{"id":1347,"date":"2016-03-30T12:47:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T12:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2016-05-03T19:48:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T19:48:01","slug":"new-beginnings-the-life-of-temitope-senbanjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/2016\/03\/new-beginnings-the-life-of-temitope-senbanjo","title":{"rendered":"New Beginnings: The Life of Temitope Senbanjo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Attachment-1\"For a few mornings after relocating to\u00a0Kent, that town of Shakespearean lore for her Masters degree, Temitope Senbanjo would remember that there would be no amala or pounded yam for lunch that day\u00a0and\u00a0let out a sigh of frustration.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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“Waking up and craving pounded yam\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0getting sandwich<\/span>es instead<\/span> was quite annoying”, she reminisces, “but I settled in just right and within the first week of my stay in Canterbury, I was able to find a local African grocery shop to stock up for the month!”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Since joining Heirs Holdings, she has applied the same determination in finding solutions\u00a0and quickly\u00a0dismissing the blues of new beginnings. Even though her initial job description\u00a0was to be\u00a0Client Relations Officer, she has also\u00a0become part of\u00a0the group’s MCC unit and currently handles its Instagram account.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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“Working at Heirs Holdings has been a rewarding experience in general”, Temitope confesses. “I have met amazing people within my short stay and everyone is cheerful and helpful. Fitting in culturally\u00a0has not been difficult at all as I also strive for excellence in all I do. I have had to learn about the intricacies of my role and I believe I am doing just fine even though there\u2019s always room for improvement). I\u2019m learning a lot supporting the MCC department in addition to the Clients Relations role.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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A few hours after the post-announcement cocktail for the second cycle of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP),\u00a0she was swaying to Robin Thicke\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Lost Without You<\/i><\/span>\u00a0in the foyer, beaming\u00a0without\u00a0a care in the world. <\/span>Earlier on that day<\/span>, she had been in a different mode, sorting out birthday cakes for the Chairman as they arrived and helping plan the event.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Temitope admits she has drawn a lot from her background – having studied\u00a0Mass Communication at Redeemer\u2019s University for her first degree \u00a0– \u00a0in working within the unit. “It has been an amazing experience because I was\u00a0the advert manager for the school newspaper, RUN Chronicle newspaper which was very challenging at the time because I had to balance my academics with the new responsibilities but I was able to achieve all set targets. I intend to juggle my roles just as well.”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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During her undergraduate days, she represented her school at a UNESCO conference for female students in journalism, joining a pool of equally-minded young people from different universities.\u00a0When she was 18, she was one of the finalists in the Face Of Sylvia\u2019s Hair Season 1 (FOSH) at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, a reality show\u00a0organized\u00a0by MGBN 2011 winner, Sylvia Nduka.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Back in<\/span> England, she also continued to balance her school and social life, travelling all round the country and Europe but nevertheless graduating with a distinction. And to curb her homesickness, she would regularly stream Afrobeats music via YouTube and\u00a0patronize the grocery store she discovered. “It was like\u00a0having the\u00a0best of both worlds.”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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For one who is seen as very prim and proper, does her addiction to music by Davido, Olamide, Tiwa Savage – and like most\u00a0young ladies these days – Kiss Daniels signify a\u00a0wild unorthodox life a la Jekyll and Hyde, under wraps?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Her hearty laughter is one of disagreement, rather than an affirmation.\u00a0“Hahahaha. Prim and proper?\u00a0I eat at White House and regularly look for local bukas to eat amala with gbegiri, ewedu and goat meat! I guess this disqualifies me from being prim and proper.”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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“I know how to have a good time but in my natural state I love to go to the movies and also love to hang out with my friends at home and have a good laugh. I\u2019m not really a party animal except I chose to go all out.”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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When she isn’t having a good laugh, Miss Not-So-Prim-and-Proper is being experimental with colours (I don\u2019t really have a favourite colour but I love red, white and black!) or\u00a0singing or dancing or\u00a0blogging.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Some would say that she’s the perfect poster girl for The Young and The Restless or a Jill of many trades.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  For a few mornings after relocating to\u00a0Kent, that town of Shakespearean lore for her Masters degree, Temitope Senbanjo would remember that there would be no amala or pounded yam for lunch that day\u00a0and\u00a0let out a sigh of frustration.\u00a0 \u00a0 “Waking up and craving pounded yam\u00a0and\u00a0getting sandwiches instead was quite annoying”, she reminisces, “but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}