Admin l Saturday, June 22, 2019
LEKKI, Lagos, Nigeria – On Sunday 16th of June 2019, all roads led to the gigantic Oluwanishola Estate, belonging to Nigeria’s most successful industrialist, Chief Rasak Akanni Okoya situated on the Lekki-Ajah Expressway, Lagos.
It was the day the billionaire business titan hosted Islamic clerics, business associates, friends, politicians and staff of his multi-award winning business empire, The Eleganza Group to a Fidaus Prayer in memory of his late parents patriarch and matriarch Alhaji Tiamiyu Ayinde Okoya and Alhaja Idiyat Abeke Okoya.
The grand event was attended by the Executive Governor Of Lagos State; Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the First Lady Of Lagos State; Dr. (Mrs) Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, Deputy Governor Of Lagos State, Obafemi Hamzat, and top dignitaries including noble members of Islamic communities from virtually all the meaningful zones in Nigeria.
Guests were clad in customized Ankara outfits that donned pictures of the late parents of the very successful and highly religious Okoya dynasty. The event kicked off at exactly 12pm.
Islamic Clerics who prayed for the continuous repose of the souls of these departed Muslim devots asked for the Almighty Allah to grant the departed caring Alhaji and Alhaja Tiamiyu Okoya a peaceful rest while also supplicating for Allah’s blessings in behalf of the children, grand children and great grand children left behind by the late Alhaji and Alhaja Okoya.
Ably supported by his indefatigable wife, Mrs. Afolashade Okoya, Chief Rasaq Akanni, President of the Okoya Group with the Eleganza Industrial City as one of the group’s most flourishing subsidiaries thanked the Almighty Allah for the lives of his parents, stressing further that the duo lived exemplary lives worthy of emulation as religious, committed and very prayerful Muslims.
Chief Okoya, a very successful and irrefutable industrialist in Nigeria also thanked all and sundry who made it to the event despite the needs for them to relax in their various homes on a Sunday.
The ever-smiling multi billionaire investment guru wished his parents a continuous rest in the bosom of the Almighty Allah. He also urged all members of the Okoya family to keep learning from the Godly virtues and strong Islamic characters inculcated into the lineage by both Alhaji Tiamiyu Ayinde and Alhaja Idiyat Abeke of blessed memory.
The beautiful, elegant and glamorous wife of the celebrant, Chief Mrs. Afolashade Okoya ensured all invited guests were well catered for in grandstyle. The late Alhaji and Alhaja Okoya, parents of one of Nigeria and Africa’s most successful manufacturers of household items, Alhaji Chief Rasak Akanni Okoya slept peacefully in the Almighty Allah years back and till date, the rich businessman and his siblings have been holding fort positively for the family, upholding the noble and respectable image left behind by their parents.
