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TV show host, Idia Aisien signs new deal with premium brand
LAGOS, Nigeria – Pretty International TV show host, Idia Aisien appears to be traveling on a fast lane this new year. Just few days after she secured a deal with Play Management team, Idia Aisien has landed another deal.
This time with premium wine brand, Remy Martin Nigeria. Born 1991, the model who is so excited about the development shared the news on the social media. As she puts it, “marking the start of great deals to come! I just joined the @remymartinng family🤩I have so much to celebrate!! Thank you @playmanagementafr”, she said.
Idia Aisien is born to a Nigerian father who is a wine magnate and a Cameroonian Jeweler and mother who is a philanthropist.
At the age of 15, she was signed to Beth Models; the mother agency to international top models such as Mayowa Nicholas, Davidson Obennebo and Victor Ndigwe. That same year, she booked her first modeling job at the UNICEF Charity Fashion Show.
Recognizing the need to acquire a higher education, she put her modelling career on hold for a few years to get a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism with a minor in Business Administration from American University in Washington D.C and a Master’s Degree in International Public Relations and Global Corporate Communications from New York University (NYU).
Idia has worked for Discovery Communications, Fox5 News, The AARP Foundation and the Foreign Policy Initiative. She has also worked for the United Nations and had a successful Atlas Mara career in Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions at in New York, a financial firm that owns an impressive number of commercial banks across Africa.
While in Nigeria on a short work trip in 2015, Idia decided to take the plunge into the world of entertainment full-time. She quit her job in Finance to become a TV presenter. She has hosted such shows as The Mega Millions Lottery on Silverbird TV, You Got Issues, Rock the Runway and Style 101 (Africa’s answer to ‘Fashion Police’); all on SpiceTV.