his Environment counterpart, Mr Tunji Bello.
Others included: Managing Director, National Life, Mr Louis Odion; Editor, The Nation, Mr Gbenga Omotoso; Lagos State University (LASU) don, Dr Abubakar Momoh and Chairman, Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, Hon Kehinde Bamigbetan.
The baby was christened Oluwajuwonlo; Isaac; Kayode Kayode Komolafe by Pastor Gbenga Osho of Laughter Foundation Cathedral.
The baby was immediately given a nickname, 'Tripple K'.
“I am indeed grateful to God after a long struggle. It is the mercy of God. This is joy unspeakable,” Mrs Komolafe responded to The Nation during an interview.
“Everybody has one challenge or the other in life but what is important is the struggle to overcome that challenge. In my case, as my husband said 'I stubbornly held on to faith'. Yes, I held on to the word of God because I have very good Pastors that helped me to develop spiritually and things worked out fine,” Funmi, the new mother declared.
On the pressure that usually accompanies such situations, especially from in-laws, Mrs Komolafe noted that she was under a lot of it.
“Even from myself to myself (she looked at the reporter and burst into laughter), I was putting pressure on myself, without anybody telling me. The important thing is that I had faith and there is sweet victory at the end,” she said.
Mrs Komolafe said naming the child after his father was also a great delight.
“Kayode in Yoruba means a child that has brought joy. We were two before, now we are three. It is an increase, my brother. Your flesh of your flesh; your bone of your bone,” She stated.
She urged other couples facing the same challenges to be united.
Mrs. Komolafe is a devotee of what is known as Nigeria's only gynaecological church led by Pastor Gbenga Osho. The church known as Laughter Foundation, located at Ojota in Lagos is credited for its rare feat in meeting the aspirations of couples seeking the fruit of the womb.
Pastor Osho, whose decision to set up the church more than a decade ago was informed by his own traumatic experience having been ruled out of parenthood by one of Nigeria's best gynaecologists, described Mrs. Komolafe as one of the church's most consistent faithful.
For several years, Pastor Osho, while giving an exhortation he gave at the naming ceremony, said that he waited hopelessly to have children and that one of the country's best doctors told him that having a child would remain a pipedream.
“Thatreport belongs to man, God's own report soon came and children came to me”,
Pastor Osho who now has five children, said.
Source: naijanewsroom
Tajudeen Adebanjo was there.
For the family of the Deputy Managing Director of ThisDay Newspaper, Mr Kayode Komolafe, otherwise known as KK, and his lovely wife, Funmi, an Assistant Editor with Vanguard Newspaper, giving birth to a bouncing baby boy after 22 years of barenness, was joy unlimited. Of course, they have every cause to be happy. Their mates, who married at the same time with them, had long thrown away their babies' diapers.
However, that God answered them after more than two decades of waiting was good enough to establish the feeble-minded Christians in similar circumstances.
After marriage, their career took priority on their minds hence they planned to work for two years before making babies. But unknown to them God had another plan.
They were to wait for twenty-two years to glorify His name. As the holy book says:
And when the baby finally came, it was a moment of gratitude and celebration of their strong faith in God. Last Tuesday, families, friends, colleagues and well-wishers joined them for the christening of the long awaited baby.
Guests at the christening were led by Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole; Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governorship candidate in Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi; his Osun State counterpart, Rauf Aregbesola; Human Rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana; former Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy; Mr Dele Alake; his Environment counterpart, Mr Tunji Bello.
Others included: Managing Director, National Life, Mr Louis Odion; Editor, The Nation, Mr Gbenga Omotoso; Lagos State University (LASU) don, Dr Abubakar Momoh and Chairman, Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, Hon Kehinde Bamigbetan.
The baby was christened Oluwajuwonlo; Isaac; Kayode Kayode Komolafe by Pastor Gbenga Osho of Laughter Foundation Cathedral.
The baby was immediately given a nickname, 'Tripple K'.
“I am indeed grateful to God after a long struggle. It is the mercy of God. This is joy unspeakable,” Mrs Komolafe responded to The Nation during an interview.
“Everybody has one challenge or the other in life but what is important is the struggle to overcome that challenge. In my case, as my husband said 'I stubbornly held on to faith'. Yes, I held on to the word of God because I have very good Pastors that helped me to develop spiritually and things worked out fine,” Funmi, the new mother declared.
On the pressure that usually accompanies such situations, especially from in-laws, Mrs Komolafe noted that she was under a lot of it.
“Even from myself to myself (she looked at the reporter and burst into laughter), I was putting pressure on myself, without anybody telling me. The important thing is that I had faith and there is sweet victory at the end,” she said.
Mrs Komolafe said naming the child after his father was also a great delight.
“Kayode in Yoruba means a child that has brought joy. We were two before, now we are three. It is an increase, my brother. Your flesh of your flesh; your bone of your bone,” She stated.
She urged other couples facing the same challenges to be united.
Mrs. Komolafe is a devotee of what is known as Nigeria's only gynaecological church led by Pastor Gbenga Osho. The church known as Laughter Foundation, located at Ojota in Lagos is credited for its rare feat in meeting the aspirations of couples seeking the fruit of the womb.
Pastor Osho, whose decision to set up the church more than a decade ago was informed by his own traumatic experience having been ruled out of parenthood by one of Nigeria's best gynaecologists, described Mrs. Komolafe as one of the church's most consistent faithful.
For several years, Pastor Osho, while giving an exhortation he gave at the naming ceremony, said that he waited hopelessly to have children and that one of the country's best doctors told him that having a child would remain a pipedream.
“Thatreport belongs to man, God's own report soon came and children came to me”,
Pastor Osho who now has five children, said.
Source: naijanewsroom
UPDATE
Less than 7 months after the birth of their long awaited first child, the Komolafe's welcomed a set of twin girls, thus having 3 children within 15 months and in Mrs. Komolafe's words, 'cancelling all those years of waiting!' Pix below:
