Morenike Johnson and Ademola Adewale-Sadik were married Nov. 17 at Hoare’s Memorial Methodist Cathedral in Lagos, Nigeria. The Very Rev. Yinka Olatunbosun officiated. On Nov. 15, the couple took part in a traditional Yoruba wedding ceremony at Harbour Point, an events space in Lagos.
Mrs. Adewale-Sadik, 27, works in Lagos as a consultant at Bain & Company, the strategy consulting firm based in Boston. She graduated from the University of Manchester in England, from which she also received a master’s degree in refinery design and operations.
She is the daughter of Omobola Johnson and Oluseyi Johnson of Lagos. The bride’s father works in Lagos as administrative head of West Region at Julius Berger Nigeria, a construction firm. Her mother, who also works in Lagos, is a senior partner at TLcom Capital, a venture capital firm based in Nairobi, Lagos and London. From 2011-15, the bride’s mother served as minister of communication technology in the cabinet of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan.
The bride is a granddaughter of Brig. General Mobolaji Johnson, who served as the first governor of Lagos from 1967-75.
Mr. Adewale-Sadik, 30, works in London as the group corporate finance manager at the McArthurGlen Group, a luxury retail real estate developer. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland at College Park, and received a law degree from Yale. He also received an M.B.A. from Harvard.
He is a son of Omowunmi Sadik and Abiodun Adewale Sadik of Vestal, N.Y. The groom’s mother is a professor of chemistry at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is also a fellow of the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the fourth woman to receive the Nigerian National Order of Merit, the country’s highest academic honor that has been bestowed upon only 75 people, including Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. His father works as an assistant chief engineer at WIVT-TV/WBGH-TV in Binghamton.
The groom and his father are princes of the Yoruba ethnic group from the Ijebu Kingdom of southwestern Nigeria.
The couple met in December 2014 at a wedding in Ibadan, Nigeria.
