About Us
Our Journey Timeline
1972 → Expansion → Sheraton partnerships → Public listing → Growth phase.
Ikeja Hotel Plc was incorporated as Properties Development Limited (PDL) on November 18, 1972 with a view to providing world-class hotel and catering services to meet the needs of an ever-increasing number of local and international business and leisure travelers entering the city of Lagos.
The Company’s name was later changed to Ikeja Hotel Limited in October 1980. It became a public company in 1983, and assumed its present name on February 5, 1991.
The principal business of Ikeja Hotel Plc is the provision of services in the hospitality industry, including the development of other tourist facilities. It has continually expanded its participation in Nigeria’s hospitality industry through the development and acquisition of hotel and tourist facilities.
VISION
To be the preferred hospitality and tourism investment Company.
MISSION
To Maintain a leadership position in the provision of first-class international hotel development and management services in the hospitality and tourism industry and thereby contribute effectively to the socio-economic development of Nigeria.
MEET THE DIRECTORS
A seasoned legal practitioner with over 39 years’ experience. Chief Anthony Idigbe (SAN) is the Senior Partner at Punuka Attorneys & Solicitors. He was elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2000 and has been admitted to practice law in Ontario, Canada.
He is a member of the Institute of Directors and the International Insolvency Institute and sat as the immediate past President of the Business Recovery and
Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN). He is the Founder and was the first Chairman of Capital Markets Solicitors Association (CMSA), and
now functions as a Trustee of the Association.
Toke Alex Ibru is The Executive Director of The Guardian, a role he has played for 10 years. In this time, he has overseen its transformation from a traditional newspaper to an all-encompassing integrated multimedia group.
In the last 15 years, doing business in Nigeria with unrivalled contacts across all sectors, Toke sits on the boards of The Guardian, Ikeja Hotels and Capital Hotels.
Toke is a History Graduate from Exeter University, UK.
Alh. Bulama is a graduate of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria with a degree in Accounting and an MBA. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) and Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).
He has over 38 years of varied working experience. His career included working with the State Civil Service, Merchant and Commercial Banking, Financial Consultancy and Capital Regulatory Sector at senior levels of responsibility. At various times he was on the Boards of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN), Institute of Directors (IOD), Centre for Corporate Governance, Council of the CIBN, etc. He is currently on the Boards of Tourist Company of Nigeria Plc, Ikeja Hotel Plc and a member, Audit Committee of the CIBN.
Kemi Adeoye is Chief Financial Officer at Honeywell Group. She is responsible for accounting, financial reporting, and financial management for Honeywell Group Limited. She is also responsible for risk management and ensuring the adequacy and effectiveness of controls and Internal Audit across the Group. Kemi has over 20 years of work experience spanning, finance, accounting, and corporate treasury management. Prior to Honeywell Group, she worked with Baker Tilly, a leading Audit firm in Nigeria. While at Baker Tilly, Kemi led various audit engagements with local and multinational clients across different business sectors. In 2006, she joined Honeywell Group as a Senior Business Analyst working across business functions over time. She has, at different times, been responsible for Business and Information Systems
Management, Corporate Finance, Treasury Management, Financial Reporting, Budgeting, Portfolio and Risk Management. Kemi holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Oxford Brookes University and an MBA from the Lagos Business School. She is also a member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).
Ufuoma Ibru has thirteen years’ experience in hospitality investment and strategy, having participated in the planning, implementation and negotiation of public offers, special placements, offshore lending, private equity transactions and major loan restructuring in the hotel industry in Nigeria.
Ufuoma Ibru has delivered presentations and papers at a variety of investor and industry forums, including the London Stock Exchange, Renaissance Investor Conference, and Ter rapinn Hospitality Conference in South Africa.
Mr. Aluko’s background is in commercial banking, principally in Nigeria and punctuated by on-the-job attachments and training stints in England. The long career with Barclays Bank, which later became Union Bank, progressed through the ranks to senior management level and he subsequently worked with three other banks in Nigeria and The Gambia at Board level in both executive and non-executive capacities. He served as Member of Council, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria between 1993 and 1995 before moving to the United Kingdom where he was Associate Director with JCE Consulting Associates UK, a private consultancy firm. Mr. Aluko is presently a freelance business consultant in investment banking and finance.
He studied banking with IFS University College, Canterbury, Kent, U.K, now known as London Institute of Banking & Finance, and is an alumnus of Manchester Business School where he completed the Commercial Banking Course. He attended several other professional courses during his banking career. Mr. Aluko is also presently serving as Non-Executive Director on the boards of Law Union & Rock Insurance Plc and Wise Health Services Limited.