some of the girls free last month |
Thursday, 10 November 2016
21 CHIBOK GIRLS FREED SAYS THEY WERE NOT RAPED BY BOKO HARAM!!!
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
THE KING OF MONEY
Oba Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan |
So much has been written and said about Oba Fredrick
Obateru Akinruntan, the Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom, from his love for the oil
business to his $1m wristwatch, his queen-type Rolls Royce and his very
expensive out of the world palace, yet nothing has been said of how the Olugbo
has helped placed Ugbo kingdom to vantage recognition.
In March 2014, world’s
foremost money magazine, Forbes, named Oba Fredrick
Obateru Akinruntan as the richest Nigerian King with an estimated net worth
exceeding $300m, this acknowledgement helped triggered some form of curiosity
as regard The King and his kingdom; and historians and Journalists ever since
discovered how much their pen loved “Ugbo Kingdom and Oba Fredrick
Obateru Akinruntan’.
A primary setting in the popular Moremi legend, Ugbo Kingdom is
a town in Ilaje local government
area of Ondo
State,
southwestern Nigeria, with fishing and
farming as the dominant occupation. The Olugbo ( King of Ugbo) is a First class
Yoruba Monarch who rule over many smaller communities from OdeUgbo, their
ancestral power seat.
The
current Olugbo, Oba Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan was born in 1950, to the royal family of
Sir Frederic Adetolugbo at Ugbo. Obateru started Obat oil in 1981 with
the vision to build a corporation of great reckoning. Today, Obat oil owned one
of the largest tank farms in Africa with over 50 gas stations across Nigeria,
with a refinery in the offing.
Oba Fredrick
Obateru Akinruntan is noted to love the splendorous lifestyles as rumors of his
diamond laced shoes and other accessories have being the toast of many
journalists.
TALKING ABOUT QUEEN GUSHI..
Queen Sekinat Elegushi |
Gone are the days when traditional First-ladies comes ‘out-of-date’ and goes un-reckoned, today these African Queens are as beautiful, gorgeous, industrious and attractive like diamonds in the sun.
Oba Saheed Elegushi and Olori Sekinat |
Talking about diamonds and the African pride, Queen Sekinat Aramide Elegushi, the wife of the king of Ikate-Land in Lekki Peninsula, sure exudes these characteristics and more.
Always one to keep out of the spotlight except when she is beside Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi, but like the gold fish that has no hiding place, LEKKI PEOPLE magazine reporter sighted the gorgeous queen at a recent event organized by the international Women’s society, IWS, Ikate where she was a key-note speaker at the graduation ceremony of 112 participants in the society’s skill acquisition scheme.
Apart from donating Trophies and gifts to spice up the event, Queen Aramide, a rising figure of gender empowerment and a key supporter of the International Women society, enjoined the graduands never to stop learning as skills learnt is bound to come handy during life’s tough moments.
She said, “You may have graduated today from this program but you will never graduate from learning. You will go through many ups and downs but it is the skills you have acquired that will be the pillar you can always lean on.” Talking about beauty and brains…
Her husband, Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi, popularly called King Gushi by praise-singers, is the Oba of Ikate land and he is among the wealthiest and most flamboyant kings in Lagos state. Until his installation on 27th April 2010, he was a big player in the real estate sector of Lekki Peninsula and has served as a top official in the Lagos State government from 2003 to 2010, when the demise of his father called on him to serve the people of Ikate land as the youngest king in Lagos state.
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