Nigerian media personality Toke Makinwa has written a note to her Maker as she reflects on 2025.
The media personality said that while marking the New Year, she told God she wanted to end the year by saying, ‘What a difference a year can make,’ and God did.
She noted how God kept her reputation on the line to save her from wrong choices and for finally making it all beautiful in his time. She also noted how He gave her a beautiful daughter to Shepherd.
Toke said she learnt in gratitude that one finds who one is in Christ. She further said that she had learned the type of love that she had searched for all her life.
“On the last Sunday of 2025, I really just want to thank you, Jesus, for not holding anything back from me, for giving me a year that only you could have seen me through, for putting your own reputation on the line to save me from wrong choices and for finally making it all beautiful in your time.
The wait is never in vain.
I learnt in gratitude that you find who you are in Christ. I learnt the type of love that I’ve searched for all my life: that God loved me first, and it is not a performative kind of love. I did nothing to earn it; I couldn’t even earn it if I tried.
God wants the best for me.
Then you gave me this precious gift to Shepherd, you truly have the greatest sense of humour. It has been leading up to 5 months, and she is teaching me about faith, patience, and the best kind of Love.
I told God I wanted to end the year 2025 saying, “What a difference a year can make,” and boy, he did it.
I manifested it
Roll on 26, I’m excited for all that you’ve got planned for us.
Thankful Sunday.
28.12.25″.
It is no longer news that in August the former OAP had welcomed her first child, a baby girl, named Yakira Eliana at 40.
On Sunday, November 2nd, the media personality dedicated Yaya, to God. The event had lots of public figures in attendance. The likes of billionaire wife Shade Okoya, Funke Akindele, Toyin Abraham, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu and wife, Mercy Eke, Ruth Kadiri, Mercy Aigbe, Eniola Badmus, Uche Montana, Brodashaggi, and more were at the event.
On her TikTok page, the proud mother shared a clip from the dedication, declaring it a day she’ll cherish forever.
In a note to her daughter, Toke noted how her daughter had changed her status and healed the broken heart she had carried since she was 8. Toke said she was already drowning in her big ol’ eyes and learning so much of her.