Temi-Tope Ogbeni-Awe is widely known as a media expert with over two decades of active journalism practice culminating as State House Correspondent for Vanguard Newspaper during the reign of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida as Nigeria’s head of state in 1985.
In the year 2000, Ogbeni established Tourism Promotion and Communications Limited (TOPCOMM), a premium, integrated marketing communication and events Management Company based in Lagos; providing vital Public Relations services to destinations and several big-wig clientele in the travel/tourism sector.
For over a decade, Ogbeni as the Chief Service Officer of TOPCOMM has championed South Africa as preferred travel destination for Nigerians which resulted in South African Tourism opening its office in January 2014 in Lagos to service West Africa. The SAT office in Lagos is the first in Africa outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Ogbeni joins the Sexagenarian class on Wednesday, 1st April 2015.
He was born on 1st April 1955. He is well travelled gentleman who hails from Oye-Ekiti in Ekiti State. He is married to Folasade with and they are blessed with four children. Ogbeni is also a proud grandfather. With only $35 to his name that he had borrowed from his mother, Kalu began trading palm oil, first buying the oil from Nigeria’s eastern regions and then selling it in the country’s northern regions. He then began buying and reselling furniture on a large scale.
Kalu eventually established SLOK Holding, a conglomerate that would consist of a number of successful companies. Kalu became the youngest Nigerian to receive the National Merit Award from
