So yesterday this story about a certain Igho “Tiny” Ubiribo started trending. E! News even reported the story, reporting that this individual died after a penis-enlargement procedure in Thailand led to a fatal pulmonary embolism.I came across this post on X looking at the timeline and some of the things surrounding his death, and honestly, I think it’s worth ruminating over. What caught my attention is that he actually died on March 6, 2026. According to the reports, though, the details of what happened is only now coming out months later through the UK coroner’s inquest.
I’m not saying there’s anything fishy going on. I just find the whole timeline interesting and wondering if, yunno, the owl has a human face. 😁
Yesterday they announced his death and the details of a gold-coffin burial in London, but Igho “Tiny” Ubiribo had already been dead since March.
That six-month gap between the actual event and the public coroner’s report is the first thing that smells like a dead rat.
People who live in the open don’t usually wait that long to let the full story out.
The same man NDLEA declared wanted in 2023 alongside his wife Danielle Simba Allen. The agency said the couple were the arrowheads of an international syndicate operating out of Los Angeles, using a Port Harcourt prophetess to recruit teenage girls as salesgirls for “Loud” cannabis and other consignments.
A 32.7kg shipment was intercepted in Lagos, properties and an ₦80 million account were frozen, court orders went out, and the pair simply stopped answering invitations and vanished from official view. That is the official record from April 2023.
When someone already on a wanted list dies quietly abroad, gets buried months later in another country, and the precise medical cause only surfaces after an inquest, the mind goes to a well-worn Nigerian playbook.
Alleged criminals have been faking or delaying death announcements for years.
In May 2026 NDLEA re-arrested Ibrahim Yusuf Lawal after his wife submitted an affidavit claiming he had died of tuberculosis in 2024 and been buried according to Islamic rites. He was very much alive and had simply jumped bail.
Hospitals in Lagos have been caught issuing death certificates for living people for as little as ₦10,000. Pension fraudsters and insurance claimants have used the same trick.
An EFCC suspect once presented a fake death certificate to investigators to try to close a case. These are a known tactic when the heat gets too close.
Tiny’s timeline of being declared wanted in 2023, dead in Thailand March 2026, lavish funeral May 2026, then full cause of death only public in September, fits the outline even if no one has proven a fake. The delay itself is a red flag.
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