Alhaja Alaye Onicoffee is in a
happy mood right now. This is her birthday month. She is 60. And she looks good
for her age. She has maintained her beautiful look all these years. She has also
continued to look stylish and fashionable. She is very cosmopolitan and trendy
in her worldview and lifestyle. With her, there is never a dull moment. She is
always full of life. She has been aging gracefully.
Though everyone calls her Alhaja
Alaye Onicoffee, which is like an alias, her real name is Alhaja Kaosarat
Olanshile.She lives in California but comes home regularly. She is in tune with
what goes on in Nigeria. She has her larger family here and she runs a thriving
real estate business in Lagos.
She is well-loved by many
people, because she is nice and jovial. And she likes to speak her mind. She can
be blunt and frank to a fault. She does not know how to suffer fools gladly. With
her, what you see, is what you get. She does not pretend.
As she turns 60, Citypeople spoke
to her about the joy of being 60 and the lessons her new age has taught her. She
recently spoke to Citypeople Publisher, Seyekehinde about her life.
Congratulations on your 60th
birthday. How do you feel turning 60?
Turning 60 to me is a blessing, I
live my life one day at a time, learning from God and men, circumstances and
situations, the feeling is circumstantial, knowledge is power, i know God loves me
to have kept me alive till now so I appreciate him, he is the one that keeps
scores not man, my life is a book to be read, I have seen the good, the bad and
the ugly but I give glory to God Almighty who had kept me from my self, because
it is not everything we pray for that he gives us.
I have friends who are no more
and people you will never imagine would have left this world by now, but they
are all gone like the wind, just like that.
I thank God for every day, as a
fulfilled mother and a grandmother, and
a mother to many people. Eniyan laso mi', 60 is Six decades, if not for God
where will I be, so I give glory to the Almighty for my life.
How do you plan to mark it?
I am not having a party. It's going
to be an Open House. There will be food and drinks with few friends and
donations to charity. I will be giving back to society.
As you turn 60 what has changed
about you? What has not changed?
Not much has changed. I still
remain the same person I have always been, just that I take things more calm and
easy these days, now, as compared to 20 years ago.l think Age and experience
have mellowed me a bit.
How can we describe Alhaja
Alaye Onicoffee?What sort of a person are you?
Am a very fun-loving, free
hearted lady with principles, I don't joke with God and family, family is the
only gift we did not choose from God. Like a magnet I always attract my kind, I
am not loud at all but when at home or among my friends I am a different
personality entirely, I don't pretend because it does not last, am original and
authentic 2/4/7, no room for dulling or calling white, off white....no that's
not me.
I love children, I love
creativity and art, I hate lies with a passion. Am fearless, I go for it if I
die I die, and am streetwise.
The principles I live by are
simple, do to others what you love others do to you, leave what you can not
change to God, he knows how to do his magic, am a giver, I believe in sharing,
letting go and allowing God, give your
last penny and find out the world owes you and favor will just keep coming.
When the world around me is not
free and not free. I respect elders and do not tolerate people who make our
elders feel less, it hurts me.
Que5 I know you as a big businesswoman. Tell me a little about your business interests all over the world?
Olanshile Nigeria Limited is a
company that has diversified into different industries like fashion, property
sales, and car sales to mention a few. Our services are top-notch, we ensure
that our clients are protected, encouraged, and enjoy the best deals.
The world is full of fakes but no
matter how fake any product or services are the original is with Olanshile
Nigeria Limited.
At 60 you have remained very
beautiful what is the secret?
I eat healthy food and exercise
regularly, and I listen to sound advises from professional who are seasoned
beauticians, beauty is a mindset, it is relative, God had not created ugly, it
is a mindset also.
Tell us about your Fashion
secrets and how You have remained very stylish at 60
Fashion to me is what fits and
what gives me comfort, the creator of life must love colors so I love the colour
too, I don't eat junks, I don't lazy around, am a hard-working woman, I don't
believe in getting a job, I believe in work and I enjoy a lot of favor because
I go for the best to satisfy my Clint. I try as much as I can to enjoy my self,
relax, and let what I can't handle the deal
with its self.
I live with a principle and it
does affect my health too, I love people and want to see them better, it is
more than a billion dollars to me, I don't cheat people, I can't stand it, I
will prefer to be cheated if you are smart enough o, but I believe even if a black man cheat me
after working so hard, a white man will pay me by Gods grace, I love life, and I
love style, nothing is too expensive to adore my beauty and nothing is too
cheap to rock too as long as it fits and make me cool like that.
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