Bankers do know how to groove! If you are in doubt,
ask anyone who attended Diamond Bank’s 2013 long
service awards cum end-of-year party dubbed 'Black
& Diamonds Party' which held at the Landmark Event
Centre on Friday, 13 December 2013.
The event with the theme Black & Diamonds was
spurred out of the need to celebrate Diamond Bank'
s outstanding performance this year and members of
staff who had put in a minimum of 10 years in the
service of the Bank. Continue....
Anchored by leading comedian Bovi, the audience was
taken through a delightful event as they enjoyed the
best of choice wines and cuisine even as Bovi ensured
that the guests, made up of Diamond Bank staff,
their spouses and customers, were in stitches as he
dished out rib cracking jokes continuously.
Highlights of the party included the long service
awards where various members of staff who had put
in 10 and 20 years in the employ of the Bank, were
presented with their awards by the Bank’s Group
Managing Director/CEO, Dr. Alex Otti. Dr. Otti
commended the awards recipients for their service
and loyalty to the Diamond brand and wished them
many more fruitful years in their banking careers.
The Black & Diamonds party was not devoid of the
usual hitches associated with events of this
magnitude. Olamide stepped on stage to deliver what
would be described as a disappointing performance
which came across as unprepared and unrehearsed.
Hip-hop sensation Davido, helped to salvage the
situation however by dishing out various songs from
his rich repertoire, crowning it with his recent street
anthem, Skelewu.
Strangely Basket mouth who was billed to perform at
the party showed unprofessionalism by not making it
to the event. Innocent ‘Tuface’ Idibia brought the
event to magnificent climax at around 1am, when he
mounted the stage and dished out hit track after hit
track to the admiration of the guests. As
at 3am when this reporter left Landmark Event
Centre, Oniru the crowd was still dancing to various
club tracks delivered by the DJ.
Although several bank’s hosted their end-of-year
parties at the same time, I am more than convinced
that Diamond Bank’s was the “rockest” of them all.
