Exclusive: Ooni Of Ife to Wed Oil And Gas mogul Mariam Anako

According to fillers from the Ooni’s place, Highly revered Yoruba Monarch, Ooni of Ife; Ooni Adeyeye Babatunde Enitan Ogunwusi is officially getting married to her new wife today at the Enuwa’s Palace in Ile-IFE today. The union is coming after her erstwhile Olori Naomi Shilekunola publicly called their union off on social media. Every since then, Ooni met his new bride Mariam Anako, a top management executive (Administrative Manager) of Nestoil Limited; Nigeria’s largest indigenous Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) Company in the oil and gas sector.

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The traditional wedding we gathered is currently taking place at the palace currently as The bride in company of her family and friends gleefully dressed in the popular HOH lace attire all looking glamorous stormed the palace in grand style to witness the wedding. According to sources; she was given the necessary traditional rite last night with the popular pouring a reddish substance on her legs which will officially usher into the palace as a bride. Sources claimed she might leave for Lagos today along side her people as she will not be resident in the palace due to the nature of her job.

Mariam Anako

The bride comes from a very influential family in Kogi State. Her elder sibling, Medinat Anako is a lawyer, businesswoman and also Special Adviser on Intergovernmental Affairs and Kogi State Diaspora Focal Point Officer (DFPO) to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State. While another of her elder siblings, Mrs Raliat Abdulrahman nee Anako is a Special Adviser to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Rt. Hon Femi Gbajabiamila. Her grandparents are of Kogi State descent Igbira to be precise but settled in Kwara state Ilorin with their family house situated Adewole Estate. Despite losing her father at a tender age, she was raised by former IGP Mohammed Dikko Abubakar who reigned as the boss of the Nigerian Police between 2012 to 2014.