Saturday began with false claims that Mavin’s golden boy, Rema had died. The Rema death rumour started when Wikipedia, the biggest world’s free online encyclopedia made a devastating blunder by reporting that the fast-rising singer, Divine Ikubor also known as Rema had passed.
The online platform made the error in reporting that the singer passed on at exactly 12:29 am on 1st February.
In what’s becoming a regular occurrence, the news quickly went viral. Despite the fake news, many fans expressed shock over Rema’s apparent death via Wikipedia. And still, the news hit a lot of the Dumebi crooner’s fans hard.
However, reports claimed that the error was on the part of one of the platform’s writers who made the error while updating the singer’s profile.
The error has since been corrected with the singer being the most searched in the last 10 hours following the blunder. Very much alive and well, Rema, 19, is yet to comment on the news.
Several other celebrities have been claimed dead by false reports. Just recently, Nigerian Transgender socialite, Bobrisky became the victim of a death hoax after a story went viral on social media under the headline “Controversial Nigerian cross dresser and male Barbie aka Bob Risky is dead,” by a Facebook page posing as Nigerian television station, AIT.
However, without wasting time, Bobrisky sent a message to those responsible for perpetrating online rumours of his death. He wrote via Instagram: “Anybody wishing me dead will die before me. I will slay in all black to your burial.”
Further, for as long as there have been famous people, there have been those trying to bury them before they’re dead. Such has been the case for a slew of celebrities over the years that have had to come forward and assure fans, that rumours of their death have been greatly exaggerated.
