October 08, (THEWILL) – Last weekend, Olusegun Awolowo joined the sexagenarian club. A socialite par excellence, Awolowo, who is a former Executive Director of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council, now the President of the National Trade Promotion Organisation from ECOWAS member States, shocked many of his high-profile friends and associates with his decision not to host them to a grand birthday party.
In a letter he wrote to his friends, Awolowo said that while previous birthdays were typically marked by exuberant parties in the quintessential Lagos lifestyle he was raised in, this particular milestone carried a distinct kind of celebration, one firmly anchored in the profound wellspring of gratitude and introspection. For this reason, he asked them to join him in prayers for attaining the milestone. On the said day, his close friends like AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State; Bimbo Ashiru, chairman Odua Investment Company; Florence Ita-Giwa, Jide Coker etc. all joined him for a private church service at the Church of the nativity, Parkview Estate, Ikoyi. He later hosted them to a lavish breakfast at his Ikoyi residence. The milestone was also another opportunity for him to announce his soon to be unveiled autobiography titled, ‘Judged by a Surname.’
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