Where is Sade Okoya?

Before Toke Makinwa, Mimi Onalaja, Eku Edewor, Rita Dominic or any young female celebrity that is all the rage right now that you can think of, there was Sade Okoya. Folasade Okoya, for the longest time reigned supreme in the world of Nigerian celebrity. Doe eyed, young, slender and pretty, she was not only the woman you wanted to grow up to look like, she gracefully took absorbed the spotlight away from the soceity ladies of the Nigerian nineties – Nike Oshinowo, Nkiru Anumudu, Bola Shagaya et cetera.

Whether she was gracing the cover of Encomium Magazine or mid-strut on any events page in Dele Momodu’s Ovation or if you were lucky to be at a party she was also at, Sade Okoya looked every part the society woman that she had been crowned even though she was much younger than most ladies that bore this title at the time.

Sade came into the spotlight when she married billionaire, Chief Razaq Akanni Okoya of Eleganza Industries Limited. Already a polygamous man, Sade’s union to Chief Okoya was already bound to meet some societal scorn but this was even doubled because of the age difference between the couple and what it meant at the time – 17 years ago. If the side glances and mean whispers got to her, there were no signs that they bruised her radiant skin nor were there scoff marks her shiny crown Geles.

where-is-sadesade-okoya-2sade-okoyaBut this society woman has been mostly missing from the spotlight for a little too long.

The last time we saw her at a society function, it was to lay her grandmother to rest in March.

But that’s really what comes to mind when one thinks of the groovy society functions she’s known to grace. So we’ll stick to saying she’s been absent from the scene for a while. And before this time, it appears she was last on the scene in 2013 at the Olatilo wedding.

Being married to a billionaire and attending social functions may be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about Sade Okoya but that’s certainly not all there is to this woman who has imbibed enough of her husband’s lessons on hard work to earn herself the title of beauty and brains.

While she has stayed out of the spotlight, she’s gone on to achieve several feats both academically and in terms of her career. In August, 2014, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science (DSc) in Business Management and Corporate Leadership by European-American University. And before then she’d become directly involved in running of Eleganza’s new company, Eleganza Industrial City Limited for about a year.

sade-okoya-dscNow, Sade Okoya sits atop Eleganza Industrial City Limited as its Deputy Managing Director with Chief Okoya as Chairman. The company deals in manufacturing and merchandising of general household products from carrier bags to plastic chairs with the aim of making all such products easily accessible to Nigerian and at the cheapest rates possible.

All great stuff but where is the Sade Okoya that conferred the title of society function on any event she attended?

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