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Stella Dimoko-Korkus Unmasked as Promoter of Gistlover Blogs
* DSS, FBI, INTERPOL Tailing Germany-based blogger, her patrons
+ The Other Blogs She Runs On Instagram
Germany-based journalist turned blogger Stella Dimoko-Korkus is the promoter of Gistlover, an Instagram blog that publishes unwholesome, salacious and scandalous stories that have destroyed lives marriages, relationships and businesses, investigations have shown.
Weeks of painstaking investigations by our reporters revealed that Dimoko-Korkus is the brain behind the stories that are borderline cyber bullying and terrorism.
While the country battles banditry, terrorism and abductions among others, SDK, as the Delta State native is also called, has been fuelling hatred, division and inciting people with salacious and lurid tales that have no basis in reality.
Despite being a trained journalist, she shuns professionalism, using the blog to settle perceived slights while masquerading as an activist fighting the cause of the oppressed.
Though the former Encomium magazine journalist runs a regular SDK blog, sources and our findings showed she has been running Gistlover through proxies since 2018. Surprisingly, most of these proxies don’t know she’s their employer as she uses Gistlover to wreck homes, individuals and corporate organisations with falsehoods and untruths.
Impeccable sources also disclosed that Gistlovers isn’t her only destructive blog as she maintains others for trolling and defaming Nigerians. Her other damaging blogs include The Eye-Opener, Xoxocorner, Xoxomystery, Xoxocruise, Cutie Juls, Ifeomafinegirl and Gistaddict.
But in an indication that her cups are full, we learnt from reliable sources that officials of the State Security Service (SSS) are hot on her trail to bring her to justice.
Our sources disclosed that the SSS, also called DSS, is working with the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to probe all her activities.
“There is every likelihood that Stella Dimoko Korkus will be repatriated to Nigeria to answer to the allegations including blackmailing, defamation of character, incitement, war-mongering and others after the conclusion of the ongoing investigation,” the source, who doesn’t wish to be named, added.
However, the DSS is also reported to have compiled a list of vendors and advertisers who patronise SDK’s Gistlover and other blogs. Commentators who engage with her on the blog are also on the DSS watchlist, our findings revealed.
Relationship with Matharoo Sisters of NAIJAGISTLIVE
SDK has refused to learn from the fate of the Matharoo sisters - Jyoti and Kiran. They had toed a similar path previously.
The Indian-Canadian ladies were arrested, detained, tried in court and deported from Nigeria for running a website, Naijagistlive, which scandalised and blackmailed affluent people.
Though Stella Dimoko Korkus is alleged to have played a role in running the infamous blog because most of her stories regularly featured on Naijagistlive, we are still investigating the connection.
The sisters held sway for over one year, publishing half-truths and outright falsehoods before being arrested in 2016 for defamation and blackmail. The Nigerian government eventually deported them to Canada, where they have remained ever since.
Instead of learning from their fate, Gistlover launched on Instagram in 2018 and was perceived harmless as it trolled practitioners in the entertainment industry.
It began defaming Nigerians, especially wealthy businessmen, politicians and celebrities, in 2019 when it also began encouraging violence among its followers.
Sources confirmed that this was when efforts to know the promoter began until early 2020, when Stella Dimoko Korkus’ name emerged.
Infact, some influential Nigerians reportedly commissioned local and international web and hi-tech experts to unravel the owner’s identity. 95 per cent of their investigations came up with Stella Dimoko Korkus’ name.
Some other concerned Nigerians who didn’t have the resources to consult web professionals in unravelling the owner’s identity identified SDK as the owner based on factors including:
1. The person behind Gistlover is a woman, not a man. Though she laces her posts with Yoruba words, especially her signature payoff - Igi ewedu o ni wo pa wa, internet sleuths are not deceived. Besides, SDK is a polyglot who speaks German, French, Spanish and some other Nigerian languages.
The promoter of Gistloverblog is a trained and professional journalist with over 20 years of experience, contacts and access to sources. This is because she garnishes her stories and gists with details of what took place over 15 years ago. She also gets her stories from both the old and new sources she has kept over the years.
3. Findings by tech experts also revealed that the owner of Gistlover is resident in Germany and has access to uninterrupted power supply, modern gadgets and accessories. This Newspaper also found that she consults experts in European countries like Iceland, Finland, Belgium, and France to host her various websites.
4.Gistlover’s belligerent and combative approach are also characteristic of Stella Dimoko Korkus, who has recently taken to cursing celebrities when she defamed them.
5. There are also several instances of people stating that Stella Dimoko Korkus, introduced and referred them to Gistloverblog on Instagram through her leading blog site, SDK.
Shady character
Though Stella Dimoko Korkus, through Gistloverblog, postures as fighting for the rights of everyday Nigerians, sources said she has been trampling on the rights using her followers on Gistloverblog to harangue celebrities.
"However, she has added blackmailing to her portfolio because she intimidates her victims and threatens to expose their dirty secrets if they don’t dance to her tunes by paying to get her off their backs," one of her victims who wished to remain anonymous alleged.
Another source stated that Stella Dimoko-Korkus operated a couple of bank accounts (details withheld), through which she received the money. She then abandoned the accounts when her activities began to draw the attention of law enforcement agents.
At this point, the former journalist who started with Hints magazine adopted cryptocurrency as a payment method from her victims and clients. She is said to have several human links, especially in Computer Village, who helped to take care of her crypto accounts.
Findings further revealed that Stella Dimoko-Korkus’ younger brother is a strong ally and co-conspirator in using Gistlover and other blogs to defame and blackmail people. He reportedly operates a GT Bank account for receiving money on her behalf.
Lover of strife
Stella Dimoko-Korkus thrives most with strife as she gets her kicks from fighting and bullying people. Some analysts have identified her unwholesome blogging style as the cause of the toxicity in the entertainment industry.
Her jealousy was also why she fell out with her previously close friend, Linda Ikeji. SDK is said to dislike Linda’s dominance of the bloggers’ landscape and regularly uses her SDK blog to denigrate Linda while inciting her followers against her.
When SDK launched on Instagram, she began to troll and bully Linda Ikeji through her other blogs - Ifeomafinegirl and Xoxocorner. She labelled Linda a prostitute, sperm thief and all sorts of unprintable names. Her project Bring-down-Linda Ikeji-by-all-means climaxed when she claimed that a former South-south governor had fathered her son.
SDK, who fights dirty, was said to have later extended her war to Linda’s younger sister, Laura and her husband, Ogbonna Kanu (the younger brother of soccer legend, Nwakwo Kanu). The young lady reportedly suffered untold hardship from SDK because she happened to be Linda Ikeji’s younger sister.
Another of SDK’s victims through her Gistloverblog is Idris Olanrewaju Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, who used to be an informant for Gistlover before they fell apart. Unknown to Bobrisky, he was dealing with SDK, so when they fell out over Tonto Dike’s matter, SDK revealed all conversations she shared with Bobrisky and exposed him as a snitch.
Afraid of losing her patrons to the crossdresser, she bullied him to a point where he began to lose his endorsements.
Investigations also showed that SDK is also culpable in the constant collapse of the handle of another male Instagram blogger whom she sees as a competitor. We can authoritatively confirm that law enforcement agents are looking into this matter.
Another Instagram blogger, Ubi Franklin, did not escape her wrath when he started mini-blogging.
Actress Kate Henshaw, reportedly Stella Dimoko Korkus’ chief bridesmaid, has not been spared. She constantly trolls her for her alleged secret affair with a comedian and has labelled her a cougar.
Star actress Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde almost lost her marriage and sanity last January when SDK, through Gistloverblog, alleged that she was having an affair with a former Edo Governor. She dragged her through the mud and didn’t spare her husband too.
Findings also indicate that SDK will soon get her deserts as the DSS and Police are working on the petitions from people she had victimised, blackmailed and bullied.
Their chief complaint has been cyber terrorism that has wrecked their marriages, friendships and businesses.
Our investigations showed that one of Stella Dimoko Korkus’ favourite modus operandi is contacting men with various phone numbers. She will add them, posing as a beautiful lady and then chat with them. Some who fell for her antics have learnt the hard way when she starts blackmailing them with pictures of their private parts.
Professional turned extortionist
Stella Dimoko Korkus hails from Isoko, Delta State. Her mother died while she was young, while her father died some months ago. She had her early education in Lagos and gained a third-class degree in Linguistics from the University of Benin.
She started her career in journalism at Hints magazine, and later, Encomium Magazine, where she covered entertainment news. In 2003, she got married to Stefan Korkus, a German in his late 60s. In 2004, Stella moved to Germany to join her husband, with whom she later bore two sons.
In Germany, she still carried out her reportorial duties at Encomium Magazine because of her insatiable thirst for gossip, with a particular appetite for the ugly sides of people’s lives.
Stella Dimoko Korkus later spread her tentacles by being one of the early adopters of online journalism and blogging, quitting her job at Encomium.
Despite her seeming in-depth knowledge of happenings in the country, sources said Stella Dimoko-Korkus had not visited Nigeria in over eight years. The few times she was seen, she came in quietly and went underground till she left.
With the fast pace of investigations by law enforcement agencies, she might soon become a permanent Nigerian resident once successfully repatriated.
We learnt that she would most likely be accused of cyberbullying, blackmail and stalking.
The Cybercrimes Act 2015 provides for an N10 million fine or imprisonment for a term of not more than three years or both for cyberbullies and stalkers. SDK might well be looking at a time in jail if the security agencies prove their case against her.
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