Media celebrity Toke Makinwa formally introduced her daughter, Yakira, to the public to mark her daughter’s first birthday.
This comes a few days after she admitted that being a mother had altered her viewpoint and joked that people should now “chat with her differently”.
Tok Makinwa has posted pictures of her daughter on her official social media page.
The announcement was made a few days after Makinwa revealed in a video that she was getting ready to take her kid to London for an extravagant first birthday celebration.
Makinwa claimed to have gained a new status as a mother in the video.
“Y’all need to chat with me differently now. I’m the mother of a one-year-old. I’m flying her to London for her birthday party,” she said.
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The media personality also expressed gratitude to God for the journey of motherhood. She said she had been blessed with a healthy daughter and that everything she prayed for during pregnancy had come to pass.
In September 2025, Toke Makinwa said having a child is assisting her in healing from traumatic events. A childhood trauma that she believed she had already dealt with.
The 40-year-old revealed this, saying that her daughter Yakira Eliana, whom she welcomed in August 2025, has been a daily source of solace.
She wrote
“My daughter brought me healing; she is daily healing parts of me. I didn’t even know I needed healing, healing from my childhood trauma. From grief I thought I had dealt with a long time ago. Maybe God knew I needed this.”
Toke Makinwa, an actress and author of “On Becoming,” has frequently referred to the loss of her parents in a gas explosion when she was eight years old as one of the most agonising experiences of her life.
After three years of marriage, she and fitness coach Maje Ayida also divorced publicly in 2017.
However, the on-air personality claimed that becoming a mother has changed her viewpoint and is assisting her in healing past traumas.
