Afor Uzo Oba, Anambra State, was agog as Obi Iyiegbu, AKA Obi Cubana, the popular business mogul buried his mother in a grand style in grand style.
The ceremony which could best be described as a carnival of a sort saw excessive show of whealth by the host and his network of friends from within and outside the country who graced the burial.
Wads mint of naira notes were rained on the host by his friends, even as they engaged in a soft naira fight with each other.
Tongues were wagging as the ” money bags ” made their way into Oba Town while throwing money at the indigenes who trooped out in large numbers in praise singing for their uncommon guests.
Oba, a sleepy town in Idemilli South Local Government Area of Anambra State in was full to the brim, charged to capacity and became a beehive of activities with the hospitality industries in and around the place witnessi high volume of patronage they never envisage, even as they wish the celebration continues till eternity.
PRIMACY NEWS gathered that friends and business associates of Obi Cubana were highly concerned about not only attending but contributing substantially to the burial of the mother of a friend whose disposition to giving made them who they are today.
It was gathered that Cubana did not only acquired for himself a diamond chain and pendant with his mother’s face engraved on it worth over N50 million naira from Efobi Stephen, one of Nigeria’s topmost Jeweller, he also bought a gold casket believed to be worth about N30 million naira to lay his mother in her final resting place.
The funeral rites kick-started Thursday, July 15, 2021, with a service of songs and Christian wake while the body of the 78 years old Ezinne Uche Iyiegbu was interred Friday, July 16.
Following the burial, the reception venue played host to endless lists of celebrities, business people and politicians, among them music stars in a gold casket believed to be worth about N30 million naira.
The reception venue played host to Senator Uche Ekwunife, the Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari, Alex Ekubo, Kenneth Okonkwo (Kcee), his brother Emeka Okonkwo (E-Money), Poco Lee, Ubi Franklin, Real Estate mogul, Lady Ifeoma, Zubby Michael, Kanayo 0. Kanayo, Shina Peller and Ubi Franklin.
Cubana’s Social media partner and employee, Paschal Okechukwu well known as Cubana Chief Priest and the celebrity barman was conspicuously present amongst other crème de la crème present.
The 46 year old Obi who was born onApril 12, 1975, as the fourth and last child of his parents, Obi had his First School Leaving Certificate from central primary schooland got his West Africa Secondary School Certificate at Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha.
He graduated from the University of Nigeria Nsukka in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.
He started with the establishment of a night life business, Ibiza Club, Abuja, in 2006, and later conceptualized the Cubana Group.
Apart from having business interests in Lagos and Abuja, be Obi is also weighing the of possibility of spreading his business tentacles to other to States of the country and as well as exporting the Cubana brand to see Dubai.
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