On Thursday March 19, 2026, the celebrated Nigerian gospel minister whose real name is Judith Kanayo-Opara broke her silence sharing in a raw and deeply personal Instagram video the harrowing story of losing six pregnancies before finally welcoming her second child.
Judikay revealed that she suffered her sixth miscarriage in February 2025, describing it as a pain that almost crushed her. She was well into her second trimester over three months pregnant when the tragedy struck. What began as mild cramps quickly escalated into something far more alarming. “I thought it was normal, but then came blood, and it didn’t stop,” she said, describing the moment she realised something was terribly wrong.
“I was going about my day when I started experiencing cramps… then came trickles of blood. What I thought was urine was blood. It didn’t stop; it kept flowing, and I was devastated because I understood what that meant. Automatically, I had lost this baby… and that was the sixth time,” she said. She was rushed to hospital where doctors confirmed a missed miscarriage and performed a dilation and curettage procedure.
What made her testimony particularly powerful was her honesty about the gap between her public and private self. After returning home Judikay said she told those around her that God gets the glory maintaining the composure and faith her audience expected of her. But behind closed doors the reality was entirely different. “When I returned home, I thought I was okay. I had cried and shouted whilst they broke the baby and brought the pieces. Everyone would ask, and I would say God gets the glory. But in the silence of the night, I would experience a pain that I could not express. I would wail and cry and say, ‘Jesus, where are you?’”
The video posted as part of her ongoing social media series titled My Yeshua Story sparked an immediate and massive wave of support from fans, fellow artists and women across the world who have faced similar losses, many of whom said her words gave them permission to cry and the courage to keep holding on.
But the story does not end in grief.
On February 14, 2026 Valentine’s Day, Judikay and her husband Pastor Anselem Opara welcomed their second child, a baby girl named Shekinah Umechukwu Opara, meaning The Breath and Manifest Glory of the Lord.
She described her newborn as God’s literal love gift to them.
“On the 14th of February 2026, we welcomed our second baby: Shekinah Umechukwu Opara; The Breath and Manifest Glory of the Lord. She is God’s literal gift of love to us. Have you seen the Lord fail? Jesus has the final — scratch that — ONLY say,” she wrote on Instagram.
The couple, who married in a traditional ceremony in August 2020 followed by a white wedding in November of the same year, are already parents to a son Joshua born in March 2022.
Baby Shekinah is their second child after six miscarriages. A miracle that has moved an entire nation.
