In his career, he’s had close calls and near death experiences that could have terminated his life at least 3 times before today.
- In 2001, 2face Idibia was involved in a nasty car crash that left him unconscious. Narrating the experience to NET, he said, ‘It was in Lagos. I was driving from Kuramo beach then. That time Kuramo beach day reign. I was drunk, like I don kpeff so tey I day use the moto do video game na. I day do like say na Grand Theft Auto I dey. As I reached the bend I couldn’t even bend do I hit it hard. Na hospital where them day sow the stitch na I wake up. I was unconscious. When I woke up in the hospital I was like men, so that’s how I would have just gone like that? It was crazy and after that accident I started having speed phobia. I started having speed phobia’. He was just 26 at the time of the accident.
- In 2004, armed robbers broke into his Festac home in Lagos where he survived a close shave with the gun men, he was beaten to a pulp.
- In 2007, 2face Idibia was robbed at gun point again, his car was snatched and he was shot on his left knee around Anthony, Lagos.


