Friends for Life … Between Chioma

Ikokwu and Kika Osunde

The world has changed for good. Seeing two or more young ladies gathered around a table no longer suggests that they are cooking gossip or something irrelevant. If you see best friends, Chioma ‘Goodhair’ Ikokwu and Kijapa ‘Kika’ Osunde among these ladies, be sure that what they are cooking is success.

Ikokwu and Osunde are best friends. Similar in some ways and very different in others, the two ladies have an elegance rarely found in the majority of women in the present. Perhaps, this is the reason they took so easily to each other and founded the global luxury hair brand that is Good Hair Limited and Brass and Copper, the popular restaurant and bar in Lekki.

Good Hair is one of the biggest and growing brands for women that love their hair. The business has gained much traction in the last few years and is currently one of the biggest joint achievements of Ikokwu and Osunde.

Brass and Copper is a restaurant and bar in the heart of the Good Hair space in Lekki. Once again, Ikokwu and Osunde paired up here to help ensure that people have somewhere to cool down after a busy day of work. No less flourishing compared to Good Hair, Brass and Copper inherited the fortunes of its founders and is one of the best highlights of their closeness. And the name is clever.

Ikokwu and Osunde are different in terms of backgrounds. The former was born in Lagos and was groomed to be a successful lawyer—which she is. Osunde, on the other hand, was born and bred in the UK, despite being from Delta State, and is what others might label an ‘original’ businesswoman and marketer.

Ikokwu and Osunde are so close that they are virtually sisters by this point. With more than 10 years of shared business experience, they have achieved much. Thus, they are representative evidence of what true sisterliness can birth and sustain.