In a world where so many things have been taken for granted, it has been made known that there is now a competition for Virgins.Lagos state born Princess Adunni Adediran who has always had a thing for influencing the society is obviously full of great ideas.
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The successful businesswoman, mother and philanthropist who will be clocking 70 in few months to come spoke to Vanguard about her project called ‘Nigerian Vi rgin Girls’. The project is geared at rewarding chastity among young girls in Nigeria.
Read excerpts below:
How did celebrating Vi rgins come about?
At a point, I started thinking of our old people in this country, so I published ‘Fragile Fit’, a magazine that was dealing with weak limbs of the elderly. Alhaji Lateef Jakande loved it and said the publication was even over due. As I was doing that, I dreamt 11 times where I organised ‘Recognising and encouraging the Vi rgins in Nigeria’. That is how I started the project in 2007.
Why has there not been consistency in organising the annual event?
I spoke to the who-is-who in this country for sponsorship such Princess Erelu Dosunmu, Late Ambassador Segun Olusola and many others. A lot of them indicated their interest to help but we did not get sponsors except for the owner of Emily Millionaire cosmetics, Joe Brown, who was giving us cosmetics.
Rado was giving us wrist watches to distribute to the Vi rgins. The one that really touched me was the help we got from the former Arch Bishop of Lagos, Diocese, Olubumni Okogie (rtrd). I am glad he appreciated that we are doing something good.
We wrote a letter to the Lagos State Government but didn’t receive a reply but they gave us the Banquet Hall where the event took place. Financially, an important personality in the Lagos State Government gave us N250,000 in 2009. We would also like to collaborate with NACA. This project is supposed to be a collective responsibility of every Nigerian.
In spite of the challenges we are facing in organising the annual celebration, a lot of Vi rgins came from Enugu, Aba, Delta, Onitsha, Port Harcourt, Lagos, Kaduna, Kano and Abuja. I even sold my house in Ikorodu, Lagos to host and encourage Vi rgins. We also got threatening phone calls from some highly placed men in society threatening to kill me if I did not stop celebrating Vi rgins. They said I am disturbing their fun.
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