Leading financial adviser, Mrs. Abimbola Chima Cardoso, clocked 60 years old on Saturday, 1 June, 2019. To celebrate the event, a Thanksgiving service/brunch was held at The Wheatbaker Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos. The celebrant is the wife of Mr. Yemi Cardoso, the Chairman of CITI Bank Plc., and a former Lagos commissioner for economic planning and budget. She is the daughter of the late Otunba T.O.S. Benson, SAN, the former Minister of Information. Her mother, Dr. (Mrs.) Mercy Benson, nee Abacheta, was the first Igbo female doctor in Nigeria. She died barely a year after giving birth to Cardoso.
Subsequently, Cardoso was nurtured and mothered by her step-mother, Chief (Mrs.) Opral Mason Benson, the Iya Oge of Lagos. The Cardosos’ union is blessed with a set of triplets, a set of twins and a granddaughter
The very grand party featured a heavy A-list of notable personalities, drawn from all the facets of the Nigerian social circuit.
Picture Credit: Uncle Sunmi Smart-Cole