Iyanya in plan to marry

Pop star Iyanya has disclosed plans to settle down with a woman this year, but he has no plans of making the relationship public.

He made this known during a recent chat with Punch, stating that he will not miss being single when he eventually ties the knot.

The 29-year-old singer said: “I am making plans to do all that but I don’t think I would want people to know anything about it. I will not miss the single life.”

The Kukere singer held that a relationship that makes it way into public view has every tendency to fail as a result of undue attention and pressure.

He said: “The truth is that once it gets to the hands of the media, we both lose it. But it is not your fault because you are just doing your job. But then, it just takes a negative effect on the relationship. “It puts us on unnecessary pressure. It gives the people who don’t even have the right to talk, an opportunity to interfere even when they don’t know the truth about what is going on. “So from social media, I’ve learnt to keep my relationship private and to give the people more music.

That is what they know me for first of all. I don’t let the other things cloud the music that I’m known for.” The singer is obviously talking from experience given his previous relationships which were big in media. In the past, he went out with top Ghanaian actress and celebrity Yvonne Nelson but they split before long. In 2015, the Triple MG singer was rumoured to be in a relationship with socialite Freda Francis, the chief executive of Global Orchard Service and Oasis Med Spa. By August 2015, the speculations were put to bed after the singer shared online a picture of them cuddling. Afterwards, Freda was spotted at his Abuja album launch and a couple of other events where he was present.

But shortly after they reportedly separated, she stopped following him on social media after he unfollowed her and deleted all their intimate pictures together.

She eventually deleted her account from Instagram as a result of undue pressures from fans and critics. Freda Francis has also been linked with several other popular names in the past from Godswill Akpabio to Don Jazzy and Osaze Odemwingie, among others.