For better or worse, Nigerian romance gave us plenty to talk about this year. We watched all kinds of relationships play out in the public eye, and each one raised the same question: What does it really mean to be in love when everyone is watching?
Some couples stayed out of the drama, while others leaned fully into the spotlight. Still, all of them kept us invested. No two journeys looked the same, and that’s exactly the point. Here’s Zikoko’s list of celebrity couples who shaped Nigerian romance in 2025, and the categories their love stories earned.
Most Talked About Couple: Priscilla Ojo & Juma (Jux) Mkambala
Priscilla Ojo and Tanzanian singer Juma Jux met by chance on a flight to Rwanda in early 2024, and their dreamy love story moved quickly from there. Within months, Jux met Priscilla’s family and publicly confirmed their relationship in July, after featuring her as his love interest in the music video for his single “Maboss”. By September 2024, the couple announced their engagement.
From February to May 2025, Priscilla and Juma leaned fully into the spotlight with a lavish, four-part wedding rollout across Tanzania and Nigeria. Just when it seemed like the attention around their relationship might finally slow down, the couple announced they were expecting a baby in July and welcomed their son a month later.
Between their elaborate celebrations and strong online presence, Priscilla and Juma were impossible to ignore, easily making them one of Nigeria’s most talked-about couples of the year.
Most Romantic Couple: Shawn Faqua & Akwa Ugo Sharon
Sharon met actor Shawn at a worship event she attended in October 2024 to support friends, and their relationship unfolded naturally from there. Somewhere along the way, Sharon casually mentioned she’d love to take a train ride one day, and months later, Shawn turned that offhand comment into a grand gesture and proposed after the trip in May 2025.
As if the proposal alone didn’t set the bar high enough, they exchanged vows aboard a moving train and made history as Nigeria’s first-ever train wedding. What gets more romantic than that?
Most Fashionable Couple: Frank Itom & Ifedayo Agoro
After Ife, founder of “Diary of a Naija Girl”, and digital creator Frank went public with their relationship and engagement in February 2025, their shared sense of style quickly became part of what people loved about them. The couple became known for their coordinated outfits and regularly pop up on our feeds looking well put together without trying too hard.
As their wedding plans unfolded, fashion played a significant role in how they told their story. In the lead-up to their wedding, Frank and Ife released a pre-wedding shoot that blended Edo and Yoruba traditional wear, paying homage to both their cultural backgrounds. They won us over completely when they recreated outfits worn by their late parents as a tribute.
Chronically Online Couple: Veekee James & Femi Atere
Veekee James met Femi Atere in 2019 through a mutual friend he worked with as a manager, but their relationship didn’t turn romantic until 2022. They got engaged in October 2023 and followed up with elaborate traditional and white weddings across Akwa Ibom and Lagos in 2024. From the start, their marriage lived very publicly on Veekee’s social media.
From their constant PDA to hot takes on money and marriage roles, Nigerians had plenty to say about the couple throughout 2025. While Femi still describes himself as a behind-the-scenes person, he has remained supportive of Veekee’s fashion career. He has slowly stepped into the spotlight himself, popping up in her content and brand campaigns. Love it or hate it, Veekee and Femi say they feel comfortable sharing their lives online, even as people criticise them for oversharing.
Best Low-key Couple: Temi Otedola & Oluwatosin Ajibade (Mr Eazi)
Mr Eazi and Temi Otedola have quietly done their thing since going public with their relationship in 2017, after meeting at one of DJ Cuppy’s gigs in London. For eight years, their relationship has stayed drama-free and intentionally private. Even when Mr Eazi proposed to Temi in Venice in 2022 on the set of his “Legalize” music video, Nigerians still questioned whether the proposal was real.
True to form, they kept things low-key all the way to the altar. Between May and August 2025, Temi and Eazi held a series of private weddings across different countries, including a legal ceremony in Monaco on Mr Eazi’s late mother’s birthday, with just two of them present. Even though speculation swirled for months, the couple only confirmed their union when Vogue shared their official wedding photos in August.
Most Viral Couple: Innocent (2Baba) Idibia and Natasha Osawaru
In January 2025, 2Baba sent the internet into overdrive when he announced his divorce from Annie Idibia and almost immediately went public with a new relationship and proposal to Edo State lawmaker Natasha Osawaru. Videos confirming the romance surfaced while the divorce was still unfolding.
We barely had time to process one headline before the next dropped. By February, 2Baba’s mother had made a public plea asking Natasha to “free her son” from an alleged spell, and later claimed he had gone missing and might have been abducted.
Despite shutting down the allegations and insisting their relationship was loving, the couple continued to go viral for the opposite reason. By November, they were trending again after 2Baba’s former management team claimed Natasha was ruining his career. Heated arguments caught on camera soon followed, including one at a London airport and another during an Instagram Live with Daddy Freeze. One way or another, they managed to keep our 2025 interesting from start to finish.
Best Second Chance Couple: David Adeleke (Davido) & Chioma Rowland
Davido and Chioma attended the same high school, but their paths didn’t cross until 2013, when they met at university through a mutual friend. Davido announced their relationship in the sweetest way in 2017, convincing Chioma to star in his “Assurance” music video. A proposal followed, and in 2019, they welcomed their first child just a month later. The couple announced wedding plans for 2020 but paused them due to the coronavirus pandemic, after which the relationship went quiet.
By 2021, when Davido and Chioma unfollowed each other on Instagram, it confirmed rumours that had been swirling since 2020 that the couple had split. The breakup appeared to be cemented by loved-up photos of Davido and Instagram model Yafai on holiday in the Caribbean.
Still, they found their way back to each other. In early 2022, a video of Chioma leaving with Davido after his concert confirmed they were giving it another shot. Through the devastating loss of their son later in 2022, the couple stayed together. They welcomed twins in 2023 and officially tied the knot with a traditional wedding in Lagos in 2024 and a white wedding in Miami in May 2025. Their love story was really worth a second chapter.
Best Musical Couple: Simi Ogunleye & Adekunle (Gold) Kosoko
People often say mixing love and work is a bad idea, but Simi and Adekunle Gold proved otherwise. The pair dated for five years, mostly out of the public eye, before quietly getting married in January 2019. Many fans first saw glimpses of both their relationship and wedding through the music video for their duet “Promise”.
Their careers have remained closely intertwined ever since. Over the years, they’ve collaborated on some of our favourite love songs while also supporting each other’s solo projects behind the scenes. Speaking about his latest album, “Fuji”, Adekunle Gold explained, “My partnership with Simi is very seamless. She has mixed most of my albums, and I trust her with my work even when I’m not in the room.”
Most Enduring Couple: Afeez Owo & Mide Martins
Afeez Owo and Mide Martins’ love story is as Nollywood as it gets. They met through Mide’s late mother, veteran actress Funmi Martins, with Afeez initially living with the family as her manager. Their relationship deepened when Mide supported Afeez through a difficult heartbreak from a previous relationship. By 2003, they married and have stayed together for over two decades.
Of course, the marriage hasn’t been without its rough patches. In 2016, the couple weathered a very public separation. Still, they chose to stay together. Years later, Afeez admitted that social media amplified much of the crisis. In August 2025, the couple marked their 22nd wedding anniversary, with Afeez openly stating keeping their marriage intact required a lot of work.
Best Fictional Couple: Omasilu & Zion
Though newly married in “My Body, God’s Temple” by Zikoko Life, Omasilu and Zion’s relationship is tested almost immediately when they struggle to consummate their union due to a fear tied to Omasilu’s prolonged virginity. Instead of pulling away, Zion chooses patience as they work through the issue together.
Yes, Omasilu and Zion are fictional, but the grip this short film had on us made rooting for them feel very real. Their chemistry felt tender and intentional, and Zion’s tenderness made it impossible not to hope things work out for them. The film may have ended, but we’re still rooting for Omasilu and Zion to stay together forever (at least in our heads).
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