Nollywood actor, Saidi Balogun<\/strong>, and his colleague cum ex-wife, Faithia Williams, have sparked fresh curiosity among fans following their affectionate exchange on social media.<\/p>\n Abia Radio News<\/strong> recalls that the pair were married for several years, a union that produced two children, a son and a daughter, before they officially parted ways in 2014.<\/p>\n Faithia, despite their separation, continued using the Balogun surname until 2017, when she reverted to her maiden name.<\/p>\n However, the former spouses marked their shared birthday on Thursday with a public exchange of warm wishes on Instagram.<\/p>\n Reacting to Saidi\u2019s birthday post via the comment section, Faithia wrote, \u201cHappy birthday daddy Khalid, my Efunroye king\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n Saidi promptly replied, affectionately addressing Faithia as his \u201cqueen\u201d and adding, \u201cHappy birthday to us\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n While the affection exchange got some fans talking, it remains unclear if the sentiments signal a romantic reconciliation or reflect the strong, amicable relationship they have maintained since their divorce.<\/p>\n Both actors have long been established as leading figures, particularly within the Yoruba-language sector of Nollywood.<\/p>\n In other news, Saidi Balogun recently recounted the challenges and losses that broke him.<\/strong><\/p>\n Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that the movie star made this known in a post via his Instagram page on Wednesday, alongside a photo of himself with a hand injury.<\/p>\n Saidi said losing his daughter was the worst challenge that broke him in pieces beyond human comprehension.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nollywood actor, Saidi Balogun, and his colleague cum ex-wife, Faithia Williams, have sparked fresh curiosity among fans following their affectionate exchange on social media. Abia Radio News recalls that the pair were married for several years, a union that produced two children, a son and a daughter, before they officially parted ways in 2014. Faithia, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":241188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[3178,344,1942],"class_list":["post-241187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-faithia-williams","tag-nollywood","tag-saidi-balogun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Faithia-Williams-and-Saidi-Balogun.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}