Tag: Toyin Saraki
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Photo: 50th birthday kiss
Kwara State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, Speaker, Federal House of Rep. Hon. Aminu Tanbuwa,former Governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki and the Celebrant, Barr. Oluwatoyin Saraki during the celebration of 50th Birthday of Mrs. Saraki in Ilorin. Photo: Ayodele Issac -
Toyin Saraki to host big 50th birthday party
Next month’s 50th birthday of Toyin Saraki, wife of former governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki, is already a source of excitement among her friends and family. According to gist coming from the abode of the Sarakis, the modest woman may not have her way with modest celebration this time around.
The former Kwara State first lady was said to have sent word to her friends and family members that she would not be celebrating her golden age in a lavish manner, but that plea was met with outright rejection. She was reportedly surprised when her friends hinted that plans had already reached fever pitch to make her 50th birthday a memorable event.
Unconfirmed reports have it that her husband, Senator Bukola Saraki, is spearheading ‘the crusade’ to host his wife in a big event which promises to be a convergence of creme de la creme of Nigeria.
Toyin is the Founder/President of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, a pan-African maternal health and well-being charity organisation. The mother of four is the daughter of Chief Adekunle Ojora and his wife, Ojuolape.
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It’s a busy life for Toyin Saraki
SINCE she quit office as the first lady of Kwara State, Mrs. Toyin Saraki, the Founder/ President of Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), has been involved in one project or the other. The wife of new strongman of Kwara politics and chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment, Senator Bukola Saraki, has since 2003 brought several initiatives and interventions to make life better for the people.
Toyin, international campaigner for maternal, newborn and child health, rights and empowerment, reaffirmed this commitment on her recent visit to the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) in The Hague, Netherlands. She clamoured for a critical need to provide universal access to a well-educated, well-equipped and regulated midwifery workforce, especially at the grassroots level in developing countries like Nigeria
A qualified barrister, she had built a successful private sector career before dedicating the last 21 years to philanthropy. Her utmost passion is to reverse the vicious cycle of poverty in the society by easing its less privileged members into a state of wellbeing which, in her opinion, is “a satisfactory condition of existence in health, happiness and prosperity.”