The Iyalode of Remoland, Chief Sade Ogunbiyi is one of the best conversationalists that any journalist can hope to meet. Ironically, she lives a very private life away from media scrutiny. Asides her duties as a traditional Queen in Remo, Ogun State, she plays golf in leading exclusive clubs in Lagos and Ogun States. She recounts some episodes in her life that made her 50-year old marriage and her life at 75 very inspirational in this rare encounter with Yinka Olatunbosun
The lush green grass on the golf course behind her was almost competing for attention. But it was not enough to distract from the witty conversation. Chief Sade Ogunbiyi is one of those Nigerians who had studied and lived abroad but still returned to their motherland for a satisfying life. She recalled that moment in history- 1977. The year that it seemed everyone wanted to be in Nigeria, the host nation for the second edition of the World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. She was a teacher at a UN school in New York- a period where she also studied for her Master’s degree while her husband was a PhD student at the New York University. They had both met at the University of Ibadan where she studied English language. They had remained inseparable through the years.