High Life…Amazing lifestyles of Nigeria’s rich and famous
The unforgettable chime of anniversary bells, the spectacle, pomp and grandeur of the delightful ceremony among other things, evoke the awe and enthusiasm of Lagos and high societies as eminent personalities relive the memorable shindig that marked the celebration of Tonye Cole’s 50th birthday.
Not a few people were astounded by the lavish celebration as he attained the golden age of 50.
The event which held at Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, last Friday, had in attendance top dignitaries from all sectors of the Nigerian high society including an assortment of Nigeria’s leading businessmen, bankers, politicians and socialites.
Expectedly, the Sahara Energy’s co-founder was visibly excited and appreciative of the large turnout and display of love and goodwill towards him by his friends, family and business associates and he minced no words in acknowledging that.
Despite the inconveniences of dwindling oil price and declining economy, Tonye sees only the motions of joy and the effervescence of bliss in everything. This is why he celebrated his birthday party with so much fun and fanfare. The theme of the party is “Old School-Bringing the 70s Back”. It was a classy birthday party that had in stock the best and most expensive assorted wines. Tonye surely knows how to stage a great party. Indeed, there are no hard times in the world of Cole.
At 50, Tonye Cole treads in the footsteps of illustrious men. Like the fabled genius and leader of men, his sojourn from birth through adolescence to the present, while towards the stars, leeves the vivid air signed with his honour and exploits. Tonye Cole is humble to a fault.
The oil magnate, despite his wealth and status, carries himself like a mushroom, on whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
Tonye has carved a niche for himself among the country’s richest men no doubt. Beyond his aristocratic birth and noble upbringing, Tonye Cole is an accomplished manager of resources whose rise to the zenith of his entrepreneurial exploits is one success story that cannot be disentangled from sheer self-motivation, hard-work, industry and foresight.
TRAGIC! HOW ERELU ABIOLA DOSUNMU LOST THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT MEN IN HER LIFE IN SIX MONTHS
Like an ill wind that blows no good, death afflicted Erelu Abiola Dosunmu in the strangest of ways, in 2015. It claimed the three most precious men in her life in six months. News of their death filtered to the ears and consciousness of the foremost socialite as the wind chime spreads its stillness on a joyous homestead, wiping out all traces of gaiety and love.
The year, 2015, was undoubtedly Dosunmu’s most horrendous year. She was afflicted by deaths of the three men she cherished most in her life. She lost her confidant and soul mate, Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas, the business titan and society patriarch. She also lost the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, and her estranged husband, late Chief Deinde Fernandez. Erelu Dosunmu was undoubtedly devastated by the deaths of the three men. Though she was never married to Oba Sijuwade and Okoya-Thomas, both men and her estranged husband, Fernandez, were an intergral part of her life. Their sudden deaths caught her unawares leaving her broken and bereft of joy. However, her femininity is sturdy enough to withstand anything; even desolateness and grief. But for all the misery she has had to endure, thankfully, Erelu has waded out of the sinking sands of grief with well healed scratches and scars of defeat. She is looking radiant as she plans her 70th birthday this year.
