Oh, Happy Day: Mike Awoyinfa Defines Son’s Wedding Day (Photos)

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One of Nigeria’s most colourful, brilliant, and prodigious journalists, Mike Awoyinfa, has published volumes of books and prose with catchy titles and creative headlines, but there was no long thing as this creative guru tried to capture the essence of his son’s wedding in the United Kingdom yesterday.

“Oh, Happy Day,” was all that Awoyinfa wrote on his facebook wall, as he posted pictures of the wedding of one of his twins, Taiwo, to a beautiful bride, Moji, on a lovely sunny day in Alton Hampshire, Froyle Park.

Awoyinfa’s three-letter description follows the path of the German-American architect and furniture designer Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe (1886-1969), one of the founders of modern architecture and a proponent of Simplicity of Style, who coined the three-letter phrase ‘Less is More’.

Those who know the vintage Awoyinfa would not have been surprised if those three words were his wedding speech. They have all the elements of a perfect speech as defined by the heroic British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Spencer Churchill that “a good speech should be like a woman’s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”

Even, on this special wedding day, Awoyinfa could not divorce himself from journalism. Ever heard of any father of the groom in this world conducting an interview for a newsworthy photographer at his son’s wedding?

Wait for it!

Awoyinfa interviewed Dragan Mikki, a consummate professional society photographer, who was with him at Alton Hampshire, courtesy of Chief Dele Momodu, to cover the wedding for Ovation, Africa’s No 1 celebrity magazine.

The interview will come up in the Saturday edition of The Sun.

Awoyinfa was Editor of the rested Weekend Concord and the pioneer Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of The Sun Newspapers.

NewsmakersNG is wishing Mr & Mrs Taiwo and Moji Awoyinfa a happy and fruitful married life.

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