NIGERIAN SOCIAL ESTABLISHMENT CELEBRATES ONIKEPO AKANDE AT 70

Onikepo Akande

-Details of the Birthday Celebration

It is the turn of Chief (Mrs.) Onikepo Akande, former Minister for Industry, to join the septuagenarian club, and she is planning to celebrate the event in a most stylish way. Come October 29, Akande will clock 70. On that day, her husband, Chief Adebayo Akande, prominent lawyer and the chairman of Splash FM, will host a befitting party in her honor in Ibadan, Oyo State. 
 However,  the main event will hold on Saturday, November 1, at

the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island. It will also be hosted by her husband, Chief Adebayo Akande and children, Her siblings and cousins from the Alatede Aboderin lineage will also be fully involved in the hosting of the party. The entire Nigerian social circuit is looking forward to celebrating this ageless boardroom amazon and society matriarch with the infectious smile. It will be a grand ball, reminiscent of her 60th birthday celebration in 2004. 
Akande is a two time Minister of Industry, of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, under the late Gen. Sanni Abacha regime. A seasoned business administrator and accountant, she has evolved in over two decade as noteworthy Industrialist in the economic landscape of Nigeria.

Many board rooms have been graced by the presence of this amiable accomplished woman. She had been the Director of Nigerian Industrial Development Bank(NIDB), a member of the Board of trustees, of the National Center for Women Development; member, panel to study and re-organize both the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC) and Trust Investment Company Limited Ibadan; Director of National Insurance Corporation of Nigeria(NICON).

An accountancy graduate from the North West Polytechnic, London, 1964 to 1968 now (University of North London). She is also a graduate of both the Havard Business School, Soldiers Field Boston Massachusetts USA, and the International Institute for Management Development (I.M.D) Lawsanne Switzerland.