The estranged Alakijas when the going was good
Africa’s richest woman Alakija’s 30-year-old marriage crashes
The marriage of Mrs Folorunsho Alakija, Nigerian female multi-billionaire and Africa’s richest woman, has hit the rocks.
Sources say that the over 30 years of marriage and conjugal bliss of the former society matriarch, now a Minister of the Gospel, has ended up in a separation of the couple.
It was gathered that the rich and powerful mother of four, has separated from her once upon heartthrob, Mr. Modupe, a successful businessman in his own right.
Mrs Alakija is a former fashion designer and founder of FAMFA Oil Limited, an Oil and gas exploration business
Family sources say that the marriage has been experiencing frequent altercations and bad blood, forcing the husband, Modupe to seek an alternative accommodation.
The estranged husband is said to have moved out of their palatial matrimonial home in their highbrow Ikoyi, Lagos and presently lives alone within the same Ikoyi vicinity.
According to a close family source, the frequent disputes allegedly informed the multi-billionaire woman’s request to have utmost privacy in her home.
The source disclosed that the marriage had obviously lost some verve and was no longer as smooth as it used to be for the couple in the last couple of years.
It was learned that the estranged couple had actually been forced to put up some smiles in the public and a united front as a result of their status in the society.