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Category: Celebrity

  • Folake Coker celebrates women of vision

    Folake Coker celebrates women of vision

    Popular American TV talk show host, Oprah Winfrey, says the more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. In a seeming apostolic adherence to this maxim, Folake Coker, Creative Director of Tiffany Amber, has celebrated her 15 years in fashion business. These are indeed good times for Folake, the daughter of billionaire ‎businessman, Chief Bode Akindele, who only recently her 40th birthday.

    Although her 15-year sojourn in fashion business has not been without some challenges, the final result certainly calls for celebration. She had launched Tiffany Amber Nigeria Limited in 1998 as the first ready-to-wear label in Nigeria. She thus revolutionised the Nigerian fashion industry and paved way for the growth the industry has witnessed since then.

    The celebration began a few days ago with the unveiling of Tiffany Amber’s “Meet Nigeria’s Women of Vision” campaign in partnership with Diamond Woman, an initiative of Diamond Bank designed specifically to provide the womenfolk with financial, business and lifestyle advice and help them to achieve their aspirations.

    Among the women she celebrated were Adenike Ogunlesi, Ifeyinwa Ighodalo, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Uche Pedro, Oluchi Onweagba, Jumoke Oduwole, Adesuwa Onyenokwe and Ola Orekunrin.

  • Bolaji Esho bounces back

    A wind of change is blowing in the hospitality sector in Lagos. And one of the forces behind it is Lagos socialite, Bolaji Esho. The fun-loving dude, who made good his promise to change the face of the hospitality industry in Lagos some years ago, has achieved the feat with the opening of a branch of his Lagos Island-based Eldorado Night Club in Apapa. ‎

    The new branch is said to have since commenced operation and a lot of Esho’s friends are sailing with him to make a success of the fun spot. Vulgar female artiste, Saint Janet, performs regularly at the fun spot.

  • Ahmed Uwhubetine’s whereabouts ?

    In business, there is only a tenuous line between fortune and misfortune. And few businessmen know this as well as Ahmed Uwhubetine. In his days as the toast of the Lagos party crowd, Uwhubetine rocked the Lagos social scene to its foundation. With the establishment of 11:45, his night club on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, his place in the coveted pantheon of high society was assured.

    The entrance of the Delta State indigene into the entertainment sector added colour to night life in Lagos and earned him rave reviews and applause. His night club became the favourite hot spot of many celebrities and the Lagos party crowd which continually thronged the outfit.

    But just when Uwhubetine ought to be consolidating on his initial success, his magic touch appeared to fizzle out and patronage dwindled. He subsequently teamed up with another heavyweight in the entertainment sector, Akeem Shodeinde, and together they established Reloaded Night Club, which unfortunately had to be shut down after a year.

    There were rumours to the effect that Uwhubetine ran into financial difficulties and had to abandon the project like he did 11.45 Night Club. Another version said his absence from the Lagos social scene was a strategic move to reposition and rebrand. Be it as it may, the entertainment entrepreneur is conspicuously missing from the social scene.

    His customised cars have disappeared from Lagos’ streets and he is no longer the toast of the Lagos party crowd.

  • The world of Sandra Solebo

    The world of Sandra Solebo

    Sandra Solebo, the beautiful wife of Femi Solebo. is many things to many people. On account of her pedigree and social contacts, many are wont to describe her as one of the most respected silver spoon kids around. While it would not come as a surprise to many if a woman endowed with her elegance and class is a permanent feature in high society, but that is hardly the case with Sandra.

    A few years ago, she graced high society circuits and celebrity journals, but it is unclear now how long more she would keep off the social circle. Yet the array of exquisite interiors items on display in her outfit has ensured that she maintains a space on the front pages of style journals in Lagos

  • Biola as Tunde Ayeni’s supporting pillar

    Biola as Tunde Ayeni’s supporting pillar

    City lawyer, Tunde Ayeni, was among the prominent Nigerians recently decorated with national honours. Like most successful men, the Chairman of Skye Bank has his wife to thank a great deal for the man he has become. That is because Biola, a fashion designer, has contributed in no small measure to his emergence as a corporate titan.

    Biola holds her husband in very high esteem. For instance, she reputed for singing the praise of her husband even in ordinary conversation with friends. Only Biola and Tunde know what it is about their union that drives them to perpetuate one of the most enviable versions of love. With the way they hold hands and beam smiles to each other at public functions, you could easily take them for a newly-wed couple.

    Biola is frequently sighted at upscale shindigs in company with her husband. But she deserves nothing less after braving through the trying times with him. It is only fair that she enjoys the fruits of perseverance as the going gets rosier.

  • Herbert Wigwe celebrates father at 80

    Pastor Shyngle Wigwe, father of Herbert Wigwe, the Managing Director of Access Bank and one of Nigeria’s most influential bankers, clocked 80 last week. Herbert used the opportunity to show the world how much he loves his father. That much could be deduced from the calibre of friends and acquaintances that gathered with him to celebrate with the family.

    Herberts’ tremendous influence needs no mention. From top corporate actors to prominent politicians and other high net worth individuals, support was not in short supply for the man who has done well for the banking sector and himself. The birthday ceremony boasted local and international delicacies as well as choice drinks. Impressive eulogies also poured out from guests to the celebrant.

    At 80, Pastor Shyngle is blessed with good health and robust wealth. Indeed, papa’s life and contributions to his community and the gospel, as narrated by people who are close to the family, endeared a lot of people to him.

  • About Otega Emerhor

    About Otega Emerhor

    Boardroom guru and head honcho of Standard Alliance Group, Oloorogun Otega Emerhor, is planning to leave the challenging world of business for the allure of public office as he chases the number one seat in Delta State. Emerhor intends to take over the reins of power when the incumbent governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, completes his tenure next year.

    The conservative First Class graduate of Accountancy from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, is said to be highly wary of politicians seeking to fleece him of his hard-earned money with empty promises.

  • Tony Ezenna hosts superlative wedding for daughter

    Tony Ezenna hosts superlative wedding for daughter

    It is one week since the ceremony took place in Lagos, but last Saturday’s wedding between Cynthia Ezenna, the first daughter of Orange Drugs boss, Anthony Ezenna, and Chukwueke Gboneme is still the talk of the town. It was held at Our Lady of Perpetual Help on Victoria Island, Lagos.

    The lovebirds were the cynosure of all eyes at the ceremony that must have gulped some millions of naira. As expected, the colourful venue of the wedding played host to the crème de la crème of high society who came to felicitate with the new couple and their families.

    The carnival-like celebration, coordinated by top event planners, witnessed a rare assemblage of top notch guests ranging from politicians to captains of industries and heads of government agencies.

  • Nkechi Iloputaife keeps the flag flying

    Nkechi, widow of the late Bishop Anayo Ilupitaife, who was felled by assassins’ bullets about a decade ago, is one woman who has been able to keep the lofty dream of her late husband alive. She has brazed the odds, waging physical and spiritual battles and progressing without a scratch.

    As the General Overseer of Victory Christian Church, founded by her husband, Nkechi has been matching on and carrying the church from strength to strength. Not a few had expressed doubts about her ability to hold the congregation together after the unfortunate demise of her husband. But beyond any doubt, she has been a living testimony to the saying that what a man can do, a woman can also do, even better at times.

    There were fears of a possible exodus from the church but the fighting spirit in Nkechi has not only kept that in check, the Satellite Town, Lagos-based church has grown beyond many people’s imagination. The ministry she inherited has enjoyed astronomical success by all standards.

    Remarkably, she has remained single all the while even though there are now insinuations to the effect that she wants to give marriage another shot. In fact, she is rumoured to be enjoying a sizzling romance. If she remarries, she will only be toeing the line of people like Pastor Taiwo Odukoya who had to avoid satanic temptations by re-marrying barely four years after the death of her former wife Pastor Bimbo in a plane crash.

    Nkechi surely has done well to endure a decade as a single mother after years of blissful marriage.

  • Taiwo Afolabi buries father-in -law in style

    Taıwo Afolabı is reputed as a man of taste and class. On the rare occasions that circumstances demand that he takes the centre stage in social circles, he does so with style. Style and panache were on display last Sunday in the city of Sagamu, Ogun State, when the bıllıonaıre business man gave his father-in-law a befitting burial. It was the day a section of high society stormed the city to honour the chairman of Sifax Group and his wife, Folashade.

    The usually sleepy town was at its boısterous best as people from all walks of life headed there to pay their last respects to the deceased, Chief David Gbadebo Sokoya, Folasade’s father, and community leader. Pa Sokoya journeyed to the great beyond on Saturday, June 21, 2014 at the ripe age of 86.

    The event had in attendance the high and the mighty in all the strata of the nation’s economy, including captains of industry, friends and associates of Dr. Afolabi and his beautiful wife. King of World Beats, King Sunny Ade, and Fuji Prince, Kolade Onanuga, were on hand to treat guests to melodious tunes.