MEET PRINCESS AIBI EREDIAUWA : A LAWYER - TURNED - SHOEMAKER

Princess Aibi Erediauwa, the 2nd daughter of Oba of Benin Kingdom, Omonoba Erediuwa. she is the President/CEO  of  Blossom & Pages Global, a wholly indigenous/African manufacturing company that specialises in leather, stitches and buckles, is also a consultant partner with Polaris Consulting Company Limited in the heart of Benin City. She is a Lawyer by training and a fashion designer with passion !

"So when I came back to the country, I told him, dad I don’t want to practice Law, this is what I want and he said you want to be a shoemaker, (laughs). So, remembering the encounter my brother had when he was about floating “Hexagon Club”, my dad said to him, so you are trying to be a Bar man? But now, Hexagon is into so many things. So I took a queue from him and I did 2 pairs of slippers for my dad and he liked it. So, whenever I am making new designs , I always make for him.  So, he asked me one day, what is my Business Plan and I told him that it is not going to be a small outfit, it is something that is going go out of Benin, I gave him my strategies and all that. So each time I am going through some challenges, he will ask me if I want to shutdown, and I will let him know that I am probably not getting it right this way, maybe I will do it the other way. And now (then) he is (was) fully in support of what I do, he calls me “Lawyer Shoemaker”.