Drums will beat and carpets will be rolled out as dignitaries from all over Nigeria descend on Ibadan for the annual Nigeria Couple of the Year Award, which comes up on November 15 at the Jogor Centre, Ibadan, Oyo State.
A release jointly signed by the National President of The Family Club of Nigeria, Prof. Oluwole Osonubi, and General Secretary, Chief Foluso Lasaki, said this year’s edition will be chaired by renowned industrialist, Bashorun Kola Daisi, with Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State and his wife as Special Guests of Honour.
The Speaker of Oyo State House of Assembly is expected to add colour to the star studded event.
The Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Odugade Odulana, is the royal father of the day.
The Nigeria Couple of the Year 2014 is the veteran sports administrator, High Chief Emiola Adesina, and his wife of over 50 years, Chief Oluwafunmilayo Adesina, the proprietor of the prestigious Subuola Memorial Group of Schools.
They will both stand tall as they have the Investiture carried out.
The Family Club of Nigeria, otherwise known as the Elite Club of Ibadan, was founded 35 years ago by friendly professionals, academics and industrialists, with their wives and children enrolled as members.
A Non-Governmental socio-cultural association, the Club is dedicated to the propagation, promotion and enhancement of family values and the sustenance of high moral and ethical essentials of the sacred institution of marriage.
Parading professors, pharmacists, educationists, journalists, engineers and industrialists, the club, which had Drs. Winston Banigo, Lani Sogbetun, Chief Tunji Amole as successive Chairmen in its early years, remains one of the biggest charity organisations in Nigeria, with branches and chapters all over the world.