It was a complete display of excitement, glamour and mouthwatering dishes, the pinnacle of legendary hospitality, Thursday, as Samsung West Africa, the leading consumer electronics giant with a worldwide presence, hosted a birthday eve dinner and an after-party for Nigeria’s entrepreneur and serial business magnate who is famous for groundbreaking accomplishments in the entertainment and hospitality industry, Chief Obinna Iyiegbu, famously known as “Obi Cubana” who turns 49 of Friday April 12th 2024.
In an elaborate event which culminated in the cutting of a beautifully designed birthday cake, by the celebrant and his wife, held at the newly opened luxury restaurant, KNOWHERE, on Adeola Odeku in Victoria Island, Lagos, and the businessman was visibly elated with a unique rendition of classical music accompanying prime dining and a fine wine which selected guests in attendance relished.
The dinner event attracted top Nigerian business leaders and celebrities, business icons, music and movie personalities and top industry frontrunners across banking, real estate, oil and gas, government, hospitality, telecommunications and so many others who came out to show solidarity and celebrate the businessman extraordinaire, Obi Cubana.
At the event, Obi Cubana said “It feels great to be celebrated by a global brand such as Samsung, in recognition of a great partnership. I am delighted today that Samsung came through by hosting this unique birthday eve dinner”
He noted that his partnership with Samsung extends to ensuring that the brand is entrenched in Nigeria and in ensuring that every Nigerian mobile user, elite and everyone, embraces Samsung as the first choice in mobile experience whether for work, leisure or business purposes.
With a strong pedigree in business and robust representation in Nigeria’s entertainment and hospitality, as well as other thriving sectors, Obi Cubana is widely celebrated as one of Africa’s most outstanding entrepreneurs and builder of talents, with interests and investments spanning critical sectors of the economy intended to create needed jobs.
As the Chairman of the Cubana Group, a conglomerate with interests majorly in the entertainment, hospitality, real estate, construction, and fast-moving consumer goods sector, logistics and transportation has ventured into manufacturing, owning a huge percentage of Nigeria’s beverage sector with his bitter spirits, Odogwu Bitters, which is a multi-billion naira investment employing many young Nigerians across the business value chain, Obi Cubana is reckoned as one of Nigeria’s most outstanding billionaires and socialite with enormous goodwill and social capital that has impacted society positively.
In his undying desire for expansion, he has also made inroads into emerging, strategic and productive sectors with a new gaming platform, Hammer Games, currently leading in that space.
Born on the 12th of April 1975, Obi Cubana attended the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he graduated with a Second Class Honours, Upper Division, from the Department of Political Science.
