Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Niyi Akintola and his wife, Rachael Akintola who is a justice at the Oyo State High Court, have given out their daughter, Professor Oluwatosin Akintola’s hand in marriage to her European beau, professor Dermot Murphy. The colorful ceremony which was attended by legal luminaries, politicians and the deputy governor of Oyo State, Barrister Abdul-Raheem Lawal, kicked off with a traditional engagement which took place at Academy Suit Hall, Ibadan, Oyo State. It was followed by a white wedding at Oritamefa Baptist Church, Ibadan, Oyo State.
The couple had earlier staged a civil wedding in January 2022 in the United States, however, most family members were not present at the ceremony because of the distance. They decided to wrap it off with an elaborate ceremony in Nigeria a few months after. The elated friends and family of the groom who came all the way from Dublin, performed a comic dance which became one of the funny highlights of the ceremony. The ebony skinned bride, Professor Oluwatosin Akintola is an Oncologist at Harvard University Medical School in the United States of America. She works at the brain cancer and tumour center of the University. Her heartthrob, Professor Joseph Dermot is a gynecologist also of the same medical school.
