Whisper this quietly; media entrepreneur and founder, Ebony Life TV, Mo Abudu’s daughter, Temidayo, has come of age. When she stepped out with her beautiful and enterprising mother at a wedding last year, the young lady occasioned many double takes and inspired lustful gawks and inadvertent drool until Mo was forced to introduce her severally as her daughter, not just a single, younger friend of hers. The reception that greeted her at another high profile event recently did not differ from her first major outing with her mum. Like Mo, who has been fondly hailed as Nigeria’s Oprah Winfrey, Temidayo is smart as a whip and as beautiful and fashionable as they come. By Jove, the young lady also inherited her mum’s smile-wide grin and sharp intellect that has seen her conquer the otherwise difficult Nigerian media terrain in less than a decade of her entry.
Mo has really done well for herself, rising from a tentative, scarcely trained talk-show hostess to a prima donna TV gal interviewing national and global leaders on her widely syndicated Moments With Mo. Also a successful businesswoman with different thriving companies under her belt, Mo’s magnum opus remains her daring foray into satellite television ownership with Ebony Life TV, which went live in 2013 on Digital Satellite Television, DSTV. Perhaps to drive home the point that the apple, truly, doesn’t fall far from the tree, Temidayo, an avid writer with by-lines on several online journals and OK! Magazine, has Masters degree in Material and Visual Culture from the University College, London, Temidayo and Adekoyejo are the products of Mo’s marriage.
