Nigeria, Aug. 9 -- Toke Makinwa, a popular media personality, disclosed in a Snapchat post on 6 May that she used the prescription weight-loss injectable drug Mounjaro before returning to the gym after giving birth in August 2025.

"Consistency really produces results. I'm not one to pretend or lie. I was on Mounjaro till December; my last dose was on the 31st of December, and I hit the gym hard in January," Ms Makinwa wrote.

Many entertainment blogs and social media users republished the post. This sparked discussions in the comment section about the drug's cost and usage, to which vendors responded with adverts for the drug and quoted prices.

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