Marital Blues for Cecilia Ibru’s Daughter

Fairy tales never last forever. The romantic world, the maneuverings of cupid, the dilemmas of conscience and egotism are all critically responsible for the failure of most silver-spoon marriages. The truth probably dawned on Vivi Ibru, daughter of former MD of Oceanic Bank, Cecilia Ibru, like a blister of eternal damnation. Her estranged husband, Aleksander Stankov, has finally filed for divorce to enable him move on and explore better possibilities in love.

Their blossoming marriage hit the rocks over what Stankov described as Vivi’s brazen refusal to play the dutiful and humble wife. News of their stormy marital union initially filtered into the social space as snippets, however, the reality dawned on everybody when Vivi moved out of her matrimonial home with her three children in tow.

Friends and family members of both parties intervened in heartfelt bid to reconcile the estranged couple but the duo was not interested in saving their marriage thus constituting a very sad end to their fairy tale wedding.

Now, all the beautiful vision the couple had has been consigned to the waste basket of history as what might have been, raising questions about the wisdom in silver spoon marriages. Oftentimes, the estranged couples shamelessly wash their dirty linens in public revealing to all and sundry things that are best kept secrets.

Many a party to such marriages would reveal that they had been victims of arranged unions and inconvenient betrothals that never enjoyed their consent.

After spending so much money, the farce devastatingly ends oftentimes for the two strange bed fellows forcefully united on the altar of their parents’ vanities and egotism. It’s indeed a pitiful world for these scions of the rich.

THE RETURN OF ROBERT MBONU

Yes, Robert Mbonu is back! His newly established risk management consulting and advisory firm (RMCIR), is conducting a risk management training and seminar in conjunction with the Institute of Risk Management (IRM), United Kingdom (UK), for 200 managers of Heritage Bank. Heritage Bank is thus taking the lead to ensure a well enshrined risk culture permeates the entire organization.

The IRM is the world’s leading enterprise-wide risk management education institute. It would be recollected that after his banking feats which included the industry acclaimed resurrection of Societe General Bank of Nigeria (SGBN) and its successful transformation to Heritage Bank, he retired in 2014 to specialize in an area of finance that was very dear to him: Risk Management.

Thus he spent the last two years abroad, in the United States and United Kingdom, specializing in the emerging all important field of Risk Management. During the period, he qualified at the UK Institute of Risk Management (IRM), and proceeded to Stern School of Business, New York University, where he completed a Master of Science post graduate Degree in Risk Management. Afterwards, he returned to Nigeria – precisely, four weeks ago to actualise his pet dream of a risk management firm. Thus he established a risk management consulting and advisory firm – RMCIR.

The company is conducting a Risk Management training and seminar in conjunction with the IRM (UK) for 200 managers of Heritage Bank at the moment. Heritage Bank is therefore, taking the lead to ensure a well enshrined risk culture entire organization.

According to Mbonu, his medium term plan is to help financial firms and other organizations understand  the risk framework that should exist in the environments they operate by clearly articulating their risk appetites, in regard to the regulatory risk limits imposed on each sector. To this end, he hosted his visiting partners from the IRM (UK) at the Southern Sun Hotel, Ikoyi, for cocktails last Monday.

DEWUNMI OGUNSANYA’S BROTHER, ADE, FINDS HIS PERFECT RIB…

“Now I know what Love is,” said Virgil, a Roman poet in the throes of love. These days Lagos city big boy, Ade Ogunsanya, the cousin to Dewunmi Ogunsanya, the chairman of Multi-Choice, is feeling just the same. Ade is living his dream and having the time of his life with his new wife, Ope Ogunsanya. Having outgrown his fear of remarriage, Ade decided to pitch his tent with Ope, his lover of many years and mother of his baby. Until he remarried, he was married to Simi Ogunsanya. The marriage hit the rocks over irreconcilable issues.

Interestingly, Ade, hopeful of reconciliation, swallowed his pride and approached some of their friends pleading with them to intervene and help reunite him with his estranged wife. To his disappointment, Simi rebuffed his overtures. Ade had his fill of women sooner than he expected prompting him to propose to Ope, his long abandoned girlfriend. Ope agreed to his overture and the two have since settled down to life as a married couple. They are so taken by each other that Simi, Ade’s ex-wife, will smart with envy if she sees how the duo carry on lovingly with one another.