Do you Know Wunmi Obe’s Dad Is The Founder Of Punch Newspaper

Chief James Olubunmi Aboderin was a very great man in his life time. He was a mega businessman with a flourishing business empire that spanned the whole gamut of human activity. One of his businesses has outlived him till today – that is The Punch Newspaper.

So what sort of a man was he in his lifetime? One of his children is singer, Wunmi Obe, the wife of Tunde Obe says

Oh! It feels nice. It brings back old memories. A lot of the things my father had put in place to the glory of God we have been bale to continue from where he left off. Things that maybe were not directly started by him, but things that he had interest in such as music, sports, philanthropy, printing, publishing and fashion. In one way or the other his children have managed to continue from where he left off.

I was 13 when my father died. But I knew him to be very dynamic person. He had his fingers in so many pies. And so many fields. He had 2 record labels. He had a football team. He had a dance group. And there was printing and publishing with PUNCH. He even had a Happy Home Magazine also, which annually they used to do a fashion show, they used to do fashion exhibition. I remember the supported Silverbird when they started bringing foreign artistes into the country. He was into that as well.

In all of these, he was a Chartered accountant. He was just somebody who was very creative. He was such a dynamic person and he was able to express himself. He was a trailblazer. He was ahead of his time. A lot of things people are doing today my father did way back then. He was thinking way ahead of his time. A lot of people copied him while some took a bit from what he did.

Source: Culled from city people magazine

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