Category: Celebrity

Oyin Adenuga, the publicity-shy daughter of Globacom boss, Otunba Mike Adenuga, is finally coming into her own as an innovative and independent young woman. She has ditched her initial reticence to become more visible on the social scene like her other siblingsPaddy, Bella and Jide. In short, Oyin has launched herself fully into high society. She now has friends among socialites and entertainers, quite unlike the past when she had a lot of reservation about making friends and mixing up.

After several years of working in the family’s conglomerate, Oyin has branched out and now runs her own business, Imaginative Buying Services (IBS), which offers her clients the opportunity to buy goods directly from the United States and other countries around the world. In essence, Oyin’s firm provides concierge shopping and customs purchase services. Thus, instead of enduring the rigour of travelling abroad to shop, shoppers can now relax while Oyin’s IBS does the shopping on their behalf.

The thirty-something-year-old graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, bagged her Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology at 19. She had worked with Equatorial Trust Bank as a senior manager and Consolidated Oil as an executive director.

Pentecostal pastor and public relations expert, Leke Alder, is love struck. His heartthrob, Morenike, is skillfully playing the strings of his heart. For Leke, the saying that behind every cloud there is a silver lining can hardly be truer. His second marriage is two years old but still seems like honeymoon.

After the abrupt end of his first marriage to Omolola, it was as if the top brand consultant would never get back on the love wagon. Four years later, Venus, the goddess of love, decided to intervene in Leke’s life and he fell head over heels with elegant Morenike Popoola, a corporate brand executive. In an exclusive but classy wedding, the two became one and it appears to have been smooth sailing for the love birds ever since.

At Mo Abudu’s 50th birthday ceremony a few months ago, Leke stepped out with Morenike and their affection for each other was easy to perceive. They smiled at each other like love sick children and were so at ease that many onlookers turned green with envy.

Iyadunni Cole-Gbadebo was once a major force on the Lagos social scene. With the demands of marriage and motherhood, however, she has retreated to the back seat. Married to the love of her life, Babatunde Gbadebo, one of Oba Gbadebo’s sons, the splendour of their wedding was vastly reported by the media.

Before marriage, Iyadunni, daughter of Chief Odulate of Alabakun and Karamo Group, handled her career and social life like an expert. Although she was a top executive in Wale Babalakin’s Bi- Courtney and later a Sales Manager with North American Airlines, her social life didn’t suffer neglect.

Iyadunni is currently trying to float a new business in Nigeria. She is the CEO of Tirta Ayu, a leading traditional herbal spa situated in Lekki, Lagos. Her spa stands out for its Tirtayu therapy which focuses on caring for women’s breasts and vagina regions, otherwise called V-Spa.

Ure Okezie, who once bestrode the high society like a colossus, has suddenly gone off the radar. Fondly called Queen Ure, the last child and only daughter of the late medical practitioner, politician and former Minister of Health, Dr. J.O.J. Okezie, graced A-list events with her appealing presence. With her ex-beau and hip hop star, Soul E, constantly by her side, it was as if the gold fish was going to rock the social scene for decades, particularly after they founded a church called the Love Zone Ministry in Ikeja, Lagos.

The tides turned and Ure began to experience a bit of the other side of life. With her controversial affair with Soul E coming to an end, she retreated into solitude. She later tried to make a comeback into the glamour world through music, but her album, Porporri, failed to make any impact. Within months, her ministry, the Love Zone, also shut down.

Ure Okezie trained as a physicist and turned into a banker before she went into ministry and entertainment. After several vain attempts to salvage what was left of her social life, she seems to have faded off the limelight.