A Peek into Taiwo Afolabi’s World as He is Set to Open Marriott Ikeja Hotel

Nigerians are making history within the country and beyond, no doubts about this. This generation, it seems, will be remembered for breaking the many limitations that stagnated their forebears. Taiwo Afolabi, the super businessman, founder and Chairman of SIFAX Group and SAHCOL, is at the frontline in this endeavour. With his Marriott Hotel at grand completion, the man has shot ahead of his peers in Nigeria and the rest of Africa.

The magnificence of Afolabi’s Marriott Hotel is a cause for celebration in the grand scheme of things, but this has left other business people and corporate leaders with similar statuses to Afolabi tearing out what little hair they have left. In a short time, Afolabi managed to break the mould in West Africa with a multi-billion-Naira 5-star monster hotel, the first of its kind in the region.

Marriott Hotel has demonstrated that the SIFAX conglomerate is not the height of Taiwo Afolabi’s abilities. Then again, this is not altogether surprising about a man who started SIFAX (a massive multinational with active interests in all things maritime and nautical, oil and gas, aviation, finance, and hospitality) before he clocked 27.

Even with an LLB from a more prestigious institution, how many have reached this height? But in Afolabi’s case, it was only a matter of time. That’s an eonic genius for you.

Born in Ogun and educated in Ondo, Oyo, and Lagos, Taiwo Afolabi essentially walked the lengths of the South-West in his youth. Perhaps it is on account of this that he has climbed outside of the traditional boundaries of success and paved a new path for others to follow.

In the years to come, history will be kind to Afolabi for spending more than 10 billion to put Nigeria on the map of Africa’s best and most luxurious hotels and accommodations. May 19, 2021 — the day Marriott Hotel will be opened to all and sundry, and Taiwo Afolabi establishes himself as a super corporate leader in West Africa. This is the true corporate spirit: onward and forward.