Family members and friends joined Princess Hannah Adedoyin Afolabi recently - to celebrate her 60th birthday.
Princess Hannah Adedoyin Afolabi
The daughter of the late Prince Francis Ladejola-Oginni of Ataiyero ruling house of Ilesha, Princess Afolabi is the Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Rock (Holdings) Limited - a Real Estate, Energy and Investment company located in London.
She relocated to United Kingdom in 1994 with her family, started her own business, running Princess Food and Wines stores with branches in Tooting and London's West-end.
She went back to University to study law in 1999 and finished at Law School in 2004. She was called to the Rolls of Solicitors of England and Wales in 2007 and became a partner of a firm in April 2007.
She joined Alpha Rocks Solicitors in May 2008 and retired in February 2017. She specialised in Immigration and Civil Litigation. She dealt with lots of judicial reviews, challenging unlawfulness in numerous immigration decisions of which she had a high rate of success.
A former banker, she worked in various management positions with First Bank of Nigeria for 15 years, from where she left to join a Finance House as its Managing Director. She later became the Managing Director of Savings and Loans (Mortgage) Bank at the age of 32 years.
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At the peak of her career as a lawyer, she was involved in taking cases to the European Court of Human Rights through which one of her cases became a precedent on Article 8.
As a Litigator, she has worked on contentious and non-contentious matters. She was involved in a lot of litigations in High Court Chancery Division, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. One of the litigations she was involved in, was reported in ‘Times International’.
A practising Christian, Princess Afolabi is married to Prince Ali Afolabi and they are blessed with children - among whom are 2 Lawyers, a Banker, a Business Consultant, a Scientist, an Administrator and a Medical Doctor.