ANOTHER TOP EVENT GURU-'DIEKOLOLA OLATANWA OSA-AVIELELE DIES! DAD WAS A FORMER GOVERNOR OF KWARA STATE, COMMUNICATION MINISTER.

Her sad & excruciating passing, a quite unfortunate one at that came on Thursday July 16, 2020 in far away Fairfax, Virginia USA at the quite young age of 44. It was just a few days after the birth of her bouncing baby son, who incidentally is doing quite well, but has no knowledge whatsoever that he has lost his mother, unfortunately!

The boss of the Cedarwood Group, owners of Cedarwood Rentals & D Venue by Cedarwood with branches both in Abuja and Lagos is a philanthropist par excellence & a great Christian and a passionate businesswoman, who owns one of the best events places both in Lagos and Abuja. Her brand was actually one of the pioneers of the famous Chiavari and Napoleon chairs, both of which have now become the staple in the industry for those that own standard, upscale events centers across the country.

Her other awesome passion is her foundation the 'Cedarwood Foundation' which helps to assist with the education of the less privileged. Even with the extraordinary interventions that she has done in this area, she's one person that doesn't want attention shown on it at all, as she believes it's something that's between her and her God, of whom she is also awesomely passionate about.

She spent all of her growing up years in Ilorin, Kwara State where she attended the University of Ilorin  Primary School, then the Unilorin Secondary School and then the University of Ilorin, Kwara State where she graduated with a degree in Law (BL). She then went to the Abuja Campus of the Nigerian Law School and was then called to bar in 2001. She then sojourned abroad to the US, where she attended the famous Howard University, School of Law, Washington DC, USA for her LLM (Masters in Law).

She thereafter came back to Nigeria and worked as an in-house lawyer at the 'Otunba Michael Agboolade Adenuga's Globacom in 2004 she spent bless than a year there and later moved to Conoil Producing, still owned by the same billionaire, also as an in-house lawyer too, before she later resigned not too long afterwards to set up her own brand, which was her most satisfying passion, the 'Cedarwood' brand. A brand that she gradually built from scratch, which like an acorn with the start of Cedarwood Rentals, grew and grew and became the Oak tree-Cedarwood Group that it is known as today.

She brought a lot of fantastic innovation into the industry. Her marquee, where she excelled excellently and became one of the leading Mobile Marquee Company in Nigeria, was even adjudged to be one of the coldest, coolest with sweet smelling fragrances wafting from their various fragrance machines strategically positioned around the hall or marquee. The uncompromising humanitarian, was a top official (President or Vice President) of the 'Association of Venue Owners Lagos Nigeria' [AVOLN] Island.

The supremely gorgeous and fantastically kindhearted 'Diekolola Olatanwa Osa-Avielele nee Adebayo' is the 2nd daughter out of the 6 kids of the academician (teacher) turned politician, being the former Governor of Kwara State, who later became the Minister of Communications in Nigeria, in the person of his excellency ' Senator/Chief Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo'. Her dad remains the only Governor to have had the shortest reign in the history of Kwara State till date, as he ruled for just a few months in 1983.

Dieko as most call her, is married to Emmanuel Osa-Avielele a Bini man from Edo State, who is a top banker. She's survived by her immediate family. There are 5 gals and a boy in her family.
1. Bukunola Ajayi
2. Diekolola Osa Avielele
3. Mosunmola Jegede
4. Abimbola Dayo Adewoye
5. Ayobola Toyosi Thomas
6. Cornelius Oluwasegun Adebayo and others. Her dad is still alive and is 79 year old.

May her beautiful soul find rest and may those she left behind find the strength to bear her sad loss.

The old students (her schoolmates) of the University of Ilorin under the umbrella of "Uniting-Unilorin & Friends" especially prays for the repose of the soul of the dearly departed. #RIP