TUMININU SOYINKA, the highflying daughter of the international journalist and publisher of Africa Today Magazine, Mr Kayode Soyinka, has married her heartthrob, Obataiye Brooks, at an impressive traditional wedding ceremony in the United Kingdom on Saturday, 28th December 2019.
Tumininu is Global Assistant Vice President for Marketing for L’Oréal USA. While Obataiye, who is an African-American who bears a Yoruba name, is also an Assistant Vice President for the world renowned Business Initiatives Group, Wells Fargo.
City People sources told us that both love birds first met in London some years back when Obataiye was posted to the United Kingdom to work at the City of London offices of his former employers, the international investment group, Goldman Sachs.
They have dated for well over 8 years, and are now both based in California.
Tumininu’s parents, Kayode and Titilope Soyinka, we gathered, had insisted on a full Yoruba traditional wedding for their daughter. And that if it couldn’t be held back home in Nigeria, it must be held in the UK where they’re based, and where Tumininu was born and schooled.
The wedding attracted a large African-American contingents who flew into the UK from several states in the US and family and close friends of the Soyinkas for the ceremony, which took place in Hertfordshire in the outskirts of London.
The impressive ceremony has been described as the traditional wedding of the year. Several attendees gave kudos to the Soyinkas for the impressive showcase they succeeded in putting up of Yoruba and Nigerian culture and tradition.
The solemnisation of holy matrimony of the wedding will take place this year – 2020.
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