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THISDAY, THE SATURDAY NEWSPAPER • MAY 14, 2016
SPY GLASS Biola Okoya’s Lamentation Song
Without a doubt, Biola Okoya, daughter of billionaire businessman, Alhaji Razak Okoya, had rocked the social scenes to the envy of many some years back. Indeed, for the mother of two, life must be enjoyed to the hilt. Given her privileged background, Okoya, a party freak, has everything at her beck and call. Those who know her claim that no man can tolerate her excesses. But things got to a head, following an anti-climatic twist to the tale of this beautiful daughter of the Aare of Lagos. She had fizzled out of the social radar, thus setting many tongues wagging. While many claimed she was laid up with a strange illness, some said that she had relocated abroad. Spyglass, however, gathered that she was forced out of the social scene when her billionaire father allegedly threatened to disown her due to her weird lifestyle. As part of effort to put her in check, her father reportedly rendered her literally ‘incapacitated’, as he deprived her of funds. This forced her to slow down, until recently when she was introduced to the London-based fashion entrepreneur and society lady, Ronke Ademiluyi, who relaunched’ her to high-octane social world again. In spite of this new lease of life offered by Ademiluyi, Biola is said to be seriously broke and gradually aging. Her condition is pathetic, as many of her new friends can’t cope with her.
Henry Semenitari’s Burden
Until recently, Henry Semenitari, a former Managing Director, Unity Bank Plc, occupied a pride of place in the nation’s banking sector. That he is a brilliant banker, is putting it mildly. Perhaps, as proof of his ingenuity and wizardry, he was adjudged the ‘Banker of the year 2014’. Besides, he was applauded for turning around the fortune of the bank barely a year after taking up the position. But sadly, the respected banker now cuts a different picture in the minds of his compatriots, after he was suspended and asked to go on a compulsory leave by the management of the bank. At the time of filing in this report, he
with Bayo Adeoye ....08054680651 had yet to return to his table. His offence? Some staff of the bank were said to have reported Semenitari to a former Nigerian President, who has a large stake in the bank. It was gathered that the former leader had directed the Chairman of the bank, Mr. Thomas Etuh, to engage forensic auditors to investigate the allegations. The forensic audit, it was reported, revealed ‘some cases of discrepancies” in the running of the bank, thus prompting the Board of the bank to force him to embark on a compulsory leave to allow for more detailed investigation of the allegations, which include: spending of about N100 million on bullet proof vehicles, payment of productivity bonus allowances to select staff and indiscriminate sacking of workers without recourse to the board of directors. However, whatever led to the man’s exit from the bank has definitely sent him out of circulation. He has disappeared from the scene, as nothing has been heard of him since he was replaced by Mrs. Oluwatomi Ayodele Somefun.
Is Igho Sanomi Really Broke?
Igho Sanomi, founder, Taleveras Group, has been in the news for so many reasons, recently. First, soon after the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan wound up, the dreaded EFCC went on his trail to explain the source of his alleged stupendous wealth. And then, life became hellish for the young billionaire. His bank accounts were allegedly frozen, thus forcing him to resort to such extreme measures like selling his private jet and other expensive acquisitions to survive. However, Spyglass gathered that the man is not as broke as many described after all. As proof that he is not suffering any reversal of fortune, Igho is planning to host a lavish party in Dubai to celebrate his 41st birthday on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 Spy Glass was reliably informed that he will be staging a pre- birthday bash in Miami this weekend, as a prelude to the main party scheduled for Dubai on May 17, 2016. Igho ventured into business shortly after completing his Bachelor’s degree in Geology and Mining at the University of Jos, Plateau State. He co-founded and held a position of Executive Director in Sarian Oil, an oil trading company with its core activities in West Africa. While he held that position, he singlehandedly developed the company’s trading operations by negotiating the export and delivery of fuel oils from West Africa to the United States Gulf Coast. He also developed a strategic alliance with a major international oil trading group based in Zug, Switzerland. This partnership oversaw the import and export of millions of tonnes of refined petro-
leum products to and from the West African coast. Sanomi, who is also the chairman, Dickens Sanomi Foundation Board of Trustees, a non-profit charitable organisation, sits as chairman and co-chairman of various companies’ Board of Directors, which he founded or co-founded. These companies’ activities span telecoms, shipping, aviation and real estate investments worldwide.
Bolajoko Aguda’s Marital Status
More than a decade after he passed on, many still remember the late Justice Timothy Akinola Aguda as a brilliant legal practitioner of repute. He towered above many of his contemporaries and was a study in diligence. In recognition of his astounding qualities, he was appointed acting Solicitor-General of the old Western region, prior to his appointment as the first African Chief Justice of Botswana-he had served concurrently as a judge of the Court of Appeal of Swaziland, Botswana and Lesotho. However, not many people know that he left behind highly cerebral and beautiful daughters whom he literally passed on the baton of law practice to. They include Folashade Oluwatoyin- Aguda Taiwo, who is currently a serving judge in the Ondo State Judiciary; Titi Aguda, Modupe and Bolajoko. Among these brainy children, tongues are, however, wagging about Bolajoko, an intelligent, courteous and friendly lawyer who runs an international logistics company known as Logistique Xpeditors. It will be recalled that she was once married to Otunba Abdulrahman Abiola Odunowo, owner of a telecoms infrastructure company, whom she had three beautiful daughters for. Spyglass gathered that since their marriage broke up about six years ago due to what an insider described as irreconcilable differences, she has refused to remarry. At close to 50, she still possesses a stunning figure that leaves a lot of men drooling. So, while you keep wondering when she will be hit by the Cupid arrow again, a source disclosed that her major concern is how to raise her teenage daughters and grow her thriving business.
Tonye Princewill’s Political Misadventure
Prince Tonye Princewill’s emergence as the Labour Party candidate in the build-up to the last governorship election in Rivers State, no doubt, changed the political calculation in the state, as he became the toast of all. However, prior to that time, the Prince of Kalabari had flagged the Action Congress’s umbrella in 2007 election, a situation that made many think that he had successfully
built his political base. As a result, many had thought that the billionaire would surely get the job at the Brick House. But surprisingly, the dream met a kiss of death. Again, he was given another baptism of fire while he was shown that politics is not a child play. Spyglass gathered through a source that he is yet to get over the shock, and he is still leaking his wound particularly because he expended a lot of money on the campaign. The light-skinned businessman with interest in both upstream and downstream oil and gas, Information Technology, environmental waste management and aviation services, was born in the United Kingdom to the family of King T. J. T. Princewill, the Amanyanabo of Kalabari Kingdom of the Amachree Dynasty of Rivers-State. His father was a Professor of Medical Microbiology before he became a monarch. Princewill, who also holds a PRINCE 2 Project Management Practitioner Certificate from the United Kingdom, started off his career with Shell as a Reservoir and Well-site Petroleum Engineer. He also worked with the UK’s Oil and Gas Regulatory Agency, the Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom) as Risk Analyst.
Trouble over Stella Oduah’s Abandoned Land
Former aviation minister, Princess Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi is likely fall into another trouble as her neighbours in her abandoned land in Ikota Villa Estate are clamouring for her head. Spyglass gathered that the Anambra State born senator’s five plots of land situated at Road 27 of the estate is becoming a thorn in the flesh and dangerous to the neighbourhood as it has turn a haven for different species of snakes that sometimes crawl out of the land to other houses around. We were also informed that that the neighbours have written several letters to her while she was at the Ministry of Aviation about this but all to no avail. But now the issue has been taken up by the Community Development Association while appropriate measure would be taken, the source added. Another source disclosed that though she came sometimes ago to clear the weed the land is still a threat to many around. In another development, we were informed that this beautiful lady is completing a gigantic mansion in Victoria Garden City, Lagos. A source disclosed that the building is an architectural masterpiece that is built on hectares of land that was brought by the woman five years ago.