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Dec 9, 2025
Lt. Yerima: Life After Encounter With Wike - Daily Trust
Daily Trust
When MC Rahemena, a popular northern Master of Ceremony (MC) last weekend posted on her Instagram page photos of Lieutenant Lt. Adam Muhammad Yerima, known simply as A. M Yerima with a pretty lady, breaking the news that the naval officer had tied the knot in Kaduna, many thought it was fake news as a lot had been said about the young officer both online and offline in the past one month, with many of them false.
Yerima shot into limelight recently following an incident involving him and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory ( FCT) Nyesom Wike, over a piece of land.
It would be recalled that Wike had led his team to carry out a demolition exercise on a property belonging to a retired General, which the young officer prevented, "following orders".
Shortly after the incident, a lot of pictures emerged online where he was seen to be proposing marriage to different women.
The pictures which trended stemmed from the fact that for days, after the incident, the young naval officer became a celebrity of some sort as many people, including young women who were impressed by his conduct during the encounter tried to be associated with him.
Several AI videos emerged of him taking on other personalities and defeating them, just as Al generated videos emerged of him engaging the FCT minister in a physical combat.
But just as the saga was subsiding and the Nigerian online community was moving on to other issues and it is wont to do, pictures/ videos emerged of Lieutenant Yerima taking a wife. This time, however, the pictures are real. Yerima is said to have had a low-key wedding in Kaduna, where he married Khadija, an indigene of Zamfara State. Weekend Trust learnt her family name is majorly referred to as Anka, but could not verify her exact surname.
The wedding was attended by close family and friends, devoid of any extravagance or elaborate gathering, Weekend Trust gathered.
A commentator, Raheena, via her Instagram handle @mc-raheena, tagged the photos with a c