October 9, 2021

Stunning Images As Media Career Expert, Lekan Otufodunrin Gives Out Daughter In Marriage

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The Executive Director of Media Career Development Network and a former Managing Editor of The Nation Newspapers, Deacon Lekan Otufodunrin and wife, Deaconess Aderonke on Saturday, October 9, 2021, successfully gave out their daughter, Yemisi Otufodunrin to her heartthrob, Olufemi John.

The beautiful solemnization which attracted the crème-de-la-crème of the Nigerian media industry was held at the Youth Chapel of the Living Faith Bible Church, aka Winners Chapel, Ota, Ogun State.

It was indeed a colourful ceremony witnessed by family, friends and associates of the couple’s family as the bride’s father, Otufodunrin — a media career expert and veteran journalist per excellence — who has continued to give back to his profession of close to four decades got much love on the grand day.

Also, members of the Journalist for Christ International Outreach, an Association of Christian Journalists and allied professionals in Nigeria, founded by Otufodunrin graced the two-legged event: the engagement ceremony and church wedding.